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Utility, Madison Central, Sr.
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Don't worry, Maksim Chmerkovskiy, you weren't the only one wondering if Dancing With the Stars judge Len Goodman might be be a little too old for this. Len is 68, and way back in 2005 — when DWTS first started — he was already considered a little long in the tooth to be judging a new dance show in the U.S.
Len, who recently got married, talked to The Mirror about how he's been lucky his whole life. "I was 60 years old, running a little dance school, semi-retired, and suddenly I get the call to go for an interview for Strictly Come Dancing," he said, referencing DWTS's U.K. counterpart. He was fortunate that he happened to judge Strictly alongside a fiery Italian guy named Bruno Tonioli. "I was lucky to get Dancing With the Stars," Len continued. "They actually wanted Bruno not me. They thought I was too old but they couldn't find anyone else. I was like a last-minute replacement."
Len said he always worries that the U.S. audience won't understand his British accent. "But soon as I say something nasty they boo quick enough so I'm sure they know what's going on." Ha! Lest we mock him too much for being the grumpy grandpa of the gang, age does have its benefits when it comes to TV fame. "Thank God all this came along later in life," Len said. "If it had all come when I was 25 I would have been staggering out of a club with a couple of dolly birds on my arm."
Not that he's hurting for female attention. In addition to his new wife, at least once a season a female pro or celeb kisses his bald spot or gives him a lap dance. It's not a bad semi-retirement, if you can get it!
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By Claire Walla
At its first meeting since the start of the new school year, Monday, September 12, the Sag Harbor School Board visited a topic that's spurred debate across the nation: state testing.
"As a school, what's important to us is, number one, looking at individual performance," said Sag Harbor Elementary School Principal Matt Malone.
He explained that the elementary school uses these tests to see where kids' individual strengths and weaknesses are. And for those kids who have scored either a one or a two — both being below the state standard — the school offers Academic Intervention Services (AIS), during which students receive an extra period of instruction in the subject they need help in.
"We look specifically at individual performance, but also — as administrators and teachers — we look for specific areas where we as a school can do better," Malone added.
This year, Malone said "the bar has been raised" in mathematics owing to the fact that the state realized last year's numbers had been inflated and took action to regulate scoring. Schools' scores across the state consequently dropped by about 25 points.
Going into this year, 73 percent of third graders, 79 percent of fourth graders and 87 percent of fifth graders have passed state math exams. In English Language Arts (ELA), 68 percent of third graders, 84 percent of fourth graders and 68 percent of fifth graders scored a three or a four on their exam.
At the middle school, Pierson Middle/High School Principal Jeff Nichols said the numbers don't vary too much from where they sit at the elementary school level. In mathematics, 79 percent of sixth graders, 69 percent of seventh graders and 63 percent of eighth graders passed their exams. As for ELA, 80 percent of sixth graders, 68 percent of seventh graders and 66 percent of eighth graders scored a three or a four.
Picking up where Malone left off, Nichols said that middle school students scoring ones and twos on state tests will receive academic intervention services (AIS) as they do in the elementary school. He went on to say that AIS classes are also offered at Pierson, and they get more specific the older the student gets.
"The state says that you have to provide AIS for the minimum requirements for graduation," he explained, which does not include higher-level math courses like Algebra II and Trigonometry, for instance. "But, we've decided to [offer those AIS courses] anyway here in Sag Harbor."
In the end, Nichols said he doesn't put too much weight on these test scores. He explained that the only statistical correlation between middle schoolers' state test scores and high school Regents Exams is that students who score ones are more likely to also fail Regents Exams. The same has not proven true for students who score twos, he added.
According to Nichols, the greatest benefit of state tests is not about statewide rankings, it's about assessing students within the school district from year to year.
For example, in terms of ESL scores, he continued, "I see a strong correlation between our ESL [English as a Second Language] population and some of our lower scores. I also see a strong correlation with Regents assessments as these students get older."
Nichols explained that this population of the student body has been shown to struggle more, on average, on state tests.
"If you think about it, that population is faced with learning a subject and a language at the same time. That's not easy."
In other news…
School superintendent Dr. John Gratto informed the Sag Harbor School Board that enrollment numbers are up in all areas. Total enrollment at the elementary school has increased by 54 students (25 of them coming from pre-K), putting class sizes "just a touch over 19" at all grade levels, said elementary school principal Matt Malone. "It's very manageable."
Pierson Middle/High School has seen a less sizeable jump of 12 students.
Dr. Gratto also pointed out a significant increase over last year in the way of tuition-paying students. Since the end of last year, the school district has added nine more out-of-district students
Athletic director Montgomery "Monty" Granger gave the school board an update on athletic programs. While high school boys and girls cross-country, soccer and field hockey teams have "adequate participation," there are a few teams — particularly at the middle school level — that may not have the numbers to compete this fall.
The girls JV tennis team at no time had more than six participants, Granger said, and the middle school girls cross country team only has four. Because cross-country requires a minimum of six players to complete, Granger said he's giving the team a couple more days to come up with an adequate number.
Similarly, the girls middle school soccer team currently only has six participants, Granger said, "So, unfortunately, my recommendation is going to be that we not continue with that team."
He went on to explain that, had it been prior to the start of the season, the girls would have been able to try out for the boys' team. However, according to Section XI regulations, the girls are no longer eligible.
"My suggestion is that we offer a middle school girls intramural team," Granger continued. "We can provide separate space for this potential intramural program."


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French Defense Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian said his government has made progress with Britain and Germany on terms for the proposed linkup. Speaking on the sideline of a summit of North Atlantic Treaty Organization defense ministers in Brussels, he said it remained unclear whether the progress achieved so far was sufficient to satisfy the two companies.


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China's Media Silent on Local School Tragedy
Filed Under: Opinion, Politics | Posted: 12/21/2012 at 4:42AM
Comments | Region: China
By Abby
On Dec 14, 2012, 20 children were killed [1] in a gun shooting in Connecticut, US. The sad news was immediately all over China's CCTV and made the headlines of major newspapers in China.
On the same day, another school tragedy took place in central China: a man stabbed and injured 22 children [2].
However, the news was soon censored. There was not a single mention of the domestic tragedy in Chinese mainstream media. The only source to find out the news was through Weibo [3], China's twitter.
CCTV and other major media's two different attitudes to the news coverage drew netizens' attention, which soon became the hottest topic on Weibo [3] [zh]. While expressing their sympathy for the children, netizens compared the different approaches to the incidents in the US and China, and questioned the unfair censorship and ignorance of human rights in China. Some netizens tried to report the news themselves by posting pictures of injured children on Weibo.
Below are some comments from famous bloggers and commentators on Weibo [zh]:
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大é¹çœ‹å¤©ä¸‹ [5]: If you don't report it, we'll do it ourselves! Following the incident in the US, Obama wept and the whole nation put their flags at half-mast. The incident also made CCTV headlines. On the contrary, when the Chinese children were injured, the local education bureau were playing games in the office. All major media were silent, a shameless silence. You can only see bits and pieces of the news through Weibo…here's a collection of photos of the injured children.
å°è´è¶ç¢Žç¢Žå¿µ [5]:Policies made to fool the people will work for how long? They often say that "People are Fundamental". This is ridiculous!
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韩志国 [6]:The massacre in the US was all over Chinese media, and made the headlines mostly; on the same day, the mainstream media turned a blind eye to the school incident in China, which is only available on Weibo. The mainstream media held two different attitudes, is it because the lives of Chinese children are worthless?
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慕容雪æ' [8]: A school tragedy happened at the same time in both countries. The relevant departments banned reporting about the scandal of our own country, so all the newspapers and television stations covered the U.S. tragedy in detail. They reviewed, summarized, analysed, and then yelled in unison: Look at the evil capitalism!
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æŽå®ªæ³•- [9]:Journalists say censorship is a standard government approach in dealing with disasters found at every level of government.
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浪å布回头 [10]: The American massacre made the headlines of CCTV news; however, on the same day, the news didn't mention the injured 22 students in China. Such disregard of ordinary lives should be criticized! They must apologize to us citizens!
Among the online rage towards Chinese government and media, there's one different voice. Hu Xijin, chief editor of the government mouthpiece newspaper Global Times tried to divert netizens' attention to the US by criticizing the American government [zh]:
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胡锡进 [11]:The American primary school massacre resulted in 28 deaths. Not only are such shootings appalling, but the attitude of U.S. government was equally surprising. Isn't it a human rights disaster? The U.S. school shooting incidents have caused a lot more deaths than [even] Chinese school bus accidents, but the U.S. government just stands by. I do not understand how American parents can tolerate this. Poor children.
Hu's comment failed to resonate, and resulted in a great deal of criticism instead. One netizen responded [zh]:
段郎说事: 美国政府是å¦ä½œä¸ºï¼Œç"±ç¾Žå›½äººæ°'去判æ–和处置,胡æ"什么心?还是多æ"心家门内的å©å安全å§ï¼
段郎说事 [11]: How the U.S. government deals with the issue will be judged by the American people. Why are you worrying so much? Perhaps you should worry more about the safety of the children here at home!
Article printed from Global Voices: http://globalvoicesonline.org
URL to article: http://globalvoicesonline.org/2012/12/17/chinas-media-mute-on-local-school-tragedy/


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ZIMBABWE international Thomas Sweswe has high hopes that his compatriot Denver Mukamba will make the move to South African Premiership soccer side Bidvest Wits after the midfielder reportedly charmed coach Antonio Habas Lopez when called for trials for the second time last week.
Mukamba, who has been one of the best players in the domestic league during the just-ended season, has been a long time target of the Johannesburg-based side, which is also home to Sweswe and former Warriors captain Tinashe Nengomasha.
Sweswe yesterday spoke highly of the lanky midfielder and said the technical department and most of the players in the Students' team were enthralled by his talent and personality.
Mukamba, who returned home on Friday, had another trial stint with the South African outfit in July.
Sweswe yesterday said Mukamba has been working hard on both occasions when he was called for the trials and should be on a better position to land a contract, although the final decision lies with the coaches.
According to Sweswe, Denver's magic has won the admiration of some senior players who are now hoping that the 20-year-old would make the move this time.
Sweswe said he and Nemgomasha were always trying to help him settle on and off the pitch and assisting him with tips and extra training.
"Chances are high. When he returned back all the guys were asking for Denver and how he was doing in Zimbabwe," said Sweswe.
"When he is here at Wits he doesn't appear like someone who is on trial because almost everyone now knows him and what he does.
"So all the guys are hoping and praying that Wits should sign this boy, especially the senior guys Aaron Mokoena, Mbulelo 'Old John' Mabizela and Stanton Fredericks. They all like him so they always push him to do well everyday.
"I'm happy for him that even the senior guys at the club are hoping and wishing that Denver signs because he is good and they see a bright future in him.
"It appears he has settled and it's a matter of time before he signs," said Sweswe.
The former DeMbare defender said Wits have good left side midfielders in Matthew Pattison and Mzikayise Mashaba, but Mukamba had an extra advantage because he can switch to play anywhere in the midfield.
Mukamba's manager Gibson Mahachi yesterday said they are now awaiting feedback from the South African side who have shown great interest in the player.
Wits are considering Mukamba as a serious option to the extent they initiated the second trial and even bought the air ticket for the player to attend the trials at the request of their coach, Lopez.
Mukamba was first invited for trials by their former coach Roger De Sa earlier this year, but a change of personnel in the technical team could have disturbed the deal.
Wits had problems accommodating Mukamba because of the foreign quota system with reports indicating they just have one slot for a player coming from beyond the South African borders.
"He did very well, just like the first time he went there. That is why they called him again, but he had to rush back here for the (Dynamos) awards.
"We are waiting for the feedback and might have a better picture probably by Tuesday. But as I see it the chances are there," said Mahachi.
Mukamba had a brilliant season in the Glamour Boys engineroom as he played a pivotal role in helping the Harare giants retain the league and cup double. His efforts were recognised last Friday when he was crowned the club's Player of the Year and walked away with a trophy and US$5 000 in cash prize.
The 20-year-old midfielder was thrilled by the award and pledged to continue working hard to improve his game next season.
"It feels great to win something when playing for a big club like Dynamos. It shows you are really improving. I am happy with that recognition.
"I had one big weakness last season in that I got a lot of yellow cards even when it appeared it was not necessary, but I told myself that I needed to be a changed a person.
"I'm glad I have managed to work on that, though I am not perfect yet. I hope next year I will have eliminated all my weaknesses and my wish is to continue working hard and improving as a professional footballer," said Mukamba.


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Disney's Beauty and the Beast, the smash hit Broadway musical, is coming to Rockford! Based on the Academy Award-winning animated feature film, this eye-popping spectacle has won the hearts of over 35 million people worldwide. This classic musical love story is filled with unforgettable characters, lavish sets and costumes, and dazzling production numbers including "Be Our Guest" and the beloved title song.
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Consent to hear me as I plead,
That I may, of your joys serene,
Compose a poem that will be
Worthy of serving thee.
I'll sing of all your happiness,
Entreating ever, nonetheless —
a sinner base —
That my great sins, which I confess,
You will not ponder on, but stress
Only my praise. [1]
Praise for women cannot make up for men's pervasively professed sins. Women's needs aren't being met. Happy wife, happy life. Men, like a woodpecker dazed after a hard day's work, can barely perceive where to fly. Men need to ask for directions. The medieval French social-scientific treatise, The 15 Joys of Marriage (Les Quinze joies de mariage), provides directions.[2] That work is even more important today than it was for medieval men.
The 15 Joys of Marriage begins with a topical review of the leading scholarly literature of its day. Scholars, who were overwhelmingly men, reasoned about liberty and happiness without explicit reference to central circumstances of most men's lives:
Many have toiled and strained, invoking both logic and authorities to show that a man can find greater earthly happiness by living untrammeled and free than by enslaving himself of his own will. They agree that only a doltish man living joyously and sensually in the freedom of youth would, of his own volition and initiative, and quite unnecessarily, seek out the entrance of a confining, sorrowful, and tearful prison, and force his way inside; for once he's there, the prison's iron doors are slammed shut behind him and secured with heavy crossbars, and he's so closely kept that by no means, whether by bribes or prayers, can he escape. Now this fellow seems all the more dim-witted to have imprisoned himself since he'd heard beforehand, from within the jailhouse walls, the crying and moaning of its inmates. [3]
This author then reviews the heroic French male warriors who refused to submit to the Roman Empire and summarizes Aristotelian wisdom ("every man must seek the golden mean"). The point of this erudition emerges only with a mundane, practical illustration figuring an unwise man as a beast:
we would consider quite ill-advised a man who sought purposefully to fall into a pit wide at the bottom and narrow at the top, like those dug in forests to capture wild animals, and from which escape is impossible. Now once he's down inside this pit, he casts about for a way to get out, but by then it's too late. So, too, with those about to marry ….
The imaginary scholar Valerius is a character in an important work in the literature of men's sexed protests.[4] The 15 Joys of Marriage cites him as having provided useful Socratic instruction:
a certain scholar, Valerius, once spoke to a married friend, inquiring whether he thought he'd made a wise decision. "Friend," he asked, "wasn't there any way out, even a high window from which you could've jumped headfirst into a deep river?"[5]
Like scholarly work seeking to pass peer review, The 15 Joys of Marriage carefully hedges, qualifies, and argues both sides. It declares that marriage provides "the greatest torments, afflictions, griefs, and misfortunes on earth." But The 15 Joys of Marriage is no more anti-marriage than most feminist work is anti-men:
I don't condemn them {men} for marrying; rather, I approve and consider that they're doing the right thing. After all, we're only born into this world to do penance, suffer affliction, and mortify the flesh so as to win Paradise, and it seems to me that a fellow could find no harsher penance than submission to the pains and torments described below. Yet there's another side to this: since they reckon these torments as joys and delights, and become as calloused to them as an ass to its burden, they seem perfectly content; thus one wonders whether in their case this form of penance has any real merit.
The prologue to The 15 Joys of Marriage ends with muddled, ineffectual argument and a sign of the direction forward:
Now I've consumed time, ink, and paper for the sake of others yet unmarried, and surely won't dissuade them from entering the net, nor is that my intention. Yet perhaps a few will come to regret their decision when it's too late, thus they'll have these joys forever, till the end of their miserable days.
Appreciation of this superb, subtle humor benefits from careful study of Solomon and Marcolf. The fifteen central chapters of The 15 Joys of Marriage all end with the phrase "till the end of his miserable days."[6] That medieval finding that should be remembered to the end of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
Meanwhile, men will continue to pursue their interests. The author of The 15 Joys of Marriage concludes with an appeal to women:
Now I've written this {The 15 Joys of Marriage} at the request of certain ladies; if they're unsatisfied and want me to apply myself to write in their behalf, in their favor, to the detriment of men, and from a feminine point of view, then I'm their man! Indeed, I'd have a lot better stuff than this considering the great wrongs, woes, and injustices that men heap on women everywhere and in general, both groundlessly and by superior force — after all, women are naturally weak and defenseless, inclining always to serve and obey. If this weren't so, men wouldn't know how to live, nor could they even survive. [7]
In other words, men are naturally even weaker and more defenseless than women, because without women, men wouldn't know how to live and couldn't survive.[8] Don't try to reason through this. Men, praise women and confess your sins, till the end of your miserable days.
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[1] Libro de buen amor, s. 33-4, from Old Spanish trans. Daly (1978) p. 33-4. From a lyric of the (seven) joys of St. Mary. Other related medieval works are The Fifteen Joys of Notre Dame and The Fifteen Signs of Judgment. Pitts (1985) p. viii.
[2] Pitts (1985) provide a close, modern English translation of The 15 Joys of Marriage (Les Quinze joies de mariage). It's thought to have been written about 1400. Here are the first two joys of marriage in an alternate, modern English translation. The first known English translation was printed by Wynkyn de Worde {sic} in 1509. It was an adaptation in verse and entitled The fyftene Joyes of maryage. Another English translation by Thomas Dekker, entitled The Batchelars Banquet, was printed twice in 1603 and again in 1604. It was reprinted a total of ten times before 1700, making it "one of the non-dramatic bestsellers of the Elizabethan period." Gildenhuys (1993) p. 13. Another translation, entitled The xv. Comforts of Rash and Inconsiderate Marriage (running title, The fifteen Comforts of Matrimony) was printed in 1682. Wilson (1929) provides a scholarly edition of The Batchelars Banquet, and Gildenhuys (1993), an edition with modernized spelling. The Batchelars Banquet adapts The 15 Joys of Marriage considerably; it is not a close translation.
[3] The 15 Joys of Marriage (Les Quinze joies de mariage), prologue, from Old French trans. Pitts (1985) p. 1. Subsequent quotes are from pp. 2, 3, 4-5 (Prologue) and 132-3 (Conclusion).
[4] Dissuasio Valerii ad Ruffinum philosophum ne uxorem ducat, attributed to Walter Map (c. 1180). This popular work was ostensibly a letter from Valerius to Rufinus, who "Vxorari tendebat, non amari" (he was headed to be wived, not to be loved). It apparently formed a chapter in a book that, in fourteenth-century England, "this jolly clerk Jankin … always laughed uproariously" when reading. See Chaucer, Canterbury Tales, The Prologue of the Wife of Bath's Tale.
[5] Valerius has been made to paraphrase Juvenal, Satire 6, ll.28-31:
What! Postumus, are you, you who once had your wits, taking to yourself a wife? Tell me what Tisiphone, what snakes are driving you mad? Can you submit to a she-tyrant when there is so much rope to be had, so many dizzy heights of windows standing open, and when the Aemilian bridge offers itself to hand?
That paraphrase isn't in the source text.
[6] In the Old French, "tousjours et finera miserablement ses jours."
[7] The Batchelars Banquet lacks the prologue and conclusion of Les Quinze joies de mariage.
[8] The conclusion of The 15 Joys of Marriage returns to the style and reasoning of its prologue. Missing the subtle humor of such reasoning, Nykrog (1984), pp. 427-8, declares of the prologue:
the author is obviously a well-meaning bore, scholarly and pedantic, definitely not very intelligent, heavy-handed as a writer. … By the time we reach his final philosophizing about whether the sufferings endured in marriage will ease the husband's access to Paradise, considering that the sufferers seem to like it, we have become convinced that this man cannot be very bright.
This analysis seems to apply much more appropriately to much recent scholarship, although a male scholar would not dare say so about a female scholar's work. See Smith (1995). In its introduction, Gildenhuys (1993) focuses on women. Wilson (1929) pp. xiv-xv declares:
We are forced in fairness to remember the ruling of Robert Burton, that if women are bad men are worse, and to reflect that there may be more material for a maid's banquet than for a bachelor's; and the reflection, if it does not detract from our amusement, lessens the stature of the author as we realize that his work is not level with life.
That's comical nonsense much like the carefully crafted, ridiculous prologue of The 15 Joys of Marriage. If you believe that The 15 Joys of Marriage is misogynistic, you must believe that modern scholarship is even more misandristic. Persons who disparage wildly creative literary work as being "not level with life" deserve bureaucratic jobs.
[image] Woodcut illustration preceding the first joy of marriage in The fyftene Joyes of maryage, printed in 1509.
Daly, Saralyn R., trans. and Anthony N. Zahareas, ed. 1978. Juan Ruiz. The book of true love {Libro de buen amor}. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press.
Gildenhuys, Faith. 1993. The Bachelor's banquet. Ottawa, Canada: Dovehouse Editions.
Nykrog, Per. 1984. "Playing Games with fiction: Les xv joyes de Mariage – Il Corbaccio — El Arcipreste de Talavera." Pp. 423-451 in Arrathoon, Leigh A, ed. The craft of fiction: essays in medieval poetics. Rochester: Solaris Press.
Pitts, Brent A., trans. 1985. The fifteen joys of marriage = Les XV joies de mariage. New York: P. Lang.
Smith, Susan L. 1995. The power of women: a topos in medieval art and literature. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press.
Wilson, F. P. 1929. The batchelars banquet: an Elizabethan translation of Les quinze joyes de mariage. Oxford: Clarendon Press.


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Traditional NSAIDs, such as indomethacin, reduce inflammation by blocking Cox 1 and Cox 2 enzymes. But Cox 1 protects the gut lining, so the drugs can cause ulcers. Adding copper ions to indomethacin prevents the drug interacting with Cox 1 in the gut, says Peter Lay of the University of Sydney, Australia. Animal tests show his team's latest formulation reduces stomach ulcers by 80 per cent with no intestinal ulceration at all, Lay told a meeting of the Royal Australian Chemical Institute in Sydney this week.
A company has already produced an early version of the copper-indomethacin drug for treating dogs, which are susceptible to ulcers. "It has been shown to be very safe and very effective," says Lay.
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As the crisis in the University of Abuja lingered, a source close to the Minister of Education said on Thursday that she was awaiting the White Paper on a report by a committee on the university.
"I assure you that the minister is not keeping silent; she is awaiting the White Paper on the report of the 37-man Presidential Committee she set up on the university.
"Anyone found culpable in this crisis would face the music," the top official told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Abuja .
The official said the report would form the nucleus on which any action could be taken.
"The minister feels bad about what is happening in the institution, but does not want to take any decision that could be considered rash."
According to the source, the minister had initially thought the issues could be addressed before they spiralled into their present state; "but it is obvious that the politics of that university is more than the institution itself'."
The official attributed the lingering crisis to lack of adequate information between management, staff and students.
"If they had managed information well within the university system, things could not have degenerated into their present state," the official noted.
The source, however, said the National Universities Commission (NUC), though shared part of the blame for the deterioration of the crisis, was trying at its own level to intervene.
The university was closed indefinitely on Wednesday following two days of protest by student over the non-accreditation of some courses and faculties in the institution.
The students began the protest on Monday following the inability of the university management to meet up with the six months period given to it to accredit some of its courses.
The courses are engineering, medicine and veterinary medicine.
In a circular on Tuesday, the Registrar, Malam Mohammed Moddibo, said the closure followed protests by students of the institution.
He directed the students to vacate their hostels before 4 p.m., adding that the move would ensure security of lives and property in the university. (NAN)


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> Hello, I need to process some images and count the number of pixes of a
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ppmhist - print a histogram of a portable pixmap
ppmhist [-hexcolor] [-noheader] [-map] [-nomap] [-sort={frequency,rgb}] [ppmfile]
Reads a PPM image as input. Generates a histogram of the
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That seems like what you asked for.
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Although the pain of a headache is the same whether you are in the US or in Jordan, the words used to describe it are certainly different. Recognizing the importance of providing the world's Arabic-speaking population with online medical information in their native tongue, Jalil Allabadi developed Altibbi, one of the largest, most interactive online medical health portals in Arabic. Given that there are over 300 million Arabic speakers in the world—nearly 5% of the global population—yet less than 1% of online content is in the language, Jalil believes there is great potential for Altibbi to become a key resource to health-conscious consumers in the Arab world. With over 100 informative videos and 200 independent doctors available to answer user questions, Altibbi currently has over 100,000 registered users and attracts 3 million page views a month. As Altibbi further develops the site's social networking features and expands to target diaspora populations and those seeking treatment in Europe and the US, the company's influence—and revenues—will continue to grow.
As the son of a Jordanian doctor, Jalil was interested in healthcare from an early age. After receiving a bachelor's of science in Industrial Engineering from the University of Bologna in 2006, Jalil decided to pursue a career in pharmaceuticals. He joined Hikma Pharmaceuticals—a Jordan-founded, London Stock Exchange-listed multinational pharmaceutical company— as a production engineer and later became a Packaging and Warehouse Manager. With the goal of kick starting a career in pharmaceuticals business development, Jalil moved to the US in 2007 to pursue an MBA from the Thunderbird School of Global Management. While at school, Jalil used a class project to put together a business model to help his father sell the "Arabic Medical Dictionary": the first Arabic-Arabic and Arabic-English medical dictionary in the world, written by his dad over the course of 15 years and published in 2005. As Jalil and three classmates worked on a plan to improve hard copy sales, they realized there was potential for the book to be used online.
Encouraged by his professor and classmates, Jalil returned to Jordan after graduation to place his father's content online on what would become Altibbi.com. With his father's permission and modest funding from family and friends, Jalil began converting the terms in his father's medical dictionary to an online format and worked with freelancers to create content for the site. Jalil soon realized that there was a significant knowledge gap between medical experts and the average Arabic-speaker and there was potential for something greater than a basic medical dictionary—there was demand for a more comprehensive online medical and health-related portal. Jalil processed requests from doctors (who asked Altibbi if it would publish their articles on the site) and users (who asked the company if it had a medical directory listing doctors and medical entities located near them or specializing in certain treatments), and worked to create invaluable tools and new features to address these demands.
Today, Altibbi's website provides users with easy and free access to information from health professionals in a convenient, user-friendly, confidential, and timely manner. The site hosts an Arabic-English medical dictionary, a medical directory listing approved medical entities in the MENA region and abroad, a symptom checker in Arabic, hundreds of health-related videos and articles, and an innovative doctor-patient social networking platform that allows users to have their health questions answered online by approved doctors. The social functions on the site allow users to "follow" doctors' activities and view recent answers and responses in a news feed upon sign-in, click a "thank" button to thank doctors, comment on or report doctors' answers, or contact them directly for follow-up. In order to monetize the site, Altibbi offers a premium membership subscription service, online advertising opportunities for medical professionals, medical entities, and healthcare companies, and content licensing opportunities for international medical portals.
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Backpack Program: The Triple M Backpack Program provides backpacks of food to area schools. Children who might otherwise go hungry take the backpacks home to have nutritious meals over the weekend. Student volunteers with a truck are needed to pick up backpacks of food and deliver them to two local elementary schools every Thursday afternoon around 1:00 beginning in early October. To learn more, contact Ned Calvert at 903-923-2120 or firstname.lastname@example.com.
Boys and Girls Club of the Big Pines: Volunteers are needed to work with teens in grades 7 through 12 Monday through Fridays afternoon any time between 3 and 7 PM. Volunteers might help with homework, referee games, teach computer skills, or help with craft projects. The Boys and Girls Club is located on US 59 between Pizza Hut and Marshall High School. Contacts are Brian Partee and Shelly Graff. Call 903-935-2030 or email email@example.com to learn more.
Brother's Keeper: Male volunteers are needed to work with men in this faith-based program designed to help former offenders re-enter society as productive citizens. Volunteers can develop relationships with these men and help lead them in Bible studies. To learn more, contact Susan McKay at 903-935-5289 or email@example.com.
Buckner Children and Family Services: Buckner offers a wide variety of services to children, families, and elders. Their ministries include foster care, a community transformation center, job readiness training, parenting education, and a crisis relief center. Volunteers are needed to serve in many of these areas. To learn more, contact Jane Ann Crowson, Director of the Community Transformation Center. You can reach Jane Ann at 903-757-9383 or email@example.com. Buckner's offices are in Longview at 110 E. Cotton Street (take US 80 all the way into downtown; take a left on High St.; drive several blocks and turn left on E. Cotton). To learn about more volunteer opportunities with Buckner, please visit www.buckner.org and go to "Engage."
Celebrate Recovery: This Christ-centered recovery program meets at area churches and helps people recover from a variety of addictions and bad habits. Celebrate Recovery takes place at Second Baptist Church in Marshall (on the way to Walmart). Volunteers are needed to help clean during the day on Friday before Celebrate Recovery. Volunteers are also needed to lead worship for Celebrate Recovery on Friday nights at 7 PM. To volunteer, contact Robert Onofre at 903-930-3645.
Clothes Closet: The clothes closet is located adjacent to the Soda Lake Baptist Association building on US 80 at 2109 Victory Drive (across from Whataburger and Bodacious). ETBU student Chuck Davenport coordinates a student shift at the clothes closet every Monday and Wednesday from 4 to 6 PM. The clothes closet also operates during the day on Mondays and Thursdays. To volunteer, contact Chuck Davenport at 817-705-9311 or Harold Long at 903-930-7943.
Community Renewal International: This organization works to rebuild communities in inner-city Shreveport. Volunteers are needed for a variety of opportunities, including special events, working with children and teenagers, and skills training. To learn more, visit www.communityrenewal.us or contact Lynn Bryan at firstname.lastname@example.com. Community Renewal International is located at 838 Margaret Place in Shreveport.
East Texas Open Door: East Texas Open Door includes an emergency youth shelter for children ages 7 to 17 and a residential treatment center for girls ages 8 to 18. This is a good place of service for students who want to work with Child Protective Services or some form of ministry to young women. Several hours of training and orientation are required, so this opportunity is best for students who are able to commit higher hours of community service. Several of our students have gone from internships to employment with them. East Texas Open Door is located on US 80 near ETBU's campus. As you leave ETBU and reach the corner of Grove and 80, look to the left across the street. The phone number is 903-935-2099; please ask to speak with Exa. You can also visit www.hpet.org.
Faith Medical Clinic: This clinic is located at the northwest corner of Washington and Pinecrest (2109 S. Washington) in the Mission Marshall building. This free clinic targets those persons whose income is not enough to purchase medical insurance, but too much to receive government help. The clinic takes place the first and third Wednesdays of each month from 6:30 to 8:30 PM. Volunteers are needed to pray with patients and assist doctors and dentists at the clinic. To volunteer, call the clinic at 903-407-1008 or 903-935-9391.
Food Pantry: The United Churches of Marshall Food Pantry is located at the northwest corner of Washington and Pinecrest (2109 S. Washington) in the Mission Marshall building. The food pantry is open Monday and Thursday from 5 to 7 PM; Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday from 10 AM to 2 PM; and on the first Saturday of each month from 9 AM to noon. To volunteer to assist clients as they shop, please contact the volunteer coordinator, Anne Morton, at 903-938-3617. The food pantry also receives food deliveries on Monday and Friday at various times. To volunteer with food deliveries, please contact the food manager, Alisa Roberts, at 903-421-2241 or email@example.com.
Good Shepherd Medical Center of Marshall: This opportunity is ideal for students with some interest in serving in the medical community. Students can serve in clerical work, medical assistance, and other areas. A background check, tuberculosis test, and an orientation time are required, making this opportunity best for students willing to commit a high number of service learning hours. Good Shepherd Medical Center is located at 811 S. Washington in Marshall. For more information, contact Karen Self at 903-927-6741 or email@example.com.
Habitat for Humanity of Longview: Longview Habitat for Humanity is a Christian housing ministry financed through private donations and utilizing volunteer labor. They help families in need of decent housing, who could not otherwise afford a home, to build and buy a home of their own. Longview Habitat has a very active list of sbuilding projects and volunteer opportunities available at www.longviewhabitat.org or www.facebook.com/longviewhabitat. Their office is located at firstname.lastname@example.com or 903-236-0900, ext. 205.
Habitat for Humanity of the Marshall Area: This organization provides affordable housing for the disadvantaged through constructing homes in the Marshall area. When they are in a building phase, volunteers are needed on Saturday mornings from about 8 to 12. In late 2013 Habitat will begin a women's build, with female volunteers needed every Saturday. To volunteer, contact Bruce Simon at firstname.lastname@example.com or 903-503-7733. For regular updates, you can also friend Habitat Marshall on Facebook.
Heart'sWay Hospice of Northeast Texas: Hospice is a ministry that assists those at the end of life to have dignity and respect in their final days. It can be a very rewarding ministry. Students are needed to help with office work, visit patients, and carry out a variety of tasks. The location of the Marshall office is 205 E. Austin St. Take Hwy 80 towards 59; turn right on Lafayette to E. Austin; and turn right on E. Austin. Heart'sWay Hospice is on the right. For more information, contact Kim Jenkins at email@example.com or 903-295-1680.
Hiway 80 Rescue Mission:This Christian organization provides shelter, meals and assistance for the homeless and those in need in the Longview area. Their services include a Men's Shelter, a Women's and Children's Shelter, tutoring, a computer learning center, clothing rooms, and more. Volunteers are needed to assist with a variety of tasks throughout the year. The mission is located at 3117 W. Marshall St. (Highway 80) in Longview, just inside the loop. Their website is www.hiway80mission.org. To volunteer, call Gary Crim or Kate Langston at 903-759-8101.
Kids Club: This after-school program is hosted in several local apartment complexes on different afternoons throughout the week. Kids clubs provide children with an opportunity to hear about the love of Christ, learn a Bible story, and experience a loving presence during games, activities, and stories. Volunteers meet outside the Spiritual Development offices each Monday through Thursday at 3:45 and return to campus around 5 PM. To learn more, contact any of the three student leaders: Jordan Hendricks (email@example.com, 808-291-4644, or www.facebook.com/bgluvscherries), Miranda Smith (firstname.lastname@example.com, 903-721-0020, or on Facebook), or Chloe Jedlick (email@example.com, 909-229-2775).
Lee Elementary School Mentoring Program: ETBU students, faculty, and staff are needed to work with kindergarten through fourth grade students at Lee Elementary School. Volunteers must be committed to meeting with a Lee student weekly for encouragement, tutoring, and mentoring. Volunteers can participate any time from 8 AM to 3 PM on weekdays. To learn more, contact the Director of the Great Commission Center at 903-923-2175 or email@example.com.
Lee Elementary School After-School Program: Volunteers are needed to help with the ACE after-school program at Lee Elementary School. ACE needs general volunteers as well as students skilled in tutoring or enrichment activities such as arts, crafts, dancing, or athletics. You can work as few or as many hours as you can between 3 to 6 PM Monday through Friday. To learn more, contact the Director of the Great Commission Center at 903-923-2175 or firstname.lastname@example.com.
Love Cemetery: This historic African-American cemetery is the subject of the book Love Cemetery: Unburying the Secret History of Slaves, and will be featured in an upcoming documentary by China Galland. Volunteers are needed all day on Saturday, September 28, to help members of the cemetery association clean and pull weeds in the cemetery. To learn more, contact the Director of the Great Commission Center at 903-923-2175 or firstname.lastname@example.com.
Marshall Home Care and Hospice: This organization encompasses four different nursing and assisted care facilities in the Marshall area. Volunteers are needed to read to clients, watch movies with them, call Bingo, paint nails, share Bible passages, lead worship services, shadow employees, and serve as hospice chaplains. To learn more, contact Aveena Patel at 903-923-8154. The Marshall Home Care and Hospice office is located at 111 E. Burleson St., with nursing facilities located in various areas around Marshall. You can also visit their website at www.mhchtexas.com.
Marshall Pregnancy Resource Center: This counseling ministry (also known as Living Alternatives) provides alternatives to abortion for those dealing with an unexpected pregnancy. Office hours are typically Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday from 1 to 5 PM. Students can serve as receptionists, work on the ministry's website, and perform other duties. Some training is involved before volunteers can engage clients. Please contact Michelle Spencer at 903-938-8378 for more information. You may need to leave a message if she is with a client, but she will return your call.
Martha's Kitchen: This ministry serves a free, hot meal every Thursday night from 6 to 7 PM. Student volunteers are needed to visit and pray with guests (especially teenage boys). In cold weather, volunteers are needed before 6 PM to spend time with children who have arrived early. Martha's Kitchen is located in the parish hall of Trinity Episcopal Church at 106 North Grove Street. For more information, contact Bonnie Strauss at 903-926-5939 or email@example.com.
Meals on Wheels: Can you give one hour a month to serve your community? Meals on Wheels uses volunteers to deliver lunch to seniors in the Marshall area every weekday. A delivery route takes around one hour and can be completed between 9:30 AM and noon. Most volunteers sign up for one route per month. Volunteers must be willing to use their vehicle for the route. Meals and route instructions are available at 106 East Crockett Street. To volunteer, call 903-935-6115.
Mission Carthage: This ministry is a citywide effort in Carthage (25 miles south of Marshall) to meet the needs of the poor and underprivileged. Volunteers are most needed on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday from 9 to 11:30 AM or 1 to 3:30 PM to help load and stock food boxes. Needs are greatest in the first 2 to 3 weeks of the month. The main address is 940 E. Sabine in Carthage. From Marshall, travel south on 59 until you get to Carthage. Turn left on the loop (436). Go around the loop and exit on US 79 (E. Sabine). Take a left and travel until you see 940 E. Sabine, the first driveway on the right. To learn more, contact volunteer coordinator Ann Green at 903-693-4402 or visit www.missioncarthage.com.
Mission Marshall: This mission center currently houses the local Food Pantry, Faith Medical Clinic, and Habitat for Humanity offices. (Each ministry has a separate entry on this list.) Mission Marshall needs volunteers to assist with client intake for the food pantry on Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday from 10 AM to 2 PM, on Mondays and Thursdays from 5 to 7 PM, and on the first Saturday of each month from 9 AM to noon. Additional volunteers are needed on the first and third Friday mornings of each month to help distribute free produce to families in need. To volunteer, please contact Director Misty Scott at firstname.lastname@example.com or 903-472-4944. Mission Marshall is located at the northwest corner of Washington and Pinecrest (2109 S. Washington).
My Friend's House: This local effort to befriend the homeless and needy is directed by Drs. David and Carolyn Snow. She is a former longtime ETBU professor. My Friend's House includes a store and a shelter to assist those in need. Volunteer opportunities include light construction, helping re-assemble the store, repairing and assembling computers, and interacting with residents. For more information, call 903-938-1918 or email email@example.com.
Shreveport/Bossier Rescue Mission: This mission includes a homeless shelter, a warehouse, and other ministries. There are numerous opportunities seven days a week, including serving meals and helping with a children's time in the evenings. A brief orientation is required before you begin serving; orientation dates are listed on the website. The address is 901 McNeil St., Shreveport. Take I-20 to Shreveport; exit on Line Ave., turn left; the road becomes Common St. Turn right on Cotton St.; travel two blocks; and turn right on McNeil. For more information, contact Community Relations Manager Anna Adams at 318-227-2868 ext. 104 or firstname.lastname@example.com. You can also visit www.sbrescuemission.com , www.facebook.com/SBRescueMission, and http://twitter.com/homelessrescue.


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The God Instinct: The Psychology of Souls, Destiny and the Meaning of Life (edition 2010)
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The Belief Instinct: The Psychology of Souls, Destiny, and the Meaning of Life by Jesse Bering
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I found this book very interesting, though it was a little repetitive. I didn't disagree with much, and I did enjoy learning about the theory of mind. It was well-written, with a nice balance of the personal- not too much, not too little.
The author, Jesse Bering has come up with what could be an important concept on evolution. His ideas involve a psychological evolution of humans that occurred parallel with physical evolution. Specifically, he is convinced that a belief in the supernatural by early humans has had a hugely beneficial affect on humans, so much so that those early humans accepting the idea, predominated over those who did not, eventually coding the belief into our current genetic makeup. He believes we are predisposed to believe in a supernatural being and the predisposition is a result of genetic imprinting formed during prehistoric times.
He has talked on this idea previously and I heard one of his talks on NPR Radio given on August 30th 2010. His idea seemed convincing and when he published a book on his idea, I purchased it to better follow the thought.
I found the book worth reading but less effective than the radio discussion. The writing style is fine but the structure is not optimal. There is no clear statement of the idea anywhere in the first 30 pages of the book, either the acknowledgements, preface, or 1st chapter. This leaves the reader with little interest in continuing through the dialog of seemingly slightly related happenings and previous findings for the next hundred pages.
Finally, at the chapter beginning on page 165 Bering begins to lay out his idea. From then on, the reader follows Bering's thinking pretty well.
There are psychological tests run mostly on children that Bering covers in the first 165 pages that bear out the scientific basis of his convictions, establishing the idea as science rather than whimsy.
I went back to my copy of Darwin's "On the Origin of Species" to compare Darwin's presentation of physical evolution to Bering's presentation of psychological evolution. I found that Darwin used a writing style that was clearer. Darwin used what later developed into the style used by all hard science researchers, an organizational style that begins with an abstract, a statement of the idea, a discussion of methods, a discussion of the findings, a conclusion, and a summary.
Bering does not follow this style in the book and I found no reference of a companion scientific style publication by him on this idea. The scientific style would possibly work better on this idea, but be less available to the general public if published in authoritative peer-reviewed scientific publication.
Bering does describe in the book many scientific psychological studies that do back up the fundamentals of his idea and so I think his idea is scientifically well founded and deserves serous consideration.
His idea neither encourages nor discourages an individual to believe in the supernatural but simply discusses how the predisposition to its belief evolved. For this reason, his idea should not be the hot button issue that physical evolution is.
For those who want to delve into how the mind works, and why it functions the way it does, I recommend this book. For those who would like a more concise version of Bering's idea, the archives of his discussion on National Public Radio "All Things Considered" dated August 30th 2010 are helpful.
This was a surprisingly slow read for a book that I picked up very eagerly. I was first introduced to the connection between religion and current cognitive science in a course on ancient near eastern religion, and I was intrigued. The idea is that the human brain is inclined to believe in some sort of divine agent because that sort of belief was beneficial from an evolutionary perspective. For example, when an event occurs, it's useful to think that that event was caused by an active agent rather than happening by chance; the cost of attributing something to an agent when it was really just a coincidence isn't very high, whereas attributing something to chance when it was actually the work of a deliberate agent could have very negative consequences. To take a very simple example, if some leaves move in the wind, that could be a sign of a predator; ignoring that sort of sign because we took it as meaningless might result in death. On the other hand, if we assumed that someone had moved the leaves and it turned out to be nothing, no harm would be done. So assuming agency behind events is a positive, and we evolved accordingly. This, of course, ties in to whether we perceive God's agency behind various events today. Doing so is in some sense natural.
The issue of God is further elaborated by the idea of "theory of mind". Not only do we assume that some active agent is behind things, but we can actually imagine what that agent might be thinking. This ability is apparently more or less unique to humans, and developed as a way to help us live together in society. Because we can imagine what others are thinking about us, and can therefore imagine the negative response to certain behaviours, we have to show some restraint rather than giving in to all of our urges. Incidentally, we come to imagine the mind of God as well.
I personally find these ideas very interesting, so I wanted to find out more after reading a bit about them for class. Within the week, I happened to come across this popularizing account, so I immediately bought it thinking that it would be an enjoyable read that simultaneously helped me understand the issues better.
The Belief Instinct did turn out to be full of interesting facts and did aid my understanding to a certain extent, but I found that the overall presentation was a bit lacking. There are lots and lots of descriptions of experiments, which were fun to read but sometimes made the book feel a bit disjointed. Worse, I didn't like the "popular" writing style at all. Rather than clarifying the issues, I felt that it sometimes obscured them, and it wasn't consistent. The switches between often fairly low-brow humour and somewhat more technical explanations were a bit jarring; at one point the author made a joke about using a big, scary word (teleo-functional), while at other points using unfamiliar psychological terms freely.
In the end, it took me about six weeks to finish this book because it just wasn't as gripping as I had expected. I do feel like I had learned a lot by the end (though my explanations of the theories should be taken with a big grain of salt), but I had expected so much more. I would cautiously recommend this book to those interested in the topic.
The most one can say about The Belief Instinct is that it makes an uncommonly compelling case for the self-loathing of humanity.
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text: 've decided to go a different route since the car has a stock shortblock and hyper internals. So in an effort to avoid a ticking time bomb, I'm going to build a shortblock first. Kenne Bell 2.2. Flowzilla inlet. Gt40/Cobra style plenum. It's been modified for an FMIC. Comes with the FMIC, Vortech Mondo BOV, all the tubing, a couple of belts, extra oil and a bunch of pulleys and puller. The car has a pretty nasty electrical problem, so it hasn't had any use out of it since I put it on. I just had the head unit shipped to Kenne Bell and they said that it looked great. One of the pipes has been tapped for Meth Inj. Kit is still on the car right now right now. $2500 obo Snow Performance Stage 2 kit with Vari-cool pump controller. 220psi pump, 1/2 gal reservoir modified with a low-level indicator, a bunch of extra 1/4" hose. This is a bad ass kit. I'm just not going with a boosted route anymore. $300 obo C&L 73mm mass air. It doesn't have a meter for it. I bought this a long time ago for a foxbody that I've since sold. I've been using it at a pencil holder since. $70 obo NOS big shot plate. Just the plate, no solenoids. GT40/Cobra style. $100 obo 2 1/16" White face Autometer boost gauge. Brand new, installed just in time to change my mind. $40 obo -Dan