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It's official. Alfonso Soriano is back in Yankee Pinstripes. The much rumored deal that had the former Yankee second baseman returning for a Bronx encore finally went through earlier today. The 37-year old seven-time All-Star comes over from the Cubs for Single-A pitching prospect Corey Black. A 21-year old former fourth round pick in the 2012 MLB Draft.
In his 15th year in the bigs, Soriano batted .251 with 17 home runs and 51 RBI's with 10 stolen bases for the Cubs. He's closing in on his 12th straight season of 20 homers or more. Since finishing third for AL Rookie Of The Year behind new Yankee teammates Ichiro Suzuki and C.C. Sabathia, he's slugged 30+ homers in six seasons including last year when he had 32. The most since hitting 33 in '07. His first year at Wrigley Field after signing an eight-year $136 million contract. That followed a career year with the Nationals in which he reached the 40/40 Club with 46 dingers and 41 steals.
Soriano returns to the Yankees for the first time in a decade after being dealt to the Rangers for Alex Rodriguez. In three-plus years in the Bronx, he cracked 98 homers, drove in 270 and stole 121 bases. Ironically, the biggest swing was a two-run homer off Curt Schilling in Game Seven of the 2001 World Series that put the Yanks ahead. But after he retired the Diamondbacks in order, legendary closer Mariano Rivera couldn't duplicate it in the ninth, blowing the save on Luis Gonzalez' Series clinching two-run bloop single with the bases loaded.
Now, Soriano is back where it all started. He's batting cleanup in his first game back with the Yankees hosting the wildcard leading Rays at Yankee Stadium. He's back in a playoff race. The Cubs are eating most of the remaining $28 million on his contract that expires following 2014. The Yanks get a much needed righty power bat they hope can give them a jolt. They trail the Orioles by two and a half for the second wild card. At the very least, he'll protect Robinson Cano, who essentially replaced him at second. Ironically, he's in the final year of his contract and must be re-signed. An even better player, Cano will score a huge payday.
It's an interesting time for the Yankees. They are desperate to stay in the race and bring back the free swinging Soriano who former manager Dale Sveum praised for his work ethic and preparation. How will he do? Will it be a great sequel or a bust? The Yanks didn't give up much with Black only in his second year as a pro. He was 3-8 with Single-A Tampa posting a 4.23 ERA in 19 starts. However, he's a strikeout pitcher averaging over a K per inning with 88 in 82.2 IP. At the very least, the Cubs retained a power arm for the future for a guy they couldn't wait to dump. It comes on the heels of moving ace Matt Garza to Texas for prospects Mike Olt, C.J. Edwards and Justin Grimm. Garza picked up his first win for the Rangers over the Yanks.


text: A few months ago I wrote a post on the 2009 wines from Beaujolais. They are unusual because of their quality. Wines from here are usually good to very good, but rarely very good to great. Raves about the 2009 vintage have been coming in from all over. Apparently I don't live in a place that gets the new stuff first. Yes, the wagon train did eventually make it to the general store here in deepest, darkest Central Florida, and it had what we have been waiting for.

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- Muffy Berlyn
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|Dr. Dumont's Wild P.A.R.T.I. (1999)
|(Revised & Updated 1998-99 by)
|Tass Times in Tonetown (1986)
|Dr. Dumont's Wild P.A.R.T.I. (1988)
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|Dr. Dumont's Wild P.A.R.T.I. (1988)
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|Altered Destiny (1990)
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Developer Biography
Muffy McClung Berlyn was born in West Palm Beach, Florida. She lives with her creative partner and husband, Michael Berlyn. Together they have lived and loved all over the United States as well as Panama, from Aspen to Cambridge to California to Bend, Oregon. Muffy and Michael co-authored several games together, the most popular of which was Tass Times in Tonetown.
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I ♥ Copenhagen
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Note: Ryan Miller is a Seattle University student majoring in Political Science. He is currently studying abroad in Copenhagen and will be writing blog posts for Great City about his experiences and impressions of the Danish Capitol (and possibly other locations around Europe).
Danes and the Dutch – So near, yet…..
I was privileged enough during my travels to visit Amsterdam – the "other" cycling capital of Europe. I was only there for a day, but my time there was enough to let me compare Copenhagen's and Amsterdam's policies in an attempt to see which city does a better job accommodating cyclists.
One of the first things I noticed when I arrived in Amsterdam was the sheer number of bicycles parked in the city. It was simply mind boggling. Although the number of people actually riding bikes seemed no different than Copenhagen, parked bicycles simply dominated the landscape in a way Copenhagen cannot match. In fact, the need for adequate parking in the city is so bad that I managed to find this 3-story bicycle parking garage filled to capacity within a few minutes exploring*.
I was also struck (almost literally) by the way the Dutch ride. Unlike the Danes, with their immense respect for conformity and order (as documented earlier) which spills over into their cycling, the Dutch are a tad more, let's say, "individualistic" in how they ride.
Basically, the Dutch ride bikes the way Romans drive Fiats….
As such, the kind of strict traffic rules the Danes have embraced are seemingly non-existent with the Dutch. For cyclists in Amsterdam, stoplights and pedestrians appear to be no more than mere suggestions to possibly slow down (maybe, if it is convenient). It is a remarkable, if not slightly terrifying, difference in cycling culture.
Perhaps as a result of this Dutch cycling culture, Amsterdam has a radically different infrastructure for their cyclists. As opposed to Copenhagen, which consists almost exclusively of paired, one-way cycle tracks, Amsterdam is filled to the gills with completely separated (2-way) bicycle pathways. I am not entirely certain of the rationale for these facilities other than to scare motorists and pedestrians into getting as far away as possible from bicycles, although the way the city is designed does leave the occasional clue.
Copenhagen, which despite being an old city still has rather wide streets, the vast majority of Amsterdam's "streets" are no wider than the average sidewalk in Downtown Seattle. This narrowness undoubtedly contributes to making Amsterdam a cycling capital, because the streets themselves keep cars out, leaving residents little choice but to walk or ride bikes. Having no cars on these streets additionally makes it politically much easier to convert them to bicycle-only pathways.
Amsterdam, perhaps more so than Copenhagen, became a cycling city out of necessity. As such, I have an even harder time thinking that we can directly "export" their cycling policy to the United States any more than we can Copenhagen's. Our cities are just too different. Even if American vehicles were to disappear (not likely), there is so much real estate left over that the Amsterdam approach doesn't seem applicable. While there are many elements of both Dutch and Danish bicycle design practice worth looking at in the U.S., I feel it has to reflect both our physical setting and how Americans want to ride their bikes.
Still, the Dutch (unlike the Danes) don't take all day to make a left turn – there's something to be said about that.
I ♥ Copenhagen
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Note: Ryan Miller is a Seattle University student majoring in Political Science. He is currently studying abroad in Copenhagen and will be writing blog posts for Great City about his experiences and impressions of the Danish Capitol (and possibly other locations around Europe).
Left Behind at Lefts
Perhaps this is just me being picky, but I save a special brand of disdain for taking left hand turns (by bike) in Copenhagen. Unlike in the United States, where making a left hand turn merely involves signaling and turning, the Danes have adopted an entirely different system. In Denmark, one must cross the street as if you were going to proceed normally, signal, stop, manually back your bike out of the cycle-track, wait for the next light to change, and then finally continue normally (See illustration below.)
The Copenhagen Two-Step
Sketch credit to Between Yellow and Blue – http://betweenyellowandblue.wordpress.com/2009/04/08/copenhagen-to-two-wheels-part-1/
There are good reasons Copenhagen has adopted these measures, most notably that cycle-tracks and Danish traffic law do not allow cyclists to move over to the left turn lanes that cars use. As such, if they attempted the kind of left hand turn you are accustomed to in the States you would be darting across not only traffic moving in the opposite direction, but also any traffic moving in the same direction as you while you are in an intersection, which would be understandably unsafe and chaotic. However, this "two-stage" or "jug handle" turn does have its downsides.
First, you are waiting two cycles of a light to make a traffic maneuver that cars can accomplish in one cycle. It hardly seems like you are accommodating cyclists by forcing them to wait twice as long as cars to do a relatively simple maneuver.
Additionally, guess what the law in Copenhagen requires cyclists to do in intersections that have no cycle-tracks? The exact same thing. This bewilders me to no end. I can understand the practical problems cycle tracks create in regards to left hand turns which necessitate the two-stage turn, but when there is no cycle-track, why are cyclists still required to make this style of turn?
This style of turn is not even remotely useful for situations when a cyclist needs to make a left hand turn outside of a controlled intersection, especially when on a street with cycle tracks (for example, turning left onto a side street, notably one at a T intersection). The Copenhagen traffic code offers two possible remedies to the solution. One can either go to the next controlled intersection and make two separate two stage turns (although I have seen the maneuver made using only one by not crossing the street the first time) to make a U-turn or you can stop on the side of the cycle track and "wait until it is safe to proceed" then cross the street. Mind you, this second option is not feasible on larger, multi-lane streets, as there will rarely be a time when the lanes in both directions are clear.
As a slight aside, when I was looking for a good illustration of what a "two stage" left looks like, I found this video from BikePortland.org describing how cyclists should adopt a Copenhagen style left hand turn in favor of the city's plan to have riders do the EXACT SAME THING without crossing the street (Mind you, in the video, the creators claim the city's plan requires riders to dismount their bicycles, later in the accompanying article it is clarified by Tri Met that they do not have to, contrary to what the video proclaims).
I find it interesting how the Oregonian paints the "wait" for the signal with the Tri Met (Portland) plan to be entirely unreasonable, yet the same waiting period with the "Copenhagen left" is strangely seen as just fine.
But I digress.
Surely I shall see the light soon. Maybe in about two signal cycles…
AIA Seattle's Forum magazine is seeking illustrated ideas that repurpose or rethink underused or vacant spaces of all kinds for its upcoming issue, "Coming Out of the Curve." They have issued a challenge to designers and artists to think boldly about innovative approaches to underutilized land, buildings or infrastructure. More info below:
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The National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum, located at 25 Main St. in Cooperstown, New York, is hosting its annual Hall of Fame Induction weekend Friday through Monday, July 25th through 28th. Here is a sampling of what fans can expect in Cooperstown as the Hall of Fame inducts Bobby Cox, Tom Glavine, Tony LaRussa, Greg Maddox, Frank Thomas and Joe Torre.
Friday, July 25th -
· 8 to 11 a.m. – PLAY Ball with Ozzie Smith plus special guests Johnny Bench and Mike Schmidt in the Plaque Gallery and on field
Saturday, July 26th –
· 4:30 p.m. – Hall of Fame Awards Presentation – Doubleday Field
· 6 p.m. – Hall of Fame Parade of Legends – Main Street, originating on Chestnut St. and ending at the steps of the Museum
Sunday, July 27th –
· 1:30 p.m. – Induction Ceremony – Clark Sports Center featuring more than 40 returning Hall of Famers – admission to the Ceremony is free
Monday, July 28th –
· Legends of the Game Roundtable featuring inductees Bobby Cox, Tom Glavine, Tony LaRussa, Greg Maddox, Frank Thomas and Joe Torre
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Jan. 21, 2014
IOWA CITY, Iowa -- Redshirt junior Abby Grilli has been named the Big Ten Diver of the Week, the league offices announced Tuesday. Grilli earns the accolade after diving to a pair of runner-up finishes against Missouri, Indiana, and Illinois in a quad meet this past weekend.
Grilli helped lead the Hawkeyes to a pair of victories, dropping Missouri and Illinois. Grilli dove to a second place showing on the 1-meter springboard with a final score of 286.70, while finishing with 303.65 points in the 3-meter competition to earn runner-up honors. Both scores are NCAA Zone Diving standards.
This is the third Diver of the Week honor of Grilli's career -- all coming this season. She has previously earned the accolade on Dec. 17 for her performance against Iowa State, and on Nov. 19 for her performance against Nebraska and South Dakota State.
Iowa returns to action Jan. 25, traveling to Evanston, Ill., to take on Northwestern in a conference dual. Competition is slated to begin at 11 a.m. (CT) inside the Norris Aquatics Center.


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Has anyone else tried this one? I bought it soon after it was released, and now the updated version is out on Steam as well.
So, you play as this strange guy wearing a surgical mask, apparently the only survivor of some kind of a disease that has left the city in ruin and full of zombies (or something similar).
I'm not much of a zombie survival fan (Shaun of the Dead is the only zombie movie I really like), and never really played the Silent Hill games which are an obvious influence, but this game has an amazing creepy atmosphere, greatly enhanced by the well done sounds and music.
The pixelated 2D graphics style is rather charming as well. I'm especially impressed with the psychological side of the game, as half the time I'm not sure what I saw is real or just the main character going insane.
You can check out the browser-based demo here:


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A minimum GPA is not required for transfer admission. Applicants with at least a "B" average (3.0 GPA) at their previous institution(s) are most likely to succeed at Linfield. Consistent academic progress, leadership and likelihood of contribution to the Linfield community are also considered during the application review.
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I am new to Jquery and Datatables. I am trying to use Datatables in my project. Can anyone please let me know get the data from JSP/Java and use it in Datatables. Any links or examples would be very helpful. Thanks Bharath
I think what you are asking ajax based datasource to be used with datatables.
You can find some samples in the below links
Documentation for server side processing can be found here.
Here is an example of Datatables integrated with Java servlets/JSP . You can also download the source code with a working example.


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Recently, the U.S. Supreme Court handed down two decisions on gay marriage: one dealing with California's ban on gay marriage (a.k.a. Proposition 8) and the other with the federal Defense of Marriage Act (a.k.a. DOMA). In neither case did the Court do anything to slow down the advance of gay marriage in the United States.
In the Prop 8 case, the majority decided that the plaintiffs did not have standing to argue this case before the Supreme Court. It remains to be seen what the exact implications of this will be, but for the time being it looks like gay marriage will resume in California.
The Court also decided that section 3 of DOMA—the part defining marriage as the union of one man and one woman—is unconstitutional. It left in place section 2 of DOMA which says that states do not have to recognize gay marriages performed legally in other states.
What does all of this mean? Clearly the most significant of the two decisions is the DOMA decision. It lays the constitutional groundwork for someone to sue the government and provoke another Constitutional challenge. Based on the logic of today's decision, it is almost certain that a follow-up case would provide a Constitutional guarantee of a right to same-sex marriage. In this sense, it would be like Roe v. Wade and its companion decision Doe v. Bolton. Roe would not have been a sweeping decision without Doe. But taken together they invalidate all state laws prohibiting abortions.
Likewise, today's DOMA decision will likely be followed by another one that taken together will provide legal gay marriage across the country. As Justice Scalia said in his dissent, we are just waiting for that other shoe to drop. In fact, Scalia says that the majority practically invited the follow-up case. He writes:
By formally declaring anyone opposed to same-sex marriage an enemy of human decency, the majority arms well every challenger to a state law restricting marriage to its traditional definition. Henceforth those challengers will lead with this Court's declaration that there is "no legitimate purpose" served by such a law, and will claim that the traditional definition has "the purpose and effect to disparage and to injure" the "personhood and dignity" of same-sex couples… The majority's limiting assurance will be meaningless in the face of language like that, as the majority well knows. That is why the language is there. The result will be a judicial distortion of our society's debate over marriage—a debate that can seem in need of our clumsy "help" only to a member of this institution.
Mark it down. The challenges will come, and they won't be long in getting here. It will go something like this. A legally married lesbian couple receives federal benefits in New York where gay marriage is legal. That couple moves to Louisiana and then loses those benefits because their new state doesn't recognize their marriage. That couple can then sue the federal government using the precise language from today's DOMA case. If the case makes it to the Supreme Court, the Court would be poised to make gay marriage a constitutional right nationwide.
But even more troubling in the Court's decision is the language that the majority used to describe those who favor traditional marriage. Those who passed DOMA acted with the "purpose" to "disparage and injure" gay couples. They wanted to "demean" and to "impose inequality" and a "stigma" on gay people. They wanted to deny gay people "equal dignity," to declare them as "unworthy," and to "humiliate" their children. This kind of language paints all traditional marriage supporters as "bigots" and as "enemies of the human race" (as Roberts and Scalia argue in their dissents). How long can religiously based objections to gay marriage stand in the face of such moral condemnation heaped on them by the Supreme Court?


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Never have I ever been accused of being a convicted criminal on my birthday before, until today. I was at the Moter Vehicle building in Mount Pearl to get a new driver's license, and the clerk working at the service counter was very skeptical of my Alberta license. She questioned me on all of the codes and endorsements (I can only drive a motor vehicle with the usual number of axels, must wear corrective lenses, etc.), but was really stumped on a few of them, and annoyed that I didn't have the answer key for the codes. I was a little flabbergasted when she asked me, "Why did you take a driver's education class? Do you have a conviction that you're not telling me???" I responded that I took a class to learn to operate a vehicle and learn the rules of the road, which I thought was normal, but the clerk seemed really suspicious. Maybe it's common here not to take driver education unless ordered to by a court; I really don't know ... In the end, I must have been deemed trustworthy enough as the clerk took my Alberta license away, asked for $100, and gave me a new piece of plastic so can legally drive around Newfoundland for another five years. We're probably only going to be here for another 3-4 weeks :)
I was really hoping that my Knitpicks Options that I ordered on February 11 would be waiting in my mailbox when we got home from the Motor Vehicles office, but they're still MIA. Instead, the (t)rusty mailbox held for me a copy of The Knitter's Book of Finishing Techniques, Just Hats, and a few cool things from Etsy, like a set of lovely stitch markers and my very own Black Apple print. So, still some awesome mail, and I only bought one of those items myself :)


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CEE Headquarters: Effectively managing a fragmented growth region
CEE has become a major growth region with high relevance across sectors – especially for Western European companies. However, the high complexity of the region makes management difficult. Due to its fragmentation, CEE requires different management approaches than Western Europe.
The objectives of this study are to understand current trends in CEE management, to show successful approaches across sectors, to define different models of management, and to make clear recommendations for structuring the region.
In this study you find answers to the following guiding questions:
- (How) does the economic development of CEE impact the regional approaches for management in the region?
- How/from where should the region be managed/consolidated?
- What is the best organizational structure at country level per industry?
- What relevance do shared service centers play in CEE?


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Gora And Class Struggle
Ariel Cruz
From: "Ariel Cruz"
To: "Positive Atheism" <firstname.lastname@example.com>
Subject: Gora and class struggle.
Date: Sunday, July 23, 2000 6:01 AM
Hey Cliff,
I was reading the posted version of Gora's "Atheism Q and A". And I just had some questions and comments I thought I'd share with you.
1. From what I've read so far, it seems that Gora was a Social Democrat. That is to say that he believed that the path to social equality was through parliamentary action as opposed to armed insurrection. Do you know of his politics more specifically?
If I am correct in my take on what Gora believed, then I think he misunderstood the class dynamics within Capitalist society.
Gora advocated for a totally legal and open struggle to make reforms and legislate piece by piece a new society based on socialist principals (i.e. Redistribution of wealth, Universal health care, Common ownership and execution of means of production). I wish this could be the case, but the way bourgeois democracy is structured this becomes impossible.
Reason #1- The electoral process is built just so that this cannot happen.
- At its inception, the founding fathers created a highly bureaucratic form of representative democracy. This was designed to protect the white landowning ruling class from what Tom Jefferson called the "dictatorship of the majority".
- At present the this same electoral process has become even less an organ for the people the control their destiny than it is an auction. A market where justice, as well as control of the government, is sold to the highest bidder.
a. Campaign finance is probably the greatest tactic that the ruling class uses to control the forces of government. For example, Boeing, the head contractor for the "star wars" anti-ballistic system program has already paid over $300,000 to both candidates for the 2000 elections. Likewise, the company Lockheed Martin, who will be making the satellite components to the same program, has coughed up nearly $390,000 to bath candidates. These corporations aren't giving away this money because the candidates smell nice or because they were boyhood friends with them. It's because once these clowns get into office, the corporations expect favors and such in return. How else can you explain how a totally ridiculous idea such as the "Star Wars" system, which is basically universally derided by any qualified person not on the payroll of its proponents, to see the light of day, much less be implemented by the government as a serious project. In a newsweek poll, over 65% percent of people want more money spent on the crumbling public school system but this is what our tax dollars are funneled into. Those without the $ to influence the Government are as good as mute within a strictly legislative and electoral sense.
But please, do not misunderstand me, I am not denouncing the fight for reforms as pointless. Not at all. such a statement would be foolish! The fight for reforms is what educates the working class and builds up its confidence as well as training it fight bigger battles. One point about class society that think Gora missed was that he saw these reforms as an end in themselves. This is impossible when the fundamental nature of the system still stands. A tiny minority of people control a huge majority of the wealth in this country (something like 1% own 50%, 20% own 80%) and the vast majority own little or nothing and are forced to sell their ability to work to the ruling class. As I have stated above, this minority control the governing bodies and are in no way going to allow these reforms, which cut into their profits and such, to stand.
- Case in point the reforms of the thirties and sixties, the highest points of class struggle in the US.
a. Health care provided by the State, established in the thirties. whittled away to nothing. It took a supposed liberal who, by the way, ran on a platform of universal healthcare, took raise this countries uninsured toll from 35,000,000 in '92 to 45,000,000 and rising in 2000.
b. Abortion rights, fought for during the sixties and seventies, constantly being attacked. Efforts such as the Hyde amendment, which forbids the Government to pay for abortions, severely disadvantaging the poor. Also another attack on woman's rights to terminate a pregnancy was just narrowly defeated when the Supreme court overturned the law forbidding the practice of the fictional "Partial Birth abortion". A law that was written so vaguely that many doctors stopped performing abortions altogether in fear of their state interpreting the law in such a way that they could be charged with breaking the law.
These attacks on the reforms are not going to end as long as we allow the forces behind them to remain in a position to launch them.
Reason#2. Another problem I had with Gora's thinking was where he states that because common people vote for a bourgeois politician, then they have a capitalist outlook. This is true and untrue, I'll explain.
Marx said once that "the prevailing ideas of society are those of the ruling class". This means that (I hope this doesn't sound too condescending, but I don't know how much you know about Marxism) since the ruling class has control over the media, ( new, entertainment, etc..) that means that it's their ideas and values being beamed into your home or gracing the pages of your favorite periodical. This explains why people can blindly support a war where innocent working class people die fighting innocent working class people from another country in a war whose sole purpose is to protect "their" country's hegemony and influence over an Oil rich territory (Iraq). But the reality of it is, the gung-ho patriot worker has no vested interest in the spoils of this war, if anything he will be squeezed harder as these resources are used to strengthen the capitalist machine that extracts profit from him/her.
- The reason Gora's observation about the nature of class consciousness (or lack thereof) is incorrect is because he forgets the effect struggle has on it. Crisis is inherent to capitalism. It is a system of fierce competition that requires the corporate bodies to constantly find the cheapest labor and resources so that profits that are made can be immediately reinvested so it can stay competitive. Every thing depends on those profits. If the companies feel the crunch, than it's the workers who pay (wage cuts, lay offs, benefit elimination). When this pressure is felt, the workers fight back through strikes and boycotts. The workers begin to see throughout the course of these struggles, the reality of the situation. The class lines are drawn. It becomes "us" (the people who do the work) vs. "them" (the ones who get fat off of us). Unions are a prime example of this. In unions you won't see a CEO who desires "equality" as Gora says. You will see the people getting screwed by the Capitalists who identify with each other in their material position as a class, fighting for their own class interests, spontaneously. Therefore the conflict is between the classes, and is not a cross class ideological battle. This is because FUNDAMENTALLY, THE CLASSES HAVE DIAMETRICALLY OPPOSED INTERESTS.
I think that's it for me. I apologize for this unorganized spilling of my thoughts but the sun is coming up and I haven't slept.
I hope this gets you thinking, and as always, I would love to hear your thoughts. Also, where are you politically, if you don't mind my asking?
I like Gora, I don't agree with him politically, but the rest of what he has to say articulates what I've felt in my gut for years.
Thanx again,
From: "Positive Atheism" <email@example.com>
To: "Ariel Cruz"
Subject: Re: Gora and class struggle.
Date: Sunday, July 23, 2000 3:19 PM
As you will see, I have very little background in political science. I like some but not all of Gora's views as they pertain to atheism, and that's about it.
I would agree that Gora misunderstood the class dynamics (among other things) within a Capitalist society, and also misunderstood (at least on paper) the fact that neither pure Capitalism nor pure Socialism will work for very long.
I have adopted some elements of Gora's personal philosophical outlook and have stated that I am skeptical about his social and political outlook. It is his views on truthfulness and on taking personal action and personal responsibility that I have incorporated into my own outlook. Much of this aspect of his outlook is what he derived from Gandhi; some of it he already held and Gandhi agreed with him.
As anybody should be able to see (and most of us don't have the political science background that you appear to have -- I certainly don't), the times and culture that Gora was working in were vastly different from anything you will find in the West. The kinds of subcultures there (mostly distinguished by specific religious views) and the sheer diversity of the people, saddled with very specific economic problems, political hardships, and frequent natural disasters, complicated by the revolution in 1947 and 48, gave Gora strong reasons to conclude that his social and political views were best for all -- even though he spent very little time outside of his country.
This is why Gora's writings will never gain widespread acceptance outside of India and outside the role they play in describing the history of one subculture in one nation. Their current willingness to remain focused and plugged in to the world-wide atheistic movement is why the Indian Rationalist Association has gained much wider acceptance outside of India, even though Atheist Centre has probably accomplished more work inside India over the long haul (probably due to Atheist Centre's initial association with Gandhi and Nehru, and complicated by Indian Rationalist Association's internal power struggles that Atheist Centre, being a family-run group, will probably never suffer).
Thanks you for the opportunity to air some of my skeptical feelings about some of what Gora has written. His writings are here to give them Internet presence and I like them for their personal philosophical and ethical values. I profoundly respect Gora for the work he has done and for many of the ideas he has conveyed to us through his writings and his work. His stong sense of principle is something to be emulated indeed. I am also intrigued by his concept of "Partyless Democracy," though I don't see how it could possibly fly in the West.
If you are going to read only one of Gora's books, read An Atheist With Gandhi. This one is excellent starting with the splendid defense of the concept of the ineffable god contained in the Introduction, and culminating with Gandhi's playful taunts and Gora's unanswerable responses. To go further, read Positive Atheism -- though the limitations of Gora's political science education begin to show to those familiar with political science. Finally, An Atheist Around The World is interesting, but here is where Gora's limitations become apparent even to someone who is not paying very close attention, because here is where some of Gora's ideas meet the real world of culture outside India, thus invalidating their potential as a universally applicable system. Gora's main problem was that he tried to make everyone fit into the same mold; I differ in that as a Liberal, I try to see everyone as being different, and try to see all those different outlooks as being valid within a context of governing or administering a state or a nation.
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On yesterday's America Live, Pat Caddell spoke about the President being joined by children at press conference on a new gun control plan. He was allowed to talk uninterrupted for almost a minute as he bashed President Obama. Megyn Kelly asked if Obama had gone "beyond the pale."
Caddell said:
"This is just a continuation of being juvenille to some extent, and claim, you know, the card that he has... I haven't seen anyone since Richard Nixon; it's the same instinct for being isolated, for being surrounded by cronies, and making up things the way he does. This is not Ronald Reagan, it's not Jimmy Carter, it's not even George Bush, for God sakes. It's a little bit much. The children thing is I think right over the top so that he can propose executive actions, says I don't need the Congress... He's really pushing the envelope here."
Nixon? Caddell surely knows Obama is nothing like President Nixon.
Psst . . . hey, Pat: President Obama not being George Bush — either one — is a good thing.
As for likening Obama to Tricky Dick:
- Obama did not (unlike Nixon) take a weeklong photo-op trip to China last February for the sole purpose of propping up his ratings ahead of his reelection
- Obama did not (unlike Nixon) order the burglary of RNC headquarters, then attempt to cover up both the break-in and his authorization
- Obama did not (unlike Nixon) campaign in 2008 on a promise to end an unpopular war, only to expand that same war upon taking office
Sorry, Pat — the resemblances to Nixon? I'm just not seeing it . . .
Nixon? I think it goes without saying if Fox News were around during Watergate what side they would take, especially with Roger Ailes connections with Tricky Dick's administration.
They've been told over and over that "Nixon was a good man! A great man! A "set up by the democrats" saint who should have been given more unlimited power!"
Sooooooooo….President Obama too must be a good man, a saint, a great man who should be given unlimited power!
FoxGOPTV is losing. Their sheep are abandoning them more and more every day. FoxGOPTV will be the cause of their own well deserved destruction.
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Mr. Glenn Harrell Warren, 67, of Summerville, entered into his state of eternal rest Wednesday evening, September 15, 2010, at the Medical University Hospital of South Carolina in Charleston.
Funeral services will be conducted 3 oclock Friday afternoon, September 17, 2010, from the graveside at Zion Baptist Churchyard, 152 Ruffin Road, Walterboro. The family will receive friends following the committal service at the cemetery.
Mr. Warren was born September 10, 1943, in Colleton County and was a son of the late Moody Postell Warren and the late Gertrude Strickland Warren. For many years, he worked in the Data Processing Department of the Charleston Naval Shipyard before moving to the Army Corps of Engineers where he worked with their Survey Crew for Waterway until his retirement. He was a member of Zion Baptist Church in Walterboro and the Sons of Confederate Veterans Colleton Rangers Camp No. 1643, where he was awarded the Compatriot of the Year Award in 2003 for his dedication and service to the cause. He possessed an avid love for the outdoors, always enjoying hunting and fishing.
Surviving are: his son, Rhett Harrell Warren of Charleston; a daughter, Linda Elizabeth Warren of Charleston; and two brothers, Bobby D. Warren and M. Carl Warren both of Goose Creek.
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I want to set up our Mac OS X Lion DNS server to host a specific domain internally, but redirect all other queries to our providers dns servers. How can I achieve this? I have read the docs but couldn't find anything about it.
This is actually the default behaviour :-)
I strongly recommend you read up more from the following excellent resource, which is considered by many to be the definite description of DNS best practice in Mac OS X Server: Hoffman Labs: "DNS Tips: Establishing a DNS Server on Mac OS X Server 10.7 or 10.6"
If you want to specify what DNS servers are consulted for lookups in domains for which your server is not authorative, you can specify them as forwarders in Server Admin under the DNS service's Settings. Have a look at Network services ▸ Domain Name System (DNS) ▸ About DNS ▸ Set up namespace behind a NAT gateway in Apple's Lion Server help, as well as Network services ▸ Domain Name System (DNS) ▸ Manage DNS zones ▸ Set forwarder IP addresses
To clarify further: by default behaviour, I mean that I've found, in practice, that configuring forwarders, though best practice, is optional, because if you don't do it, when a Mac OS X Server running DNS receives a query for which it has no corresponding primary or secondary zone, it will automatically query whatever DNS servers it uses for its own Internet connection and return that information. So basically, you could just set up and maintain the zone for the domain you want to host internally and the rest should happen automatically.
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Have you already decked your halls in lights, timed to blink to the strains of Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer? Even if you haven't reached that level of early enthusiasm, the holiday spirit is starting to spread already. If you spend any time on social media, you may have seen posts about the Secret Sister Gift Exchange.
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IDF Should Have Shot Syrians, Expert Says
Expert on Arabs, Dr. David Bukaee, says Israel's hesitation to fire at infiltrators May 15 could cost it dearly.
By Gil Ronen
First Publish: 6/2/2011, 10:29 PM / Last Update: 6/2/2011, 11:00 PM
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Dr. David Bukaee, an expert on the Arab world, says Israel must prepare well for Sunday, in which Arabs will mark the anniversary of their defeat at Israel's hands in 1967.
Bukaee said that the Arabs "keep looking for excuses" for violence against Israel, and that is why they came up with the concept of Naksa Day.
"This day was set in order to show that the struggle against Israel continues despite the loss in the war. They used the word 'naksa' which refers to a small setback, much smaller than the terrible disaster of 1948."
The problem, said Bukaee, is that two weeks ago the State of Israel allowed a bunch of hooligans to enter – especially at Majdal Shams but also in other places – and the IDF did not use live fire, the result is that they will now do it everywhere."
"Israel needs to reach a firm decision that no one passes the fence, no matter what the price," he warned. Otherwise, if the Arabs are allowed to continue with the border-crossing attempts, Israel will pay dearly.
"They will wear out the army," he explained. "They will hurt the Israeli economy, because this constant state of alert costs a lot of money, they will disrupt the IDF's training and they know this, they understand that this is their best strategy against Israel."


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Where did you learn about sex? Was it from the ubiquitous "Where Did I Come From?" illustrated book from the late 70s? Or from a stolen Playboy magazine on your school's back oval? Today, young people are more likely to come across explicit sex on the internet. How is this proliferation of pornography online shaping the sexual lives of the young?
- Maree Crabbe
- Project Worker, Reality and Risk: Pornography, young people and sexuality
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- Natasha Mitchell
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fiona :
04 Apr 2013 9:20:24am
Let's be clear that she is relying on the the work of anti pornography campaigner Gail Dines
Greg :
04 Apr 2013 11:08:15pm
Maybe she, maybe she isn't. We are talking about children and teenagers being exposed to sadomachism, bestiality and the like. Maybe the Left will one day address its blind spot on porn, but I'm not holding my breath.
Squash :
05 Apr 2013 2:20:50am
And your point is? Are you suggesting that pornography-fuelled sexual violence is non-existent or not a problem for young people? It was made clear that there was a significant level of research undertaken to base the opinions expressed.If the content of programs like this don't make you "anti-" at least some categories of pornography there is something wrong with you.
jill jones :
04 Apr 2013 9:37:11am
Unfortunately in some early high school (yrs 7/8/9)girls with low self-esteem/ family relationship difficulties are told after some grooming so that they think they are 'in love', "you won't get me/anyone as a boyfriend unless you participate in unprotected/fellatio/anal/violent sex" (some or all of the above)What a sad introduction to relationships/ violence at a tender age. The lack of emotion/empathy/objectification is chilling.This is the price of 'freedom' of information to our youth.
Alistair :
10 Apr 2013 6:24:45pm
"This is the price of 'freedom' of information to our youth."No, not in the slightest. Do you think rape and abuse only began in the 20th century? Your comment illustrates the real problem, which is that adults have always buried their heads in the sand when it comes to educating children about sex and "real life". I mean we don't even teach kids about things like anger management, conflict resolution, self-reflection, anxiety, self-image and self-worth, not to mention relationship issues.All those things children still have to acquaint themselves with as they grow up, after many mistakes and self-help books. We should be ashamed at how little we are teaching kids about simple being good, compassionate people.
Maybe throw in some media awareness classes in there too. That is the real problem. Lack of education because adults still - after thousands of years of "civilisation" - still don't know how to talk to kids about sex.
04 Apr 2013 10:15:54am
Why is it that the focus of what 'consumers' are exposed to is what is categorised as 'professional' hollywood style films? This is only a partial view of the whole picture as it excludesonline consumers of free porn through amateur websites.
That people access amateur online porn is a reality. I would encourage any research to widen its focus to include this fact, to ivestigate it seriously and analyse it critically, in comparison and contrast to the professional industry you speak of and seemingly favour.
Basing studies and research on 'top selling porn' is not an accurate reflection of the lives of millions of people, young and old.
Early Grayce :
05 Apr 2013 12:47:00am
You are correct there.
The pornography industry is in meltdown because even though a lot more is available and consumed anyone can be a pornography producer from their own homes, and they do.
Trudi Mannix :
04 Apr 2013 10:42:14am
As a mother of one child, a 16 year old daughter, I was horrified to hear from this interview what she might be exposed to in her first sexual encounter. I will have to find an opportunity to talk to her about this soon. And I'll contact her school and see what they are doing about it.
04 Apr 2013 4:36:51pm
I have a sixteen year old nephew living with us, to go to school as he is from the country, and I was horrified by this too. I have not the slightest idea how to go about talking to him about this.
William :
04 Apr 2013 11:17:50pm
Thanks for your comment KIB. There's an excellent article on the ABC Health & Wellbeing website that's titled "Sex education: Still essential in a digital age". It might give you a few ideas & be helpful to any discussions you have with your nephew about sex. Here's the link to the article: http://www.abc.net.au/health/features/stories/2013/03/14/3715496.htm
Yves :
04 Apr 2013 4:52:41pm
This might be a case of After-horse-bolt-stable-door-shutting I am afraid.
Youngperson :
05 Apr 2013 5:12:23am
I hate to be the one to tell you this but if you have not had the talk already by 16 chances are it is to late as the average age for sexual activity in Australia in the big cities is 14, that's right 14. I was shocked to hear this .
Maria :
04 Apr 2013 10:03:37pm
I would argue that it is logical for Maree Crabbe's research to be based on popular or top-selling porn, as this would be a useful indicator of the type of pornography that many young adults are accessing. The point was also made in the story that Ms Crabbe is not anti-porn. Instead, from my understanding of the story, this research is aiming to understand the influence on young adults' sexual practices as a result of exposure to pornography. If the evidence is showing a trend of aggressive, violent and disrespectful behaviour, in relation to sex, especially towards young women, then I would agree that we as a society need to confront this issue. We as adults need to face up to how we can communicate respectfully, openly and assertively about sex to young adults and give them another viewpoint to consider on this issue.
ginni :
06 Apr 2013 3:31:45pm
Best SELLING porn?? this is maybe what older people have the resources to pay for I'm guessing. Not teenagers; they will be accessing free porn and there is plenty of it without paying. Much of it amateur or low budget too. And from my own experience at looking around for it and viewing it, it is pretty mainstream as porn goes. Obviously depends what you are looking for but I've yet to see any violence in the clips I've viewed as per the gonzo porn descriptions.
Yes there are plenty of 'money shots' i.e fellatio performed with the deposit on an eager woman's face. We all understand that's a mans idea of a happy ending :)However invariably that happens after the woman is satisfied- usually multiple times! Anal sex ... doesn't interest me but true there are plenty of titles with it centre stage. I think though that research shows anal sex is not that uncommon between het couples anyway so im not so sure its that exotic or dangerous :)
As soon as i heard Maree mention 'gonzo' porn i knew immediately she was from the anti-porn side of the mob. Thankfully Natasha saw the cleverly disguised anti-porn discourse and deftly created opportunities for a more sophisticated understanding of porn on the emerging sexualities of young people. Thank-you for your intelligent questions and insights!
Jenny Brockie's "insight' program on SBS explored the issue recently and i was fascinated with young peoples nuanced understandings of porn in their lives. One porn loving young man quipped that he understood it wasn't for real. Reminds me of my son who i fought vainly to keep away from toy guns and video game violence. When i was lamenting the 'badness' of guns and acting out violence within games he said "but its just pretend mummy!"
Porn is here to stay. Lets create more opportunities to build on the existing strengths of our young people as critical consumers of all media including porn.
William :
06 Apr 2013 9:44:21pm
RiAus presented a really interesting forum discussion last year with the theme - "Let's Talk about SEX!". The discussion was hosted by Dr Maryanne Demasi from Catalyst & the panel of sexperts were Alan Jenkins, clinical psychologist; Dr Patricia Weerakoon, sexologist; & Fiona Patten, leader of the Australian Sex party. The comments that were made about pornography were really thought provoking, especially in the context of the kinds of effects it can have on real-life relationships. If you're interested in listening to the discussion, you can find it with an internet search using the following keywords: "Let's Talk about Sex! Royal Institution of Australia".
anita :
17 Apr 2013 12:47:27am
I don't think it is very useful to take sides on porn and anti porn. Porn IS here to stay. As a discerning adult, you may be able to pick and choose, and so may many teenagers, but this is also about young children whose first experience of sexuality, or the sexual act, may be an act of violence. As an experiment, I looked randomly at porn sites on my phone just to see what I could access casually and without any effort. I think everyone should do this - particulary the gonzo porn stuff - and see for themselves how disturbing some of these images are. They are freely accessible to many young kids. What are you going to do - start educating 10 year olds about how to be discerning? Some kids will escape the effects, many will not.
Early Grayce :
05 Apr 2013 12:54:27am
People learn from what they have seen and been told.
The best way to help your children learn to have healthy sexual relationships is to talk candidly to them about it. Do not pussyfoot around the subject but tell them that they should be enjoying it together with everyone else if they like however they like to do it together.
One of the problems is our prudish society that seems to think that we shouldn't be having fun shagging, the worst offenders is people who are involved with churches as I was subjected to. I had no real idea and had to muddle my way through the start to my sexual and emotional relationships.
Once I learned how to have fun safely with other people in a mutually pleasurable way I shagged just about everybody I wanted to.
Bell :
09 Apr 2013 10:46:41am
My kids are 7 (boy) and 11 (girl). My daughter is well and truly coming into contact with sexy images on the web, mostly on music video clips- and ideas too. What we do is to talk- we discuss how girls are pressured to look sexy, how sex is a powerful thing and how sexy feelings are very strong. How it is important to keep yourself safe and how all our relationships need to be respectful and mutual. We have talked about how some sick adults feel sexy about kids and how casual sex usually doesn't make people happy in the long run. We have made it quite clear that it is illegal to have sex before the age of 16, and why this law has been made. We have also made it clear that there are lots of sexy things on the web and that it is our job to monitor her activities as part of keeping her safe.
I am not sure how all this will pan out- my daughter is very willful at times, but I do know that she feels free to ask me many sometimes confronting and embarrassing (for me) questions- What is a one night stand? What is oral sex? What does 'coming' mean? Why are some people gay and others straight? How do you know? What is a prostitute? Is it always wrong? She has asked why some people like to look at sexy pictures.......... Her Dad and I try to answer openly and honestly.
Alistair :
10 Apr 2013 6:16:41pm
Very good segment for a short introduction, but what we need are MALES talking about MALE issues with sex and pornography.
After all, males are the ones pushing and causing problems, 99% of the time.This was also reflected in the last ABC Q&A program - an all-woman panel talking about Feminism, each one saying "oh it's not all about women".We have two sexes. Limiting such discussions to a single perspective is of limited value I think.I doubt many women really understand male sexuality, and vice versa. It's disappointing how little has changed in sex education since I was in high school, 20yrs ago. We (guys) learned from porn then, and still doing so now.Except, back then, porn exposure was from still images in magazines, where no aggression (or any sort of specific behaviour) could be discerned. That's a *key point*. Kids are not just learning "about sex" in porn now, they're learning "behaviours". Completely different experience from 20yrs ago.


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I'll try to come back later on and add some comments on parts changes/paint/holes. But I wanted to throw in a few quick comments on CharlieB's brochure.
First off, thanks for posting the images. I have not seen most of those pictures before. The code "AD-31469-C" identifies the publication. The letter C is a year code, in this case 1974. I don't know the meaning of the second date, "1/74". I've seen it on some publications and not on others. If there is any difference between the 2 dates, the second one is always earlier than the first year code. I suspect the second date may be the date of some approval and the one coded in the publication ID is determined by the (planned?) release date. Sometimes the second date is an open date like this one, others have the year coded. I have seen some with month-year, others as month-day-year, and even some month-day.
Are the pages with the 2 codes stapled together or is one just inserted inside the other? It isn't unusual to find to find one inserted inside another. I have a 154 brochure with 2 different mower brochures stuck inside it. I suspect they have been together since they left a dealer's brochure rack. The code "AD-1335-Y5" is 1970. The final "5" indicates 5 revisions. The secondary date "10-31-W" is 1969. By the way, did you miss a digit in this code? 31335 seems more likely than 1335 as it would be in sequence.


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Can anybody help me identify this shrub? Many thanks
Thanks folks. Given me some ideas.....
As a very amateur (and newish gardeners) we have been trying very hard to get most of the plants in our garden bee and insect friendly and hope to convert some grass to wildflower meadow this year. However I have been guilty of using non-friendly pansies, begonnias etc for my hanging baskets. Has anybody got any good suggestions for bee friendly plants that could be used in baskets? Common names would be appreciated not very clued up on the latin! Many thanks!


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- M.N., Wichita (Kan.) State University, 1978
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The most rewarding part of teaching nursing is to know that I've had a part in helping individuals meet their goals of becoming nurses. I cherish my relationships with nursing students--they are some of the most wonderful persons I've ever met! It brings me joy and satisfaction to see students develop healing skills and show compassion in caring for clients.
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What are your favorite courses to teach
I enjoy teaching the medical surgical nursing courses. We discuss how nurses can bring healing wholistically as we care for persons who are ill.
Who are your role models and mentors? How have they shaped you as a teacher?
I have learned a lot about teaching from my colleagues here at Hesston College. We are a supportive community who encourages each other in our teaching skills. The administration here provides resources and affirmation to continue improving our teaching.


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Killer Compost: New Problems, a New Chemical.
We have recently heard reports of continuing incidents of herbicide contaminated compost damaging crops of organic farmers and gardeners. A news report http://www.capitalpress.com/SB-herbicide-residue-123110-art discusses continuing damage from residues of aminopyralid in composted grasses. The report also discusses labeling changes proposed by Dow AgroSciences to help address this problem.
Additionally, we have learned of another "Killer Compost" chemical herbicide. It is called Aminocyclopyrachlor, and this one does come with a restriction on the label.
As we have previously discussed some herbicide active ingredients including clopyralid, aminiopyralid and others are registered for use on pastures. These chemicals can be so persistent that they remain active in the manure that animals pass after grazing on the treated grasses even after this manure is composted. This can create a major problem for anyone who uses the contaminated compost as it can kill or seriously damage broadleaf crops and garden vegetables.
The Washington State University Extension Service reports that herbicide contaminated compost was responsible for "tens of thousands" of dollars of lost revenue for several organic farms, and additional damage to several home gardeners. Tests confirmed the presence of aminopyralid at low levels. The chemical can cause damage to plants at concentrations as low as ten parts per billion (10ppb).
A spokesman for Dow Agrosciences the maker of aminopyralid said that the company had submitted a proposal to the Environmental Protection Agency to address the handling of the herbicide, and that they would be meeting with the EPA shortly. The suggested changes would make it illegal for people in several states to move aminopyralid treated hay or forage grass off the farm where it was applied. A supplemental label however would exempt users in some states.
Another herbicide active ingredient to be aware of is Aminocyclopyrachlor. This herbicide is of a different chemical family than the other killer compost chemicals that we have warned about before, however it has a similar mode of action and a similar risk of persistence in compost. (It is not registered for pasture use however)
Products containing aminocyclopyrachlor come with the following label restriction:
" Do not use grass clippings from treated areas for mulching or compost, or allow for collection to composting facilities. Grass clippings must either be left on the treated area, or, if allowed by local yard waste regulations, disposed of in the trash. Applicators must give verbal or written notice to property owner/property manager/residents to not use grass clippings from treated turf for mulch or compost." (from the label for Imprelis)
At RCC we remain most concerned about these chemicals. The potential to cause harm to unsuspecting farmers and gardeners is very disturbing. Organic farmers and gardeners rely on compost and should be careful of where they get the compost that they use.
The Washington State University Extension Service recommends farmers or gardeners taking several steps to avoid bringing contaminated compost to their properties.
Ask the supplier for information about the origin of the compost and about who the intermediate handlers were. Ask what farm the compost came from and ask for the details of the herbicide practices of that farm. Establish a contract with the compost supplier to guarantee that the compost is contaminant-free. Perform tests for the presence of herbicide contamination. This can be done by growing a test plant in the compost before it is applied to the entire field. For more information please look at our previous news items on Killer Compost. (LINKS)
http://www.rachelcarsoncouncil.org/uploads/articles/AGardenerAlerttoKillerCompost11-5-08.pdfThe Washington State University Extension Service also has information about aminopyralid problems here: http://whatcom.wsu.edu/ag/aminopyralid/


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Fellow travelers will be sure to do a double take when they notice you walking by with a Washing Machine suitcase ($192) in tow. No, it doesn't actually do laundry for you, but it looks convincing enough that a co-passenger might ask if she can throw just a couple of things in with your colors. Just be prepared for TSA not to get the joke - you know how humorless they are about the prospect of you having liquids in your bag.
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Our mission is to recruit, develop, and retain individuals whose work advances the vision and mission of the University of Washington.
To better serve you, HR Service Teams composed of employment specialists and human resource consultants will work directly with you and your department to ensure that your professional needs are met.
To find your Service Team members, visit the HR Service Team webpage.
Service team functions are organized into two operations units:
The following HR service units provide services of interest to University employees.
Professional & Organizational Development conducts the Strategic Leadership Program (SLP) which is a centrally-funded, comprehensive training program for UW supervisors. All newly hired or promoted UW supervisors are required to complete the Strategic Leadership Program (SLP) within six months of appointment.
The UW recognizes the vital role supervisors play as leaders, and seeks to provide them with additional support through training in the following core competencies:
SLP is a multi-day workshop with the following requirements:
Visit the Strategic Leadership Program (SLP) webpage for more information and to register.
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The eye-tracking Galaxy S4 from Samsung (PINK:SSNLF) is making waves, the bears continue to should down Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) with price targets as low as $274 and everyone is talking about how the Galaxy family of gadgets is taking over the world.
Sure, Samsung stock has doubled since early 2011. But don't look now … because all this hype might be sign of a top.
Sure, Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) and its Android OS dominate global smartphone market share, and Samsung is one of the biggest brands on this open-source platform. But any investor who has been around the block should know that gadgets that are red-hot can fall out of favor fast — and that companies with their fingers in too many pies can often make costly mistakes.
For all the cult-like appeal of Apple — with interest in its iconic co-founder Steve Jobs and a burning desire to know more about how the company fosters innovation — the Western fanboys of Samsung often have little knowledge of just how scattered and downright spooky the Korean conglomerate is.
This week's Bloomberg BusinessWeek cover story is "Samsung's Secret" — a deep dive into the ascendant Korean conglomerate by senior writer Sam Grobart.
It's a fascinating package — not just in regards to the company's electronics division that creates products like the new Galaxy S 4, but also because of Grobat's visit to the Samsung's "Creativity Institute" and exploration of the monolithic and mysterious Chairman Lee Kun Hee, who has been at the helm since 1987.
Samsung is known in America for its electronics, but it is also a powerhouse in shipbuilding, life insurance, advertising and even theme park operation with its Everland resort that welcomes more than 6 million tourists annually.
Take this particularly telling excerpt from Grobart's great BusinessWeek report:
"A Seoul resident may have been born at the Samsung Medical Center and brought home to an apartment complex built by Samsung's construction division (which also built the Petronas Twin Towers and the Burj Khalifa). Her crib may have come from overseas, which means it could have been aboard a cargo ship built by Samsung Heavy Industries. When she gets older, she'll probably see an ad for Samsung Life Insurance that was created by Cheil Worldwide, a Samsung-owned ad agency, while wearing clothes made by Bean Pole, a brand of Samsung's textile division. When relatives come to visit, they can stay at The Shilla hotel or shop at The Shilla Duty Free, which are also owned by Samsung."
It's all well and good, therefore, to love what Samsung smartphones and tablets can do. But keep in mind this disparate nature before you start chasing a share in Samsung stock, which trades on the pink sheets and is highly illiquid, or jump into overweight ETFs like the iShares MSCI South Korea Index Fund (NYSE:EWY).
I'm not saying Samsung is going bankrupt or is run by evil overlords hell bent on world domination. But the company produces 20% of South Korean GDP, remains a mystery to the Western public beyond their Galaxy line of devices and has a management style that many investors would equate to cult-like … in a bad way.
Before you think of investing Samsung just because you like its smartphones, take a good look at what you're getting into.
The in-depth look at the company from BusinessWeek will hit newsstands in print Friday, March 29.
Related Reading
- The power of Samsung: Hundreds of people line up for the S4 in New York. Remind you of another tech companies launches a few years back? (CNNMoney)
- The "Samsung's Secret" package is simply stellar. Read it all. (BusinessWeek)
- If you want to buy Samsung stock anyway, here are some ETF options. (The Slant)
Jeff Reeves is the editor of InvestorPlace.com and the author of "The Frugal Investor's Guide to Finding Great Stocks." Write him at email@example.com or follow him on Twitter via @JeffReevesIP. As of this writing, he did not own a position in any of the stocks named here.


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Imagine this sexy Staring At Stars Lace Camisole ($54) under a smartly-tailored jacket at a holiday party or special night out. The sheer femininity of it will cause a hush to come over any room you walk into. Seriously. We're not kidding about that. You'll stop traffic.
'Course you might be stopping traffic because your tits are flashing at everybody!
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Starlet Krista Miller came out this afternoon June 6, 2014 to defend herself from malicious reports that put her name to shame. If you have seen the CCTV footage gathered by the DOJ, you will notice that Krista Miller stayed at Ricard Camata's room for only ten minutes.
Based on her statement at a press conference held in Quezon City, she was at the hospital last May 31 to sell a condominium unit to the convicted drug lord, Ricardo Camata. Krista was forced to defend herself when a DOJ Undersecretary confirmed her visit to the hospital where Camata was allegedly confined due to a lung cancer.
Incidentally, ABS-CBN News reported that even though Ricardo Camata was permitted by NBP Supt. Lansangan to seek medical attention outside the National Bureau of Prisons, he has failed to get the approval of DOJ Secretary Leila De Lima to go out of the NBP facility. Based on Undersecretary Baraan III's statement, anybody who wants to visit prisoners in the hospital should get a clearance from the DOJ. Krista failed to do it, but like what she said, she was not aware of the process.
This report has made the starlet confuse, according to her, she was not aware of the process being implemented by the National Bureau of Prisons. Will the DOJ forgive Krista for her brave appearance?
Reports said the DOJ will summon Krista Miller to explain why she was at the hospital last May 31. There are speculations that she was selling her body, but according to her, she was there to sell a condominium unit to Ricardo Camata and the rumored sex trade is not really true.
Just minutes after hearing her statement, some observers took to their social media accounts and expressed their disbelief to Krista's revelation. Many of them believe that she was at the venue to meet Ricardo Camata who paid for her talent fee when she was invited by the NBP to attend Flores De Mayo.


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While answering a Unix-&-Linux question, I observed that Gedit and two other editors, Leafpad and Medit (I tested 12 editors altogether) exhibit the a certain bug. As it turns out, the bug is known to Canonical's launchpad as Bug #332321 search (and replace) takes ss as ß.
The bug's behaviour is that
find ß will match both
ß and
ss... (not nice, especially if you do a replace-all).
I then noticed that the StackExchange software, in order to create the question's href link, had converted the question's title from
How to bind "ß" to Meta-s? to
So two completely unrelated environments are treating
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Industry survey reveals the determination of the games sector to avoid the mistakes of the music industry
Karen Moltenbrey
Can the games industry avoid the pitfalls of the music industry? Many are sure hoping not to repeat those mistakes.
Can the games industry avoid the pitfalls of the music industry? Many are sure hoping not to repeat those mistakes.
A survey of selected delegates and speakers at the forthcoming London Games Conference has revealed a determination within the games industry to not repeat the mistakes made by the music industry with regards to digital distribution.
Stuart Dinsey, managing director of Intent Media, an organizer of the conference, commented: "Our survey has shown that the games sector is determined to learn from the mistakes made by the music industry by embracing digital distribution earlier and more efficiently. Whilst the claims of parity in three years with retail sales may be wide of the mark, it's very clear that digital distribution is gaining a momentum that would have been unthinkable even a year ago."
The London Games Conference, due to be held at BAFTA on Tuesday 27th October, is set to explore the various aspects of digital distribution as well as examine successful businesses that have closed the gap between creators and customers. Delegates will also hear two researched based presentations examining the growth of the digital sector across all genres.
"Digital distribution is the defining issue within the games industry over the next three years. The long-term success of every player within games will be judged on how they develop their digital strategies. The London Games Conference is set to be just the beginning of an industry wide debate that will continue long after the 27th," Dinsey continued.
Companies participating at the conference include Microsoft, Sony, Playfish, Jagex, Direct2Drive, Sega and Chart Track.
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Dr. Don,
I left my last job with $6,000 vested in the company's 401(k) plan. My new job also has a 401(k) and my employer contributes 7 percent of my salary to it each year. I don't like the choices of mutual funds in the new 401(k). Can I take the $6,000 from the last job and open an IRA to roll it over into?
-- Jeff Job
Jeff,You have three choices as to what to do with the 401(k) money held with your previous employer but you've already nixed one of them, namely to move the money to your new employer's plan.
You could decide to leave the money with your previous employer. That works if you like the investment options and the annual fees and expenses associated with the plan and your investments.
Finally, you can decide to roll the money into a traditional
IRA. This option gives you the most flexibility as to how the money
is invested and the fees and expenses levied on the account and
investments. You could put the money in CDs with a bank, open a
brokerage account and invest in stocks, bonds or mutual funds, or
deal directly with a mutual fund company.
If you're interested in a Roth IRA, you may have the
ability to roll the money into a traditional IRA and then move it
into a Roth IRA. Moving the money into a Roth IRA account will be
a taxable event, but distributions out of the account are tax-free
in retirement.
In 2008 you'll be able to roll directly from the 401(k)
into the Roth IRA without the intermediate step of rolling the money
into the traditional IRA, but since it's a fairly straightforward
process even with that extra step, there's no real reason to wait
for 2008 if you decide on the Roth. Talk to your tax adviser before
moving the money into a Roth.
You'll also want to talk to your tax adviser if any
of the $6,000 is in company stock. Favorable tax treatment of any
net unrealized appreciation, or NUA, on the stock can make it beneficial
to transfer the stock to a taxable brokerage account while transferring
other money to the IRA account. It's easy to get this wrong, so
you really do need professional tax advice in this situation.
If you don't like your investment options in the 401(k)
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The plan providers have a fiduciary duty to the plan participants
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Come and meet your favorite Oregon coach at the Bi-Mart Activities Stage at the Lane County Fair, August 12-15. Each Oregon coach will be available for one hour to meet and get autographs. The first 100 fans for each coach will receive an Oregon t-shirt, courtesy of Bi-Mart. The schedule of appearances is as follows:
Tuesday, August 12:
11:00am - Nils Schyllander & Paul Reber (Men's & Women's Tennis)
12:00pm - Vin Lananna (Track & Field)
1:00pm - Kathy Arendsen (Softball)
Wednesday, August 13:
11:00am - Casey Martin (Men's Golf)
12:00pm - Jen Larsen (Lacrosse)
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Thursday, August 14:
11:00am - Mike Bellotti (Football)
12:00pm - Shannon Rouillard (Women's Golf)
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Final Hollywood Award of the Season — Top words from Hollywood (HollyWords)
American Sniper and Selma Take Top Prizes
Twelfth Annual Survey
The Year in Film as Reflected in the English Language
Austin, Texas, March 9, 2015. 'Your call' from American Sniper has been named the Top HollyWords of the Year by the Global Language Monitor in its twelfth annual Internet MediaBuzz Survey. These were followed by 'Edmund Pettus' from Selma, and 'disappearing yesterdays' from Alice, "Life doesn't give you bumpers." from Boyhood, and 'best and whitest' from the awards ceremony itself rounded out the top five.
Each year, GLM announces the words after the Oscars at the conclusion of the motion picture awards season. The 87th Annual Academy Awards ceremony was held at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood, CA, Sunday, February 22, 2014. Neil Patrick Harris was the host for the first time, to generally mixed reviews.
"Words from American Sniper and Selma took top honors in a year of taunt scripts and memorable quips" said Paul JJ Payack, president and chief word analyst for the Global Language Monitor. "The films this year spanned an exceptionally wide span of topics from the inner workings of the mind to the farthest reaches of outer space.
The Top Hollywords of the 2014 season with commentary follow.
Rank / Word or Phrase / Commentary
- 'Your call." (American Sniper) — Chris Kyle's ultimate dilemma that he faced hundreds of times ..
- Edmund Pettus (Selma) — Bridge named after a Confederate General and Klan leader, now an iconic symbol of hope and redemption.
- Disappearing Yesterdays (Still Alice) — Alice's great fear of not knowing which yesterdays would be deleted and which preserved.
- "Life doesn't give you bumpers." (Boyhood) — Mason Sr's advice to son during a teachable moment at the bowling alley.
- 'Hollywood's best and whitest' (87th Annual Academy Awards Ceremony) — Neil Patrick Harris in a faux slip of the tongue at the Awards Ceremony.
- That little spark of madness (Mrs. Doubtfire, Dead Poets Society, Good Morning, VietNam, etc.) — Robin Williams' work all demonstrated that little spark.
- 'It Depends' — (Grand Budapest Hotel) — H. Gustave opines that "you can say that about most anything, 'it depends'. Of course it depends" in a telling moment of obfuscation.
- String Theory (The Theory of Everything) — Hawkings never did complete his theory of everything. String theory is his closest attempt, thus far..
- Turing Machine (The Imitation Game) — Alan Turing's theoretical computing machine serves as an idealized model for mathematical calculation.
- "You're no actor, you're a celebrity." (Birdman) — This can be said of any number of one-time stars of the Hollywood firmament, any number of whom were present the Oscars ceremony..
- 'Good Job' (Whiplash) — Evidently, there are no two words in the English language more harmful to those pursuing excellence.
- Plan B (Interstellar) — The secret plan to implement after the supposed demise of the entire human race.
Previous Top Hollyword Winners include:
- 2013 The F-Word , prevalent in scores of films.
- 2012 'Emancipation — (Lincoln, Django, Argo) — Webster says 'to free from restraint, control, or the power of another'.
- 2011 'Silence' – Silent movies, (the Artist), a wife's silence (Descendants), a father's silence (Extremely Loud), silence among the trenches of WWI (Warhorse).
- 2010 'Grit' — firmness, pluck, gritty, stubborn, indomitable spirit, courageous, and brave perseverance.
- 2009 'Pandora' — from Avatar
- 2008 'Jai Ho!" — Literally 'Let there be Victory' in Hindi from Slumdog Millionaire
- 2007 "Call it, Friendo" — from No Country for Old Men
- 2006 "High Five!!! It's sexy time!" — from Borat!
- 2005 'Brokeback' — from Brokeback Mountain
- 2004 'Pinot' — from Sideways
- 2003 'Wardrobe malfunction' — Justin Timberlake and Janet Jackson from Super Bowl XXXVIII
Methodology. Austin-Texas-based Global Language Monitor analyzes and catalogues the latest trends in word usage and word choices and their impact on the various aspects of culture, with a particular emphasis upon Global English. This exclusive ranking is based upon GLM's Narrative Tracking technology. NarrativeTracker analyzes the Internet, blogosphere, the top 250,000 print and electronic news media, as well as new social media sources (such as Twitter) as they emerge. The words, phrases and concepts are tracked in relation to their frequency, contextual usage and appearance in global media outlets.
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I want to automate the installation of etckeeper on OpenSuse 12.3.
My first issue is that etckeeper doesn't seem to be available in the standard OpenSuse repos.
zypper search etckeeper
Loading repository data...
Reading installed packages...
No packages found.
The second issue I anticipate is that when I use etckeeper manually I sometimes have to configure it (init) before it starts working. Here's the info about that from the readme:
etckeeper initcommand initialises an /etc/.git/ repository. If you installed etckeeper from a package, this was probably automatically performed during the package installation. If not, your first step is to run it by hand:
etckeeper init
I would like a script that will install it and have it init'd automatically with no end-user intervention required.


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We're taking a natural approach to our table decor come fall. Tans, ambers, and rustic fibers. These City White Cork Placemats ($12) are made from cork and rubber, are eco-friendly, and give us the aesthetic we're looking for. We'll toss simple white place settings on top, add some red potted mums for a centerpiece, and host a Sunday afternoon lunch sans all the bells and whistles.
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