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President Obama's budget will be dramatically different than his previous ones.
Liberals are already wincing, and congressional Democrats will oppose many of the president's demands.
Most Democrats backed Obama's previous budgets. This year, the left will rip him for excessive cuts, while the right will claim he hasn't gone far enough.
The response to leaked details suggests Democrats face weeks of intraparty bickering.
Some fume over $400 billion in expected domestic cuts just two months after Obama inked a deal with Republicans to extend Bush-era tax rates for even the highest income earners and to exempt multimillion-dollar inheritances from taxation.
Democrats say these cuts will hurt the less well off and that Obama is caving without a fight.
They hate a proposed $2.5 billion cut in home energy assistance for the poor. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) said Friday that he wasn't "a big fan," which is a polite way to say he thinks it stinks.
Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.) wrote Obama to oppose the cut, and Rep. Edward Markey (D-Mass.) said it would "have a devastating effect on millions of American families."
Meanwhile, Budget Director Jacob Lew has disclosed plans to cut community action programs from $700 million to $350 million. "That hits the most vulnerable, poorest people in our country. That can't stand," lamented Sen. Tom Harkin (D-Iowa), head of the Senate Appropriations subcommittee with jurisdiction over labor, health and education.
Ohio Rep. Marcy Kaptur, the second-ranking Democrat on the House Appropriations Committee, said Obama is bowing to Republicans.
"His people aren't giving us a very wise set of choices," she said. "They're cotton-balling rather than hard-balling. He keeps waiting for Congress to save him. He ought to save himself."
But many a liberal knows that Obama, despite their mounting disappointment in him, is their chief bulwark against deeper cuts that House Republican leaders propose.
Robert Borosage, co-director of Campaign for America's Future, said, "Most of the groups are girding for what will be a brutal battle with the Republican Congress. As tight as the president's budget will be, it's nothing compared to what the Republicans want."
Still, liberal activists warn that Obama risks losing a motivated base for his reelection bid.
"The great bulk of progressives are not happy with the course of action the administration is taking, but we also understand the political realities," said Alan Charney, policy director at USAction, a grassroots group.
"The more the base sees the administration is fighting the fight, the more motivated we're going to be to work for the president," he said.
Many Democrats see no reason for any concessions, particularly as the economy recovers. "For the most part, we haven't seen anybody disturbed by [the debt], especially the Chinese and others who are buying our bonds," said Rep. Henry Waxman (Calif.), ranking Dem on the House Energy and Commerce Committee.
A coalition of liberal groups has been meeting to figure out how to limit losses. They lobbied successfully to steer Obama away from using his State of the Union address to call for a higher Social Security retirement age or other benefits cuts.
To limit the Dem backlash, Obama has in turn sent lieutenants to Capitol Hill to warn Democrats to prepare for a shock. A member of the Democratic House leadership told The Hill that dismay would be "not just on the left, but throughout the party."
Lew last week met with the House Democratic Caucus. "He indicated that they made some very tough decisions and some people aren't going to like [it]," said Rep. Chris Van Hollen (Md.), ranking Democrat on the Budget Committee.
Van Hollen said he supports Obama's five-year spending freeze on federal pay but might oppose specific cuts.
Gene Sperling, National Economic Council director, delivered a presentation to Senate Democrats at their retreat last week in Charlottesville, Va.
Senate Democrats, as the majority in their chamber, are the ones who must do the cutting. Senate Budget Committee Chairman Kent Conrad (D-N.D.), who will not seek reelection in 2012, is ready to oblige and delivered what one colleague called a "sobering" message to Dems at the retreat.
"There is no choice," Conrad told The Hill afterward, "Our debt is completely unsustainable, and it threatens future economic growth. It threatens the economic security of the country, and it has to be dealt with."
Senate Dems pin their hopes on targeted rather than across-the-board cuts.
"You have multiple programs for job training [and] to encourage people to go to college," Conrad said. "There's a lot of overlap, unnecessary duplication."
Dems hope eliminating redundancies, axing $20 billion in subsidies for oil companies and $1.1 billion in tax earmarks and increasing the $78 billion of proposed defense cuts over the next five years, might even allow some increased spending elsewhere, such as on the National Institutes of Health, the National Science Foundation and infrastructure development.
Many congressional Democrats also see big savings in accelerating U.S. troop withdrawals from Afghanistan. Obama's start date for drawdown is July, but he says combat missions will continue through 2014.
Most lawmakers awaiting Obama's third budget know that such suggestions are grasping for straws. They understand that the fiscal reckoning is upon them. They know the knife is going to cut; the questions are where, and how deeply? And will it also sever ties between the president and his supporters?
"There's going to be a lot of wailing and gnashing of teeth," said Sen. Mark Udall (D-Colo.), "and I'm probably going to do some of it too, because it's stark, it's brutal."
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Faculty researchers honored by state
McLeod was of seven SUNY researchers to earn an Excellence in the Pursuit of Knowledge award. The State University of New York Research Foundation presented the award at a dinner honoring innovation, creation and discovery at the University of Albany.
These researchers "… help New York State businesses harness next generation ideas and launch new ventures in key emerging areas every day," said Vice Chancellor John J. O'Connor, foundation president.
McLeod is preparing the next generation of bioengineers to recognize and work with the complex behavior of living systems. Since biological systems are self-organizing and adaptive (allowing them to do things that you don't expect them to do), the proper approach, McLeod said, is to look at the system as a whole and then work to create an environment which allows the system to adapt and respond in the way that we would like. As principle architect of a new bioengineering curriculum, he believes that to solve problems, one often has to step back and see the interrelationships between components.
Other campuses with researchers earning Excellence in the Pursuit of Knowledge Awards include the University of Albany, the University of Buffalo, Downstate Medical Center in Brooklyn, the College of Environmental Science and Forestry in Syracuse, and Stony Brook University.
McLeod was not the only Binghamton faculty member honored. Omowunmi A. Sadik, associate professor of bioanalytical and environmental chemistry, was honored with a First Patent Award for a key component of a tiny injectable biosensor that could soon help physicians more effectively track and treat tumors.
Promising Inventor Awards were presented to Harold Ackler assistant professor of mechanical engineering for his work with a novel MEMS/microfluidic cooling system that provides micro scale adaptive localized on-demand cooling of integrated circuits; and Timothy Singler, associate professor and director of graduate studies in mechanical engineering, for the Smart Three Axis Compliant (STAC) Interconnects for Ultra-thin Chip Stacking Technology.
"These faculty scientists and researchers, many of whom are nationally and internationally recognized figures in major disciplines, give both public and private leaders the confidence to position SUNY as a key component in their business and economic activity plans," said Tim Murphy, the foundation's executive vice president.
The Research Foundation is a nonprofit educational corporation that supports the State University of New York by assisting campuses in their efforts to increase their volume of research; protect University-developed intellectual property; provide high quality administrative support for research conducted by SUNY faculty; and promote philanthropy among individuals, corporations and foundations.

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After Mt. Hood got 826 inches of snow this year, Windells, the summer camp, will be huge.
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Anchored by a dynamic mountain, a Colorado resort steps up with a new village-and a new attitude.
From June through August, Timberline is abuzz with young athletes at summer camps. There's Windells for new school skiers, High Cascade for boarders, and the Atomic Race Camp for gate bashers.
No. 7? This is an outrage. Sugarloaf was No. 3 last year, and it deserves to stay there. Readers committed this misdeed, but a lot of them also echoed my sentiment, including one who called it "the single best mountain in the East."
Along with the mountain village expansion, Copper is also looking to add new terrain, upgrade lifts, and improve snowmaking.
In the woods of northern Maine, far, far from civilization, Sugarloaf survives and thrives in its own magic world. Take a look the mountain's statistics.
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Thumb up: Gov. Scott indicates he's open to changes in Florida elections
OUR GOVERNOR: One good thing can be said about Florida Gov. Rick Scott: He's not afraid of changing his mind.
In an interview last week with CNN, the governor said the state needs to look at more early voting days. As a result of the Legislature cutting the number of days prior to this year's general election, some voters were stuck in lines for hours trying to cast their ballots. And, Scott had refused to extend the number of days even when it became clear the shortened schedule was causing problems.
The length of ballots in November also contributed to the long lines. Scott also said last week the state should consider limiting the lengths of ballots.
And, responding to another problem cited by elections officials, Scott said the state should consider giving local election officials more flexibility in selecting early voting sites.
So, what caused the governor's apparent change of heart? Could polling numbers released last week showing his job approval rating dropped to 36 percent — compared to 41 percent in August — and 52 percent of voters saying he should not have a second term have anything to do with it?
The Quinnipiac University poll also said 53 percent of Republicans want another Republican to run against Scott when he tries for re-election in 2014. That hurts.
Whatever his motivation, Scott's openness to potential election changes is encouraging.
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Thursday, January 24, 2013
LAST week, two lady students from the University of the Philippines-Baguio came here to Sun.Star Baguio asking to interview me and the rest of the editorial staff regarding web based news sites.
I saw the letter first before I saw the ladies bearing it. Imagine how horror-struck I was when one of them was dressed (or underdressed) in really short shorts that her pockets were showing, a tank top and she had a cap on backwards.
My, my, our neighboring mechanics surely feasted on these two and I don't mean that in a good way.
I faced her and yet she did not bother to remove the cap, which as our elders have taught us, is disrespectful. I surveyed her and handed back her letter.
I told them (I believe her companion was dressed similarly) to come back the following day. "And don't wear those shorts when you do so," I told her in a chilling voice. Judging by her reaction, I don't think she's used to getting that reaction regarding her "style."
I will not, for the life of me, allow students to come here in the same get up and interview our reporters or me for that matter when we are dressed appropriately and always respectably.
I posted my thoughts on Facebook and got a lot of reactions, mostly agreeing with me. My close friend, Rima Opiña (of Baguio Midland Courier) related she saw a UP student going to school in her pajamas.
That's alright. They could dress whichever way they wish when they are in their campus.
But when you come here to Sun.Star Baguio, you will at all times respect this office and everyone working in it by dressing in a manner that conveys "adult", "responsible" and "credible."
The day you see our amiable and pretty marketing assistant, Michelle, in reception dressed in pekpek shorts that will be the day rules in this office have changed. But don't hold your breath. Go risk contracting pneumonia somewhere else.
Moving on, I was also shocked to see images of the Burnham Park Lake dredging while I was in the US. It's about time the lake got a facelift, I said. I have yet to visit the site but certainly the lake, at this state, hardly qualifies as the show window to the city.
I only wish for the project to be finished before the expected influx of tourists for the annual Panagbenga. And that quality will not be sacrificed.
Same goes for the asphalt laying along Session Road. As I have yet to read the report of JM Agreda regarding the instapave technology used for the project, I do not have an opinion on the matter. But I've heard differing opinions.
Kuya Sam said it's good. My cousin said it's not. Again I could only wish for the project to be finished soon but with quality as the utmost priority.
Form and substance together. It's not impossible, you know.
Published in the Sun.Star Baguio newspaper on January 25, 2013.
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Area company offers online genetic tests
Your genes can tell a lot about you — from your ancestry to your risk for certain diseases. A local company is banking on people wanting to find out genetic information that could influence their lifestyle and habits.
Genomic Express Inc. in Westlake Village started in 2006 with a plan to offer genetic tests online to consumers. The company recently started selling its first inherited trait and lifestyle tests. One looks at athletic capability and the other examines caffeine tolerance.
The athletic test looks at a gene related to the body's fast-twitch skeletal muscle fibers. The test attempts to determine your power or endurance ability, which could play into sports selection and training decisions.
The test costs $185.
The caffeine test looks at a gene that determines how the body metabolizes caffeine. People with a variant of the gene that causes slower caffeine metabolism end up with caffeine in their system longer, which can cause certain health problems.
Those with the variant may choose to change their habits to reduce caffeine consumption.
The test costs $195.
Grant Bitter, president and chief executive, calls the tests "actionable genetic tests" because they can lead to people making decisions about their health and lifestyle.
He said he chose to launch those two tests first because he thought they would be of interest to a wide audience. With variations in the genes occurring in 20 to 50 percent of the population, there are a lot of people affected.
"The numbers are large, and there are positive actions that can be taken by the individual based on their genetic test result," he wrote in an e-mail.
More tests, including medical genetic tests, will follow, he said.
Genomic Express also has formed a partnership with Ancestry.com to educate people on DNA tests for ancestry and give them access to Ancestry's tests and geneology data.
Because personalized genetic testing is new to many and there are various implications for such tests, Bitter said, the company offers board-certified genetic counselors for telephone counseling as a service to customers.
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Tampa, Florida -- The couple accused of kidnapping their two young sons and fleeing by boat to Cuba has been booked into a Florida jail after being handed over to U.S. authorities.
According to a website for the Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office, Joshua Michael Hakken and his wife Sharyn are being held at the jail early Wednesday on a number of charges including kidnapping, child neglect and interference with custody.
PHOTOS: Joshua and Sharyn Hakken, accused of kidnapping their children, booked into jail
Authorities say Joshua Michael Hakken kidnapped his sons, 4-year-old Cole and 2-year-old Chase, from his mother-in-law's house north of Tampa. The boys' maternal grandparents had been granted permanent custody of the boys last week.
The two boys appear to be okay, Sheriff David Gee said. Investigators confirm the children are now back with their grandparents.
A team of federal, state, and local law enforcement officersflew to Cuba at around 10 p.m. Tuesday, Gee said. They returned with the parents, children, and the family dog a few hours later.
Earlier Tuesday, Foreign Ministry official Johana Tablada said in a statement that Cuba had informed U.S. authorities of the country's decision to turn over the couple and their children.
Both parents face many of the same criminal charges. It's the first indication that detectives believe the mother, Sharyn, was involved in the initial abduction from her parents' house.That's why she has a burglary with battery charge.
However,Sharyn does not have the false imprisonment charge that Joshua does, so it appears she did not have a role in tying up her mother.
As of right now, the U.S. Attorney's Office is only filing charges against the Hakkens on the state level, and not federal.
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Previously known as 'The Beacon', this attractive perennial blooms in early summer. The flowers are bright red, with yellow eyes, when they first open and fade with age. Easy to grow, it enjoys a sunny spot in moist but well-drained soil. Be careful when handling the foliage as it may irritate the skin. To propagate, divide plants in spring.
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What is the legacy of Brown vs. Board of Education? While it is well known for establishing racial equality as a central commitment of American schools, the case also inspired social movements for equality in education across all lines of difference, including language, gender, disability, immigration status, socio-economic status, religion, and sexual orientation. Yet more than a half century after Brown, American schools are more racially separated than before, and educators, parents and policy makers still debate whether the ruling requires all-inclusive classrooms in terms of race, gender, disability, and other differences.
In Brown's Wake examines the reverberations of Brown in American schools, including efforts to promote equal opportunities for all kinds of students. School choice, once a strategy for avoiding Brown, has emerged as a tool to promote integration and opportunities, even as charter schools and private school voucher programs enable new forms of self-separation by language, gender, disability, and ethnicity.
Martha Minow, Dean of Harvard Law School, argues that the criteria placed on such initiatives carry serious consequences for both the character of American education and civil society itself. Although the original promise of Brown remains more symbolic than effective, Minow demonstrates the power of its vision in the struggles for equal education regardless of students' social identity, not only in the United States but also in many countries around the world. Further, she urges renewed commitment to the project of social integration even while acknowledging the complex obstacles that must be overcome. An elegant and concise overview of Brown and its aftermath, In Brown's Wake explores the broad-ranging and often surprising impact of one of the century's most important Supreme Court decisions.
In 1787, Thomas Jefferson, then the American Minister to France, had the "complete skeleton, skin and horns" of an American moose shipped to him in Paris and mounted in the lobby of his residence as a symbol of the vast possibilities contained in the strange and largely unexplored New World. Taking a cue from Jefferson's efforts, David Post, one of the nation's leading Internet scholars, here presents a pithy, colorful exploration of the still mostly undiscovered territory of cyberspace--what it is, how it works, and how it should be governed.
What law should the Internet have, and who should make it? What are we to do, and how are we to think, about online filesharing and copyright law, about Internet pornography and free speech, about controlling spam, and online gambling, and cyberterrorism, and the use of anonymous remailers, or the practice of telemedicine, or the online collection and dissemination of personal information? How can they be controlled? Should they be controlled? And by whom? Post presents the Jeffersonian ideal--small self-governing units, loosely linked together as peers in groups of larger and larger size--as a model for the Internet and for cyberspace community self-governance. Deftly drawing on Jefferson's writings on the New World in Notes on the State of Virginia, Post draws out the many similarities (and differences) between the two terrains, vividly describing how the Internet actually functions from a technological, legal, and social perspective as he uniquely applies Jefferson's views on natural history, law, and governance in the New World to illuminate the complexities of cyberspace.
In Search of Jefferson's Moose is a lively, accessible, and remarkably original overview of the Internet and what it holds for the future.
About the Author
David Post is currently the I. Herman Stern Professor of Law at the Beasley School of Law at Temple University, where he teaches intellectual property law and the law of cyberspace. He is also an Adjunct Scholar at the Cato Institute, a Fellow at the Institute for Information Law and Policy at New York Law School, and a contributor to the influential Volokh Conspiracy blog. For more information, please visit: www.jeffersonsmoose.org.
Table of Contents
A Note to the Reader
Prologue: The Fox, the Hedgehog, and the Moose
Part I: Chaos
Chapter 1: Mapping the Territory: The Geography of Nowhere
Chapter 2: Population
Chapter 3: Networks
Chapter 4: Jefferson's Moose, and The Problem of Scale (I)
Chapter 5: The Problem of Scale (II)
Chapter 6: Connections
Chapter 7: Language, I
Part II: Order
Chapter 8: Language II
Chapter 9: Governing Cyberspace I: Code
Chapter 10: Governing Cyberspace II: Names
Chapter 11: Governing Cyberspace III: Law
Chapter 12: Newton's Plow, and The Condition of the General Mind
Epilogue: Jefferson's Nature, and the Nature of Cyberspace
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I. Prologue: The Fox, The Hedgehog, and The Moose
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Two Kinds of People
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Looking Forward
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Four to try: Rangoons
Published on August 15th, 2013 | by Joe Lawler
Four to try: Rangoons
Where do crab Rangoon come from? It's a dish that doesn't show up on menus in China and southeast Asia, but it's pretty much guaranteed to be on the menu of every Chinese and Thai place in America. Here are four Rangoons worth ordering for an appetizer (and in one case, dessert).
1. Cool Basil, 8801 University Ave., Clive
Your basic crab Rangoon model, crab meat and cream cheese inside a wonton shell and deep-fried to deliciousness. Served with traditional sweet & sour sauce. $5.95 for an order.
2. Cafe Fuzion, 1240 E. 14th St.
Created for the Blue Ribbon Bacon Festival, this appetizer has been added to the menu full time. It's east meets Midwest, proving that bacon can be added to anything. $4.99 for an order.
3. Wasabi Tao, 400 Walnut St.
Move beyond the world of crab to and enjoy shrimp and other flavors in with your cream cheese and fried shell. $8 for an order.
4. Court Avenue Brewing Company, 309 Court Ave.
It looks like a crab Rangoon, but it's topped with chocolate sauce and powdered sugar and filled with homemade cookie dough. If you're ever looking for an all-wonton meal, keep this in mind for dessert. $2.99 for an order.


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Fans hoping to see George Strait in concert one last time should snap up tickets while they still can. Tickets for a selection of dates on George's The Cowboy Rides Away Tour went on sale October 4. Dates in Atlanta, Columbus, Denver, Omaha, Phoenix and San Diego sold out immediately. Tickets are still available for his February 14 stop in Auburn Hills, Michigan.
The next round of tour dates will go on sale Friday, October 11 at 10 a.m. in the venue's respective time zone. For a list of dates, visit www.georgestrait.com. Each weekend of the tour which kicks off January 9 in Bossier City, Louisiana, will include performances by one or more special guests, including Jason Aldean, Eric Church, Sheryl Crow, Ronnie Dunn, Vince Gill, Merle Haggard, Miranda Lambert, Little Big Town, Martina McBride, Lee Ann Womack, Chris Young and more.
The final leg of George's The Cowboy Rides Away Tour will stop at 26 venues before the tour bus is retired. George will still be making music, however, as he recently announced five more albums with his longtime label, MCA Nashville. He will also take part in the George Jones Tribute Show in Nashville on November 22.


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This is the saddest way to protect planes from birds
This is what we have come to: guys at the airport gunning down snowy owls so they don't get sucked into airplane engines.
That's what's going on in New York, where the Port Authority has issued "shot-to-kill" orders against the owls, according to the local ABC affiliate. The hit on the birds was taken out after several owls collided with planes. One even flew into the engine of a jet while it sat on the tarmac.
So far, at least two owls have been shot down. However, after the story began getting attention, the Port Authority agreed to trap the birds instead.
The problem stems from increased numbers of the birds migrating to the New York area. CBS in Boston reports that the owls are also flocking to Beantown, though authorities are trapping them there.
Naturally this is a serious issue; birds flying into engines can be a serious problem, though some in New York suggested they couldn't down an airplane like a flock of geese might. Still, it's sad that the skies apparently aren't friendly enough for all of us.
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"One of the time bombs of all literature" (V.S. Pritchett). Written in the 1880s and not published until 1903 after Butler's death, the semi-autobiographical story of the Pontifex family savages the bourgeois Victorian family and its values.
"If the house caught on fire, the Victorian novel I would rescue from the flames would be not Vanity Fair or Bleak House but Samuel Butler's The Way of All Flesh. It is read, I believe, mostly by the young, bent on making out a case against their elders, but Butler was fifty when he stopped working on it, and no reader much under that age is likely to appreciate the full beauty of its horrors, which are not the horrors of the Gothic novel but of family life." William Maxwell, New Yorker
"One of the great books of the world....Butler is the only man known to history who has immortalized and actually endeared himself by parricide and matricide long drawn out. He slew the good name (and it was such a very good name!) of his father and mother so reasonably, so wittily, so humorously, and even in a ghastly way so charitably, that he convinced us that he was engaged in an execution and not in a murder." George Bernard Shaw, Pen Portraits and Revisions, 1932
"[Butler] uses ordinary conversational English idiom, managing to seem perfectly at ease in it, and continually showing how rich in expressive turns and formulations and apt and vivid words it really is....This is the perfection of what one loosely thinks of as the 'plain' style and which of course is not 'plain' at all, but fashioned with hard labor and the most sensitive and resourceful skill. In writing Butler attained that 'grace after the flesh' for which Ernest pined in vain." P. N. Furbank
A semi-autobiographical novel examines the complex relationships that exist in the Pontifex family as they reflect the hypocrisy of middle-class life in Victorian England.
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Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best novels of all time
The Way of All Flesh is one of the time-bombs of literature," said V. S. Pritchett. "One thinks of it lying in Samuel Butler's desk for thirty years, waiting to blow up the Victorian family and with it the whole great pillared and balustraded edifice of the Victorian novel."
Written between 1873 and 1884 but not published until 1903, a year after Butler's death, his marvelously uninhibited satire savages Victorian bourgeois values as personified by multiple generations of the Pontifex family. A thinly veiled account of his own upbringing in the bosom of a God-fearing Christian family, Butler's scathingly funny depiction of the self-righteous hypocrisy underlying nineteenth-century domestic life was hailed by George Bernard Shaw as "one of the summits of human achievement."
"If the house caught on fire, the Victorian novel I would rescue from the flames would be The Way of All Flesh," wrote William Maxwell in The New Yorker. "It is read, I believe, mostly by the young, bent on making out a case against their elders, but Butler was fifty when he stopped working on it, and no reader much under that age is likely to appreciate the full beauty of its horrors. . . . Every contemporary novelist with a developed sense of irony is probably in some measure, directly or indirectly, indebted to Butler, who had the misfortune to be a twentieth-century man born in the year 1835."
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13th Annual Henry W. Kendall Memorial Lecture
Dr. Drew Shindell
NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies
How Air Pollution Affects Climate & What We Can Do About It
Monday, October 21, 2013
4:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Bartos Theater, MIT Media Lab
Anthropogenic emissions that lead to air pollution (particulate matter and ozone) are also large contributors to climate change. Unlike the well-mixed greenhouse gases, the spatial distribution of these emissions affects their climate impact. A better understanding of the role of aerosols and ozone in contributing to historical and projected future climate change provides insight into the relative importance of air pollutants versus well-mixed greenhouse gases, the role of uncertainties in forcing in creating uncertainties in regional climate projections, and the balance between efforts to improve air quality and mitigate climate change. Shindell will discuss recent progress in understanding the role of aerosols and ozone and the implications for our understanding of climate sensitivity, of the recent slowdown in global warming, and of the benefits to both climate and human health that can be obtained by taking action to reduce air pollutant emissions.
A reception will follow the talk in Building 54, Room 923.
All are welcome.
If you have any questions regarding the lecture, please contact Jennifer DiNisco at 617.253.2127 or jdinisco [at] mit [dot] edu. Reservations not required.
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History of UTSA
Founded by the 61st Texas Legislature on June 5, 1969, UTSA was commissioned as a university of the first class, offering bachelor's, master's and doctoral degrees as are offered at leading American universities.
Until UTSA was established, San Antonio was the only major city in the nation not served by a public university. Community leaders, legislators and the public knew that if San Antonio were to achieve its full potential, a university would be needed to offer a comprehensive array of courses and degree programs.
The University's first two presidents, Arleigh B. Templeton and Peter T. Flawn, worked diligently to hire faculty, develop a curriculum and library, and finalize the plans for the campus, which would be built on 600 acres near the junction of Interstate 10 and Loop 1604 in northwest San Antonio. At the time of construction from 1972 to 1976, the UTSA campus was the largest university construction project in the country, comprising seven major buildings.
In summer 1973, UTSA admitted 671 graduate students and began classes taught by 52 faculty members in leased facilities at the Koger Center. Master's degrees were offered in business administration, education, bicultural-bilingual studies, English as a second language, environmental management, Spanish, biology, mathematics and systems design. In September 1975, UTSA began classes at the Main Campus with more than 4,000 undergraduate and graduate students.
UTSA experienced rapid enrollment growth throughout the 1980s while James W. Wagener served as president. New buildings were added and degree programs developed as the campus began to take on much of its present character. In February 1986, the UT System designated the Institute of Texan Cultures as a UTSA campus.
In 1990, UTSA's fourth president, Samuel A. Kirkpatrick, began a new phase of university history by initiating a comprehensive strategic planning process and securing funds for building construction. In 1997, UTSA opened the Downtown Campus west of Interstate 10 in the historic Cattleman Square area.
In 1999, Ricardo Romo became UTSA's fifth president and ushered in a new era of community involvement and academic excellence. A native of San Antonio, Romo expanded the University's commitment to providing access to quality higher education while guiding the UTSA community to better integrate its three campuses: Main, Downtown and HemisFair Park.
In recent years, UTSA acquired an additional 125 acres near the Main Campus, UTSA Park West, to accommodate new athletics and recreational facilities, and increased the size of the Downtown Campus to 18 acres. The University has an expanded University Center and student housing including the advanced Alvarez Hall. As of fall 2013, more than 4,300 students live on campus. Activities and programs are hosted by more than 300 multicultural student organizations.
In 2010, the University installed the world's most powerful electron microscope, opened the first bookless library on a U.S. college or university campus, and signed a $50 million agreement with CPS Energy to conduct sustainable energy research. Also, UTSA received its largest gift from an individual—an estimated $28 million from the estate of Mary E. McKinney that will fund UTSA scholarships in perpetuity.
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I find that the unit is slow to respond (or my network is slow to respond) to the unit's coming up and requesting a DHCP response. However, if you go into the options for Music/Video/Files/Streaming content, the unit will give you some error message, like "files not found" or 'media folder disconnected' or 'last media location not found' when it should be saying, 'no internet connection yet with a link to the 'check network connection' dialog.
I think it would solve a lot of the quesitons I've read here....
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Violence and Crime Prevention
Violence is a learned behavior. Young people are increasingly affected by violence as perpetrators, victims, involuntary observers and as willing voyeurs. Whether the violence is at home, on school property, on a date, at the movies, in a video game or over the airways, homicide, suicide, sexual violence and domestic abuse have become unavoidable points of reference in the lives of adolescents.
According to the U.S. Surgeon General, youth violence is an ongoing national problem, but one that is largely hidden from public view. Nationally, over the past two decades, the number of violent acts by high school seniors has increased by nearly 50 percent, a trend similar to that found in arrests for violent crimes. These acts may never show up in police records, especially if they do not involve firearms. Nationally, neither this incidence rate nor the proportion of high school seniors involved in violence has declined in the years since 1993 - they remain at peak levels.
A decade has passed since Colorado's "Summer of Violence," in 1993, when 36 teens were killed in homicides. Homicide rates for Colorado teens had been declining before the shootings at Columbine High School in 1999, which created an artificial spike in youth homicide rates. Yet homicide remains the third leading cause of death for Colorado teens. Adolescent homicide fatalities represent only a small part of youth physical violence; injuries related to physical assaults, sexual violence and child abuse far outnumber actual homicide deaths.
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By RICHARD SHAWSun Advocate community editor
The often controversial, long awaited and increasingly expensive Helper Interchange that the Utah Department of Transportation wants to build in Carbon County has hit yet another roadblock, and it's in the same ballpark as the last setback.
The problem? The lowest bid on the latest rendition of the plan was six million dollars more than UDOT has to spend.
"We are befuddled by this situation," said Myron Lee, spokes man for UDOT's region four operations. "In our estimation it has to do with the economy and the increased price of materials."
In October 2003 when the first round of bids were let, engineers estimated that the cost of the project would be around $13 million. However the lowest bid that came in during that process was for over $20 million.
UDOT went back to the drawing board, did some things to stream line the project and found enough money to bring the pot they had to spend almost up to the lowest bid that was submitted late last year. When they let out the bid earlier this year they were confident that they would find a contractor who would want the work for the money they had.
But when the estimates from contractors came in this time, the lowest bid on the project was $26 million. That was about $6 million more than the lowest bid that was submitted last time and about that same amount more than UDOT has to spend.
"Over the past few months since we took the last bids the economy has driven prices up," explained Lee. "Steel has gone up 40 percent and obviously the oil prices have driven everything else up, particularly asphalt."
Lee also explained that the contractors that are capable of doing such a large job have plenty of work right now. It is well known in the construction industry that when there is a lot of work for bidders, the prices go up. Contractors can be more picky about which jobs they want to do.
"The fact is that we are not going to be able to award the project for construction to begin this summer," stated Lee unequivocally.
In fact UDOT's state office doesn't even have the individual bids listed on it's web site. In it's place is a letter from Thomas LeHolm, UDOT's manager of contracts explaining that the contract will not be awarded because the lowest bid was over 10 percent above the engineers estimate.
"What we are going to do is to stand back and look at the project again and try to see what we can do to bring the costs more in line with what we have to spend," stated Lee. "This means we have to go back to the drawing board and maybe even close to square one before it can move ahead again."
The project which has been in the works for several years, and has had a multitude of public hearings to discuss the pros and cons of the issue may well now have to be revamped so much that the community and UDOT have to come together a few more times before things are settled.
In November of 2003, after the project was pulled back for high bids the first time, Lee was asked if the cost of the project would keep it from happening. At the time he said it wouldn't. That was probably because UDOT officials thought they could change some specifications to bring the cost down and they expected the bids to come in at about the same rate. No one expected an increase of millions of dollars.
But Lee says not to count the project among the deceased yet. It will almost be mandatory that the project be built in one manner or another if the highway is to be expanded to four lanes between Spanish Fork and Green River. UDOT has already purchased the right-of-ways for the project and has spent a large amount of money on studies and engineering.
Opposition to building the interchange has emerged the last couple of years, but it has been largely unorganized, with various individual citizens speaking out against the project. Many of them feel the overpass will actually divide the community even more that it already is. Others are concerned that the cost is too high. This latest news will probably make them even more adamant about the amount of money it will take. Some feel that traffic lights could accomplish the safety purposes the overpass is designed to address. Still others feel the project will take business away from Helper merchants.
"What can we do?" asked Lee. "We will just go on, reevaluate and look to build this project at a future date. What becomes even more important now will be Helper's participation in whatever new approach we come up with."


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Dave Rich is a veteran industry executive known for pioneering and guiding new businesses to success. His areas of expertise are in new business development, managing large scale global change programs and the preparation, transition, and management of outsourcing contracts. Among many roles at Accenture, his most recent role was the Global Managing Director at Accenture Analytics where he was responsible for driving the company's investments in predictive analytics solutions. Dave is a frequent contributor of quotes and bylined articles to BusinessWeek, Forbes, The Financial Times, The Wall Street Journal and other business publications, and has presented to C-level leadership forums including the World Customs Organization, SAS Global Forum, and Business Leader Conference in Brazil and Eastern Europe. Dave is a graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy with a Bachelor of Science degree in Management and Technology. He resides in Fort Worth, Texas and enjoys spending time with his wife, eight children, and four grandchildren.
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Executive management team
Dave Rich
Greg Todd
Greg Todd provides strategy, guidance and methods to successfully engage clients with information management solutions powered by analytics. He has worked at numerous Fortune 500 companies to define analytics architectures supporting descriptive and predictive management reporting needs. He has been a technical architect for over 20 years most recently completing a 15 year run at Accenture where he was a Managing Director in their Digital Data & Analytics practice. Greg has been involved in consulting his entire professional career. He has been to 27 countries and 43 of the lower 48 states over the course of his career and hopes to continue traveling and help Fortune 500 companies create amazing technical capabilities as the business world continues to change and become even more competitive through the use of analytics.
Product leadership team
David Champagne
David Champagne is an innovative technology leader with over 20 years of experience in enterprise and web application development for business customers across a wide range of industries. As Principal Architect/Engineer for SPSS, David led the development teams, created and led the text mining architecture team and was responsible for a variety of open source initiatives. Prior to that, he served as Vice President of Software Engineering for LexiQuest, in charge of software development, quality assurance and publications for the company's entire product line. Earlier in his career, David was a systems engineer for Honeywell, and was also a freelance software consultant. He is a 1984 graduate of Southern Illinois University.
Lee Edlefsen
Lee Edlefsen is a serial entrepreneur and inventor of high performance analytics. Prior to joining Revolution Analytics, Lee Edlefsen was CEO and co-founder of ExaMetrix, the producer of ExaStat, an open source environment for analyzing huge data sets. Previously, he served as Vice President of Development for the Data Analysis Products Division at MathSoft (now TIBCO Software). Lee co-founded, grew, and sold two successful software companies, Aptech Systems — the producers of the GAUSS Mathematical and Statistical System, and TriMetrix — the creators of the Axum technical graphics and data analysis package. He holds a Ph.D. from Harvard University.
Mario Inchiosa
Mario Inchiosa's passion for data science and high performance computing drives his work at Revolution Analytics, where he focuses on delivering parallelized, scalable advanced analytics integrated with the R language. Previously, Mario served as Analytics Architect in IBM's Big Data organization, working on Social and Machine Data analytics for the BigInsights Hadoop platform. Prior to that, he was US Chief Scientist in Netezza Labs, bringing advanced analytics and R integration to Netezza's SQL-based data warehouse appliances. Their success led to Netezza's acquisition by IBM. Mario also served as US Chief Science Officer at NuTech Solutions, a computer science consultancy specializing in simulation, optimization, and data mining, and Senior Scientist at BiosGroup, a complexity science spin-off of the Santa Fe Institute. Dr. Inchiosa holds Bachelors, Masters, and PhD degrees from Harvard University. He has been awarded four patents and has published over 30 research papers, earning Publication of the Year and Open Literature Publication Excellence awards.
Sue Ranney
Sue Ranney is a ground-breaking thought leader in applying Big Data Analytics. She was the co-founder of ExaMetrix, the producer of the ExaStat open source environment for analyzing huge data sets. Sue also served as vice president of development for the data analysis products division at MathSoft (now TIBCO Software), where she co-managed S-Plus releases, and was the co-founder of TriMetrix — the creators of the Axum technical graphics and data analysis package. She holds a Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin.
Richard Kittler
Richard Kittler is responsible for Revolution's product development, product management, and technical support operations. Prior roles at Revolution have included responsibility for Global Customer Support, Professional Services, and Sales Engineering. He came to Revolution Analytics with experience leading the development of large scale analytics applications involving both R and SAS, and their integration through ETL with commercial data warehouses at semiconductor manufacturers AMD and Globalfoundries. Prior to this, Richard was SVP of Product Development at Yield Dynamics, a software startup building yield management software for the semiconductor and flat panel industries. He holds a doctorate in Physics from UC Berkeley, and undergraduate degrees in Math and Physics.
David Smith
David Smith leads the open source solutions group at Revolution Analytics. With a background in data science, he writes daily about applications of R and predictive analytics at the Revolutions blog, and was named a top 10 influencer on the topic of "Big Data" by Forbes. He is the co-author (with Bill Venables) of R's tutorial manual "An Introduction to R", and was one of the originating developers of the ESS (Emacs Speaks Statistics) project. Prior to joining Revolution Analytics, David was the director of product management for S-PLUS at Insightful, Inc.
David studied Statistics in Adelaide University in South Australia and at Lancaster University in the UK, and lives in Chicago with his husband Jay. Follow David on Twitter as @revodavid.
Sales, marketing and operations leadership team
John Bardong
John Bardong has over 25 years experience and success in team and customer relationship building, pipeline/sales generation and execution of global sales opportunities in the ERP, data integration, and financial services applications. John's sales management expertise spans perpetual, subscription and SaaS software models with both public and privately held corporations. John comes to Revolution Analytics from Talend where he was VP of North American sales. John also served as Vice President with Informatica and was responsible for the formation of a National Financial Services Vertical that helped grow the companies revenues to $375 million at the time. In an earlier role he was a part of the management team at PeopleSoft that grew the business from $100 million in revenue to well over $1 billion. John is a graduate of Marist College, Poughkeepsie, NY, has two daughters and resides in New York with his wife Janet.
Mark Bruno
Mark joins the company after 15 years with Accenture, most recently as the global Commercial Director of Accenture Analytics. At Accenture, Mark's expertise in alliance/partner relationship management was instrumental in shaping the complex legal and commercial structures associated with analytics "Platforms-as-a-Service" and other complex transactions with alliance, partners, and clients, and included responsibility for negotiating and contracting more than $2B in software and services transactions with Fortune 200 technology companies. Mark also has 10 years of commercial and program management experience in the Semiconductor, Aerospace and Defense, and Information Technology business groups at Texas Instruments. Mark served in the U.S. Army at the Academy of Health Sciences and Brook Army Medical Center in San Antonio, Texas, graduated from the University of Texas at San Antonio with a BBA in Accounting and Business Data Systems and attended Capital University Law School in Columbus, Ohio. Mark and his wife, Delia, reside in Irving (Las Colinas), Texas.
Greg Fuller
Greg Fuller leads Enterprise Sales & Field Operations for the Americas. Greg's Sales teams are responsible for supporting Revolution Analytics Enterprise level clients. His Field Operations responsibilities include internal sales operations along with client facing legal operations. Most recently Greg led Revolution Analytics Partners and Channels program that was responsible for initiating partnerships with Alteryx, Tableau, and several other current relationships. Prior to joining Revolution Analytics he served as Global Alliance Director at SAS in their efforts with Accenture. In his time with SAS Greg also managed global partnerships with Deloitte Consulting and specific industry relationships with Teradata, IBM, EMC/Greenplum, HP and many others. Greg has also spent time with Oracle, Deloitte Consulting/Roundarch, CSC, Chordiant and Customer Analytics in roles ranging Principal Sales Consultant to Vice President of Sales. Prior to joining the IT industry Greg worked for several Texas-based banks in Operations.
Greg and his wife, Joanne, reside in Southlake, Texas and have two sons, both living in Nashville, Tennessee.
Neil Miller
Neil Miller is responsible for Revolution Analytics' business and growth outside the Americas and is based in the UK. Neil joined Revolution Analytics after 14 years at Accenture where he led the Customer Insight and Marketing Transformation practices in Europe and the CRM and Analytics practices in the UK and Ireland. During this time he led many consulting and managed service engagements in the customer data, enterprise BI and predictive analytics areas across industries helping clients move along the data - insight - action - outcome value chain. His consulting experience is complemented by 13 years operational experience with Lloyds Bank and GE Capital in a variety of sales, account management, organization development and six sigma business improvement roles in the UK and the US. He is a graduate of London University (1985) and has an MBA from Heriot-Watt University (1997). Neil lives in Buckinghamshire with his wife and they have two children who are at university — they are therefore enjoying being "empty nesters"!
Neera Talbert
Neera Talbert is a seasoned Consulting executive with over 25 years of experience. Before joining Revolution Analytics, Neera was Director of Consulting Services at SAS. Prior to that Neera was with SAIC and CSC supporting NASA's manned flight information technology programs. She brings over fifteen years of proven success in the business analytics software industry, as well as ten plus years in management consulting and IT professional services. Neera is skilled at developing and driving services strategy to achieve high performance and organizational change management. She is an innovative and team-oriented leader with proven leadership skills driving consulting service business in global markets. During her career she has launched a program management office, co-authored delivery methodologies, implemented knowledge sharing best practices, developed a partner enablement practice, managed larger consulting service practices, launched an offshore practice, and established college recruiting programs. Neera is a graduate of Texas A&M University, College Station, TX. She has one daughter and resides in Austin with her husband Tony.


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Too many women, many of whom are mothers, are sent to prison every year to serve short sentences for non-violent crimes, often for a first offence, a new briefing reveals.
A new report by the Prison Reform Trust, supported by the Bromley Trust, shows the system under significant strain with fewer staff, worsening safety and fewer opportunities for rehabilitation.
Overcrowding and high reoffending rates are the norm in the prison system according to an analysis of recent statistics by the Prison Reform Trust.
Penal reform charities have has expressed broad support for the green paper on punishment and rehabilitation but have also made key recommendations.
Prison is not working. Helping former offenders into jobs and effectively supervising people on community sentences is a key part of the answer, says Anton Shelupanov. To do this, the UK criminal justice system must embrace innovation as a necessity, not as a desirable extra.
The Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Rowan Williams, has criticized society's over-reliance on prisons 'Ä' and is calling for a commission of enquiry into the penal justice system in the UK, which he says is failing both offenders and victims because it is not restorative.


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no offence.. im just stating the facts..hilarious pic
exactly what i was thinking
I was expecting blood.
Funny though. Reminds me of the green army man wars I used to set up in ant mounds and blow the hell out of them with ladyfingers and cherry bombs. Fireworks FTW.
and a stunt squirrel
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