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Skip to comments.Common Core Student Survey Wants Parents' Political Affiliation
Posted on 10/16/2013 10:58:10 AM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
Parents of high school students in Montgomery County School District in Maryland were outraged recently by a survey given to sophomores under the new Common Core education standards.
The survey asked numerous intrusive questions that a school has no business asking students.
Among them were questions like "what is your sexual orientation," "what's your religion," "what's your parents' political affiliation" and "should assault rifles be banned?"
Angry parents notified the news website The Blaze about the survey, and shortly after a Blaze reporter began to ask about it, the survey disappeared from the Poolesville High School website.
According to The Blaze story, school officials at first denied such a survey existed, then when they were presented with evidence that it was on a school website, they denied that students were not given the right to opt out. When presented with evidence to the contrary, the district apparently took down the survey. Eventually, the district's public information officer admitted the survey had been on the site, but insisted that it was a student project, not something put together by teachers.
It appears that students presented with the survey had to log in with their usernames to a school support site called Edline, where they filled out the blanks and multiple choice questions on the survey.
In addition to the questions mentioned above, the survey also asked who was to blame for the government shutdown and how students felt about Obamacare. There was also this question: "If President Obama were Caucasian how much more or less criticism do you think he would he receive?"
The school district's line on the survey is that it was created by students in a government class who were studying polls, and that the survey was strictly voluntary. According to parents, however, students in at least one class were told to take out their smart phones, log in to Edline and take the survey. Reportedly, one student who refused was "forced" by the teacher to comply.
The district also maintains that students taking the survey were anonymous, but a system operator who spoke with The Blaze on condition her real name not be used said it would be impossible for students to remain anonymous if they logged in to the Edline system.
At least one parent has claimed to have direct knowledge that the survey was not a voluntary student project but an assignment and that most of the questions were written by one teacher.
This is just the latest in a string of outrages from "Common Core-compliant" schools. The nationwide push for a uniform curriculum is fast becoming the education system's Obamacare.
Although the federal government is prohibited by law from creating a national curriculum, the Obama Administration has gotten around the law by pawning the job off on the National Governors Association. The NGA in turn pawned off the job on a private firm, which dumped it on the desk of a fellow named David Coleman, who has never been a classroom teacher.
To make things even scarier, Coleman is now the president of the College Board and has promised to rewrite the SAT that most students take to get into college so that it conforms to Common Core. The story in the rumor mill says that the plan is then to have Coleman start writing standards for the nation's colleges.
There is a lot to criticize about the Common Core mold being forced on students, but one of the most pernicious aspects is the gathering of student information. This isn't the first intrusive survey that has surfaced under this program, which is an Obama Administration program, no matter how they try to disguise it.
It won't be the last outrage to come out of this program, either.
Monkey County Maryland "Freak State" PING!
"what is your sexual orientation,"
I'm only 10 years old!!
"what's your religion,"
I have one.
"what's your parents' political affiliation"
Probably not the same as yours.
"should assault rifles be banned?"
Fully automatic rifles have been illegal in the U.S since the 1930s.
Another thing that's disturbing is that most young people will just unthinkingly fall in line and answer these types of "surveys", because despite all the platitudes about "question authority", they are increasingly being educated (indoctrinated) to act as sheep in a herd. The only authority they are to question is any authority which might oppose the grand marxist narrative-parental, Biblical, etc.
They are taught that "freedom" is libertinism, even as they lose their actual freedom to live their lives as autonomous humans. The "freedom" to be as perverted as they choose, all the while confined in a sheep pen. And the potential best of them encouraged to use birth control or turn to sodomy, so they won't procreate, while the most dysgenic are encouraged to breed like rabbits.
Question: The sum of the interior angles to any triangle is equal to:
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c) Communism
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Mine were taught to lie on any survey. You should hear some of the answers they'd give. Never heard a peep out of the school in reply.
Obama Youth. Turn in your parents.
Actually fully automatic weapons are legal, if registered with a background check and a 200 dollar fee. They are very expensive. Legal fully automatic weapons are rarely used in crime. The one illegal use of which I am familiar was committed by a police officer.
Illegal ones have been used in crime, (see Hollywood shootout for example) are unregistered and are relatively inexpensive.
If laws could solve the problem, then automatic weapons would be solved. They haven't. They have kept them out of honest people's hands, and severely damaged the firearms business in the US.
Your fourth answer is incorrect.
Funny, I know some people moving to Poolesville specifically because they want their kids to go to that h.s. But I'm pretty sure they're ObeyMe voters, so this isn't going to bother them much.
Actually, the aren't illegal for anybody willing to pay the tax and fill out the paperwork — and, of course, clear the background check.
Shhh! They wouldn't know that. They may think it's already resolved and needs no further Lefty action. :)
But, but, a LAW was passed. LOL!!
Mussolini core more like. Obama is a dictator
If I still had kids in school my answer would be the FAD Party; as in F*** All Democrats Party.
assert 5th amendment right
The repeated attempts at coverup clearly show that the first thing to do when confronted with something like this is document it. Document document document. Screencaps, page saves, anything to preserve the evidence.
Before my kids left public indoctrination for private school they were taught by me to answer with very far fetched answers on every survey or just flat refuse to take it.
They know how to play the game.
What they really believe is not what the "Man" wants them to.
Save your children and this country's future. Home school them or enroll them in a quality private school.
When next there is a conservative congress and president, it sounds like time for a Politically Influenced Government Subsidized (PIGS) Act that, much like the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) Act, would go after corrupt bureaucrats and the political organizations that have facilitated their corruption.
In short, if an organization, for political reasons, corrupts a government officer or office, to carry out political ends, the bureaucrat and the organization will face severe criminal and civil penalties.
When I was in high school a guidance counselor tried to give us a survey that asked personal questions. Everybody refused and one kid vehemently refused. The woman was so shocked she actually jumped back a couple of feet. End of story.
In those days, everyone knew their place and very few crossed the line — administrators, teachers, students, or parents.
'The freedom to be as perverted as they choose, all the while confined in a sheep pen'
Pegged it.
We are absolutely disgustingly saturated with sex, and homos are only the latest incarnation of pushing it all out in the open and making it all "normal" and perfectly every-day lifestyle. And it is all-important, nothing else is nearly as interesting or important. You are a freak if you are not a sexualized immoral reprobate.
And commies USE this to control the immoral fools. It's so easy to control people who are out of control and think only with their pen15 and BigVs. All you have to do is entice them with sex.
Poolesville is pretty far out in west county, about real rural. I'm sort of surprised - but then, the reach of DC liberals doesn't take long to metastasize. I'm further away than that and it sure is here.
Well, they do develop early nowadays. /sarc
It worked for Hitler. It worked for Stalin. Why shouldn't it work for Obama?
Almost as memorable as the little blond girl in "The Bad Seed."
They are pushing us and pushing us and pushing us.
This won't end well for the Obama administration, IMO
Yeah, I just hear the words "Montgomery County" and that's enough for me! lol
That's exactly how it began. At the beginnng of the Bolshevik takeover, they touted "free love", cohabitation, abortion for all, and no-fault divorce. Once they gained power, they retained the birth-control aspects of that agenda-they didn't need more "useless" mouths to feed-but the "free love" part was sent down the memory hole, as it wasn't conducive to a regimented proletariat dedicating their energies to working for the glory of the state. Sodomites were once again suppressed (sent to Siberia, or treated as mentally ill). The "free love" faction was purged (though elites could be as "free love" as they liked, unless they crossed a higher party member, in which case it was fodder for a scandal).
"They belong to the MindYourOwnEffingBusiness Party", teach
Republicans will NOT get the Health Care that democrats will get because the Govt. will know EVERYTHING about each of us.....how we vote, who we give money to, etc.....this is happening even quicker than I originally thought.
Or....view it as an opportunity to poison their database and comply fully, answering the opposite of the truth on any questions other than "Do your parents abuse you?"
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Daily MPMFer: The Dukes Are Dead, Tennis and More
The MidPoint Music Festival countdown is down to one week and one day
MPMF news and musings: The official MPMF.12 "Kick Off Celebration" is set for Wednesday, Sept. 26, in the Hanke Building just off Main St. (215 Michael Bany Way, between 12th and Reading). The free, open-to-all (21-and-up) party starts at 6 p.m. and will feature music from DJ Ice Cold Tony (who will be laying down some mash-ups featuring MPMF artists) and great Cincy rockers 500 Miles to Memphis will blow the rest of the roof off with a set starting at 9 p.m. There will be giveaways, free Vitaminwater, free Eli's BBQ (while it lasts) and a chance to win a pair of VIP tickets to the CityBeat-sponsored New Year's Eve blow-out at Bogart's featuring music by The Afghan Whigs. And now, with the countdown down to just 8 days, here are our daily MidPoint Music Festival 2012 picks …BIG SHOTTennis (Denver, CO)Indie PopIt's been a breakthrough year for Colorado Indie trio Tennis, starting with the winter release of its stellar (and highly anticipated) sophomore full-length, Young and Old, on Fat Possum Records. After touring its comparatively lo-fi, critically-lauded debut Cape Dory (crafted by core duo Alaina Moore and Patrick Riley), the duo took its vintage Pop songs into the studio with The Black Keys' Patrick Carney, who helped give the songs a more direct punch (resulting in the addition of a drummer to the fold). Where acts like Best Coast and Jesus and Mary Chain rewire the classic Pop of the '60s, Tennis write songs that often recall the ballads of '50s Pop, something more evident and effective on Young and Old, which charted well and performed exceptionally at college radio. The band's songs have been used on TV shows like Grey's Anatomy and are becoming favorites in the fashion world, and they've also made a fan out of the Republican (one of "the good ones") daughter of an almost-President, Meghan McCain, who tweeted her joy that Tennis had become the soundtrack to her summer this earlier this year. You'll Dig It If You Dig: Lesley Gore, Dusty Springfield, the house band for Mad Men (if they had one). (Mike Breen)Tennis performs at the Know Theatre on the Bioré Strip's Main Stage Saturday, Sept. 29, at 11:45 p.m. Here's Tennis' clip for their swoony tune "Pigeon." SLEEPER PICKThe Bonesetters (Muncie, IN)Indie RockBonesetters don't necessarily sound like a lot of bands but they fit well in the Midwestern construct of talented groups crafting a complex sound out of relatively simple ingredients. Sparse guitar melodies, both plugged and unplugged, are appointed with spartan rhythmatism, unexpected instrumental counterpoints (mariachi trumpet, keening violin, gentle vibes, wheezing harmonium) and a quiet sense of Indie Rock urgency on Savages, Bonesetters' full-length debut from late last year. It's easy to understand why Muncie loves Bonesetters, it's harder to understand why they don't play here all the bloody time.Dig: Clem Snide, My Morning Jacket and Gomez making high lonesome carnival Surf Rock for emo hodads. (Brian Baker)The Bonesetters perform Thursday in Washington Park at 5 p.m. Here's the band's debut album, which you can sample below, then download the whole shebang for free. SAVAGES by BonesettersLOCAL LOCK PICKThe Dukes Are Dead (Cincinnati, OH)Rock & RollIf you're a local Rock fan who has yet to catch a live show from exciting Cincinnati foursome The Dukes Are Dead, you've missed out on some great shows … and you only have this one more before The Dukes Are Dead are dead. In just a couple of years — first as "The Dukes," before adding "Are Dead" to avoid confusion with the 17,000 other bands with the same name — the foursome amassed a loyal following and even got into theater, becoming the house band for the local staging of "Rock musical" Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson. Though the band's last show (sure to be a debauched blow-out) is this one at MPMF, there is hope for fans — in their farewell note on Facebook, it was announced that the members will each continue to pursue making music in the future. Dig: No-nonsense Rock & Roll, bands with names that turn out to be prophetic. (MB)The Dukes Are Dead's final show is Saturday, Sept. 28, at 8:30 p.m. at The Drinkery. The kind gentlemen of The Dukes are also giving fans some final recorded music as a parting gift — sample below then click on the player to download your free copy of the five-track EP, Before We Died. Before We Died by THE DUKES ARE DEAD<Click here for full MPMF details via the official MidPoint site.
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ACLU sues Mpls, says All-Star Game "Clean Zone" is more restrictive than 2008 RNC
"It's mind boggling," ACLU director Samuelson says. "We would like the city to obey the constitution, that's all."
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The ACLU-MN is suing the city of Minneapolis, Mayor Betsy Hodges, and Police Chief Janeé Harteau for granting Major League Baseball's request to create a potentially speech-limiting "Clean Zone" around Target Field during a two-week stretch surrounding this summer's All-Star Game.
The lawsuit's core argument is that Minneapolis officials have no grounds for essentially granting the MLB veto power over things such as banners, signs, block events, or parades. But an ordinance approved by the City Council in February does just that for a huge swath of the city (basically all of downtown and some surrounding areas) over an unreasonably lengthy period of time.
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ACLU blasts Mpls Council for approving speech-limiting "Clean Zone" during All-Star Game
"All we're saying is you can't give away your permit process to a for-profit company," ACLU-MN Executive Director Chuck Samuelson tells us. "It belongs in the hands of elected officials and they can't give it away. This is a quintessential government role and the First Amendment doesn't give private companies the power to decide who can assemble, where they can assemble, and what they can say."
"That's not an option that's on the table, and for them to do it blindly and expect everyone is going to roll over is amazing," he continues.
The lawsuit is filed on behalf of James McGuire and Robert Kolstad, members of the One Day in July Street Festival Committee who plan to hold a public event a few days after the All-Star Game in commemoration of the 1934 Teamsters strike in which two strikers were killed by Minneapolis police.
Though the street festival will require at least three permits -- one for a block event, another for amplified sound, and a third for short-term food -- the lawsuit says McGuire and Kolstad haven't applied for them because they "do not wish to subject their speech and expressive activities to Major League Baseball's review and approval."
In an ACLU statement, McGuire says, "It's an insult to me, and to all Americans, that before exercising my First Amendment right to speak and assemble I must first get permission from a private company."
"It's ironic that in trying to commemorate a horrific violation of our rights in the past, we are now facing further violations," he continues.
Samuelson says the ACLU's concerns are broader than the One Day in July festival, however.
"This lawsuit is not just about the two guys who are named plaintiffs. It's about anybody who might want to [assemble downtown] and we don't know who they are," Samuelson says. "This is serious as a heart attack, and I believe [city officials] know in their heart of hearts that it's unconstitutional, and they don't care. We want them to never do it again."
During a conversation with us earlier this spring, Minneapolis City Council Member John Quincy said the fuss over the Clean Zone is much ado about nothing.
"It's something we've done before for all the other major events we've had in town, like the previous Super Bowl and the NCAA Tournament, and it's typically standard operating procedure for every community that puts together a major bid for a major event," Quincy said.
But Samuelson disagrees.
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"It's not unheard of for a very, very narrowly tailored -- not nearly as broad geographically and one day instead of 15 or 20," Samuelson says. "But this is even more aggressive than the Clean Zone around the GOP convention [in St. Paul in 2008]. One, the area is way broader, and two, the list of things the MLB is concerned about -- banners and things like that -- is much broader."
The lawsuit argues the Clean Zone violates the First and Fourteenth Amendments and seeks a temporary restraining order, preliminary injunction, and eventual permanent injunction barring the city from enforcing it.
"We want a bright line from a federal court," Samuelson says. "We want bright lines everywhere in the country."
Tom Hamlin, one of the attorneys working with the ACLU on the case, says in a news release that the lawsuit "is not aimed at shutting down the All-Star baseball game."
"All we are asking is that the resolution establishing the Clean Zone is struck down by the court, because it violates our client's constitutional rights," he continues.
Along the same lines, Samuelson says, "It's not like the ACLU is arguing the police should run away or not be allowed to be there. There are going to be tons of police there anyway."
To read the lawsuit for yourself, click to page three.
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One of the most intellectually dishonest political commentators is at it again.
What's weird is his reason for not answering the question. Basically, he says there's no way he can define "white culture" without getting himself in trouble. And that begs the question…why make a statement that claims Obama has a deep seated hatred for it? I mean, if you're defending white culture, why would there be any reason to not define it?
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Let me clue you in to what Beck means when he talks about white culture: money. Because by making these idiotic claims he can tap into a small, but dedicated base of folks who think that the white culture is under attack from all sides and they'll buy his books, watch his TV show and listen to his radio screeds.
In the end, Beck's certainly no dummy, but if he's not smart enough to navigate a simple interview with Katie Couric, well, he's probably not long for this media world.
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Some are trapped: doctors in Mosul are calling for urgent supplies to continue life saving surgeries, and trauma care. People in Fallujah and Ramadi still witness daily killing.
Those able to flee Anbar and Nineveh provinces to Duhok and Erbil are not safe from illness and death. Crowded, hot conditions mean some children, pregnant women, and the elderly are dying from heat stroke and dehydration. Bad sanitation and inadequate shelter induce disease. Doctors and locals are calling for basic antibiotics and antiviral medications, nutritional supplements, underwear, sanitary napkins, etc.
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STANFORD, Calif. (AP) — The defensive coordinator position at Stanford has been endowed in the name of coach David Shaw's father.
The university announced Friday that a "generous gift" from a donor who chose to remain anonymous renamed the position the Willie Shaw Director of Defense. Associate head coach and defensive coordinator Derek Mason is the first to hold the title.
David Shaw says it's "another sign of how unique Stanford University is."
Willie Shaw had two separate coaching stints of three years on The Farm, arriving in 1974 as the outside linebackers and special teams coach before taking over the secondary from 1975-76. He returned to Stanford in 1989 as secondary coach and was promoted to defensive coordinator in 1990.
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A Vancouver comic book publisher will move into a new arena with a graphic novel about the hunt for the former world's most-wanted terrorist.
Bluewater Productions has been tabbed by publishing giant Simon & Schuster for "Killing Geronimo: The Hunt for Osama bin Laden."
It's a milestone collaboration for the independent publisher, said Darren G. Davis, co-author and Bluewater president. It's the first time they've worked with a publisher with the stature of Simon & Schuster, and the first time Bluewater has based a book on a historical event.
It also marks a major turn from recently published books based on the "Glee" television show or Lady Gaga or Justin Bieber.
"I like happy, fun things. This is pretty horrifying," Davis said.
"It's a scary subject," Davis said, referring to bin Laden. "All the things he did, and how awful a human being he was.
"Bin Laden is not a cartoon villain and this book is not a garden-variety comic," Davis said.
Just because the format is a graphic novel — sometimes described as a comic book for adults — "doesn't mean it is treated lightly," Davis said.
He is writing the book with Jerome Maida. They are using previously released information about the raid on May 2, when a dozen Navy SEALs killed the al-Qaida leader. The SEALs signaled that they had achieved their objective with a message that "Geronimo" had been killed in action.
"We watched a lot of stuff on this and read a lot of stuff," Davis said. "Some of the news shows included animated versions of the operation.
"Jerome was a journalist with the Philadelphia Inquirer," Davis said. "He knows the research part; I know storytelling."
The 96-page book starts well ahead of the SEALs' mission, detailing the events that led up to the raid on bin Laden's compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan.
The illustrator is James Boulton, who's been dealing with a significant challenge. The public has never seen the dozen men who took part in the mission, and none of the SEALs are given names in the book.
Boulton has to draw a team of distinguishable but unnamed individuals who are not just a dozen slight variations on a G.I. Joe action figure.
The panels drawn by Boulton also will have to pass scrutiny from service personnel and military enthusiasts on the lookout for technical errors.
"We know that from other books," Davis said. "There's nothing worse than getting an email telling you that something wasn't right. We did a book, 'Judo Girl.' Somebody emailed us, 'That's not a judo move; that's a blah-blah-blah move!'"
Davis said the book is due at the publisher in mid-November.
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The GOOD NEWS is that Greenwood Village, a town right close by in Denver is having their Goose Chase on Jun 17th.
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Vancouver police are asking the public to help find Ariana McGuckin, a 20-year-old woman who has autism and has been missing since Monday.
About 11:30 a.m. Monday, McGuckin went for a walk around her home in the Cimarron neighborhood and has not returned, according to a bulletin from the Vancouver Police Department. That neighborhood is off Northeast 162nd Avenue north of Fisher's Landing.
She doesn't have a car or cell phone, and her parents found a note saying she was going to take a bus to Indiana. However, bus stations have found no record of her buying a ticket, the bulletin said.
Police say McGuckin has a mental capacity between 7 and 12 years old and has not taken her medication for two weeks.
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24 July 2011
Structured data, in the form of entities and associated attributes, has been a rich web resource for search engines and knowledge databases. To efficiently extract structured data from enormous websites in various verticals (e.g., books, restaurants), much research effort has been attracted, but most existing approaches either require considerable human effort or rely on strong features that lack of flexibility. In this paper, we consider an ambitious scenario – can we build a system that (1) is general enough to handle any vertical without re-implementation and (2) requires only one labeled example site from each vertical for training to automatically deal with other sites in the same vertical? In this paper, we propose a unified solution to demonstrate the feasibility of this scenario. Specifically, we design a set of weak but general features to characterize vertical knowledge (including attribute-specific semantics and inter-attribute layout relationships). Such features can be adopted in various verticals without redesign; meanwhile, they are weak enough to avoid over-fitting of the learnt knowledge to seed sites. For a given new site, the learnt knowledge is first applied to identify page-level candidate attribute values, while inevitably involve false positives. To remove noise, site-level information of the new site is then exploited as constraints to boost up the true values. The site-level information is derived in an unsupervised manner, without harm to the applicability of the solution. Promising experimental performance on 80 websites from 8 distinct verticals demonstrated the feasibility and flexibility of the proposed solution.
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Review: For years I avoided this place when it was the Cornerstone Cafe. The food was uninspired, and the one or two fish dishes on the menu stank the place out. I first noticed the change of ownership during the Fringe, and popped in to see what was on offer. I made a second visit a few weeks later to relax after shopping at the farmers' market, and to confirm that the change of ownership wasn't just temporary for the Fringe and Festival. The cafe is located beneath a church, in a crypt, which provides a strangely gothic environment. The menu is very much lunch-oriented, with soups, sandwiches, salads and a few entrées, none of which are cooked to order. The sandwiches and salads are mostly vegan, and one of the two soups always is, as far as I can tell. The food is solid and filling, with very little excitement except in the salads which are often quite unusual. Not that this matters if what you want is a good lunch. There isn't much for veggies at this end of town, and this should prove a welcome stop for shoppers.
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Should we avoid soy? Is there any reason to consume fish oil for its Omega-3s? Does calcium really build strong bones?
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Definición de galenical en inglés:
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- Because a double-blind procedure could not be guaranteed with the commercially available galenical form (lyophilized powder), a methylprednisolone solution that was characterized by its limpidity was used.
- Phytopharmaceuticals are not conventional drugs, but they are also very different from galenical extracts.
- This new galenical form is provided only for ambulatory treatments; it is intended for both children and adults.
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- Harvey's observations clearly showed the Galenical view to be erroneous.
- For the next 1500 years Western medicine was termed Galenical and extended its influence throughout Europe and into the New World.
- Under the Galenical system, the way to increase the power of a remedy was to add more and more plants that had the opposite action from the humor that was supposedly causing the illness.
A medicine made of natural rather than synthetic components.
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- Even crude drugs, made from medicinal plants, were standardized during preparation to give galenicals having the same potency from batch to batch and as given in the pharmacopoeias.
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Britain has a trade surplus in almost every service sector except tourism. As a result, world trade negotiations have not played to British strengths because advanced economies tend to trade freely in manufactures but retain home-country bias in their purchases of services. This should frame any debate on trade in the EU referendum.
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Trade debate in EU referendum should focus on UK as world leader in services
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Top nations like Denmark do well without pushing others around
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We once suffered from Norman Angell's "Great Illusion" that prosperity was the product of aggressive control of territory and resources — and now we know better. The wealth of Denmark is instead built on exporting bacon and drugs to control diabetes — an appropriate combination — around the world.
In an interconnected world it remains hard to make borders go away
10 June 2015, Financial Times
More than twenty years have passed since the creation of the single European market and the Schengen common travel area. And yet while much appears to have changed, more has remained the same.
The pitfalls of a north Atlantic free trade area
04 February 2015, Financial Times
The Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership is currently being negotiated between America and the EU. My instinct is to approve, but the international handling of investor-state disputes may have some nasty side effects.
Drizzle alone will not provide a path to prosperity
28 May 2014
The correlation between a temperate climate and economic prosperity is clear and striking. What are the causes?
The startling human progress that economists fail to see
05 March 2014, Financial Times
The most important source of economic advance comes not from doing the same things better, but from achieving the same objective in a completely different way.
The world's rich stay rich while the poor struggle to prosper
29 January 2014, Financial Times
The dispersion of productivity among already rich countries has increased. Norway and Switzerland have surged ahead but laggards such as Italy – and indeed Britain – have struggled to keep up with the pack.
London's mayor is half right on envy, greed and inequality
04 December 2013, Financial Times
Envy is both inseparable from economic progress and destructive of social cohesion. Some inequality is inevitable, and there seem to be three principal factors that make it more tolerable.
Don't blame the havens – tax dodging is everyone else's fault
19 June 2013, Financial Times
Corporation tax is a tax on corporate activity and on shareholders, and it is not well designed to achieve either purpose.
Google's books drive needs a wider debate
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Dubai-based luxury furniture brand Casa Shamuzzi has forayed into the Indian market with the aim to transform the quality of life for people, who wish to furnish their house with unique and eco-friendly decorative products.
The brand, which boasts of providing a rich blend of Italian style, design, comfort and class, has stepped into the Indian market in association with NCPL Developers Pvt. Ltd.
"India is one of the most important market for us commercially and professionally. More than 85,000 millionaires live here... so we have to be here to make their newly built homes comfortable and amazing looking," Sofia Zigangirova, CEO, Casa Shamuzzi, told IANS.
"There is a lot of potential in the Indian luxury home decor market. Upcoming residential and hotel projects have opened the market in this segment. We will deliver it in the best possible way with higher client satisfaction," Zigangirova added.
As an retail mono brand, Casa Shamuzzi has stores in 14 countries, including Russia, Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, Canada, South Africa, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, China, Lebanon and Jordan.
Their products range from furniture, home furnishings, lights, carpets, textile and home accessories.
Meenakshi Taneja, executive director, NCPL Group, says the brand has a wide range that can meet needs of people to do up every nook and corner of their space.
"As a lady, when it comes to doing up the house, it doesn't involve just buying a sofa. Right now if you have to do up your house, you go to at least three to four stores to get what you actually want," Taneja told IANS.
"With Casa Shamuzzi, the greatest thing is, apart from quality and design, it is world-class and very different for what you see in the market today."
"They have a huge range and whatever piece you ask for in the house, Casa Shamuzzi has it - whether it is a sofa set, side table, bar, pot holder, matching carpet or lights. There are very few brands which have such a huge offering, without customisation," she added.
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This is less a wordpress question and more a mySQL question -- but, everyone here has had the best answers to any of my questions so I thought I would post it (and, I can't use my wordpress on my local machine until I get it fixed!).
The setup: Mac OS X.4.4; mysql 4.something, php, apache, all installed and working fine for some time. Today, I added the bbpress install as well as a drupal install. Now I am having some problems. I will outline the problem, what I have tried to do to fix it, and what I think caused it. Hope you can help and I am sorry this is long.
The problem: I can't login to mysql anymore with the "root" username (which is where I have all my database files and tables stored for a couple wordpress installs, the bbpress, and now the drupal). When I execute in terminal:
/usr/local/mysql/bin/mysql -u root -p
And then enter my password, I get the following error:
ERROR 1045 (28000): Access denied for user 'root'@'localhost' (using password: YES)
Attempted solutions: I assumed the password was changed somehow; I wanted to reset the password for "root". I searched the internet, and most suggest that I (in summary): kill the
mysqld process, then either find a .pid file for my server and do something with it (but I can't get in the directory that houses the file) -or- enter
mysqld --skip-grant-tables --user=root after I've killed the mysqld command again.
In both instances, I am getting permission errors and I can accomplish neither.
I believe the .pid I need to chanage is housed in my /usr/local/mysql/data folder, however, I can't get access to the folder. The permissions are set to have "mysql" be the owner (
I am not a unix wiz, have tried to chmod my way out of it, but no luck.
Why I am being punished: I think this all might have started when I was setting up the database for drupal, I think I did something to cause a password change (I ran one set of commands without re-typing "user" over the template).
I guess I just need a little hand holding.
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Selangor's state capital is Shah Alam (that's where i am staying) and the royal capital is Klang (or Kelang in our national language). Besides these two cities (Shah Alam was awarded the status of a satelite city), there is another popular city call Petaling Jaya (or PJ for short). Subang Jaya, a residential area falls under the territory of Petaling Jaya. Selangor is part of the conurbation of the area termed as "Klang Valley" which includes Kuala Lumpur. Klang Valley has the largest immigrants from all over states in Malaysia. Come any festive period where there's a long holiday, Klang Valley is most quiet and peaceful as most would have taken the opportunity to go back to their home town (in Malay, it's known as "balik kampung")
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This local tragedy was horrific. It was violent and a blight upon the community in which it happened. We all grieve over the loss of life. Why would the photographer and the editor allow such a picture to accompany this somber story?
As the youth of today often ask, "Seriously?" I could have wept at the report, but found myself almost laughing at the photo. The picture should have been cropped so we saw only the child's face during the prayer vigil, and not the unbelievable backsides of the two women holding the child's hands!


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GoldeneyeFan99 posted...same goes for distration, even with a thermal sniper RTM's are way betterGTFO, Distraction is awesome.
same goes for distration, even with a thermal sniper RTM's are way better
Timed mines are really good for MI6 in black box.
What is this glitch that everyone speaks of?
360GEClan posted...What is this glitch that everyone speaks of?Which one? High-cap glitch? With it on and you run over the gun you are using instead if reloading it, it puts your ammo in clip at 12. Annoying beyond words
My fave timed mine use was in outpost. Taking out campers in the Russian building who wait behind the top of the inner steps. Stick it on the ground floor ceiling. Most satisfying vs a hero.
They're fine if you simply think of them as a sticky grenade. It's an extra source of KABOOM and when you have nothing else handy can be a reasonably effective way of dislodging campers from their little forts. Helpful enough when you know how to destroy boat room campers in Docks but aren't leveled up enough to have RTMs.I too would have been tempted to run Hi Cap mags but that glitch just ruins the point of it.
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Any suggestions on getting in more water?
Getting enough water
Any suggestions on getting in more water?
Would you find it easier to drink if you put a dash of lime or something in it?
I find at work I do drink it, but at home I'm slack.
I'll try the lime. Thanks
I have problems at work too. I keep a couple boxes of Crystal Light on my desk and it helps remind me to grab another bottle.
*CL can't be that bad. I had four separate doctors suggest it (my GP, my OB, my ER doctor, and my U/S doctor) because water makes me throw up*
I can hardly stand to drink my water ice cold...I'd rather have it just below room temp and definitely with a straw.
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I think I drink way to much. lol I have a few nice water bottles one goes with me everywhere I go. Some says I think I'm going to explode!!
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I had a friend who suggested I just do it weather I like it or not. She was getting terrible headaches while she was pregnant and her Dr suggested she increased her water and same thing, they went away.
Sometimes I just cant stand it, so I drink juice. But I know when I haven't had enough, like the ladies said above, crazy swelling, headaches, congestion. Its for the best, but its sooooooo hard to do somedays.


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Up the dazzle in your holiday light displays
Published: Wednesday, November 24, 2010 at 4:13 p.m.
Last Modified: Wednesday, November 24, 2010 at 4:13 p.m.
The turkey's been picked clean, the leftovers put away. A nap's been taken. It's getting dark outside — well, except for up the street, where the neighbors already have their holiday lights up.
Lighting display tips
From Kevin Donnelly, Holiday Lightscaping, Ocala
Get the Big Picture: "Step back and look at your house from the street."
Outline eaves, gutters, roofline with clear, white lights: "We use the new LED C7 bulbs; they're more environmen tally friendly and can light the whole house without blowing a circuit breaker."
Keep it simple: "Simple often is the best; too much flashing and blinking and stuff can make your display look, well, a bit tacky."
Wrap tree trunks: "This is an easy, cost-effective method that adds a professional touch. If you're going to put lights in a tree canopy, be sure to wrap the trunk, too."
Place roofline hooks 12 to 18 inches apart: "Spacing them too far apart, say three feet, and your string will begin to sag by Dec. 25."
From George Corwine, Santa's Lane, Gainesville
Have a plan and keep a clean look: "In other words, don't just throw up lights in a random order and make it look like Clark Griswold (from 'National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation')."
Make sure you have enough product: "If a bush takes 300 lights to make it look right, don't throw a string of 100 on it, covering only a third, and expect it to look good. Likewise, don't throw 600 lights on a bush that requires 300."
Go with either multi-colored or clear lights: "Don't mix the two."
Watch placement of dis play pieces: "If you have yard decorations, make sure you don't place them in front of a large amount of lights in the back ground."
From Charlie Cade, Orange Springs
Have patience: "Without it, you're not going to do anything. You need to learn to work with the lights."
Convert to LED: "Look for deals in the stores. You can get a roll of 200 at Sam's Club right now for a great deal. And they'll save you money on your power." (LED lights tend to use up to 90 percent less electricity than their incandescent counterparts.)
Nearly every neighborhood has at least one household that decks the halls, walls, trees, shrubbery and just about anything else outside that doesn't move for the holidays. Some neighborhoods have more than one such home, and they either coordinate or compete.
Make no mistake about it, we do like to light the night. The New York Times reported last year that more than 100 million strings of decorative lights were expected to be sold just in 2009. The green website earth911.com adds that holiday decorations are a $9 billion annual industry; "Of those billions, a portion goes to pay for those twinkly burst of lights that wrap our trees, line our houses and illuminate our windows during the cold months."
Some folks just in this area crank out displays worthy of a theme park: Charlie Cade of Orange Springs, for instance. "Last year I had about 150,000 lights," he says. "This year I'm adding about 8,000 or 9,000."
Cade's been doing this for years, cramming a few thousand more lights every year onto his 1-acre lakefront homestead near Horseshoe Lake Park.
But few of us are Charlie Cade, stringing up 100,000-plus lights around the house for the holidays. Some of us have enough trouble just getting up a strand or two of 100 twinklers.
That's where George Corwine or Kevin Donnelly come in. They're pros at this.
Each runs a seasonal business of putting up and taking down holiday lights "for those who can't or prefer not to do it themselves," says Donnelly, who runs Holiday Lightscaping in Ocala.
Corwine operates Santa's Lane in Gainesville. "I kind of fell into it by accident," he says. He and his mother purchased a business that makes yard display pieces a few years back — they provide all the display pieces for the North Florida Regional Medical Center. "It wasn't long before I started being asked by others if I could just come out and set the stuff up for them," Corwine says.
Their services are similar: They design, set up, maintain, take down and store holiday lighting for their clients, both commercial and residential.
Both emphasize safety in building lighting displays. "Work with another person, especially if you're using a ladder," Donnelly says. "Don't overload your circuits," advises Corwine.
Jessie Mulhearn of Archer Electric Service in Gainesville also suggests not using indoor extension cords for outdoor displays. And if you feel you need to cover your connections to protect them from weather, "wrap them with a good, basic electrical tape — though I don't think it's really that big a deal."
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Apologies for getting back late. Study is getting quite a handful at the moment. I agree with your points, in regards to having the shading lead the viewer to the subject (a very good point I must had - I've learnt something from you!) and making the image wider. Thank you for your comments and for editing the photo to convey your point.
Hi AlbertoGarcia
Thank you for suggesting trying it in a black and white format. I converted to see, but i wasn't too happy with the result. I understand you are trying for minimalism, but I found my image to be too be in too plain a composition for it to look good in monochrome. Thank you for your input.
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Glad to see this line back in the market place. We awarded the collection a Platinum Award in 2000. We're now adding them to our Blue Chip Classics award winners. What we wrote in 2000: We were really impressed with this new but classic-looking line of baby toys, crafted of sturdy primary-colored plastics. An Activity Cube for little fingers to activate has a mirror, squeaker, roller and spinning ball. The Gripper Ball has four easy-to-grab rounded handles and a see-through hourglass in the middle with beads that roll from side to side. Also highly recommended: Triangle Rings, Abacus Rings, Roller Rattle Ball ($5 each) with a jolly sound, and Reflector Rattle ($16) with colorful marbles that look almost liquid as they spin around a mirrored triangular well.
SNAP INFO: To develop two-handed play, kids need a variety of manipulatives with interesting payoffs. Tolo's Activity Cube has a mirror, squeaker, roller, and spinning ball for little fingers to activate. The Gripper Ball has four easy-to-grab rounded handles and a see-through hourglass in the middle with beads that roll from side to side. New for 2000, Play Triangle with spinning mirror and big beads.
Age: Infants. Award Year: 2000. Click here to purchase the product on Amazon.com.
Newly updated with bright graphics, this fabric-covered wedge with a mirror for baby to peer into is ideal for tummy time play. Covered in eye-grabbing orange with multi-colored piping. The unbreakable safety mirror in a soft fabric frame can be removed and used separately. Birst & up.
Age: Infants. Award Year: 1998. Click here to purchase the product on Amazon.com.
Age: Infants. Award Year: 1995.
A new addition to our Blue Chip Award list. Remains one of our favorite toys, ever. Here's what we wrote in 2000: One of the most innovative toys of the year! We were skeptical about such an expensive musical toy for kids-that was, until we played it! Imagine five colored plastic blocks each side with a geometric shape and representing a different sound. Match the shapes or play them in random order -there's no right or wrong way. Push on the blocks to play musical phrases! What sets this toy apart is the quality of the sound: woodwinds, trumpets, percussion. Comes with "Mozart's Night Music" cartridge. Bring home the "Rhythms of the World" cartridge right away. The new Disney music cartridges are not recommended since they produce a disconcerting disconnected effect so that songs do not make sense. We also found that the new Discovery Block, a big fabric block with peek-a-boo surprises was overly loud, frenetic, and too didactic. Teaching concepts such as "hexagon" to toddlers who are just learning to speak seems out of sync and not especially playful! 2 & up.
snap info: Want a rewarding tool for developing matching skills? Color concepts? Cause and effect? It's all here, plus great sound quality! Players touch blocks to activate a musical phrase or rhythm. Shapes on the blocks determine what instrument you'll hear. It's fun to mix up the shapes on the blocks for a variety of sounds. Kids with visual disabilities can "read" raised symbols on the blocks. Pricey but one of the most innovative toys we've found for kids with or without disabilities. New for 2000, update with extra cartridges ($19.99 each) of Bach, Jazz or Rhythms; a Cyber Cartridge ($49.99) downloads music from the internet.
Age: Toddlers. Award Year: 2000. Click here to purchase the product on Amazon.com.
The ultimate classic ride-in toy comes with a fun "ignition switch". We love that the front wheels really turn so that kids can steer in any direction. Many wheel toys have surprisingly lost that feature. Happily it's also done in gender free colors so that it can be enjoyed by everyone. More recently the company produced a pink vehicle for those that need their vehicle genderized. We [refer the yellow and red vehicle that can be passed along from brothers to sisters and between cousins of both genders.
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This updated classic wooden cart is pricier than any of its plastic counterparts but can be passed down to younger siblings! Very stable push along for early walkers and a perfect first wagon for carting treasures.
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The object of this brainteaser is to get your jeep safely out of the African Savannah by sliding around all the wild animals in your path. Comes with pattern problem moves from beginner to advanced level. Develops visual perception, strategy, and patience! This is a variation of Rush Hour, PLATINUM AWARD '98. 8 & up. Also fun, a Jr. version of Rush Hour. 6 & up.
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