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Jetix is a children's television programming brand owned by The Walt Disney Company. The Jetix brand is used for blocks and channels featuring action-related live-action and animated programming.
On September 1, 2006, ABC Family dropped the Jetix block, which continued to air on its exclusive home, Toon Disney.
In February 2009, with Toon Disney being replaced by Disney XD (a new channel similar in scope to Jetix), the Jetix brand will no longer be used in the United States.
In United Kingdom and Ireland, The channel was launched in October 19 1996 as Fox Kids and it became Jetix on 1st January, 2005 at midnight. Most Jetix channels are basic cable or satellite pay channels. Jetix is also available as a timeshift hour-delay channel named Jetix+1. The UK and Ireland channel is carried on Sky Digital, Virgin Media, Tiscali TV and Chorus.
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Melissa Dallas, JD, head of the hospitality and restaurant administration department, will be stepping down effective June 1 to join the regular faculty on a nine-month appointment as professor.
After an internal search, Dean Tammy Jahnke is happy to announce that Dr. Stephanie Hein has agreed to serve as interim department head beginning June 1, pending board approval. Hein is looking forward to the opportunities and challenges of the year ahead.
She added, "It is an honor to lead the HRA department into its next phase of development. I am committed to building on Melissa's efforts and helping the HRA department, its students, faculty and staff realize continued success."
Jahnke said, "I thank Melissa Dallas for her five years of service as the head of HRA. The program provides great educational opportunities to its students and the department is poised for growth. I also thank Dr. Hein for agreeing to serve in this interim position. There is much to do in the coming year, and I look forward to working with Dr. Hein."
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Bob Roberts to be Senior Fellow at Center of Theological InquiryAug. 22, 2011
Bob Roberts, Distinguished Professor of Ethics, will be one of three Senior Fellows at the Center of Theological Inquiry in Princeton, New Jersey during the academic year 2013-14. The research topic for the year is Theological Inquiry on Religious Experience and Moral Identity. Roberts will use the fellowship as an occasion to write a book on Søren Kierkegaard's understanding of the virtues. Roberts will participate in Year 2 of a 3-year research program titled New Approaches in Theological Inquiry. The other two Senior Fellows for Year 2 are theologians Friederike Nüssel from the University of Heidelberg and Steven Pope from Boston College. Funding for the program comes from a $3.5 million grant by the John Templeton Foundation that will fund 36 resident fellowships over the 3 years. The topic for Year 1 (2012-13) is Theological Inquiry on Evolution and Human Development. The topic for Year 3 (2013-14) will be Theological Inquiry on Law and Religious Liberty. Full-year fellowships will be awarded of up to $70,000, plus a publication award of $12,000 upon completion of a major writing project during the year of residence. Fellowship applications for Year 1 will be received starting September 1, 2011. A video introducing the program and the Center by its Director William Storrar can be accessed at http://www.ctinquiry.org/


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Shaktism regards Devi (lit., "the Goddess") as the Supreme Brahman itself, the "one without a second", with all other forms of divinity, female or male, considered to be merely her diverse manifestations. In the details of its philosophy and practice, Shaktism resembles Saivism. However, Shaktas (Sanskrit: , शक्त), practitioners of Shaktism, focus most or all worship on Shakti, as the dynamic feminine aspect of the Supreme Divine. Shiva, the masculine aspect of divinity, is considered solely transcendent, and his worship is generally relegated to an auxiliary role.
The roots of Shaktism penetrate deep into India's prehistory. From the Goddess's earliest known appearance in Indian paleolithic settlements more than 22,000 years ago, through the refinement of her cult in the Indus Valley Civilization, her partial eclipse during the Vedic period, and her subsequent resurfacing and expansion in Sanskrit tradition, it has been suggested that, in many ways, "the history of the Hindu tradition can be seen as a reemergence of the feminine.
Over the course of its history, Shaktism has inspired great works of Sanskrit literature and Hindu philosophy, and it continues to strongly influence popular Hinduism today. Shaktism is practiced throughout the Indian subcontinent and beyond, in countless forms, both Tantric and non-Tantric; however, its two largest and most visible schools are the Srikula, or family of Sri, strongest in South India, and the Kalikula, or family of Kali, which prevails in northern and eastern India.
Shaktas conceive the Goddess as the Supreme Deity, who is the source of the cosmos and the energy that governs and controls it. But, "nowhere in the religious history of the world do we come across such a completely female-oriented system." Shaktism's focus on the Divine Feminine does not imply a rejection of Masculine or Neuter divinity; however, both are deemed to be inactive in the absence of Shakti. In Shakta worship, Shiva is cast in an "inferior or dependent role as a servant or gatekeeper of the goddess". Shaktas declare that Shiva would be a shava (corpse) without the power of the goddess to guide him. This doctrine is emphasized in the images of Kali standing on a seemingly dead Shiva.
As set out in Adi Shankara's renowned Shakta hymn, Saundaryalahari (c. 800 CE), "Shiva when united to Shakti permeates and sustains the Universe, but [he] cannot have an iota of activity when dissociated from Shakti. This is the basic and fundamental tenet in Shaktism."
Shakti (the Supreme Goddess as Power or Energy) is considered the motivating force behind all action and existence in the phenomenal cosmos. The cosmos itself is Brahman: the unchanging, infinite, immanent and transcendent reality that provides the divine ground of all being. Masculine potentiality is actualized by feminine dynamism, embodied in multitudinous goddesses who are ultimately reconciled into one.
The noted historian V. R. Ramachandra Dikshitar expressed it thus: "Shaktism is dynamic Hinduism. The excellence of Shaktism lies in its affirmation of Shakti as Consciousness and of the identity of Shakti and Brahman. In short, Brahman is static Shakti and Shakti is dynamic Brahman. In religious art, this cosmic dynamic is powerfully expressed in the half-Shakti, half-Shiva deity known as Ardhanari.
Shaktism views the Devi as the source, essence and substance of virtually everything in creation, seen or unseen, including Shiva. Indeed, in the Devi-Bhagavata Purana, a central Shakta scripture, the Devi declares:
"I am Manifest Divinity, Unmanifest Divinity, and Transcendent Divinity. I am Brahma, Vishnu and Shiva, as well as Saraswati, Lakshmi and Parvati. I am the Sun and I am the Stars, and I am also the Moon. I am all animals and birds, and I am the outcaste as well, and the thief. I am the low person of dreadful deeds, and the great person of excellent deeds. I am Female, I am Male, and I am Neuter."
The religious scholar C. MacKenzie Brown explains that Shaktism "clearly insists that, of the two genders, the feminine represents the dominant power in the universe. Yet both genders must be included in the ultimate if it is truly ultimate. The masculine and the feminine are aspects of the divine, transcendent reality, which goes beyond but still encompasses them. Devi, in her supreme form as consciousness thus transcends gender, but her transcendence is not apart from her immanence.
Brown's analysis continues, "Indeed, this affirmation of the oneness of transcendence and immanence constitutes the very essence of the divine mother [and her] ultimate triumph. It is not, finally, that she is infinitely superior to the male gods – though she is that, according to [Shaktism] – but rather that she transcends her own feminine nature as Prakriti without denying it.
When the term "Tantra" is used in relation to authentic Hindu Shaktism, it most often refers to a class of ritual manuals, and – more broadly – to an esoteric methodology of Goddess-focused spiritual discipline (sadhana) involving mantra, yantra, nyasa, mudra and certain elements of traditional kundalini yoga, all practiced under the guidance of a qualified guru after due initiation (diksha) and oral instruction to supplement various written sources.
In its social interactions, Tantra is "free from all sorts of caste and patriarchal prejudices. A woman or a shudra is entitled to function in the role of [guru]. All women are regarded as manifestations of Shakti, and hence they are the object of respect and devotion. Whoever offends them incurs the wrath of the great goddess. Every [male aspirant] has to realize the latent Female Principle within himself, and only by [thus] 'becoming female' is he entitled to worship the Supreme Being
More controversial elements, such as the "Five Ms" or panchamakara, are employed under certain circumstances by some Tantric Shakta sects. However, these elements tend to be overemphasized and sensationalized by commentators (both friendly and hostile) who are ill-informed regarding authentic doctrine and practice. Moreover, even within the tradition itself there are wide differences of opinion regarding the proper interpretation of the panchamakara, and some lineages reject them altogether.
In sum, the complex social and historical interrelations of Tantric and non-Tantric elements in Shaktism – and Hinduism in general – are an extremely fraught and nuanced topic of discussion. However, as a general rule:
"Ideas and practices that collectively characterize Tantrism pervade classical Hinduism [and] it would be an error to consider Tantrism apart from its complex interrelations with non-Tantric traditions. Literary history demonstrates that Vedic-oriented brahmins have been involved in Shakta Tantrism from its incipient stages of development, that is, from at least the sixth century. While Shakta Tantrism may have originated in [pre-Vedic, indigenous] goddess cults, any attempt to distance Shakta Tantrism from the Sanskritic Hindu traditions [...] will lead us astray.
Nonetheless, several highly popular goddess forms are known and worshiped throughout the Hindu world, and virtually every female deity in Hinduism is believed to be a manifestation of one or more of these "basic" forms. The best-known benevolent goddesses of popular Hinduism include:
Goddess groups – such as the "Nine Durgas" (Navadurga), "Eight Lakshmis" (Ashta-Lakshmi) or the "Fifteen Nityas" – are very common in Hinduism. But no group better reveals the elements of Shaktism better than the Ten Mahavidyas (Dasamahavidya). Through them, Shaktas believe, "the one Truth is sensed in ten different facets; the Divine Mother is adored and approached as ten cosmic personalities. The Mahavidyas are considered Tantric in nature, and are usually identified as:
Another major goddess group is the Sapta-Matrika ("Seven Little Mothers"), "who are the energies of different major gods, and described as assisting the great Shakta Devi in her fight with demons. According to Bhattacharyya:
"The growing importance of Shaktism [of the matrikas and yoginis in the first millennium CE] brought them into greater prominence and distributed their cult far and wide. [...] The primitive Yogini cult was also revived on account of the increasing influenced of the cult of the Seven Mothers. In Sanskrit literature the Yoginis have been represented as the attendants or various manifestations of Durga engaged in fighting with [various demons], and the principal Yoginis are identified with the Matrikas.
The beginnings of Shaktism are shrouded in the mists of prehistory. The earliest Mother Goddess figurine unearthed in India, belonging to the Upper Paleolithic, has been carbon-dated to approximately 20,000 BCE. Thousands of female statuettes dated as early as c. 5500 BCE have been recovered at Mehrgarh, one of the most important Neolithic sites in world archaeology. While it is impossible to precisely reconstruct the religious beliefs of a civilization so distantly removed in time, it is widely believed, based on archaeological and anthropological evidence, that the great Indus Valley Civilization is probably a direct predecessor of the modern Shakta religion.
As the Indus Valley Civilization slowly declined and dispersed, its peoples mixed with other groups to eventually give rise to Vedic Civilization (c. 1500 - 600 BCE). Shaktism as it exists today began with the literature of the Vedic Age; further evolved during the formative period of the Hindu epics; reached its full flower during the Gupta Age (300-700 CE), and continued to expand and develop thereafter.
The most central and pivotal text in Shaktism is the Devi Mahatmya (also known as the Durga Saptashati, Chandi or Chandi-Path), composed some 1,600 years ago. Here, for the first time, "the various mythic, cultic and theological elements relating to diverse female divinities were brought together in what has been called the 'crystallization of the Goddess tradition.'
Other important texts include the canonical Shakta Upanishads, as well as Shakta-oriented Puranic literature such as the Devi Purana and Kalika Purana, the Lalita Sahasranama (from the Brahmanda Purana), the Devi Gita (from the Devi-Bhagavata Purana), Adi Shankara's Saundaryalahari and the Tantras.
In recent times, Bhattacharyya notes, Shaktism has so infused mainstream Hinduism that it has in certain respects "ceased to be a sectarian religion," in that it presents "no difficulty for anyone to accept its essence. Recent developments related to Shaktism include the emergence of Bharat Mata ("Mother India") symbolism, the increasing visibility of Hindu female saints and gurus, and the prodigious rise of the "new" goddess Santoshi Mata following release of the Indian film Jai Santoshi Maa ("Hail to the Mother of Satisfaction") in 1975. As Johnsen notes:
"Today just as 10,000 years ago, images of the Goddess are everywhere in India. You'll find them painted on the sides of trucks, pasted to the dashboards of taxis, postered on the walls of shops. You'll often see a color painting of the Goddess prominently displayed in Hindu homes. Usually the picture is hung high on the wall so you have to crane your neck backward, looking up toward her feet. [...] In India, Goddess worship is not a 'cult,' it's a religion, [...] an extraordinarily spiritually and psychologically mature tradition. Millions of people turn every day with heartfelt yearning to the Mother of the Universe.
Shaktism encompasses a nearly endless variety of practices – from primitive animism through philosophical speculation of the highest order – that seek to access the Shakti (Divine Energy or Power) that is believed to be both the Devi's nature and form. Its two largest and most visible schools are the Srikula, or family of Sri, strongest in South India, and the Kalikula, or family of Kali, which prevails in northern and eastern India.
The Srikula (family of Sri) tradition (sampradaya) focuses worship on Devi in the form of the goddess Lalita-Tripurasundari, who conceived as the great Goddess (Mahadevi). Rooted in first-millennium Kashmir, Srikula became a force in South India no later than the seventh century, and is today the prevalent form of Shaktism practiced in states of South India such as Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Kerala, Tamil Nadu and Tamil Sri Lanka. The Srikula "family of the Goddess Sri (or Lakshmi)," , unlike Kalikula, the other school of Shaktism, respects the brahminical tradition (a mainstream Hindu tradition which respects caste and purity rules) and is strongest in South India.
The Srikula's best-known school is Srividya, "one of Shakta Tantrism's most influential and theologically sophisticated movements. Its central image, the Sri Chakra, is probably the most famous visual image in all of Hindu Tantric tradition. Its literature and practice is perhaps more systematic than [that of] any other Shakta sect.
Srividya perceives the Goddess as "benign (saumya) and beautiful (saundarya)", a contrast to Kalikula's perception of the Goddess as "terrifying (ugra) and horrifying (ghora)" Kali or Durga. However, every aspect of the Goddess - malignant or gentle - is identified with Lalita.
The Sri Chakra is worshiped as Lalita's subtle form, either as a two-dimensional diagram (sometimes drawn temporarily as part of the worship ritual; sometimes a permanent engraving in metal) or in the three-dimensional, pyramidal form known as the Sri Meru. It is not uncommon to find a Sri Chakra or Sri Meru installed in South Indian temples, because – as modern practitioners assert – "there is no disputing that this is the highest form of Devi and that some of the practice can be done openly. But what you see in the temples is not the srichakra worship you see when it is done privately.
The Srividya paramparas can be further broadly subdivided into two streams, the Kaula (a vamamarga practice) and the Samaya (a dakshinamarga practice). The Kaula or Kaulachara, "first appeared as a coherent ritual system" in the eighth century in central India, and its champion is the 18th century philosopher Bhaskararaya, who is widely considered "the best exponent of Shakta philosophy.
The Samaya or Samayacharya finds its roots in the works of a 16th century commentator, Lakshmidhara, and is "fiercely puritanical [in its] attempts to reform Tantric practice in ways that bring it in line with high-caste brahmanical norms." Many Samaya practitioners, in fact, explicitly deny being either Shakta or Tantric; however, Brooks argues that their cult remains technically both, "even if Samayins would reject this appellation."
Outside brahamanic circles, Kaula lineages remain alive and well – though their practitioners generally prefer to worship in private, in keeping with the Hindu adage, "When in public, be a Vaishnava. When among friends, be a Shaiva. But in private, always be a Shakta. The Samaya-Kaula division marks "an old dispute within Hindu Tantrism," and one that continues to be vigorously debated to this day.
The Kalikula (family of Kali) form of Shaktism is most dominant in northern and eastern India, and is most widely prevalent in West Bengal, Assam, Bihar and Orissa, as well as parts of Maharashtra and Bangladesh. Kalikula lineages focus upon the Devi as the source of wisdom (vidya) and liberation (moksha). They generally stand "in opposition to the brahmanic tradition," which they view as "overly conservative and denying the experiential part of religion." Some scholars state outright that the Kalikula school rejects brahminical tradition. These views are difficult to reconcile with the plurality of views within the larger Hindu tradition outside of the Kalikula school; the great Hindu saint, Ramakrishna, probably, one of the most famous worshippers of Kali, was born in a traditional brahmin family, and worshipped Her as the Divine Mother; furthermore, he was not a follower of the kalikula school, but rather an adherent of the smarta advaitic tradition, which considers Devi to be one of the five equal forms of the Divine. ;
The main deities of Kalikula are Kali, Chandi and Durga. Other goddesses that enjoy veneration are Tara and the all other Mahavidyas as well as regional goddesses such as Manasa, the snake goddess, and Sitala, the smallpox goddess - all considered aspects of the Divine Mother.
Two major centers of Shaktism in West Bengal are Kalighat in Calcutta and Tarapith in Birbhum district. In Calcutta, emphasis is on devotion (bhakti) to the goddess as Kali:
She is "the loving mother who protects her children and whose fierceness guards them. She is outwardly frightening – with dark skin, pointed teeth, and a necklace of skulls – but inwardly beautiful. She can guarantee a good rebirth or great religious insight, and her worship is often communal – especially at festivals, such as Kali Puja and Durga Puja. Worship may involve contemplation of the devotee's union with or love of the goddess, visualization of her form, chanting [of her] mantras, prayer before her image or yantra, and giving [of] offerings."
At Tarapith, Devi's manifestation as Tara ("She Who Saves") or Ugratara ("Fierce Tara") is ascendant, as the goddess who gives liberation (kaivalyadayini). [...] The forms of sadhana performed here are more yogic and tantric than devotional, and they often involve sitting alone at the [cremation] ground, surrounded by ash and bone. There are shamanic elements associated with the Tarapith tradition, including 'conquest of the goddess', exorcism, trance, and control of spirits."
The philosophical and devotional underpinning of all such ritual, however, remains a pervasive vision of the Devi as supreme, absolute divinity. As expressed by the nineteenth-century saint Ramakrishna, one of the most influential figures in modern Bengali Shaktism:
"Kali is none other than Brahman. That which is called Brahman is really Kali. She is the Primal Energy. When that Energy remains inactive, I call It Brahman, and when It creates, preserves, or destroys, I call It Shakti or Kali. What you call Brahman I call Kali. Brahman and Kali are not different. They are like fire and its power to burn: if one thinks of fire one must think of its power to burn. If one recognizes Kali one must also recognize Brahman; again, if one recognizes Brahman one must recognize Kali. Brahman and Its Power are identical. It is Brahman whom I address as Shakti or Kali.
The most important Shakta festival is Navratri (The "Festival of Nine Nights", or "Sharad [Autumn] Navratri"), which together with the tenth day, known as Dusshera or Vijayadashami, commemorates the Devi's victory over various demons in the Devi Mahatmya. In Bengal, the last four days of Navaratri are celebrated as Durga Puja, marking slaying of buffalo-demon Mahishasura by Durga.
Other Navaratris include Vasanta Navaratri ("The Spring Festival of Nine Nights" or Chaitra Navatri) - celebrated during late spring to summer (March-April) in the Hindu month of Chaitra and Ashada Navaratri("The Summer Festival of Nine Nights") in the Hindu month Ashadha. Srividya lineages celebrate Vasanta Navaratri as goddess Lalita's Navratri as opposed to Durga's Navratri in the autumn. The Vaishno Devi temple in Jammu observes its major Navaratri celebration during this period. Ashada Navaratri is particularly important for devotees of the boar-headed goddess Varahi, one of the seven Matrikas of the Devi Mahatmya.
Most Shaktas worship Lakshmi ceremonially at home on this, the full moon night following Durga Puja this is also called as Khojagiri Lakshmi Puja. Another festival dedicated to Lakshmi is Diwali (or Deepavali; the "Festival of Lights"). The major Hindu holiday of Diwali, the North Indian New Year, is held on the night of the new moon in the Hindu month of Kartik (usually October or November). Shaktas (and many non-Shaktas) consider it as another Lakshmi Puja, placing small oil lamps outside their homes and praying for the goddess to come and bless them. Diwali coincides with the celebration of Kali Puja, popular in Bengal, with some Shakta traditions focusing their worship on Devi as Kali rather than Devi as Lakshmi.
Jagaddhatri Puja is celebrated on the last four days of the Navaratis, following Kali Puja. It is very similar to Durga Puja in its details and observance, and is especially popular in Bengal and some other parts of Eastern India.
Gauri Puja is performed on the fifth day after Ganesh Chaturthi, during Ganesha Puja in Western India, to celebrate the arrival of Gauri, Mother of Ganesha, to come and bring her son back home.
There are variant dates for Saraswati Puja, depending upon region and local tradition. Commonly, on the fifth day of the Hindu month of Phalguna (January-February), students offer their books and musical instruments to Saraswati and pray for her blessings in their studies. In some parts of India, Saraswati Puja is celebrated in the month of Magh; in others, during the final three days of Navratri.
Major Shakta temple festivals are Meenakshi Kalyanam and Ambubachi Mela. Meenakshi Kalyanam observes the auspicious occasion of Devi's (as Meenakshi) marriage to Lord Sundareshwara (Shiva) is centered around the Meenakshi Amman Temple in Madurai, Tamil Nadu. It runs for 12 days, counting from the second day of the lunar month of Chaitra, in April or May. Ambubachi Mela is a celebration of the yearly menstruation of the goddess, held in June/July (during the monsoon season) at Kamakhya Temple, Guwahati, Assam. Here the Devi is worshiped in the form of a yoni-like stone over which a naturally red-tinted spring flows.
There are thousands of Shakti temples; vast or tiny, famous or obscure. Moreover, countless cities, towns, villages and geographic landmarks are named for various forms of the Devi. "In this vast country, holy resorts of the goddess are innumerable and the popularity of her cult is proved even in the place-names of India.
At various times, different writers have attempted to organize some of these into lists of "Shakti Peethas"; literally "Seats of the Devi", or more broadly, "Places of Power". Numbering anywhere from four to 51 (in the most famous list, found in the Tantra Cudamani), "the peethas [became] a popular theme of the medieval writers, many of whom took the greatest liberty in fabricating the place names, the goddesses and their bhairavas [consorts].
"The Tantras are the bible of Shaktism, [...] identifying all Force with the female principle in nature and teaching an undue adoration of the wives of Shiva and Vishnu to the neglect of their male counterparts. [...] It is certain that a vast number of the inhabitants of India are guided in their daily life by Tantrik teaching, and are in bondage to the gross superstitions inculcated in these writings. And indeed it can scarcely be doubted that Shaktism is Hinduism arrived at its worst and most corrupt stage of development.
Statements of this kind, White notes, are based principally on the ignorance, misunderstanding and prejudice of some outside observers, as well as the unscrupulous practices of certain insiders. "It is in this context that many Hindus in India today deny the relevance of Tantra to their tradition, past or present, identifying what they call tantra-mantra as so much mumbo-jumbo.
Further muddying the waters, "a number of Indian and Western spiritual entrepreneurs have been offering 'Tantric Sex' to a mainly American and European clientele for the past several decades. Presenting the entire history of Tantra as a unified, monolithic 'cult of ecstasy' and assuming that all that has smacked of eroticism in Indian culture is by definition Tantric, New Age Tantra eclectically blends together Indian erotics, techniques of massage, Ayurveda, and yoga into a single invented tradition [...] pitched at a leisured populace of seekers who treat 'Tantric sex' as a consumer product.
Nor is it uncommon to encounter assertions that the Shaiva and Vaishnava schools of Hinduism lead to moksha, or spiritual liberation, whereas Shaktism leads merely to siddhis (occult powers) and bhukti (material enjoyments) – or, at best (according to some Shaiva interpreters), to Shaivism; for example, Satguru Sivaya Subramuniyaswami has stated that in Shaktism, emphasis is given to the feminine manifest by which the masculine Un-manifest Parasiva is ultimately reached. Such claims are dismissed by serious theologians within Shaktism:
"Each of the [Divine Mother's] vidyas [aspects of wisdom, i.e. forms] is a Brahma Vidya [path to Supreme Wisdom]. The sadhaka of any one of these [Shakta paths] attains ultimately, if his aspiration is such, the supreme purpose of life – self-realisation and God-realisation, [for] realising the Goddess is not different from [realising] one's self."
Shaktism has also become a focus of some Western spiritual seekers attempting to construct new Goddess-centered faiths. An academic study of Western Kali enthusiasts noted that, "as shown in the histories of all cross-cultural religious transplants, Kali devotionalism in the West must take on its own indigenous forms if it is to adapt to its new environment. However, these East-West fusions can also raise complex and troubling issues of cultural appropriation.
Writers and thinkers, "notably feminists and participants in New Age spirituality who are attracted to goddess worship", have explored Kali in new light. She is considered as a "symbol of wholeness and healing, associated especially with repressed female power and sexuality." These new interpretations have originated from "feminist sources,almost none of which base their interpretations on a close reading of Kali's Indian background". "It is hard to import the worship of a goddess from another culture: religious associations and connotations have to be learned, imagined or intuited when the deep symbolic meanings embedded in the native culture are not available."
A powerful motivation behind Western interest in Shaktism has been suggested by Linda Johnsen, a popular writer on Eastern spirituality, who asserts that many central concepts of Shaktism – including aspects of kundalini yoga as well as goddess worship – were once "common to the Hindu, Chaldean, Greek and Roman civilizations," but were largely lost to the West, as well as the Near and Middle East, with the rise of the Abrahamic religions:
"Of these four Great Ancient Civilizations, working knowledge of the inner forces of enlightenment has survived on a mass scale only in India. Only in India has the inner tradition of the Goddess endured. This is the reason the teachings of India are so precious. They offer us a glimpse of what our own ancient wisdom must have been. The Indians have preserved our lost heritage. [...] Today it is up to us to locate and restore the tradition of the living Goddess. We would do well to begin our search in India, where for not one moment in all of human history have the children of the living Goddess forgotten their Divine Mother.


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7 July 2011 | As ancillary fees for checked baggage, priority boarding, extra legroom seats, etcetera, become more commonplace in the airline industry, several airlines have been introducing branded/bundled fares and annual ancillary subscriptions as a next step. United Airlines, for example, offers unlimited checked baggage for USD349 a year, while airBaltic recently introduced a similar fee in partnership with luggage brand Samsonite. Another category are 'fare clubs', which for an annual fee, provide regular travellers with a standard discount or access to member-only fares.
Wizz Air 'Xclusive Club'
Wizz Air, a low-cost airline from Poland that offers flights from several bases in Central and Eastern Europe, has recently launched a new membership program called Wizz Xclusive Club. For an annual fee of EUR 29.99, Wizz Xclusive Club members get exclusive access to a pool of tickets that can be cheaper by up to 10 EUR per one-way flight than regular prices. Up to 9 passengers can be booked together with the Xclusive Club member on the same reservation and benefit from the discounted fares. Wizz Air is the first airline in Europe to offer a 'fare club' and says that in the first two weeks following the rollout, almost 50 thousand customers signed up.
Spirit Airlines '$9 Fare Club'
Wizz Air seems to have been inspired by Florida-based low-cost carrier Spirit Airlines, which in 2008 launched its '$9 Fare Club'. Spirit guarantees a member-only sale, with ticket prices as low as a few dollars, at least once every six weeks, but usually offers at least one sale per week. The special fares are offered on a first come, first serve basis and travellers flying on the same ticket will receive the members-only fare as well. Annual membership of the $9 Fare Club costs USD59.95, but those who sign up for a Spirit-branded MasterCard also obtain a free membership to the $9 Fare Club.
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7 April 2010 | Ultra low-cost carrier Spirit Airlines has become the first airline in the USA – perhaps in the world – to charge passengers with carry-on luggage as much as USD45 each way for stowing a bag in the overhead bin. Spirit said it will add measuring devices at the gates to determine which carry-ons are free and which ones will incur the charge. Personal items that fit under the seat will still be free, as long as they aren't bigger than 16 x 14 x12 inches (40 x 30 x 20cm). Other exceptions to the fee are umbrellas, coats, strollers or car seats, reading material for the flight, or food passengers bring to eat on board. The new charge is USD30 if paid in advance online, USD45 if paid at the airport, and USD20 for frequent-flyer members. Passengers that pay the carry-on luggage fee will get priority when boarding.
Spirit, which likes to compare itself to budget carrier Ryanair, was the first US carrier to impose checked baggage fees in 2008 and at the moment all major airlines except Southwest and JetBlue charge to check a bag on domestic flights. However, many passengers have been bringing large and heavy bags into the aircraft instead to avoid checked luggage fees. The U.S Association of Flight Attendants has even launched an 'End Carry-on Crunch' campaign to protest against the number of people who bring overstuffed bags on board and clog the overhead space.
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Can you believe that the 2012 Summer Olympiad are only two days away? I can almost hear the angry sighs of the whole world as we all gather in front of our TVs to be bored by some track and field event. What can be done to make the games more interesting? They can start by embracing the debauchery of the Olympics. It's a shame that we couldn't get to this sooner because the London Games are the thirtieth Olympiad making their official name the Games of the XXX Olympiad*.
It can't be a surprise that when you get hundreds of beautiful people in peek physical condition living in close quarters that things will turn crazy (see Federica Pellegrini as an example of hotness to the left of this text)? They've been training sometimes their whole lives for a 30 second event. They're going to party afterwards but to what extent is still sort of hidden from the general public. Continue Reading


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Congress and campuses feud over social sciences
They explore how people choose presidents, gauge the impact of divorce, analyze the habits of good teachers and calculate the cost of environmental disasters.
But is the work of social and behavioral scientists truly rigorous and relevant?
The question has surfaced anew in a long-standing political and philosophical battle that pits some powerful members of Congress against professors at schools like the University of California San Diego, where nearly half of undergraduates enroll in the social sciences.
The dispute has affected federal funding for political science research. Support for economic studies also has been threatened. The situation is causing anxiety on campuses, where professors worry that cuts will go deeper and spread to other fields.
The clash also has led to introspection. Professors at UC San Diego, San Diego State University and the University of San Diego say academia hasn't done enough to clearly explain the nature and value or their work and how they're preparing students for the marketplace.
The decades-old fight reignited in March when Congress approved a major spending bill that says the National Science Foundation can only fund political science research that helps improve the economy and national security.
The restriction was made at the request of Sen. Tom Coburn, R-Oklahoma, who has long questioned the value of the social and behavioral sciences, which include sociology, psychology, anthropology, political science, economics, and linguistics.
In a letter to the science foundation, Coburn said the agency was wasting money to help study such things as the public's attitude toward filibusters in the U.S. Senate and how much the president cooperates with Congress when executive orders are issued.
Coburn, who has the backing of many conservative lawmakers, also criticized funding in more purely scientific fields such as biology. He was particularly unhappy that federal money has been used at SDSU to develop robotic squirrels for use in wildlife research.
The agency mulled the matter, then decided in August to temporarily stop accepting grant proposals in political science, a move that likely freezes up about $10 million. That's pocket change at places like UCSD, which brings in about $1 billion a year for research. But the freeze sent a chill through academia.
One of the sharpest responses came in September from the Association of American Universities, the elite organization that represents UCSD and 61 other top research schools. AAU defended the value — and mere existence — of the social and behavorial sciences, and complained about efforts by some members of Congress "to relegate such research to a second-class status.''
The discussion is not new and hasn't been reserved for Republicans. The late Sen. William Proxmire, D-Wisconsin, used to give out Golden Fleece Awards highlighting what he considered to be wasteful spending. The social sciences made his list.
Researchers say the current fight has a different feel to it.
"The decision by Congress to rewrite the rules for political science funding is something new," said Isaac Martin, a sociologist at UCSD. "To my knowledge, it was the first time Congress had singled out a particular division in NSF, and to substitute its judgments for those of scientists."


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Canh Nguyen Automated license plate recognition and number extraction
Andy Abou-Harb Developing an intelligen decision support system using fuzzy logic for Eye-Hand Coordination Assessment/Therapy
Nicholas Taijeron 3D building model reconstruction using 2D blueprints
Alan Zhao Using neural networks for predicting default rate on fixed mortgages
Brian Mills SVMs for hand written number recognition
Sargis Panosyan Automated seed uniformity and germiation detection
Ohanes Dadian Using neural networks for controllers for UAVs
Chao Li Automated seed germination detection and analysis software
Jose Godinez Hybrid wavelet compression for multi-dimensional excitation-emmision fluorescence data
Razmik Gregorians Image compression algorithm using modified run length coding
Alex Guiterrez Neural networks for hand written number recognition
Nikunj Parikh and Cesar Davila Application for the mobile platform
Joshua Scoggins Developing mobile application using Objective-C
Anthony Mendez FORCIT software on a FreeBSD machine
Alex Wood and Aaron Mckellar Using QT to build the E.S.P. application for chemistry publication format generator
Salil Pandit and JinChao Chen Tennis Ladder software using PHP and MySQL
Ohanes Dadian Parallel computing on heterogenous systems
Jeremiah Jobs Dictionary based word multi-platform game development using QT
Andie Cheung Develop a QT tutorial for multi-platform GUI application development
Lesia Bilitchenko Graphical User Interfae for 3D building floor plan visualization
Patrick Williams Background subtraction for extraction of human body in images
Cheik Kone Using 2D images for 3D model reconstruction
Arnold Florendo and Don Benson Visualization software for the advanced 3-D locator device
Antony Lam Neural networks comparitive analysis for fabric drape prediction
Jin Kim Neural Networks prediction of Active Protein Sites
Chang Kim Automated extraction of seed characteristics for germination detection
Yuhan Zhang Automated Human Body measurement extraction from Images using a digital camera
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Timothy Chan RBF Neural Network to Detect Cheating on the Computerized CERAD Word List Memory Test
Zachary Ramjan Develop an intutive multi-platform GUI for Cassandra
Swati Pande Predicting protein catalytic sites using neural networks from sequence only data
Huan Doan Reducing Shadow Map Aliasing in Large Environments Using a Reparameterization and Variance Approach
Yan Wu Fast Global Illumination: Photon Mapping using On-Demand Estimate with Irradiance Map
Yuan Chen Wavelet Lifting for Speckle Noise Reduction in Medical Ultrasound Images Systems Analyst at Cal Poly
Antony Lam Neural Network Models for Fabric Drape Prediction Doctoral Student at UC Riverside
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Spondon Saha * Simultaneous Task Allocation to Multi-Robot Coalitions
Wan Wan Ip * Object-oriented database design for the use of protein structure visualization
Andrew Avilia * ESHU: Analysis Tools for Orunmila Ligand-Protein Docking and Scoring system
Bao Ngo * Identity Based Cryptosystem
Ashish Nanda * Verification and Validation in Software Engineering/Database Systems
Gunwan Hartono * Neural Network based Control of Robot
Michael Dang * Visualization of Structures of Chemicals
Jeffery Faust * Tracking Small Falling Objects in Video
Adrian Tinio * Neural Network based Data Mining for Credit Card Fraud Detection
Kunal Gandhi * A web service of interoperability of Reaction Retrieval Systems
Md. Mahmudur Rahmen * Uniform and Autonomous Indexing of Multimedia Meta Data
Yi Yang * Robust System for Gene Identification
Shawn Than * Parallel Implementation Approach for Pairwise Alignment Algorithms
Yulan Luo* Visualization of Multidimensional Database
Tjandra Afandi* ALAN; A Learning-Oriented General Puprpose Algorithm Animation System
Piyawan Patcharaprasertsook * Web-based Adaptive Authoring Tool using XML
Alex Cheng * Modeling and Implementing of Temporal Relational Database
Anni Asadoorian* Content-Based Image retrieval from Multimedia Database
Parmonangan Nainggolan* XML-Based Intelligent Screen Monitor for GUI
Kim-Thi Nguyen* Application of SOMs in Gene Clustering
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Play Ball!Wednesday, August 15th, 2012
There is a lot of news this week: Petaluma Little League team going to the Little League World Series in Pennsylvania. They are one of 8 US teams to compete, along with 8 International teams. The first game is Thurs. 8/16; the Boulevard Cinemas will show the first two games in two of its largest auditoriums, at $15/per ticket—monies go to the families of team members to help offset the costs of traveling to the tournament.
Remember, school starts next Monday, Aug. 20th. If you commute to work, take some extra time to allow for added traffic.
Regarding politics – we now know who is running on the Republican Ticket. Prepare to be deluged with political advertising which will include telephone calls, flyers/postcards in your mail; don't be surprised if it is negative & ugly. Remember to be an informed voter; take the time to read about policies the candidates want to change or what they support, and why.
A couple of interesting events this weekend: Cotati Accordion Festival on Fri. & Sat. (8/18 & 19), call 707-664-0444; on Sat. 8/18, the Holstein 100 Bike Ride (and Walk) in Petaluma, call 415-663-8148; or Sat. 8/18, Late Summer Open garden hosted by the Russian River Rose Company (Free) in Healdsburg, call 707-433-7455.


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China's National Peking Opera Theatre Launches Japan Tour
China's National Peking Opera Theatre launched its 2006 Japan tour at the Kanagawa Prefectual Civic Hall on June 6, performing famous scenes from "Romance of the Three Kingdoms." Most of the scenes center around Zhuge Liang (181 - 234 A.D.), the most popular statesman and strategic general in Chinese history. In "Battle of Red Cliffs" the armies of Shu and Wu Kingdoms join forces to defeat Wei's army. Other scenes include Liu Bei's three visits to Zhuge Liang inviting him to become his key advisor. The scene from "Battle of Wuzhang Plain" was newly created for the current show. [Established in 1955, the National Peking Opera Theatre is the only state-managed theatre for Peking opera. The first director of the theatre was renowned classical Chinese opera star Mei Lanfang (1894-1961). The opera troupe's performances have been well-received in China and abroad. This is the theatre's second Min-On sponsored Japan tour, following its first tour in 2002 viewed by some 120,000. Contact the Min-On ticket office in the respective areas for information on dates & times, venues, and tickets.]


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For the first time, the grand prize at Italy's leading international wine competition has been awarded to an Israeli winery.
The Golan Heights Winery, founded in 1983 in Katzrin, beat out 3,720 wines from from more than 1,000 producers in 30 countries to take home the so-called "Wine World Cup"—the Gran Vinitaly Special Award granted ahead of Italy's annual Vinitaly wine trade fair in Verona, one of Europe's top wine events, which opens Friday.
It was the first time that the grand prize was given to an Israeli wine-maker, although the Golan Heights Winery had already won Grand Gold Medals at Vinitaly in 2004 and 2006.
The 105-member jury included international wine experts and journalists.
The Golan Heights Winery's chief winemaker is Victor Schoenfeld, a graduate of the University of California at Davis.
The wines are marketed under the Yarden, Gamla and Golan labels.
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CARBONDALE, Ill. - With apologies to sophomore Edina Begic, who easily recorded a season-high 31 kills, tonight was a UALR block party against UT Martin.
The Trojans matched a season-high in the conference with 16 team blocks and sophomore Adisa Hodzic tallied 10 assisted blocks as UALR (3-4) downed UT Martin (1-6) in four sets 25-14, 22-25, 25-23, 25-21 Friday night in the first match of the Saluki Invitational.
"We just came out and played well and let our guard down in the second set," head coach Van Compton explained. "Then we had to fight to win the final two sets of the match."
UALR came out of the gate on fire with 15 kills against only one error and 39 total attacks (.359) in the first set and used the block over the final three sets to beat UT Martin. The Trojans outhit the Skyhawks .245-.149 and outblocked UTM 16-7.
"We have worked to improve our blocking and it came through in the final three sets," Compton said.
Individually, UALR had three near misses with double-doubles. Begic was two digs shy of double-digits while Hodzic had nine kills to go along with her 10 blocks. Sophomore Marleen de Zoete dropped 52 assists while also contributing seven blocks.
Senior Emily Pepperman had 17 digs while sophomore Allison Wyatt contributed 16 digs.
For UT Martin, Amanda Crask led the way with 34 assists, 10 digs and seven kills. Taylor Simons had 12 digs and 11 kills while Lynsey Hazlewood led the Skyhawks with 14 kills.
UALR came out quick and had an 8-2 lead in the first set before anyone could blink. With UALR up 3-2, a bad Skyhawk set put the Trojans back on serve and a Hodzic kill and two aces by Begic forced a timeout. An assisted block by Hodzic and senior Sawyer Schaedig put UALR up six.
The Trojans never led by less than five in the opener and won 25-14. Begic recorded eight kills and no errors on 17 attempts for a .471 hitting percentage.
Set two saw another hot Trojan start to a set, but this time it was thwarted by the Skyhawks. Freshman Tyler Davis started on serve and two blocks by de Zoete and a kill by Begic gave UALR a 3-0 lead. After both teams sided out the next four points, de Zoete went on a service run. A service error by UT Martin made it 5-2, and then a Hodzic-senior Daniele Souza Moura assisted block, two aces, a Begic-Hodzic block and a kill by senior Eva Xie made it 10-2 and forced a Skyhawks timeout.
UT Martin stormed back little by little and eventually tied the set at 20. A kill by Hazelwood and two errors by UALR gave UTM the 23-20 lead. Both teams split the next four points and the match was knotted at a set apiece.
The third was nip-and-tuck for the entire set with UTM only receiving a brief three-point lead at 10-7. UALR finally got the two-point lead at 21-19 thanks to a Hodzic kill and Hodzic-de Soete block, but UTM fired back with a Crask kill and ace. Both teams stayed within one until 23-23 when two errors by the Skyhawks gave UALR the 2-1 advantage.
The fourth and final set looked to be a back-and-fourth affair once again, but a quick 6-0 run with fueled by Begic kills put UALR up for good. Down 12-11, Begic tied the set with a kill and put Pepperman on serve. For three of the next four points, a de Zoete set found Begic, who slammed it to the court for the Trojans 17-12 lead.
"That was one of the best runs by an outside hitter I have seen with four of five points by Edina's kills. She finished the match hitting .421 and had seven errors, but even two or three of the errors came on back-row attacks," Compton explained.
UTM climbed within 23-21, but a Begic kill and Davis' only second ace of the season ended the match.
UALR returns to action tomorrow when it plays a duo of matches to finish up the Saluki Invitational. It begins play at noon against host Southern Illinois before concluding the weekend against Nicholls State at 5 p.m.


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The following testimony by U.S. Special Envoy to Sudan Jonathan Scott Gration is among the four delivered before the U.S. House Committee on Foreign Relations, Subcommittee on Africa and Global Health, at a hearing to review the progress of the U.S. administration's new policy towards Sudan.
Chairman Payne, Ranking Member Smith, Members of the House Subcommittee on Africa and Global Health, thank you for the opportunity to be here today to update you on our work in Sudan and on my activities as U.S. Special Envoy to Sudan.
Mr. Chairman, let me begin by acknowledging your longstanding commitment to these issues. We know that you have recently traveled to the region and we greatly appreciate your dedicated efforts to improve the lives of the Sudanese people and to find lasting solutions for peace. That interest is widely shared by the members of this committee. Thank you so very much for your support.
As you know, the Secretary of State, Ambassador Susan Rice, and I rolled out the President's Sudan strategy in October. The President's strategy outlined three major goals:
- Seek a definitive end to conflict, gross human rights abuses, and genocide in Darfur.
- Implement the North?South Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA) that results in a peaceful post?2011 Sudan that is unified, or an orderly path toward two separate and viable states at peace with each other.
- Ensure that Sudan does not provide a safe haven for international terrorists.
The United States has a clear obligation and a clear interest to lead international efforts for peace in Sudan. Failure to accomplish these goals could bring about additional suffering, further regional instability or new safe?havens for international terrorists. The United States continues to work with the international community to reduce the ability of terrorists and non?state actors who threaten U.S. interests from developing a foothold in Sudan. Today I wanted to speak to you today about some of my recent activities and how the Administration's actions are helping to meet the goals laid out in the strategy. Let me focus first on our efforts related to Darfur
In my travels to Darfur over the past year, I have witnessed firsthand the devastation and destruction that six years of conflict have inflicted on the people of Darfur, particularly on women and children.
Broken ceasefire agreements and peace accords, the fragmentation of armed movements, and the interference of regional actors have made a sustainable peace in Darfur elusive. All the while, millions of Darfuris continue to live in fear and insecurity, and remain unable to return to their villages and homes.
As our Sudan strategy makes clear, the Administration remains committed to saving lives and to ensuring an inclusive and durable peace for the people of Darfur. We continue to support the Doha Peace Process by collaborating with the African Union and United Nations joint chief mediator, Djibrill Bassolé, to reach an agreement that fully and adequately addresses the grievances of Darfuris. We continue to work closely with our international and regional allies to push forward a Darfur peace process. I meet frequently, for example, with envoys from the P?5 and European Union, to coordinate our efforts. Most recently, we met in Moscow and in Abuja to align our positions on the way forward.
To give the Doha negotiations the best possible chances of success, we believe that the fragmented armed movements in Darfur must unite and speak at the negotiating table with one voice. We have been working diligently to bring this critical element of the peace process together. As a result of our efforts, eight rebel factions have formed a coalition and are committed to having a wider unification on the ground.
To ensure that the interests of the people of Darfur are adequately represented in the peace process, we support the AU?UN Mediator's efforts to establish a dialogue between the Government of Sudan and Darfuri civil society. We attended the recent conference in Doha which kicked off discussions with members of civil society, and we strongly believe that the people of Darfur should be a vocal part of the peace process.
Throughout the peace process, we will continue to support and strengthen the African Union?United Nations Mission in Darfur (UNAMID) by bolstering international resolve to hold actors that obstruct UNAMID's work accountable, by providing direct financial and logistical support for UNAMID's full deployment, and by planning contingencies for potential worsening of the crises in Darfur.
Furthermore, an interagency peace and security team recently conducted an assessment of current U.S. programs and initiatives in Sudan which will allow us to be more effective in addressing overall security concerns.
Darfur is not only troubled by internal security concerns, but by fighting along the border with Chad. We have also been working hard to encourage a normalization of relations between Chad and Sudan and have seen encouraging signs. On October 10th, a high?level Sudanese delegation was received by President Deby in Chad, and the two countries made a tentative agreement to implement a joint protocol initially signed in Khartoum in 2006. A Chadian delegation is also expected to go to Khartoum soon.
In November, on my most recent trip to Sudan, I traveled to West Darfur to work on improving security along Sudan's Western border. The governments of Sudan and Chad must follow this concrete step towards peaceful co?existence by ending their support for armed movements along their shared border, which continues to destabilize the security situation in Darfur and hurt the prospects for a sustainable peace in Darfur and the sub?region.
Finally, we are working with USAID and operational NGOs on the ground to improve the humanitarian situation and improve their access to populations in need. In my travels, I have observed that while significant effort has been made to fill gaps and avert crises caused by the expulsion of 13 NGOs in March 2009, humanitarian agencies continue to experience reduced access due to increased insecurity, targeted attacks against aid workers, and bureaucratic impediments.
The challenges in Darfur—in humanitarian assistance, security, and the peace process—are complex. That is why it is so important that we work together within our government and throughout the international community to complement international efforts and not have them compete. We tackle these complex challenges because we want to help build a better future for the Darfuri people.
As I outlined earlier, the new Sudan strategy recognizes that we must focus on a comprehensive approach to peace in Sudan. Central to this is support for full implementation of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement. To that end, we are currently working with the National Congress Party (NCP) and
Sudan People's Liberation Movement (SPLM) to address outstanding elements of the CPA. This is crucial in order for the April 2010 elections and January 2011 referenda to be held on schedule.
Because these dates are rapidly approaching, my two trips to Sudan this month have largely focused on pushing the CPA parties to reach agreement on several deadlocked issues. Two of the most pressing are the use of contested census results in the upcoming elections, and disagreements on procedures for the referendum on self?determination for Southern Sudan. We are deeply engaged with the parties through the trilateral process to resolve these outstanding issues.
We are deeply concerned about the increase of inter?ethnic violence in the South and its effects on local populations. To respond to the humanitarian needs and promote national stability, the Administration is working to support international organizations and NGOs that provide emergency assistance to newly displaced populations and facilitate community?based recovery and risk?reduction activities. These partners also operate in rural areas of Southern Sudan to assist recently?returned populations and to respond quickly if conflict breaks out in the months leading up to the April 2010 elections and the January 2011 referenda. As the elections and referenda approach, we will increase our efforts to help mitigate these threats and foster reconciliation efforts.
Additionally, my office continues to monitor and push for implementation of ten critical CPA issues agreed upon by the parties in August 2009. These include the demarcation of the North?South border, continued implementation of resource?sharing arrangements, and implementation of the July 2009 Permanent Court of Arbitration decision on Abyei. I recently visited the Abyei region to encourage progress on demarcating Abyei's boundaries and to meet with local communities to discuss progress and concerns. There I found two needs that continue to be unmet. First is the need for dissemination of accurate information about the arbitration decision, border demarcation, and other actions that affect the people in the area. The parties have agreed to these efforts and we are encouraging them to move forward on implementation. Second is the need to ensure development resources are available on both sides of the Abyei border, to both Dinka and Misseriya areas. Our partners and other international actors are working to improve conditions in this region and we hope to focus more attention on those areas.
We are also focused on ensuring that the April 2010 elections are credible and that they further the peace process. Voter registration will conclude next week, and while not without problems, we believe it is a positive step forward for the elections. According to unconfirmed reports, as of November 30 almost 12 million Sudanese have already registered to vote in all parts of the country, albeit with uneven registration rates across constituencies. Still, far more work needs to be done. We will be able to make a fuller assessment of the registration process after it concludes on December 7. Together with the
international community, we will continue to work closely with the NEC and with the parties to encourage them to respond to and address concerns raised on all sides. We continue to coordinate our CPA implementation efforts with groups on the ground, like the Carter Center, and with various international partners.
Beyond the elections and referenda, the parties and the international community must begin preparations for the post?CPA period to encourage long?term stability in the region. The parties will need to negotiate equitable arrangements dealing with issues such as migratory movements and crossborder resources, regardless of whether the outcome is unity or separation. It is crucial to Sudanese and regional stability that these arrangements are made in advance of the referendum. We applaud the robust international efforts undertaken to educate the parties about post?CPA options, and we will be working over the next several months to help the parties transform this education process into concrete discussions that chart a path forward beyond the referendum.
To further our international coordination, we plan to organize a follow?on event to the June 2009 Forum for Supporters of the CPA held here in Washington that revitalized and focused international efforts around the CPA. Such a forum will likely be held in early 2010, and will focus both on remaining CPA implementation issues as well as necessary discussions about how the international community can help the parties manage the 2011 transition.
As Sudan's historic elections and referenda near, we will continue to work with the parties and international actors to ensure that peace and stability prevail. As part of the U.S. Strategy on Sudan, senior officials from the interagency will meet in early 2010 for the first in a series of quarterly interagency reviews designed to assess whether progress or backsliding has occurred and agree on whether incentives or pressures are warranted. With regard to Darfur and to relations between North and South, we will not waste a minute in achieving our objectives for a peaceful and stable Sudan. We do not have the luxury of time. What we do have is the determination of the United States and its partners to help bring peace to Sudan. Our country must fully utilize all of our instruments of statecraft in this endeavor.
Mr. Chairman, Ranking Member, and Members of the Committee, I would like to thank you for your leadership and support on efforts to end the suffering in Darfur and the rest of Sudan. Thank you for inviting me to speak to you today. I look forward to your questions about these most critical issues.


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Sauteed Pasta Pepper Salad
A new quick pasta can be made out of wonton wrappers and sauteed with spicy harissa sauce, so good.
- Prep Time : 10 min
- Cook Time : 10 min
- Ready Time : 20 min
- Wonton wrappers
- Harissa Paste
- 4 mixed peppers: yellow, orange, red
- Red onions
- Scallions
- Olive oil
- Lemon juice
- Peppers
- Salt
- Heat a medium frying pan with olive oil.
- Cut wonton wrappers into thin ¼" strips.
- Add two tablespoons of harissa paste into pan.
- Place "pasta" strips into frying pan.
- Saute until crispy, approx. 5 min.
- Slice peppers, onions, and shallots. Drizzle with olive oil, salt, lemon juice.
- Serve "pasta" over vegetables.
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Luke Stedman dove in and delivered in Round 3 yesterday – he's through to Round 4. Photo courtesy ASP Kirstin/Covered Images
SAN CLEMENTE, California (Wednesday, Sept. 10, 2008) – The Boost Mobile Pro pres. by Hurley is a go for the third successive day today. The last 12 heats of Round 3 and the first six of Round 4 are slated to be surfed at Lower Trestles today.
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Volunteers are taking to the streets in Hillsborough throughout Thursday to tally the countys homeless population. But this year the Tampa Hillsborough Homeless Initiative is expanding its search to what they call unaccompanied youth between 16 and 24 years old. Lesa Weikel is the community relations manager for that group.
Theyve been kicked out of their house. Sometimes its because of sexuality. Sometimes they leave because of abuse. Its almost always family issues, but they find themselves with nowhere to go. So, they hide very well, but theyre also very vulnerable to exploitation, prostitution, drugs and mistreatment that we want to identify them and develop resources for them.
Weikel, who organized two separate youth initiatives at the Well resource center in Ybor City, says this group is the hardest to count because most of the teens and young adults dont want to be found.
Some of the kids on the street have been in foster care and have fled the system for various reasons as well. A lot of kids dont want to go into foster care. They hear the horror stories and so theyre resistant to that and thats why they are so hard to find.
The homeless initiative group conducts a count every year. Last year it identified more than 2,000 people who were either chronically homeless, which means they have been living on the streets for an extended period of time or for several shorter stints, or are doubling up. Some people call that couch surfing and its a term volunteers were told to use instead of homeless when talking to the unaccompanied youth demographic.
Homeless unaccompanied youth typically dont identify as being homeless. Its just because they dont see themselves as the Hollywood stereotype theyre not sleeping on cardboard boxes in the street. Usually theyre going from one friends couch to another friends couch and so on.
Thats Jeremiah Kerr, the outreach and community development coordinator for the Ybor Youth Clinic. The group, run by USF Health, offers STD testing and treatment. Kerr says many of the youngsters who come in and out of the clinic are either homeless or at risk. Without resources, he adds, many of them turn to sex to get by.
Survival sex is essentially using your body as the one currency that you have to gain other needed resources whether it be housing, food, money, clothing, any of those things.
But right now there are few resources available for people living on the streets, especially those under the age of 18. Thats why officials say its important to quantify the countys homeless problem so groups can better plan for services. The homeless initiative took to social media to draw teens and young adults out to the Well in Ybor City. They also posted flyers announcing there would be free bus passes, food and other hygiene necessities. But their staging ground to survey unaccompanied youth isnt ignoring adults. Brad Olson became homeless up north over the summer after battling depression as a result of his divorce.
But I didnt look at it in Michigan as homelessness because theres like, tent cities and things of that nature to where, I looked at it as home free. I lost all my responsibilities, I didnt care about a lot of things and I didnt report or have anything really to worry about, just hang out and get drunk all day. And then it got cold out.
Olson says his family told him to get his act together and he did. After getting a part-time job for a couple of weeks, he scraped together enough money to buy a bus ticket and moved to Florida. Now Olson is a success story. Tomorrow he starts a job in search engine optimization for what he describes as a large bank.
Tomorrow I have to shave my face and I have a whole bag of dress clothes that Ive got to dig out and iron and make sure are clean and all that stuff.
But not everyone manages to pull themselves out of homelessness. Anthony Jones is a veteran and hes been homeless for decades since he was 14 after his mother passed away.
Its rough. I slept over here at the park in Ybor City. Its not fun, but it was cold and I was shivering and shaking and Im trying to find somewhere to get inside.
Among volunteers helping with the count are several county and city officials. Hillsborough County Commissioner and Tampa Hillsborough Homeless Initiative board member Sandra Murman started her shift at the unaccompanied youth count in Ybor this morning through lunch.
Every human deserves a place to live. They deserve to most of them need services, mental health, substance abuse. Were finding that wrap around services are actually as important as giving them a place to put their head at night. On the other hand, veterans, nobody thats ever worn a uniform should ever be on the street. I did just survey a veteran and it made me feel like, I had a tear in my eye.
The results from the homeless count are expected to take several weeks, but volunteers were trained to offer outreach information to people they spoke to including Veterans Affairs and health services.