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ST. LOUIS — Members of the state-appointed board now overseeing St. Louis schools used their first meeting today to send a message to the community — we need your help.
Amid only mild protests and a few catcalls, the board met for about 25 minutes at the St. Louis Science Center, with all three members pledging to seek input from residents as they move forward in trying to improve the state's largest school district.
"We're in uncharted waters on a lot of things," said Rick Sullivan, a homebuilder appointed by Gov. Matt Blunt to lead the transitional board. He said his first priority is "listening, hearing what the community has to say about this district."
Toward that goal, Sullivan announced a public hearing for 5:30 p.m. Tuesday, also at the Science Center, in which residents can meet with the board and express their concerns.
Members Richard Gaines and Melanie Adams also cited a need for input from students, teachers, residents and members of the elected school board that still remains, though it now has no power. Adams cited a need for the board to set specific, measurable goals.
Gaines, an insurance broker who served on the school board from 1983 to 1989, including a stint as president, called the transitional board's task "an onerous responsibility that I don't take lightly." He recognized the awkwardness of the situation in which a board not elected by the city's residents is now running the district.
"It brings a great deal of discomfort to me and other people in this city," Gaines said.
That discomfort was barely evident at the meeting. Two protesters stood outside the Science Center holding signs accusing the state's Republican leadership of orchestrating the takeover. A few times during the brief meeting, opponents offered muted catcalls or laughs to comments from members.
Nick Clement, one of the two protesters outside the building, said the takeover was unnecessary despite the district's low test scores and overall poor academic performance.
"Test scores are not good in some other districts but they're not being taken over," Clement said.
If anything, the new board showed it won't be a rubber-stamp operation. Its first vote was a split decision. Sullivan made a motion to retain an attorney for 120 days to deal with litigation connected to the changeover. But Gaines, citing a potential conflict because the lawyer had previously handled a case for the state, said he would not support the motion. Adams broke the tie, siding with Sullivan.
After the meeting, Katha McKinney, an in-school suspension monitor at Gateway Prep Junior High, urged Gaines to support the teachers union.
"We support our teachers because we are dedicated educators," she told him. "That's what we do. We're here to educate."
The State Board of Education voted in March to strip the district of accreditation, saying it came up short on academic and financial standards.
Some members of the elected school board opposed the state takeover, but a judge late Thursday allowed it to move forward.
The takeover called for one appointee each from Blunt, St. Louis Mayor Francis Slay and St. Louis aldermanic president Lewis Reed. Slay appointed Adams, who was the first executive director of Teach for America when it came to St. Louis and now is a managing director for the Missouri Historical Society. Lewis appointed Gaines.
Sullivan praised the work of superintendent Diana Bourisaw and said the board has no intention of removing her.


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60 Notre-Dame Street South, Sainte-Marie, Quebec, G6E, Canada
Church of Sainte-Marie National Historic Site of CanadaChurch of Sainte-MarieÉglise Sainte-Marie
1857/01/01 to 1859/01/01
The Church of Sainte-Marie National Historic Site of Canada is located at the heart of Sainte-Marie, Québec. The church, the main façade of which overlooks Marguerite-Bourgeois Avenue, is bordered by Notre Dame Street on the west side, a parking lot on the east and the rectory on the south. The Church of Sainte-Marie is a romantic Gothic Revival style building, built in the 19th century in the shape of a Latin cross with a semi-circular chevet connected to an irregularly shaped sacristy. The official recognition refers to the building on its footprint at the time of designation.
The Church of Sainte-Marie was designated as a national historic site of Canada in 2005 because:- it is distinguished by its impressive interior decoration: designed by architect Charles Baillairgé, the interior is a unique interpretation of the Gothic Revival style that melds harmoniously with the fine trompe-l'oeil and grisaille paintings by artist François-Édouard Meloche.
The heritage value of the Church of Sainte-Marie lies in the fact that it is a fine example of a romantic Gothic Revival church, a concept expressed in its relatively simple exterior arrangement as well as its gothic components, which are simply applied to the surface of the building rather than being incorporated into the architecture. In contrast to the sober exterior of the church, the interior has an impressive décor, created by Charles Baillairgé and François-Édouard Meloche.
Inspired by the style of 14th-century English Gothic churches, the church opens to a grand, blue-and-gold interior, with boldly sculpted quatrefoils, rib arches and clustered columns. The modern-day interior is almost identical to that which Baillairgé created in his time, except for the painted décor that replaced the original white and gold. This décor, created by François-Édouard Meloche of Montréal, is the most striking aspect when one enters the church. Meloche excelled in trompe-l'oeil painting: he created the illusion of three-dimensional ornamentation on a two-dimensional surface. Meloche also painted the beautiful little grisaille paintings of the patriarchs of the Old Testament that hang over the gallery windows, as well as the four colour paintings in the choir depicting the life of the Virgin Mary.
Source: Historic Sites and Monuments Board Minutes, June 2005.
The main elements that contribute to the heritage value of this historic site include:-its location at the heart of Sainte-Marie;-the composition of its main symmetrical façade incorporating Gothic elements, including the three doors topped by a pointed arch transom on the ground level, the pointed arch centre window and two sidelights on the second level, the corner buttresses and pinnacles with shafts at the central and side entrances, and the tower with a rose window and a pointed arch window, topped with a bell tower in the middle; -the nave, the aisles and the transepts, all surmounted by a gable roof, and the apse, surmounted by a conical roof; -the walls of the nave, including five openings with pointed arches;-the buttresses with pinnacles, as well as the two windows and the oculus in the transepts;-the vault with pointed arches in the crossing and multiple ribs resting on clustered columns above the choir, the central nave and the galleries; -the sloping flat vault with octagonal caissons decorating the side chapels and the aisles; -the walls and ceilings of the vault, finished in polished plaster with decorations made of plain or sculpted plaster and painted muted blue and grey with gilded accents;-the clustered columns in the nave and choir, with sculpted plaster capitals that spread to form the vault; -the broken arches in the choir, which end in a cap decorated with angels; -the walls of the church, decorated with trompe-l'oeil paintings, particularly around the openings, as well as the stations of the Cross on the walls of the aisles between the windows; -the fourteen grisaille paintings depicting women and men from the Old Testament above the windows on the long sides of the galleries; - the Gothic Revival main altar, made of white wood with gilded highlights, of which the niches are adorned with small gilded statues; hanging above is a painting of the Immaculate Conception;-the double-glazed windows, with stained glass on the inside and regular glass on the outside; -the sculpted wood pulpit overlooking the nave;-the high relief of the Madonna of the Crusades, made of gilded wood with bright colours, which dates from the late 17th or early 18th century; -the walls and ceilings finished in polished plaster painted white and yellow in the sacristy; -the half-timbered walls and the floors covered with rubberized vinyl;- the decoration in the sacristy, including portraits of priests who have led the parish and a white wood altar with gilded mouldings.
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Charles Baillairgé
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National Historic Sites Directorate, Documentation Centre, 5th Floor, Room 89, 25 Eddy Street, Gatineau, Québec.
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Pro Football Hall of Fame Class of 2010
One of the most durable linebackers in NFL history. He missed just two games in 15 seasons. Finished career with 128 sacks and eight interceptions. Jackson holds the Saints team record with 123 career sacks. Named first-team All-Pro in 1987 when he helped New Orleans to its first winning season and inaugural playoff appearance in franchise history. A perennial loser when Jackson arrived, the Saints experienced newfound success with the hard-hitting linebacker. New Orleans never finished below .500 during Jackson's final seven years with the team. Signed with the San Francisco 49ers following the 1993 season and started at defensive end on their 1994 Super Bowl championship team.


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Hoyt Park beer garden in Wauwatosa likely to operate from 3 to 9 p.m., director says
Music to be reserved for special occasions only
The Landing at Hoyt Park, the park's new beer garden, likely will be open from 3 p.m. to 9 p.m. Wednesdays through Sundays on days when the pool is open, executive director Kathleen Slawski said. The beer garden season is expected to run from May into November, depending on weather.
The Landing is expected to open for the first time next month.
While the Common Council approved hours of permitted operation from noon to 10 p.m., the beer garden will not usually be open for that whole period.
The 3 to 9 p.m. beer garden time period works well because many pool users depart in the mid-to-late afternoon, easing parking lot congestion.
Open swim hours at the pool end at 4:30 p.m. Monday through Thursday, and at 6 p.m. on Friday. Evening open swim is from 6 to 8 p.m. on Tuesdays and Thursdays. See friendsofhoytpark.org for details on times of operation.
The pool is open from Memorial Day through Labor Day, so there will be weeks when the beer garden is open and the pool is closed, Slawski noted.
"On days that are outside the pool operation, we would most likely adjust those hours to earlier, and as the days get shorter, it would more likely be noon to 7, or 1 to 8, depending on when the sun sets," she said.
She said adjustments to the beer garden times might also be made when the pool is closed because of weather.
Live music
Slawski said live music would not occur every day — maybe once or twice a week — and most likely would be limited to within the time frame of 4 to 8 p.m. on days when it was booked. She said it would be "more of a special occasion type thing rather than a regular occurrence." In the fall, for example, she might consider music in the early afternoon.
Much of the debate about the beer garden centered around music times and types. Alderman John Dubinski, a supporter of the beer garden, was among those who favored a required closing time no later than 9 p.m., allowing music only between the hours of 4 and 8 p.m.
"I think they were just trying to get away from having something that would go to late hours over here, and we don't plan on doing that at all," Slawski said.
She added that the beer garden and pool would not broadcast recorded music.
The beer garden menu will include giant pretzels, brats or some kind of sausage, popcorn, and changing specialties. The concession stand for swimmers and those who use the park (there is a park-side window for those not entering the pool) will stay open as usual, with ice cream, hot dogs, pizza and other snacks being offered.
The beer garden boosts employment at the park by four-to-six people, Slawski said, bringing employment to a total of about 50, including supervisors, security people and others. Most of them are part time. Also, there are between 20 and 30 lifeguards, contracted through the county.
The beer garden requires a licensed bartender on site, and Slawski said servers also will complete responsible-server training.
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Braid is a puzzle-platformer, drawn in a painterly style, where you can manipulate the flow of time in strange and unusual ways. From a house in the city, journey to a series of worlds and solve puzzles to rescue an abducted princess. In each world, you have a different power to affect the way time behaves, and it is time's strangeness that creates the puzzles.
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Un des meilleurs jeu Indie/Réflection pour moi. Un cadre magique, des graphismes magnifiques, une histoire bien ficelée avec ses deux niveaux de lecture. Un jeu recommandé à tous ! (Et en plus, très peu cher pour ce qu'il vaut !)
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It has an interesting story and Jonathan Blow gave the most awesome quote in indie game: the movie "Let me take my deepest flaws and vulnerabilities and put them in the game" best quote ever
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The poll needs to be re-run with much clearer questions. Richard's point-
if 29% of science teachers really think creationism should be taught as a valid alternative to evolution, we have a national disgrace on our hands...
What do these 29% actually think? Until this is cleared up the poll does potentially far more harm than possibly it need. Do they think Creationism valid, potentially valid or an interesting non-starter?
Creationism is a great example of a technically unscientific and therefore valueless theory. Certainly worth a mention en passant.
This poll is shoddy work.
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AmyHLOLOLOL. Yeah, right.
AmyHThis story is awful, but I can't help emphasizing the ABSOLUTE WORST detail: the fact that they used children to train these vigilante wanna-bes:
"Using students as actors helps trainers re-create the environment that teachers and staff would face in a typical school shooting, Hodoway explained. The students who participated in the exercise were children of the teachers and staff who were being trained."
AmyHGet off my lawn, you whipper-snapper coyotes!
AmyHThe question is, when will we have an ape Doctor?
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Leave the puns to professionals, archaeologists.
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William Sharp, one of the first chromolithographic printers in the U.S., created these extraordinary illustrations for the large folio Victoria Regia (1854) by John Fisk Allen. Allen, a well-known horticulturalist, cultivated a specimen of the rare, huge (up to 8 feet in diameter), fast-growing (up to an inch an hour!) water lily, native to the Amazon. After months of careful tending, the plant—named in honor of the recently-crowned Queen Victoria—blossomed on the evening of July 21, 1853. Sharp's depictions of this exotic wonder—in various stages of bloom—were masterpieces and elevated the then-nascent art of chromolithography to spectacular new heights.
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Black Widow (Marvel Comics)
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Black Widow is the name of several fictional super heroines appearing in comic books published by Marvel Comics. Most of these versions exist in Marvel's main shared universe, known as the Marvel Universe.
Claire Voyant[edit]
Claire Voyant is one of the first costumed, superpowered female protagonists in comics. Created by writer George Kapitan and artist Harry Sahle, she first appeared in Mystic Comics #4 (Aug. 1940). The character is an antihero - and can even be viewed as a villain, who kills evildoers to deliver their souls to Satan, her master. The character is unrelated to the later Marvel Comics superheroines who took on the codenames.
Natalia Romanova / Natasha Romanoff[edit]
Natalia "Natasha" Alianovna Romanova[1] is the first character to take on the Black Widow codename in the modern mainstream Marvel Comics. She was created by editor and plotter Stan Lee, scripter Don Rico and artist Don Heck, and first appeared in Tales of Suspense #52 (April 1964). The character has been associated with several superhero teams in the Marvel Universe, including the Avengers, the Defenders, the Champions, S.H.I.E.L.D., and the Thunderbolts. She has appeared in many other forms of media, including the major motion pictures Iron Man 2, The Avengers, Captain America: The Winter Soldier and Avengers: Age of Ultron, where she is portrayed by actress Scarlett Johansson.
Yelena Belova[edit]
Yelena Belova is the second Black Widow in the modern mainstream comics who debuted briefly in Inhumans #5 (March 1999). She was fully introduced in the 1999 Marvel Knights mini-series Black Widow. A second miniseries, also titled Black Widow and featuring Natasha Romanoff and Daredevil, followed in 2001. The next year, she did a solo turn in her own three-issue miniseries titled Black Widow: Pale Little Spider under the mature-audience Marvel MAX imprint. This June to August 2002 story arc, by writer Greg Rucka and artist Igor Kordey, was a flashback to the story of her becoming the second modern 'Black Widow', in events preceding her Inhumans appearance.
Monica Chang[edit]
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First appearance | Ultimate Marvel: Ultimate Avengers #3 (December 2009) Earth-616: Avengers A.I. #1 (July 2013) |
Created by | Mark Millar, Carlos Pacheco |
Species | Human |
Teams | S.H.I.E.L.D., Avengers |
Abilities | Slowed aging Enhanced immune system Abnormally superior athletic condition Hypnosis Enhanced psychological defenses |
Aliases | Black Widow |
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Fictional character biography[edit]
Before appearing in Marvel's mainstream Earth-616 continuity, Monica Chang-Fury was the second Black Widow in the Ultimate Marvel continuity, debuting in Ultimate Comics: Avengers #3. Despite the painful memories associated with the previous Black Widow (Natasha Romanoff), she refuses to change her codename. It is revealed that Monica is Asian-American and was Nick Fury's ex-wife after the marriage fell apart after she discovered that he had been sleeping with various female members of her family and limited social circle, including her own mother. With the Avengers, she and others led a mission to re-capture Captain America and then ends up facing and fighting against the Red Skull.[2]
She also helps capture and recruit the Punisher into the team.[3] Later she was transferred to the New Ultimates.[4] After Nick Fury returned as director of S.H.I.E.L.D., he reassembled the Ultimates and Monica rejoined that team, moving with her and Fury's child, Julius Chang, to the Triskelion.[5] She then became director of S.H.I.E.L.D.[6] Later, while working with the FBI, Monica apparently is killed by Norman Osborn,[7] but later appears to have survived her injuries.[8]
Other versions[edit]
Monica Chang first appears in the Avengers A.I. series.[9] Monica Chang is the chief of S.H.I.E.L.D.'s A.I. Division. Monica Chang enlists Henry Pym to help her stop Dimitrios (who evolved from the fail-safe virus used to defeat Ultron at the end of the Age of Ultron storyline) and they form the Avengers A.I. consisting of a Doombot, Victor Mancha, and Vision. During their first mission, the Avengers A.I. faced hijacked S.H.I.E.L.D. Drones which attacked a hospital in Atlanta.[10] As of issue 4, it is revealed she is a devout Muslim.[11]
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The SLCDS has been funded by the Medical Research Council UK Project Grants G89292999N and G9539876N awarded to the late Channi Kumar, Deborah Sharp, and Dale Hay; the Psychiatry Research Trust; and the South West G.P. Trust. The present data coding and analyses were partially supported by an Economic and Social Research Council studentship to Cerith S. Waters and Medical Research Council UK Programme Grant GO400086. We thank Helen Allen for her contribution to the retention of the sample, and the families who participated in the study for 16 years.
Mothers' Antenatal Depression and Their Children's Antisocial Outcomes
Article first published online: 4 FEB 2010
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8624.2009.01386.x
© 2010, Copyright the Author(s). Journal Compilation © 2010, Society for Research in Child Development, Inc.
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Hay, D. F., Pawlby, S., Waters, C. S., Perra, O. and Sharp, D. (2010), Mothers' Antenatal Depression and Their Children's Antisocial Outcomes. Child Development, 81: 149–165. doi: 10.1111/j.1467-8624.2009.01386.x
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Interviews of 120 British adolescents and their parents (80% of a random sample of antenatal patients drawn from a representative urban population and followed longitudinally) revealed that 40 (33%) had been arrested and/or had a diagnosis of DSM–IV conduct disorder by 16 years of age; of those, 18 (45%) had committed violent acts. Depression in pregnancy significantly predicted violence in adolescence, even after controlling for the family environment, the child's later exposure to maternal depression, the mother's smoking and drinking during pregnancy, and parents' antisocial behavior. Mothers with a history of conduct problems were at elevated risk to become depressed in pregnancy, and the offspring of depressed women had a greater chance of becoming violent by age 16.


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KINGSTON, R.I. –November 2, 2005--The University of Rhode Island has established a distinguished achievement award program.
The new program will roll all affinity-based recognition and awards, including the Alumni Association awards and several college hall of fame awards, into one gala event.
The inaugural gala, planned for next fall, will honor four to six distinguished alumni and/or friends of the University who have brought distinction to themselves and to the University through their professional achievement, outstanding leadership, and/or community service. Nomination forms are available online at: http://advance.uri.edu/alumni/achievementawards/ or by calling Lisa Harrison at 401-874-4962. Deadline for nominations is Nov. 30, 2005.
"There are numerous benefits to this kind of programming," said Robert Beagle, vice president for University Advancement, who, along with Michele Nota, executive director of Alumni Relations, initiated the program. "This will help draw a wider audience to the achievements and attainments of University graduates and friends. It will also provide colleges and other groups that currently do not have a recognition program, the opportunity to participate."
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Ex-cop seeking reinstatement after being cleared of robbery
An ex-policeman, recently cleared of an armed robbery charge, wants his job back.
Reinstatement, however, would only be possible following an investigation to prove that the former lawman did not cause any discredit to the Guyana Police Force (GPF).
"I want the public to know that I was innocent of the crime," Collin Harris, 20, told Stabroek News, while noting that he is hoping that he can be reinstated as a member of the GPF.
Harris and co-accused Kelvin Pollard were charged with robbing a Green Ice Taxi Service employee of $630,000 in a gun-point robbery last December. The joint charge against them was dismissed recently after four witnesses, including the virtual complainant, failed to show up and offer evidence in a city court.
But GPF Training Officer Senior Superin-tendent P. Williams told Stabroek News that even though the case was dismissed, the force would have to conduct an investigation into the matter and find that Harris did not act in a manner to cause discredit to the GPF. Furthermore, Williams said the reason …..To continue reading, login or subscribe now.
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U.S. Regional Foods You Might Not Know About
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Cioppino, California
Though typically San Francisco, the Bay area's signature fish stew (above) has its roots in Italy, originating with Genoan immigrant fishermen in the late 19th /early 20th Century. One theory holds its name derives from the fishermen who would chip in--or, "Cheep-een" with the Italian accent--part of their daily catch to a common pot. A less entertaining, but more likely story is that "Cioppino" is derived from "ciuppin" meaning "chopped" in the Genoan dialect. Indeed the dish features chopped seafood, typically some combination of crab, clams, shrimp, scallops, squid, mussels and firm fish prepared in a seasoned white wine and tomato sauce. Of course it's enjoyed with another San Fran specialty--sourdough bread. Learn how to make Cioppino below, or find a recipe here.
Sonoran Hot Dog, Arizona
The Sonoran hot dog is said to have originated in Hermosillo, the capital of the Mexican state of Sonora. Nowadays it's most closely linked with Tucson, Arizona, where estimates of the number of hot dog stands in the city can range from 100 to 250. The amped up dog begins with a bacon wrapped hot dog stuffed into a soft bun, a relative of the Mexican bolillo roll. It's then topped with pinto beans, chopped tomatoes, onions, jalapeno sauce, mayonnaise, and mustard.
Benne Wafers, South Carolina
Walk through the open air market in Charleston, South Carolina, and you will see dozens of stalls selling this typical Low Country treat. Benne means "sesame" in the Bantu languages of Africa, and the plant was brought to the area during the slave trade. Thin and crisp, the wafers have a nutty flavor thanks to the toasted sesame seeds.
Gooey Butter Cake, Missouri
Legend has it that this St. Louis specialty was invented by mistake when a local baker got the proportions of a yellow cake he was making out of whack. Though there are other claims to its invention, there's no doubt it's a beloved local staple. More a coffeecake than dessert item, gooey butter cake usually features a yellow cake base supporting a layer of sticky sweet goo. This might be made of egg and cream cheese or butter and sugar.
Polish Boy, Ohio
This mighty sandwich is perhaps the signature dish of Cleveland, Ohio. At its base is a grilled and/or fried Kielbasa, which takes its cue from a strong Eastern European immigrant presence in the area. This is then tucked into a bun and mounded with French fries, cole slaw and barbeque sauce or hot sauce. Some places even add chopped pork shoulder turning your Polish Boy into a Polish Girl. This sandwich will definitely see you through the winter.
Half Smoke, Washington, D.C.
Though locals might still debate whether or not the District has a signature food, the half smoke is the unofficial official ambassador of Washington D.C. cuisine. The half smoke is a tubed meat, but is twice the width of your typical weiner, with more kick and a coarser grind. Some say the "half" in half smoke is due to it being split cooked, others because it has half the seasoning of a polish sausage. The prevailing theory seems to be that it's because the link is half beef, half pork. Try one dirty water style from a street vendor, or done up with chili, mustard and onions from one of D.C.'s old school hot dog joints.
Coffee Milk, Rhode Island
In Rhode Island, coffee milk isn't just a local favorite, it's the state drink. Like chocolate milk, coffee milk is a simple concoction of milk mixed with coffee syrup. The beverage became popular as a drugstore offering of leftover coffee grounds mixed with milk and sugar. Then in 1932 the first coffee syrup hit the market, making a more refined offering. Add ice cream to your coffee milk and you have a coffee cabinet, which is basically a milkshake.
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The cages are equipped with a self-cleaning system, which flushes water out the bottom. But today kennel workers just hose out the cages, Nix says, because the water's high mineral content clogs the system's sprayers. The air at the pound always feels wet, because the cages are constantly being hosed out and cleaned. Since four cages are attached to a central drain, the automatic cleaner spreads diseases like distemper, parvo virus and kennel cough, Nix says.
In the narrow cat room, metal cages have two-inch spaces between the bars; cage floors are covered in newspaper, and torn-up chicken wire is stretched over the top. "These are the disaster cat cages," Hawkins says. He says kittens can get stuck or poked to death by the chewed-up sharply spiked wire.
"That's actually done, Sean, to keep the kittens in," Nix says. "They climb out and get lost."
In October, Hawkins and the other two members of the Animal Shelter Advisory Committee wrote Mayor Brown a letter declaring that the cat cages are a "substantial violation of state law." Current cat conditions violate both the Animal Shelter Act and the 1975 writ of mandamus, the committee says. "This court order remains in full force and effect," the letter says. The committee lists six incidences of kennel workers getting scratched and demands that Brown "immediately appropriate funding from the Any Lawful Purpose account to remedy the situation without delay."
Committee members informed the city that cat cages were substandard nine years ago, the letter says. New cages were ordered in 1994, but the order was never completed. A couple of new cages were delivered two years ago, but they aren't structurally sound, Nix says, latches have broken off, and roaches crawl inside the rusted, hollow metal.
In the back room, behind the baydock where animals arrive at the kennel, a refrigerator stores biohazard bags filled with animal heads waiting to be taken to the lab and tested for rabies. Nix opens an enormous walk-in freezer. "That's today's crop," he says, gesturing to about 50 black Hefty bags scattered on the floor. On a rolling cart lies a dog's decomposing body; ice has formed on the stiff fur.
Poor people cannot feed themselves, much less their dogs. So they turn them loose. We pick them up Nobody else wants them, so what's left, except to put the dogs to sleep? -- Dr. George Fischer, chief of city consumer health services, June 11, 1975
In the bay dock area, a fuzzy black puppy sidles up against a kennel worker's leg.
"Don't you be standing there like you're my dog," says Robert Tillery. "You ain't my dog."
The pup's picture is taken posed beside a red Fisher-Price fire hydrant. Every new arrival is photographed for www.petharbor.com; the pictures are blurry and out of focus, brown dogs appear black, and the staff often shoots the wrong end of the animal.
As Tillery leads the puppy toward the eight-foot flea dip, the dog runs and hops by his side. Whenever he stops walking, the puppy cowers behind his leg for protection. "Quit acting like you're my dog," he says.
The real cruelty toward animals doesn't happen in his department, Nix says. "If we could get owners to take care of dogs and cats in the city of Houston, there'd be no need for this department. I could retire," Nix says. "We do euthanize animals, but the majority of those animals are better off dead than in the conditions they've been living in."
Every evening starved strays come to the pound ravaged by mange or maggots, he says. Some dogs had chains put around their necks when they were puppies and their flesh grew around the metal. "That's the tragedy," Nix says. "Those dogs cannot be turned around."
Seriously sick or injured dogs are immediately put to death. Many dogs with diseases that would be treated in a normal vet clinic are put to sleep. For instance, nearly every dog with mange is euthanized because the treatment is given in two doses at two-week intervals and it takes an additional eight weeks for hair to grow back. "We just don't have the space to hold them that long," Rundell says. "We're not like a Ben Taub for animals. We don't have an X-ray machine or provide free vet services."
Many of the dogs haven't been on a leash before, so they shake and fight and bite the rope until their mouths bleed. "They're terrified," Rundell says. Several refuse to walk, brace their feet against the floor and have to be dragged or carried on a rolling cart.
"They don't never want to walk," a kennel worker says, whistling at a tan mutt. "C'mere, sonny boy," he says. The dog lies down and refuses to stand up. The kennel worker holds the rope over his shoulder and keeps walking. Whistling, he drags the dog across the floor one yard at a time.
"C'mon, honey," he says. "C'mon."
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In Search of Brahmeshwar Singh, 'the Absconder'
The Myth of the 'Misuse' of Laws Meant for the Protection of Dalits and Tribals
Are the laws meant for the protection of Dalits and tribals are put to misuse?
It is a theme which recurs regularly in the discussions engaged in by the chattering classes of the country. While nobody can deny that frivolous cases are not filed under this act the manner in which the issue gets raised creates an impression that the only 'use' of this law is its 'misuse.' Neither the polity nor the articulate sections of our society seem ready to go for a reality check. In fact, as a marker of these classes' 'sensitivities' towards this delicate issue, even Ms Mayawati in her earlier incarnations as Chief Minister of UP had cautioned the police about its 'misuse'. She is also reported to have issued G.Os (government orders) to use this law only in cases of rapes and murders of the Dalits.
The issue also came up for discussion in the parliament recently when a member raised query dealing with the theme. As reported in a section of the press, while replying to this query the minister for social justice and empowerment, Mr Napoleon, told the house that there were 6,564 false cases in 2008 across India under the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, 1989, called the PoA Act. It is widely known that this Act provides for a sentence of up to five years for an atrocity committed or humiliation heaped on a Dalit, and provides for the setting up of special courts for trial of cases. (Hindustan Times, 27 th April 2010)
A break up of the figures cited by the said minister is quite revealing. Of these, 2287 false cases came from one state: Rajasthan. Andhra Pradesh followed at 1,577 false cases. Uttar Pradesh, the state with the largest Dalit population (21 per cent of the state's 160-70 million and which stood at no. one as regards cases of atrocities against these sections are concerned), was third with 843 false cases. Punjab – the state with the highest proportion of SCs at 29 per cent of the population – has had just 52 false cases registered and last and not the least, Delhi is the last in the list with three cases in 2008.
A quick analysis of these figures shows that around 75 per cent of the cases have been reported from three states only. What does the marginal presence or near absence of other states in this breakup tell us ? Madhya Pradesh, which happens to be the state which has 'consistently stood at no. 2 as regards atrocities against Dalits are concerned' does not even find a mention the newspaper report. Of course, it does not mean that there were no false cases from the state. The point is that there is no uniformity in the number of false cases registered and nor are they directly proportional to the actual situation of Dalit atrocities as it exists in the particular state. Gross generalizations would be too simplistic in the case.
Secondly, the discussion around the alleged misuse of this act has another negative fallout. The question of more objective analysis of its implementation does not receive the prominence it deserves.
Take the recent case of Mirchpur ( district Hissar, Haryana) where the dominant castes ( namely the Jats) attacked the houses of the Valmikis in a preplanned and premeditated manner and burnt them with the district administration especially the police personnel turning a blind eye to this gory act (21 st April 2010). A handicapped girl Suman and her father Tarachand also died in the arson. A few of the arsonists were arrested by the police, but neither the S.H.O. or the Tehsildar, who were mute witness to this act were touched. Only when the issue snowballed into a major embarrassment for the Congress government at the centre with the parliament in session, were the infamous S.H.O. and the Tehsildar were put behind bars.
It is clear to even a layperson that despite the PoA act making it mandatory (article 4), to take action against the government officials for dereliction of duty, it required Ms Sonia Gandhi's strong disapproval over the turn of events and Rahul Gandhi making a trip to the village, to take this step.
Any close watcher of the human rights situation in Haryana would vouch that this case is no exception. In fact, Haryana has been witness to a number of attacks on Dalits in the previous decade, many of which reached national headlines. People can narrate you incidents after incidents where an unholy alliance between a callous polity, inhuman law and order machinery and a desensitized civil society has made the life of dignity for the Dalits a challenging task in itself.
One still remembers the forcible expulsion of 250 Dalits from Harsoula, District Kaithal, Haryana (February 2003). The local landowning people, mainly the Jats, objected to the Dalits celebrating Ravidas Jayanti. And the ensuing fight culminated in the forcible expulsion of Dalits from the village, with the police once again turning into mute spectators.
Ms Sonia Gandhi, the then leader of the opposition, had even raised the issue in the parliament also. She had lambasted the then Chautala government – a partner in the NDA then – for its failure to provide security and safety to the Dalits. It has been more than six years that Congress itself wields power in the state but Dalits from Harsoula are still condemned to live outside their ancestral village, somehow managing their lives in Kaithal and other places.
These days there is much talk about 'Internally Displaced Persons' the world over. One does not know whether Dalits from Harsoula could be included in the list. In fact one can find many villages in Haryana similarly emptied of their Dalit population under one pretext or the other by the local dominant castes. One also comes across a village named 'Devipuniya' in the state which came up when Dalits from a village were similarly expelled from their village when Devi Lal happened to be the Chief Minister and P.L. Puniya, happened to be a well-known Dalit leader. As of now a majority of the Dalits in Mirchpur, who are camping in Hissar town are also contemplating leaving the village for good and shifting to a new location.
The National Human Rights Commission documents the state specific situation in very many ways. According to it, every year six Dalits are killed, twenty four Dalit women are raped and 51 houses of the Dalits are set on fire in Haryana ( Year 2002). Looking at the travails and tribulations faced by the Dalits at various levels most of which go unreported it can be construed that the figures presented by NHRC are just the tip of the iceberg. This is also evident from the no of cases registered under SC and ST ( Prevention of Atocities) Act 1989. While the number of cases registered were mere 32 in 1998, the figures shot up to 43 by the year 2003.
Apart from growing landlessness and continued denial of basic human rights the most disturbing thing is that social and political visibility of Dalits is minimal. It hardly makes any difference that they are around one fifth of the total population of the state (19.8%). The contrast looks much sharper if one looks at neighbouring UP where dalits are today the main fulcrum of the state politics.
Gohana, a town around 75 kms away from Delhi, had witnessed an organised attack on the Dalit (Valmiki) basti led by the son of the local BJP MP ( 31 August 2005) which had culminated in the burning down of around 50—60 houses of the Dalits. The attack was a fallout of the death of a Jat youth in a scuffle with the Dalit boys. The caste council ( Khap Panchayat) of the Jats had played a very dubious role in the whole affair. Here also the police which was in good strength did not act to stop the arsonists. Later it patted itself on the back as 'no lives were lost'.
We had rushed to Gohana (4 th September 2005) as part of a fact finding team – comprising of writers, journalists, social activists – to get first hand details…Haunted houses, barren faces, fear still lurking in their eyes…only some old people or relatives of the inhabitants were visible there who were roaming there. None of those photographs which we had taken convey that people residing in those houses themselves undertook all that exercise supposedly to get compensation (as the experienced officers of the CBI 'discovered' in their enquiry later).
Making an editorial comment about the growing Dalit atrocities in the state some time back, The Tribune ( 30 th August 2007) had underlined how the state seems to be least bothered about the security and safety of the lives and properties of the Dalits. According to it, most of the time their houses come under attack, they are looted and burnt and the administration becomes active only when the damage is done. It also emphasized the fact that the Dalits are neither properly represented in the police and administration nor is any special drive conducted to cover the backlog.
The developments in Mirchpur bear witness to the fact that despite the prodding by the media there is no difference on the ground level situation. And denial of human rights to the Dalits (and the tribals) is a 'national phenomenon'.
Recently the Supreme Court also expressed concern over the fact that in most of the cases of violence against Dalits, even the necessary investigations are not completed in stipulated time. It also asked the Solicitor General Mr Gopal Subramaniam to give concrete suggestions to the courts so that necessary orders are passed for effective implementation of law. ( Hindustan, 5 May 2010, SC-ST mamlon kee jaanch mein deri par chinta)
According to the courts, it is mandatory that such investigations are completed within three months of the cases being lodged against SC-ST act, 1989, by an officer not below the rank of DySP. The courts observed that in many cases the investigations linger on for more than three years which results in cases further getting delayed for years together. In a strong indictment of the functioning of the state machinery, when it comes to providing justice to the Dalits, it said that many of the states have not even bothered to establish special courts for speedy trials of these cases. The delay in completing necessary investigations, the absence of proper witnesses apart from many contingent factors results in acquittals of the accused in 75 percent of the cases.The Supreme Court bench concluded that delay in investigations results in denial of justice to the Dalits which in fact defeats the whole purpose of the law itself.
A much quoted detailed and systematic study of 400 judgements about cases filed under PoA act in different courts of Gujarat corroborates the observations of the Supreme Courts. The painstaking study done by Mr. Vajibhai Patel, Secretary of Council for Social Justice, who was once a pillar of the Dalit Panther movement in the state, tells us that utterly negligent police investigation at both the higher and lower levels coupled with a distinctly hostile role played by the public prosecutors is the main reason for the collapse of cases filed under the atrocities act. It is worth noting that he has meticulously documented these judgements delivered under this Act since April 1, 1995 in the Special Atrocity Courts set up in 16 districts of the state. The study also blasts the common perception is that the inefficacy of this law is due to false complaints being lodged or compromises between the parties, in actuality it is a complicit State that has rendered the Act toothless.
A writeup in the Communalism Combat ( March 2005) by Teesta Setalvad had presented in a nutshell the main findings of the study :
# In over 95 per cent of the cases, acquittals have resulted due to technical lapses by the investigation and prosecution, and in the remaining five per cent, court directives are being flouted by the government. Often while crimes under the IPC against the accused have been proved, offences under the Atrocities Act have not, suggesting a systemic bias against recording and establishing crimes under this law.
# As a result of the attitude of the state police and the state public prosecutors, those accused under the Act for criminal acts like murder (for which life imprisonment is the sentence) and rape are being allowed to go scot-free.
# Numerous judgements of the special courts set up under the Atrocities Act in Gujarat — which due to lapses in investigation and prosecution, have led to the acquittals of the accused —have passed strictures against the negligence demonstrated by both the police and the public prosecutors and even summoned time-bound 'action taken' reports. Often policemen have even resorted to giving false evidence to protect the accused while prosecutors have attempted to mislead the courts by arguing that the provisions of the Atrocities Act are not mandatory.
# Under section 4 of the Atrocities Act, "Whoever, being a public servant but not being a member of a Scheduled Caste or a Scheduled Tribe willfully neglects duties required to be performed by him under this Act, shall be punished with imprisonment for a term which shall not be less than six months but which may extend to one year." In 95 per cent of the judgements studied by the CSJ, courts have passed strictures against errant police officials invoking provisions of section 4 under the Atrocities Act, but the government of Gujarat, instead of taking action against the erring officers, has honoured them with promotions.
The discussion around the alleged misuse of this act would remain incomplete if one leaves out the recent conviction in the case of Bathani Tola massacre. The Ara court in Bihar recently convicted 23 people for the massacre of 21 Dalits at Bathani Tola in Bhojpur in 1996.
The carnage occurred on July 11, 1996 when marauders of the Ranvir Sena ( a private militia of the upper caste landlords) stormed the hamlet in Bhojpur's Sahar block and hacked to death 21 Dalits. A majority of the people killed were women, teenage girls and babies less than ten months old. However, much on the lines of the April 7 verdict in the 1997 Laxmanpur-Bathe massacre case, the police has pronounced Ranvir Sena supremo Brahmeshwar Singh "Mukhiya" the prime accused, an "absconder". It is a different matter that this dangerous criminal has been in Ara jail since 2002. It may be added here that when Nitish Kumar, assumed reins of power in 2004, one of the first thing he did was to disband Justice Amir Das Commission when it was nearly ready with its report. This commission was appointed in the immediate aftermath of the Bathe massacre and had gone into great details about the political patronage which Ranvir Sena received from different mainstream political formations.
Expressing his clear disapproval of the way in which the Mukhiya continues to be a non-FIR accused the Special Public Prosecutor told the reporter "This clearly shows that both the police and the government are not interested in ensuring that justice is meted out." (The Hindu, 7 th May 2010) The only explanation offered by the SP about this strange situation was that Brahmeshwar Singh did not stand trial as "certain court proceedings initiated against him were yet to be completed."
Anyone familiar with the pace with which courts deal with cases before them and the tremendous burden they already have would tell you that it can take decades for the "certain court proceedings" to be completed and a day can arrive when, with all the witnesses to the case dead, Brahmeshwar Singh the mastermind of many a massacres may emerge from the jail unscathed and would be happy to 'express full faith in the wisdom of the judiciary'.


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The Kings lost a game and that's been pretty rare in the playoffs. Mark Whicker helps point out how human they are. (OC Register)
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Where the Kings aren't quite a Machine ?
So in this writer's mind, the King's humiliation of the President's Trophy winner in a "laughable" five games, their "sweeping" of the Blues in just four games and now their placement of a knife to the throat of the Coyotes in the WC Championship series after only three games, does "not" qualify them as a machine ? The fact is, that had we Kings won yesterday, we would have done something which has never been accomplished before in the playoffs … yet the King's are "not" to be called a machine ? Fair enough. However, I would be very interested to hear from this writer then, as to which team in his eyes "is" a machine ? … the Canucks ? … the Canadiens ? … the Flames ? …
No friends ! … the truth of the matter is that when you look up the word "machine" in the dictionary, you will find a simple three-worded definition: LOS ANGELES KINGS !
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Using cans, you drink a beer and once it's finished you add a fresh brew on top of the empty can and just keep going till you have the biggest "staff" in town. "Team help" can be called to help duck-tape your fresh brews onto your old ones. Once your a champion you will have to move to the picnic tables to drink out of your staff, once you've reached this level your a staff champ.
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*beer staff hiking is the best activity.
* Watch-out for punishing farts in the morning.
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A wonderful drinking game. To beer staff, simply drink a beer. Then, duct tape the empty can to the bottom of your next beer. Tape that empty beer to the bottom of the two cans. Keep doing this to form a staff made of beer cans. A BEER STAFF.
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Gray, Nicholas (2011) Improvisation and composition in Balinese gendér wayang: music of the moving shadows. Farnham, Surrey: Ashgate Publishing Limited. (SOAS Musicology Series)
This book is an examination of the music of the Balinese gendér wayang, the quartet of metallophones (gendér) that accompanies the Balinese shadow puppet play (wayang kulit). It focuses on processes of musical variation, the main means of creating new music in this genre, and the implications of these processes for the social and historical study of Balinese music, musical aesthetics, concepts of creativity and compositional methods. Firstly, it studies the processes of composition and variation-making in this unnotated tradition. Secondly, it examines the relationship between pre-composition and spontaneous variation-making. Thirdly, it explores concepts of musical composition, variation, improvisation and creativity in gendér wayang, which shed light on attitudes to these processes in Bali in general. These processes are examined in two main geographical areas: Sukawati in South Bali and, secondly, the contrasting area of East Bali, particularly the villages of Budakeling and Tenganan. Part 1 describes the context of gendér wayang within Balinese musical and ritual life and situates the argument in the light of current research on Balinese music and ethnomusicological theories of improvisation and composition. In part 2, I examine compositional techniques in gendér wayang in more depth, as well as aspects of regional variation, before analysing the processes at work in a spectrum from the more improvised to the more pre-composed, illuminated by players' comments. Finally, in part 3, I draw out and bring into focus certain themes raised by the processes described in the previous chapters, particularly those that relate to changing social contexts for the music.
Item Type: | Authored Books |
Keywords: | Bali, music, wayang music, improvisation, composition |
SOAS Departments & Centres: | Faculty of Arts and Humanities > Department of Music |
Copyright Statement: | Copyright Nicholas Gray 2011 |
Depositing User: | Nick Gray |
Date Deposited: | 31 Oct 2011 16:09 |
URI: | http://eprints.soas.ac.uk/id/eprint/12535 |
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