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Rockdale Clerk of Courts Ruth Wilson recently honored eight attorneys for their volunteer work with the Rockdale County court system's Family Law Information Center.
The attorneys, who each have given at least 140 hours of service, provided free consultations to the public every Friday from 9:30 a.m. to noon. The attorneys helped with adoptions, name changes, child support services, wills, alimony and other issues related to families.
Wilson said the support the attorneys provided has been invaluable to the public.
"This is a special group of people who volunteer their time in support of our family law information center. We appreciate every volunteer whole-heartily," said Wilson.
One of the volunteers, Attorney Donna M. Swilley, who was volunteering just hours before Wilson held the recognition program on April 25, said the experience has been rewarding.
"People come to the center with very serious issues that can sometimes have a life-changing result for their families," said Swilley. "I'm honored to be a part of a group of people who realize that it's appropriate to stand up for the little person who may be in a world of hurt."
In addition to honoring the eight volunteers, Wilson also recognized two of the attorneys for "going the extra mile" with a $1,000 check to be distributed to the charity of their choice.
"We appreciate every volunteer. But there are some that rise just a little bit higher, who work past their scheduled times and work just a little bit harder. These two attorneys Russel Davis Moore IV and Russel Davis More V embody all those features and more," said Wilson, who donated the $1,000 check to the father-son duo with money from passport funds.
The Moores were also given a plaque as the recipients of the Volunteer of the Year Award.
"It has been a pleasure working with Ruth Wilson, her staff and residents of this county who are dealing with critical issues during some of their most trying times," said Russel Davis Moore V. "We look forward to working with Ruth Wilson and her staff in the future to continue to serve residents in Rockdale County."
County staff said most of the honorees still volunteer with the court system and 16 attorneys have already signed up to volunteer in the future.
Need help from the Family Law Center? Appointments may be scheduled by calling the Superior Court Clerk's Civil Division at 770- 278-7905. You will be required to sign a consultation agreement.
Second picture above: Rockdale County Superior Couty Judge David Irwin (far left) joins Rockdale Clerk of Courts Ruth Wilson (far right) in honoring local attorneys for hundreds of volunteer hours in the court system.


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Yes, food is certainly a big deal here in the "Aloha State." Being the cultural melting pot that Hawaii is, with plenty of history behind it, it's no wonder this is the birthplace of such creations as the "SPAM Musubi" (think sushi with luncheon meat instead of fish on it), "Saimin" (a fusion noodle soup made with Chinese style noodles and pork, Japanese dashi broth and fishcake, and American luncheon meat and/or ham) and "Loco Moco" (a popular "plate lunch" entree made by topping rice with hamburger steak, fried eggs and brown gravy). Not stopping there, Pacific regional and Hawaiian regional fusion is more popular than ever, thanks to pioneering local chefs, as well as up-and-coming stars in Hawaii's world-renowned culinary scene.
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The first witnesses to an enduring natural mystery are an engineer, a biologist and a planetary scientist who met thanks to a remote weather station.
This odd group has captured the first video footage of Death Valley's sailing stones creeping across Racetrack Playa. For a century, these eerie rocks and their long, graceful trails have stumped visitors and scientists. The boulders of black dolomite appear to move on their own, sliding uphill across the playa's flat lakebed. The trails are the only evidence the rocks move. No one has ever seen them set sail. [Video: Sailing Stones of Death Valley Seen in Action]
Lacking direct evidence, explanations for this geologic puzzle ran the gamut, from Earth's magnetic field to gale-force winds to slippery algae. Now, with video, time-lapse photographs and GPS tracking of Racetrack Playa's moving rocks, the mystery has finally been solved.
Jagged plates of thin ice, resembling panels of broken glass, bulldoze the rocks across the flooded playa, the scientists reveal today (Aug. 27) in the journal PLOS One. Driven by gentle winds, the rocks seem to hydroplane atop the fluffy, wet mud.
"It's a wonderful Goldilocks phenomenon," said lead study author Richard Norris. "Ponds like this are vanishingly rare in Death Valley, and it may be a decade between heavy enough rain or snowfall events to make a substantial pond," said Norris, a paleobiologist at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography in San Diego, California.
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Leading theories had already narrowed in on wind, water and ice to propel the playa's rocks. But no one has come up with thin ice before. Models always targeted thick ice sheets, which could float the rocks across the playa like wind-driven icebergs. The ice seen during the study is too thin to pick up anything but pebbles.
"I have to confess I was surprised," said study co-author Ralph Lorenz, who has authored several studies suggesting thick ice carries the playa rocks. "I really expected buoyancy to be required, and it clearly wasn't. The ice was thinner than I thought would be needed. It was amazing to see the process actually happen," said Lorenz, a planetary scientist at the Applied Physics Laboratory at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore.
A similar phenomenon is at work in colder climates, on a much more massive scale, the researchers said. When frozen lakes and rivers break up in the spring, the ice floes can dislodge big boulders, leaving grooves in the muddy sediment.
In a terrain known for its barren and bizarre geology, Racetrack Playa is one of the strangest. The dry lake is 3 miles long (4.5 kilometers), nearly flat as a tabletop and littered with a few hundred rocks. Some are as small as baseballs, but other boulders weigh as much as 700 lbs. (317 kilograms). Even the largest rocks trail long furrows behind them. [Image Gallery: How Ice Drives Death Valley's Sailing Stones]
Some trails are short; some stretch twice the length of a football field. Other trails sharply zig and zag, suggesting quick changes in direction. Mysteriously, some trails are missing rocks.
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The Twitter account for the canned pasta brand had sent the message Friday night asking its followers to "Take a moment to remember #PearlHarbor with us." The cartoon mascot, drawn to look like an O-shaped noodle, sported orange sneakers and was licking his lip, with one hand on his hip.
The tweet spread rapidly, with thousands retweeting it and noting its jarring tone, given the gravity of the occasion. More than 2,400 Americans were killed in the Pearl Harbor attacks that prompted America's entry into World War II.
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STANDING AT THE SOUTHERNMOST TIP of mainland Canada, I feel like Moses about to part the Red Sea. Not that I'm
religious, but there's an otherworldly power to the roiling waters that collide here at Point Pelee National Park. This is land's end,
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Monarchs have been around for 146 million years, breeding
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On Sunday 11th March I took part in the Cape Argus Cycle Tour-a 110km ride around the Cape peninsular in South Africa. The scenery was spectacular with the backdrop of Table Mountain and the ocean. 32,500 took part, making this the largest cycle event in the world. Conditions were tough with the temperature allegedly reaching 40C on some sections of the course and about 1,000 riders needed some medical attention, mostly for dehydration or cramp unsurprisingly. There was also a spectacular pile up by the elite riders 100 metres from the finish.
It was deeply impressive to see the course being ridden by at least two unicyclists and a few hand cyclists whose fortitude put the rigours for us mere cyclists in perspective.
It was a first outing for the new Fundsmith sponsored GPM10 cycling shirts modelled in the photo by me and my friend Si Wang, Citi currency trader. A lot of riders walked up the largest climb, Chapman's Peak, but not Team Fundsmith.


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International Court & Tribunal Internships
2013 Rapoport Center Summer Fellow Elizabeth Nguyen (second row, second from left) with judges, associate legal officers, and interns of the Karadzic team of Trial Chamber III on the terrace of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia
The Rapoport Center regularly facilitates judicial internship placements with international courts and tribunals, including the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia , the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda, the Inter-American Court of Human Rights, the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, and the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia. Students and recent graduates may receive funding or academic credit for these internships.
To date, more than fifty UT Law students have taken advantage of these extraordinary internship opportunities. UT Law graduate Kenn Kern's clerkship at the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia and UT Law graduate Jay Bischoff's work prosecuting genocide cases at the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda highlight two stories of UT students.
"Working with the prosecutors at the ECCC has been an incredible experience. I've had the opportunity to absorb a tremendous amount about case management, trial skills, and international criminal law by working closely with driven, expert attorneys. On a personal level, being part of such an historically significant trial in the place where the crimes occurred is a life experience that I will continue to carry with me."
- Catherine Wagner, Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (2013)
Call for Applications: Summer/Fall 2016 Internships
Application deadline extended to Monday, November 9, 2015!
The Rapoport Center for Human Rights and Justice is now accepting applications for international human rights internships for the summer and/or fall of 2016 with the following courts and tribunals. These internships typically run from three to six months. A GPA of 3.3 or higher is preferred, but not required. Participants may be eligible to receive a stipend or academic credit, depending on the placement.
2011 Rapoport Center Summer Fellow Kristian Aguilar (front row, far right) with other interns and supervisor Mario Garelli in front of the main OAS building during her internship with the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights
International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY)
The Hague, Netherlands
Established by the UN in 1993, the ICTY is charged with prosecuting persons responsible for atrocities during the conflict in the former Yugoslavia, including Kosovo. Students work on a range of legal research, investigative work, and factual development on both procedural and substantive international criminal law issues. The internship is open to qualified second and third year students as well as recent graduates. Students must have strong backgrounds in international and/or criminal law. Knowledge of French or Serbo-Croat is helpful, but not required.
Inter-American Court of Human Rights
San José, Costa Rica
The Inter-American Court of Human Rights was established by the OAS in 1979 to hear claims against member states arising under the American Convention on Human Rights, other human rights treaties, and customary international law. Students will work with one of the Court's staff attorneys conducting research and drafting opinions for the cases before the Court. Applicants must have completed their third semester of law school and have a strong background in international and/or human rights law. Applicants must be fluent in Spanish (written and oral) and must be able to conduct legal research in Spanish.
Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR)
Washington, D.C.
The IACHR was created in 1959 through the Inter-American system for the promotion and protection of human rights within OAS member countries. The IACHR intern will have the unique opportunity to be supervised by an experienced attorney at the Commission. The internship is open to qualified second and third year students as well as recent graduates. Students must have a strong background in international and/or human rights law. Knowledge of Spanish (both written and oral) is strongly recommended.
Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC)
Phnom Penh, Cambodia
The ECCC is a national court established pursuant to an agreement between the Royal Government of Cambodia and the United Nations. The court was created in order try senior members of the Khmer Rouge or serious violations of Cambodian penal law, international humanitarian law and custom, and violation of international conventions recognized by Cambodia, committed during the period between 17 April 1975 and 6 January 1979. Students will work on a range of issues related to the prosecution of four senior Khmer Rouge leaders who are currently on trial. The internship is open to qualified second and third year students as well as recent graduates. Students must have a strong background in international and/or criminal law.
In addition to the placements above, we are also exploring internship options with the International Criminal Court, the Special Court for Sierra Leone, and the Special Tribunal for Lebanon. If you are interested in any of these options, please contact the Rapoport Center.
Application Process
Qualified students should submit the following items individually in PDF format via email to Rapoport Center Assistant Director William Chandler (email@example.com):
- Cover letter (describe your interest in the internship and any relevant academic and/or practical experience; indicate whether you would prefer academic credit or a stipend)
- Resume/CV (indicate language ability, if applicable)
- Law school transcript (unofficial is fine)
- List of three references (at least two must be regular Law School faculty)
- Writing sample (8-10 pages; preferably related to the work of the court/tribunal)
If applying for more than one placement, please list your internship preferences in rank order.
A faculty committee will review applications and determine which students it will nominate for each placement. Selected students would then complete the formal application process through the appropriate institution.
Additional Information
Please only apply for those internships you are willing to accept. Agreeing to serve as an intern through this program is a serious commitment to the host tribunal/institution, to the Rapoport Center, and to Texas Law. We expect students who are nominated to participate and fulfill all of the requirements of their internships.
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A few weeks ago, we published a list of our 10 favorite milkshakes., which drew the online equivalent of a raised eyebrow: "This time of year, I don't know about you, but we're looking for good hot drinks," a reader commented.
*See Also Seattle's Top 10 Milkshakes
We haven't changed our stance on milkshakes. We still like them all year round. But we can't deny it's cocoa season. Wet, wintry weather pairs wonderfully with hot chocolate (and whipped cream if you wish), and these cafes know how to make a perfect cup of the stuff. As always, there's no significance to the ordering of the finalists, and Erin Thompson compiled our contributors comments. Stay warm out there.
Fran's, the elegant chocolate retailer located in University Village, Bellevue, and the downtown Four Seasons Hotel, sells luxurious gift boxes of chocolate and also a dreamy, award-winning cup of hot chocolate, particularly if you're a fan of dark over milk. It's made with 65% Venezuelan dark chocolate, making for a deep, sumptuous flavor. One cup won't be enough--which is why you can buy a tin of the mix to take home with you.
9. Senor Moose Cafe
Ballard's Senor Moose is one of the most beloved Mexican restaurants in the city, so it's only natural that they should serve up a mean Mexican hot chocolate alongside their delicious margaritas and mole. Rich and infused with just the right amount of spicy kick, a mug of it is the perfect accompaniment to just about anything on the restaurant's sizable breakfast menu.
The Confectional's three storefronts--Capitol Hill, Pike Place, and Seattle Center--encourages you to "Confess Your Love For Cheesecake" and accordingly crafts luscious cakes and truffles. They also serve an equally rich drinking chocolate, served in a small cup that matches their mini-sized cheesecakes. It's a European-style chocolate, meaning it's got a thick, muddy consistency that makes it more like a dessert than a drink. Consuming it with The Confectional's Mexican Chocolate cheesecake might just cause a cocoa overdose.
Befitting the company's responsible reputation, Theo's drinking chocolate is fair-trade, organic, and sold in a recyclable box. The Rich Dark variety is silky smooth, and just a sip is enough to overload your senses with its fine, rich flavor. There's also a Chipotle Spice variety--dark chocolate infused with ancho and chipotle chiles, nutmeg, cinnamon, allspice, and cloves. The flavor's so kicky, it's best sipped, not gulped.
The popular Capitol Hill hangout Oddfellows Cafe and Bar offers regular hot chocolate year-round, but come winter time they amp up their cocoa menu by including a second option of Mexican hot chocolate. Also during during the winter months only, the kitchen crafts creamy housemade marshmallows, available as a topping on either flavor. At just $2.25 a glass, it's a holiday treat you can indulge in multiple times once the cold kicks in.
5. Le Pichet
Not only is Le Pichet über romantic and cozy year round, but there's something deliciously cliché about popping into this charming Francophile haunt on a cold winter night for a caramel pecan tart or a decadent cup of chocolat chaud. An order of the latter comes with two dishes: One contains a cup of dark melted chocolate, with a thick pudding consistency, and the other is topped with a good-sized dollop of sweet cream and a spoon for swirling it into the chocolate.
The Chocolate Box sells a variety of offerings from Northwest chocolatiers, including four varieties of sipping chocolates. Chocolat Vitale's Gourmet European blends Belgian and Swiss chocolates. Moonstruck's Mayan hot cocoa includes hits of almond and cinnamon. And the two Theo options are equally luscious and rich: the Chipotle Spice and the holiday classic Peppermint, dark chocolate with a swirl of sweet peppermint.
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When it's cold and blustery outside, there might not be a better midday snack than a warmed-up Macrina cookie (Ginger molasses! Chocolate oat peanut butter chip! Apricot chocolate espresso!) alongside a cup of the beloved bakery's hot chocolate. They use Mexican chocolate (in both their cocoas and mochas), giving the hot brew a kicky taste and a cinnamony aroma that melds into the sweet smell that lingers in each Macrina location.
The earliest record of chocolate consumption dates back to the Mayans. They churned cocoa seeds into a frothy substance, added chili peppers, then consumed the spicy, bittersweet drink to increase their libido. Chocolati Café pays homage to this ancient tradition with its Cayenne-Pepper Hot Chocolate. The concoction initially comes off as sweet, but then sucker-punches you with a bizarre tingling. Caffeine addicts can ask for a cayenne-pepper mocha, essentially the same drink with a couple of shots of espresso. Whether this delectable brew does anything for your sex drive is debatable, but at 16 ounces for $3, it beats the hell out of a frappuccino.
1. Chocolopolis
Walking into this über-sleepy Upper Queen Anne chocolate shop, you wouldn't think there was any sort of hot action taking place behind the counter. Oh, but there is: Chocolopolis has a special hot chocolate menu, comprising all sorts of liquid treats. The plain old cocoa ($3.95), made from Guittard chocolate--a nice mix of 38 percent milk and 55 percent dark--is a surefire win. Chocolopolis grinds its own chocolate in a food processor. An 8-ounce serving of hot cocoa is equal parts ground chocolate and steamed milk that melts the chocolate into a rich, thick drink. It's not too sweet and has a very satisfying taste, like a melted Easter bunny. For an extra $2, you can get some housemade marshmallows thrown in--"naked" or coated with even more chocolate.
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Curriculum Vitae for Cuilin Zhang in PDF (PDF - 212 KB)
Curriculum Vitae for Cuilin Zhang in HTML
Cuilin Zhang, M.D., M.P.H., Ph.D., is a senior investigator in the Epidemiology Branch. Dr. Zhang earned both her master of public health degree and Ph.D. in epidemiology from the University of Washington. She received her postdoctoral training in genetic and nutritional epidemiology at Harvard University. Dr. Zhang's research interest is at the interface of genetic and non-genetic biological markers and potentially modifiable exogenous factors, focusing on their interplay in relation to the development of complex diseases. More specifically, her current research activities focus primarily on the roles of genetic and environmental factors in the pathogenesis of gestational diabetes, type 2 diabetes, and obesity and health consequences of these complications. Dr. Zhang also has long-standing research interests in fetal origins of chronic diseases, life course epidemiology, and modifications of diet and lifestyle to improve reproductive outcomes and child health. Dr. Zhang serves as the Principal Investigator of the Diabetes & Women's Health Study (http://www.dwhstudy.net/ ), which applies a hybrid design among approximately 4,000 women from U.S. and Denmark who had diabetes in pregnancy and have been followed up for at least 10 years. The study is focusing on the identification of determinants (medical, lifestyle, genetic and their interactions) for the progression from gestational diabetes to type 2 diabetes and its complications such as cardiovascular diseases and the investigation of biochemical markers that may predict the development of these complications among the pre-diabetic population. Dr. Zhang is also the Principal Investigator of the investigation of the risk factors and pathogenesis of gestational diabetes using biospecimens longitudinally collected from prospective pregnancy cohorts. Currently, the study focuses on a comprehensive panel of biochemical markers and epigenetic markers that are putatively implicated in glucose homeostasis, fetal growth, or both. Non-targeted metabolomics will also be analyzed for the discovery of new pathways and/or biochemical markers related to glucose intolerance and subsequent adverse fetal outcomes.
Diabetes & Women's Health Study: www.dwhstudy.org
Zhang C & Hu FB. (2012). Determinants of Obesity. In Gillman & Poston (Eds.), Maternal Obesity. Cambridge University Press.
Bao W, Tobias D, Hu FB, Chavarro JE, Zhang C A prospective study of potato intakes and the risk of gestational diabetes BMJ 2016 Jan 12;352:h6898. doi: 10.1136/bmj.h6898
Zhang C, Tobias D, Bao W, Kay S. Adherence to healthy lifestyle and the risk of gestational diabetes: a prospective cohort study. BMJ 2014;349:g5450.
Bao W, Bowers K, Tobias D, Vaag A, Chavarro JE, Liu A, Strom M, Zhang C. Physical Activity and Sedentary Behaviors Associated With Risk of Progression From Gestational Diabetes Mellitus to Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus: A Prospective Cohort Study. JAMA Internal Medicine 2014;174:1047-55.
Tobias DK, Hu FB, Chavarro J, Rosner B, Mozaffarian D, Zhang C. (2012). Healthful dietary patterns and type 2 diabetes mellitus risk among women with a history of gestational diabetes mellitus. Archives of Internal Medicine Abstract
Song Y, Yeung E, Liu A, Vanderweele TJ, Chen L, Lu C, Liu C, Schisterman EF, Ning Y, Zhang C. (2012). Pancreatic beta-cell function and type 2 diabetes risk: quantify the causal effect using a Mendelian randomization approach based on meta-analyses. Hum Mol Genet. Aug 29 Epub ahead of print. Hum Mol Genet Abstract
Zhang C, Ning Y. (2011). Effect of dietary and lifestyle factors on the risk of gestational diabetes: Review of epidemiologic evidence. Am J Clin Nutr, 94, 1975S-1979S. Am J Clin Nutr Abstract
Zhang C, Rexrode KM, van Dam RM, Li TY, Hu FB (2008). Abdominal obesity and the risk of all-cause, cardiovascular, and cancer mortality: Sixteen years of follow-up in US women. Circulation, 117, 1658-1667. Circulation Abstract


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Race has been a huge issue in my life. The daughter of a white mother and a black father, I was born and raised (mostly) on Prince Edward Island, Canada's smallest province, several miles off the East Coast. I was the darkest person most of the island's inhabitants had ever seen.
Between the ages of six and fifteen, I heard the word "nigger" every school day. My classmates threatened and beat me, but administrators told my parents there was nothing they could do because they were not present when these incidents occurred. I assume things would be much different today, but those were the '80s and no one in that area had had much experience dealing with that sort of thing.
I was very excited when, at the age of fifteen, I moved to Washington, D.C. I looked forward to living among other Black people. But on my first day of school, my middle school classmates accused me of trying to be White! In their defense, I was pretty "white" in my speech and skin coloring and I wasn't at all familiar with inner city life. To them, I was an "Oreo" or worse, a "wanna be-White girl." I was shocked and disappointed. I hadn't prepared for that.
It was confusing. I wasn't sure where I belonged and there weren't many people offering to help me figure that out. I knew I couldn't live as a White person, even if I wanted to. My skin wasn't the right color for that and anyway, a lifetime of being called the "n-word" pretty much ruled that out. My response, like that of many Black people in my situation, was to become almost militant in my "Blackness". I took every opportunity to cry about the injustice of racism. I was angry and I made sure White people knew that. Luckily, most of my young adult life was spent around other liberal Black people and Caucasians trying to expiate for their society's sins towards Blacks. My near-daily pronouncements of institutional racism and a society rigged for rich White Republicans was always met with enthusiastic agreement.
When I became a conservative and began to embrace a philosophy of self-determination and individual responsibility, everything changed. I realized that the race issue had been my crutch, that the giant chip on my shoulder from my childhood experiences had crippled me. I refused to let the kids I tutored after school use their circumstances as an excuse for failure, how could I allow the same for myself? It was at that time that I finally shrugged off those chains of victim hood and really embraced the totality of my experience, my race and what my race meant for my life. I concluded that it didn't really mean as much as I originally thought it did. Because race had played such a huge part in my daily existence for so long, I thought it was all that really mattered.
I was married around the same time. I began to see myself as a wife and then a mother, and race no longer seemed so important. I was not a Black mother, I was a mother. I was not a White woman, I was a woman. I was not a biracial wife, I was a wife. I decided to not allow race to be a part of my every day life. I decided to be proud of who I was in that moment, how I talked, who and where I came from – all of it. And what freedom that brought! I was suddenly free to be myself, unapologetically, and I found (surprisingly, to me) that most people found that an attractive quality. I drew more people to me as a confident young woman than as an angry young BLACK woman. I made a pact with myself to never "prove" myself as a Black woman again. I would simply reject those games, and I have for a very long time now. I have been happy to be me, finally. I have been content with this package. When I am challenged as to how I conduct myself racially, I simply say, "This is me. All day long. Deal with it."


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Michigan Military Family and Community Covenant Signing
December 10, 2008
By By Arthur Jankowski, USAG-DTA Public Affairs Officer
Spearheaded by the Michigan National Guard, with support from the U.S. Army Garrison - Detroit Arsenal and TACOM LCMC, the state of Michigan held a Military Family and Community Covenant signing ceremony on November 12.
Over the course of the past year, states across the nation have been conducting Community Covenant signing ceremonies. The Army Community Covenant is designed to forge a strategic alliance between state and community leaders, and the Army. The goal of this partnership is a collaborative effort to improve the quality of life for Soldiers and their Families, both at their current duty stations and as they transfer from state to state.
The Michigan signing ceremony was held in the Governor's Ceremonial Office at the State Capitol Building in Lansing, MI. State officials in attendance included Lt. Gov. John Cherry, Jr., and several Michigan mayors and legislators. The military delegation was led by Maj. Gen. Thomas Cutler, Adjutant General of the Michigan National Guard, and included MG (Ret) Bruce MacDonald, Civilian Aid to the Secretary of the Army for Michigan, in addition to numerous military leaders.
The Detroit Arsenal was represented by Col. Christopher Wicker, Chief of Staff, TACOM Life Cycle Management Command, Robert Graves, Garrison Manager, and Brenda McCullough, Deputy Garrison Manager.
Among those signing the Community Covenant document were Cherry, Cutler, state and local elected officials, and community and military leaders.
"It's a real honor for me to sign the Community Covenant on behalf of the state of Michigan," said Cherry. "The sacrifices that military men and women make always amaze me - they certainly don't do it for the money. The Covenant is a tangible way to leverage community support for our troops and their families. We owe them a huge debt of gratitude, and this is a small token of appreciation for all that they've done for our country."
Cutler echoed those sentiments. "The Covenant signing is an important step to show our Soldiers and their families that we are serious about supporting them. The knowledge that they have the full backing and support of the community is a source of great strength, and ultimately impacts their ability to successfully carry out military missions," said Cutler.
MG Scott West, CG TACOM LCMC was TDY at the time of the ceremony, and signed the Covenant on 18 November in his office at the Detroit Arsenal.
With the signing of the Michigan Military Family and Community Covenant, the real work now begins. While the signing was ceremonial, it is time to get down to the business of providing world class community support for Michigan Soldiers and their families. After all, it's the very least that we can do in return for their meritorious service.


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Sixers-Nuggets: 5 things you need to know
Brown on Sixers' D: 'We know our sickness'
The Sixers (7-13) will attempt to salvage the second half of a back-to-back set when they host the Denver Nuggets (11-8).
Tipoff is set for 7 p.m. (CSN) at the Wells Fargo Center.
Let's take a closer look at the matchup:
1. Come and go as they please
The Sixers will try to turn around their season-long issues on defense when they get back on the court against the Nuggets.
Their defensive woes continued on Friday night against the league's lowest-scoring offense in Charlotte. The Sixers allowed the Bobcats to score a season-high 105 points and shoot 46.2 percent in a 105-88 loss (see story).
The Sixers particularly had trouble slowing down Charlotte in the first half, when they gave up 62 points and watched the Bobcats shoot 54.3 percent. The Sixers allow an NBA-worst 56.8 points per game in the first half.
"I feel like that whole first half was not good defensively," Sixers head coach Brett Brown said. "We scored, but we have to find ways to individually and team-wise improve defensively or it is going to be a really long year."
Things don't figure to get better right away against a Nuggets squad that is tied for fifth in the league in points per game (104.0) and tied for ninth in three-point percentage (37.7).
2. Missing the point
The only thing that could possibly hinder the meeting between these two high-octane teams is a pair of injuries to both point guards.
Michael Carter-Williams missed his fifth game of the season on Friday with a sore right knee and his status is unclear for Saturday's matchup.
Tony Wroten filled in nicely against the Bobcats with 21 points, eight rebounds and nine assists. He is averaging 19.8 points and 6.2 assists in the five games he has replaced Carter-Williams in the starting lineup.
On the other side, Nuggets point guard Ty Lawson left Friday's 106-98 loss to the Boston Celtics in the third quarter with a left hamstring injury. His status is also up in the air for Saturday night's tilt.
Lawson is off to the best start of his career this season under new head coach Brian Shaw. Lawson is averaging career highs in points (19.3) and assists (8.2), while also ranking 10th in the league with a 2.92 assist-to-turnover ratio.
3. Board meeting
With each team dealing with injuries at the point guard position, this game could be decided on the glass by two of the league's best rebounding squads.
The Sixers rank fourth in the NBA in rebounding with 46.4 per game, just ahead of the Nuggets' 45.7. The Sixers and Nuggets also both rank in the league's top 10 in offensive rebounding and rebound differential.
Whichever team wins the rebounding battle should have an inside edge toward winning the game.
4. Injuries
Carter-Williams (knee) is day to day.
Nerlens Noel (knee), Arnett Moultrie (ankle) and Jason Richardson (knee) are all out.
Lawson (hamstring) is day to day.
Danilo Gallinari (knee) and JaVale McGee (leg) are out for the Nuggets.
5. This and that
• The Sixers are 1-4 without Carter-Williams this season. The Nuggets were 8-1 without Lawson last season, albeit with a much different roster and head coach.
• The Nuggets are on the fifth game of a six-game road trip.
• The Sixers allow a league-worst 110.6 points per game, while the Nuggets are tied for 22nd with 101.7.
• The Sixers are 29th in the league in turnovers with 18.0 per game.
• Denver is sixth in the league in blocks per game with 5.8.
• Spencer Hawes averaged 16.5 points, 12.0 rebounds and 4.5 blocks on 63.6 percent shooting in two games against the Nuggets last season.
• The Sixers are ninth in the NBA in assists (22.8) and seventh in steals (8.7).


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Ribbon-leaved water-plantain (Alisma gramineum)
|Submerged parts: up to 1 m
Emergent parts: up to 40 cm
Classified as Vulnerable in Europe. Classified as Critically Endangered in the UK.
The aquatic ribbon-leaved water plantain resembles its more common relative, common water plantain; however it is generally more diminutive in all dimensions, has aerial leaves that are not heart-shaped at the base and submerged leaves that are long and ribbon-like. The plant may however be identified with certainty by its styles which are strongly curved back. The small, three-petalled flowers are white or pale pink with a yellow spot at the centre, are about 5-7 mm across and grow in a many-branched head with an average of about 60 flowers but up to 300. The species is also easily mistaken for another close relative, the narrow-leaved water-plantain, and these two were originally thought to be varieties of the common water-plantain.
The plant occurs in cold temperate latitudes across Europe, Asia and North America but is thought to be uncommon throughout its range. In the UK it is found at two sites. One is a shallow lake in Worcestershire where it has been known for years, and the other is a drainage channel in Lincolnshire where it was rediscovered in 1991. It has disappeared from the only two other sites where it was formerly recorded, one in Cambridgeshire and the other in Norfolk.
Ribbon-leaved water-plantain may grow as a deeply submerged aquatic but also occurs in shallow waters and on mud around the margins of lowland lakes, rivers, ponds and ditches. It requires nutrient-rich conditions (described as eutrophic) but cannot tolerate competition from other plants and tends to occur in open habitats.
The species is a short-lived perennial, although it often behaves as an annual. The leaves can develop both below water and above the surface and the flowers appear from June to September. The plant has the ability to self-fertilise and can produce a large quantity of seed.
Successful germination may rely on freezing, the disturbance of the mud in which the seed falls or other factors; however it has been found that seeds can survive dormant for at least a few years until conditions become suitable for germination.
The reason for this plant's rarity in the UK is not fully understood. Its loss from two of its former sites may be attributed to changes in management and the subsequent development of competing vegetation. On the continent, it may occur in abundance in groups of suitable shallow water-bodies that are linked by factors such as the movement of herbivorous animals such as wild boar or by the variable flow of rivers. It is thought likely that one of the reasons the species is rare in the UK is because such dynamic processes are no longer generally available to the species. Alternatively, the plant may have always been very rare here.
Being an inconspicuous plant, it is also possible that populations have been overlooked in some areas, particularly in deep waters.
In partnership with the Environment Agency - the government body responsible for pollution prevention and control in England and Wales, and for the management and use of water resources including flood defences, fisheries and navigation - English Nature has produced a Species Action Plan (SAP) for this plant. As part of English Nature's Species Recovery Programme, survey and monitoring work has been carried out to discover more about the conditions required by the ribbon-leaved water plantain.
As well as looking at ways to manage the sites where the plant is currently found, plans to re-introduce it to former sites have been investigated. The single known site in Norfolk lies in the area known as Breckland, where the species has been recorded once in one of the ephemeral meres. The Breckland meres are bodies of shallow water that rise and fall annually with the ground-water table.
When the water level has been low in these meres, the soil bed has been disturbed in places by rotovation. It is hoped that by creating this disturbance, dormant seed may be stimulated to germinate and the plant re-appear.
Other possible sites to experiment with managing this species have been investigated and seed from the Millennium Seed Bank at Wakehurst Place, part of the Royal Botanical Gardens, Kew, have been germinated in nursery conditions. If natural regeneration programmes prove unsuccessful, cultivated plants will be introduced into suitable sites and new populations established.
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- Annual: lives or grows for just one year.
- Eutrophic: nutrient enrichment of aquatic or terrestrial ecosystems.
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When I started driving, my first car was a huge, mid-eighties station wagon. Although it contained a lot of steel (which my parents liked) and could carry a lot of my friends (which I liked), the behemoth also sucked down a lot of gas, which was sometimes hard to cover on the money that I made from my after school job. To combat the fuel drain, I quickly picked up a few tricks, like drafting and coasting.
Drafting was all well and good, but it tended to terrify the other drivers. My preferred money-saving method was coasting. Rather than use a lot of gas to speed up and then use my brake to slow down, I tried, as often as possible, to get gravity to do my work. In Northern Virginia, where I lived, this became pretty interesting, as there were a lot of small hills. However, by carefully calibrating my acceleration, I was able to use the natural topography to save fuel. My favorite route was through the middle of town, where two major highways met. There was a wide valley in the area and, if I could time the lights properly, I was able to go about a mile or so without hitting the gas. Of course, there were times when my refusal to hit the brakes was sorely tested, and I still have bad dreams about some of my close calls. On the other hand, I did eke out between 20 and 30 mpg in Northern Virginia city driving, which is damn near miraculous.
Recently, as the cost of gas has soared, my old tricks have really come back into fashion. Whereas I used to refer to my little gas-saving tricks as "driving like a stupid, cheap teenager," current practitioners prefer the snappier-sounding "hypermiling." Personally, I think hypermiling sounds like the way you drive when you've got a full bladder and the next rest stop is ten exits away, but I guess it conveys the supercool exxxtreme notion of intensely saving gas. At any rate, in addition to "drafting," which involves driving insanely close to the person in front of you, and "coasting," which involves never hitting the gas, hypermilers also superinflate their tires to reduce road resistance and some even turn off their engines while coasting, a process that they call "pulse and glide." By following these methods, they often eke out astounding mpgs from their cars, sometimes exceeding the actual sticker values that car lots advertise!
There are already a few hypermiling websites, including Hypermiling.com and MetroMpg, where competitive hypermilers can learn about new techniques and brag about their successes. However, even as the sport becomes more popular, authorities are beginning to become critical of it. Some states already have laws against pulse and gliding, and other hypermiling techniques could, officially, count as reckless driving. AAA has come out against hypermiling, as have some state police groups. Both groups have argued that hypermiling can easily cause accidents.
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The Wakulla County Board of County Commissioners approved placing a referendum on the November 6, 2012 General Election Ballot to allow the citizens of Wakulla County to vote for or against a economic development property tax exemption for new businesses and expansions of existing businesses.
The purpose of this property tax exemption program is to encourage the establishment of new businesses in Wakulla and for our existing businesses to expand and create new jobs in the County. Once established, the program authorizes the County to grant qualifying businesses an ad valorem tax exemption on real property improvements and tangible personal property of up to 100% for up to 10 years.
"Economic Development continues to be a priority and this is another way for us to attract industries to open their doors here, it will help our current businesses grow, and will provide job opportunities for our citizens", commented Commissioner Mike Stewart. This program does not change any tax liabilities except for property owners who are exempted under the program. Additionally, it is anticipated to generate new tax revenue that will be added to the tax base from the improvements and tangible personal property after the exemption period.
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Hard to believe that we are already in October, as it seems like time goes faster each year. Anyhow, September was an interesting month. Check out the stats from our friends at the NWS Office in Pueblo:
Temperatures across south central and southeast Colorado remained above average over the past month of September with generally below average precipitation, except around the Pikes Peak region and portions of the San Luis, which saw above average precipitation. The graphics below indicate departures from normal for both temperature and precipitation across the area for the month of September.
Preliminary data indicates that the average monthly temperature in Alamosa in September was 55.9F. This is 1.4 degrees above average and makes September of 2011 tied as the 27th hottest September on record in Alamosa, well behind the record of 59.0F set in September of 1933. As for precipitation, Alamosa received 1.15 inches over the past month. This is 0.26 inches above the monthly average and makes September of 2011 the 25th wettest on record, well behind the 2.62 inches received in September of 1938.
In Colorado Springs, preliminary data for September indicates the average monthly temperature was 62.5F. This is 2.7 degrees above the monthly average and makes September of 2011 the 26th hottest on record in Colorado Springs, well behind the average monthly temperature of 67.0F recorded in September of 2010. As for precipitation, Colorado Springs totaled 5.91 inches of precipitation in September, with an amazing 4.50 inches falling on September 14th and a total of 5.36 inches falling in the two day period of September 14th and 15th. The 5.91 inches is 4.68 inches above the monthly average and makes September of 2011 the wettest September on record, surpassing the 4.97 inches recorded in September of 2008.
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Four hundred years ago this week, a Mi'kmaq shaman and chief named Membertou knelt here to be baptized.
He was the first native convert in what is now Canada, brought into the faith by French cleric Jesse Flèche. The priest went on to baptize all of the chief's immediate family and a boom was on. Within decades, word had spread through Mi'kmaq lands, and thousands had been baptized.
The dark side of that legacy is well known. Many natives have since turned their backs on the church, repelled by brutal assimilation attempts and the dark stain of the residential schools. Mi'kmaq author and historian Daniel Paul argues that the baptism was a "nail in the coffin" of his people's freedom. But to others the church retains a strong appeal.
"The values of Christianity are good," commented Morley Googoo, chief of the Waycobah First Nation. "There's no doubt there's a disconnect in the hurt that was created by the residential schools. But it's still an important part of our history."
Chief Googoo was one of the organizers of an event on Thursday that saw hundreds come together near Annapolis Royal for a re-enactment of the historic day.
Drums and native song echoed over a spot barely changed since the original ceremony 400 years ago. Tall and bearded, the actor portraying Membertou cut an impressive figure in leather clothes patterned with bear paws, arrows and feathers. Together with family, he knelt before the priest and was flicked with water. Rising as a newly minted Catholic, he was given the name Henri, in honour of the French king.
A narrator explained that the original Membertou might have understood little of what was said in the ceremony, but he was aware of how keen for converts were his French visitors. It was the start of Christianity in these lands, the narrator said - a bond that has stood through the centuries.
As the Mi'kmaq community grapples with the complex effects of that history and tries to create a better future, the example of Membertou has once again gained widespread attention. But this time the focus is on the Cape Breton reserve that bears his name.
Membertou First Nation has a $75-million budget and boasts that it was the first native community in the world to achieve ISO 9001:2000 certification for its financial practices. It has signed major business deals, brought its unemployment down to about 16 per cent and finds itself watched closely by native communities eager to emulate its successes.
Chief Terrance Paul said part of anyone's path toward self-sufficiency is throwing off the shackles of the past, including the legacy of the residential schools.
"It wasn't the church, it wasn't the religion, it wasn't God that did this. It was people," said Chief Paul, who is Daniel Paul's nephew. "If you want to stop being a victim, I feel you need to forgive."
Membertou residents have shown that determination to transcend the past.
The reserve lies on marshy land near the infamous Sydney tar ponds, to which they were moved from their former harbourfront lands by government fiat in the 1920s. Opportunities were few. And they faced routine racism - a reality laid bare by the royal commission into the wrongful murder conviction of Donald Marshall: A member of the community who became a prominent activist, he spent 11 years in jail for a crime he did not commit. (He died last summer, aged 55, of complications after a lung transplant.)
Showing the sort of pragmatism displayed by their namesake - many argue that the 1610 decision to be baptized was largely about courtesy and realpolitik - the Membertou have turned themselves into one of the country's most successful and forward-looking reserves.
"People feeling sorry for us doesn't do anything," Chief Paul said. "Action does. People open to doing business with us does."
Few would have wanted to copy the Membertou reserve 20 years ago. In 1994, the band relied on federal funding for almost all of its $4.5-million budget, and still ran a $1-million deficit. Realizing they were hurtling toward a dead end, they went looking for someone with the business smarts to get the reserve back on track. Mi'kmaq lawyer Bernd Christmas was identified as the prime candidate. Chief Paul lured him back from Toronto as the band's chief executive officer.
"He said to me, 'We're attempting to break our cycle, we just can't rely on government any more and have to take matters into our own hands,' " Mr. Christmas said. "We had to figure out how do we bring the global marketplace to us."
They started small. In 1999, taking advantage of that year's Supreme Court of Canada ruling on native fishing rights - a case championed by Mr. Marshall - they started building a fleet. They soon signed a gambling agreement with the province and brought in video lottery machines, which helped to fund other ventures.
At the same time, Mr. Christmas was helping to instill a new culture of transparency and austerity in the community. They posted online their financial information, including the amounts paid to the chief and council. They balanced their books and opened a business development office in Halifax. The biggest statement came in 2002, when they achieved ISO certification - a kind of corporate baptism that put them on the map with international firms.
"Certification, I think, was the turning point, the culmination of everything we'd done," said Mr. Christmas, who has since returned to Toronto and runs the Bernd Christmas Law Group.
Shortly afterward, Lockheed Martin approached them about providing engineering and in-service support for a bid on a federal helicopter contract. The bid didn't succeed, but other opportunities were quick to materialize. The band's ventures now include fishing, gambling, retail, information technology and the hospitality industry. The latest addition to the reserve is a 33,000-square-foot business plaza, already 80 per cent occupied, that had a ribbon-cutting ceremony on Wednesday.
Keith Brown, vice-president of development at Cape Breton University, who with colleagues has spent years studying the community, points to several characteristics of the Membertou model. He said the community has benefited from its location right in Sydney, enjoys strong and long-serving leaders, demonstrates financial transparency, insists on accountability and shows an ambitious attitude toward doing business.
"They're becoming a very real economic engine for Cape Breton, not just Membertou," he said. "Membertou truly is a national exemplar for what can happen in first-nations communities."And that's the kind of progress that could give the baptism of 1610 a much happier sequel.


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Headed by trainers Ger Healy and Fergal Quinlan, the Combat Sports Centre in Limerick offers superior instruction for men and women, a comfortable atmosphere for both newcomers and those already experienced, and the opportunity to learn from some of the best practitioners in Ireland. Brazilian Jiu-jitsu and MMA classes are available for those who want a well rounded arsenal for competition or self defense. Ladies only fitness classes are also offered at the Combat Sports Centre.
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Rounding in Xero
Xero may calculate line item or document totals in ways that are slightly different to other applications. Neither approach is necessarily incorrect, just slightly different.
This guide documents possible scenarios and ways to handle them via the API.
Line item totals
Xero calculates tax on a per line basis, rounding to two decimal places, and then sums the tax totals of each line to calculate the total invoice tax. Other systems may total lines and then calculate the tax amount, which can lead to a slight variance.
Invoice line 1: Product A @ $25.06, tax at 15%: $3.76 line total: $28.82
Invoice line 2: Product B @ $25.61, tax at 15%: $3.84 line total: $29.45
Invoice line 3: Product C @ $25.63, tax at 15%: $3.84 line total: $29.47
Xero totals: Subtotal: $76.30, Tax: $11.44
Xero document total: $87.74
Another system total: Subtotal: $76.30 + Tax @ 15%: 11.45
This can be illustrated below in Xero as the approach is the equivalent of just having one line in Xero:
Unit prices
By default, the API accepts unit prices (UnitAmount) to two decimals places. If you require greater precision, you can opt-in to 4 decimal places by adding the querystring parameter unitdp=4 to your request.
Example requests that opt in to 4 decimal places:
GET an individual invoice – https://api.xero.com/api.xro/2.0/Invoices?page=1&unitdp=4
GET invoices with paging – https://api.xero.com/api.xro/2.0/Invoices/INV-1002&unitdp=4
PUT & POST invoices – https://api.xero.com/api.xro/2.0/Invoices?unitdp=4
PUT & POST items – https://api.xero.com/api.xro/2.0/Items?unitdp=4
The parameter is supported on all endpoints that include line items (invoices, credit notes, bank transactions and receipts). It also applies to the UnitPrice elements on the Items endpoint. All summary values such as Total, LineAmount etc will remain at two decimal places only.
For cases where you have a unit price with more than four decimal places, eg:
Invoice line 1: 1000 x Product A @ $0.061171 (sub total of $61.17)
Then you might choose to represent this line in Xero as:
<LineItems> <LineItem> <Description>1000 x Product A @ $0.061171</Description> <Quantity>1</Quantity> <UnitAmount>61.17</UnitAmount> <AccountCode>200</AccountCode> </LineItem> </LineItems>
Ways to resolve
To ensure you can resolve any rounding issues, you will need to know when they occur. There are two approaches you can take:
- Apply the same logic to calculations and rounding as Xero, so your application knows in advance of any issues and can add an adjustment as required
- Read the response from the API when you have created the item, and if there is a variation between the expected total and the total in Xero, edit the item and add an adjustment line
Rounding Line
If possible, you should add a rounding line to adjust the total to reflect the source system:
<LineItems> <LineItem> <Description>Rounding adjustment: document total $87.75</Description> <Quantity>1</Quantity> <UnitAmount>-0.01</UnitAmount> <AccountCode>860</AccountCode> </LineItem> </LineItems>
Every Xero organisation will have a rounding account, but you should ensure the account code is correct by making a GET Accounts API call at setup/configuration stage to ensure it is either the default value above, or if the user has changed it to another code, it can be found by the following element within the <Account/> element:
Overriding TaxAmount
With the Invoices endpoint, you can now use the
Eg: on PUT or POST Invoice:
<LineItems> <LineItem> <Description>My own calculation</Description> <Quantity>7</Quantity> <UnitAmount>48.7</UnitAmount> <TaxAmount>34.10</TaxAmount> <AccountCode>200</AccountCode> </LineItem> </LineItems>
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KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) - Afghanistan's president says he will not pursue peace talks with the Taliban unless the United States steps out of the negotiations and the militant group stops its violent attacks on the ground.
Hamid Karzai is upset over a U.S. and Taliban announcement the day before that they would begin preliminary peace talks in Qatar without the Afghan government.
According to a statement from Karzai's office, he says that his High Peace Council would "neither attend nor participate in the talks" until the process is "completely" in the hands of Afghans.
Karzai earlier Wednesday announced he had suspended talks with the U.S. on a new security deal in protest of how the talks were announced.
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