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Senator Jeff Sessions says he's not convinced his fellow Republicans have a plan to successfully combat President Obama's newly announced executive orders on immigration.
"I haven't seen the details of a plan to confront this unprecedented power grab," Sessions said in a phone interview Thursday evening. He added that while plenty of his Republican colleagues have released "tough" statements following Obama's announcement, he hasn't seen the party coalesce around a plan.
As for his own views, the Alabama senator tells THE WEEKLY STANDARD that there is plenty of precedent, as well as constitutional authority, for Congress to block the funding of executive orders. He acknowledged that a legal challenge would be "reasonable" though difficult given the courts' recent history of staying out of disputes between the executive and legislative branches. The strategy he preferred would be to fight the president's action by stopping its funds.
"The simplest and the greatest power of Congress is the power of the purse," Sessions said. He cited the Boland amendments of the 1980's, which passed Congress and restricted President Ronald Reagan's administration to provide monetary aid to the Contras of Nicaragua, and the more recent efforts by Congress to block funds for closing the detention center at Guantanamo Bay.
But the debate among congressional Republicans over how to address the executive order still continues. Sessions and his allies have argued Congress should pass a short-term funding bill before the current government funding runs out on December 11, which would allow a united Republican House and Senate to block the funding for the order's provisions in 2015. But House appropriations chairman Hal Rogers has pushed back forcefully on this idea, and his committee released a statement Thursday morning that the president's actions could not be blocked this way.
"Congress does not appropriate funds for any of its operations, including the issuance of immigration status or work permits, with the exception of the 'E-Verify' program," read the statement. "Therefore, the appropriations process cannot be used to "defund" the agency. The agency has the ability to continue to collect and use fees to continue current operations, and to expand operations as under a new executive order, without needing legislative approval by the Appropriations Committee or the Congress, even under a continuing resolution or a government shutdown."
Sessions himself pushed back on this in another statement, saying the notion is "just plain wrong."
The American people's Congress has the power and every right to deny funding for unworthy activities. It is a routine and constitutional application of congressional power," Sessions said. "There is no question that Congress has the power to block this expenditure and no doubt that it can be done. If such language is not included, the measure will be subject to the same 60-vote threshold in the Senate and simple majority in the House. This will require no more votes than passing a funding bill without the needed language."
Senator Jeff Sessions responds to President Obama's executive amnesty speech:
"President Obama's executive amnesty violates the laws Congress has passed in order to create and implement laws Congress has refused to pass. The President is providing an estimated 5 million illegal immigrants with social security numbers, photo IDs and work permits—allowing them to now take jobs directly from struggling Americans during a time of record immigration, low wages, and high joblessness.
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Senator Jeff Sessions calls Barack Obama an "Emperor of the United States" now that the president is going ahead with executive amnesty.
"President Obama previously said he could not issue an executive amnesty because 'I'm the President of the United States, I'm not the emperor of the United States. My job is to execute laws that are passed.' Well, apparently we now have an 'Emperor of the United States,'" Sessions writes in a statement.
Senator Jeff Sessions wants Congress to stop the "president's unlawful executive amnesty." And he believes that's precisely why "Voters sent Congress a Republican majority."
Senator Jeff Sessions, who run reelection last night in an uncontested race, says last night's Republican victory is a "mandate" to block President Obama's planned executive amnesty.
"[T]he American people dramatically repudiated the policies of President Obama, Senator Reid, and Leader Pelosi. It was also a dramatic affirmation of the policies our GOP candidates campaigned on: controlling spending, balancing the budget, repealing Obamacare, unleashing American energy, and boosting wages through pro-worker reforms," said Sessions in a prepared statement.
Senator Jeff Sessions issues this statement in response to President Obama's decision to wait until after the mid-term election to take action on immigration by executive order.
Senator Jeff Sessions says Americans should be asking where their elected representatives in Washington stand on "executive amnesty," which the Alabama Republican says "could be increasingly imminent and broad in scope." Here's an excerpt from his statement:
Former House speaker Newt Gingrich told radio host Laura Ingraham Tuesday that if President Barack Obama proceeds to amnesty thousands of illegal immigrants through executive order, Republicans should make the case against such a move the party's "number one" campaign issue for the 2014 midterm elections.
The Obama administration is preparing to effectively "nullify" the immigration laws of the United States through an executive action, says one Republican senator. As Time reported Thursday, President Obama appears prepared to provide millions of illegal immigrants living in the U.S. work authorization via executive orders:
Senator Jeff Sessions argues that "lax enforcement" of border security is driving the illegal immigration "surge." Sessions, a Republican senator from Alabama, made the comments today on the Senate floor.
"Colleagues," Sessions began, "today there is an unprecedented crisis unfolding on our border. This crisis threatens the very integrity of our national borders, our laws, and our system of justice. It is a crisis of the Administration's own making, and a crisis that the Administration continues to encourage."
Senator Jeff Sessions has released a statement that says, "7 Million People Have Left The Workforce Since The President Took Office." The statement is in response to today's jobs numbers.
"Today's jobs numbers are only enough to tread even with population growth, maintaining unemployment at 6.3 percent. When you include discouraged workers, the unemployment rate doubles to an alarming 12.2 percent. There are still 3.2 million fewer full-time employed persons than there were in 2007," says Sessions.
Jeff Sessions, the ranking member on the Senate Budget Committee, says that President Obama's budget includes a $1.76 trillion tax hike.
President Obama unveils his budget today. And the numbers aren't likely to satisfy fiscal conservatives and budget hawks, who might have been hoping for a budget that decreases spending and lowers the debt.
According to analysis by the Senate Budget Committee Republican staff, working for Ranking Member Jeff Sessions of Alabama, over the next decade President Obama's proposed budget increases spending by 63 percent and increases debt by $8.3 trillion.
Here are a couple charts from the minority side of the Senate Budget Committee showing the numbers:
Four United States Senators have a written a letter to FBI director James Comey about the indictment of author and filmmaker Dinesh D'Souza. Senators Charles Grassley, ranking member of the Judiciary Committee, Jeff Sessions, Ted Cruz, and Mike Lee are the four senators, all Republicans, to have signed the letter.
The letter quotes Harvard Law School professor Alan Dershowitz as saying, "I can't help but think that [D'Souza's] politics have something to do with it. ... It smacks of selective prosecution."
Chamber of Commerce CEO Tom Donohue says in an op-ed that the U.S. needs more low-skill immigration because Americans are not "qualified" or "willing" to do such work.
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There is a typo in the ingredient list with the salt. Try just 1/8 teaspoon. This is a delicious, creamy dessert that is fabulous with the berry topping. Just cut the salt and you'll love it.
I used fat-free heavy cream and skim milk. I thought the ice cream was light, but the egg taste is strong and slightly unpleasant. Also, the salt is a little weird. I think I'd use less eggs and maybe add some vanilla flavor to smooth out the tartness of the ice cream.
I have a tendency to add more lemon than is called for. That was a mistake with this recipe. I only added a little lemon zest, but my ice cream turned out very, VERY tart. So next time I will probably use one tablespoon lemon zest instead of two. Otherwise, the texture of the ice cream was exactly as I like it. I'll definitely use it again and adapt it for other flavors. I served it with a raspberry-blackberry sauce I found on this site.
Sorry to disagree with the other reviewers, but the six egg yolks made this far too heavy. I make a lot of ice cream and this was more like frozen lemon mayonnaise. The pre-freezing texture and flavor of the custard was, however, excellent so perhaps, without freezing, it could sauce a hot dessert. Since I liked the flavor, I might adapt it to my vanilla ice cream recipe, using a more typical two eggs. JK, New York City
what a delicious summer treat! have made it 2 ways - once straining to remove the zest and once left it in - reviews were split - husband liked it smooth and i prefer the zest in - matter of tast - the sauce is great - have used raspberry instead of black currant and just delicious as well -


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Advocatus Diaboli (1627651) writes "Britain's electronic surveillance agency, Government Communications Headquarters, has long presented its collaboration with the National Security Agency's massive electronic spying efforts as proportionate, carefully monitored, and well within the bounds of privacy laws. But according to a top-secret document in the archive of material provided to The Intercept by NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden, GCHQ secretly coveted the NSA's vast troves of private communications and sought 'unsupervised access' to its data as recently as last year – essentially begging to feast at the NSA's table while insisting that it only nibbles on the occasional crumb."
First time accepted submitter Valejo (689967) writes "According to a study released today by Course Report, programming bootcamps are expected to grow by 2.8x in 2014, meaning that bootcamps will graduate a student for every 8 CS undergraduates. The survey (PDF) also found that 57% of the schools teach in Ruby and that the average tuition is $9,900. The authors collected responses from 95% of US schools, including General Assembly, Dev Bootcamp, and Flatiron School."
sciencehabit (1205606) writes "Science sits down with David Saltzberg, who's been The Big Bang Theory's one and only science consultant since it premiered. Saltzberg is an astrophysicist at the University of California, Los Angeles. He chats about how the portrayal of science on the show has changed over the years, whether it turns kids away from science, and how you can get your own job as a scientific consultant in Hollywood."
An anonymous reader writes "A former MIT instructor and students have come up with software that can write an entire essay in less than one second; just feed it up to three keywords.The essays, though grammatically correct and structurally sound, have no coherent meaning and have proved to be graded highly by automated essay-grading software. From The Chronicle of Higher Education article: 'Critics of automated essay scoring are a small but lively band, and Mr. Perelman is perhaps the most theatrical. He has claimed to be able to guess, from across a room, the scores awarded to SAT essays, judging solely on the basis of length. (It's a skill he happily demonstrated to a New York Times reporter in 2005.) In presentations, he likes to show how the Gettysburg Address would have scored poorly on the SAT writing test. (That test is graded by human readers, but Mr. Perelman says the rubric is so rigid, and time so short, that they may as well be robots.).'"
Trailrunner7 (1100399) writes "It has been a running joke in the tech industry for years that the hacking scenes in movies are, well, a joke. Hackers in hoodies pushing a few keys and taking down the power grid or causing massive traffic pileups by turning all the stoplights green at once. While those scenes provide endless entertainment for security folks, it turns out some of those attacks aren't so far-fetched. Cesar Cerrudo, a researcher and CTO at IOActive, decided to take a look at the security of some of the devices that control traffic lights and electronic signs in many cites around the world, and found that not only were the devices vulnerable to a number of attacks, but they could be exploited quite easily and perhaps could be used to spread malware from device to device. Cerrudo said that the vulnerabilities he identified can be exploited from up to a mile or two away with the right equipment."
Maddog Batty (112434) writes "SpaceX recently made the news by managing to soft land at sea the first stage of rocket used to launch its third supply mission to the International Space Station. Telemetry reported that it was able to hover for eight seconds above the sea before running out of fuel and falling horizontal. Unfortunately, due to stormy weather at the time, their support ship wasn't able to get to the "landing" spot at the time and the first stage wasn't recovered and is likely now on the sea bed. Video of the landing was produced and transmitted to an aeroplane but unfortunately it is rather corrupted. SpaceX have attempted to improve it but it isn't much better. They are now looking for help to improve it further."
cartechboy writes: "While electric cars are now more available than ever, combustion engines will remain for decades to come. Now auto engineers are working to refine combustion power as part of cars that are increasingly electrified, including plug-in hybrids. Toyota's new 'Free Piston Engine Linear Generator' (or FPEG) shows us one potential way. Linear engines eliminate the rotating crankshaft of conventional engines in favor of a single chamber, in which a piston moves forward and backward. A linear engine has no crankshaft, nor connecting rods. In their place is a gas-filled chamber, the compression of which functions like a spring — returning the piston after the expansion / combustion phases of a typical combustion cycle. This back-and-forth motion can be turned into energy, when you haven't got a crankshaft and the mechanically-useful rotation it produces. While linear engines are far from new, and Toyota's test units are only 10 kW (13 horsepower), a pair of them can still produce enough electricity for a Yaris- or Corolla-sized vehicle to cruise on the highway at 75 mph."
MojoKid writes: "Google's open source Android platform has the distinction of being the most popular mobile operating system in the world. That's great in terms of dominating the market and reaping the rewards that come with it, but it's also for that very reason that Android finds itself the target of virtually every new mobile malware threat that emerges. According to data published in F-Secure's latest Mobile Threat Report (PDF), over 99 percent of the new mobile threats it discovered in the first quarter of 2014 targeted Android users. To be fair, we're not taking about hundreds of thousands, tens of thousands, or thousands of malware threats — F-Secure detected 277 new threat families, of which 275 honed in on Android."
An anonymous reader writes "If you play games online against other people, chances are you've come up against somebody who's obviously cheating. Wall hacks, aimbots, map hacks, item dupes — you name it, and there will always be a small (but annoying) segment of the gaming population who does it. Many of these cheating methods are bought and sold online, and PCGamer has done some investigative reporting to show us rule-abiding types how it all works. A single cheat-selling website manages to pull in $300,000 a year, and it's one of many. The people running the site aren't worried about their business drying up, either — game developers quickly catch 'rage cheaters,' and players cheating to be seen, but they have a much harder time detecting the 'closet cheaters' who hide it well. Countermeasures like PunkBuster and VAC are sidestepped quickly and easily."
redletterdave writes: "April was National Distracted Driving Awareness Month. Unfortunately, the recognition of this month for distracted driving was a hollow gesture — just like the half-hearted attempts at developing apps that prevent cell phone use while driving. After a week of trying to find an app that prevents me from all cell phone use from behind the wheel entirely, I've given up. The Distracted Driving Foundation lists about 25 apps on its website — there are a few more on Apple's App Store — but I couldn't find a single one that was easy to use. Most were either defunct, required onerous sign-up processes, asked for subscription plans, or simply didn't work as advertised."
ananyo writes: "Robert Grosseteste, an English scholar who lived from about 1175 to 1253, was the first thinker in northern Europe to try to develop unified physical laws to explain the origin and form of the geocentric medieval universe of heavens and Earth. Tom McLeish, professor of physics and pro-vice-chancellor for research at Britain's Durham University, and a multinational team of researchers found that Grosseteste's physical laws were so rigorously defined that they could be re-expressed using modern mathematical and computing techniques — as the medieval scholar might have done if he had been able to use such methods. The thinking went that the translated equations could then be solved and the solutions explored. The 'Ordered Universe Project' started six years ago and has now reported some of its findings. Only a small set of Grosseteste's parameters resulted in the "ordered" medieval universe he sought to explain, the researchers found; most resulted either in no spheres being created or a 'disordered' cosmos of numerous spheres. Grosseteste, then, had created a medieval 'multiverse.' De Luce suggests that the scholar realized his theories could result in universes with all manner of spheres, although he did not appear to realize the significance of this. A century later, philosophers Albert of Saxony and Nicole Oresme both considered the idea of multiple worlds and how they might exist simultaneously or in sequence."
The Bad Astronomer writes: "Astronomers have just announced that the exoplanet Beta Pic b — a 10-Jupiter-mass world 60 light years away — rotates in about 8 hours. Using a high-resolution spectrometer and exploiting the Doppler shift of light seen as the planet spins, they measured its rotation velocity as 28,000 mph. Making reasonable assumptions about the planet's size, that gives the length of its day. This is the first time such a measurement has been achieved for an exoplanet."
ConstantineM writes: "What has been planned for a long time now, prior to the infamous heartbleed fiasco of OpenSSL (which does not affect SSH at all), is now officially a reality — with the help of some recently adopted crypto from DJ Bernstein, OpenSSH now finally has a compile-time option to no longer depend on OpenSSL. `make OPENSSL=no` has now been introduced for a reduced configuration OpenSSH to be built without OpenSSL, which would leave you with no legacy SSH-1 baggage at all, and on the SSH-2 front with only AES-CTR and chacha20+poly1305 ciphers, ECDH/curve25519 key exchange and Ed25519 public keys."
Go to Stop the Secrecy.net and you'll see that this is something that requires action now, not someday, It's about the TPP, or Trans Pacific Partnership, a trade agreement that could place major restrictions on how we use the Internet. This is far from the only attack on Internet freedom we need to fight against, just one the EFF (and others) feel is one of the worst ones in play right now. Mild-mannered Steve Anderson, founder and Executive Director of OpenMedia.ca, is today's interview guest. He's Canadian, but OpenMedia.ca doesn't stop at Canada's southern border. Steve and the rest of the group want U.S. citizens to have the same Internet freedoms they want Canadians to have -- as well as people all over the world, because Internet balkanization hurts all Internet users. Including you. And worse, this is not the only problem with the TPP. Did you notice, in the TPP link above (to Wikipedia), that parts of this trade agreement are secret? So even if you want to protest against it, you might end up holding a sign that's mostly blank. This is a "Call your Congressional representatives" situation. Unless you're in Canada, in which case it's a "Call your Member of Parliament" situation. Ditto if you're in another TPP country. In any case, it's going to take a lot of calls, letters, emails, and faxes from people like us to overcome some of the heavy money that wants the TPP to go through. (Alternate video link.)
samzenpus (5) writes "Ben Starr is a chef, travel writer, reality TV star, wine and beer brewer, cheesemaker, and ultimate food geek. Ben traveled all 7 continents in his early 20s, staying with local families and learning to cook the cuisines of the world in home kitchens and local markets. FRANK, his underground Dallas restaurant, has a waitlist of 3,000 and reservations are selected by random lottery. He is a passionate local and sustainable food advocate. Ben is a flag waver for the new generation of chefs who embrace modern technology, and his Camp Potluck feeds hundreds of hungry Burning Man attendees every year. Ben has agreed to put down his chef's knife and answer your questions. As usual, ask as many as you'd like, but please, one question per post."
Rambo Tribble (1273454) writes "Jeffrey Katzenberg, the head of Dreamworks Animation, speaking at the Milken Global Conference in California, opined that the future pricing model for movie downloads will revolve around screen size. In his view, larger screens will incur larger download prices. As he says, 'It will reinvent the enterprise of movies.' Unclear is how physical dimensions, rather than just resolution matrix, will be determined. Will we soon be saying 'hello' to screen spoofing?" Can you fake the physical dimensions reported in the EDID block when the connection is using HDCP? Aside from the implication that this would mean more DRM (and seems pretty unworkable, but with the rise of locked bootloaders on even x86 hardware...), the prices he predicts seem alright: "A movie screen will be $15. A 75-inch TV will be $4. A smartphone will be $1.99."
jfruh (300774) writes "U.S. retailers must accept chip-and-pin charge cards by the end of 2015 or become liable for fraudulent purchases made with chip cards. Target, still smarting from its recent embarrassing security breach, is moving to get ahead of that trend. The company will be installing chip-and-pin terminals in all its stores, and will also be issuing chip-and-pin versions of its own branded cards, which account for about 20 percent of Target sales. Will this move by a huge retailer push the U.S. into parity with the rest of the world?"
theodp (442580) writes "Simon Allardice takes a stroll down coding memory lane, recalling that when he got started in programming in 1983, hand-writing one's programs with pencil on IBM coding sheets was still considered good enough for British government work (COBOL, Assembler forms). Allardice writes, 'And when you were finished handwriting a section of code — perhaps a full program, perhaps a subroutine — you'd gather these sheets together (carefully numbered in sequence, of course) and send them along to the folks in the data entry department. They'd type it in. And the next day you'd get a report to find out if it compiled or not. Let me say that again: the next day you could find out if your code compiled or not.' So, does anyone have 'fond' memories of computer programming in the punched card era? And for you young'uns, what do you suppose your C++ or Java development times would be like if you got one compile a day?" The other way you could program in 1983.
UnknowingFool (672806) writes "In a pair of unanimous rulings yesterday, the Supreme Court made it easier for defendants in patent cases to collect attorneys fees if the litigation was frivolous. In the first case, Octane Fitness v. Icon Health & Fitness, the court ruled that a standard used by lower courts to award attorney's fees was impossible to meet. The original standard under Brooks Furniture Mfg., Inc. v. Dutailier Int'l, Inc. had ruled that a claim had to be both 'objectively baseless' and 'brought in subjective bad faith' before fees could be awarded. The high court ruled that fees should be awarded merely when the case is 'exceptional' and not when the defendant must prove there was zero merit.
In the second case, Highmark v. Allcare Health Management, the Supreme Court also noted the 'exceptional' standard in reversing the appellate court's decision but specifically ruled that appellate courts should give more deference to the lower courts on rulings of fact. In Highmark, the district court found that Allcare had engaged in a pattern of 'vexatious' and 'deceitful' conduct throughout the litigation and awarded fees. The appellate court while agreeing with the lower court about part of the case reversed the fees in their de novo review of the case. In de novo reviews, the court case is essentially retried with the higher court. The Supreme Court iterated that de novo reviews should be done typically for 'questions of law' and reviews on 'questions of fact' are done if there are clear errors with decisions on matters of discretion 'reviewable for "abuse of discretion."' In other words, the appellate courts can review a case if a lower court has not correctly interpreted law; however, they should not retry a lower case on facts unless the lower court made a clear error. Also unless the lower court abused their power in some way, the appellate court should not review their final decisions.
For example, if a person is tried for murder, an appellate court could rule that a district court misinterpreted a statute about sentencing if the person if found guilty. The appellate court should not retry the facts of the case unless the lower court had made a clear error like ruling that there was a DNA match when there was not. Also an appellate court should not reverse the lower court if they sentenced the person to a reasonable time. Now if the district court sentenced the person to 400 years for one murder, then the appellate court should intervene.
In effect the two rulings make it easier for companies to recover money should they be sued in frivolous patent lawsuits. This would make the risks greater for those who sue."
An anonymous reader writes "Red Hat announced their pending acquisition of Inktank this morning. Sage Weil and a team of researchers at University of California Santa Cruz first published the architecture in 2007. Sage joined DreamHost after college and continued development on Ceph until DreamHost spun off a Inktank, a company focused solely on Ceph. In Sage's blog post on the acquisition, he says 'In particular, joining forces with the Red Hat team will improve our ability to address problems at all layers of the storage stack, including in the kernel.' Sage goes on to announce that Inktank's proprietary management tools for Ceph will now be open sourced, citing Red Hat's pure open source development and business models.
Ceph has seen wide adoption in OpenStack customer deployments, alongside Red Hat's existing Gluster system."
Ceph looks pretty cool if you're doing serious storage: CERN has a 3 Petabyte "prototype" cluster in use now (Only tangentially related, but still interesting, is how CERN does storage in general).
New submitter Raystonn (1463901) writes "Bloomberg has announced the release of Bitcoin support in their trading terminals, used worldwide by over 320,000 trading professionals. The market makers of the world will now have instant access to immediate Bitcoin prices on an industry-standard trading platform. This places the virtual currency before the eyes of the movers and shakers of most of the world's money supply as they decide where to invest their USD holdings."
profBill (98315) writes "Way back in 2002, Slashdot ran a story asking what people thought about C++ and the STL. Well, it's 2014 and C++11 is well out there with C++14 on its way.
I teach a second programming course in C++ with a heavy emphasis on the STL (containers and generic algorithms). I just wondered what people think about the situation today. Personally, I think C++11 has cleaned up a lot of problems, making it easier to use, but given all those who work with C++ for a living, I wondered what they thought today compared to then. Are people using C++11? Does it matter at all? I'd love to share the responses with my students! They are always curious about what practitioners are doing these days."
Daniel_Stuckey (2647775) writes "The state of Oklahoma had scheduled two executions for Tuesday, April 29th. This in spite of myriad objections that the drugs being used for both lethal injections had not been tested, and thus could violate the constitutional right to the courts, as well as the 8th Amendment: protection from cruel and unusual punishment. After much legal and political wrangling, the state proceeded with the executions anyway. It soon became clear that the critics' worst case scenarios were coming true — Oklahoma violently botched the first execution. The inmate "blew" a vein and had a heart attack. The state quickly postponed the second one. 'After weeks of Oklahoma refusing to disclose basic information about the drugs for tonight's lethal injection procedures, tonight, Clayton Lockett was tortured to death,' Madeline Cohen, the attorney of Charles Warner, the second man scheduled for execution, said in a statement. Katie Fretland at The Guardian reported from the scene of the botched attempt to execute Lockett using the untested, unvetted, and therefore potentially unconstitutional lethal injection drugs." sciencehabit also points out a study indicating that around 4% of death row inmates in the U.S. are likely innocent.
curtwoodward (2147628) writes "Amazon is well-established as an e-commerce and cloud computing pioneer. So why do its ambitions include a bigger push into consumer electronics, including a long-rumored leap into the very competitive smartphone market? In a word, control — of data, consumer profiles, and royalties on purchases."
Hugh Pickens DOT Com writes "Reuters reports that U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission Chair Mary Jo White told a U.S. House of Representatives panel that she flatly rejected claims that retail investors are being fleeced by high-frequency traders who can use their speed to jump ahead with buy and sell orders that fetch better prices. 'The markets are not rigged,' says White. 'The U.S. markets are the strongest and most reliable in the world.' White's comments to the House Financial Services Committee mark the first time she has directly responded to allegations in Michael Lewis' new book Flash Boys: A Wall Street Revolt. The book alleges that high-speed traders are engaged in a form of front-running, in which the firms are able to quickly identify an investor's desire to buy a stock, rush to buy it first and then sell it back at a higher price. The SEC has been reviewing equity market structure issues, particularly following the May 6, 2010 flash crash incident when the Dow Jones Industrial Average sharply plunged before quickly rebounding. Although staff at SEC are considering whether to launch some pilot studies to test different regulatory proposals, there are no immediate plans to issue rules to crack down on high-speed trading or trading in unlit markets. 'I want to be very clear that the market metrics suggest that the retail investor is very well-served by the current market structure.'"
An anonymous reader writes "Virtual reality tech is getting a ton of attention for what it can do to video games. But the technology itself isn't limited to games — just as Kinect was hijacked and used for myriad other purposes, so will VR be broadly adapted. This article goes into some of the applications: 'An elderly woman in a retirement home recently used an Oculus to explore a garden and walk stairs again. This simple environment brought her to tears. Work is also being done to help PTSD sufferers deal with their trauma by replicating the scene within virtual reality and there is great interest in using a similar approach for other conditions like amnesia, Alzheimer's and dementia. ... It's now possible for museum spaces and schools to teleport students to specific moments in history, to allow them to experience being executed by a guillotine, take tours of space or even explore the depths of the ocean.' What other VR uses can you foresee?"
An anonymous reader writes "After many years I now have a backup of all my digital data in (at least) two physical locations. But what do people recommend to back up my physical data? And then how to prove my identity? I call it the 'gas leak problem,' because a gas leak in my town caused an explosion that leveled a house. If it had been my house, it would have destroyed all my paperwork that proves who I am. If I'd come home from work and found my house was now a pile of rubble, how would I prove I lived there, knowing my key no longer fits the smoldering lock? If I'd left my wallet at home, my bank cards would have been destroyed so I couldn't withdraw money or book into a hotel. Or if I'd left my phone at the office, I wouldn't know anyone's number to call, or get anyone to vouch for me. What preventative steps can you take? Since having this nightmare, I've exported my phone's VCF file to an online repo, made online notes of all my bank account numbers and passport ID, I keep ICE numbers with me at all times (separate from phone/wallet), and I've hidden a spare mobile phone and house key in a box in a nearby field. But there must be more to do!"
An anonymous reader writes "Ars has reviewed an AMD-powered mini gaming rig made by Gigabyte. The box itself is small and solid, and it runs a pretty beefy video card for its size. The manufacturer even claims Linux support, though the device ships with Windows 8.1. Unfortunately, reality lags a bit behind their plans — Ubuntu boots OK, but driver support is a mess. SteamOS won't run at all. The box is also limited by a mediocre CPU, which is itself limited by heat and power constraints. The review says the machine was 'intriguing and frustrating in equal measure' because 'its ambition is rarely matched by its execution.' It concludes: 'With some time and some different components, a little desktop that can deliver a great gaming experience will surely follow.'"
An anonymous reader writes "Those of us who spend our days sitting in front of a screen trying to make computers do our bidding know how difficult programming can be. But from an outside perspective, there's not much to indicate difficulty. Most of us have heard somebody compare our job to digging ditches, or some other manual labor, meant to contrast easy (sitting around and typing) versus hard (muscle-wearying work). Now, Peter Welch has written an amusing essay to help combat that point of view, titled Programming Sucks. He compares bridge building to a big software project. Here's a small part of it:
'You start by meeting Mary, project leader for a bridge in a major metropolitan area. Mary introduces you to Fred, after you get through the fifteen security checks installed by Dave because Dave had his sweater stolen off his desk once and Never Again. Fred only works with wood, so you ask why he's involved because this bridge is supposed to allow rush-hour traffic full of cars full of mortal humans to cross a 200-foot drop over rapids. Don't worry, says Mary, Fred's going to handle the walkways. What walkways? Well Fred made a good case for walkways and they're going to add to the bridge's appeal. Of course, they'll have to be built without railings, because there's a strict no railings rule enforced by Phil, who's not an engineer. ... Would you drive across this bridge? No. If it somehow got built, everybody involved would be executed. Yet some version of this dynamic wrote every single program you have ever used, banking software, websites, and a ubiquitously used program that was supposed to protect information on the internet but didn't.' Welch goes on to gripe about all the ways in which programming is almost awesome, but ends up being annoying."


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As many as plays, produced by troupes across the State, were staged in Tiruchi.
Annai Stage Creations, Tiruchi, conducted its maiden competition of historical plays at the Rasika Ranjana Sabha Hall in Tiruchi. The festival, jointly organised by the South Zone Cultural Centre, Thanjavur and State Department of Art and Culture, evoked good response. A total of 13 historical plays, produced by the drama troupes from across the state, from Bangalore and also from the Union Territory of Puducherry, were staged during the competition held from October 15-21 with two plays per day.
Srirangam Vaanmathi Kalai Manram presented the play, 'Malar Manjam' on the first day. While poet Vaali was in charge of story and dialogue, S.R. Keethan had directed the drama. On the same day, Courtallam Tamizhannai Kalai Manram presented the play 'Podhigai Malai Thendral,' which was directed by A.P.S. Manimaran. Dr. C. Aruldoss, a surgeon, was in charge of story and dialogue.
The second day's programmes commenced with 'Tiruvarulseyal,' staged by Tiruchi Rose Creations. T. Sambanda Pandian was in charge of the story, dialogue and direction. The second play was 'Punitha Sebastine,' presented by Thanjavur Mariamman Kalai Kuzhu. While O.N. Selvaraj had penned the story and dialogue, S.M. Lourduraj was the director.
'Maruvathur Amman Puranam' was presented by Kovai Kadiravan Kalai Manram. S.M. Arumugam and R. Thiagarajan were in charge of the script, dialogue and direction respectively. Tiruchi RR directed the drama 'Vekkaliamman,' presented by Tiruchi RR Theatres. Prof. Arumugam had penned the script and the dialogue.
Manapparai K.S. Krishnappa troupe presented the drama 'Madurai Veeran,' on the fifth day and it was followed by 'Karnan,' presented by Salem Kalaivani Movies. Vaiyapuri, a school teacher, was in charge of script and dialogue and Dr. M. Anandan directed the play.
'Veeramangai Obavva' was presented by Bangalore Kalaiselvi Creations. While Kanchana Mala had written the script and penned the dialogue, K. Baggiaraj took care of the direction. Salem Amara Kunthi Ilango Nataka Manram presented 'Chatrapathi Sivaji,' directed by K. Mahibalan. P. Dhanapal was in charge of story and dialogue.
On the penultimate day, 'Chanakkiyan' was presented by Bangalore Tiruvalluvar Nataka Manram and 'Veera Sivaji,' by Pondy Gokulam Kalaikuzhi. While the former was directed by Kalai Krishna (story and dialogue – Vaseekaran), the second was directed by T. Nandagopal (M.S. Raja was in charge of the story and dialogue).
The drama fest came to an end with the staging of the 'Nayakka Maha Devi,' a play about the Madurai and Thanjavur kingdoms. The play was presented by Tiruchi Annai Nataka Manram. While Tiruchi George was in charge of story and dialogue, M.S. Mohamed Masthan directed the play.
Award for best plays
'Nayakka Maha Devi' was adjudged the best drama and was awarded a cash prize of Rs 10,000. Mohamed Masthan and Tiruchi George received the award from Muthuvelazhagan, noted director and producer.
A purse of Rs. 5,000 was given to 'Chanakkiyan' that came second and a special prize of Rs. 3,000 was given to the play 'Veera Sivaji.' Mohamed Masthan bagged the best director award.
Pandeeswaran was given the first prize for make up and Jothi Meena was given the second prize. The best actress award was bagged by Salem Vijayabarathi. Runner-up was Bangalore Reeta and a special prize was shared by Pondy Viji and Tiruchi Viji.
Pondy Tamilarasan bagged the music director award, Kanchana Mala, the best scene award and Santhishree best dancer award.
The title 'Kalai Thendral' was conferred on six artists - Thanjavur V. Rani Jaya, Pondy V. Tamilarasan, Parasai Bala, Suravali V. Srinivasan, Srirangam N. Kannan and Kappal Kavignar K. Krishnamoorthy. Poet M.R. Lingam, Srirangam S.R. Kathan, Pondy M.S. Raja, Bangalore Kalai Krishna were presented the outstanding achievement awards.
R. Manoharan, MLA, was the chief guest at the valediction. R. Gunasekaran, secretary and deputy director, Folk Artistes Welfare Board offered felicitations.
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"He loves me, he loves me not."
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It's simple. Too many of our smart guys think the storytelling stuff is silly. They're like businesspeople who think success is predicated on spreadsheets, data, and process but ignore the importance of human relationships.
We don't respect storytelling. We believe deep down in our hearts that if we just keep pounding away at America with our superior policy positions and our superior arguments, we'll win — that if we just educate the masses, they'll vote with us.
We forget that most Americans get their education through stories. And most Americans don't connect with the smartest person in the room, even if that person believes in the American experiment and the innate genius of the American people.
Our smart guys are like the off-Broadway playwrights who write plays that appeal to people like themselves and, when the plays fail, blame the audience for being stupid.
Arthur Miller's plays have been seen and read by hundreds of millions of Americans. His best revolve around the universal anchor of the father-son relationship. It's why his plays connect: No matter what our age or skin color or level of wealth, we all have fathers — good ones, bad ones, even absent ones.
And invariably, there is a scene that hammers capitalism. There's that one in Death of a Salesman where the heartless boss ignores Willy Loman's appeal to keep his job after years of service. While Willy is breaking down, the boss plays with a machine on his desk. Even committed capitalists want to punch the louse out.
That was Miller's modus operandi: Lure the people in with stories they understand and then slip in a dose of leftism while no one notices.
Miller wrote that play in 1949. He died in 2006. And that is the power of storytellers. Their work moves audiences long after they're gone. But who will remember Benghazi in three years, let alone 30? Indeed, most Americans are finished with it already.
That's the ephemeral nature of news and politics in the age of instant communication: It gets old faster and faster.
60 Minutes is just as crafty. Don Hewitt, the man who created the hit show, was asked why it was so successful. "Tell me a story," he said — preferably, one with a beginning, middle, and end. That show has been top-ranked on Sundays since the beginning of time. At least it feels that way.
Hewitt knew well what we don't. Storytelling matters. Stories have characters, conflict, and resolution. In the liberal universe, the bad guys are greedy corporate types, Christian extremists, Israel, the U.S. military, millionaires, and billionaires.
The good guys are journalists, trial lawyers, union leaders, Palestinians, and government agencies, all there to protect the little guy from the big guys, the bad guys: us.
We need not be depressed by this state of affairs. The gatekeepers don't have a grip on cultural platforms the way they used to, and we are highly capable of competing on mass-media platforms, including radio and TV.
We need bold conservative capitalists to invest in our storytellers and in our storytelling platforms. In our Don Hewitt. Our NPR, Daily Show, Ellen DeGeneres Show, 60 Minutes, Frontline, Oliver Stone, and Charlie Rose. We need them to invest in storytellers who look and sound like America and who share our values.
There is a reason why people of every ethnic background in the world risk everything to come to America. It isn't bigger government. It's opportunity and freedom.
"In the Soviet Union, the future is predictable," goes an old dissident joke. "It's the past that keeps changing." There's great truth in that joke; it's the storytellers who determine a nation's future — and it's past, too.
So as we study the gender gap, the marriage gap, and the other various gaps in the electorate over the coming months, we need to tackle the most important gap of them all: the storytelling gap. We are on America's side. We're on the side of the little guy. We're on the side of men and women of every age, ethnicity, and class, and of the principles that have drawn people here for centuries.
Too many Americans just don't know it yet.
— Lee Habeeb is vice president of content at Salem Radio Network. Mike Leven is the president and chief operating office of the Las Vegas Sands and a member of the Job Creators Alliance.


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[Teaser:] Israel's military intelligence chief says dialogue with Iran is
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The chief of Israeli military intelligence said Nov. 17 that engaging Iran
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Israeli Gen. Amos Yadlin, chief of military intelligence, says the time is
ripe for U.S.-Iranian dialogue, Israeli radio reported Nov 18. Speaking at
a Nov. 17 lecture at Tel Aviv University in honor of late Israeli military
chief Moshe Dayan, Yadlin said dialogue with Iran "is not appeasement" and
"is not necessarily negative. If it fails, it will lead to the
strengthening of sanctions." Yadlin added that Tehran "will do anything
not to be cornered in the position of Iraq or North Korea" and that the
Islamic republic was very vulnerable because of the global financial
Israel is in the process of adjusting its policy toward Iran following a
number of developments involving the United States and Iran. First, the
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But this is an adjustment of Israel's public position toward Iran in order
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I was drying some ornamental pepper seeds on a plate, and it got tipped over and the seeds scattered everywhere. Most of them fell in an old litterpan I keep under my hanging baskets to catch dripoff. Are these seeds scrap now? Can I lay them out again to dry, or should I plant them right away since they got damp? I was hoping to gift the seeds to friends.
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How long were they in there? If it was a quick oops, get them out and wipe them dry, they should be fine. If they were left in there awhile, it may have damaged them. Since it won't hurt to keep them and dry them again, do it. Then germination test them using the paper towel and baggie method. Hopefully, you'll still get good germination. Remy |
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by Maria Russo in Shows, April 26th, 2013When it comes to cooking on Chopped, much is made of each round's mystery baskets, filled with four unusual and often disparate ingredients that chefs are required to incorporate into their dishes. While these oddball picks are, of course, what add deliciously addictive intrigue and drama to the show, it takes more than just a spread of peanut brittle, Marsala wine, durian and wonton wrappers to outcook the chopping block. If the competitors want to survive three rounds of intense culinary battle, they must utilize next-level appliances and advanced tools, in addition to a myriad of common and eccentric products alike, to transform the basket ingredients and create a winning plate.
To make sure competitors can do that as efficiently as possible within the short amount of time they have to cook, the culinary team that works Chopped has outfitted each chef's prep station with ready-to-go equipment and stocked the pantry and refrigerator with almost every ingredient imaginable. FN Dish was curious about those supplies and wanted to know what kinds of ingredients are awaiting the chefs in the multiple nooks and crannies of Chopped Kitchen, so we turned to the culinary producer of the show to answer questions and provide an insider's look at the set. Find out what she had to say below, then get an exclusive look at the kitchen, peek inside the refrigerator and see what's on pantry shelves by browsing behind-the-scenes photos.
About how many ingredients are stocked in the pantry and refrigerator?
About 70 in fridge and about 200 in pantry
What pans, tools and equipment come standard on each chef's workstation?
Under the station: 4 saute pans, 1 stock pot, 3 saucepans, 1 sautoir pan, 3 mixing bowls, a cutting board and paper towels
Top of station: Cutting boards, wine key, Y peeler, meat thermometer, utensil bin, plating spoon and tasting spoon, 2 side towels, pepper grinder, kosher salt, ground pepper, extra virgin olive oil and canola oil
What kinds of oils, vinegars, flours, nuts and chocolates are in the pantry?
Oils: Sesame, roasted peanut, peanut, grapeseed, extra virgin olive oil and canola
Vinegars: Mirin, white wine, red wine, balsamic, sherry, Champagne, cider and rice
Nuts: Almonds and pine nuts
Flours: All-purpose, gluten-free all-purpose, rice and almond
Chocolate: Milk, dark, white, cocoa powder and cocoa nibs
Do the pantry ingredients change depending on the basket ingredients?
What are some of the most-used ingredients?
Bacon, bacon, bacon!
What are some of the least-used ingredients?
Molecular products
What's in the "molecular section" of the pantry?
Sodium alginate, calcium chloride, agar agar, isomalt, xanthum gum and tapioca maltodextrin
What are the most-modernist appliances available on set?
Anti-griddle, Cryovac, immersion circulator and smoking gun
Do the competitors bring their own knives to use, or are knives supplied?
We ask them to bring their own — most chefs want to. Only seven are allowed.
Where's the most-remote place you've gone to source an ingredient? What was the ingredient?
Wandering the streets of Jackson Heights, N.Y., searching for goat brains.
Is anything set up for the chefs before the rounds begin? It looks like there are already pots heating on the stove and water boiling.
Ovens and blast chiller is on; water is boiling.
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How long is the average judging time each round? We know there is much more discussion than we see on air. Also how do the contestants make their comments?? Is that done by watching a video replay?
I've always wondered about these things too. What would be great is if a former contestant would write an article about the experience so we could see what goes on from start to finish.
That would be great. I'd love to read that…have always wondered those things, too. The only beef (pun intended) I have with the show is that they make the chefs prep the food, as well. I realize it's a competition, but what with the funky basket ingredients and very short time to cook, making them prep a pig's head, etc. is just too much. I think the chefs could really showcase their true COOKING and creativity skills with the funky ingredients and time factor; making them practically butcher a pig, too, seems to be too much.
Each judging and tasting segment for each chef lasts an average of 30 minutes in real time. I am an editor on the show and I have to go through these diligently with the producer to capture the essence of the critique. Thank you for watching!
This is a good start, I still long for a Behind the Scenes one hour special, hosted by Ted with the crew interviewed! I want to know so many things about Chopped.
There is a meat thermometer on the cooking stations. I have never seen one used on the show and wonder why not, since many dishes end up over- or undercooked. Possibly it is a time issue and they just try to go by experience.
Is Ted, the host, a fourth judge? I often hear him chiming in with questions and comments during the deliberations. Does he food taste as well?
I had wondered that, too; then I noticed that the chefs have to have 4 plates available. My husband and I figure that the fourth is for Ted to taste a little, so he can participate in the conversation and the plate is then also used for the plate under the chopping block. Ted, to my knowledge, isn't an actual judge, though. Just the host. Btw, I love Ted…he is so kind and kick-butt host!
The 4th plate is for show as they "chop" the contestant.
no he is not a judge, but is a moderator, and is responsible for keeping the show moving
Are the voice overs done after the show has been filmed? It's amazing that a contestant will make a comment about something and then you hear the judge make a similar comment or vice-versa. I love the show, but Zacharian can REALLY be rude. I can deal with the others. You would think, with all my watching, that I cook. Nada!
I disagree. Geoffrey Zakarian is an Iron Chef, he has high expectations of contestants like any other judge. Marc Murphy can be rude but if you were on Chopped wouldn't you have high expectations?
Friend of a friend recently won, I know she watched as many shows as she could find to map out where items were in the kitchen. I was hoping to get a chance to grill her on my questions. I do know it is a very long day from start to finish, but wonder how much time from presenting to the results passes.
There used to be a show, '1-2-3 Cook', where a chef and a guest were on, and the guest was given money to go buy food. Used to love that show, but Chopped is so much better.
I have a nephew and niece that are chefs in the same restaurant and asked if they would want to be on the show. They yelled NO.
That's awesome! Winning Chopped would be great. Who was the Chopped Champion?
My favourite judge has to be Alex Guarnaschelli
mine too
I am absolutely addicted to this show… I watch at least two episodes every night before bed…. Their are so many things that could be done to keep this show going strong… For instance more episodes of just normal everyday people, not necessarily chefs… everyone cooks and all at different levels but food is all good. Some of the best food you will find at a pitch in dinner….
I also love how they are starting to pull in network stars and other contestants from other shows on the network..
I watched the entire celeb chopped season 10…in one afternoon. addiction? I think so. Want more like this.
I'm addicted too. Absolutely love this show
i love this show as well. i can get enough of it
My mom & I love Chopped! What I find the most interesting is the secret ingredients. Where does the show come up with such strange & interesting ingredients? I've never heard of some of the basket ingredients.
I LOVE watching Chopped too, It's one of my favorites on Foodnetwork. I too like seeing what they get for ingredients, I love watching everything except the commercials, Ha Ha !!
I have always had issues with food processors but the one they use on CHOPPED simply kicks ass! I believe it is cuisinart but I want to know the specific model! I also see the knives hanging on the magnetic strips but they are never used..do the chefs bring in ALL of their own knives?
yes they are allowed to bring up to seven of their own knives, and are encouraged to.


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"It felt good to get that win, to break that negative streak. All the guys came out and played hard this whole road trip," said Blatche.
March truly came in like a lion and went out like a lamb for the beleaguered Wizards, who were in jeopardy of going 0-for-March, with their last win coming on February 28th at New Jersey. Nine of their 16 straight defeats came by double digits.
Shaun Livingston donated 18 points with eight assists and hit two clutch free throws with 13.6 seconds left to make it a three-point game. JaVale McGee chipped in with 11 points and six rebounds for Washington, which had company in snapping long losing streaks on Wednesday; Minnesota downed Sacramento to snap its own 16-game skid.
David West led the way with 18 points but missed a game-tying three in closing seconds. Marcus Thornton added 15 points, and Chris Paul, still getting his legs under him in an injury-plagued season, settled for just eight points with nine assists. Darren Collison added 14 points, and Aaron Gray donated 12 for the Hornets, who experienced a devastating low after an enormous high with a victory over the Lakers on Monday night.
"This game was an opportunity to get a win and build on the Lakers game, but unfortunately was a setback. The follow up from the Lakers game wasn't there and I give credit to the Wizards for creating that," said Hornets head coach Jeff Bower.
Washington led 23-19 after one period, jumping to a quick eight-point edge at 19-11 on Blatche's mid-range floater.
The margin grew to 10 at 35-25 on a JaVale McGee free throw, but New Orleans scored 12 of the next 15 points, capped by a West layup to draw within 38-37.
The Wizards stayed the course and held a 43-39 edge after 24 minutes of game action. They quickly re-claimed a double-digit edge at 53-43 on Miller's layup -- he scored 10 points in the period -- and the edge grew to 57-44 on the swingman's mid-range bucket moments later.
A 70-59 advantage after three periods stayed at a comfortable level with less than five minutes to play in the game. The second of two Blatche free throws made the score 87-75, and it appeared the Wizards were well on their way.
Yet, nothing comes easy for a team that has not won since the calendar read "February".
The Hornets scored the next eight points, capped by Darren Collison's long three-pointer, and Thornton's long trey with 2:41 to play made the score 88-86. Blatche answered with a mid-range jumper, then James Singleton converted from in close.
Again, New Orleans responded, this time with a Thornton dunk, a quick steal and a James Posey layup for a two-point game, 92-90. Another Livingston turnover led to Posey -- an 80-plus-percent free throw shooter -- at the charity stripe with a chance to tie.
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English, Virgil P.; physician; born, Salem county, N. J., Jan. 8, 1858; son of Enos P. and Mary Finlaw English; public school education; admitted to Kansas bar, 1883; graduated Phrenol. Institute, New York, 1886; M. D., Homeopathic Hospital Medical College, Cleveland, O., 1892; married, Minnie Ghent of Frankfort, Ind., March 5, 1891; taught school for several years; practiced law a short time; traveled from New York to Los Angeles, lecturing on phrenology, hygiene, etc., 1886-1892; in practice as specialist, nervous diseases and diseases of women, since 1892, propr. Ohio State Pub. Co., Power & Poise Pub. Co.; editor Power and Poise (magazine); Republican, member Human Culture Society (pres. since 1908). Author The Doctor's Plain Talk to Young Men, 1895; The Mind and Its Machinery, 1901; The Doctor's Plain Talk to Young Women, 1902; Mental Physical Culture, 1906; has written a number of booklets relating to life and its possibilities.
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The event was held in conjunction with the Weis familys Hannah and Friends organization, which has branched off into Hannah and Jayhawk Friends, a student organization at KU.
This gives us an opportunity to teach our players how to get involved with community service, Weis said. When we did it last year, there was only a handful that (were) involved in community service. Now a lot more of them have gotten integrated into community service.
Kansas players took the field at the Jayhawks indoor practice facility and ran through drills with the participants for more than an hour. By the end, Weis believed his players had gained more from the experience than the Special Olympians.
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