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I am a self-published novelist with four books currently available and more on the way. Among my published novels is 2/3 of an epic fantasy trilogy (book 3 will be released the end of this month) and the only complaint I've had about the books so far is the lack of a map. I have a hand-drawn rough idea, but I lack the skills to translate this to a digital form (and the artistic ability to consider doing so), so I am here seeking help.
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(SportsNetwork.com) - The Philadelphia Flyers will try to avoid their first
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On a drive the other day saw a house with a couple of trees in front.... Each tree had a main trunk, and about 3 side branches... Each side branch ended in a basketball sized node... No branches passed that. Am assuming the branches are all cut back to these nodes in the fall. Any idea what type of tree this is? Overall about 10 ft tall.
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I used to DM AD&D games over 20 years ago. Just started playing Pathfinder in the last few months but only as a player character. Thinking about GMing a Pathfinder game so I am working on my own game maps.
The work I see posted on CG here is really great stuff so I figured I would post what I have so far to see what you all think of it.
Thanks for reading my post and checking out my WIP of Vampire Sword of Vittori,
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Thanks. I use Photoshop CS4.
I'd certainly change the yellow texture to a very dark red. You might look at my Lava Floor thread below this one for another way to make lava.
Hope the game goes well!
This came out quite nicely, looking forward to seeing more of your work.
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My daughter is 4 and she's in the puppy stage. My husband's cousin has a pit-bull that just had a litter and my daughter has fallen in love with them. She has one specific puppy she likes the most and she keeps asking if she can bring him home. My husband has already told her she can have the dog but I don't think a pit-bull is a good dog for a little girl. It's cute now but it's gonna grow up and we all know they are aggressive dogs that can turn any second. I don't want my daughter to end up mauled or dead. I told her the puppy had to stay with its mommy but we could get her a different puppy. My husband says I'm crazy and thinks it will be a good dog for her. How do I convince my family that bringing that dog home is like leaving a loaded gun in the living room?
Slacker says that he won't even let his kid go river rafting without him at his side, because he doesn't trust the situation. He says he would like to put his kid in the best possible scenario. Slacker says that with his kids being a little older he wouldn't mind getting a pit-bull but getting the breed when they are babies is a hard decision. He says that the majority of pit-bulls don't do bad things. Slacker says that if Shelby is that much afraid of the breed then it wouldn't be a good idea because you need to be the alpha!
Steve says that they could get another breed but this one is a free dog and they know what kind of dogs the parents were and what not. He says that the big problem with this situation is the fact that Shelby's husband already promised the dog to their daughter.
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Pitbulls are wonderful dogs. Yes sometimes there are bad news stories about them but think about it this way, they used to be nanny dogs! Enought said...
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White teenage boys in high school are dangerous!
White teenage boys in high school have a proven record of killings in and out of school. School is supposed to be safe. And these "people" are killing kids and teachers regularly. Pit bull dogs are loyal. They will do what the human teaches them to do. All of the bully breed dogs that we've raised in our family have NEVER hurt anyone or anything. It is how you raise them. So if we are concerned for children's safety, then we need to start focusing on how these parents are raising their white teenage boys in high school. Seriously think about that. I'm not for mass genocide of any humans, but your callers are obnoxious in thinking that mass genocide for a type of dog is an answer to reducing danger. The writer shouldn't get ANY dog right now. She clearly isn't ready to be a good parent to both a baby and a dog. A promise to a 4 year old is okay to break in this instance. Keep peace in the family and don't get a pet that she will obviously not care for.
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Growing up as a child, my parents use to tell me to stay away from pitbulls and that they were really aggressive. Well 23 years later, I brought home a pitbull puppy despite all the holla-ba-lu and bad rap and after 3 years; he is fully trained and the sweetest dog ever, even my parents view has complete changed to a positive outcome. Our corgi is more aggressive than our pitbull..
Please be fair to the breed - don't mix pitbulls and children
1) ALL dog breeds are the result of selective breeding. All of them. Each breed has been selected to do a job: from companionship to hunting lions, every breed has a predisposition and a proclivity for certain behaviors. 2) pitbulls are bred for fighting. Period. It's hard wired in their DNA. It's unfair to the dog to assume that they won't have that instinct, especially in a stressful situation (kids wrestling, stranger encounter...) 3) check the statistics on dog-related injuries: facts don't have emotional attachments to cute dogs. Pitbulls are BY FAR the most dangerous dogs - and every injury sustained by a pitbull IS CAUSED BY A HUMAN SETTING THE DOG UP FOR FAILURE. 4) by the way, it's silly to equate humans to dogs - domestic animals are selectively bred. Humans are not. Bottom line: it is unreasonable and unfair to the breed to put it in a position where it will be fighting its DNA. It's not the fault of the dog - but humans who set these dogs up for failure are to blame.
First: If you get a pit, you have to be prepared to fight against biases, stereotypes and prejudice. You have to be dedicated and put yourself in the right situations. I have a pit/retriever that I got from the humane society when she was around 3. She is the love of my life and I am not a sappy, lovey-dovey person. Is she perfect, no. I knew when I was getting her from the humane society, she would need a lot of training and that is exactly what I did. She has gone to three rounds of training, one being an intensive behavior therapy. She went with our other dog, a rhodesian ridgeback, who had her own issues. (For the caller who said that rhodesian ridgebacks are not aggressive, that is not always true. We got ours from a breeder and part of the breed stereotype is being loyal and protective. Nala is more apt to go after someone rather than Duckie, the pit. Long story short, if she has the time to put in training and willing to be a respectable owner, I say go for it. Know that if the dog does have behaviors, LIKE ALL DOGS DO, you are responsible for taking charge of the situation. There are many small dogs in my apartment complex that would be considered dangerous but because they are small and the owners just pick them up, or their bite is much smaller, or they are "cute", they are considered non-aggressive. It is like a 1st grade girl hitting a 4th grade boy and saying it is ok because she just did not mean it... It is people like that caller that said "they are like a loaded gun" that they are continually looked at as bad and dangerous dogs. Any dog has the ability to bite and they bite just as often.
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The easiest way is to overlay a paper texture, or use your map as an overlay of a paper layer.. um, maybe i'm not explaining it right.
method 1 - put a paper layer over your whole map, with a partial transparency or layer blend mode, and fiddle with the settings.
Method 2 (my preferred) - put a parchment layer underneath the whole shebang, and group all the layers above it - then set the layer blend mode to multiply for the group (for a b+w/grayscale, this is awesome).
Assumes you use photoshop or gimp, though there are ways to do that in Illustrator (and I assume inkscape etc).


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RAMONA CUNNINGHAM OBRYANT Smith Moore Leatherwood LLP, Greensboro
I would likely be practicing in West Virginia. I lived there until I went to law school. It was a tough decision not to go home, and I still have several friends who practice in West Virginia. My practice would be similar to what it is here.
Vita: Born April 16, 1958, in Cowen, W.Va.; bachelors from Alderson-Broaddus College in Philippi, W.Va., law degree from UNC Chapel Hill; husband and one child. Why she chose this field: I began as a litigator but didnt enjoy the courtroom. Our environmental folks needed help, and I was offered the chance to work with them. Once I began, I was hooked. I enjoy rules and working on the puzzle of how they all fit together. What shed be if not a lawyer: I would probably be more involved in community work. Memorable case: It was recently decided by the state Supreme Court and deals with regulation of trout-stream buffers. We worked with the client for many years, initially dealing with regulatory agencies prior to the states approval of the project and then defending against third-party challenges. Favorite places: The beach and Baptist Camp in Cowen, W.Va., where I went to camp and then worked through high school and college. Recent reading: Fall of Giants by Ken Follett. Hero: My mother set such a wonderful example of giving, and at 80, she still runs circles around us all. Dont ask her to: Go away from my family for long periods. Or wash my car.


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I cannot read any emails in Cyrillic in Zimbra 7.2.3 with a Chrome browser. I see things like this instead:
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It's ok when I use Firefox.
It's ok when I use the same Chrome browser to read any other email, news, etc in Cyrillic in any other way (not using Zimbra).
The weird thing is that I can read the beginning of the Cyrillic message on the line after the Subject before opening the email. However, once I open it, the encoding or whatever doesn't work at all.
Update: I checked this on a Mac (OS X 10.7.5) and the issue is the same (Chrome Version 27.0.1453.110) - the combination Zimbra + Chrome doesn't work for Cyrillic encoding. It's fine in Safari though. Everything else under Chrome is fine in terms of encoding too (Gmail, etc).


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By Jessica Bakeman
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ALBANY - New York has the highest teen abortion rate in the country, but per capita pregnancy and abortion rates among 15- to 19-year-olds have steadily declined over the last two decades, according to a report this week.
Excluding miscarriages, nearly 60 percent of pregnancies among 15- to 19-year-olds in New York end in abortion, according to the Guttmacher Institute analysis.
"There are at least two factors in play for the higher abortion rates in New York as compared to the rest of the country," said Laura Lindberg, senior research associate with the institute, a policy group based in Washington, D.C., that focuses on reproductive rights.
"The first would be a different set of cultural and social values, which are more supportive of the decision to end a pregnancy among teenagers," she said. "And the second would be greater access."
Gov. Andrew Cuomo and women's groups are pushing a bill to codify federal abortion rights into state law. Critics -- particularly conservative groups and the Catholic church -- said the controversial measure would further expand access to abortions in New York.
"One thing we don't need more of in New York is abortions, as these numbers clearly demonstrate," said Dennis Poust, spokesman for the state Catholic Conference. "It further shows the folly of Governor Cuomo's embrace of more abortions in New York."
Tara Sweeney, spokeswoman for NARAL Pro-Choice New York, said the state's relatively high abortion rates should not be used as an excuse to restrict abortion rights or as a factor in women's decisions.
"Every woman's situation is different. When a woman is facing the decision of how to proceed with pregnancy, she's talking with her health-care providers, she's talking with those closest to her about what's best for her and her family," Sweeney said. "She's not consulting the statewide data."
The report, released Monday, shows that New York had 37 abortions per 1,000 women ages 15 to 19 in 2008, the most recent year for which data was available. The statistics are from the U.S. Census Bureau and the National Center for Health Statistics.
New Jersey, Connecticut, Delaware and Hawaii had relatively high rates in 2008, with 26 or more abortions per 1,000 women ages 15 to 19. South Dakota had the lowest in 2008, with five abortions per 1,000.
Nationally, there were 18 abortions per 1,000 women aged 15 to 19. That is the lowest rate since abortion was legalized federally in 1973, and it's 35 percent lower than the peak rate, which was in 1991 when there were 62 abortions per 1,000 women.
"I'm not the least bit surprised that New York's policies and where we are as a state has led to high teen pregnancy and teen abortion rates," said Jason McGuire, executive director of New Yorkers for Constitutional Freedoms, a conservative policy group with Christian leadership.
McGuire said the state should increase restrictions on abortion, such as requiring minors to obtain parental consent or undergo counseling. While some other states have such regulations, New York does not.
More than half of teenage pregnancies in New York, New Jersey and Connecticut ended in abortion in 2008 -- not including those that ended in miscarriage. In New York, 59 percent of teen pregnancies -- nearly 25,000 -- ended in abortion.
In that year, there were about 17,300 live births and 5,950 miscarriages or stillbirths among pregnant teens.
Black teens accounted for 45 percent of the state's abortions in 2008, although they make up just 23 percent of the population in that age group. White girls had 25 percent of the abortions; they're 56 percent of the population.
Teen abortions have steadily decreased in New York, though -- partly because there's been an overall decrease in teen pregnancies.
In 1988, the state had 61 abortions per 1,000 women ages 15 to 19. The rate decreased to 59 per 1,000 in 1992, 40 in 2005 and 37 in 2008.
New York ranked 18th for teen pregnancy rates and 44th for teen birth rates.
According to the report, teen pregnancy has declined in New York and nationwide largely because of an increase in the use of contraceptives, as well as a modest decrease in sexual activity among teens.
Poust said the Catholic church offers help to girls and women who want to carry their pregnancies to term but do not have the means.
"These are girls who need more help to care for the babies," he said. "Oftentimes, they are pressured by parents and boyfriends to abort, where women who are older might have more independence and support systems."
Lindberg, from the Guttmacher Institute, said that more abortions in New York means a lower birthrate among teen mothers -- which she said can be a positive outcome for individuals and society.
"Being a teen mother has negative consequences for both the mother and the child, and abortion is one choice among many that teenage girls make to protect their futures," she said. "Having access to that right is important."
Women's groups said New York has intensified sex education efforts, causing more teens to delay sex.
"For those adolescents who still choose to engage in sexual activity, (we teach) how to protect themselves and how to prevent sexually transmitted infections, HIV/AIDS and pregnancy," said Tracey Brooks, CEO of Family Planning Advocates, the lobbying group for Planned Parenthood. "I think we're seeing a great success rate."
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Landover, MD (Sports Network) - Marshawn Lynch rushed for 131 yards and the
go-ahead touchdown midway through the fourth quarter as the Seattle Seahawks
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Sunday's NFC Wild Card playoff.
Washington was hosting its first playoff game since 1999 and jumped out to an
early 14-0 lead, but the Seahawks scored the final 24 points of the contest to
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|15 December
|Special Notice #263: SUPERNOVA 2011iy IN NGC 4984 = PSN J13085839-1531041
December 15, 2011: IAU CBAT Central Bureau Electronic Telegram 2943 (Daniel W. E. Green, Ed.) announces the discovery of an apparent supernova in NGC 4984 by Koichi Itagaki, Yamagata, Japan, at unfiltered CCD magnitude 12.7 on 2011 Dec. 9.856 UT.
|12 December
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|06 December
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We held another VSP workday this week and tackled a few VSP bugs and feature requests. Most of the changes are minor and I'll list them below. We did not get to everything on the list. Our next workday will probably be in a couple of months. Feel free to submit feature requests or bug reports to aavso at aavso.org.
As always, thanks to Michael Koppelman and Chris Watson for taking time out of their day to help us!
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|30 November
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Solar observer Ernest Richardson was recently given the AAVSO Solar Award, which was covered in a story by the Thorne and District Gazette newspaper titled "Swinton starman receives top award ". Read the article here.
|30 November
|New results on FS Aurigae
The paper "Optical and X-ray Variability of the Peculiar Cataclysmic Variable FS Aurigae with a Magnetic and Freely Precessing White Dwarf" by Vitaly Neustroev and collaborators is now available on arXiv.org. The paper was co-authored by several AAVSO observers, and involves data taken during the 2010-2011 observing campaign.
|29 November
|Advancing Variable Star Astronomy available as a Kindle e-book
The Advancing Variable Star Astronomy book that chronicles the first 100 years of the AAVSO is now available as an Amazon Kindle e-book. Of course, hard copies are still available from the AAVSO for $80 (20% discount), while supplies last.
|29 November
|RASC Publishes David Levy's Log Books Online
The RASC has just published a digital copy of David Levy's personal log books in PDF format:
|22 November
|Meet Donna Young
Many of you already know Donna Young. She became affiliated with the AAVSO in the mid-1990's when she led the effort, and was the primary author, of Hands On Astrophysics (HOA). HOA was a variable star science education curriculum developed mainly for high school audiences (but is used by some college and advanced middle school classrooms).
|20 November
|Chat Transcript w/AAVSO President Dr. Mario Motta
Update: The chat is over, but a transcript of the chat is available here.
|17 November
|Charts and Sequences Update November 2011
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|07 November
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The ArXiv link to the black/white paper is here.
But you can download the color paper directly here.
The abstract:
|04 November
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|02 November
|Special Notice #262: Long-term monitoring of AGN targets extended
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|02 November
|Modern observations of Hubble's first-discovered Cepheid in M31
The paper "Modern observations of Hubble's first-discovered Cepheid in M31" has been accepted for publication to PASP, and is now available on arXiv.org.
|28 October
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|25 October
|Alert Notice 450: Request for observations of SDSS J080434.20+510349.2 in support of HST observations
October 25, 2011: Dr. Paula Szkody (University of Washington) has requested the help of AAVSO observers in monitoring the WZ Sge-type cataclysmic variable SDSS J080434.20+510349.2 (SDSS0804+51) in support of Hubble Space Telescope ultraviolet spectroscopic observations scheduled for 20:52:40 - 23:32:35 2011 November 3 UT (the night of Wednesday, November 2/3) (JD 2455869.36991-.48096). Nightly observations are requested beginning immediately and continuing through November 30.
|25 October
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|21 October
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BW Scl is located at the following (J2000) coordinates:
|19 October
|AAVSO 100th Anniversary Commemorative Posters
By popular demand! A set of twenty pdf commemorative posters exhibited at AAVSO Headquarters is available for downloading from our ftp site.
The posters show portraits of the AAVSO's Directors, Presidents, Secretaries, Treasurers, Council members, and Staff from 1911 to 2011, and the top Visual, CCD, PEP, and Photographic/Photovisual observers.
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Approximately one-third of our life is spent sleeping. Thus, the average American man, expected to live 73 years, spends 24.3 years of his life sleeping. Makes a nice mattress seem like a cheap investment doesn't it?
Given that so much of our existence is spent "not being awake," it's important we give merit to the incredible influence that this third of our life has on the remaining two-thirds of our time.
We all know what it feels like to go without a good night's rest; the following day seems to drag on, we find ourselves irritable, yawning, watching the clock for quitting time and eager to stumble to bed right after dinner. Repeated nights of sleep disruption can lead to mood changes, relationship problems, health concerns, loss of problem solving abilities and mental illness such as depression or anxiety.
Good sleep hygiene is important for all of us. Some basic practices can have a significant impact on our ability to fall and stay asleep, as well as improving the rejuvenating quality of the sleep that we do get.
1. It's important to avoid caffeine and nicotine in the evening hours. Both are central nervous system stimulants, causing body temperature, heart rate and cognitive processing to increase.
2. Avoid alcohol consumption prior to bedtime. Though the depressing effect of the drug can initiate sleep, alcohol interferes with REM and deep wave sleep, thus preventing the type of sleep that leaves us feeling rested and ready for the day.
3. Engaging in regular aerobic exercise or activity improves both sleep onset and quality of sleep.
4. The bedroom should be used for sleeping and sex; avoid using it as a substitute living room. You want your brain to associate this room with winding down, resting and sleeping.
5. Avoid distractions such as TV, radio, computers and books while in bed. Such activities are best engaged in elsewhere and prior to bedtime.
6. Practice relaxation techniques such as deep breathing, progressive muscle relaxation and guided imagery prior to bedtime. Such practices tend to reduce anxiety and racing thoughts.
7. Avoid the use of sleep aids; most are short term solutions that often result in longer term problems.
8. Most importantly, challenge your beliefs around sleep. Having sleep problems one night does not increase the risk of having another sleepless night the next time you go to bed. Usually it is our fear that drives the insomnia.
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RICHMOND, Va. (AP) - A report by the state inspector general concludes an assistant attorney general improperly counseled two energy companies, but that she did so without her superior's knowledge.
The report issued Tuesday found that the assistant attorney general provided litigation strategy to the companies being sued by southwest Virginia landowners. It found no evidence her bosses either instructed or supported her actions.
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(Orange City) -- A well known Iowa family owned pizza restaurant chain is being recognized for its commitment to good food and community involvement. Pizza Ranch, head-quartered in Orange City, is Mays winner of Iowa Farm Bureau Federation's Renew Rural Iowa Entrepreneur of the Month award. Sandy Ehrig, Economic Development Administrator for the Iowa Farm Bureau, explains the award.
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Drive testers voting to go back to work
TORONTO -- The thousands of Ontario drivers and would-be drivers waiting to get their licence tests will be relieved to know that the approximately 500 strikers will be voting over the next few days on a new contract.
They shouldn't get too excited, though, as the United Steelworkers are recommending the employees reject the deal.
Paul Dalglish of Serco DES, the corporation that runs the province's DriveTest centers told todaystrucking.com that the company made some concessions on the weekend and the union's negotiating team agreed to take the revised version to its members.
Even though the union isn't keen on the offer, Dalglish says it's a good thing workers will at least have the opportunity to decide whether to end the 11-week strike themselves.
"That's a good thing," Dalglish says. "Generally it's the bargaining committee that makes the decisions but at least now the members will get to decide whether they want to return to be workers at DriveTest or if they'd like to continue to be picketers for the United Steelworkers of America."
The employees have been on strike since August 22. They work at the province's 93 DriveTest centers. Serco has held the contract since 2003.
Dalglish says that when the centers do re-open, priority will be given to individuals seeking their first licenses and those seeking commercial licences.
Others, such as people over 80 who have to write a test to renew their licenses, will be granted automatic extensions, probably until July 2011, at least.
Among the hardest hit have been truck-driving schools, whose graduates cannot obtain their CDLs, and yesterday, the Truck Training Schools Association of Ontario (TTSAO) organized two convoys on the provinces main highways into Toronto to protest the labor dispute.
Dalglish said the voting will take a few days and they might not have the results until later next week but if the workers do choose to get back to the office, Serco has its restart plans ready to be in business immediately.


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Fact or Fiction? Brown eggs are more expensive than white eggs. They are also more nutritious.
Answer: Fiction! The Georgia Egg Board says both types have the same nutritional value. Brown eggs come from a different breed of chicken than white eggs, which is why the shell is a different color.
(We compared conventionally produced eggs, not free range or organic)
Fact or Fiction? Prepackaged lettuce can cost 300 percent more than unpackaged lettuce.
Answer: Fact! A head of Romaine will vary in price from $1.59 to $2.99 and weighs about a pound. Bagged or clamshell packaged lettuce can cost double or triple the price yet contain only about 7 or 8 ounces of lettuce.
Fact or Fiction? Beef tenderloin roast is simply filet mignon that has not been sliced into steaks.
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Fact or Fiction? Ground beef has more fat than ground turkey:
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WASHINGTON (AP) - New legislation in the D.C. Council would reduce fines from automated speed cameras and running red lights could be lowered to $50.
Councilmembers Tommy Wells, Mary Cheh and Marion Barry introduced legislation Tuesday that would overhaul the automated traffic enforcement program. The system has been expanded to bring $60 million annually into city coffers.
Current fines run $150 for driving up to 20 mph over the speed limit. A red light infraction is $100.
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with an 86-84 win over the Memphis Grizzlies.
Dwight Howard had nine points and 10 rebounds, but he went 1-of-2 at the foul
line with 4.1 seconds left to give the Grizzlies a chance to tie or win.
Mike Conley, who missed a jumper prior to Memphis fouling Howard, then drove
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The result kept the Lakers a half-game ahead of Utah for the No. 8 seed in the
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Pau Gasol contributed 19 points and nine rebounds for the Lakers, who have won
three in a row. They had lost three straight to the Grizzlies, including both
meetings this season.
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Grizzlies, who had their four-game winning streak snapped.
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Bryant then missed a 3-point shot. Gasol, though, utilized a pick-and-roll to
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The investigation began [when] deputies went to the neighborhood of one of the two boys… and found the kitten hanging by its neck from a backyard tree. The boys had apparently used a wire from the video game controller they were playing, Grand Theft Auto, to hoist up the kitten. The animal's head had been injured by blows from a rock.
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Later that week, there was the controversial NYPD raid on the original Occupy encampment in lower Manhattan, and more recently, a video of peaceful student protesters being pepper-sprayed on the campus of the University of California, Davis, went viral and sparked national outrage. The shocking imagery is now ingrained in the public consciousness, representing the increasingly violent response of police to these nonviolent protests. Overwhelming and disproportionate, indeed. But what Powell was describing in 1991 was a new way of waging war, one intended as a last resort and to minimize military involvement unless absolutely necessary. What police officers at the Occupy protests were engaging in was not war. In the wake of the U.C. Davis incident, much has been made about the increased militarization of local police departments, raising questions about the effectiveness of these tactics and a concern about the far-reaching authority of police to use force. However, this is hardly a new phenomenon. The increased militarization of America's police forces can trace its origins to the black community, and like so much that is currently plaguing the criminal-justice system, it is a different so-called war that can be blamed: the war on drugs. "Most of society operates on the default that if a police officer is using violence, using force, it's against someone who is a threat to the public," says William Jelani Cobb, associate professor of Africana studies and history at Rutgers University. "We as black people have known that wasn't the case for a really long time." As Christian Parenti laid out in his book Lockdown America: Police and Prisons in the Age of Crisis, increased reliance on Special Weapons and Tactics (SWAT) teams has affected the way this country has approached policing. Originally conceived by then-LAPD commander and future chief of police Daryl Gates in 1966 to address police inability to respond effectively to riots, the activity of SWAT-style paramilitary units quadrupled between 1980 and 1995, the height of the war on drugs. This policy has disproportionately affected communities of color. Much of what these units do, according to Parenti, is "stop, search, harass, arrest and brutalize petty offenders, parole violators and bystanders." They use "aggressive group tactics, automatic weapons and infrared scopes" in place of "the social skills, forbearance and individual discretion essential to accountable and effective civilian policing," as described by Parenti. Arthur Rizer and Joseph Hartman attempt to frame the proliferation of these militarized tactics in terms of a post-9/11 mindset in a recent article for the Atlantic, "How the War on Terror Has Militarized the Police." They note that before 9/11, responsibility for combating terrorism in the United States rested with law enforcement. Since President Bush's declaration of a war on terror, that duty has shifted to the military. In response to their perceived inadequacies in dealing with the threat of terrorism, police departments across the country "have substantially increased their use of military-grade equipment and weaponry to perform their counterterrorism duties, adopting everything from body armor to, in some cases, attack helicopters." More than just the proliferation of high-powered assault rifles, Rizer and Hartman state that in recent years "police departments both large and small have acquired bazookas, machine guns, and even armored vehicles (mini-tanks) for use in domestic police work." What the authors see as a consequence of acquiring these heavy artillery is "the subtle evolution in the mentality of the 'men in blue' from 'peace officer' to soldier." They aren't wrong in their general assessment; the police in this country are increasingly being trained not as community peacekeepers but as a paramilitary force to be deployed to protect the interests of "law and order" as has been so narrowly defined by our politicians. But their time frame about when this began is slightly off. It's an issue of not seeing the problem until it becomes a problem affecting mainstream white America. It's a familiar pattern. "The attitude toward Vietnam seemed pressed until regular middle-class families were being forced to see their kids off to the war," Cobb says. But, he adds, "that may be the thing that you need to bring about some kind of meaningful reform." It's a difficult pill to swallow, but people only seem interested in addressing the social ills in this country when they affect the broader "99 percent." Not unlike the economic inequality that the Occupy protests have served to highlight, the problem of a militarized police force that the protesters have encountered was a regular presence in black and brown communities first. And like the issue of economic inequality, the pseudo-military police have come under great scrutiny in recent weeks. Perhaps now we will ask more questions and eventually correct the issue. Mychal Denzel Smith is a writer, social commentator and mental-health advocate. Follow him on Twitter. Like The Root on Facebook. Follow us on Twitter. Get what we're watching delivered to your inbox everyday! Sign up for our daily video newsletter below. Page 1 of 2 NEXT PAGE > Powered by Livefyre 0


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When we think about documentary, we might think of films that represent the real world or the world as it really is. But documentary films should be analyzed to account for particular points of view. The goal of this class is to introduce a variety of documentary forms to explore how these films re-present significant social phenomena and how these representations express particular perspectives and worldviews while reflecting or self-reflexively commenting on documentary techniques.
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In French, avant-garde means "advance guard," a military term used for troops leading an attack across a battlefield. In film and art in general, the term describes a work that breaks new ground, often to experiment with the possibilities inherent within the medium or to express a different way of seeing the world and of living in it. As we will discover, this cinematic genre also thrives on critique, which occurs in part by challenging the aesthetic and social conventions held by film audiences. Avant-garde cinema is not easy to watch. It's difficult to "lose yourself" in these films, which demand that you engage with them – often on their own terms. As a result, avant-garde cinema has remained on the margins of the mainstream, generally ignored or rejected by mainstream audiences. But this cinema challenges us to examine how films make meaning and how they contribute to – or challenge – conventional notions of truth or reality.
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"Poetic Justice: Creating Autonomy through Dialogue in Marjorie Keller's Misconception." Camera Obscura. Resubmitted.
"The Influences of 'Avant-Garde Film.'" A review of Avant-Garde Film by Alexander Graf and Dietrich Scheunemann (eds.). Film-Philosophy. Commissioned.
"Directions: films curated by Harmony Korine." number: an independent journal of the arts. Fall 2008.
"New Waves in the New World: The New Latin American Cinemas." Invited speaker. Paper delivered at the Universidad del Cine, Buenos Aires, Argentina, June 23, 2010.
"The Subject of Film Manifestos." The World Picture Conference, October 2009.
"Obligation, Politics, and Sexual Difference," a conversation with Ewa Ziarek. Co-moderator. Vanderbilt University, February 23, 2009.
"Levinas, Feminism and Art," a conversation with Tina Chanter. Co-moderator. Vanderbilt University, February 16, 2009.
"Seeing It All: The Panoptic Aesthetic in Post-9/11 Films." Invited speaker. Society for Cinema and Media Studies Conference, March 2008 and 20th-Century Literature & Culture Conference, February 2009.
"The Role of Art in the Community." Invited panelist. Frist Center for the Visual Arts, January 18, 2009.
"New 'American' Cinema" (position paper). Seminar participant. Ameritopias: America in the Global Imagination/Globalism in America. Modernist Studies Association conference, November 2008.
"What It Means to be Human: The Horror and Science Fiction Film," a conversation with John Belton. Co-moderator. Vanderbilt University, October 13, 2008.
"'Leave Your World:' The Revolutionary Fluidity of Sara Gómez's De Cierta Manera." Presentation. Florida State University Film and Literature Conference, February 2008.
"Pasolini's The Gospel According to St. Mathew: Adaptation and Fidelity," a conversation with Dudley Andrew. Co-moderator. Vanderbilt University, January 14, 2008.
"Being Present: Memory, the Social Encounter and the Other." Presentation. North American Levinas Society Conference, June 2007.
"Using Digital Video-based Multimedia Study Environments to Introduce Students to the Language of Visual Narrative." Invited speaker. Society for Cinema and Media Studies Conference, March 2007.
"New Directions in Research and Writing: Docuscripts – Visualizing More Effective Communication Skills for Undergraduates." Co-Chair. Society for Cinema and Media Studies Conference, March 2006.
"Presence in Absence: Patriarchal Affirmation in D.W. Griffith's His Trust and His Trust Fulfilled," Invited speaker. Vanderbilt University Discours Conference, February 2005.


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