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With Democrats and Republicans holding 20 Senate seats each, the governor's amendment to a health insurance reform bill is the most contentious measure during the one-day reconvened session to consider McDonnell's amendments to 80 bills and his six vetoes.
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|States, state agencies, multilateral agencies, and other non-market actors are relatively under-studied in strategic management and organization science. While important contributions to the study of public actors have been made within the agency-theoretic and transaction-cost traditions, there is little research in political economy that builds on resource-based, dynamic capabilities, and behavioral approaches to the firm. Yet public organizations can be characterized as stocks of human and non-human resources, including routines and capabilities; they can possess excess capacity in these resources; and they may grow and diversify in predictable patterns according to behavioral and Penrosean logic. This paper shows how resource-based, dynamic capabilities, and behavioral approaches to understanding public agencies and organizations shed light on their nature and governance.
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"Birds can move every feather on their body individually," informed Branca, who soon pointed out some of the 278 other species, including Killderes and double-crested cormorants.
With the use of free binoculars and docents like Branca who let fun facts fly — Wilson's Phalarope males incubate and raise babies — you'd have to be a birdbrain not to come here.
Visitors from 83 countries have flocked to the sanctuary. "We thought all we'd see is casinos and that would be it," said Jon Burrows, a London birder who scored the equivalent of a royal flush when he spotted an American avocet. "I never ever would've imagined this."
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LITTLE ROCK, (KTHV) -- More than 46 million children in the U.S. participate in sports each year. Statistics show one in every three will get hurt. But thanks to a local clinic, many of those kids are getting back on the field or court quicker.
Thousands of football fans will spend most Friday nights under stadium lights this fall.
But it's also where some young players will get hurt.
The Benton Panther's football coach Scott Neathery says the training, the intense pressure on muscles, and not properly stretching can all be to blame.
He explains, "In football it is every day. It is always something. Whether it is a twisted ankle or a shoulder knocked down or a knee or anything. It is almost every day that you have something."
But it's not just football players. There's also been an increase in female athletes showing up at emergency rooms across Arkansas.
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Coach Pearl celebrates with fans Coach Bruce Pearl arrives at Auburn University Regional Airport in Auburn, AL on Tuesday, March 18, 2014. Zach Bland
AUBURN, Ala. (AP) – New Auburn coach Bruce Pearl wasted no time making an impression.
The former Tennessee coach sprung for pizza for several hundred students Tuesday a few hours after arriving in town, some of whom took selfies posing next to him. Then he told a couple thousand fans at Auburn Arena: "We're fixing to get Auburn into that position where we'll be going to the NCAA tournament."
The Tigers turned to Pearl Tuesday to revive a struggling basketball program that hasn't been to the NCAA tournament in more than a decade. Athletic director Jay Jacobs landed his top target with a 6-year deal worth $2.2 million annually less than a week after firing Tony Barbee.
Pearl remains under a show-cause penalty from the NCAA barring him from recruiting until Aug. 23.
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As if the Left doesn't already have a firm grip on our education system, using our public classrooms as little indoctrination stations for liberal ideas, now the far Left Occupy Wall Street movement is planning to #occupyeducated, indoctrinating the masses with socialist propaganda.
Unlike the plethora of other calls to "Occupy!" specific locations with your presence, the phrase "Occupy Educated" is not a call to Be Somewhere, it's a call to Be Something.
Simply put, if you're going to be Occupying anything, be Educated while doing so. Having a working knowledge of the issues and their root causes is essential to effectively communicating the need for change and formulating practical solutions. Frustration alone is not enough to cause lasting change, it can only come from a place of relevant, collective literacy.
What is the purpose of OccupyEducated.org?
As the 1%'s evictions begin to successfully silence education on the streets, OccupyEducated.org is stepping up to continue the conversation where it can never be stopped, online. Being out in your communities is still essential, but so is having a universal classroom and meeting place that can't be dispersed.
One word: homeschool.
Although it is easy to make fun of these people, they are useful idiots for dangerous people in the Left like George Soros. Who do you think is paying for their fancy website?
|Katie Pavlich is the Editor at Townhall.com. Follow her on Twitter @katiepavlich. She is a New York Times Best Selling author. Her new book Assault and Flattery: The Truth About the Left and Their War on Women, will be published on July 8, 2014.
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Indifferent Parenting Style
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Disengaged parenting style; Neglectful parenting style; Nonconformist parenting; Rejecting parenting style; Uninvolved parenting style
One of two subtypes of the general style of permissive parenting. (Definition 1: Permissive parenting is a style of parenting identified by the research of Diana Baumrind that is characterized by few demands, excessive permissiveness and lack of structure, rules and limitations.) Parents whose behavior fits in this category are uninvolved with their children and fail to provide adequate support and structure.
Theoretical definitions of neglect vary, in part, depending on the purpose for which the definition is used. In general, neglect is conceptualized by most experts as parental behaviors that result in negative consequences to the child [5]. Unlike other forms of child abuse, neglect is an act of omission in care rather than commissions that endanger or harm children.
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- Azar, ST, Cote, LR Cognitive-behavioral interventions with neglectful parents. In: Talley, PF eds. (2005) Handbook for the treatment of abused and neglected children (pp. 145–181). Haworth Press, New York
- Barber, BK, Olsen, JE, Shagle, SC (1994) Associations between parental psychological and behavioral control and youth internalized and externalized behaviors. Child Development 65: pp. 1120-1136
- Crittenden, PM Child neglect: Causes and contributors. In: Dubowitz, H eds. (1999) Neglected children: Research, practice and policy (pp. 47–68). Sage, CA
- Fischer, DG (1983) Parental supervision and delinquency. Perceptual and Motor Skills 56: pp. 635-640
- Gaudin, JM (1993) Child neglect: A guide for intervention. Westover Consultants, Inc., US Department of Health and Human Services Washington, DC
- Gaudin, JM, Polanski, NA, Kilpatrick, AC, Shilton, P (1993) Loneliness, depression, stress, and social support in neglectful families. American Journal of Orthopsychiatry 63: pp. 597-605
- Loeber, R, Stouthamer-Loeber, M (1986) Family factors as correlates and predictors of juvenile conduct problems and delinquency. Crime and Justice 3: pp. 29-149
- McCord, J (1983) A forty year perspective on effects of child abuse and neglect. Child Abuse & Neglect 7: pp. 265-270
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- Polansky, NA, Chalmers, MA, Buttenwieser, EW, Williams, DP (1983) Damaged parents: An anatomy of child neglect. University of Chicago Press, Illinois
- Smith, MG, Fong, R (2004) The children of neglect: When no one cares. Brunner-Routledge, NY
- Steinberg, L, Lamborn, SD, Darling, N, Mounts, NS, Dornbusch, SM (1994) Over-time changes in adjustment and competence among adolescents from authoritative, authoritarian, indulgent, and neglectful families. Child Development 65: pp. 754-770
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Birds on song; They may not have the feathers of their real-life cousins, but Christopher Proudlove finds demand is sky high for these mechanical music boxes.
Now, the chirping bird turning its head from side to side and fluttering its tail in such a jaunty, cheerful manner is an image that has become almost synonymous with collecting.
As someone not permitted by senior management to have a canary in the house, I've always hankered after owning a mechanical one, which struck me as possibly the next best thing. And then I learned how much they cost -needless to say, I'm still saving.
The value of the late 19th-century clockwork singing birds has taken flight. You won't be left with much change out of pounds 2,000 for a reasonable example in good working order.
For the money you get a tiny feathered mechanical bird or birds, hopefully not too moth-eaten, which open and close their beaks in a semblance of syncopation with the sound of bird song or the tinkling of a music box, the movement of which is located in the base of the cage.
Automata which mimic birds have been around for a long time. Archytas of Tarentum (420-411 BC) is said to have built a mechanical bird propelled by a jet of steam, and in Hans Christian Andersen's fairytale the Chinese emperor had a mechanical nightingale made of gold and diamonds which could both fly and sing.
True mechanical and musical automatons, in which movement and sound are produced by clockwork, first appeared in the 15th century. Not surprisingly, German clockmakers were the finest exponents.
The idea of transferring the figures from clock face to mantelpiece was a natural progression. What helped was the arrival of the barrel organ in the early 16th century, followed by the Carillon (which used bells) and the invention, in 1796, of the musical box.
However, it was the development of the music box in particular which produced some of the most technically brilliant automatons. Probably the most remarkable were those made at the end of the 18th century by a Swiss-born watchmaker Pierre Jaquet-Droz (1721-1790) and his son, Henri-Louis (1752-1791).
Father's masterpiece was The Writer. When activated, this seated figure of a young boy dips his quill pen in ink, shakes it twice, and writes a phrase of 40 characters - even his eyes move.
The contribution made by Droz jnr. was The Draughtsman, similar in all respects as before, except the figure draws four different diagrammatical images: a portrait of Louis XV, a royal couple (believed to be Marie-Antoinette and Louis XVI), a dog with "Mon toutou" ("My doggy") written beside it, and Cupid driving a chariot pulled by a butterfly. The crowned heads of Europe and the emperors of China, India and Japan were among their customers.
The Jaquet-Droz mechanical singing bird, which appeared in about 1780, was subsequently miniaturised and incorporated into the movements of the company's most expensive clocks. Another clockmaker, Jean-Frederic Leschot (1746-1824) joined the Jaquet-Droz company and he perfected the miniaturisation process, later including it in jewel-encrusted gold boxes, notably those for snuff.
Unlike mechanical musical boxes, in which sounds were produced from the teeth of a steel comb being plucked by pins in a revolving brass cylinder, the singing birds rely on tiny bellows.
When a button is pushed, the clockwork mechanism causes a series of rods to move the bird's head from side to side, while at the same time opening and closing its beak and opening, closing and flapping its wings.
Independently to this, the rods also cause a pair of bellows to be squeezed open and closed, forcing air to pass through pipes similar to those in a church organ.
Singing birds in gilded cages come in varying sizes and population. Small examples are found under four inches tall, but the majority are between 11 and 22 inches, the larger versions with two or occasionally three birds. The rarest of all examples are particularly large and ornate and can contain up to 20 birds.
Equally charming and similarly rare are singing bird displays in which the creatures sit in naturalistic surroundings such as the branches of a tree, but trapped beneath a tall and fragile glass dome. These remain somewhat less popular than their caged compatriots, probably because they look rather too realistic for today's market.
If money is no object, the singing birds to seek out are the rich man's toys of the late 18th century, decorating gold snuff and other boxes which were nothing more than a display of wealth. Usually a rectangular metal box, made from gold, tortoiseshell, silver gilt or semi-pressures gemstones, the boxes were used to contain snuff, cashous or jewellery and go by the name of tabatiAre, French for snuff box.
Decorating the lid, or in rarer examples beneath the lid, is a small, pierced cover which flips open at the push of a button to reveal the bird, who snaps to attention to perform his solo as the cover is released.
Most were produced by the French and the Swiss, but several German companies also manufactured singing bird tabatiAres, with the result that the late 19th-century and 20th-century examples are far more affordable, starting at around pounds 2,000 at auction. However, a fully restored example from a dealer can be several times the price.
The movements of good singing-bird tabatiAres are often signed and names to watch out for, in addition to Jaquet- Droz, include Frisard, Bruguier, Rochat, Griesbaum and Bontems. Two makers continue to make singing bird automata today: the German companies Reuge, who purchased both Bontems in the 1900s and Eschle in 1977' and Griesbaum.
Advice to a would-be buyer: by the best you can afford and preferably one in full working order. A singing bird automaton needing restoration is a job for a trained professional - in fact several trained professionals, since so many disciplines are involved in their manufacture. Repairs are timeconsuming and therefore costly.
Left to right : three birds sing for their supper in the 20 th -century automation music box worth pounds 175-250 at auction : a very fine silver and polychrome enamel singing bird box of outstanding quality by Griesbaum of Germany with an asking price of pounds 11,750: a continental singing bird box in a bruguier style cashion - shaped case with fine gilt bronze decoration with an asking price of pounds 67 ( both are for sale through Dougles Fine Antiques, 75 portobello Road, London (tel 07860 680521,www.antique-clocks co uk)' A good late 19th - century Swiss gilt brass and enamel rectangular singing bird music box (far left) which sold in a recent auction for pounds 2,000' (left ) a good early 20 th century German silver gilt - cased rectangular singing bird box, sold for pounds 1.700
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A Wichita Falls television station has been named the best in Christian broadcasting by the National Religious Broadcasters.
Wichita Falls' Christian Family Network Television won the 2009 title of Television Station of the Year, beating out stations from across the nation with far more money and wattage than its own.
"For us to win, it was extraordinary," said Rod Payne, CFNT president and general manager, "because we just don't have a lot of resources at our disposal. In the past, this prize has been awarded to both a full-power station and a low-power station, like we are. This year, they chose just one station — CFNT."
This Wichita Falls-based station, broadcast on channel 10 for cable subscribers and channel 30 over the air locally, produces not only Christian programming but airs wholesome family shows like The Andy Griffith Show. It broadcasts the First Assembly of God's and First Baptist Church of Wichita Falls' church services, delivers a program called "Worship" with photographs and music during late-night hours, and includes local live programs like The Mission Gospel Train. A children's hour airs daily at 4 p.m.
CFNT produced and ran the only locally produced Spanish-language program in this market, though the show was cancelled recently.
The honor was a nod to the station's prudent use of resources, community involvement and ministry outreach, Payne said.
Payne (a minister with First Baptist Church) collects no salary from the television station budget, which operates on about $5,000 to $10,000 a month and is divvied out by a board of directors.
CFNT, a Class A Low Power station, earned about $13,000 last year; but it is required to jump through the same regulatory hoops as any full-power station that generates millions of dollars in revenue, Payne said. A small group of dedicated volunteers and donations assist Payne in the station's operation.
As part of its mission, Payne has used the station to champion and help community organizations like Camp Fire, Faith Mission and the YMCA. "We're not here as a money-making entity," Payne said.
When Wichita Falls decided to augment and change some of its mass transit bus routes, Payne gave the issue a half-hour program as part of its Good Neighbor show. When the city's East Side was suddenly inundated by flood waters, "We were on the air within moments telling viewers where to get help and to please tell their friends. We also had Judge Woody Gossom on a live program called The Mission Gospel Train, which reaches out to the African-American faith community."
Payne said he considers the station, which has operated in its present form for about 18 years, a labor of love. "We do it inexpensively, and the NRB feels that we're good stewards of the resources we have. But it still can't be done for nothing."
Like other stations, CFNT must raise $350,000 to make its upcoming transition to digital programming. However, for a low-power station like CFNT, that switch doesn't have to be made immediately; no deadline has yet been set. "CFNT will continue to be able to be picked up with rabbit ears on a TV" for the foreseeable future, he said.
The award validated the station that originated to provide quality programming for ages 2 to 100, Payne said. "Instead of cursing the darkness, we light a candle. That's what we do with CFNT."
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Dr Dave De Sylvia STAFF (3)Shogun may well rankle the traditionalists, but in going back to basics Trivium have retur...P.J. Quinones (4)...Chris Gaduzo (3.5)With "Shogun", Trivium have finally created their own sound, but it still has that same "l...Justin Taslak (3.5)They're back?...
TheSpeedNirvana (2.5)Would sound great if it could just make up it's mind....username345 (2)An improvement on 'The Crusade' but still a weak album, too long and ruined by Heafy's dre...MarkedFortune (4)Trivium may either be loved or hated by the metal community. Some may see them as immature...ChickenWingDoctor (5)There is no better balance between melodic beauty and fierce intensity than the album Shog...
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Thanks a lot.
Other than the rather ridicolous rating of 64/100 at the end, nice review.
My brain finds it much easier to rank things out of 100 than 5, just the whole percentage thing i guess, thanks though.
I understand that this isn't the best review ever, and I really don't mind you negging it, but could whoever did neg please at least suggest improvements that could be made for the future. This would be greatly appriciated.
Album Rating: 3.0 | Sound OffRiffs are stolen and recycled this time from Hypocrisy, Opeth and a few others. I need to give this another listen. The vocals are worse than ever.
Album Rating: 3.0"The backing vocals provided by bassist Paulo Gregoletto are also very poor, and if you thought Matt couldn't scream, then don't listen to Paulo's vocals on the otherwise enjoyable 'Down from the sky"
Not only did you spell his name wrong, Paolo doesn't provide backing vocals on Down from the sky. Matt does all the vocal work on the album.
He doesn't?? I was under the impression he did, but thanks for that, i'll change it right away.
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Album Rating: 3.5Album kinda drags from the middle to the penultimate track, but tracks 2-5 and the title track are fantastic. I love the groove in Throes of Perdition.
btw why is the tracklisting wrong?
@ willie : haha yeah i'm not expecting anything, if they do post though that would be nice.
@ bodom : I have no idea about the tracklisting, looks like insurrection and calamity are in the wrong places, hang on, I'll try to fix that
Album Rating: 3.5and the lengths are off for shogun and insurrection at least, i didnt check the others
Album Rating: 3.5yeah the lengths are off for most of them, not that it really matters.
Album Rating: 2.0Trivium suck so bad
Trivium suck so bad
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Agree 100 percent. Minnie's summary is grossly unfair to those of us who merely want to wait to hear more real facts. I do not understand why he feels the need to belittle and mock that position.
Well gee, TF. No intent to belittle and mock. Sorry.
I am trying to make the point that it is convenient to dismiss everything until some government authority tells you what they think.
There was a hit and run accident near my home last year. The guy that ran turned himself in the next day. All that saw him the night before at the bar, knew he was drunk, including his friends. It seems clear that he ran to avoid a DUI conviction. The victim was hurt, but not killed. He ultimately settled a lesser charge below fleeing the scene, but the authorities were not able to conclude, without a breathalizer or blood test, that he was actually drunk.
Official investigations are restrained. They do not include all the facts. That young ladies family knows this very well.
Personally, I dismiss the idea that these authorities are always right, or will even bother vetting half the things we are discussing.
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Restoring the Bastion is important because it serves as a waypoint for survivors of the Calamity. As you progress through the game, you'll acquire cores that let you construct buildings in the Bastion that serve different purposes. It's a compelling goal given the fact that the Bastion gradually starts becoming a beautiful place because of your efforts while everything around it in the world is torn by war and destruction. The buildings you make will allow you to do a variety of things, like change your weapons and apply upgrades to them. There's a building that let's you buy materials for upgrading, as well as a Distillery which gives you access to Spirits, which are passive abilities that act like perks.
The Bastion serves as a hub world in the game from which you'll fly to different locations and do battle against hostiles. There's a lot of enemy variety, from Scumbags, Squirts, the brilliantly named Anklegators, Pincushions, and more. Some enemies are faster than others, some are more deadly, some are only a threat in groups, and some prefer to hang back and attack from a distance. The different enemies types give you an incentive to experiment with the weapons in Bastion, of which there is about a dozen. There's a healthy variety of ranged weapons and melee weapons available, and the ability to quickly roll out of the way allows you to easily evade most attacks and get behind your opponents. You even have access to a shield that lets you counter attacks, which harms the assailant. It's surprisingly deep. While the core combat doesn't evolve too much throughout the game, the weapons do feel very different and you'll likely find yourself swapping them out for different ones many times as you start to face different foes. It's a fun game to play that moves fast, and seeing how your weapons feel after applying new upgrades is always exciting. For people seeking a challenge, the Shrine building lets players "invoke the gods" by turning on different Idols that will ramp up the difficulty in certain ways, similar to Halo's skulls.
You'd likely have a hard time finding an Arcade game that looks as stunning as Bastion does. The entire world is gorgeously handcrafted; each location has its own theme and unique aesthetic. The music is equally as impressive, so much so that it's hard to believe a soundtrack hasn't been announced yet. I would buy it in an instant.
It will probably take you about 7 hours to finish Bastion on your first playthrough. A New Game Plus is available that lets you carry weapons and XP over, and it even lets you construct any of the buildings you want right from the start. Three different arenas can be played through with whatever Idols you want. You may be surprised to learn that the narrator actually uses these arenas to fill in more details about the world and its characters, so I highly recommend playing through them.
The 7 or so hours that Bastion lasts are unforgettable. It accomplishes so much in so many great ways that it would be impossible not to recommend it.


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Smoking has become one of the most dangerous habits that the society has witnessed until today. More and more people start smoking as the tobacco industry started being able to deliver as many cigarettes or tobacco products as addicted individuals would need. The saddest part of the story is that very young individuals start smoking these days because they want to show how mature and grownups they are. Unfortunately the statistics speak for themselves and they are worrying. More and more teenagers start smoking and the adults must take an attitude. Many people blame the parents for being unable to supervise their children. Yet, a responsible individual would know that the fault is not entirely of the parent. Children nowadays have as much freedom as they want and if they want to smoke they will do so, no matter of the position of their parents.
That is why one must seek other ways to get involved in the fight against tobacco and smoking, and there are plenty of such ways, as C.O.S.T. kids shows. Being informed is one of the first steps to take when it comes to becoming involved. Only those who know what all is about are in power to make a change. The next step is to be more aware of what happens in one's community. Once one notices a store or a machine that would offer minors cigarettes with no problem, one should contact the owners of the store or even the police. In most states it is illegal to sell tobacco and alcohol to minor individuals. Writing or speaking to the owners of the places in town where children could get cigarettes might also be an effective action. Asking them to establish smoking free areas of their places could be a solution, but if the law does not ask one to do so, it might only work with those owners that put the interest of the children before their businesses. Acting alone can be troublesome as it might be more difficult to make one's voice heard. So, one may try to gather a group of people with the same goals and pursue them together.
The next step is to get the officials involved. If store owners or restaurant owners are not cooperating, one might need to bring the issue in the public attention. Citizens have the right to come up with petitions to request bans on indoor smoking, vending machines and so on. Writing to the states legislators might also be a good thing to do. One might request higher taxes on cigarettes to discourage people and especially teenagers to smoke and use the revenue for educating the young people about the dangers of tobacco and smoking. If the state legislators are unresponsive, one may even mail the federal legislators.
One should always remember that the written press is always a good idea when it comes to getting more and more people involved or simply to increase the awareness of an issue. Writing to newspapers and magazines will always work in getting some attention on the subject. Nevertheless, people can manufacture more bans and t-shirts or anything else that can be used as a means of informing the others about the dangers of tobacco and smoking.
In the end, the smoking is dangerous to people who are not aware of what tobacco can do to their bodies and this accounts especially for the young individuals. But one can make a change through education because teenagers are the most at risk to start smoking without even knowing the risks that they are exposing themselves to and this would be such a shame for the society.
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THE small South Australian town of Freeling is in mourning today after the death of beloved son, footballer and cricketer Brad Muster.
Mr Muster, 24, died on Thursday while snowboarding at Whistler in British Columbia, Canada.
He had travelled there on holiday with his girlfriend, Kate, and died after crashing into a tree.
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Fully illustrated throughout, with maps, diagrams and photographs"Early Medieval Munster" is a major contribution to the literature on medieval Ireland and Europe, and will be required reading for students, and researchers of the period.The Early Medieval Period, c.400 - c.1200 AD, was a time of unsurpassed cultural florescence. It is an era which, despite the wealth of material culture which has come down to us, presents many intriguing enigmas.The research in this volume uses recent discoveries made in inventory level county surveys, bio-archaeological studies, and from interdisciplinary studies which have successfully used linguistic and historical sources. Combined with critical developments in archaeological techniques and approaches, the material collected in "Early Medieval Munster" offers radical interpretations of new evidence, challenges our understanding of medieval Ireland and redefines accepted theoretical frameworks of archaeology. Subjects covered include early Christianity, architectural traditions, farming and food, medieval and Viking settlement, woodlands, High Crosses and the theory and politics of early medieval archaeology.
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Political columnist Michelle Goldberg argued over the weekend in Tablet Magazine that even though Jared Lee Loughner, the alleged shooter of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords and murderer of six others, was "clearly in the grip of delusion rather than any coherent ideology," it is still reasonable to explore whether the paranoid and nativist political climate cultivated by far-right groups and, to an extent, mainstreamed by the Tea Party helped lent=d Loughner the impetus to try to kill not just anyone but specifically a Democratic, Jewish congresswoman. Writes Goldberg:
Loughner was probably too insane to have really participated in anti-Semitic politics, or, for that matter, in the Tea Party. But it is important to note that Giffords has been relentlessly demonized by the right, the rhetoric around her charged with violence. And such rhetoric is dangerous precisely because of the effect it can have on the unhinged. Loughner was crazy, but he was also responsive to certain real-world political currents, particularly the right's nightmare vision of federal power run amok.
Others have made similar cases: I would particularly recommend James Fallows's and George Packer's takes (insists the latter, "The massacre in Tucson is, in a sense, irrelevant to the important point").
Or, you know, you could compare arguments such as those above to blood libel. (More responsibly and persuasively, you could assert that politics had little if anything to do with it, and you could welcome even the most heated discourse as a pressure valve that heads off most violence.)
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American Automobile Association - AAA - Builds Next-Generation Travel Reservation System With Inprise's VisiBroker For Java.
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Inprise Corporation (NASDAQ:INPR), a premier provider of distributed software solutions for leading enterprises, today announced the American Automobile Association (AAA) has adopted Inprise's VisiBroker for Java object request broker (ORB) technology as a key building block for its new travel reservation system that will go live by end of this year. With more than 40 million members, AAA is the largest motoring and travel organization in the world.
AAA is using VisiBroker to develop high-performance computing systems that provide a wide range of travel reservation products and services to meet its member customers' needs, such as air, hotel, car rental, and cruise bookings -- as well as auto-travel routing requests and assistance. The automobile organization selected VisiBroker as its distributed object infrastructure because of its superior integrated development tools and its ability to tie-in disparate data sources, such as Apollo, one of the largest global reservation systems for the travel industry. According to AAA, VisiBroker also provides the scalability to service its 40 million members association-wide.
"AAA's travel reservation system is a prime example of how organizations are turning to information systems to deliver better, less-expensive services to their customers, partners, and employees," said Randy Hietter, Inprise director of VisiBroker product marketing. "AAA's early success with VisiBroker shows how CORBA-based solutions can contribute to this mission by providing a flexible, robust, and reliable way to extend legacy computing environments to the Web."
AAA is a federation made up of 94 independent clubs that are part of an overall AAA association. Because each club uses different hardware and software to meet its diverse business needs, AAA was looking to build one application that would enable the integration of each individual club's disparate legacy systems; provide information access to a large number of users throughout the federation; and save time and money on application development. AAA chose VisiBroker for Java to help create this application to integrate its core business services -- and to better support the needs of both small and large AAA clubs nationwide.
"VisiBroker's CORBA architecture lended itself well to accommodating our clubs' needs. Because VisiBroker is platform-independent, it doesn't matter what type of technology that our clubs are using on the back-end -- they can take advantage of the objects we've created and then develop their own interface, which ultimately streamlines our business process," said Peter Eberley, senior developer, AAA. "We also wanted to enable a large number of concurrent users. By using VisiBroker, we can distribute our CORBA services over a variety of machines, or co-locate them next to the database to reduce network latency. VisiBroker gives us a variety of configuration options, and has enabled us to develop a truly robust application to meet our members' needs."
Inprise VisiBroker -- The Leading Deployed ORB Technology Inprise's VisiBroker for Java and VisiBroker for C++ CORBA object request brokers are designed to facilitate the development and deployment of distributed enterprise applications that are scalable, flexible, and easily-maintained. Industry alliances with Oracle, Hitachi, Novell, Netscape, Silicon Graphics, and others have played a key role in making VisiBroker the leading deployed and adopted ORB in the computer industry, with over 30 million licenses worldwide.
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With more than 40 million members, the American Automobile Association is the largest motoring and travel organization in the world. AAA's more than 1,000 affiliated club and branch offices are located throughout the United States and Canada. One of the nation's largest leisure-travel agencies, AAA offers air, hotel, car rental and cruise and tour bookings, plus numerous discounts and auto-travel routing and assistance.
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Inprise Corporation is a leading provider of software and services that simplify the complexity of enterprise application development, deployment, and management. The company is distinguished for its award-winning Borland family of rapid application development products and for proven scalable middleware. Inprise integrates these offerings with application management products to provide customers with end-to-end solutions. Inprise customers include leading enterprises and independent software developers around the world. Founded in 1983, Inprise is headquartered in Scotts Valley, California and has operations around the world. Inprise has more than 900 employees worldwide. For more information on Inprise, customers can visit the company's Web site at http://www.inprise.com.
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continued Hoarding is a major problem in Central New York, Morgan said, though he didn't attribute it to a malicious intent.
"Those overpopulation issues just get out of control," he said. "Ninety-nine percent of the time, it's a psychological problem. They think they're doing the right thing. I hate to destroy their reputation by putting their name in the paper, but I have to arrest them. It's less a criminal thing and more of a psychological issue, I think, and more often than not, the DA agrees with me. When you have the issue with overpopulation, that's clearly a psychological problem. No one in their right mind would think that 100 cats would fit in a 500 square foot apartment. That's a problem. That's a mental thing going on."
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The same is not true, however, in other cases.
"Sometimes, like in the case of the puppy with mange, you have people that are intentionally harming animals, and that's just disgusting," Morgan said. "There's no excuse for that. That's animal abuse, and people need to be held accountable for those actions."
Pinky's case is hardly an isolated incident. Another pit bull, 2-year-old Princess, made headlines last year when she was seized from her owner last November, weighing in at just 25 pounds. She should weigh close to 50 pounds. Wendy D. Collins, 32, of 1326 Oak St., was charged with failure to provide sustenance and failure to provide medical care to an animal, both misdemeanors. Collins pled guilty and was sentenced to three years' probation, during which time she cannot own another pet. Fortunately, Princess recovered and was adopted by another family.
Other animals aren't so lucky. In December, a pit bull had to be euthanized after he was chained to a silver Chevy Silverado pickup and dragged for several miles down Route 81. The dog suffered internal injuries and broken bones after the chain broke and the dog slammed into the guardrail several times near the Franklin Street exit ramp of I-81 South. The vehicle was driving at speeds of up to 65 miles per hour. No arrests have been made.
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By Joe Garofoli | February 1, 2013 | Updated: February 1, 2013 12:45am
Photo By Jacquelyn Martin/Associated PressSen. John Hoeven, R-N.D, walks toward a illustration of the Keystone Pipeline and proposed expansions, after a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Jan. 23, 2013. A key approval of a revised route for the Keystone XL oil pipeline from Canada to the U.S. Gulf Coast puts the long-delayed project back in the hands of the U.S. government. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)
Photo By Cody Duty/Associated PressProtestors sit in the lobby of a building in the 2700 block of Post Oak Blvd., containing an office for the company Keystone XL, Monday, Jan. 7, 2013, in Houston. Members of the Tar Sands Blockade are protesting the company for their involvement with TransCanada and the building of the Keystone XL Pipeline. The group says that the pipeline running from Canada to Texas contains toxic chemicals. (AP Photo/Houston Chronicle, Cody Duty)
Photo By Nati Harnik/Associated PressNebraska Gov. Dave Heineman delivers the annual State of the State address to lawmakers in Lincoln, Neb., Tuesday, Jan. 15, 2013. Gov. Heineman is pushing for tax reform. (AP Photo/Nati Harnik)
As he begins his second term, President Obama is barreling toward what one Bay Area activist predicts could be "all out warfare" with environmentalists who want him to stop the Keystone XL Pipeline, the transcontinental conduit for tar sands fuel from Canada that many scientists say could expedite climate change.
Obama's political dilemma lies in the pipeline's potential upside: The State Department projects that it could deliver 6,000 temporary jobs to the U.S., where 12.2 million people are unemployed. Bay Area liberals leading the Keystone opposition say Obama has only one choice.
"If he doesn't reject it," said Piedmont attorney Guy Saperstein, a former Sierra Club Foundation president and prominent liberal donor, "then I think it should be all out warfare for the next four years."
Environmentalists are drawing a line in the tar sands with a series of high-profile demonstrations planned this month in Washington.
The timing of the protests is crucial because sometime before April, Obama will receive the State Department's recommendation on whether to green-light the 1,700-mile Canada-to-Texas pipeline, forcing him to make a decision he delayed during last year's presidential campaign to avoid alienating his liberal base.
Liberals who bided their time through four years of little action from the White House on climate change, and who bit their tongues during the 2012 campaign, expect payback.
Civil disobedience
Obama will feel heat from them in the nation's capital, where the Sierra Club, based in San Francisco, plans to participate in civil disobedience for the first time in its history to call attention to the issue.
Saperstein has contributed $50,000 toward the protests, which include a Feb. 17 demonstration on climate change that is expected to be the largest of its kind in U.S. history.
The nonviolent civil disobedience, which will occur on an undisclosed date, will involve only a couple of dozen invited participants, organizers said. The nature of the action hasn't been revealed.
Among those participating will be Sierra Club Executive Director Michael Brune, club board President Allison Chin, and Michael Kieschnick, the president and co-founder of Credo Mobile, the San Francisco cellular phone company that has given more than $75 million to progressive causes over a couple of decades.
Using her clout
This week, San Francisco resident Susie Tompkins Buell - the co-founder of the Esprit clothing company who has given more than $25 million to progressive causes over the past 10 years - wrote a letter to Obama, and to her vast political network, urging the president to take "bold action" on climate change.
"We cannot betray (our children's) future by confining ourselves to small, cautious steps," Buell wrote.
Buell, like many liberals, praised Obama for mentioning climate change more prominently than any other issue during his inaugural address last week.
"We will respond to the threat of climate change," Obama said in his Jan. 21 speech, "knowing that the failure to do so would betray our children and future generations."
The president "made a big commitment and he's got to live up to it," Buell said in an interview.
Saperstein is among the liberals who say that Obama's rhetoric on climate change doesn't match his record. In 2009, during his first inaugural address, Obama said, "With old friends and former foes, we'll work tirelessly to lessen the nuclear threat and roll back the specter of a warming planet."
But little happened. The House, controlled in Obama's first two years by Democrats and led by Rep. Nancy Pelosi, D-San Francisco, passed a climate measure that included a cap-and-trade system to control emissions. But it never got a vote in the Democratic-controlled Senate.
"Obama never pushed for it," Saperstein said, expressing the frustration of many liberals.
'Purest test'
Now, Obama has a chance to redeem himself to environmentalists.
"This is the purest test Obama is ever going to face," said Bill McKibben, a prominent environmentalist and writer who is helping organize the Feb. 17 demonstration as part of a climate-change awareness organization called 350.org. "He doesn't have to ask John Boehner. He doesn't have to ask Mitch McConnell. He just needs to do it."
Even with an unfriendly Congress, activists say, Obama could do more to protect the environment through executive and administrative actions.
The Sierra Club's Brune said Obama could instruct the Department of Energy to stop the approval of liquid natural gas export terminals. Brune said approving those terminals "would intensify fracking (hydraulic fracturing) across the country and intensify greenhouse gases across the country."
"This is among the first biggest tests of (Obama's) commitment to climate change and his willingness to stand up to the oil industry and their toadies in Congress," Brune said.
Brune said his organization's credibility was not compromised after Time magazine reported last year that the Sierra Club accepted $25 million from the gas industry to help fund its "Beyond Coal" campaign from 2007 to 2010.
"We realized that was a mistake," Brune said. "You can't accept funds from industries that need to be reformed."
Now the organization wants Obama to stand up to the oil and gas industry.
"The president has not fully put his muscle behind the effort to combat climate change," Brune said. "That's what needs to change more than anything else."
Joe Garofoli is a San Francisco Chronicle staff writer. E-mail: email@example.com Twitter: @joegarofoli