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Surveillance Report Blasts NSA, Recommends Overhaul
December 19, 2013
A task force set up by President Obama to review the National Security Agency's surveillance activities has suggested a list of what it calls "significant" reforms, including restrictions on spying. Among the recommendations: changes in surveillance of both U.S. and non-U.S. citizens to protect their privacy; and an overhaul of the NSA and the secretive FISA Court.
Big Data's Big Federal Potential
December 17, 2013
Innovation often comes slowly to the U.S. government. It has taken several years, for example, for federal agencies to get used to cloud technology -- and it will likely be several more before that technology is fully embraced at the federal level. That pace also seems to be the case for the federal adoption of Big Data and analytics, despite the significant amount of buzz over the past year.
Australian State Outlaws Non-Consensual Sexting
December 12, 2013
The Australian state of Victoria has made it illegal to distribute explicit images without consent. The new law specifically outlaws "non-consensual sexting," which generally takes place when lovers split and there is post-breakup payback in the form of intimate photos of the former partners. The law does exempt children in order to ensure that they aren't charged with child pornography.
Proceed With Caution: Big Data Requires Small Steps
December 11, 2013
The Obama administration's support of Big Data technology for more efficient and effective government operations was highlighted at a recent conference that featured presentations on more than 30 successful public and private sector projects. "Realizing the enormous potential of data requires a bold, comprehensive, national effort, said the National Science Foundation's Farnam Jahanian.
LexisNexis' Flavio Villanustre: Insurance and the Big Data Bonanza
December 10, 2013
Insurance companies have always been adamant about spotting and controlling risks. That, after all, is the basis for accepting policyholders and placing them into rate categories. Before the Big Data explosion, insurance companies crunched numbers like everybody else. Today, however, the insurance industry is fast becoming one of the biggest consumers of Big Data services.
Microsoft Cranks Up Security to Lock Out Government Spies
December 5, 2013
Microsoft is taking steps to make its customers' data more secure in the wake of revelations about government spying. The company was implicated in NSA snooping operations after former government contractor Edward Snowden leaked documents related to the agency's activities earlier this year. Government spying on Microsoft's servers constitutes a persistent threat, said General Counsel Brad Smith.
Top of the Funnel
December 4, 2013
The new customer era accepts that the direct contact between a vendor and customer or potential customer is being augmented by non-human intermediaries like websites, software robots that triage customer issues, e-commerce systems, social media, and who knows what else. The good news is that customers leave data trails like ants leave trails of pheromones to a candy bar on a sidewalk.
Where Have All the Forests Gone?
November 23, 2013
Earlier this month, researchers published a report discussing global forest coverage, and supplementing their findings was a first-of-its-kind interactive mapping tool that was created in partnership with Google. In this TechNewsWorld podcast, we discuss the research with the study's lead author, geographer Matthew Hansen.
Big Data Spurs Big Collaborations
November 20, 2013
The U.S. government's Big Data initiative is sparking more investments in data management projects, especially those involving joint efforts between business and government. Under the sponsorship of the Obama administration initiative, the White House showcased more than 30 Big Data projects Nov. 12 at an event hosted by the federal Office of Science and Technology.
Dropbox Shoots for the Moon
November 19, 2013
Dropbox is not only planning to raise $250 million in the next few weeks but is also reportedly seeking a corporate valuation of $8 billion. That's more than double the valuation investors placed on the company the last time Dropbox hit the funding circuit back in 2011. The company has already raised $257 million in funding over the last five years.
Global Cyberheist Reels In $45M
November 19, 2013
Six people have been arrested for their involvement in a worldwide ATM heist that resulted in the theft of $45 million from two Middle East banks. Five men and one woman, all from the suburbs of New York City, were charged with being members of a cybercrime outfit that lifted debit card information from MasterCard. The six people were accused of being "cashers" in the crime ring.
Dropbox Drops In on the Enterprise
November 14, 2013
Dropbox began courting enterprise users with Wednesday's unveiling of Dropbox for Business. It's a paid cloud storage service that offers enterprise users the same features that have made Dropbox a popular file-hosting company among consumers, along with several security and efficiency-focused features tailored for businesses, such as sharing audit logs and efficiently transferring files.
Apple Lifts Veil of Secrecy in Transparency Report
November 6, 2013
Apple has published its first transparency report, highlighting the number of government requests it has received for customer data. However, government regulations prevented it from disclosing specific numbers of U.S. law enforcement requests. Facebook, Yahoo and Google issued similar transparency reports soon after they were implicated in the initial wave of NSA surveillance allegations.
How to Back Up Data on Your Android Smartphone
November 6, 2013
We all back up our PCs, right? Okay, well, we should back up our PCs, right? Well, smartphones and tablets have become so ubiquitous that we need to back them up now too. It's time. Important photos, videos, contacts and music are now strewn across small, easy-to-lose, easy-to-break, highly pilferable devices. Fail to back up this stuff at your peril.
The Latest Big Blue Sea Change
November 5, 2013
IBM's recent Enterprise 2013 conference in Orlando, Fla., was the Systems and Technology Group's inaugural event focusing on high-end business solutions. So it was no surprise that the CIOs, partners and IT practitioners -- data center admins and managers -- who work with IBM's System z mainframe and Power Systems platforms were thick on the ground.
HGST's New Hard-Drive Isn't Full of Hot Air
November 4, 2013
Western Digital subsidiary HGST has found a novel way of packing more storage capacity into a standard 3.5-inch hard disc drive: filling it with helium instead of air. The 6-TB Ultrastar He6 HDD is the highest-capacity drive in the world, according to the company. HGST has achieved this by packing seven disk platters into the drive instead of the standard five.
NSA Caught Siphoning Data from Google, Yahoo Servers
October 31, 2013
The National Security Agency has reportedly tapped fiber-optic cables that connect Google's and Yahoo's overseas servers and accessed vast amounts of data including email and other personal information. Included in the data culled by the NSA is information on hundreds of millions of users, many of whom are American.
Mystery Barge Could Be Floating Google Showroom
October 28, 2013
There's a four-story barge floating on San Francisco Bay with a mysterious purpose but a fairly clear link to Google. Now docked near Treasure Island, the former U.S. naval base, the structure was generating no end of speculation on Monday, with suggestions that it could be anything from a floating data center to a brand-new store for Google Glass.
New Relic Analytics Aims to Speed IT Problem Solving
October 28, 2013
New Relic last week previewed Rubicon, a new software analytics tool that aims to let companies use live application data to provide clear, actionable business insights across an organization. "This isn't analyzing consumer data, sales data or anything like that," noted tech analyst Jim McGregor. "It's just analyzing how an IT system is running in terms of resources and data it's using."
Tungsten Discs Could Function as Million-Year Time Capsules
October 23, 2013
Jeroen de Vries, a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Twente, has developed a prototype storage system that might last for up to 1 million years. This might be needed if the planet were devastated by a natural disaster, or as a reference for future intelligent life on Earth -- or for visiting aliens. "You must then think about archival storage of between 1 million and 1 billion years," he said.
AMD, Verizon Pump Each Other Up
October 22, 2013
Customer testimonials play an odd role in many IT industry announcements. At first glance, they offer proof that technologies are actually being used successfully as advertised, lending credence to vendors' sometimes lofty go-to-market claims. Even the most enthusiastic clients tend to guarded, though, for fear that they may injure relationships with other vendors or negate competitive advantages.
Huawei: No One Bothers Us for Data
October 18, 2013
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October 15, 2013
The latest revelations by former U.S. intelligence contractor Edward Snowden show the NSA is spying on Americans, despite repeated government assurances that it does not do so. The agency reportedly is collecting hundreds of millions of electronic address books and contact lists from people worldwide. Though it is collecting the data overseas, some of it comes from Americans.
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October 15, 2013
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I am a Christian. I appreciate these ideas. You are not going to talk me out of believing in God, and I am not going to talk you into it, but I am curious (as in I am not trying to stump you) as to your view on the where the "stuff" of the universe came from, and how life started. I am a theistic evolutionist and believe God used directed evolution after He created the stuff of the universe and life. Also, what about information theory...how does information i.e. the data encoded in DNA evolve? Again, I am just interested in your solution to these problems. I respect you regardless of your views.
What if the answer to both questions was "I don't know and nobody else does either"? That would not add a single shred of evidence to a religious explanation - the lack of an answer should mottivate one to look for the answer, but it is never an excuse to make up an answer.
However, the DNA one does have a good answer, complete with experiements recreating the start of it in laborastoris over the past 80 years or so. I even posted links to articles and documentaries you can watch on Netflix in another of these threads. One of them was an episode of Carl Sagan's Cosmos. Follow that with another excellent episode of Cosmos about how religion has held back science.
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Riding in China - Beijing to Shanghai on Big Bikes
Riding in Limbo Beijing to Shanghai on Big Bikes
The Plan - 1740 km, 14 Days
In August 2010 Singapore bike club Team 27 organized a fly-ride big bike tour from Beijing to Shanghai with the support of a Chinese travel agency. It was the club's second motorcycle tour in China. The first, along the same route, was in 1994 with 43 bikes; that was said to be the first foreign-organized big bike rally in China. This time 28 bikes were shipped from Singapore, roughly 1/3 BMW, 1/3 Harley-Davidson, 1/3 Japanese, and one Ducati.
Because an overland ride all the way from Singapore via Laos would have been too time-consuming for most participants the bikes were shipped by ocean freight to Beijing then shipped back to Singapore from Shanghai. The bikes followed in convoy behind a minivan which carried the Chinese travel agents who dealt with toll booths, highway police, and other en-route logistics. Meanwhile a 40-seat intercity tourist coach and a truck for any disabled bikes followed behind the convoy; by the end of the tour, the Ducati and a Harley would break down and be rolled into the truck. The coach was used to carry luggage for some riders, to transport seven non-riding spouses and friends, and to take all of us on guided tours and to and from restaurants from the outer suburban hotels where the bikes had to be parked.
In China (as of 2010), big bikes are regulated like horses, bicycles, and electric scooters so they are forbidden from expressways, highways, and major avenues. Large cities forbid or restrict all motorcycles from entering the downtown core, unless electric. All riding had to be on pre-approved major arteries and all our hotels had to be outside of downtown; we could not ride to any tourist sites on the motorcycles. We could walk around or take public transport on our own but we could not ride our motorcycles around on our own.
This was because we could not be issued Chinese license plates, and so our bikes were illegal to ride. Singapore motorcycles are not allowed temporary importation under Carnet or under the Mekong Cross-border Transport Agreement; exceptions are granted only for projects sufficiently meaningful to the authorities. In Beijing only motorcycles registered within Beijing can be legally ridden, and it is not possible to register anything larger than 400cc; this is said to be because citizens cannot have motorbikes more powerful than the 400cc bikes ridden by the police.
We were told that all big bikes are illegal in many places in China but the Chinese police look the other way as long as the riders behave themselves. BMW, Harley-Davidson, and Ducati all have dealers in Beijing, but the machines are very rare on the road given their legal Limbo. Because of the restrictive regulations, the logistics of the ride were complex and expensive, requiring negotiation with and special permits from six government authorities who in turn required police escorts for several sections of the route. The permits and escorts all had to be paid for; these were a significant part of our tour cost.
The Itinerary:
Day 1-3: Fly to Beijing and collect bikes. Sightsee.
Day 4: Ride to Dezhou via Tianjin and Changzhou (390 km).
Day 5-6: Ride to Jinan (117 km). Sightsee.
Day 7: Ride to Tai'An (88 km). Tai'An cablecar.
Day 8: Ride to Xuzhou (300 km).
Day 9-10: Ride to Nanjing via Huaian (415 km). Sightsee.
Day 11: Ride to Wuxi (230 km).
Day 12-14: Ride to Shanghai (200 km) and leave bikes at container port. Sightsee. Fly home to Singapore.
The route was:
Heading Out
In Singapore the fuel tanks had to be drained and the batteries disconnected. All the panniers had to be left unlocked. The bikes were strapped onto custom-made pallets.
Our unusual trip attracted some local publicity:
Days 1 - 3: Fly to Beijing and Sightsee
The bikes were waiting for us at the Holiday Inn Lido Beijing when we flew up a month later:
An advance party had gone up with a professional mechanic to unload them from the containers, reconnect the batteries, and pour in enough fuel for us to get to the nearby Sinopec petrol station for fuel and air the night before riding off.
The paperwork for the whole group took hours to process:
Provisional Chinese driving licenses had to be obtained for every rider; International Driver's Licenses are not recognized by Beijing. Getting eye tests for our Chinese driving licenses:
The rules on the back of the driver's license were clear:
We were not allowed to photograph the front of our driving licenses and we had to return them before leaving the country.
Tiananmen and the Forbidden City:
The Great Wall:
Beijing has some scenic areas around the Hutongs (ancient alleyways):
Our tour guide is not in purdah; she doesn't want to risk sun pigmentation - a common Chinese paranoia:
A popular Beijing souvenir T-shirt, for men:
These cars are not parked - this is a gridlocked intersection in downtown Beijing:
Cloisonné porcelain factory - an unavoidable tourist trap because the huge tourist restaurant (and our lunch) was strategically located above it:
The night before our departure, an temporary outdoor bar had materialized around our bikes before we returned from the Chaoyang Acrobatic Show- very convenient!
Day 4: Ride to Dezhau
Flag-off from the Beijing hotel:
These are screenshots from a cellphone video, hence not sharp.
Marshalling was done by six BMW riders. Their bikes were fitted with flashing blue strobe lights front and rear and looked more like police bikes than the real Chinese police bikes. Except when traffic was light, the group kept in a tight convoy, close together and two abreast when possible.
Within minutes of departure from the Beijing hotel, we had a near-death experience: in the center of the Beijing expressway on-ramp - right where a rider has to look over his shoulder to check the oncoming traffic - a manhole cover was missing! It had been stolen during the night. I swerved just in time to avoid falling into it at 70 km/h and losing the bike, my legs, and possibly my life.
At frequent intervals we stopped at toll plazas, where the minivan negotiated the toll for our prohibited motorcycles:
The ride the first day was cold and wet. Changzhou lunch stop:
Chinese Mr. Bean:
The 390 km to the Fengou International Hotel took 9 hours, including stops. The bunker-style business hotel was a welcome reprieve from the rain and traffic:
The hotel thoughtfully provided soap, shampoo, a condom, and a phone call in Chinese from a woman in the massage center. I thought it was a wrong number.
Days 5 - 6: Ride to Jinan and Sightsee
Buying petrol at Sinopec:
The big bikes always drew onlookers.
The 117km ride to the Jinan Huangtai Hotel took four hours. The hotel:
... and the neighborhood:
Daming Lake and Baotu Spring Park:
Around Jinan:
The aunties and uncles socialize separately:
Donkey meat, look at the sign:
I didn't eat ass. I ate here:
Beggars are not uncommon:
Imitations of popular western brands are also common:
Jinan youth nightlife:
Chinese customer service:
The Chinese are becoming People of Wal-Mart:
Some of the riders went for cupping therapy. Not me!
Day 7: Ride To Tai'An
View from the hotel in the morning - another wet day ahead:
The traffic was not heavy and it was the shortest ride of the tour:
Check in to the Taishan International Hotel after only a couple of hours of riding:
Then off to Mount Taishan, a UNESCO World Heritage site, by coach and cable car:
There was a lot of walking:
We had to line up for more than an hour to get back down the 1500m mountain on the cable car; that is the line-up:
... while these attentive officers had the difficult job of ensuring there was no queue-jumping:
Lager label. The Chinese must have a strange image of Germans:
And these signs give us an amusing image of them - call the suit hotline!
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Day 8: Ride to Xuzhou
Lunch was good fun, mingling with the onlookers on the other side of the red line after we ate:
We stopped at the Han Juang Secondary School for a rest and a toilet break:
Along the way:
Stopping for a bike wash:
The 300 km ride to the Xuzhou Best Western Hotel took about 9 hours.
Days 9 - 10: Ride to Nanjing and Sightsee
The 415 km took 12 hours due to a Harley breaking down three times. We arrived at the Zhenbao Holiday Hotel at night:
Note the KTV hostess bar on the left, where most of the Chinese members of the group ended up to destress after dinner in a cigarette-smoke haze and to spend a lot of money on whisky and cognac poured by pretty girls. Signs in our hotel lobby:
Sightseeing the next day, by coach. The Yangtze River Bridge (which we had motorcycled over the previous evening in the dark) is 1.6 km long. Impressive both above:
... and below:
The Qin Huai River:
Around Nanjing:
Note the many western chain restaurants:
Nanjing Massacre Memorial Hall:
Unfortunately it was closed when we arrived, but the many statues and dedication plaques outside were thought-provoking enough.
Wanda Plaza Nanjing:
Day 11: Ride to Wuxi
The hottest day of the tour, 42 degrees, leading to the overheating and breakdown of the Ducati in slow-moving traffic. It went into the truck next to the Harley. Wuxi is known as the "City of Lights":
When coming into the town from the north the roadside streetlight display starts, and continues through most of the town.
The hotel was impressive and modern:
But the food was mysterious to non-Chinese riders:
Days 12 - 14: Ride to Shanghai and Sightsee
Changjiang motorcycles at a petrol station:
There is an internal border control checkpoint coming into the city, as if entering another country. Partly due to enhanced security for the Shanghai Expo it took a couple of hours to process our papers before we could cross Shanghai:
We bypassed the city and rode on the Hulu expressway directly to the container port located in the bay on reclaimed land. This 40 kilometer strip was one of the most electrifying rides of the tour; if anyone had gone down or broken down, it would have been a disaster for him and for us. Narrow lanes, dense truck traffic, no shoulders, continuous high speed, occasional broken glass and road alligators (retreaded tire fragments) on the road. My front tire was impaled by broken glass and had to be replaced when I returned to Singapore, but it did not leak.
At around 3 pm we arrived at the port and helped each other to put our bikes back on their pallets for loading into the shipping containers.
Then back into the coach and into Shanghai for sightseeing around the Pearl Tower, Bund, Chenghuangmiao, and Nanjing Walking Street areas:
And the magnetic levitation train to the airport for our flight home, the fastest ride of the trip:
Looking Back
The logistics were flawlessly planned and executed, a credit to Team 27's event-management expertise. Although the route was the same as the ride 16 years previously, many of the old highways have become new expressways. The roads now have ten to twenty times as much traffic; the veterans who did the previous ride were stunned by the change. In Beijing, Nanjing, and Shanghai we experienced riding like this (Wikipedia photo):
How many motorcycles do you see in the photo?
Motorcycles seem not to be much loved by the Chinese authorities:
Here is part of the reason:
There were no hills and no twisties on our trip; there were no viewpoints; and the highway motorcycle riding conditions varied from humdrum to horrifying. Because of the legal status of our bikes the tour could not be approved on scenic mountain backroads while staying in small hotels near town centers. Although it was a short journey, a two or three day ride, it was demanding and dangerous due to unpredictable and often dense traffic. All our sightseeing had to be done from the coach.
We began to look forward to riding into construction zones, detours, and exits into the smaller cities, like these, where we might get a glimpse of a rice field or a village:
The last cellphone photo above was a firecracker welcome in Tengzhou.
At all the crossroads the marshals attempted to keep the side traffic from running the red lights while our convoy proceeded through a green light. They were not always successful because a red light in China is only a suggestion. There were several near-misses when drivers decided they need to be on the other side of the convoy (Convoy? What's a convoy?), and simply drove right into the middle of the line of motorcycles expecting us to jump out of the way - which of course we did!
Motorcycles are near the bottom of the right-of-way priority sequence of truck-bus-car-motorcycle-bicycle-pedestrian. Chinese drivers could compete for being the world's most inconsiderate, and I make that statement having lived in many countries, including India. Chinese drivers have an interesting, if not lethal, combination of ignorance and machismo, especially those driving black BMWs:
Sights like this were not uncommon:
We also experienced this several times: traffic coming at us on the wrong side of the divided expressway ... in the fast lane!
It is a tribute to the marshals on the BMWs that they kept two dozen bikes together in often very heavy traffic and there were no accidents.
The tour agency in the black minivan paying off the police to escort us down an empty (rare!) highway with flashing lights:
Lunches and dinners were all like this, tasty but loaded with MSG and always served in a cloud of cigarette smoke:
Constipation was impossible. After a few days, the Caucasians and even some of the Chinese-Singaporeans were looking for the nearest Kentucky Fried Chicken. Sometimes a substitute had to do:
The toilet facilities along the way varied:
We enjoyed the attention from passers-by and hotel staff, most of whom had never seen so many big bikes - or perhaps any big bikes - before. This press coverage was received in Xuzhou:
The most unusual sight was to pass a man walking along the highway in the rain, stark naked. He was carrying his dry clothes in a plastic bag. As usual on such trips, the best photos were the ones that were impossible to take and will stay with us only as memories.
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Location: Darnestown, MD
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Great to see a ride report from China, thanks for posting.
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This was the promotional poster from 2009:
The club had hoped for participation from as many bikes as in 1994 (43 bikes) but despite promotion including a website the level of interest (28 bikes) was much lower from both riders and corporate sponsors fifteen years later. The high cost was a factor, but it seems eastern China is not seen as an exotic destination anymore.
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Joined: Jul 2007
Location: Port Kennedy, Western Australia
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Amazing ride! Great report with good info.
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Location: Bangkok, Thailand
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China Adventure - thanks for sharing, it's good to get some infos from China as it seems it is still really very restrictive.
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Location: Tulsa, Oklahoma
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nice job posting trip .. looks like a very_expensive trip!
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Location: Dublin Ireland
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Thanks for sharing
Fascinating to see how badly motorcycles treated still probably because of huge numbers of mopeds and scooters.
Great pictures.
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Location: Carouge, CH
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We planned to go to China in June, it's really expensive and complicated.
Seeing your report, I now have a good idea of what awaits us.
We are five motorcycles (800 cc) and an agency asks us $ 4,500. - per person for the entire papasserie, let us cross the border (license and plate) and guide us for 32 days
I will take my precautions
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Joined: Nov 2013
Location: Singapore
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It was, at about US$470 nett per day for one person, the most expensive trip per day that I ever took anywhere, by any means of transport, even with my wife.
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Great photos, thanks for posting them.
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Four Chinese-Singaporeans struggled together to translate these Wuxi food items into English, and after much discussion came up with:
* Bamboo Shoots with Pork Shutters Results = Dry Bamboo with Roasted Pork
* Mouth Watering and Authentic Celery = Dry Celery Vegetable
These two make sense.
* Several Factors Gravy = Vegetarian Meat Sauce
* Soup Sunken Sub-Groups = Vegetable Soup
I would never have guessed!
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Thanks for posting
Hopefully some time in the future China will open up more and allow foreigners to ride freely and unescorted. We just experienced traffic in Lima, Peru, and I could only compare it to what I experienced in India, I can now add China to the mix.
Thanks again
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* Mouth Watering and Authentic Celery = Dry Celery Vegetable with beancurds
* Soup Sunken Sub-Groups = Vegetable soup with meat balls
Nice ride report. Hopefully china one day will open up its motorcycle riding laws and policy so that ppl can tour around much easier with motobikes. In most cities motorcycle riding is simply prohibited, even though china probably produces the most # of motorbikes compared to any other countries
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Howl with laughter as two zany guys play two crazy girls in the comedy "The Queen of Bingo" at 7 p.m. March 9-10 at The Cultural Arts Center at Glen Allen, 2880 Mountain Rd. Join "Sis and Babe" as they explore the worlds of Bingo, family ties, diet crazes, widowhood, hot flashes and winning. The audience joins in the fun during the "Middle Bird Special" - a real Bingo game where one lucky audience member wins a free 10 pound frozen turkey. Tickets are $25 for adults and $23 for seniors 65 and older. For details, call 261-ARTS or visit http://www.artsglenallen.com .
The National Alliance on Mental Illness Central Virginia Chapter will hold its monthly meeting at 7 p.m. at Weinstein JCC, 5403 Monument Ave. Joanne Ellis will speak on career support systems for the disabled. The meeting is free and open to the public. For details, call 285-1749 or visit http://www.namicentralvirginia.org .
The second annual Free to Breathe® 5K Run/Walk will take place in the Innsbrook Corporate Center, 4900 Cox Rd. All proceeds help support the National Lung Cancer Partnership's vital research, education and awareness programs. Mail-in registration ends March 5 and online registration closes March 7. Registration fees are $10 to $35. Registration the day of the event begins at 7 a.m. and the Kids' Fun Run starts at 9 a.m. The one mile memorial walk will then begin at 9:10 a.m. and the 5K Run/Walk at 9:20 a.m. For details, visit http://www.freetobreathe.org .
The 2nd annual HOPE 5K and Endorphin Fitness Kids' Mile will be held at Hope Church, 12445 Patterson Ave., where registration will begin at 7:30 a.m. The run will start at 8:30 a.m. at the West Creek entrance. The Kids' Fun Run and family activities will follow at Hope Church. Registration is $10 to $45. Child care is provided for all registrants. All proceeds will benefit Big Brothers Big Sisters and Family Lifeline. For details, visit http://www.hopecentral.com/5k .
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National Express (NEX) - Interim Management Statement RNS Number : 3726P National Express Group PLC 24 October 2012 Press release 24 October 2012 National Express Group PLC Third Quarter 2012 Interim Management Statement National Express Group PLC ("National Express" or the "Group"), a leading international public transport group, operates bus and coach services in the UK, Continental Europe, North Africa and North America, together with rail services in the UK National Express reports its Interim Management Statement for the third quarter ended 30 September 2012 (the "third quarter") and the nine months ended 30 September 2012 (the "year-to-date"). Overview Overall, Group trading remains resilient, despite the increasing challenges of austerity. Group profit is on target to meet the Board's expectations for the year. Key developments in the third quarter have included: · Strong performance in UK Bus, reflecting continued investment in fleet and improved customer service; · Excellent operational performance in Rail, supporting good revenue growth and profitability; · Successful start-up to the new school year in North America school bus, following a strong bid season and 97% contract retention; · Initial signs of a return to overall passenger volume growth in UK Coach through fare promotion, to begin to offset the adverse impact of the withdrawal of the government's concessionary travel scheme; and · Continuing resilient performance in Spain, in the face of increased austerity pressure. Dean Finch, Group Chief Executive, commented: "We continue to deliver a robust performance, despite austerity pressures on public and consumer budgets. We are focused on our fleet investment, on driving greater cost efficiency and are relentless in our focus on customer service. We are playing an active part in the current review of the UK rail refranchising programme and are developing a pipeline of opportunities across our portfolio in the US, Europe and North Africa to drive medium-term growth." Spain Trading at Alsa has remained resilient, reflecting the great value services provided by our bus and coach operations. Urban bus revenue has continued to grow, although we have experienced cutbacks to contracted services by some municipal authorities. Our long-term contracted business in Spain grew revenue by 3% year-to-date, while Morocco was up 20%. The third quarter saw some slowdown in the Intercity business due to vacation travel, with sales 2% lower. We expect these challenging conditions to continue, with profit in local currency slightly lower year-on-year. The concession to operate urban transport in Marrakech has recently been extended for a further five years, to June 2019, whilst the process of intercity concession renewal has been deferred, with existing concessions extended. This programme is expected to restart over the next 12 months. Overall revenue continues to grow, benefitting from previous acquisitions and bid wins, including Agadir, Pamplona, Bilbao and Madrid City Tourist services. We continue to develop a good bid pipeline of further opportunities in Spain and Morocco. North America School bus revenue grew 2% year-to-date. Start-up of the new school year has progressed well, with over 800 net new buses added in 2012 from 26 new contracts, including 8 conversions. Contract retention was 97% and average renewal pricing rose by nearly 2%, an improvement over 2011. Continued budgetary pressures on our school board customers have resulted in the curtailment of some discretionary routes on existing contracts. The integration of Petermann has progressed smoothly and is on track to deliver the forecast synergy benefits. During 2012 we have completed three small acquisitions in the transit market, giving us a presence in each of our target segments of paratransit, shuttle and suburban fixed route. Our investment in business development in this market is generating a good pipeline of bid opportunities. UK Bus The UK Bus business is performing well. Revenue and profit have continued to grow, with commercial revenue up 3% year-to-date. Overall ridership is stable, with positive results seen from the deployment of over £30m of capital investment in 2012. Both labour costs and increased concessionary fares have been secured under new medium term arrangements. UK Coach This has been a difficult year for the UK Coach business. The withdrawal of the government's concessionary scheme has severely affected the affordability of travel for our senior citizen passengers, with a million fewer concessionary journeys expected in 2012. To offset this, we have invested in our network, adding new routes and frequencies, with non-concessionary revenue on the express coach business up 1% year-to-date. With intense price competition on competing rail journeys, we have discounted fares through the summer, driving stronger non-concessionary volume growth, up 4% year-to-date and fully offsetting the concessionary passenger shortfall for the first time in September. Olympic-related contract work also benefitted the third quarter; however, we expect the majority of the £15 million annual concessionary income loss to impact profit in the current year. Rail Our c2c rail franchise continues to lead the industry, winning Train Operating Company of the Year at the National Transport Awards. Revenue continued to grow, supported by a successful Olympic and Paralympic Games, which saw c2c provide an extra 1.5 million seats. The franchise has now set a new record for punctuality at 97.2%*. We had submitted a strong bid to retain c2c from May 2013, prior to the overall refranchising process being frozen by the Department for Transport on 3 October. Our Great Western bid is also ready for submission. We are working with the Department on its current review and continue to support the refranchising programme. Our business development team is working on a pipeline of smaller rail contract tenders in Germany, and is monitoring planned future rail liberalisation in Spain. Financial position and outlook The Group's financial position remains strong, with substantial headroom under our debt facilities and a sound dividend policy. Fitch Ratings recently reaffirmed its stable, investment grade rating of the Group. The Group has completed its fuel hedging programme for 2013, at an average Brent oil equivalent price of $100/barrel (48 pence/litre, compared to 43p for 2012). This will result in 2013 fuel costs increasing by approximately £11 million year-on-year (UK Bus £3m, Spain £4m, North America £4m). Further analysis of the forthcoming IAS 19 pension accounting change in 2013 has confirmed a limited adverse impact, of approximately £2 million to the UK Bus division earnings, with negligible effect on operating profit in other divisions or on the Group interest charge. The Group remains on track to deliver its profit expectations for 2012. The outlook for 2013 remains challenging with low economic growth, government funding pressure and fuel cost inflation likely to constrain progress. However, our developing pipeline of opportunities in new and liberalising markets will present attractive avenues for growth. With our proven management team, the diversity of our businesses and continued growth in demand for high quality public transportation, we have confidence in our long term prospects. 2012 revenue growth First First Third Year to quarter half quarter date Spain Underlying Intercity 3% -1% -2% -1% revenue Urban - Spain 4% 4% 2% 3% Urban - Morocco 7% 20% 20% 20% Other operations -23% -22% -28% -24% Total revenue 1% 2% 3% 2% North America Underlying School Bus 6% 3% -1% 2% revenue Total revenue 8% 11% 25% 14% UK Bus Underlying Commercial 4% 3% 3% 3% revenue Concession -3% -2% 2% -1% Total revenue 2% 1% 3% 2% UK Coach Underlying Express 6% 3% 0% 1% revenue non-conc. Express -37% -37% -43% -39% concess'n Total revenue 1% -2% 2% 0% Enquiries National Express Group PLC Jez Maiden, Group Finance Director } 0121 460 8657 Stuart Morgan, Head of Investor Relations } Anthony Vigor, Director of Policy and External Affairs 07767 425822 Maitland 020 7379 5151 Neil Bennett George Hudson There will be a conference call for investors and analysts at 0900 on 24 October 2012. Details are available from Laura Dean at Maitland. Notes All references to revenue and profit are on an underlying basis (unless otherwise stated), which compares the current year with the prior year on a consistent basis, after adjusting for the impact of currency, acquisitions, disposals and rail franchises no longer operated. Profits are stated on a normalised basis. Normalised results are the statutory result excluding profit or loss on the sale of business, exceptional profit or loss on sale of non-current assets and charges for goodwill impairment, intangible asset amortisation, exceptional items and tax relief thereon, for continuing operations. The Board believes that the normalised result gives a better indication of the underlying performance of the Group. *c2c achieved a PPM (punctuality performance measure) of 97.2% on a moving annual average (MAA) basis and a 4-week PPM of 98.7% in the period to 15 September 2012. This information is provided by RNS The company news service from the London Stock Exchange END IMSLLFVDIELVFIF -0- Oct/24/2012 06:00 GMT
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WILLIAMSON — The battle has been joined.
Mingo County Clerk "Big Jim" Hatfield announced Thursday that he will challenge a directive from Secretary of State Natalie Tennant regarding the Nov. 4 General Election. Tennant had given Hatfield until Thursday to comply with an order from her to remove the Family Court judge position from the fall ballot.
For weeks, Hatfield has publicly taken the position that Mingo County voters should choose a candidate to fill the two years remaining on the unexpired term of now-Circuit Judge Miki Thompson. She had served as Family Court judge until Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin promoted her to fill the unexpired term of Michael Thornsbury, who was indicted and convicted on federal criminal charges.
Hatfield has consistently said he believes that, since Tomblin appointed Thompson more than 84 days before the election, the voters should choose a successor. Members of the governor's staff, Tennant's staff and the state election commission apparently believe that the governor should make the appointment.
"What it comes down to is this," the clerk said Thursday. "I trust the people of Mingo County to choose their own Family Court judge; Mrs. Tennant does not. Hatfield pointed out, "Family Court judge is an important position. Whoever is in that office affects many, many Mingo families at one time or another. The people should not be forced to stand before someone they didn't elect for two long years. There is absolutely no accountability."
Hatfield said that his personal attorney, Ben White of Chapmanville, has been instructed to file a writ of prohibition requesting that the court stop Tennant from making him remove the name of Williamson attorney Jonathan "Duke" Jewell, who is the choice of the county Democrat Executive Committee. In Thursday's letter to Tennant, Hatfield pointed out that he had provided Tennant's office with Jewell's name "during the first week of August" recognizing the committee appointment.
"I am surprised that you say that the Secretary of State 'had heard a rumor' that I might place the vacancy … on the general election ballot," Hatfield wrote in response to Tennant's order. He went on to say that by providing the earlier letter to the secretary regarding Jewell, "Surely that is better than a 'rumor.'"
Hatfield's letter was actually addressed to E. Ashley Summitt, general counsel for the Secretary of State.
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Earlier in the day, Hatfield said he received a copy of the proof of the November ballot from printer Casto & Harris of Spencer. "It did not list the Family Court judge as I instructed them to do," he said. "We may have to find another printer."
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New research shows that Catholics now report the lowest proportion of "strongly affiliated" followers among major American religious traditions, while evangelicals are increasingly committed to their faith
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From Public Discourse The Religious Right movement is a misunderstood phenomenon. It has been dead for more than a decade, and few are now comfortable defending it. But most evangelical leaders haven't yet come to terms with the most important reasons it failed. That's why we haven't discovered a satisfactory model of political engagement for […]
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STEPHANOPOULOS: Leave the children in peace. That was President Putin on Friday, defending the law that is threatening to overshadow these winter games. It bans, quote, "nontraditional sexual relationships to minors." It's causing a – propaganda about that – is causing a global uproar, some boycotts and questions over how Russia will treat gay athletes and tourists last month.
STEPHANOPOULOS: When the law passed last summer, protests quickly spread. President Obama weighed in too.
OBAMA: Nobody is more offended than me by some of the anti-gay and lesbian legislation that you've been seeing in Russia. And one of the things I'm really looking forward to is maybe some gay and lesbian athletes bringing home the gold or silver or bronze.
STEPHANOPOULOS (on camera): And I wonder if you can respond to that. And if gay and lesbian athletes engage in some sort of protest, wear a rainbow pin or some other kind of protest, will they be free from prosecution under the propaganda law?
PUTIN (through translator): Acts of protest and acts of propaganda are somewhat different things. They are close, but if we were to look at them from the legal perspective, then protesting a law does not amount to propaganda of sexuality or sexual abuse of children. That's one. Two is that I'd like to ask our colleagues, my colleagues and friends, that as they try to criticize us, they would do well to set their own house in order first. I did say, after all, and this is public knowledge, that in some of the states in the U.S., homosexuality remains a felony.
STEPHANOPOULOS: The Supreme Court has struck those laws down.
PUTIN (through translator): How are they in a position to criticize us for what is a much softer, liberal approach to these issues than in their own country? I know that this isn't something that can be easily done. This is so because there are a lot of folks in the U.S. who share the view that the legislation in their state or in their nation is appropriate, well grounded, and is in sync with the sentiment of the vast majority of the population.
STEPHANOPOULOS (voice-over): Russia's gay activists say that the climate there is getting ugly.
MASHA GESSEN (Journalist and LGBT Activist): The propaganda laws are almost the least of it. It's a huge concerted campaign that's unleashed by the Kremlin. It's a campaign of hate, and violence. So basically, it's a law that enshrines second-class citizenship.
PUTIN (through translator): It has nothing to do with prosecuting people for their nontraditional orientation. In this country, everybody is absolutely equal to anybody else, irrespective of one's religion, sex, ethnicity or sexual orientation. Everybody is equal. So no concerns exist for people who intend to come as athletes or visitors to the Olympics.
STEPHANOPOULOS (voice-over): But just yesterday, this Russian protester was detained for unfurling a rainbow flag during the Olympic torch relay.
Putin had no comment about President Obama's decision not to come to Sochi, a pointed protest the president underscored by naming prominent gays and lesbians like Billie Jean King to the U.S. delegation. She spoke to our Amy Robach.


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I wasn't able to find a difinitive how-to for this realatively straightforward mod, and as I wanted to try it, I thought I'd put one together.
Again, all the thanks should go to the other members of this forum, who's posts and tips enabled me to do and write this!
1x BMW Z4 3L
1x Medium-sized flathead screwdriver
1x Plaster for inevitable cut finger.
Step 1
Open the bonnet and look for the plastic tube that leads from the air intake tubing, into the cabin.
Standing at the front of the car, the tube is located at the back right side of the engine
Step 2
Gently pull the tube out of the hole that leads to the cabin. Mine felt a little tight to begin with, but a gentle bit of twisting whilst pulling and the tube came straight out.
Step 3
At the other end of the pipe, it is secured to the main air intake trunking with a jubilee clip.
Using the flathead screwdriver, loosen this clip. Once it's loose, attach the plaster to wherever the screwdriver slipped and entered your finger.
Step 4
Under the middle section of the sound generator is a small clip that keeps the pipe attached to the side of the engine block.
Unclip this clip, then lift the piping up until the plastic groove on the top edge of the generator clears the rim of the engine block top.
Step 5
With both clips now unclipped, the jubilee undone, and the far end removed from the cabin, you should be able to remove the entire sound generator from the car.
Step 6
With the sound generator removed, you can now seperate the rear pipe from the big front section.
Using the flathead screwdriver, carefully prise the small pipe from the main unit.
Step 7
With the pipe seperated, you should see a peice of dark coloured foam in each end:
Remove both peices, so that the small tube is now empty:
Step 8
Re-assemble everything in reverse order and you're done!
It's a pretty easy mod to do, and only took me about 20 minutes including taking the photos.
I recorded a soundclip (from inside with the roof and windows closed!) so you can hear what having no foam in sounds like.
TBH, for me, I found it extremely loud under heavy acceleration (wouldn't hear stereo!) and when moving slowly, it sounds like you've got a hole in the exhaust.
I'm going to put the foam that sits closest to the engine block back in and retry to see what that's like... I'll probaby edit this with another sound clip once done.
However, here's the complete HowTo - and it's not hard, so go do it yerself


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An abuser relies on the secrecy of their behavior for empowerment. Once their abusive behavior is exposed, their ability to continue abusing is threatened.
Last week, I posted a diary, Our Autistic Son was Handcuffed and Arrested in School, We Were Not Notified, in hopes of exposing what we believe to be the abuse that our son has received at the hands of various authority figures. Never, did my wife and I expect the level of support we received from the Kos Community, and never, did we expect that we would get public confirmation from our son's abusers that the Kos Community was rattling the hell out of them.
We are reaching out to you again as we prepare for tomorrow, day number one of (Redacted) v. Temecula Valley Unified School District.
Last week, we provided a link to this petition. The district has shared that only three people within the district knew about the undercover operation while it was occurring, school board member Bob Brown, who until recently was board president, Superintendent Tim Ritter, and the Director of Child Welfare and Attendance, Michael Hubbard. Each time the petition is signed, those three people, as well as all other board members receive the petition in their email, putting them on notice that their actions in this matter will not remain a secret.
Their email addresses, which are part of the public record, and are posted on the TVUSD website, are email@example.com, email@example.com, email@example.com, firstname.lastname@example.com, firstname.lastname@example.com, email@example.com, email@example.com.
After posting the article to the Kos Community on Friday, the petition received about 800 signatures by the time we went to bed, (right now, it stands at 1,123). Now here's where it gets interesting. At 5:06 pm PST, Patriot Daily News Clearinghouse informed me that she had received the following email:
The Temecula Valley Unified School Distinct has received the following email from the same list serve approximately 460 times in the last week. We have reason to question its authenticity and believe that at least some of the e-mail addresses and salutations have been inappropriately and/or fraudulently created, obtained, and used, without the permission of the individuals named in the e-mail. The District requests that whoever has created such suspect emails to cease and desist misrepresenting senders. The District will continue to encourage open and direct communication, including opportunities for participation by the public during Board of Education meetings. Thank you for your anticipated cooperation.We immediately started getting phone calls, emails and texts from numerous others who were reporting the same thing.
On Fri, Feb 1, 2013 at 4:49 PM, (xxxxx) wrote:
Immediate Action is Required!
To: Temecula Valley Unified School District
We as a community are banding together in defense of our Special Education students. We are offended by taxpayer-funded School Administrators who are secretly cultivating a dangerous environment, allowing predatory, actions of undercover officers who prey on the most vulnerable children in Public Schools. We believe this behavior is criminal and harmful, especially when excessive disciplinary measures are being implemented to punish and subsequently expel these Special Education students for falling victim to manufactured crimes. We represent a large body of voting taxpayers and immediately demand meaningful and transparent changes to this system. We also demand a public hearing to address the behavior of our elected school officials who are involved and feel they must be held accountable. Let it be known that we will all be paying close attention to the actions of the Temecula Valley Unified School District on this very serious issue.
Michael Hubbard
Director of Child Welfare & Attendance
Temecula Valley USD
31350 Rancho Vista Road
Temecula, CA 92592
951-676-6701 fax
All he accomplished was ensuring that he received hundreds more emails from outraged citizens, letting him know that yes, they were real and yes, they were angry.
We can assume that he was feeling some discomfort that the district's actions were no longer a dirty little secret. However, the discomfort that he, or anyone else from the district is feeling cannot compare to the damage that was done to our son, who we believe was abused under their watch.
Here are just a few of the responses that some of you shared in response to Mr. Hubbard's stern words. First, from emeraldmaiden:
Dear Mr. Hubbard (or your automaton),This, from Cyberwizard:
I am who I say I am, and my email address reflects that. There are not very many (my real name redacted) out there, let me tell you. I happen to have been one since 1991.
If you would like to stop getting this petition, then perhaps you and your school district ought to reconsider how you treat your special needs students. This is not only about the student referenced in the upcoming hearing, but all other students who have been unfairly (and, in many opinions), illegally interrogated by your authorized representatives and the police. Shame on you all; you should know better. Child Welfare, indeed. If you are incapable of seeing the difference in special needs students, and are insensitive to the medical and psychological issues inherent in an Autism Spectrum Disorder diagnosis, you are not worthy of your position and should resign it immediately, on grounds of incompetence.
{emeraldmaiden's real name}
Mr. Hubbard, I'm a real person.And this, from wdm:
My first child, a son, was born with a severe disability, and I know how hard it is for parents to deal with this issue. I have taught autistic children in afterschool programs, and I understand that they need to be dealt with by people who understand what's going on and who are trained in these issues.
I also know how easily they can be misled because they don't understand cues and language that normal children do.
So, let me assure you that I am real and I am very outraged that the investigating officer either was not told that his suspect was autistic or was not trained to deal with autistic children. Mainstreaming makes such a huge difference to these children, and to the children who interact with them. Seeing a classmate that they all knew was disabled arrested and led away in handcuffs sends quite an ugly message to every child in that grade and to any other autistic or Asperger's child in the school.
I think that there's clear evidence of a need for change.
Mr. Hubbard,Last week, we spoke to the press, and yesterday, the Inland Empire Press-Enterprise front paged the article, Undercover deputy targeted mentally disabled teen, parents say, giving it a huge amount of real estate.
Please rest assured that my petition signature was authentic. If I am correct that you were participating in and/or knowledgable of the operation that resulted in the detention of a student with disabilities with no notification to his parents, you should be at the very least ashamed of your involvement, and at most prosecuted for unlawful imprisonment and interrogation of a minor. Unfortunately for the taxpayers of your distict, your prosecution (and paid leave) will most likely come out of their pockets.
If I can assist in the prosecution of you and others involved in this operation, I will offer my services to those affected. I have plenty of free time and deep resources; if I were you, I would hire a good lawyer because you will need one (or several).
We are now asking you to comment on this article, which has seen a very high number of comments already. In order for more people in Temecula to feel empowered to speak out, they need to see that they have a groundswell of support. And they are doing so, more and more, as they see that the world is paying attention.
My wife and are currently choosing to refrain from posting comments on the article. The vast majority are very supportive of our son, but there are a handful of law and order types who are outspoken there. We are aware of reasons why some of these critics may have an agenda, though I will not discuss them in a public forum. And as an engineer, I think it is appropriate to mention how much I admire the work of the software engineers who designed the Daily Kos private messaging function.
On behalf of my wife, and my entire family, thank you for you continued support. We will keep you updated.
12:26 PM PT: The reporter for the Press Enterprise has just published a blog post about the petition, as well as Michael Hubbard's emails that he sent accusing the email addresses as not representing real people. Please go to the blog post, show some love, and verify that, yes, you are real.
Tue Feb 05, 2013 at 8:23 AM PT: Leaving for day 1 of the due process hearing in a few minutes. The support here has been overwhelming, to say the least.
We love you.
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Rock had a grip so they formed up a clique
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Here's a provocative assertion:
"The recent Pew survey shows that Islam is the fastest growing religion, not because people are converting to Islam, but because they're having more babies. The fertility rate is much higher than that of any other religious group. That means we're going to have more and more children growing up with the default presumption that they're Muslims.
"I think, however, that it's not going to be as standard, obvious, or routine for them to stay Muslims when they grow up. Islam has a long, unfortunate tradition of treating apostates very severely, and I think that we're going to see more of that. And I think that it's going to backfire.
"How former Muslims or children of Muslims engage in the world in the next 20 years is a very, very important question. And I don't have any clue as to how it's going to work out."
That's a quote from Daniel Dennett, co-author of Caught in the Pulpit: Leaving Faith Behind. Read more of his musings on religiosity in America here: "The end of religion as we know it"


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ST. LOUIS, June 23 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Sigma-Aldrich (Nasdaq: SIAL) today announced the release of over 2,300 antibody additions to its Prestige Antibodies(R) powered by Atlas Antibodies product line (www.sigma.com/prestige), bringing the total number of highly validated antibodies to over 6,100. Developed by the Human Proteome Resource, these antibodies are available to customers immediately through an exclusive partnership between Sigma-Aldrich and Atlas Antibodies. Prestige Antibodies can provide significant time and cost savings for researchers because they are optimized on a single protocol, resulting in efficient and effective applications.
This addition to the Prestige Antibodies product line is a step toward the Human Proteome Resource's goal to develop at least one antibody to all 22,000 non-redundant human proteins by 2015.
"With this latest addition to the Prestige Antibodies line, Sigma-Aldrich has significantly expanded our antibody offerings, the latest step in our long-term plan to lead the industry in high-quality antibody content," said Dr. David Smoller, President of Sigma-Aldrich's Research Biotech Business Unit. "Our highly validated Prestige Antibodies are ideal for a number of applications, and with our unique online tools we help scientists figure out how to best incorporate them into prospective experiments."
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Derby Homes is taking part in the Bake for Heroes fortnight in support of our charity of the year, Help for Heroes.
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As audiences get ready to celebrate the birth of arguably the most famous playwright of all time this April 23rd: William Shakespeare, Derbyshire based theatre company Oddsocks Productions are gearing up to host a summer of party-feel performances celebrating the Bard!
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Published May 14, 2009 Queen Elizabeth II named openly lesbian Carol Ann Duffy as Britain's national poet laureate on May 1. She is also the first woman to hold the post.
The job includes writing poems for royal weddings, funerals and other official occasions, but Duffy said she will do so only when inspiration comes her way.
The appointment lasts 10 years.
Duffy, 53, is very popular in the United Kingdom and her work is taught in schools. Prime Minister Gordon Brown called her "a truly brilliant modern poet who has stretched our imaginations by putting the whole range of human experiences into lines that capture the emotions perfectly."


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Pogo Studio was established in downtown Champaign, IL, in 1985 and quickly earned local, regional and national recognition for its finely crafted recordings and its owner's easy-going nature. The studio remained a fixture of the community's music scene and a valuable resource for regional recording artists for nearly thirty years.
As war enveloped much of Western Europe in 1914 and 1915 our country struggled to justify its involvement in this conflict and our national leaders overwhelmingly favored peaceful negotiation as the only logical way to end Europe's war. However by 1916 Germany's military had devastated large portions of Belgium and France, and presented a serious threat to Great Britain as well as commercial shipping across the north Atlantic.
When World War I began in 1914 the United States proclaimed that it would follow a policy of strict neutrality "in thought and deed," and President Wilson firmly believed that peace was the only course of action needed to resolve the European conflict. Many Americans felt the same way, but as the war's atrocities, both fictional and real, were publicized, some politicians and military leaders began to voice their support for military intervention.
For over a century, the University of Illinois has played a leading role in the promotion of educational exchange with China. UI President Edmund James was a leader in the movement to open US universities to Chinese students in 1906, when US policy toward China was very restrictive in this area. This exhibit tells the story of how James' vision led the University of Illinois to become one of the most significant destinations for Chinese students during the early decades of the 20th century.
Meant as a complement to both "MetaModern" and "Artists Including Me: William Wegman", this exhibition displays works from the permanent collection that directly reference canonical works of art, specific artists, and art historical styles. Some artists convey a sense of adoration for their subject—playfully or with great reverence—while others use their works to critique society, religion, or even the art historical canon.
Originally a painter, contemporary artist William Wegman became well known for photographs of his Weimaraners. Categorized as a minimalist and conceptual artist, his works often times suggest a surrealist absurdity. Throughout his career, Wegman experimented with different media—video, photography, drawing, and painting—and over the years these four types of media have converged.
Modernist design, that radical and iconoclastic break with the past, is now itself a thing of the past. Perhaps sufficiently so that over the last few years, artists have been treating modernist designs as icons themselves, and incorporating them—sometimes literally and often conceptually—into their own work. These recombinations and modifications result in an entirely unique mix: a meta-modernism in which the original source is changed, self-referential, abstracted.
The university's faculty within the detail+FABRICATION Program of The Illinois School of Architecture are exploring the role of fabrication and making. Rather than privileging finished products, objects, or built work, these designers are placing an increased focus on the process of making as a means for surveying alternative outcomes.
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