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As the Inca Empire expanded it was only able to integrate the northern part of Chile. Incan attempts to colonize Central Chile were unsuccessful, having met fierce resistance by Mapuche warriors in the Battle of the Maule. The Maule River subsequently became the boundary between the Incan empire and the Mapuche lands.
The first European to sight Chilean territory was Ferdinand Magellan, who crossed the Strait of Magellan on November 1, 1520. However, the title of discoverer of Chile is usually assigned to Diego de Almagro. De Almagro was Francisco Pizarro's partner, and he received command of the southern part of the Inca Empire (Nueva Toledo). He organized an expedition that brought him to central Chile in 1537, but he found little of value to compare with the gold and silver of the Incas in Peru. Left with the impression that the inhabitants of the area were poor, he returned to Peru, later to die in a Civil War.
After this initial excursion there was little interest from colonial authorities in further exploring modern-day Chile. However, Pedro de Valdivia, captain of the army, realizing the potential for expanding the Spanish empire southward, asked Pizarro's permission to invade and conquer the southern lands. With a couple of hundred men, he subdued the local inhabitants and founded the city of Santiago de Nueva Extremadura, now Santiago de Chile, on February 12, 1541.
Although Valdivia found little gold in Chile he could see the agricultural richness of the land. He continued his explorations of the region west of the Andes and founded over a dozen towns and established the first encomiendas. The greatest resistance to Spanish rule came from the Mapuche culture, who opposed European conquest and colonization until 1880s; this resistance is traditionally labeled as the Arauco War.
Valdivia died at the Battle of Tucapel, defeated by Lautaro, a young Mapuche toqui (war chief), but the European conquest was well underway. The Spaniards never subjugated the Mapuche territories; various attempts at conquest, both by military and peaceful means, failed. The Great Uprising of 1598 swept all Spanish presence south of the Bío-Bío River except Chiloé (and Valdivia which was decades later reestablished as a fort), and the great river became the frontier line between Mapuche lands and the Spanish realm. North of that line cities grew up slowly, and Chilean lands eventually became an important source of food for the Viceroyalty of Peru.
Chile was the least wealthy realm of the Spanish Crown for most of its colonial history. Only in the 18th century did a steady economic and demographic growth begin, an effect of the reforms by Spain's Bourbon dynasty and a more stable situation along the frontier.
The drive for independence from Spain was precipitated by usurpation of the Spanish throne by Napoleon's brother Joseph Bonaparte; and can be divided into 3 stages. A national junta was established in the name of Ferdinand VII— the deposed king — on September 18, 1810. This period is known as the "Patria Vieja" (old republic). The second was characterized by the Spanish attempts to reimpose arbitrary rule during the period known in Chile as the Reconquista ("Reconquest": the term echoes the Reconquista in which the Christian kingdoms retook Iberia from the Muslims) which in turn led to a prolonged struggle under José de San Martín and Bernardo O'Higgins, Chile's most renowned patriot and a member of South America's Irish diaspora. Other revolutionary leaders included the guerrilla leader Manuel Rodríguez and the exiled British admiral Thomas Cochrane, who commanded the Chilean Navy from 1817-1822.
Chilean independence was formally proclaimed on February 12, 1818, and the last of its territory, Chiloé, was wrested from Spanish rule by 1826.
The political revolt brought little social change however and nineteenth century Chilean society preserved the essence of the stratified colonial social structure, family politics, and the influence of the Roman Catholic Church. The system of presidential power eventually predominated, but wealthy landowners continued to control Chile.
Toward the end of the nineteenth century, the government in Santiago consolidated its position in the south by persistently suppressing the Mapuche during the Occupation of the Araucanía. In 1881, it signed a treaty with Argentina confirming Chilean sovereignty over the Strait of Magellan, but conceding all of oriental Patagonia, and a considerable fraction of the territory it had during colonial times. As a result of the War of the Pacific with Peru and Bolivia (1879-1883), Chile expanded its territory northward by almost one-third and acquired valuable nitrate deposits, the exploitation of which led to an era of national affluence.
In the 1870s, the church influence started to diminish slightly with the passing of several laws that took some old roles of the church into the State's hands such as the registry of births and marriages.
In 1886, José Manuel Balmaceda was elected president. His economic policies visibly changed the existing liberal policies. He began to violate the constitution and slowly began to establish a dictatorship. Congress decided to depose Balmaceda, who refused to step down. Jorge Montt, among others, directed an armed conflict against Balmaceda, which soon extended into the Chilean Civil War of 1891. Defeated, Balmaceda fled to Argentina's embassy, where he committed suicide. Jorge Montt became the new president.
The longest lasting of the ten governments between those years was that of Gen. Carlos Ibáñez, who briefly held power in 1925 and then again between 1927 and 1931 in what was a de facto dictatorship. When constitutional rule was restored in 1932, a strong middle-class party, the Radicals, emerged. It became the key force in coalition governments for the next 20 years.
The Seguro Obrero Massacre took place on September 5, 1938, in the midst of a heated three-way election campaign between the ultraconservative Gustavo Ross Santa María, the radical Popular Front's Pedro Aguirre Cerda, and the newly-formed Popular Alliance candidate, Carlos Ibáñez del Campo. The National Socialist Movement of Chile supported Ibáñez's candidacy, which had been announced on September 4. In order to preempt Ross's victory, the National Socialists mounted a coup d'etat that was intended to take down the rightwing government of Arturo Alessandri Palma and place Ibáñez in power.
During the period of Radical Party dominance (1932-52), the state increased its role in the economy. In 1952, voters returned Ibáñez to office for another 6 years. Jorge Alessandri succeeded Ibáñez in 1958.
The 1964 presidential election of Christian Democrat Eduardo Frei Montalva by an absolute majority initiated a period of major reform. Under the slogan "Revolution in Liberty", the Frei administration embarked on far-reaching social and economic programs, particularly in education, housing, and agrarian reform, including rural unionization of agricultural workers. By 1967, however, Frei encountered increasing opposition from leftists, who charged that his reforms were inadequate, and from conservatives, who found them excessive.
Allende received a plurality of the votes cast, getting 36% of the vote against Alessandri's 34% and Tomic's 27%. This was not the first time the leading candidate received less than half of the popular vote. Such had been the case in every post-war election, save that of 1964 — Alessandri himself was elected president in 1958 with 31%. In the absence of an absolute majority, the Chilean constitution required the president-elect to be confirmed by the Chilean parliament. This procedure had previously been a near-formality, yet became quite fraught in 1970. After assurances of legality on Allende's part, and in spite of pressure from the U.S. government, Tomic's Christian Democrats voted together with Allende's supporters to confirm him as president. Allende received 153 votes to Alessandri's 35. Following his election, indigenous and peasant forces across the country violently took control of ranches, forcibly fulfilling Allende's land redistribution promises.
Immediately after the election, the United States expressed its disapproval and raised a number of economic sanctions against Chile. In addition, the CIA's website reports that the agency aided three different Chilean opposition groups during that time period and "sought to instigate a coup to prevent Allende from taking office(.)
In the first year of Allende's term, the short-term economic results of Minister of the Economics Pedro Vuskovic's expansive monetary policy were unambiguously favorable: 12% industrial growth and an 8.6% increase in GDP, accompanied by major declines in inflation (down from 34.9% to 22.1%) and unemployment (down to 3.8%). However, these results were not sustained and in 1972 the Chilean escudo had runaway inflation of 140%. The combination of inflation and government-mandated price-fixing led to the rise of black markets in rice, beans, sugar, and flour, and a "disappearance" of such basic commodities from supermarket shelves.
By 1973, Chilean society had grown highly polarized, between strong opponents and equally strong supporters of Salvador Allende and his government. Military actions and movements, separate from the civilian authority, began to manifest in the countryside. A failed military coup was attempted against Allende in June 1973.
In its "Declaration of the Breakdown of Chile's Democracy", on August 22, 1973, the Chamber of Deputies of Chile asserted that Chilean democracy had broken down and called for Allende's removal, by military force if necessary, to restore constitutional rule. Less than a month later, on September 11, 1973, the Chilean military deposed Allende, who allegedly committed suicide as the Presidential Palace was surrounded and bombed. Subsequently, rather than restore governmental authority to the civilian legislature, Augusto Pinochet exploited his role as Commander of the Army to seize total power and to establish himself at the head of a junta.
Controversy surrounds alleged CIA involvement in the coup. As early as the Church Committee Report (1975), publicly available documents have indicated that the CIA attempted to prevent Allende from taking office after he was elected in 1970; the CIA itself released documents in 2000 acknowledging this and that Pinochet was one of their favored alternatives to take power. Still, they deny having taken any active role in the events in Chile after Allende took office. (See: U.S. intervention in Chile)
Following the coup in 1973, Chile was ruled by a military regime which lasted until 1990. The army established a junta, made up of the army commander, General Augusto Pinochet; the navy commander, Admiral José Toribio Merino; the air commander, Gustavo Leigh; and the director of the carabineros; César Mendoza. Resigning after disagreements with Pinochet on July 24, 1978, Leigh was replaced by General Fernando Matthei. Mendoza resigned after the carabineros were blamed for the deaths of three communists in 1985 and was replaced by Rodolfo Stange.
The military dictatorship pursued decidedly laissez-faire economic policies. During Pinochet's 16 years in power, Chile moved away from a largely state controlled economy towards a free-market economy, increasingly controlled by a few large economic groups that fostered an increase in domestic and foreign private investment.
After the coup, Chileans witnessed a large-scale repression, which started as soon as October 1973, with at least 70 persons murdered by the Caravan of Death. The four-man junta headed by General Augusto Pinochet abolished civil liberties, dissolved the national congress, banned union activities, prohibited strikes and collective bargaining, and erased the Allende administration's agrarian and economic reforms. The junta jailed, tortured, and executed thousands of Chileans. According to the Rettig commission and the Valech Report, close to 3,200 were executed, murdered or "disappeared", and at least 29 000 imprisoned and tortured; higher estimates exist. According to the Latin American Institute on Mental Health and Human Rights (ILAS), "situations of extreme trauma" affected about 200,000 persons; this figure includes individuals killed, tortured or exiled, and their immediate families.
The secret police, DINA (Dirección de Inteligencia Nacional) spread its network throughout the country and carried out targeted assassinations abroad, made possible by Operation Condor, an operations and intelligence sharing network of the security services of Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Paraguay and Uruguay, formed in the mid-1970s. The junta also set up at least six concentration camps.
The regime outlawed or suspended all political parties and suspended dissident labour and peasant leaders and clergymen. Eduardo Frei and other Christian Democratic leaders initially supported the coup. Later, they assumed the role of an opposition to the military rulers, but soon lost most of their influence. Meanwhile, left-wing Christian Democratic leaders like Radomiro Tomic were jailed or forced into exile. The church, which at first expressed its gratitude to the armed forces for saving the country from the danger of a "Marxist dictatorship," became increasingly critical of the regime's social and economic policies.
In 1974, the country was divided into 13 regions (it had previously been divided into provinces). This design has continued until today, with the addition of two new regions on 2005: Region XV Arica y Parinacota on the north and region XIV De los ríos.
The junta embarked on a radical program of liberalization and privatization, slashing tariffs as well as government welfare programs and deficits. The new economic program was designed by a group of technocrats known as the Chicago boys because many of them had been trained or influenced by University of Chicago professors.
The economy grew rapidly from 1976 to 1981, fueled by the influx of private foreign loans until the debt crisis of the early 1980s. Despite high growth in the late 1970s, income distribution became more regressive. While the upper 5% of the population received 25% of the total national income in 1972, it received 50% in 1975. Wage and salary earners got 64% of the national income in 1972 but only 38% at the beginning of 1977. Malnutrition affected half of the nation's children, and 60% of the population could not afford the minimum protein and food energy per day. Infant mortality increased sharply. Beggars flooded the streets.
The junta relied on the army, the police, the oligarchy, huge foreign corporations, and foreign loans to maintain itself. As a whole, the armed services received large salary increases and new equipment. The oligarchy recovered most of its lost industrial and agricultural holdings, for the junta sold to private buyers most of the industries expropriated by Allende's Popular Unity government. This period saw the expansion of monopolies and widespread speculation.
Financial conglomerates became major beneficiaries of the liberalized economy and the flood of foreign bank loans. Large foreign banks received large sums in repayments of interest and principal from the junta; in return, they lent the government millions more. International lending organizations such as the World Bank, the IMF, and the Inter-American Development Bank lent vast sums. Foreign multinational corporations such as International Telephone and Telegraph (ITT), Dow Chemical, and Firestone, all expropriated by Allende, returned to Chile.
Chile's main industry, copper mining, remained in government hands, but new mineral deposits were open to private investment. Capitalist involvement was increased, the national pension system and healthcare were privatized, and Superior Education was also placed in private hands. One of the junta's economic moves was fixing the exchange rate in the early 1980s, leading to a boom in imports and a collapse of domestic industrial production; this together with a world recession caused a serious economic crisis in 1982, where GDP plummeted by 14%, and unemployment reached 33%. At the same time a series of massive protests were organized trying to cause the fall of the regime, without success.
After the economic crisis of 1982, Hernan Buchi became Minister of Finance from 1985 to 1989. He allowed the peso to float and reinstated restrictions on the movement of capital in and out of the country. He introduced banking legislation, simplified and reduced the corporate tax. Chile pressed ahead with privatizations, including public utilities plus the re-privatization of companies that had returned to the government during the 1982–1983 crisis. Under these new policies, the rate of inflation dropped from about 1,000% per year to about 10% per year. While this was still a high rate of inflation, it allowed the economy to start recovering. From 1984 to 1990, Chile's gross domestic product grew by an annual average of 5.9%, the fastest on the continent. Chile developed a good export economy, including the export of fruits and vegetables to the northern hemisphere when they were out of season, and commanded high prices.
An important initiative begun in 1981 and carried on until today, aimed at modernizing the use of Information and Communication technology, greatly contributed to disentangle the traditional bureaucratic and cumbersome clerical procedures in all dealings with branches of the government, from civil registry to import/export documentation, thereby fostering a more agile economy and a more efficient public administration.
The military junta began to change during the late 1970s. Due to problems with Pinochet, Leigh was expelled from the junta in 1978 and replaced by General Fernando Matthei. Due to the Caso Degollados ("slit throats case"), in which three Communist party members were assassinated, César Mendoza, member of the junta since 1973 and representants of the carabineros, resigned in 1985 and was replaced by Rodolfo Stange. The next year, Carmen Gloria Quintana was burnt alive in what became known as the Caso Quemado ("Burnt Alive case").
Problems with Argentina coming from the 19th century reached a high in 1978, with disagreements over the Beagle Canal. The two countries agreed to papal mediation over the canal. Chilean-Argentine relations remained bad, however, and Chile helped the United Kingdom during the Falklands War.
Chile's constitution was approved in a national plebiscite held in September 1980. It came into force in March 1981. It established that in 1988 there would be another plebiscite in which the voters would accept or reject a single candidate proposed by the Military Junta. Pinochet was, as expected, the candidate proposed, and he was denied a second 8 year term by 54.5% of the vote.
Representing the Concertación coalition which supported the return to democracy, gathering the Christian Democrat Party (PDC), the Socialist Party (PS), the Party for Democracy (PPD) and the Social Democrat Radical Party (PRSD), Christian Democrat Patricio Aylwin won a sweeping victory in the first democratic elections, in December 1989, since the 1970 election won by Salvador Allende. Patricio Aylwin had gathered around him 3,850,023 votes (55.17%), while the center-right supermarket tycoon Francisco Javier Errázuriz, who represented the UCCP party, managed to take 15.05% of the vote, which had as main effects to lower right-wing candidate Hernán Büchi's score to 29.40% (approximately 2 million votes, almost half of Patricio Aylwin).
The Concertación coalition would dominate Chilean politics for the next two decades, with its most recent victory being the 2006 election of Socialist candidate Michelle Bachelet. It established in February 1991 the National Commission for Truth and Reconciliation, which released in February 1991 the Rettig Report on human rights violations during Augusto Pinochet's dictatorship. This report, contested by human rights NGOs and associations of political prisoners, counted 2,279 cases of "disappearances" which could be proved and registered. Of course, the very nature of "disappearances" made such investigations very difficult, while many victims were still intimidated by the authorities, and did not dare go to the local police center register themselves on lists, since the police officers were the same as during the dictatorship. The same problem arose, several years later, for the Valech Report, released in 2004 and which counted almost 30,000 victims of torture, among testimonies from 35,000 persons. However, the Rettig Report did list important detention and torture centers, such as the Esmeralda ship, the Víctor Jara Stadium, Villa Grimaldi, etc. The registering of victims of the dictatorship, and then, in the 2000s, trials of militaries guilty of human right violations, would dominate the
In the 1993 election, Eduardo Frei Ruiz-Tagle of the Christian Democratic Party was elected president for a 6-year term leading the Concertacion coalition, and took office in March 1994. Following an agreement between Pinochet and Andrés Zaldívar Larraín, president of the Senate, the latter voted to abolish the date of 11 September as a National Holiday which celebrated the 1973 coup. Supporters of Pinochet had blocked until then any such attempt. The same year, Pinochet traveled to London for an operation. But under orders of Spanish judge Baltasar Garzón, he was arrested there, lifting world-wide attention, not only because of the past history of Chile and South America, but also because this was one of the first arrest of a dictator based on the universal juridiction principle. Pinochet tried to defend himself by referring to the State Immunity Act of 1978, an argument rejected by the British justice. However, UK Home Secretary Jack Straw took the responsibility to release him on medical grounds, and refused to extradite him to Spain. Thereafter, Pinochet returned to Chile in March 2000. Upon descending the plane on his wheelchair, he stood up and saluted the cheering crowd of supporters, including an army band playing his favorite military march tunes, which was awaiting him at the airport in Santiago. President Ricardo Lagos, who had just sworn in on March 11, said the retired general's televised arrival had damaged the image of Chile, while thousands demonstrated against him.
Representing the Concertación coalition for democracy, Ricardo Lagos had won the election just a few months before, by a very tight score of less than 200,000 votes (51,32%) against Joaquín Lavín (less than 49%), who represented the right-wing Alliance for Chile. None of the six candidates had obtained an absolute majority on the first turn held on December 12, 1999. Lagos was sworn in March 11, 2000, for a 6-year term.
In 2002 Chile signed an association agreement with the European Union (comprising FTA, political and cultural agreements), in 2003, an extensive free trade agreement with the United States, and in 2004 with South Korea, expecting a boom in import and export of local produce and becoming a regional trade-hub.
Meanwhile, the trials concerning human rights violations during the dictatorship continued. Pinochet was stripped of his parliamentary immunity in August 2000 by the Supreme Court, and indicted by judge Juan Guzmán Tapia. Guzmán had ordered in 1999 the arrest of five militaries, including General Pedro Espinoza Bravo of the DINA, for their role in the Caravan of Death following the 11 September coup. Arguing that the bodies of the "disappeared" were still missing, he made jurisprudence which had as effect to lift any prescription on the crimes committed by the militaries. Pinochet's trial continued until his death on December 10, 2006, with an alternance of indictments for specific cases, lifting of immunities by the Supreme Court or to the contrary immunity from prosecution, with his health a main argument for, or against, his prosecution. The Supreme Court affirmed in March 2005 Pinochet's immunity concerning the 1974 assassination of General Carlos Prats in Buenos Aires, which had taken place in the frame of Operation Condor. However, he was deemed fit to stand trial for Operation Colombo, during which 119 political opponents were "disappeared" in Argentina. The Chilean justice also lifted his immunity on the Villa Grimaldi case, a detention and torture center in the outskirts of Santiago. Pinochet, who still benefited from a reputation of righteousness from his supporters, lost legitimacy when he was put under house arrest on tax fraud and passport forgery, following the publication by the US Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations of a report concerning the Riggs Bank in July 2004. The report was a consequence of investigations on financial funding of the September 11, 2001 attacks in the US. The bank controlled between USD $4 million and $8 million of Pinochet's assets, who lived in Santiago in a modest house, dissimulating his wealth. According to the report, Riggs participated in money laundering for Pinochet, setting up offshore shell corporations (referring to Pinochet as only "a former public official"), and hiding his accounts from regulatory agencies. Related to Pinochet's and his family secret bank accounts in United States and in Caraïbs islands, this tax fraud filing for an amount of 27 million dollars shocked the conservative sectors who still supported him. Ninety percent of these funds would have been raised between 1990 and 1998, when Pinochet was chief of the Chilean armies, and would essentially have come from weapons traffic (when purchasing Belgian 'Mirage' air-fighters in 1994, Dutch 'Léopard' tanks, Swiss 'Mowag' tanks or by illegal sales of weapons to Croatia, in the middle of the Balkans war.) His wife, Lucía Hiriart, and his son, Marco Antonio Pinochet, were also sued for complicity. For the fourth time in seven years, Pinochet was indicted by the Chilean justice.
The Chilean authorities took control in August 2005 of the Colonia Dignidad "community", directed by ex-Nazi Paul Schäfer.
The Concertación again won the 2006 presidential election. Michelle Bachelet, first woman president, won against Sebastián Piñera (Alliance for Chile), with more than 53% of the votes.
Suggested historical references are: Paul Drake et al., Chile: A Country Study (Library of Congress, 1994). Brian Lovemen, Chile: The Legacy of Hispanic Capitalism, 3rd. ed., (Oxford University Press). John L. Rector, The History of Chile, (Palgrave Macmillian, 2005). Simon Collier and William F. Sater, A History of Chile, 1808-1994, (Cambridge University Press).


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NEW YORK (26 July 2013) – The United Nations Working Group on the use of mercenaries will discuss the use of private military and security companies in United Nations peace and humanitarian operations in the field.
The panel discussion will take place on 31 July 2013 at the United Nations Headquarters in New York, as part of a special year-long study on the use of private military and security companies by United Nations bodies worldwide, which the expert group will present to the United Nations General Assembly in 2014.
"As a large consumer of security services, the UN has the opportunity to positively influence the standards and behaviour of the industry to comply with international human rights norms and support the implementation of the UN Charter," said Anton Katz, who currently heads the expert group charged by the Human Rights Council to monitor and report on the activities of companies providing security and consultancy services on the international market.
"The UN should serve as a model for world Governments and other organizations in its use of private military and security companies," the expert stressed. "Without proper standards and oversight, the outsourcing of security functions by the UN to private companies could have a negative effect on the effectiveness and image of the UN in the field."
The five-strong expert body, which has drafted a possible international convention on private military and security companies, has already provided an overview of the United Nations' policy regarding the use of private military and security companies in a previous report* to the United Nations General Assembly in 2010.
The event will feature two panels, focusing on the use of armed security services by the United Nations and the use of private military and security companies in peace operations. Details of the event, including the panellists, are available at: http://www.ohchr.org/Documents/Issues/Mercenaries/WG/flyerNYevent31July2013.pdf.
The panel discussions will be also broadcasted live at the UN web TV: http://webtv.un.org.
The Working Group will hold a press conference at 13:30 on 1 August 2013 at briefing room S-237, the UN Headquarters.
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The Working Group on the use of mercenaries as a means of violating human rights and impeding the exercise of the right of peoples to self-determination was established in 2005 by the then Commission on Human Rights. It is composed of five independent experts serving in their personal capacities: Mr. Anton Katz (Chair-Rapporteur, South Africa), Ms. Faiza Patel (Pakistan), Ms. Patricia Arias (Chile), Ms. El¿bieta Karska (Poland) and Mr. Gabor Rona (United States/Hungary). Learn more, log on to: http://www.ohchr.org/EN/Issues/Mercenaries/WGMercenaries/Pages/WGMercenariesIndex.aspx
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Interns are required to complete projects and assignments during each rotation. This is an example of a food photography project for the Children's Fitness Clinic to help patients and their families learn about appropriate portion sizes. Project completed by Caroline Gottesman, MS and Laura Cunningham, Class of 2011.
Interns are required to participate in National Nutrition Month every March. On the left, interns Abby Ginther and Caroline Gottesman pose with a local farmer from the Horse and Buggy Produce. On the right, displayed is the Compass-sponsored Wellness booth focusing on local and sustainable foods.


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But the truth is, -- I am not a wise man ; ---- and besides am a mortal of so little consequence in the world, it is not much matter what I do ; so I seldom fret or fume at all about it. -- Tristam Shandy


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Blind people can easily comprehend speech that is sped up far beyond the maximum rate that sighted people can understand.
In terms of humans being a credit to the planet, it is important to understand that there is nothing natural about a garden.
There, with residents running their dogs along the dunes, it's easy to understand how such natural opulence fuels inspiration.
It may take some time for folks to understand the environmental and medical repercussions of wood burning smoke.
If you wish to understand others look into your own heart.
They wouldn't understand and they don't deserve to understand.
He has lost the secret of the older devices, and does not understand the new which were about to usurp their place.
The wisdom of the prudent is to understand his way:.
Or perhaps it thinks that only by dangling countries over the abyss will they understand the need to reform.
Displaying information can make a difference by enabling people to understand complex matters and find creative solutions.
Germans need to understand the risks to their banking system and their prosperity.
First, each department must understand the global strategy map and scorecard, as well as its own strategic goals.
However, the less education you have, the less likely you are to understand the risks of smoking.
While they could understand their parents' language, their parents could not understand theirs.
When goods were scarce and people bought what they could get, it was hardly necessary to understand consumer psychology.
The effort to understand dark matter defined much of astronomy for the next two decades.
Vocabulary, for instance-older people know more words and understand subtle linguistic distinctions.
The scientists didn't know that the family didn't understand.
We encourage visitors to explore the material culture of the past to better understand its relevance to the present.
The goal is to get robots to understand us, all our quirks and little nuances and get us to trust them.
My need to understand the city is perhaps inescapable.
The phrase stuck, for reasons that anyone who has seen them will understand.
Each item is carefully coded to help visitors understand the items history and significance.
Because-it sounds trite, but it's true-if you can't explain something, you don't really understand it.
It is also harder to understand, predict, and regulate.
When information is stacked in time, it is difficult to understand context and evaluate relationships.
The syllabus graphic is quite simple and it's one that students easily understand.
If nothing else, it will alert the committee that you understand the nature of the job you're seeking.
For those of us who understand the rigors of the academic life, the survival of this myth is curious.
One of the best ways to avoid becoming bait is to understand that you are not a seer.
Your résumé should be easy to scan and understand quickly.
Students and scholars who understand the basic logic of fair use have nothing to fear.
Most important, the letter tells us if you really understand the job.
They didn't have to understand what was being asked in order to provide an answer.
Explain to students that a geographic perspective is a way to understand anything distributed across space.
Translating infrasound helps scientists begin to understand elephant behavior.
Geographers use maps as tools to discern patterns and to understand why things are where they are.
Then, ask them why it is important to understand who or what the health of the bay affects.
Most owners talk to their dogs and expect them to understand.
Explain that these elements help us understand more about our land and our relationships with it.
Better understand the need for clean energy and learn how to be part of the solution.
Now researchers are making use of this fact to help understand patterns of human migration.
Decoding the platypus genome has long been an important goal for biologists seeking to understand the origins of mammal evolution.
For older or more advanced students, ask them to read the first paragraph, and help them understand what it means.
Regions help us organize and better understand geographic information.
See what scientists are doing to try to understand the deepest mystery of quantum physics.
Dogs may be able to understand far more words than a typical owner teaches them during obedience training.
New mouse model could help researchers better understand bipolar disorder.
Anyone who has ever tried to program something knows that to program a system, you have to understand that system.
Some perplexed monkeys are helping scientists better understand why humans became the only animals to evolve language.
Reading stories can fine-tune your social skills by helping you better understand other human beings.
Space fans can today play a cosmic slot machine to help astronomers understand the biggest pile-ups in the universe.
Such animals will allow researchers to better understand certain problems that can arise during pregnancy.
However it fails to understand that natural selection is an unforgiving, unthinking, uncaring process.
There is no indication from your comments that you understand this model any better than your target stereotypes.
Twenty three world-renowned psychologists write about what they still don't understand about themselves.
The best way to begin to understand turbulence is to visualize what the air is doing.
The ability to listen to and understand one's partner and is the foundation of a successful relationship.
The odds are good that you don't understand the market quite as well as you think.
We need to understand what causes obesity, and what can really address it.
Reading about craftsmanship helps students understand the material and social life of hacking.
It's a fascinating journey to try and understand what they are.
Instead, we'll shout at them from across the street, with a good chance they won't understand what we're saying.
Living and working in a foreign country, you begin to understand the rituals that create community.
It helps to understand that all meat is muscle, and as muscles develop, they get tougher and more flavorful.
And what they've found is that nearly everything humans think they understand about taste is wrong.
One of the major goals of neuroscience is to understand how our brains are shaped by everyday experiences.
To make the map easier to understand, only the strongest connections are shown.
The idea is to create programs that understand context, so that users can interact with the software more naturally.
Then it could use the cloud-stored data as desired-for example, to search the database to understand how its workers collaborate.
In our global economy, the ability to understand languages other than one's native tongue grows more important every day.
It turns out that this is a rich vein of information to better understand our online behaviour.
Training bugs may help us understand our own brains.
It's a great way to take complicated, contentious issues and simplify them, making them easier to understand.
We need to understand the realities of nuclear power: the advantages, the safety issues, and the danger based on the facts.
It's important for the public to understand that scientific debate leads to better science.
Thank you to the people who have responded with information to help me further understand the problem.
Understand that isolation will not break the junta's grip on its long-suffering people.
With a bad economy and ten years of mismanaged military policy, it's not difficult to understand why.
The movers, however, well understand the difference.
One, the people who were taking out the subprime mortgage loans-many of them didn't understand what they were doing.
To understand the oppressed and side with them all you need to know is that there are oppressors.
We must reject and resist the notion that the fewer people can understand an idea, the more important that idea must be.
Frankly, my worn-out lecture notes don't help me understand today's newscasts.
It is never enough to read the instructions on a form to understand how it should be filled in.
But the same approach would be used to understand more complicated expressions.
We suddenly understand her-her bitterness, her deep pool of sadness.
The ground of her being is her belief that the only way people can understand anything at all is through the use of language.
In fact, he was found guilty of a crime so discreet people couldn't understand what the crime was.
The minute they started to understand, they were outraged.
Fear is something one has to think through and understand.
But you have to understand the environment she was in.
What the rich never seem to understand, he says, is that it is in their own interest to look out for the interest of other people.
If you don't understand or are confused, ask your doctor to explain the answer again.
It is important to know current inundation risks to understand the potential effects of changing conditions.
They also need to understand what changes could be made to the air pollution sources that cause the problem.
Easy for consumers to understand and relate to survey results.
Result of these studies will help water resource managers understand effects of wildfire on streams and downstream water quality.
Sometimes the contrast helps them understand their own faith better.
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A summary of fast ion experiments in the DIII-D tokamak is given. Most of the experiments involve ~80-keV deuterium beam ions. Deceleration of dilute fast-ion populations is accurately described by coulomb scattering theory. Fast waves with frequencies several times the deuterium cyclotron frequency interact with beam ions when the product of wave number and gyroradius k[perpendicular]i is [greater than or approximately equal to]1.4. Global confinement of fast ions is often excellent although sawteeth, tearing modes, and beam-driven instabilities can cause additional transport. Intense beam-ion populations often drive instabilities. Toroidicity-induced Alfvén eigenmodes (TAE) and somewhat lower frequency modes (originally called beta-induced Alfvén eigenmodes) are often observed in a wide variety of plasma conditions. Over 50% of the beam power is lost during strong activity. Damping mechanisms such as mode coupling or radiative damping are needed to explain the observed TAE stability threshold. The most unstable toroidal mode number agrees well with theoretical expectations, but the radial and poloidal structure of the mode and the observed beam-ion transport have not been adequately explained. The modes with frequencies below the TAE are probably two types of energetic particle modes: the resonant TAE and the resonant kinetic ballooning mode.
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Ever since Microsoft cut its motion- and voice-sensor from the Xbox One package, the second version of Kinect has been in limbo. Sure, you could still get one if you shelled out $500 for the deluxe version of Xbox One, but there was no way to pick one up on its own. What if, say, a new Dance Central game for Xbox One were to be announced? Microsoft always said it would offer the device standalone, and now it's got a release date and price: October 7th for $150 ($50 less than the Windows version, for those wondering). Even better: Kinect on Xbox One comes with the aforementioned new Dance Central game. Not a terrible nod to the most important third-party game studio making Kinect games.
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"But thanks be to God, who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ."
1 Corinthians 15:57 (NIV)
If there was ever a secret for unleashing God's powerful peace in a situation, it's developing a heart of true thanksgiving. My son, Jackson, knows this. I came to understand how powerfully he knows this when editing a paper he wrote recently. Jackson hasn't always lived in the safety and security of our home. For the first 13 years of his life, he lived in a forgotten orphanage in the third world country of Liberia, Africa.
Jackson's paper was about the corruption and greed that caused the civil war in his native land. He did a great job recounting the facts of the story. But the difference between Jackson and most other kids explaining a historical event, is before we adopted him – he lived in the midst of the horrific conditions of this war.
During one part of the paper, he described what it felt like to be naked digging through the trash looking for the treasure of thrown away food.
The treasure of thrown away food.
I can hardly type those words without crying. This is my son.
And yet, despite the horrific conditions of his childhood there was an unexplainable thread of peace woven through his recollection of the story. A powerful peace centered in the awareness of God's presence.
The truly thankful person is a truly peaceful person. They have made a habit no matter what to notice, pause and choose.
Noticing something for which to be thankful no matter what circumstance they're in.
Pausing to acknowledge this something as a reminder of God's presence.
Choosing to focus on God's presence until His powerful peace is unleashed.
I doubt any of us will find our treasure in thrown away food today. But will we be a noticer, a pauser, a chooser – a person of thanksgiving no matter what circumstance we're facing?
I find this truth about the power of thanksgiving over and over in Scripture. What was the prayer Daniel prayed right before being thrown in the lion's den and witnessing God miraculously shutting the lion's mouths? Thanksgiving.
After three days in the belly of a fish, what was the cry of Jonah's heart right before he was finally delivered onto dry land? Thanksgiving.
How are we instructed to pray in Philippians 4:6 when we feel anxious? With thanksgiving.
And what is the outcome of each of these situations where thanksgiving is proclaimed? Peace. Powerful, unexplainable, uncontainable peace.
"And the peace of God, which transcends all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus," (Philippians 4:7, NIV).
One of Webster's official definitions of thanksgiving is: "a public acknowledgment or celebration of divine goodness."
I wonder how we might celebrate God's divine goodness today?
I wonder what might happen if we decide in the midst of our circumstances today to notice, pause, and choose something for which we can truly be thankful….
Dear Lord, will You help me to notice things for which I can be thankful in each circumstance I face today? Will You help me remember to pause and acknowledge this as evidence of Your presence? And will You help me to remember to choose to focus on Your presence until Your powerful peace rushes into my heart and helps me see everything more clearly? Thank You for the reality that being thankful truly changes everything. In Jesus' Name, Amen.
TerKeurst, L. (2010, June 24). The Treasure of Thrown Away Food [Encouragement for Today from Proverbs 31 Ministries Electronic mailing list message]. Available in full from www.proverbs31.org
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Melissa McCarthy fires extra from 'Tammy' set for abusing child?
Melissa McCarthy is currently working on the movie "Tammy" in Wilmington, N.C. Not only is she the lead actress, McCarthy is also taking a seat in the director's chair for the first time, a job she's sharing with her husband, Ben Falcone.
As a director, McCarthy reportedly had to deal with a bit of unpleasantness on her movie's set. TMZ reports she fired an extra May 20, while filming a scene near a lake. The extra in question brought her young child along for the shoot. Throughout the day the extra allegedly struggled to quiet the child down, becoming enough of a distraction to disrupt the production.
According to a source, that all came to an end when McCarthy witnessed the extra jerk the child up in the air by the wrist. The source says McCarthy immediately had the extra removed from the set, explaining she wouldn't tolerate abuse.
McCarthy's rep has not commented on the situation. "Tammy" is set for a July 2, 2014 release.
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Lots of folks are touting a new study by The National Trust for Historic Preservation claiming that re-habbing existing buildings is far more green than building new energy efficient buildings — but it's not at all clear this is accurate.
The study itself is an impressive effort, and I laud their rigorous attempt to dig into this question. But they might be wrong, even though reports are flying around talking about about why you need to rehab instead of build new energy efficient buildings.
My concern is three-fold:
- A study done at University of Michigan found the opposite result. This study compared the LCA (life cycle analysis) of new construction single family residences, one energy efficient and the not. This found that the ongoing energy use of the buildings outweighed the carbon impact of the materials used by at least 4 to 1, and that was only over a 50 year lifespan (the new study uses a 75 year span). The results clearly indicated that energy use mattered more than the material use for the LCA.
- The National Trust's own study shows that in a variety of contexts (depending on building type and climate) 10-12 years is all it takes for the energy use of the building to "catch up" with the embodied energy of the materials. When a building's anticipated lifespan is 50-75 years, then this confirms the University of Michigan study.
- Finally, the new study compares rehabbed buildings to new energy efficient buildings and assumes that the new buildings are a notable 30% more efficient. Depending on the age, type of building and climate, I think this number may be misleadingly low and therefore harms the conclusion of the study. Residential construction in Michigan, for example, had such horrible energy codes until 2008, that a new energy efficient home (especially one that's built green with a low HERS or ENERGYSTAR index) could easily be 40% more efficient and possibly more.
The new results may be accurate, but there's plenty of reasons to wait before claiming that new truly energy efficient construction is worse than rehab.
Btw, some disclaimers:
- I have a strong interest and dedication to rehabbing buildings and historic preservation in my personal life and career — which is all the more reason why I want to be clear where the benefits and trade-offs really are.
- despite being right by the University of Michigan, I have no connection to the authors or department which produced the report.
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I only had a chance to skim the study but I wonder if in some of their cases they are comparing apples and pears.
For instance in the retrofitted single family home they do not include air conditioning in the retrofit, whereas the new construction has A/C.
Similarly the mixed use commercial has the retrofit get a ground source heat pump while the construction has a comparatively inefficient rooftop unit.
Am I missing something?
11:58, 28.01.2012
This thesis for a Masters degree was submitted for academic rqmts in 1998. In e-e building metrics & technologies, that is a long time ago.
02:13, 29.01.2012
I just can't help but mention that any talk of a building's energy efficiency is utter nonsense. Fuel economy, yes. LCA, yes. Embodied energy, yes. But not energy efficiency.
23:01, 29.01.2012
A few thoughts – but the first that comes to mind is the sad concept that a house is built for a life expectancy of only 50 years. Holy cow – that means my house is obsolete and come to think of it – so am I! so – some of the figures have to be adjusted for rehab according to the double – and triple lifespan of the "average" home due to the higher quality of construction materials and embodied energy in them that does not have to be repeated again and again. Can a home built with today's construction methods and codes meet the test of time? My 90 year old house does not have air-conditioning – we only have a few days a year when the central staircase can't draw the air up and out of the house. so – hard to compare systems and construction comparison to find a reputable analysis. I know the preservation community depends on the adage that the greenest building is already built – so the debate will undoubtedly continue!


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Turn Tabular Data into Tubular Data with jQuery
The table tag in HTML has a bit of a sordid past. Once tasked with laying out websites the table tag has been dragged through an identity crisis. As the sun set on web 1.0 – the over reaction was to remove all instances of tables. But I would argue that tables have their place. The fact of the matter is that tables are good for displaying tabular data – that was their intended purpose.
Flexigrid is making it even easier to feel comfortable with the table tag again. Flixigrid is a jQuery plugin that, in its most basic example, converts an HTML table into an interactive spreadsheet in the browser with expandable columns, alternating row treatments and a resizable frame. It takes the table tag with all of the trs and tds therein and converts them into divs – so if you are still on the fence about using tables, you can feel good about the fact that this plugin only uses it only to read the data and removes it from the DOM.
What I like about Flixigrid is the breadth of usage. As mentioned above Flixigrid in its simplest form is easy to implement. However the very same plugin can blow the lid off the tabular data with by offering the ability to display paginated rows with a pagination toolbar pulling from an XML feed via JSON.
If tabular data is on the menu in the feast of HTML you are serving up than there is no doubt that Flixigrid is sure to enhance your user's experience.
5 jQuery Resources for Select Tags in HTML
The select tag in HTML has been getting a lot of over-due code love. Perhaps all of this attention comes from being a vital tag used in so many forms but natively lacks flexibility and consistency across browsers. Whatever the reason – there are now a myriad of tools available to help make select boxes work and look the way you want them to. Here are a few resources that stand out from the crowd when it comes to working with those select tags.
jQuery UI Selectmenu
Built on jQuery UI this plugin converts your select elements into pure eye candy. The select tags are replaced in the DOM with more cross browser friendly tags and the result is theme based elements for your forms which provide the basic operations of a select tag as well as icon inclusion, multi-line support, max-height (with scrollbar thereafter), and the option to drop down or pop up as well as optgroups.
Key presses are partially supported. Tab and escape Key work. Up and down arrow keys do not. You can download selectmenu from github.
jQuery SelectBox Plugin
The jQuery SelectBox Plugin offers a solid base with lots of native support. As the name suggests this plugin is specific to the select boxes. This plugin also replicates the select object in the DOM with alternative tags which open the doors to greater styling and consistency across browsers. A few of the key strengths about this plugin are the key press supports including esc, tab and arrow keys.
The plugin comes with one default look and feel. There is no theme selection. Customization would require the modification of the included CSS file.
JavaScript Image Combobox
There are no themes provided other than the default, but the CSS is readily available for custom styling. You can download this plugin from gtihub.
We featured dropkick.js on July 6 in our post Kick Your Dropdowns Up a Notch with 'DropKick'. As we are reviewing the best options out there for managing select tags we would be remiss if we failed to include dropkick.js. As with the other plugins dropkick replaces the select tag with more flexible code and provides a themed approach for excellent out of the box support.
Chosen is another plugin we featured recently and feel it should be listed here as we cover the general scope of tools available to work with select tags. The feature that stands out about Chosen is the way it handles the multi-select drop downs. The result is a smooth system that feels more like an ajax controlled tagging system. It really brings the intuitiveness that a default multi-select box lacks.
Get a Closer Look with jqZoom – a jQuery Plugin
Want to show off all the detail of a large picture without taking up the entire browser? The jqZoom plugin allows users to easily explore large photos in a controlled area.
The user interface it generates is smooth and intuitive. As one might expect – the plugin requires that you supply both the scaled down and large versions of the picture.
jqZoom comes with some great features and extras. There are several zoom styles you can choose from which control how the zoom box looks and acts on the picture. In addition you can create a gallery view with multiple pictures.
With the zoom capabilities you are able to share more information about specific pictures that the pictures themselves, because of their size, would not have allowed.
The applications in which this plugin can be used are numerous and the elegant way in which it handles the pictures will bring a touch of style with the additional functionality.
Template to Jump Start jQuery Plugin Development
If developing a jQuery plugin is in your immediate future than having a template to jump start your jQuery plugin will be an invaluable resource.
Stefan Gabos has provided a fantastic jQuery Plugin Boilerplate. A few features that I really dig about this template are:
- Default variables that can be overwritten by user on plugin initialization
- Callback function capabilities on event-driven plugins
- The incorporation of 'public' and 'private' method handling
- Dynamic reference to jQuery if noConflict is enabled
The script is well commented and comes with usage examples. With this resource you are ready to rock and roll – code style. Good luck with that jQuery plugin!
Kick Your Dropdowns Up a Notch with 'DropKick' – a jQuery plugin
Show me a front end designer who hasn't suffered through styling dropdown elements with cross browser support and I'll show you my pet unicorn.
Thankfully DropKick, a jQuery plugin, is now available styling those pesky dropdowns with great ease and flexibility while maintaining native functionality and cross browser support.
A few things that really make DropKick stand out:
- Maintaining native functionality such as keyboard navigation
- Including scrollability.js enables scrolling on iOS devices
- Themed approach. The ability to create and share a theme file really broadens the scope for this project.
- Backwards support – No javscript installed means the original dropdowns will work as originally intended.
- Cross Browser Support – Under the hood this plugin removes the select and option elements from the DOM and replaces them with div elements and ul li elements, while programmatically replicating the action. Because of this the cross browser support increases dramatically.
- Available for forking on github.
Plus I love the name 'DropKick'.
Using jQuery to Create a Slick Sliding Background
Here is a fancy jQuery menu plug-in combining smart code with great design. This elegant plug-in is easy to implement, highly customizable and creates a stunning menu that can bring the coveted 'wow factor' to any site.
One of the plug-in's strengths is the number of animation effects available. The eleven animations available out of the box cover the full gamut of animation flavors – from very basic to jarring. My personal favorite, The "Sequential Slide", really pops and creates a sexy cascading slide animation.
If great looking menus are something you dig.. then check this plug-in out…


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Is Your Website a Bust? 4 Tips to Help You Decide
Posted on: September 10, 2013 by Joel Paterson | Tags: Web Design
The stories I come across from small businesses nearly every day, is borderline insane. Some are happy with their websites, some say it could use some work, and some absolutely hate it.
The "hatred" usually comes from people who chose the inevitable doom of the "Free DIY" tools, while others may be happy with their website, they admit to having no idea if their website is providing any benefit at all.
As a web developer, I know what a terrible website looks like… but for most people, it's not always so easy. So instead, they simply chalk it up to "websites are unnecessary for business"… which clearly couldn't be further from the truth.
So how can you tell, if your website is doing what it's supposed to? Here's a couple quick tips.
Overall Design and Compatibility
To see if your website's design is up to par (or stuck in the past decade), try poking around at a bunch of other local websites. They don't have to be competitors, they can belong to anybody. Remember, we're simply trying to get an eye for the overall design. Does your website display properly on all screen resolutions? (large monitors, smaller monitors, tablets, etc). A poorly designed website is bound to fail, even if so many other elements are properly in place. The fact is, your website should be built for the visitor, and if it's not… they'll leave.
Search Engine Exposure
Go to Google, and try searching some keywords relevant to your business (i.e. fine dining windsor ontario). Is your website found on the first page? More importantly, in the top 5 results? Ranking at the top of search engines is a critical factor, in the success of your website. 77% of all clicks in a Google search, go to the top 3 organic results. If your website is nowhere to be found, you certainly have some work to do.
Website Traffic
If you have access to your website's traffic statistics, such as Google Analytics (which I certainly hope so!), log in, and take a look at where your traffic is coming from… (Example, in Google Analytics, go to Traffic Sources –> Overview).
In an ideal situation, 50%-65% of your traffic should originate from search engines. Up to 20% should come from "direct traffic", which means that the user manually entered your website into the address bar (ie. www.primarytargetmedia.com). And finally, the remaining 15-20% should come from "referral traffic", which means the user clicked a link found on another website to arrive at yours (ie. Facebook).
This offers a solid distribution of traffic, for a website that doesn't use custom campaigns, such as Pay Per Click advertising etc. If you use these types of advertising (Google Adwords, Facebook advertising, etc), you can probably expect approximately 10-15% of your traffic to come from these "campaign" sources.
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Zack Mack just dropped this smooth montage showing love to the the FTC family and San Fran. Peep Adrian Williams, Jabari, Karl Watson, Matt Miller and more as they whirlwind through the city to the sounds of Afu Ra.
FTC's 25th anniversary party made a splash around the world with performances from Bailey, Hoodstarz, Big Rich, Zen La Rock, Mucho Muchacho, San Quinn, and Souls of Mischief and visits from the craziest range of who's who from shredders to movie stars. Ando Nesia made the above edit for all that weren't able to attend in person.
FTC, who just jumped off their 25th anniversary party with Dave Chappelle, has a banger in the chamber with this deck and tee collabo with none other than Too $hort the Pimp. The deck even comes with a free download of FTC's exclusive new Too $hort track "Wasted." This limited collabo is available at FTC locations and dealers worldwide. Check the tee after the jump.
FTC held its 25th year anniversary party last week with throngs of family and friends coming out to support. FTC's Kent Uyehara and Dave Chappelle enjoyed the night and the surprise performance from Souls of Mischief. Peep the party pics from Dave Chami over at Transworld.
The FTC crew is enjoying the Summer with friends, bbq's and skating. Here is a quick edit of all the fun shot by Ando.
For their latest collabo, FTC got together with REAL to recreate Jim Thiebaud's classic "Hanging KKK" graphic for a limited edition t-shirt. It's as strong as an image now as it was in 1990. More looks after the jump. Via Hayabusa.
XLarge and FTC in Japan having gotten together with French fingerboard/techdeck company Closeup for a mini rendition of the X-FTC deck. They really love their fingerboards in France! A couple more looks after the jump.
FTC's For the Cash contest is quickly becoming an industry favorite due to its laid back vibe of homies skating for fun while also getting a crack at some dinero. Take a look at this behind the scenes edit from For the Cash 2 presented by DC on April 19.
FTC just released this video by Ando Nesia featuring FTC Japan rider Teppei and Mishka rider Marco taking a little time off from the Red Bull Ride + Style competition in San Francisco this past weekend.
Ando Nesia has a dope new quick edit out for FTC with James Capps taking a cruise through the Exploratorium in San Francisco. Maan every city should have an Exploratorium.


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Toolstation League: Heath go top as Brislington can only draw
Posted: October 08, 2012|
Cadbury Heath climbed to the top of the Premier Division with a home win over Bridport as previous league leaders Brislington were held to a draw at Longwell Green.
Nick Dyer scored the only goal of the game against the Dorset side as Heath moved to the head of affairs on goal difference with a 1-0 win.
Brislington took a one-goal lead into the interval at Longwell Green courtesy of an own goal, but that was just the prelude to a stirring second half.
The visitors had captain Jason Hughes sent off ten minutes after half-time and then had goalkeeper Chris Humphries dismissed as well, giving the hosts a penalty.
Outfield player Tony Davis saved Ben Crew's spot-kick, but Brislington were unable to hang on with nine men as Matt Tiley grabbed an equaliser three minutes from time.
Bitton lie two points behind the pacesetters following their 2-1 triumph at Odd Down, where Mark Salter gave the visitors a fifth-minute lead.
Twayne Plummer equalised with a penalty midway through the first period, but Salter converted a spot-kick of his own on the hour mark.
Bristol Manor Farm moved off the bottom of the table with a 1-0 victory at Larkhall, Ricky Chandler scoring the only goal 15 minutes from time.
In the First Division, Hengrove moved to within a point of the summit as they thrashed visiting Shrewton 5-0.
Ben Bament with two, Ricky Briggs, Mark Fear and Rhys Hickory were on target.
Bradford hammered Devizes 7-1, while Calne beat Chard 4-1, Keynsham triumphed 1-0 at Warminster, Cheddar won 3-1 at Wellington; and Westbury and Corsham drew 1-1.
In the preliminary round of the Les Phillips League Cup, Bishop Sutton reached double figures against beleaguered Barnstaple.
Sutton triumphed 10-3 with Rob Smart firing a hat-trick, Pete Shepherd, Jordan Metters and Will Hailston scoring twice and Billy Downes netting the other goal.
Hallen won 6-1 at Welton, Jamie Adams scoring goals either side of a James Derosa strike to give the visitors a three-goal lead.
Barry Sandquest pulled a goal back for the hosts, but they then had Greg Dando sent off, which allowed Tom Collett to help himself to a hat-trick, two of which were penalties.
Cribbs Friends Life beat Sherborne 4-2, while Portishead lost 5-0 at home to Melksham, Gary Higdon scoring a hat-trick after Lee Rogers had netted an early double.
Almondsbury UWE went down 2-1 at home to Street, Steve Murray and Ross McErlain turning things around after Jordan Rodgers had given the hosts the lead.
The other three ties saw Willand beat Shepton Mallet 4-0, Wells go down 2-1 at home to Ilfracombe and Buckland defeat visiting Gillingham 3-0.


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Fight Colorectal Cancer is a community of advocates. Researchers. Mothers. Family members. Survivors. Dreamers. Fighters. Together, we are One Million Strong.
Take a look at the individuals leading our fight:
Board Members
Nancy Roach, Founder & Chair of the Board
A cancer survivor and advocate, Nancy knows how to make a difference. Nancy has been involved with the colorectal cancer community since 1996 when her mother-in-law was diagnosed with rectal cancer, and was a co-founder of the Colon Cancer Alliance in 1999. She works with the gastrointestinal research community, government agencies, elected officials and corporations, always… Read More
David Wicks, Vice Chair
Since 1999, David Wicks has served a variety of increased roles and responsibilities in NASDAQ's Global Corporate Client Group based in N.Y. David currently is Vice President of the NASDAQ MarketSite, Global programs and events – and products and strategy. In this role, David manages all aspects of NASDAQ's Times Square facility – including the NASDAQ… Read More
Dana Rye, Treasurer
Dana, a college athlete with no family history of the disease, was diagnosed with stage II colon cancer at age 24 in 2009. Since then, Dana has led fundraising and advocacy efforts for Fight Colorectal Cancer and attended Call-on Congress. She is especially interested in the increasing rate of colon cancer diagnoses in younger patients. Dana… Read More
Andrea Kramer, Secretary
Diagnosed with stage III colorectal cancer in 2007 at the age of 47, Andrea became involved with Fight Colorectal Cancer through her interest in supporting research for late stage disease and is committed to growing Fight CRC's Lisa Fund. Additionally, Andrea volunteers as an American Cancer Society patient navigator and a Road to Recovery driver. Andrea… Read More
Hélène Byrnes
Hélène Byrnes became involved with Fight Colorectal Cancer after her dearest friend Andrea Kramer was diagnosed with colorectal cancer. Hélène wanted to support her efforts in raising money for research through the Lisa Fund. She enjoys volunteering with organizations that directly impact her friends, family and community. Whether it be through the Rye (NY) Youth Council,… Read More
Indran Indrakrishnan, MD, FRCP (London), FRCP(C), FACP, FACG
Dr. Indran Krishnan is a board certified gastroenterologist practicing in Lawrenceville, Georgia and a clinical professor of medicine at Emory University Medical School in Atlanta. He developed a special passion for colorectal cancer prevention after becoming close with some of his patients. He is a founding member of the Georgia Colon Cancer Coalition which focused on… Read More
Alan Balch, Ph.D.
Alan is the newly appointed CEO of the Patient Advocate Foundation and National Patient Advocate Foundation, national non-profit organizations providing the patient voice in improving access to, and reimbursement for, high-quality healthcare through regulatory and legislative reform at the state and federal levels. Prior to this, Alan was the Vice President of the Preventive Health Partnership,… Read More
Michael J. Robertson
Until there is a cure for cancer, there will always be a degree of uncertainty in the fight – which treatment, accept the risks of surgery or not, how far to push treatment, etc. However, there is a dramatic difference in making decisions as an informed patient and being told what to do by a doctor… Read More
Sahar Wali
To me the fight to beat colorectal cancer is about increasing survivorship and early detection. The more we know, the better poised we are to beat it for good. I hope to help increase attention about the reality of colorectal cancer — that it can strike any one at any time and completely alter your life… Read More
Staff Members
Anjee Davis, President
Anjelica "Anjee" Davis joined Fight Colorectal Cancer in December of 2011. She is the second president to lead the charge at Fight Colorectal Cancer (Fight CRC). Prior to joining Fight CRC, Anjee was the administrative director at the University of South Carolina's Center for Colon Cancer Research (CCCR), overseeing an NIH funded research facility and the development… Read More
Michael Sola, Executive Vice President
Michael, a graduate of the State University of New York at Delhi, is a technologist and operations veteran with strong ties to the Non-Profit community. He brings a mix of for- and nonprofit experience to the table, spending the past decade in the environmental arena supporting national and regional organizations. Michael's focus on technical improvements and… Read More
Danielle Burgess, Director of Communications
Danielle Ripley-Burgess is a two-time colon cancer survivor and began working as the Director of Communications for Fight Colorectal Cancer in 2013. She was diagnosed with colon cancer a few weeks after her 17th birthday in 2001 and again at age 25 in 2009. Through over a decade of survivorship she's gotten involved in the colorectal cancer… Read More
Andrea (Andi) Dwyer, Director of Health Promotion
Andi is a public health practitioner from the University of Colorado Cancer Center and Colorado School of Public Health. She joined Fight Colorectal Cancer in 2014 to develop a health education program that provides relevant and timely information to survivors, caregivers, and families looking for reliable resources to guide them through a colorectal cancer diagnosis. Andi… Read More
Emily Piekut, Advocacy Manager
Emily joined Fight Colorectal Cancer in 2013. She is a graduate of the College of Charleston with a Bachelor's degree in Communication and a focus in Political Communication. After completing her undergraduate degree in just three years, she joined the team with experience in public relations, campaign communication, and journalism. With a strong interest in politics… Read More
Jerri Lyn Mooney, Office Manager
Jerri Lyn brings 10 years of experience as an office manager when she joined Fight Colorectal Cancer in 2009. Her background and expertise make her a valuable resource in handling the day-to-day activities of the organization. She is also well aware of the impact of cancer having lost her father in December 1999 to liver cancer.… Read More
Margaret Carvin, Policy Advisor
Margaret began her career in Washington, D.C. as a Legislative Assistant working for U.S. Senator William Armstrong from Colorado. She has worked for the House Judiciary Committee as a staff counsel for the Committee and U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) and as a Legal Counsel for the Office of Congressional Affairs. She worked closely with federal… Read More
Michell Baker, Partnership Manager
As the manager of our philanthropy efforts, Michell joined FightCRC in May of 2014 where she coordinates relationships with individuals and organizations who donate and fundraise for Fight Colorectal Cancer. She's an advocate for quality healthcare for all and passionate about awareness and screening. Michell lost her dad to colon cancer in June 2008 and attended… Read More
Keavy McAbee, Community Resource Manager
Keavy earned her Master of Public Health degree from the Colorado School of Public Health at the University of Colorado Denver. She joined Fight Colorectal Cancer in 2014. Keavy has been involved in several initiatives to promote health, increase access to screening and treatment, and influence health policy. Keavy has served as co-chair of the Colorectal… Read More
Grassroots Action Committee (GAC)
As we work to change policy, the Grassroots Action Committee (GAC) helps sets the pace by offering insights into our legislative priorities, engaging the grassroots advocates and planning our signature event Call-on Congress.
Medical Advisory Board (MAB)
Leading healthcare practitioners who work in colorectal cancer volunteer their time to ensure the information we offer patients is accurate and our patient education materials are on-point and address patient needs.
Research Advocates
Members of our Research Advocacy Training & Support group (RATS) volunteer their time as patient advocates. This group learns the science of research and then represents patients at medical conferences, seminars and more.


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New immigration policy, the good and the bad
The President unveiled a new immigration policy conveniently a few months before an election.
In looking at the details there's some good and some bad.
Here's the good:
It temporarily and partially answers a major immigration question -- what to do with the children that were brought here when they were young.
The Obama administration's plan will immediately stop deporting illegal immigrants that fall into that category, provided they entered this country prior to their 16th birthday. They have to be under the age of 30, have no criminal record and have a high school diploma or G.E.D.
The plan allows two-year work permits and immigrants can apply for one as many times as they wish.
Now, the bad:
It's blatant pandering for the Hispanic vote during election season.
Policies in this country shouldn't be shaped based on election strategy. The Obama administration's plan also doesn't answer any citizen questions.
But my main concern here is furthering the piecemeal approach this country takes to immigration reform. Instead of reform, we are getting a collection of laws that don't work together. That's not fair to any of us.
I've already heard several congressmen complain about the policy saying the President is going around Congress.
Here's the reality.
Congress doesn't want to touch the contentious immigration issue. It hasn't since the failed immigration reform plan of 2007, so don't complain now.
With all of this, I do hope that it leads us into a realistic discussion about illegal immigration.
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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Dusty Baker walked down the hallway in his former ballpark to cheers from Giants fans. He smiled, waved hello, offered handshakes, high-fives and hugs — even a few hang loose signs.
Arroyo gem puts Reds up 2-0 on Giants in NLDS
Baker is still beloved in the Bay Area 10 years after managing the Giants within six outs of a World Series title before falling short. That didn't change even after his Cincinnati Reds routed San Francisco 9-0 on Sunday night for a commanding 2-0 lead in their NL division series.
This time, it's the Reds riding some serious postseason momentum. Two years ago, the Giants made an improbable run to the city's first World Series championship and Cincinnati got swept out of the first round by the Phillies.
"You're not comfortable at all until it's over," Baker said. "We've been there before. It's hard to take the last breath out of anything."
Game 3 in the best-of-five series is Tuesday at Great American Ball Park. Homer Bailey (13-10), who pitched a no-hitter Sept. 28 at Pittsburgh, takes the mound as the Reds try to close out the series against Giants right-hander Ryan Vogelsong (14-9).
The Reds headed home to Ohio on quite a roll, thanks to a bunch of memorable firsts.
Bronson Arroyo won his first game in seven tries at San Francisco. Ryan Ludwick hit his first postseason home run, while Ryan Hanigan had his first playoff RBI.
More than anything on this night, it was Arroyo's turn to celebrate on what he figured to be a fun flight back to Cincinnati.
"We couldn't put ourselves in a better situation," he said. "It doesn't mean you're going to close it out, but for us personally, I know the fans are going to be as jacked as they have ever been in that ballpark since it has been built, which is going to be nice."
Arroyo retired his first 14 batters and delivered a gem a day after 19-game winner Johnny Cueto went down with a back injury.
A pair of Ryans provided the big hits. Ludwick connected leading off the second inning and Hanigan hit a two-run single in the fourth and a later RBI single. Jay Bruce added a two-run double and Joey Votto had three hits in his first multihit postseason game.
"Coming on the road, you think about getting one as a success and victory," Bruce said. "To be able to come here and get two is very important."
Many fans didn't stick around until the end to see the Giants get handed their worst playoff shutout in franchise history.
The Reds got their first playoff victory in 17 years by taking Game 1 without their ace Saturday night, and now they're going back home looking for their own sweep after the Phillies eliminated them in a frustrating three-game first round two years ago.
The Reds will try for their first postseason sweep since beating the Dodgers in the first round in 1995. Cincinnati got swept in the NL championship series that year by Atlanta to start what became a seven-game postseason losing streak.
The shaggy-haired Arroyo, the right-hander with that high leg kick slightly resembling the familiar motion of Giants Hall of Famer Juan Marichal, went untouched before Brandon Belt's two-out single to the gap in right-center with two out in the fifth. San Francisco didn't get another hit until Pablo Sandoval lined a double off the right-field arcade with two outs in the ninth.
"You hate to get beat like that, especially at home," Giants manager Bruce Bochy said. "It happened. We know where we're at right now. We know our backs are to the wall. We have to come out and be ready to play once we get to Cincinnati. I know they know what's at stake. They've done a great job all year bouncing back."
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Is pull-up/squat boot camp workout intense? Sir, yes sir!
Posted: April 22, 2013 at 1:56 a.m.
Boot camp classes have become all the rage among serious fitness enthusiasts. These action-packed group exercise formats attract all sorts of people, from the soccer mom to the professional athlete.
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