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Prague - The quotas set for women on the lists of candidates of the Czech Social Democratic Party (CSSD) may give rise to the impression that the party is only focusing on marketing, not on the essence of its activity, Martin Zverina writes in daily Lidove noviny (LN) today.
Ilustrační foto - Předseda vlády Bohuslav Sobotka navštívil 7. srpna prvního místopředsedu vlády a ministra financí Andreje Babiše v pražském sídle jeho úřadu. Na snímku je premiér Bohuslav Sobotka na tiskové konferenci v závěru setkání. ČTK Doležal Michal
Or does someone in the oldest political party believe that all problems will disappear by themselves it the quotas are fulfilled? Zverina asks.
He writes that many, starting with French revolutionaries to the bolsheviks, have succumbed to this illusion when they perhaps totally remade the calendar, believing that this will bring about great morrow.
Not that Czech politics would not be missing women, rather on the contrary, but this is not the way to address the right ones, Zverina writes.
A part of Social Democratic officials believe that the referendum, in which the quotas for women were confirmed, will be revoked by the party´s March congress, but chairman Bohuslav Sobotka´s social engineering stance is clear: "I have no fears about the decision of the CSSD body," Zverina writes and adds with some irony "we congratulate" Sobotka.
The first noteworthy event after the summer holiday will be a one-day congress of the opposition Civic Democratic Party (ODS), Lukas Jelinek writes in Pravo.
He writes that the answers a voter and a party member will give to the question of how far the party has gone in the less than one year since the early general elections that brought it a crushing defeat will differ.
Citizens see a party, whose results and preferences stagnate at the bottom and whose main faces are years-long ideologists Marek Benda and Zbynek Stanjura from among lawmakers, while party chairman Petr Fiala comes only after them, Jelinek writes.
Inside, the ODS is moving. Fiala´s short-term ambition is not winning elections, but firming the team, imbuing it with energy and the will for victory, Jelinek writes.
He writes that it is speculated that the ODS will attempt to look for long forgotten ideas.
But it seems that instead of setting out on a new path, the ODS, united by Fiala, will continue moving in a vicious circle, with the only exception that the former leaders, Klaus, Topolanek and Necas, who made people angry, have been replaced by Fiala, a chairman who prefers to remain in semi-illegality, and he may be wise doing so, Jelinek writes.
In daily Mlada fronta Dnes (MfD), Vilem Barak focuses on the Czech first football league and writes that it seems to him that the aim of football is to entertain as many as possible people and thanks to this gain the highest possible incomes for clubs - from sponsors, advertising and ticket sales, but the current league is heading in the opposite direction.
If the league is to win over a broad public from the middle class, including women and children, the current "fans" must be eliminated, Barak writes.
If the league cannot play fair play, without bought referees, vulgarities and "fans" who arouse fears for health, it would be better not to play it at all, Barak writes.
It is incomprehensible why public means and firms spend huge amounts of money on top-level football in the current situation. In view of its condition, tax payers and sponsors actually support non-sporting behaviour, vulgarities and corruption, Barak writes.
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NFL Week 6 Betting Review
- Updated: October 18, 2011
Those in the know figured that after the ridiculous amount of scoring through the first five weeks of this NFL season, things would begin to trend back toward normal. And that's just what happened last weekend in the NFL, as scores stopped looking like basketball finals and a little more like what NFL bettors are used to.
Week 6 games averaged 40 points per over the weekend, a full 10 PPG lower than in week 5. With linesmakers goosing their totals to fight off the OVER bettors, sending eight games off with over/unders of 45 or more, the totals played 3-10.
For week 7 BookMaker.eu is listing three games with totals of 45 or above. The Saints/Colts game at the Superdome is lined at 48; the Falcons-Lions game at Ford Field is totaled at 47.5; and the Packers-Vikings game at the Metrodome is pegged at 47.
Look for NFL totals to continue to drop, as defenses adjust, colder weather begins to effect outdoor games and quarterbacks and skill players get nicked-up.
Home teams had a winning weekend, going 11-2 straight-up and 8-4-1 against the pointspreads. So on the season NFL home teams are now 56-34 SU and 47-40 ATS.
And favorites had their best week of the season, also going 11-2 SU and 8-4-1 ATS.
For the first time this NFL season teams coming off bye weeks played, and on the whole they didn't fare too well. Of the six teams that had week 5 off just one, the Baltimore Ravens, won their week 6 game outright. The others – Cleveland, Dallas, Miami, St. Louis and Washington – all got beat. And those six teams went a collective 2-4 ATS.
This week six more teams – Arizona, Denver, Kansas City, San Diego, Seattle and Tennessee – are coming off their bye weeks. BookMaker is listing the Cardinals as 3.5-point home underdogs vs. Pittsburgh; the Broncos are at Miami; the Chiefs are three-point dogs at Oakland; the Chargers are at the Jets; the Seahawks are three-point dogs at Cleveland; and the Titans are three-point home favorites over Houston.
Last year teams coming off their bye weeks went 18-10 SU and 15-11-2 ATS. Those totals exclude the two games in which both teams had the previous week off.
The two double-digit favorites of week 6 won their games outright, and split vs. the spreads. So on the year NFL double-digit faves are now 8-1 SU but 3-6 ATS.
For this week BookMaker is listing one double-digit favorite; New Orleans is 14-point chalk over Indianapolis. But when they put out a number on the Dallas-St. Louis game, which is off the board at the moment because of the injury situation with Rams QB Sam Bradford, it will likely also be in double-digits.
Going inside the week 6 boxscores we see that teams that won the time-of-possession battles won 10 of 13 games outright and went 9-3-1 ATS. On the season teams that end up with the TOP advantage are 62-28 SU and 51-36 ATS (59%). Last year teams that held the TOP advantage went 66% ATS.
So far this year the top five TOP teams – San Diego, Dallas, Houston, New Orleans and Green Bay – are a combined 15-12-1 ATS. The bottom five TOP teams – Tennessee, KC, Denver, Seattle and Indianapolis – are 11-15 ATS.
This week the Texans play the Titans, and the Saints take on the Colts.
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Over the holiday break, I took the plunge and migrated my businesses email service over to Gmail, using Google Apps for Your Domain (GAFYD) Premier Edition for businesses. For $50 per user per year, a 99.9% SAL, 25 gigs of space, extra bad-ass spam filtering, virus protection, backups, etc. I figured why the heck not.
Modifying the DNS and MX records was very easy (note if you use Postini, you will need to use different records) – they provide clear directions on this. However, make sure you install SPF records, this gives Google/Postini permission to send email on behalf of your domain. This will ensure you make it through today's highly sensitive spam filters.
The only part of the transfer that made me a little nervous, and gave me a little trouble, was migrating my existing IMAP email over to the GAFYD servers. It's really just a matter of knowing what IMAP client your current email server uses, and then entering the correct settings. Google provides a handy tool for doing this, but only supports certain IMAP servers, so check that yours is on the list. As of this writing, the supported IMAP servers are: Microsoft Exchange Server 2003, Cyrus IMAP Server, Courier-IMAP, and Dovecot.
Here are the settings I used:
143 is the default IMAP port. The thing that was tripping me up was the "IMAP Path Prefix." Is this the path to where the email is stored on the server? A folder prefix name? It seemed no matter what I put in there, the only email folder it could find was "Inbox" – none of my subfolders where showing up.
Finally, I just left it blank, and whammo! All my subfolders were found. However, the "exclude" option did not work for me, which is fine – I can clean that up later.
After verifying that everything looked OK, I started the transfer. When I got back from lunch, it was finished! Cool.
Folders to Labels
This feature didn't quite work as I expected it to. All my IMAP folders were indeed correctly labeled, but they were labeled with the full folder path. For example, if I had "folder-b" inside "folder-a" which was inside my Inbox, the label would be: "Inbox.folder-a.folder-b" – which is actually a smart way to do it because it takes into account that 2 folders may have the same name, but be in different locations. After the import, all I had to do was tweak my label names.
Am I Glad I Did It?
Absolutely. I love it. Being a huge fan of keyboard shortcuts, I can fly around Gmail like no other email program. And the spam filtering (along with Postini – a GAFYD free add-on), is the best. It just works, even better than Spam Assasin. Postini sends me a daily email with whatever emails it has quarantined, so I don't have to constantly log in and check to see if a legitimate message was caught. I also enjoy the full suite of GAFYD apps – in particular the Calendar. And if you're on a Mac, you'll want to check out MailPlane – an excellent way to work in Gmail.


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Our Strategic Priorities
Strategic OverviewDownload the Strategic Plan
The RVIPF Senior Management Team and H.E Governor have reviewed the vision, mission statement and values of the force to ensure they remain modern and reflective of the current operating environment.
Our mission serves to describe the purpose of the RVIPF, whilst the vision outlines where we aspire to be by 2011. Our values provide a strong moral and ethical set of principles governing how we will undertake and conduct our business in the delivery of our mission and achievement of our vision.
Our Mission
Our mission is to make the Virgin Islands a safe environment for all people we serve.
This will be achieved through our core objectives of:
- Providing visible and responsive policing activities within the community
- Upholding the law and ensuring that offenders are brought to justice
- Reducing crime and the fear of crime
Our Vision (by 2011)
By adopting a professional policing approach and working in partnership with the community and other law enforcement agencies, we will ensure that the Virgin Islands remain one of the safest territories in the Caribbean.
Our Values
Our core values define how we will deliver our business, in terms of our interactions with the community as well as our own staff. Our values are to:
- To treat everyone fairly;
- To be open and honest, acting with integrity;
- To build trust with the community, working in partnership to achieve results; and
- To embrace change to improve service delivery.
Our Six Strategic Priorities
The following provides a summary of each of the six strategic priorities. We will use these strategic priorities to inform annual business plans which will outline in detail the actions we will put in place to achieve each priority. The actions shown below provide an illustration of the advances we intend to make.
Stemming from our mission and vision is the formation of six strategic priorities which will direct the activities of the force for the next 3 years (2009-2011), namely:
- To improve public confidence and trust in the RVIPF;
- To improve operational policing performance in order to reduce crime; improve detections and bring offenders to justice;
- To protect the Virgin Islands borders and to strengthen counter terrorism capability;
- To create a dynamic workforce by attracting quality staff as well as improving the morale and motivation of existing staff;
- To maximise efficiency and improve service delivery; and
- To embed a culture of strategic planning and performance management within the RVIPF.
Strategic Priority 1
To improve public confidence and trust in the RVIPF
A consistent theme emerging from community consultations with the force is the need to reduce the fear of crime by providing a visible and responsive police presence on the streets. To address this, we aim to provide more citizen focused policing, enabling us to effectively engage with communities, thereby building an improved trust based relationship between the police and public. Additionally, a community focused approach will also enable the force to fight crime more intelligently by involving local people in the solution to the kind of crime that impact on their areas and the territory as a whole.
This is not simply about providing an increased presence. We must reassure the public and increase satisfaction amongst those who come into contact with the police service, especially victims and witnesses who are at the heart of this plan. We must provide high quality services which respond to the needs of all our communities.
We will deliver this priority by:
- Ensuring the effective delivery of a community policing model in each community;
- Encourage direct public participation in the duties of the force through a Cadet scheme, Police Band and through the instigation of Special Constables to operate within communities;
- Reviewing our structures and resources to ensure they are directed towards the delivery of community policing;
- Improving our contact and support for victims of crime;
- Giving the public a real say in how they are policed in their communities;
- Making it easier to contact the police;
- Providing meaningful feedback to the public about what we are doing; and
- Improve public confidence through the effective handling and investigation of complaints.
Strategic Priority 2
To improve operational policing performance in order to reduce crime; improve detections and bring offenders to justice.
We will deliver strong policing performance as part of a wider cross society effort to reduce crime; to detect crime when it occurs and thereby bring offenders to justice.
We will deliver this priority by developing our policing capability through:
- Training and developing staff to address immediate and long term skills needs. Where appropriate, this may include the additional of specialist policing support to improve our overall policing capability;
- Enhancing our systems and procedures in key areas to improve our overall investigative techniques with a view to detecting more offences;
- Enhancing the Scenes of Crime capability in the force to maximise the opportunities provided by forensic evidence in the detection of crime;
- Making effective use of advances in science and technology to identify more offenders;
- Maximizing the use of intelligence and covert policing methods to target all levels of criminality; and
- Working alongside the Attorney Generals chambers to ensure that the law remains reflective of the crime environment.
Strategic Priority 3
To protect the Virgin Islands borders and to strengthen counter terrorism capability.
As well as delivering strong policing performance in the Territory, we will focus on cross border and international organized crime, recognising the negative impact these activities can have on the communities we serve and the Territory as a whole.
In addition, we must also recognize that no country or territory in the world is immune from the risks of a terrorist attack. We must therefore ensure we have the capacity and capability to prevent, detect and prepare for a terrorist treat or incident should the need ever arise.
We will deliver this priority by:
- Appointing a senior officer with responsibility for cross border crime and counter terrorism;
- Focusing on enhancements to the Marine Unit including providing additional resources and specialist support or training where required;
- Working with Air Safety Support International (ASSI) to ensure the force's air wing meets regulatory requirements and becomes fully operational within the force;
- Close working with our partner agencies in the Territory to enhance border security and ports of entry;
- Sharing specialist resources and intelligence with international law enforcement bodies to tackle serious and cross border crimes and to counter terrorist threats; and
- Ensuring the police element of the overall disaster management plan is up to date and that disaster response plans are tested.
Strategic Priority 4
To create a dynamic workforce by attracting quality staff as well as improving the morale and motivation of existing staff.
To meet the challenges outlined in this plan we will focus heavily on the development of our workforce which remains the single most important factor in our organisations success. We must continue to recruit new and high quality candidates in the force as well as developing and retaining the skills and abilities of our existing staff. We must foster a culture of diversity, fairness and accountability while maintaining high standards of conduct and ethics.
We will deliver this priority by:
- Ensuring our resource levels meet the demands facing the force;
- Continuing to focus on improved performance through recruitment of high calibre staff. This will require us to seeking new methods of attracting candidates into the force whilst ensuring that the overall workforce reflects the communities it serves;
- Developing and implementing a training plan based on a detailed assessment of the training needs of units and personnel within the force;
- Rewarding and recognizing staff through performance appraisal, commendations and other appropriate techniques;
- Developing succession planning to provide continuity in posts of a senior leadership or specialist nature; and
- Continuing to develop extensive policies and procedures governing the effective administration of the force.
Strategic Priority 5
To maximise efficiency and improve service delivery
To effectively deliver on this plan we will ensure that the structures, systems and processes within the organisation are streamlined, efficient and directed towards improving service delivery. We will address the fundamental elements of how we operate.
We will deliver this priority by:
- Reviewing the organizational structure and our establishment to ensure we are fully directed towards a modern, professional policing service.
- Working with the Attorney Generals Office on a revised Police Act which will govern the modernisation of the force;
- Developing a professional Business Support Directorate to provide effective and efficient management of resources focusing on people, finance, IT, estates and vehicles;
- Developing an Estates Plan to ensure the facilities of the force are aligned to our community objectives and match the operational needs;
- Exploiting new technology to improve communications within the force and to support the accurate and timely deployment of our resources. This will include the use of CCTV, Automated Number Plate Recognition and a Control Room to coordinate policing activities;
- Reviewing areas of expenditure to ensure value for money and optimum efficiency is being attained;
- Use performance and development reviews (PDRs) to drive Force and local performance by establishing clear links between an individual's objectives and Force priorities; and
- Identifying new methods of monitoring our quality of service within a new Service Charter.
Strategic Priority 6
To embed a culture of strategic planning and performance management within the RVIPF.
The development and subsequent monitoring of the delivery of this plan is a core strategic aim. The strategic plan provides an essential means of demonstrating leadership and direction; ensuring accountability and rewarding results.
We will deliver this priority by:
- Undertaking environmental scanning identifying crime risks, political/ legislation changes and advances in international policing which fundamentally influence the planning process;
- Developing annual business plans, underpinning the strategic plan, prioritising actions and assigning accountable officers to the delivery of those actions;
- Developing a monitoring and reporting mechanism to ensure progress against the business plan feature as a core element of a dedicated monthly SMT; and
- Embedding a performance culture within the force where key performance areas are monitored and targets developed to direct efforts towards tangible improvements in our crime fighting responsibilities.


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A man arrested in Mississippi has been charged with sexual battery, lewd and lascivious molestation, child neglect and contributing to the delinquency of a minor in Okaloosa County, according to the Sheriff's Office.
Mason Wesley Furniss, 40, of Crestview, arrived at the county jail Friday, a according to a news release from the Sheriff's Office.
Furniss sexually molested a teenage girl at his home on Canary Way and at hotels in Crestview and on Okaloosa Island from December 2012 to February, the Sheriff's Office reported.
During a controlled phone call with the victim, Furniss admitted to the sexual acts and said he wanted to take her to Mississippi and marry her when she turned 16.
Bond had not been set Friday.


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For nearly a decade, linguists and cryptologists have obsessed over the medieval Voynich manuscript, vigorously debating whether it represents a long-lost language, or gibberish. Now some of its symbols have been matched to sounds.
Stephen Bax at the University of Bedfordshire, UK, has mapped only 14 symbols so far, but some linguists are following the development of his preliminary "Voynich alphabet" with interest.
"I found this work much more interesting and potentially solid than I expected to," says linguist Claire Bowern of Yale University. "I look forward to seeing whether it leads to further results."
The controversy surrounding the manuscript began in 1912, when an antique book dealer purchased it near Rome, Italy. Its 240 pages are covered in scribbles and colourful drawings of plants, nude women and stars. Previous studies of the "language" used have looked for overall patterns that are characteristic of language. Bax opted for a letter-by-letter approach.
Juniper clue
He selected a few words, which appear to label drawings, judging by their position or prominence. He then compared the symbols in these words with the name of the pictured item in other languages. Bax likens this to techniques used in decoding Egyptian hieroglyphs that homed in on the names of pharaohs.
The first word he tackled was a label that appears near a drawing of a plant that might be juniper (below, right). The word looks a lot like "oror", as written in the Roman alphabet. Bax wondered if it might be linked to the Arabic name for juniper – which is pronounced "a'ra'r".
He then examined a label next to an illustration of a constellation of seven stars (pictured, above right). Some have suggested this drawing represents the Pleiades, seven stars in the Taurus constellation. The second and fourth letters of the label resemble the o-like symbol and r-like symbol from the juniper page – which would fit with the label spelling out a word sounding similar to "Taurus". Taking this to be true, Bax was able to assign sounds to the other three letters in this word.
(Image: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University)
Bax also turned to labels of drawings of what look like a coriander plant and a Centaurea plant, both of which start with the same symbol. Although these plants have many names in different indo-European languages, most start with a hard "c" sound, like the English "cake". So Bax suggested that this symbol might correspond to that sound in "Voynichese".
Altogether, this approach allowed him to decode 14 symbols, which he has posted online.
The attempt is interesting, if partial and provisional, says Marcelo Montemurro of the University of Manchester, UK, who recently used information theory to conclude that Voynich had the characteristics of a language. "A real breakthrough will occur when a significant portion of the manuscript is explained. The evidence is still very thin."
Oodles of text
Bowern agrees. Preliminary alphabets for Linear B – a Greek-like script found on the island of Crete, and the Mayan hieroglyphs – were only confirmed when other linguists were able to use them to decode independent bits of text, she says. The translations also had to make sense, with no exceptions.
What Bowern finds most promising is the sheer volume of text in the Voynich manuscript. "There's oodles of it," she says. That means there should be plenty of opportunity to test Bax's alphabet further. Previous attempts to decode ancient scripts have sometimes failed because there aren't enough examples of the language.
In June, Bax hopes to assemble a group of linguists to focus on his method and eventually arrive at a complete alphabet.
He is also exploring what it would mean if his alphabet is correct. Similarities with Latin, Greek and Arabic letters, and other linguistic and historical details, lead him to speculate that it originated in the Caucasus region of western Asia. He believes it might be the written form of an otherwise unwritten dialect. That would be in stark contrast to another recent analysis that used plant drawings in the manuscript to conclude that it may have been written in an extinct Mexican language.
Listen to Bax talk about his work.
Corrections: This story has been updated since it was first published on 22 February 2014 to reflect the correct spelling of Centaurea, the fact that the picture shown is of the plant that looks like juniper, not Centaurea, and to clarify the similarities between the words for Centaurea in different languages.
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Sophia, a Girl Scout Daisy from Polk City, and her mother, Mary, wanted to share with us how Girl Scouting makes her feel as her troop began working on their 5 Flowers, 4 Stories, 3 Cheers for Animals Journey.
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She nodded and walked to the bathroom mirror. I thought she was there to just look at how cute her outfit was. But then I hear her sing: 'I am a Girl Scout. And like a flower, I am different. I am unique. I am strong. I am smart. I am beautiful. I am a Girl Scout.'
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I'm with you on this. Don't understand what all the hype is. And all the other programs on TV about the rich and/or famous...just one question...WHY? Hell, we need our own program about all of us who are considered the "beaten" and "down-trodden". Maybe we can call it "What the "REAL" Real World is Like!" I've got an answer to all those programs tho....it's called a "remote control"...click!!! BWAHAHAHA
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Re: anyone else tired of the kardashians
but the fucked up part is that they're in every magazine when everyone hates them its like their brainwashing us to like them.that's why i only watch shows on the dvr so i wouldnt have to see them.
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An explosion at a tea shop on the outskirts of the Somali capital, Mogadishu, has killed at least 8 people, as many as six of them government soldiers.
The Somali defense ministry says Friday's blast was caused by an improvised explosive device.
Media reports say a senior military officer and several of his bodyguards were among those killed, though it is not clear if he was the target.
There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the blasts, but al-Shabab militants periodically carry out bomb attacks in Mogadishu.
Al-Shabab once controlled most of the Somali capital, but the group was driven out of Mogadishu and other major Somali cities by an African Union-led peacekeeping force.
The al-Qaida-linked group is still considered a threat. In September, al-Shabab claimed responsibility for an assault on a shopping mall in the Kenyan capital, Nairobi, that killed more than 60 people.
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How to Dress Up Your Jeans
Historically, jeans have been viewed as either rugged or casual wear, something that the working man normally wears for its strength and durability, or something that is worn when relaxing at home. Nowadays, jeans can be worn to fit a variety of occasions, ranging from a semi-formal event to a casual day with friends.
There are some simple yet highly effective ways to enjoy the comfort of your favorite pair of denim pants while still keeping it classy.
Type of jeans – It all starts with the type of jeans that you're wearing. Long gone are the days of jeans with intentional rips in the knees and thighs, or jeans that don't fit properly. Take care to buy more than one pair that not only fit in the width of the waist and the legs, but are also the right length. A good pair of jeans should fall right above your shoes when you're standing.
How you wear them – Your jeans should fit comfortably on your waist.You may opt for a slimmer fit, but you should be able to move freely. If your pants seem as if they are "painted on" and render you immobile, reconsider your sizing.
Feeling colorful? – Contemporary fashion trends are putting an end to blue's monopoly on jeans. While highlighter pink may not be your best choice, a conservatively colored pair of jeans can add style without sacrificing class.
Shirt – A polo or an oxford shirt tucked into your jeans will upgrade the formality of your outfit. Whether you opt for solid or patterned, choose a shirt color that complements the hue of your jeans. Leave the shirt's top button open for a slightly more relaxed, casual look.
Outerwear & Accessories – Adding a vest or a blazer will take your outfit to the next level. A white shirt and a black blazer paired with traditional blue jeans is a less-adventurous yet tasteful combination.
While not necessary, the addition of a vest and/or a tie is a clever way to dress up your jeans. As with the shirt and the blazer, be careful not to overdo it and make sure that your colors balance one another. Too many layers, patterns, and colors can appear busy.
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Test drivers say the 2014 Acura TSX Sport Wagon's nimble handling, long list of standard features and ample cargo space make it a sporty, yet practical, choice.
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Auto writers think the Sport Wagon has a handsome interior design and that its cabin is well-constructed from high-quality materials. Most critics write that the front seats are supportive, roomy and comfortable, but some think the rear seats could use a bit more legroom. The TSX Sport Wagon has a good amount of cargo space for the class. Test drivers say that the Acura TSX Sport Wagon's interior has a lot of buttons and knobs that can seem overwhelming at first, but are easy to figure out. They also write that the TSX wagon has highly legible gauges and an intuitive navigation system. The 2014 Acura TSX Sport Wagon comes standard with leather seats, heated and power-adjustable front seats, satellite radio, a seven-speaker stereo, Bluetooth and a USB port. An optional Technology package adds features that include a rearview camera, a 10-speaker Acura/ELS surround-sound audio system, navigation and a power rear liftgate.
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Critics say the Volkswagen Jetta SportWagen has capable handling and a high-quality interior. The TDI model, which features a turbocharged diesel engine, achieves excellent fuel economy, and test drivers say it delivers strong acceleration.
The all-new BMW 3-Series Sports Wagon costs more than the TSX Sport Wagon, but it comes standard with all-wheel drive. Critics say the 3-Series wagon offers spacious front and rear seats and impressive handling.
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The Weed Science Society of America and its sister scientific societies in the U.S. and Canada are preparing for annual meetings that will highlight the latest developments in the research and management of weeds and invasive plants.
First up is the 66th Annual Meeting of the Canadian Weed Science Society (CWSS), scheduled for November 12-15 at the Fairmont Hotel in Winnipeg, Manitoba. The theme of this year's event, "Evolution in Action: Changes in Weeds from Crop Domestication to Glyphosate Resistance," is reflected in a variety of plenary presentations:
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In addition to the plenary sessions, the meeting will include poster sessions, exhibits and a variety of presentations on weed biology, weed control and regulatory issues. Further information is available at http://www.weedscience.ca/annual-meeting.
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The Weed Science Society of America, a nonprofit scientific society, was founded in 1956 to encourage and promote the development of knowledge concerning weeds and their impact on the environment. The Weed Science Society of America promotes research, education and extension outreach activities related to weeds, provides science-based information to the public and policy makers, fosters awareness of weeds and their impact on managed and natural ecosystems, and promotes cooperation among weed science organizations across the nation and around the world. For more information, visit http://www.wssa.net.


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Un Tableau Vivant
13 of 31 portraits of Queen Adelaide (Princess Adelaide of Saxe-Meiningen)
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Un Tableau Vivant
by John ('HB') Doyle, printed by Alfred Ducôte, published by Thomas McLean
lithograph, published 1 March 1832
13 3/8 in. x 10 3/8 in. (340 mm x 262 mm) overall
acquired Unknown source, 1900
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- John ('HB') Doyle (1797-1868), 'HB'; caricaturist. Artist associated with 700 portraits, Sitter in 1 portrait.
- Alfred Ducôte (active 1830-1840), Lithographer and lithographic printer. Artist associated with 434 portraits.
- Thomas McLean (1788-1875), Publisher and dealer. Artist associated with 885 portraits.
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- George Hamilton Gordon, 4th Earl of Aberdeen (1784-1860), Prime Minister. Sitter associated with 47 portraits.
- Queen Adelaide (Princess Adelaide of Saxe-Meiningen) (1792-1849), Queen of William IV. Sitter associated with 31 portraits.
- John Wilson Croker (1780-1857), Essayist and politician, Secretary to the Admiralty and MP for several constituencies. Sitter in 18 portraits.
- Edward Law, 1st Earl of Ellenborough (1790-1871), Politician, President of the Board of Control and Governor-General of India. Sitter associated with 31 portraits.
- Frederick John Monson, 5th Baron Monson (1809-1841). Sitter in 2 portraits.
- Sir Robert Peel, 2nd Bt (1788-1850), Prime Minister. Sitter associated with 174 portraits.
- Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington (1769-1852), Field Marshal and Prime Minister. Sitter associated with 347 portraits.


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We're not sure what the black hair is all about since The Hunger Games: Catching Fire is reportedly still filming, and Katniss is a brunette, but maybe Jen plans to dye her hair back before she styles it back into Katniss's trademark braids.
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Rossi vs JL
Many an opinion to be considered here and doubtless time will have all the answers re Rossi in 2013.
As much as I would like to see Rossi take another title I believe it's going to be a hard ask for him next year.
All things considered these riders get up and walk away from most encounters with 'Terra Firma' but to get back into it with fervor after a broken leg,
with the Ducati
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would create doubt in anyones mind re their ability to deliver in the premier class.
Rossi has shown he can deliver when all the factors line up so here's hoping he still has some of the magic that disappeared on the Ducati.
These riders are for the greater part made of stuff the rest of us mere mortals were not endoured with so here's hoping for some podium finishes for Rossi.
If for no other reason he can be/is entertaining and since his absense from the podium most post race rider debriefs have been boring IMHO!
Pedrosa's new found fervor in the closing stages of this year made for some sadly lacking excitement so hopefully Rossi and the new suspects can add some variety to the podium.
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The Abduction of Antonio Villas Boas
A Closer Encounter
The first UFO abduction to be publicly revealed occurred in a remote area of Saõ Paolo, Brazil. On October 5, 1957, young farmer Antonio Villas Boas and his brother both observed a strange glowing object hovering over their farm. The next night, the UFO returned. This time, it hovered directly over their home, lighting up the inside like daylight. Then, on October 7, 1957, Antonio was plowing the fields very late, at around 1:00 a.m., when the UFO appeared again.
This time, the object hovered over the tractor, and then landed in the field. Antonio could then see that it was a "strange type of machine." It was large, egg-shaped, covered with colored lights and stood on three metal legs. Antonio tried to drive away, but suddenly his tractor engine died. Antonio then jumped out of the tractor and tried to run away. Suddenly, he was surrounded by several short figures dressed in tight-fitting gray jumpsuits and dark helmets. They quickly grabbed Antonio and pulled him aboard the craft.
Once inside the craft, Boas said that he was stripped of his clothes and covered from head-to-toe with a strange gel. He was then led into a large semicircular room, through a doorway that had strange red symbols written over it. (Boas claimed that he was able to memorize these symbols and later reproduced them for investigators.) In this room the beings took samples of Boas' blood from his chin. After this he was then taken to a third room and left alone for around half an hour. During this time, some kind of gas was pumped into the room, which made Boas become violently ill.
Shortly after this, Boas claimed that he was joined in the room by another humanoid. This one, however, was female, very attractive, and naked. She was the same height as the other beings he had encountered, with a small, pointed chin and large, blue catlike eyes. The hair on her head was long and white (somewhat like platinum blonde) but her underarm and pubic hair were bright red. Boas said he was strongly attracted to the woman, and the two had sexual intercourse. When it was all over, the female smiled at Boas. The female seemed relieved that their "task" was over, and Boas himself felt angered by the situation.
Boas said that he was then given back his clothing and taken on a tour of the ship by the humanoids. Afterwards, he was led out of the room and taken on a short tour of the craft. He was shown the engine room, which he was unable to understand. During this tour he said that he attempted to take a clock-like device as proof of his encounter, but was caught by the humanoids and prevented from doing so. He was then escorted off the ship and watched as it took off, glowing brightly. When Boas returned home, he discovered that four hours had passed.
In the aftermath, Antonio suffered a number of physical symptoms including insomnia, extreme thirst, loss of appetite, vomiting, eye irritation, and a strange rash. He also had a minor puncture wound where the E.T.s had taken a blood sample. The case was reported to a local doctor, who contacted UFO investigators. And so the world's first actual UFO abduction case came to light, but because it was so bizarre and totally unique, it was largely ignored by the public.
Boas was able to recall every detail of his purported experience without the need for hypnotic regression. Further, Boas' experience occurred in 1957, which was still several years before the famous Betty and Barney Hill abduction which made the concept of alien abduction famous and opened the door to many other reports of similar experiences.
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The Wellmont Health System board of directors recently added three new community and physician leaders as members. New board members are David Lester, chief financial officer of the Nicewonder Group; Frank Wood, CEO of Holston Companies, Holston Distributing Co., Warehouse Central, Truck Central, Records Storage and Management Central; and Dr. William Smith, a past president of the medical staff at Bristol Regional Medical Center.
Lester, who has worked for the Nicewonder Group since 1981, earned his bachelor's degree in business/accounting from Marshall University in Huntington, W.Va. He has been a member of the board of trustees of Emory & Henry College in Emory, Va., since 2003. Since 2005, he has been chair of the college's investment committee and a member of the executive committee. He is married to Peggy Lester.
Wood earned bachelor's degrees in business administration and industrial engineering from the University of Tennessee in Knoxville. Besides serving as CEO of five companies, he is a member of the board of directors of the Mountain Commerce Bank. He has previously worked in industrial engineering as a control analyst at the Tennessee Valley Authority.
Smith earned his bachelor's degree from Emory & Henry College and his medical degree from the West Virginia School of Medicine in Morgantown, W.Va. He completed his anesthesiology residency at West Virginia University Medical Center and his fellowship at the West Virginia School of Medicine and Western Pennsylvania Hospital in Pittsburgh. Smith is board-certified in anesthesiology and advanced perioperative transesophageal echocardiography. He is an assistant clinical professor in the department of surgery at the James H. Quillen College of Medicine at East Tennessee State University. He is married to Rebecca Smith.
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Do You Only Have a Brain? On Thomas Nagel
Thomas Nagel, a professor of philosophy and of law at New York University, has made his reputation over the last fifty years as a leading contributor to moral and political philosophy, with occasional forays into the philosophy of mind. Most famously, and most relevant to his new book, Mind and Cosmos, he wrote an influential paper in the 1970s with the memorable title "What Is It Like to Be a Bat?" Nagel tried to demonstrate the implausibility of the notion that, even if one knew all the relevant physical facts about the brains of bats, one could have any idea what it felt like to be a bat. How could the subjective feeling of this experience be captured by a set of cold, objective biological and chemical facts about neurons? Nagel's new book revisits some of these ideas and aims to "develop the rival alternative conceptions" to what he calls the "materialism and Darwinism" of our age.
Nagel's is the latest in what has become a small cottage industry involving a handful of prominent senior philosophers expressing skepticism about aspects of Darwin's theory of evolution by natural selection. Some, like the overtly Christian philosopher Alvin Plantinga, have made a career of dialectical ingenuity in support of the rationality of religious faith. Others, such as Jerry Fodor, are avowed atheists like Nagel, and have only tried to raise challenges to discrete aspects of evolutionary explanations for biological phenomena. Plantinga's influence has largely been limited to other religious believers, while Fodor's challenge was exposed rather quickly by philosophers as trading on confusions (even Nagel disowns it in a footnote). Nagel now enters the fray with a far-reaching broadside against Darwin and materialism worthy of the true-believing Plantinga (whom Nagel cites favorably). We suspect that philosophers—even philosophers sympathetic to some of Nagel's concerns—will be disappointed by the actual quality of the argument.
Nagel opposes two main components of the "materialist" view inspired by Darwin's theory of evolution by natural selection. The first is what we will call theoretical reductionism, the view that there is an order of priority among the sciences, with all theories ultimately derivable from physics and all phenomena ultimately explicable in physical terms. We believe, along with most philosophers, that Nagel is right to reject theoretical reductionism, because the sciences have not progressed in a way consistent with it. We have not witnessed the reduction of psychology to biology, biology to chemistry, and chemistry to physics, but rather the proliferation of fields like neuroscience and evolutionary biology that explain psychological and biological phenomena in terms unrecognizable by physics. As the philosopher of biology Philip Kitcher pointed out some thirty years ago, even classical genetics has not been fully reduced to molecular genetics, and that reduction would have been wholly within one field. We simply do not see any serious attempts to reduce all the "higher" sciences to the laws of physics.
Yet Nagel argues in his book as if this kind of reductive materialism really were driving the scientific community. The only named target is the Nobel Prize–winning physicist Steven Weinberg, famous for his defense of the primacy of physics in such popular works as Dreams of a Final Theory (1992). Here is what Nagel writes in describing Weinberg's view:
My target is a comprehensive, speculative world picture that is reached by extrapolation from some of the discoveries of biology, chemistry, and physics—a particular naturalistic Weltanschauung that postulates a hierarchical relation among the subjects of those sciences, and the completeness in principle of an explanation of everything in the universe through their unification. Such a world view is not a necessary condition of the practice of any of those sciences, and its acceptance or nonacceptance would have no effect on most scientific research.
Nagel here aligns himself, as best we can tell, with the majority view among both philosophers and practicing scientists. Just to take one obvious example, very little of the actual work in biology inspired by Darwin depends on reductive materialism of this sort; evolutionary explanations do not typically appeal to Newton's laws or general relativity. Given this general consensus (the rhetoric of some popular science writing by Weinberg and others aside), it is puzzling that Nagel thinks he needs to bother attacking theoretical reductionism.
The second component of the thesis Nagel opposes is what we will call naturalism, the view that features of our world—including "consciousness, intentionality, meaning, purpose, thought, and value"—can ultimately be accounted for in terms of the natural processes described by the various sciences (whether or not they are ever "reduced" to physics). Nagel's arguments here are aimed at a more substantial target, although he gives us few specifics about the kind of naturalism he opposes. He does characterize it as the attempt to explain everything "at the most basic level by the physical sciences, extended to include biology," and the one named proponent of this view is the philosopher Daniel Dennett. Although Dennett would not characterize his project as trying to explain everything at the "most basic level," he does aim to show that phenomena such as consciousness, purpose and thought find a natural home in a picture of human beings inspired by Darwin. In the absence of any clearer statement of the argument, we will assume that this is the so-called "neo-Darwinian" picture that Nagel opposes.
Naturalists, including Dennett, defend their view by appealing to the extraordinary fruitfulness of past scientific work, including work growing out of Darwin's theory of evolution by natural selection. So what should we make of the actual work in biology that supports the "materialist Neo-Darwinian conception of nature" that Nagel thinks "is almost certainly false"? Defending such a sweeping claim might seem to require a detailed engagement with the relevant science, yet in a striking admission early on, Nagel reveals that his book "is just the opinion of a layman who reads widely in the literature that explains contemporary science to the nonspecialist." And a recurring objection to what he learned from his layman's reading of popular science writing is that much science "flies in the face of common sense," that it is inconsistent with "evident facts about ourselves, that it "require[s] us to deny the obvious," and so on.
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