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If there was hope that Vice President Biden might improve the Obama administration's approach to foreign policy in the Middle East, his assessment of the ISIS threat is underwhelming. The Islamic State is an organization of Sunni Muslims who promote a brand of belonging to a sect that feels otherwise unrepresented. ISIL stirs the worst ideas that reside in the foundation of Sunni Islam and it counter to the free world.
The fact that so many people in the Muslim world can be attracted to the Islamic State movement means a number of things:
- Free world advocates have failed to reach and educate large populations in the Middle East. (They simply ignored the Middle East outside of exploiting petroleum assets which is at the heart of the problem.)
- Middle East governments that are rooted in an Islamic theocracy are barriers to free world values. (That applies to all Middle East governments to varying degrees.)
- Middle East governments have failed to attend the needs of impoverished people who are ripe for exploitation by the governments themselves and by others such as insurrectionists and terrorists.
The approach to addressing the Islamic State threat should not be tactical. In addition to the Islamic State are other related and emerging threats of the same type. The threats emanate from the same root causes that require a comprehensive strategy with a concisely defined balance of consequences. There must be a reward for aligning with free world values and punishment for not. There should be a reward for progressive improvement and none for no improvement.
By concentrating only on military strength, Biden is making the same failed mistake that the U.S. made in Viet-Nam for instance. American can bomb people to smithereens, but so long as there are people standing who are intent on fighting for their independent ideas, they will win. Winning requires political action that manifests in improving the quality of life for "enemies".
America can put ISIS' lights out, but does that end the Sunni's need to have equal participation in governments that allegedly represent them?
What about both Sunnis and Shiites and their fundamental conflicts with one another and everyone else? What must be done to convince these sects to become pluralistic and tolerant to free world standards?
"Biden: ISIS can be defeated without US boots on the ground
By Mario Trujillo - 08/23/14 12:17 PM EDT
Vice President Biden expressed confidence that the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria could be defeated without U.S. boots on the ground in Iraq, calling the militant group "far from invincible."
In a Washington Post op-ed published Friday, Biden described the threat as a "long-term challenge" but said the United States is prepared to increase its support in the fight.
"ISIL has no legitimate cause or grievance to espouse," he said, using an alternate name for the group. "And as we saw at the Mosul dam, when its fighting strength is eroded, it can be routed by local forces without U.S. boots on the ground."
The United States launched 60 airstrikes — two-thirds of all U.S. operations — in helping Iraqi and Kurdish forces retake the Mosul dam, which the administration said could have been catastrophic if it was breached.
Biden called the mission last week the first operation where the Kurdish pesh merga and Iraq security forces worked together."
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So the elections are in and it looks like the hard-liner Israelis (as well as hard-line Palestinians) have sucessfully reaped benefits from the current rounds of conflict. This, in all likelyhood, means more lip-service to a two-state solution at the same time as settlements continue to expand. It seems to me that incentives for Palestinians to negotiate at this point are dwindling by the day. At some point they will come to the conclusion that any two-state option that Israel is willing to give isn't one worth having. What then?
Once the two state solution is off the table, the international community is going to be confronted with the very real problem that there is a politically and economically repressed majority in Israel. They will effectively be governed without representation by a government willing to employ the most intrusive policies of any western democracy. Indeed, there will be a question if the term 'democracy' even applies to Israel any more.
Stephen Walt explains that there are three options as he sees it:
First, Israel could drive most or all of the 2.5 million Palestinians out of the West Bank by force, thereby preserving "greater Israel" as a Jewish state through an overt act of ethnic cleansing. The Palestinians would surely resist, and it would be a crime against humanity, conducted in full view of a horrified world. …
Second, Israel could retain control of the West Bank but allow the Palestinians limited autonomy in a set of disconnected enclaves, while it controlled access in and out, their water supplies, and the airspace above them. … In short, the Palestinians would not get a viable state of their own and would not enjoy full political rights. This is the solution that many people — including Prime Minister Olmert — compare to the apartheid regime in South Africa. …
[Third,] … The Israeli government could maintain its physical control over "greater Israel" and grant the Palestinians full democratic rights within this territory. This option has been proposed by a handful of Israeli Jews and a growing number of Palestinians. But there are formidable objections to this outcome: It would mean abandoning the Zionist dream of an independent Jewish state…
He then goes on and questions if we are ready with a plan B:
But if a two-state option is no longer feasible, it seems likely that the United States would come to favor this third choice. …
If the two-state solution dies, as seems increasingly likely, the United States is going to face a very awkward set of choices. That's one reason why Obama and his team — as well as Israel's friends in the United States — should move beyond paying lip-service to the idea of creating a Palestinian state and actually do something about it. But it's hard to be optimistic that they will.
And while I'm at it, here's one more heretical thought. Shouldn't someone in the U.S. government start thinking about what our policy should be in the event that the two-state solution collapses?
Ezra wonders what the time frame could be:
I'd like the Israel hawks to tell me supports what's wrong with Stephen Walt's logic here. And if nothing is wrong with his logic, I'd be interested to know what their estimate is of the time frame at which point Palestinians decide any state they could get is not a state worth having due to settlement expansion and overcrowding, and they begin demanding the vote instead…
And Greenwald wonders about the potentially increasing cost of supporting Israel under these circumstances:
If, as it appears, the face Israel is now choosing for itself is that of Benjamin Netanyahu and Avigdor Lieberman, then the cost to the United States of ongoing, one-sided support for Israel is going to skyrocket, and the need for serious change in U.S. policy towards Israel will be even more acute. It's worth recalling that Barack Obama, when still seeking the Democratic nomination in February, 2008, said:
I think there is a strain within the pro-Israel community that says unless you adopt an unwavering pro-Likud approach to Israel, then you're anti-Israel, and that can't be the measure of our friendship with Israel.
It will be vital to ensure that Obama actually meant that. Netanyahu's pledge to allow the still-further expansion of West Bank settlements makes an already-distant two-state solution less viable still, and his explicit vow to keep the Golan Heights "forever" makes negotiations with Syria doomed from the start. He actually just objected that Israel's destruction of huge parts of Gaza "did not go far enough."
One Chinese curse is certain,… Israel (and by extension the U.S.) will be living in 'interesting times' for some time to come.
Think about the border between downtown and Centralville. It's very obvious that those are two different places. If you wanted to block off one from the other, it would be easy.
Now think of the border between downtown and the Acre. Or downtown and Back Central. Which storefronts are in which?
The settlements are making the border between Israel and Palestine more like the latter. Disaggregating them could well become impossible.
In other words, the settlers themselves, and the government that allows them, are undermining the Zionist vision of a nation with a specifically Jewish identity. It won't be possible for there to be an Israel that is distinct from Palestine.
I don't get why everyone is so hard on Israel. 1.) It's the ONLY democratic nation in the Middle East and 2.) It's got a sizable Arab minority enjoying all the rights of citizenship in Israel proper (not counting the territories).
Name one state in the Middle East where a sizable Jewish population could survive and exercise democratic rights.
I'm not saying that Israel is perfect, but I would characterize it as a Beacon of Democracy in the Middle East.
If you really want to be 'hard on Israel' then just continue to let this play out in its current form. The current path for Israel is self-destructive. The 'I'm for Israel' crowd in the US is helping them down it gleefully. I didn't set them on this path. Don't blame me.
Why do conservatives always forget about Turkey? It's been a democratic republic longer than Israel.
The 'I'm for Israel' crowd in the US is helping them down it gleefully. Yup. Have you ever noticed that they don't talk about what is smart for Israel, just how morally righteous whatever their latest military action is, and how immoral Palestinians are? It's like they're not so much interest in the actual well-being of Israelis or how they can achieve a secure future, so much as they're fascinated the image of Israel as the good guys in a war. It's almost as if not having Israel in wars is beside the point, or even undesirable.
This was really a good post. Thanks Chris.
Thanks Mike. I put up a comment on the BMG thread with some 60 Minutes video:
As I pointed out above it wasn't futile for Hamas if the goal was never a two state solution in the first place. It should be noted, however, that the appearance of Hamas not necessarily wanting a two state solution shouldn't necessarily be taken at face value. It could be that they already do not see a viable two state solution as being feasible in the current conditions. Personally, I think their behavior was utterly predictable. I can imagine the frustration of being told that they should be negotiating in good faith knowing full well that the object of negotiation is losing worth by the month because the other side isn't doing anything in good faith at all. It's the kind of thing that can (demonstrably now) drive an already oppressed people to do something stupid.
Greenwald had a post about the recent 60 Minutes piece:
The 12-minute 60 Minutes segment, which is highly recommended for those who haven't seen it, conveys a very clear sense of how difficult that task is going to be and how the blame for this conflict is hardly confined to one side:
He then embedded the piece in question:
Looking at that, I just think 'American revolutionary patriots put their lives on the line for arguably less'.
Turkey is in a losing battle with Islamist elements within the country. Buddhists are being slaughtered and one dare not profess being Christian in Turkey either.
Turkey, for a long time, existed as a predominantly Muslim but with a secular government. That separates is from all other predominantly Muslim countries that are under radical Islamic rule. The only country that is more cruel to Christians than Islamic countries in Atheist Communist North Korea where Christians are sent to terminal camps for the crime of believing in a power greater than there supreme ruler.
Israel can not be expected to take seriously any "peace deal" from Hamas. Hamas has stated its vision of an Arab Muslim world with no Israel. No Jew is innocent in their world view. As such they see nothing wrong or criminal about firing rockets into civilian population centers.
The Israeli forces, on the other hand, go to great effort to target only the structures from which attacks are launched. It is unfortunate that Hamas chooses to launch attacks from schools and hospitals.
Indonesia, Malaysia, Lebanon, Bangladesh, the UAE and Brunei are under "radical Islamic rule?" I'm pretty sure you're wrong about that.
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Yagi antenna
Also called the Yagi Uda antenna after two japanese engineers, Yagi and Uda, who researched how parasitic elements affect the directional properties of an antenna. An array of parallel, straight antenna elements, one or more driven and one ore more parasitic, was originally called a Yagi-Uda array. In recent years this has been shortened toYagi. Sometimes an antenna of this kind is called a beam.
Two Yagi antennas, one low band and one multiband.
Still most yagis are for tv-reception and they are also used for more specialized purposes with transmitting too. It is the most popular directional array antenna on the radio amateur bands from 14MHz through VHF and UHF. It is sometimes seen on the 30 and 40 meter bands too. Most hams use rotators with their Yagi arrays so that the antenna can be pointed in any horisontal direction.
Where low transmitting power is used, like down to 1 Watt or less, as when a qrp transceiver is used, a yagi antenna can somewhat compensate for that. And since a yagi gives such improved receiving performance, other qrp stations can be heard better too.
Single mast mount yagi
antenna in a garden.
Yagi wifi antenna
A Wifi antenna is, if not like the single type as of routers, either a grid type or yagi. look at this home made wifi yagi that was put on a wireless router. Could it be simpler? Really great!
Build a Yagi antenna
There are some resources in the menu to the left, and here is another one;
How to Build an Antenna
However, sometimes an antenna rotor is needed so let's take a little look at that.
Antenna rotor
An antenna rotor
is rotating the antenna in the desired direction with a control box indoors. There is a rotor cable between the control and rotor.
Here is an overview of different many antenna rotors with reviews.
Yagi design
Now let's take a look at the design of the yagi antenna and the elements. Again, in an antenna with parasitic elements, those elements connected to the transmission line are called driven elements. In most parasitic arrays, there is one driven element, one reflector, and one or more directors.
The driven element
The driven element(s) is/are connected to the feed line. In yagi antennas for ham radio, there is usually just one driven element. This element is sometimes physically shortened by inductive loading. It might contain traps so that it resonates on more than one band. It is half wave resonant, is center fed, and by itself would be a dipole antenna.
The driven element is a dipole.
With a gamma match driven element, the elements may be, or not be electrically connected.
The driven element can be either as an electrically separate dipole or together with the boom and the other elements, as a gamma match.
When several parasitic antennas are operated together, such as in a collinear or stacked array, there are several driven elements. Each driven element receives a portion of the output power of the transmitter. Generally, the power is divided equally among all of the driven elements. [In some phased arrays, all of the elements are driven.]
The driven element in a parasitic array is always resonant at the operating frequency. The parasitic elements are usually (but not always) slightly off resonance; the directors are generally tuned to a higher frequency than that of the driven element, and the reflector is generally set to a lower frequency (thus longer). The impedance of the driven element, at the feed point, is a pure resistance when the antenna is operated at its resonant frequency. When parasitic elements are near the driven elemt, the impedance of the driven element is low compared to that of a dipole in free space.
For the purpose of providing an impedance match between a driven element and a transmission line, the driven element can be folded or bent into various configurations. Among the most common matching systems are the delta, gamma and T networks. Sometimes the driven element is a folded dipole rather than a single conductor.
Dipole as the driven element
The basic design uses a dipole as a driven element. It is resonant when the electrical length is 1/2 of the wavelength, for the used frequency, applied to the feed point. Folded Dipoles are commonly used in Yagi design.
Gamma match on the driven element
A gamma match makes it easier to adjust the antenna. It matches the impedance of the feedpoint which is rarely is 50 Ohm, to the 50 Ohm coax. On Yagi antennas with more than 4 elements, the impedance at the feedpoint becomes low (like 20 Ohms).
Parasitic elements - Reflector - Director
A parasitic element is an element that is not directly connected to the feed line. Parasitic elements are used for the purpose of obtaining directional power gain. Generally, parasitic elements can be classified as either directors or reflectors, hence they work in opposite ways.
Parasitic elements operate by electromagnetic coupling to the driven element. Parasitic elements are parallel to a radiating element, at a specific distance from it, and of a certain length, causes the radiation pattern to show gain in one direction and loss in the opposite direction. For many years now, Yagi's principle is used at high frequencies by amateur and commercial radio operators.
At high frequencies, parasitic elements are often used in directional antennas. The most common of these are the quad antenna and the Yagi.
Forward gain
The forward gain, or power gain of a Yagi is measured relative to a half wave dipole (dBd) in most cases. Power gain is more important in terms of transmitting; the front-to-back ratio is of more interest in terms of receiving directivity.
Front to back ratio
The front-to-back (F/B) ratio is specified in decibels, and is the ratio of signal strength in the favored direction to the strength 180 degrees opposite the favored direction.
It is one expression of the directivity of an antenna system. The term applies only to antennas that are unidirectional , or directive in predominantly one direction, as for Yagi antennas. Mathematically, the front-to-back ratio is the ratio, in decibels, of the field strength in the favored direction, given an equal distance. In terms of power, if P is the power gain of an antenna in the forward direction and Q is the power gain in the reverse direction, both expressed in decibels with respect to a dipole or isotropic radiator, then the front-to-back ratio is given simply by P - Q.
Two-element Yagi
A two-element Yagi can be formed by adding either a director or reflector alongside the driven element. The optimum spacing for a driven-element/director Yagi is about 0.1 to 0.2 wavelength, with the director tuned to a frequency 5 to 10 percent higher than the resonant frequency of the driven element. The optimum spacing for a driven-element/reflector Yagi is about 0.15 to 0.2 wavelength, with the reflectror tuned to a frequency 5 to 10 percent lower than the resonant frequency of the driven element.
The gain of an optimally built, full-size two-element Yagi is about 5 dBd using either a director or reflector, If the elements are shortened by inductive loading or with traps, the gain is somewhat compromised.
Three-element Yagi
A Yagi with one director and one reflector, along with the driven element, increases the gain an F/B ratio, compared with a two-element beam. An optimally designed three-element Yagi that can be scaled for universal construction purposes. Optimization must be done after the antenna is built. Matching schemes and construction details are not included.
Long Yagis
The gain and F/B ratio of a Yagi increases as more elements are added. This is usually done by placing extra directors in front of a three-element Yagi. Some Yagis have 10, 15 or even 20 elements. The extra directors tend to have optimum spacings that increase as the number of elements increases. Thus, to make a 10-element Yagi into an 11-element Yagi, a director is added about 0.4 wavelength in front of the 10-element Yagi for optimum performance. The directors alse tend to get shorter and shorter, converging to a minimum limit. It is rare to see a Yagi more than 20 elements. An ideal 20-element Yagi can theoretically give 19 dBd forward gain. If the gain needed in an antenna requires more than 20 elements on a single boom, two or more Yagis canbe fed together in pahse, and placed end-to-end (collinear) or sacked, or both. Other antennas, such as the dish, become easier to construct and tune than the Yagi at high UHF and microwave frequencies, when large gain and F/B ratio is wanted.
Multiband Yagis
Traps can be placed in the elements of a Yagi, allowing operation on more than one band. Extra elements for some bands can be placed in between the elements for other bands, because of the differences in optimum element spacing. A multiband Yagi often takes on a complex appearance. The most common multiband Yagis work the bands from 14MHz through 29.7MHz (20 through 10 meters). A few also work other combinations such as 40/30/20 meters or 30 through 10 meters.
Variations on the Yagi
The driven element of a Yagi can be a full wave loop, fed so that its polarization is parallel to that of the other elements. This antenna is called a quagi because it is a hybrid between a Yagi and a quad. Sometimes the reflectors is also formed into a loop to make a cuagi.
A pair of Yagis can be oriented at right angles on a single boom, and fed 90 degrees out of phase to get circular polarization. This is favored when working ham satellites.
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With a degree in psychology and one in linguistics, with some background in philosophy
I am recently the head of a newly established Department of Cognitive Science at
the Budapest University of Technology and Economics. Cognitive science in our vision
is an encompassing new endeavor that tries to welcome all disciplines and approaches
that deal with issues of cognition. We try to establish links between different
The central feature of human cognition is that it is realized in the nervous system,
and since it involves processing symbols, it can modeled with or compared to technical
systems manipulating symbols. The commitment of our Department is to combine biological
and technical approaches to the study of cognition with recent communication and
information theories and technologies. With my broad interest in cognition my personal
professional activities are rather varied, too.
My main research topics are history of cognitive approaches in different domains
(philosophy, psychology, biology, linguistics), psychology of language including
both language processing and language development. Lately, a specific interest of
mine has become the study of language development in impaired populations, especially
in Williams syndrome and developmental language retardation.
A new doctoral school in psychology and cognitive science has started this year
at our department. We expect international student there, especially of they are
interested in visual organization, language, and memory research.
We are trying to attract student with interdisciplinary interests both from our
University and from all over the country, with special seminars and with options
to work in our labs.
Scientific public service
As a member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, I work as deputy chair of the
Session of Philosophy and History at the Academy, and also work in the governing
boards of some grants and scholarships, like the Bolyai Grant and the Magyary Grant.
My aims in these functions are to promote cooperation between psychology and the
other disciplines, and to pave the root for the young generations.
Publication efforts
Beside my own publications, I oversee several publications. As the editor in chief
of the Hungarian Journal of Psychology, as the psychology series editor of Osiris
Publishing house, and as the editor of the Cognitive Seminar series at Gondolat
Publishing House, and the (English language) Cognitive Development and Impairments
series by Akadémiai Publishing House, I try to work for making Hungarian psychology
and cognitive science fit the international publishing standards, and also to bring
international trends to the attention of the Hungarian professional public.
Some personal remarks
Sok mindennel foglalkozom, de személyes identitásomban pszichológus vagyok. Ehhez
kapcsolódik néhány életviteli és világképi mozzanat. Mint pszichológus hiszek az
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magyarázó nézeteket. A mindennapokban pedig következménye a türelmes hozzáállás
az emberi változatokhoz, valamint az a meggyőződés, hogy az embert mozgató rugói
felől kell megérteni, nem kell valamiféle moralizáló fölénnyel lenéznünk az emberi
viselkedések sokféleségét. Csodálkoznunk kell, de tudnunk kell, hogy ha nagyon fura
dolgok történnek velünk vagy társainkkal, ezek sem teszik oket idegenné vagy lenézendővé.
While my activities are rather varied, in my personal identity I consider myself
to be a psychologist. As a psychologist I do believe in the multiple determination
of human experience and behavior. As a consequence of this, in my scientific outlook
I have reservations about unicentered views. In my everyday life I hope as a
consequence of this, I am tolerant regarding human varieties, and I am convinced
that humans have to be understood from the perspective of their moving forces. We
have to wonder about human variety, but always with an awareness that strange things
can happen to us or to our neighbors, which do not turn us or them into strange
Within psychology I am committed to the evolutionary model. There are three basic
aspects of this in my interpretation. Nature and culture are not juxtaposed in explaining
the mind, but are complementary to each other. Our peculiar language and culture
do not create a schism between us and the living world, they have to be understood
with a scientific attitude where a key moment is a naturalistic explanation of human
sociality. The mind and culture as well, have to be studies in a general functionalist
frame where each moment has to interpreted regarding its survival value, both in
the classical Darwinian sense of this ter, or in the sense of cultural cultivation.
The third aspect is that varieties, both in cultures and in people, should not be
avoided as nuisance, rather, they have to be made into central aspects of research.
I try to use these principles as guidelines in my everyday behavior. I consider
my colleagues and my students as constantly evolving systems, where guidance means
assisting in making the available selection of alternatives richer. I am optimist
in believing that both subjective wellbeing and cooperation can be increased if
we take an open look at our underlying moving forces.
There is a paradox aspect to this. While I am engaged in the study of cognition,
I am deeply convinced that the psychology of the feature shall be a psychology centered
on issues of motivation.


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Sunday, Nov. 28
Loud noise, midnight: 200 block of Cypress Street.
Criminal trespass, 9:22 a.m.: 96100 block of Foxglove Way.
Water problem, 12:39 p.m.: 800 block of Railroad Street.
Loud noise, 9:01 p.m.: 500 block of Fern Street.


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CLEVELAND – The Northern Illinois volleyball team is once again predicted to finish near the top of the conference in 2013, as the Huskies were picked second in the Mid-American Conference's West Division by the league's coaches. NIU received four first place votes in the poll and was one of four schools that received votes to win the MAC Tournament championship. In the MAC West, the Huskies trailed only Western Michigan, who received five first place votes. Meanwhile, Central Michigan got three first place votes and finished third, followed in order by Ball State, Eastern Michigan and Toledo. For the MAC East, defending tournament champion Bowling Green topped the list with seven first place votes. Meanwhile, Ohio was pegged second after receiving the other five votes. Following the Falcons and Bobcats were Miami (Ohio), Buffalo, Akron and Kent State. The Huskies also picked up two votes to win the MAC Tournament in November, tying them with Western Michigan. Bowling Green and Ohio were selected as co-favorites to win the tournament after claiming four votes apiece. Northern Illinois enters the 2013 season with several key members of last season's 21-15 squad, including 2012 All-MAC honoree Sarah Angelos. The Huskies also return their points leader from a season ago in junior MacKenzie Roddy, along with MAC All-Freshman Team pick Alexis Gonzalez and veteran libero Justine Schepler. NIU opens their season Aug. 30-31 with the NIU Invitational, as they host #23 Ohio State, Liberty and Green Bay. For a full tournament schedule, click here. MAC East1. Bowling Green (7 first place votes)2. Ohio (5)3. Miami4. Buffalo5. Akron6. Kent State MAC West1. Western Michigan (5 first place votes)2. Northern Illinois (4)3. Central Michigan (3)4. Ball State5. Eastern Michigan6. Toledo Predicted MAC Tournament Champions:Bowling Green/Ohio (4 Votes Each)Northern Illinois/Western Michigan (2 Votes Each)


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(NC)—Food allergies are a serious issue affecting approximately six per cent of all children, according to Health Canada. To reduce the likelihood of allergic reactions in the classroom, most schools have policies that restrict certain at-risk foods. When severely allergic children are exposed to even the tiniest amount of at risk foods they can experience life-threatening anaphylactic reactions.
It is the responsibility of all parents to be aware of the risks and take necessary precautions. Follow these steps to ensure allergic children are safe at school and at play:
• Become familiar with your child's school policy on food allergens and appropriate school-safe foods.
• Identify the kids in your child's peer group or class who suffer from food allergies and learn how to respond in the event of a reaction.
• Read the ingredients list on food products. While peanut butter is a clear no-no, surprise allergens can also be found from seeds on bread or other manufactured goods.
• If your child has peanut butter for breakfast, be sure that hands are washed thoroughly and teeth are brushed well before school.
• Look for the peanut-free label on snacks and lunch items – most schools won't allow packaged snacks that don't have this marking on them.
Some food manufacturers have made it easy for parents to identify products that are classroom safe by including a peanut-free logo on the front of the box. Grocery retailers are also making a concerted effort to offer a larger assortment of peanut free offerings to Canadians. President's Choice and no name brands, for example, have more than 80 peanut-free products. In addition, peanut-free offerings are also available in the fresh baked section wherever PC products are sold. Many of these packaged items come in school-safe snack-size – so this Halloween, consider giving away options everyone can enjoy, instead of some of the Halloween treats containing nuts.
If you have questions about food allergies and anaphylaxis, visit Anaphlaxis Canada's website at www.anaphlaxsis.ca, or a trained pharmacist, such as those in a Loblaw drugstore pharmacy.


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What do you get if you take an accomplished amateur golfer who is an internationally known expert on golf course architecture – not to mention a New York Times-bestselling author and professor of history at Auburn University – and turn him loose on the story of one of the most widely renowned golf course architects of the 20th Century? You get James Hansen, and his outstanding new book, A Difficult Par: Robert Trent Jones Sr. and the Making of Modern Golf.
The name Robert Trent Jones is probably familiar to all but the most casual of golf fans. The "other Bob Jones" of American golf is known as the architect of hundreds of golf course in the United States and abroad, and as the founder of a golf-design dynasty, embodied in his two sons, Robert Trent Jones Jr and Rees Jones. What even quite ardent golf history and course architecture enthusiasts might not be aware of are the seminal achievements in the field of golf course design that can be credited to this son of working-class English immigrants.
Jones (who used the given name "Trent" starting in the 1930s, to avoid confusion with Robert Tyre Jones Jr, the golfer, who was a contemporary) was the first to widely employ the concept of the strategic golf hole – an approach that allowed a course to be enjoyed by high-handicappers and better golfers alike; his belief that every golf hole should be "…a difficult par but an easy bogey" is the source of the title of the book.
Jones embraced, and studied, the new technology that affected the game of golf, on both sides – in equipment design on the player's side, and in turfgrass science, irrigation technology, and construction techniques from the course builder's side. In keeping with his interest in advances in golf equipment, he was the first course architect to gather information on the driving distances achieved by professional golfers as advances were made in the design of the ball and clubs – the better to design new courses, and redesign existing courses, to challenge the best in the game.
A fine amateur player in his own right as a young man, Robert Trent Jones latched onto the idea of becoming a golf course architect in his late teens, and with the help of a wealthy patron, talked his way into a self-designed course of study at prestigious Cornell University to prepare himself for that career. Poorly educated prior to attending Cornell (he didn't finish high school), he entered as a non-degree "special student". To obtain the education (but not a diploma) to prepare him for his chosen career he studied subjects such as landscape architecture, hydraulics, surveying, economics, chemistry, and business law.
With incredible drive and perseverance, Jones started his career in 1930, just at the onset of the Great Depression. Coupling hard work with tremendous ambition, he made a success of it, coming out the other side of the world financial crisis with an established reputation as a golf course designer. That reputation, and the work it attracted, carried him through the war years, and set him up for the postwar boom during which he became one of the foremost practitioners of his craft in the world.
Though an admirable person in many respects, Jones had his shortcomings, too. Painfully aware of his lower-class roots, he had an almost sycophantic attraction to the wealthy and powerful people of the upper reaches of society, and appeared to have curried favor with them to a greater extent than was strictly required from the standpoint of doing business. He was also prone to quite remarkable levels of self-aggrandizement, and often took credit for the work of his associate designers (and later his sons) himself.
His business practices were sometimes suspect, and in the waning years of his professional life greed for the next "big deal" and carelessness with money had him on the brink of financial ruin, despite decades of success in his field. His favoritism toward his eldest son, Robert Trent Jones Jr., which was matched by a similar preference toward the younger son, Rees, on the part of the boys' mother, Ione, led to much professional and personal discord when the younger Joneses embarked on their own careers in their father's field.
All in all, the story of the man whose name is most associated with modern golf course design is a fascinating one for those with more than a passing interest in the subject, and author James R. Hansen brings a considerable amount of experience and enthusiasm to the task of chronicling the RTJ story.
A professor of history at Auburn University in Alabama, Hansen is an acknowledged expert on the history of golf course architecture, with an international reputation. He has played and studied more than six hundred golf courses around the world, and has been ranking golf courses for Golfweek for seventeen years.
While Hansen's previous books have all been concerned with aviation and the space effort – from biographies of astronauts John W. Young and Neil Armstrong to a book on the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster, he has brought the discipline and exactitude of his work on that more technical subject matter to a subject which is obviously quite close to his heart. A Difficult Par displays painstaking research into the professional and personal life of its subject, which is recounted in great detail.
A Difficult Par takes a more scholarly approach than books in the field of golf history typically do; indeed, there is quite often more information – such as the extensive references to, and quotes from, Jones's love letters to his future wife in the chapters dealing with the early period of his career – than many readers might find strictly necessary. The extensive footnotes detailing finer points of the text are sometimes intrusive, and one gets the feeling that Mr Hansen might have produced a work of at least two volumes had he been given the opportunity.
In the final analysis, though, A Difficult Par is a tremendous addition to the study of the history of golf course architecture. It is a detailed and fascinating look into the life of a man who, it can be argued, did more to shape the face of modern golf, both directly and by his influence, than any other person in the game.


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It's easy to forget that Netflix has DVDs at all. I've never had DVDs, but I watch the heck out of Netflix streaming in my house. If you are one of the hoards of user still getting physical DVDs from Netflix, you may not have noticed that the company stopped working on Saturdays.
Netflix no longer ships DVDs on Saturdays and is now working a five-day week. The company has been transitioning away from the old six day per week schedule for the last year and ended Saturday processing in early June.
Netflix says that part of the reason it stopped processing on Saturdays is that more people are streaming reducing the pressure to get discs out quickly. If you are a Netflix subscriber, have you noticed any shipment differences since June?


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I bought the dress at a bridal show, but did not get married. I've gained weight and the dress no longer fits!
That is a picture off the internet of the dress (not of me). It has pastel embroidery on the top, hem, and train.
- Alterations: No changes to the dress; it has been in storage since I purchased it.
- Preservation Method: The dress has been stored in a box in acid free tissue. It was never worn and still has the tag on it.
- Terms of Sale: All Sales Final
- Original Owner: Yes
- Has Original Receipt: Yes
- Location: Olympia, WA
- Will Ship to: Anywhere at Buyer Expense
- Payment Methods Accepted: Other
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Phone: 617-421-5544
An incredibly well-curated spot for one-stop shopping. For your great aunt, a superb collection of Bernardaud; for your best friend, some of the most unique keychains around; for your kids, the cutest plates, onesies, and stuffies imaginable. And for you? How about the Mandarina Duck messenger bags that make carrying anything, anywhere, a cinch?
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Tastes may vary from century to century, but Bliss spans almost all of them, seamlessly. Classics like Bernardaud fine china and Graves Limited Edition kettles flank modern marvels such as bamboo rugs and Ferruccio Laviani table lamps.
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Tommie D. Stowers Jr.
Position: TE
Height: 6-3 Weight: 240 lbs.
Born: November 18, 1966 in Kansas City, MO
High School: Hickman Mills
College: Missouri (school history) (Stowers college stats)
Drafted by the San Diego Chargers in the 11th round (283rd overall) of the 1990 NFL Draft.
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HTC Hero with Android to be exclusively sold by Orange
Remember the Android HTC Hero that appeared at the beginning of the month in some leaked pictures?
We already knew that it was coming to Orange, and now it looks like it will come to Orange only, as the carrier has reportedly won exclusivity over the smartphone – of course, we're talking about Europe here, because the handset could also be released in the US by T-Mobile, possibly under the name of T-Mobile G3.
The Hero will not be the only Android device to hit Orange this year. The giant mobile operator should also launch Android smartphones from Sony Ericsson, Samsung, LG and Motorola.
The rumored features of HTC Hero include HSDPA connectivity, a 3MP camera, Bluetooth and a 3.5mm headset jack.
It's not clear yet when exactly Orange will launch the Hero, but we'll be here to announce when this happens.
The handset will be the first Android phone for Orange UK, but not the first for Orange Europe, as the carrier has already launched the HTC Dream in France.
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Announcing #yycdata Camp
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Civic Camp in partnership with Pixels and Pints and The City of Calgary will be hosting the first #yycdata Camp at the University of Calgary. The goal of #yycdata Camp is to discuss the opportunities where the use of public data can improve Calgary.
(On March 22, 2010 Calgary City Council approved a pilot open public data catalogue. Click here for more details on how open data came to The City of Calgary.)
#yycdata Camp is for anyone interested in open data; be you a citizen who's interested in the democratic transparency and accountability implications or just the cool apps that can be built to make your life better. Developers, coders and entrepenuers of all stripes are welcome and encouraged to attend too and bring their laptops. (You never know when a code sprint/hackathon may break out.)
What: A workshop for people interested in open data
When: Saturday March 26th, 9:30am – 1:00pm
Where: MacEwan Hall Ballroom (upstairs) @ the University of Calgary (Directions and Parking)
How Much: Free.
Hashtag: #yycdata
Please RSVP at yycdata.eventbrite.com to attend.
What is the format?
Presentations will be kept to a minimum. There will be plenty of shot talks followed by time to discuss and work on things using the open spaces unconference format. If you have a topic you want others to join you in discussing, please bring it with you!
9:00am – Doors Open
9:30am – 10:00am – Opening Remarks & Introduction to Open Data by Calgary Alderman Brian Pincott
10:00am – 11:00am – Discussion Session 1
11:00am – 11:45am City of Calgary eServices – eHouse Presentation
11:45am – 12:45pm – Discussion Session 2
12:45pm – 1:00pm Wrap Up & Closing Remarks
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Cross posted from the CivicCamp Blog.
Calgary, meet your new council
Filed under: Calgary, Politics
The unofficial results are in and we have seen a mix of change and returning of the old guard happening. It's a whole new ball game now; an entirly new dynamic. Here's the list of who the fifteeen around the table will be:
Mayor – Naheed Nenshi
Ward 1 – Dale Hodges
Ward 2 – Gord Lowe
Ward 3 – Jim Stevenson
Ward 4 – Gael Macleod
Ward 5 – Ray Jones
Ward 6 – Richard Pootmans
Ward 7 – Druh Farrell
Ward 8 – John Mar
Ward 9 – Gian-Carlo Carra
Ward 10 – Andre Chabot
Ward 11 – Brian Pincott
Ward 12 – Shane Keating
Ward 13 – Diane Colley-Urquhart
Ward 14 – Peter Demong
The biggest question facing how this new council will work together is what kind of a chair will Naheed Nenshi be. Will he be a bullying mayor (not likely) or more laissez faire in his control of meetings? Or might he be more like Bronconnier and give alderman some leeway, but keep them on a short leash if they stray too far outside what is prescribed in the procedural bylaw. An alderman like Druh Farrell will live and die by the answer to this question. Nenshi could help focus her and turn her into one of the most productive aldermen on council. Diane Colley-Urquhart could be one to struggle if she doesn't bring herself prepared to meetings with a plan on how to present her requests.
Of course the new faces on council will provide an interesting dynamic as well. How will Gian-Carlo Carra implement his vision? He'll have to do the same as Colley-Urquhart and be prepared to have a plan too, otherwise he could find himself as the next Druh Farrell of council: someone with great ideas but struggling to get people to understand or enact them. It will all come down to clear communication with their colleagues for all three of these alderman. The same could be said of Shane Keating and Richard Pootmans as well. Both are strong aldermen, but could find themselves floundering if they don't get into Nenshi's good books or find a way to focus their asks into a clear, straightforward way. They could end up being at odds with the mayor and the majority of council and thereby getting themselves – and their voters – thoroughly frustrated if they don't.
Gael Macleod is a bit of an unknown. I think she will probably fit well into this group and will be an effective alderman as Hawkesworth was before her. Look for her to do a lot of listening and learning in the early days before she proves to be one of this group's steadiest members – provided she finds her niche.
Peter Demong is another big question mark. With McIver and Connelly gone he provides councils most conservative voice. Whether he ends up as the strong fiscal hawk on council or a "right wing nut job"- as he has been painted by some – will entirely be up to him. I expect he will buddy up to Jim Stevenson and Dale Hodges to look for some wingman support. If he gets this, and stays consistent in his messaging, he could prove to be a very effective voice on council just as McIver was for 9 years. I hope it goes this way as the alternative is becoming a laughing stock, dragging Calgary down with him. And no one wins in that scenario.
Provided Nenshi (as mayor) and Brian Pincott (as the "elder statesman") find a mutual respect for one another and each others talents, Pincott could prove to be council's best member. If Nenshi figures out how to keep his campaign followers engaged, Pincott could be one of the biggest beneficiaries by following the new mayor's example and engaging his constituents in a way he hasn't up until now. If Pincott was more transparent and had a bit more of a following like Nenshi, he could do some amazing things that would surprise even the most steadfast ideologue. This will take a lot of work on Pincott's part and a willingness from Nenshi to help him. Pride will need to be swallowed.
The same as Pincott holds true for John Mar. If Nenshi and Mar find common ground Mar could be a leader on council. If they don't, he could very well become Nenshi's biggest pain. Unfortunately this would rob Calgarians of much Mar has to offer. The exact same could be said of Chabot. Mar and Chabot have often been "swing votes". It will be fascinating to watch what way they swing now.
The one thing that I think is probably a given is that – provided they agree on the budget – Gord Lowe could become a de facto "second in command". I'm confident Nenshi will look to him for guidance and, for lack of a better term, fatherly advice. (Nenshi won't need political advice. Not that he'd listen to it anyway.)
We won't have to wait long to see whatever new dynamic emerges because being locked in a room together for organizational meetings in their first week together followed by the lengthy budget negotiating process will force them to get to know one another before we every really get a chance to know them ourselves.
PS – Did you see the 2007 Helene Larocque redux? Incumbent Linda Fox-Mellway took a beating and ended up placing forth in ward 14. Just like ward 3 in 2007, it looks like ward 14 REALLY wanted a change this time around.
Cross posted to CalgaryPolitics.com
Councillor ages: does it mean anything?
The world has changed a LOT in the last few years. Things are speeding up so fast many of us have difficulty keeping up. Stereotypically the ones complaining about this "speeding up of life" are members of older generations. This isn't ageist – its just that those under the age of 35 have grown up with a high level of change and haven't been around long enough to remember any form of "good old days" when the pace of life was different.
As my grandma once told me: each generation that has passed has experienced more change in their lifetime than the one immediately preceding them. Or you could just ask anyone who has had to ask a toddler to program their latest gadget; they'll tell you. (My best friend's daughter who is just two is already better than I am with Skype for example.)
While it has been my experience frame of mind, rather than age, is usually a much better indicator of willingness to work with – rather than against – the new challenges the world may give you, there is sadly no denying it can be a factor. So with that in mind, here is the list of the ages of Calgary City Council incumbents as of voting day 2010. Decide for yourself if their is an age pattern to the ones you agree with, and compare your philosophies with the ones about the same age as you.
Although, there are none under 40 so I can't really compare myself on that basis. And I'm not sure how many of my blog readers will be able to either. (Perhaps that's a naive assumption on my part however.) Either way, I still find it interesting to know the demographics of those who represent me and I thought you might too. So here they are:
Dave Bronconnier – 48
Dale Hodges – 69
Gord Lowe – 71
Jim Stevenson – 65
Bob Hawkesworth – 59
Ray Jones – 57
Joe Connelly – (Couldn't find his age.)
Druh Farrell – 51
John Mar – 41
Joe Ceci – 53
Andre Chabot – 51
Brian Pincott – 49
Ric McIver – 51
Diane Colley-Urquhart – 61
Linda Fox-Mellway – (Couldn't find her age.)
These ages are based off of numbers I pulled from the introductory articles of candidates in one of our two big newspapers during the 2007 election, so I can't vouch that they are 100% accurate. Please forgive me if there is a mistake.
And yes, there is something to be said for having life experience too.
How open data came to be in Calgary
Filed under: Calgary, Politics
At this today's Regular Meeting of Council, Calgary City Council passed their Open Data Motion.
Obviously I'm beyond excited about the City of Calgary transitioning into a period of openness and accountability. Passing an open data motion should be seen as a gigantic step forward in rethinking how a government interacts with citizens and who really runs 'the show'. The people.
I thought I'd take advantage of this moment to shine the light on how this motion came to be.
On May 27 I saw something come across the CBC Spark Twitter feed that caught my eye. Thanks to the wonders of the internet, in writing this post I am able to go back and see exactly what it said: "Just posted full interview with @andreareimer about open data, open source, and cities that think like the web: http://bit.ly/129Cox ". It was that bit about cities thinking like the web that interested me. What did it mean? So I clicked the link.
After listening to Nora Young's interview with Vancouver city councilor Andrea Reimer I thought to myself, "Why can't Calgary have something like that? What's stopping us?" The next day on May 28 I had a coffee meeting with Calgary Alderman Joe Ceci and the former president of my community association. Following the meeting Joe offered me a ride to work downtown. We got to chatting and I mentioned the project Vancouver is undertaking. He was interested but it was nothing more than a conversation during a car ride. On June 6 I was having a coffee with Ald. Brian Pincott on Olympic Plaza to talk about ward boundaries and how things had gone so wrong. Hoping to introduce something of a little more hopeful tone to the conversation I mentioned the Spark interview and the Vancouver Open Government project. He too was interested.
Somewhere in there I came up with the ludicrous idea that I should get these two aldermen to talk with their Vancouver counterpart. And it just so happened that the Federation of Canadian Municipalities was meeting in Whistler the next week. Knowing both Ald. Ceci and Ald. Pincott were attending I contacted Cllr. Reimer via Twitter. She too was attending. So I sent the three an email saying they should get together while in Whistler. (I also attempted to include Cllr. Don Iverson of Edmonton, but as he just had a baby he told me he would not be attending. We talked more about the project however when I drove up to Edmonton to attend TransitCamp on May 30. Edmonton, as it turned out, followed Vancouver and Calgary's lead and actually got their open data motion passed months ago.)
After a couple friendly emails over the next couple weeks I found out they did not get a chance to meet up with Cllr. Reimer in Whistler but Ald. Ceci met with another Vancouver councilor. Toward the end of June Ald. Ceci and Pincott had met with the city's IT department and the text of a motion was being drafted.
On November 17 I heard from Heather Reed-Fenske, the City's Manager, eGovernment Strategy with some of the direction they were heading with the research for the report. She wanted to chat to update me and gain any insight I might have around the issue. On December 18 we met for coffee; where she joked she had been in her job for all of one week when City Council passed the notice of motion I recommended, she'd been working on almost nothing since, and thus hated me. We talked about several different things that other jurisdictions have done and I'm happy to see much of our conversation was incorporated into the final report.
The Report was being prepared for December 2009, but Heather and her team asked for an extension to the February 10 meeting of the Standing Policy Committee on Finance and Corporate Services where it was to be debated, edited and (hopefully) recommended to move to Council for a full vote. They needed the extra time to do more research. As I told Heather at the time: "It's okay. It's not a race, it's a marathon. Just finishing is what's important." As February approached Ald. Pincott and Ceci realized they would both be in Ottawa for a conference that week and so asked for another delay until March 10 because, as the movers of the original motion, all agreed they should be in attendance.
The March 10 meeting was painful for me to watch. I had to be at work that morning and could only get away from my desk for an hour from 10am to 11am. This meant I missed the public input window and arrived in time for the last two thirds of the debate and the vote – which passed with only Ald. Chabot, Connelly, and Hodges against. It was painful because I just wanted to jump up and answer all the aldermen's questions. Instead I had to rely on the answers of Heather and her boss – both relative newcomers to the issues surrounding open data. I knew I couldn't answer questions about the City's implementation of open data nearly as well as they could, but there were many other questions about what other jurisdictions have done and what the purpose of open data was that I could have answered that would have helped. (For example, one major issue brought up by more than one alderman was around the risk of hackers. What they did not understand is that open data eliminates the need for the majority of hacking because open data is giving the information away. Not to mention open data 1.0 does not open a portal to actual databases. All the information pulled for a data catalogue is exported information with no additional danger of a hacker access to the database.) I wished I would have been able to give them a streamlined version of the open data presentation I did at DemoCamp on January 26.
After all that the motion came to council today and following another debate, which I understand was once again fraught with misunderstanding about what open data is and what it does, it passed with a vote of 10 to 4 with Ald Hodges, Connelly, Fox-Mellway & Chabot voting against it. (Mar was absent.)
I know this might sound a little corny, but I'm elated at this moment. After almost one full year of work, today a motion brought forward by a single citizen passed City Council. A motion that could be the beginning of forever changing the way the City of Calgary thinks about the way it interacts with citizens and how democracy can work in Cowtown.
THAT is a big deal.
And I'm happy to have been able to play my small part in the process.
I can't wait to play a part in the next steps of the process too.
A collection of my previous posts on open data coming to Calgary:
Open Data presentation at DemoCamp
Calgary open data report delayed
Open Government starts to expose what's in the shadows
Brian Pincott on Open Data at Calgary City Hall
Help ensure Calgary's "Open City" initiative is framed in the right light
Bronconnier will not run again; so who will?
Filed under: Calgary, Politics
So Dave Bronconnier has just announced he will be stepping down from the mayor's chair and handing over his oversized mayoral necklace (does that thing have an actual name?) come October 2010. He will not be running for re-election.
While it is possible we could spend some time reflecting on our 35th mayor's tenure – after all he's been mayor of Calgary since 2001, having been elected three times, and before that was alderman of ward 6 for nine years as well – the real fun lays in what this means for the candidates that have been mulling about the starting line of the mayoral race for the past year or so.
Bronco's announcement today almost guarentees Joe Connolly and Ric McIver will run for mayor, but who else? Will Alnoor Kassam now return for another kick at the can? Could we see Diane Colley-Urqhart or Druh Farrell step up in the coming months?
Personally, my guess is you'll see one one Brian Pincott, who is currently ward 11 alderman, or frequent civic commenter Naheed Nenshi step up and take a serious run.
Either way, things just got interesting. Tie on your sneakers, because the race is about to begin.
On your marks, get set, GO!


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G Beeston South Circus Hollow property
This hunting property is located north and east of Fillmore, Utah. The property is located northeast of the Black Cedar Hill Wildlife Management Area on Hill Drive.
Standard rules:
- All hunters must register
- Park in the designated area
- Do not drive off the roads
- Do not drive past the parking area
- Please pick up all trash (even if it's not yours)
- Please respect this private property
- No shooting within 600 feet of buildings, houses or machinery
Special rules: None
When opened: Year round during the years 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016 and 2017; ending March 11, 2017
Hunters may harvest: Mule deer, Rocky Mountain elk and wild turkey
Area to hunt: 205 acres
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by Chris Banescu –
Orthodox Christians are thankful and grateful for the vocal and passionate public stance of Catholic Bishops and Catholic leaders who categorically oppose Obama's HHS healthcare mandate. Your courage in defending our constitutionally protected religious liberty is making us stronger. Your public and uncompromising witness to Christian principles and your passionate advocacy in protecting the life of the unborn is giving us hope.
We embrace and support you as brothers in Christ and co-workers for righteousness. As Orthodox Metropolitan Jonah stood side-by-side with Catholic Cardinal Timothy Dolan in praying together at this year's March for Life , we stand in solidarity with you in demanding the repeal of the HHS mandate and in defense of the religious liberty of all Americans.
It's impressive and inspiring to witness the speed and conviction with which Catholic Bishops and other Catholic organizations responded to the new HHS rule and denounced it as unconstitutional and immoral from the start. On the same day the Obama administration made the announcement, January 20, 2012, the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) issued a press release declaring it unconscionable and a blatant violation of religious liberty. [Read more…]


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Disease Proof
Wait, Americans aren't Healthy?
Okay, you might have to sit down before you read this next report. Because apparently, most Americans don't eat right, or, exercise enough. WOW THAT'S SHOCKING NEWS! So what do the experts think? We need to eat more fruits and vegetables and get more exercise. HOW INSIGHTFUL! WE'RE SAVED! Will Dunham of Reuters is on it:
"These results underscore the need to promote diets high in fruits and vegetables and regular physical activity among all populations in the United States and among racial and ethnic minority communities in particular," U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention researchers said in a report.
The CDC tracked the percentage of Americans who eat at least five servings of fruits and vegetables daily and engage in moderately intense exercise for at least 30 minutes five days per week or vigorous exercise for at least 20 minutes three days per week as recommended by the government.
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Whew, getting to the bottom of all the swag bags scored at the various pre-Oscars and MTV Movie Awards gifting lounges last February, wasn't an easy task. But it's fun. My latest discovery is the Steelseries H Wireless Gaming Headset. I love anything wireless especially these earphones that produce high quality Dolby sound. They are a perfect Travel Diva accessory for planes, airports and in-room hotel uses.
I'm not too tech savvy and all I know is these are great for a travel writer to use on planes, trains etc. The box says it is lag-free, uncompressed audio that produces an unlimited immersive experience for surround sound on your game boy. There are so many different USB plugs that come with the set but I seem to have lost the instructions so I'll need to contact the company .
The Dolby sound quality on these earphones are the bomb, never heard anything like it before, like you're right in the room with the performers or fellow players.
Audio geeks will appreciate the H Wireless benefits listed on the package:
- Lag-free, uncompressed audio allows frequency hopping and uninterrupted audio stream.
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Women's Basketball Opens Up A-10 Play With A 59-43 Loss At Temple
Jan. 4, 2005
PHILADELPHIA, Pa. -- Freshman Kate Mills (Elkton, Md.) scored a career-high 14 points on 6-of-9 shooting, but Massachusetts (7-5, 0-1 A-10) fell to Temple (9-3, 1-0), 59-43, Tuesday night at the Liacouras Center in Atlantic 10 Women's Basketball action. The Minutewomen shot just 37 percent from the field and committed 24 turnovers leading to 25 Temple points. 17 of those UMass turnovers came in the first half.
Temple broke the game wide open mid-way through the first half by going on a 26-10 run which span 9:01. The Owls led 39-21 at halftime. Temple then scored the first four points of the second half to take a 43-21 lead with 18:09 left. UMass then went on a 9-2 run over the next 1:18 to cut the deficit to 15. Redshirt junior Patrycja Gulak (Olsztyn, Poland) began the run with a lay-up. A minute later, redshirt junior Katie Nelson (Ellicott City, Md.) hit a three-pointer to make it a 45-30 game.
UMass was unable to get any closer however and the Owls hung on for the win. UMass went 6:06 of the second half without scoring and 8:30 without a field goal.
The Minutewomen shot 37 percent (18-49) from the field, while Temple was 49 percent (21-43). The Owls shot 58 percent (7-12) from three-point range, while UMass was just 2-for-9 (22 percent). UMass out-rebounded the Owls, 31-26, but committed 24 turnovers. That led to 25 Temple points.
Mills also had four rebounds and three steals to go along with her career-high 14 points. Nelson also added 10 points and five assists. UMass had 13 steals on the night.
Kamesha Hairston, Cynthia Jordan and Jennifer Owens each had 12 points to lead Temple. Candice Dupree also added 10 points and seven boards.
UMass senior Brooke Campbell (Baltimore, Md.) pulled down a team-high seven boards. Five of those came on the offensive glass.
The Minutewomen will next host La Salle Friday night at the Mullins Center. Tip-off is slated for 7:00 PM. It is dollar night as tickets, programs, hot dogs, popcorn and sodas will only cost one dollar. For tickets, please contact the UMass Athletic Ticket Office at 1-866-UMASS-TIX.
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Rumor has it that there will be a hit tape this week but in honor of the Longhorn Network no one will be able to see it.
"There are five real good recruits in the state. We got three of them. One couldnt get into school, and the other went to (the University of) Iowa...which is about the same thing." - Coach Johnny Orr
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Rumor has it that there will be a hit tape this week but in honor of the Longhorn Network no one will be able to see it.
good one
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Well then, I might as well buy my CTV so I can watch the basketball game.
"Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will ."
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Not quite sure what to make of that, but I am disturbed by it if that is the desired result.
I heard that CPR is having the engineering department work on true 3-d tv so that he can hit you coming off the bus...even in your living room!!!
The rumor isn't true - if you live in Iowa you'll be allowed to see the hit tape and tell the rest of us about it.
Thar she blows!
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shortest hit tape ever?
hit tape is up and it is very short.
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That type of music does nothing for me.... The 'All In' chant at the end was the only time I got chills.
If they're not going to use pop music why don't they use these type of rock songs?:
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The 2014 and 2015 CCM/USA Hockey All-American Prospects Games will be held at the First Niagara Center in Buffalo, N.Y., USA Hockey announced Tuesday. The 2014 edition will be played on Thursday, Sept. 25, while the date for the 2015 game will be announced next year. The 2012 event was also staged in Buffalo and the 2013 game was played in Pittsburgh.
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Ian Powell Chairman and Senior Partner, joined the UK firm's Executive Board in 2006 and he was elected Chairman and Senior Partner in 2008. He joined the UK firm as a graduate trainee in 1977 and is a qualified chartered accountant (ICAEW). After becoming a partner in 1991, he worked in Manchester building a team which established a reputation for complex turnarounds. After the merger in 1998 he developed the Continental European BRS Advisory practice and in 2000 was responsible for the UK BRS business.
Gaenor Bagley, Head of People, Community and Sustainability, graduated from Cambridge University with a Mathematics and Management degree. She trained in audit and spent three years in an investment bank corporate finance team. In 1992 she joined the tax practice where she has continued to work in M&A specialising in Private Equity as a partner.
James Chalmers, Head of Assurance, graduated from Oxford University with an Engineering degree and he joined the firm in 1985. He became a partner in 1997. Before joining the Executive Board in 2008 as Head of Strategy and Talent, he was a member of the Assurance leadership team. During his time in Assurance he has worked with multinational clients and has been on long-term secondments to clients in the banking and healthcare sectors.
John Dwyer, Head of Deals. John graduated from University College Dublin with a Commerce Degree. He has worked in most of the businesses under the Deals umbrella including Business Recovery and Corporate Finance. John ran the UK TS business between 2007 and 2011. He is Global Deals Leader.
Kevin Ellis, Managing Partner, graduated in Industrial Economics from Nottingham University, joined the firm in 1984 and he became a partner in 1996. Before he joined the Executive Board in 2008 he headed up our Business Recovery Services.
Stephanie Hyde, Head of Regions, graduated from Brunel University with a Mathematics and Management degree. She joined the firm in 1995 and became a partner in 2006. Before joining the Executive Board in 2011 she led our Assurance practice in Reading. She has also led our mid-cap segment in the South East. Stephanie has worked in a number of our offices in the UK on clients ranging from private businesses through to FTSE100 companies.
Margaret Cole, General Counsel, joined the FSA in July 2005 as Director of Enforcement. She is a graduate in Law from New Hall, Cambridge and is a solicitor with over 20 years' experience in private practice, specialising in commercial litigation with an emphasis on financial services. She is also qualified as a Mediator with CEDR and the ADR Group. From 1990 to 1995 Margaret was a Partner with Stephenson Harwood, where she was responsible for the recovery actions in relation to the Maxwell Pension Funds on behalf of the Pension Funds Trustee. In 1995 she joined the London Office of international law firm White & Case to found and head its Dispute Resolution Department. In 2009 Margaret took over responsibility for the FSA's Financial Crime Division which merged with the Enforcement Division. In 2010 she joined the FSA's Board as Managing Director, Enforcement and Financial Crime. In April 2011 she assumed Interim responsibility for the new Conduct Business Unit which formed the core of the new Financial Conduct Authority. Until 2011 she also served as a Non Executive Director of the National Skills Academy Financial Services. Margaret joined PwC as a partner in September 2012 to take over the role of General Counsel on the Executive Board.
Kevin Nicholson, Head of Tax, graduated from Newcastle Polytechnic with a degree in English and History. He joined the firm in 1991 and became a partner in 2000. He has spent time in the North East, New York and Hong Kong. He joined the Executive Board in 2008 as Head of Regions. And before that he headed our Entrepreneurs and Private Clients division.
Richard Oldfield, Head of Strategy, graduated from University of York with an Economics degree. He joined the firm in 1992 and became a partner in 2003. Before joining the Executive Board in 2011 he led our Banking & Capital Markets business within Assurance. He has worked in London, Zurich, Paris, New York and most recently Sydney on both audit and non-audit clients.
Warwick Hunt, Chief Financial Officer and Head of Operations, Warwick holds a Bachelor of Accountancy (with honours) degree from the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg in addition to FCA (ICANZ), ACA (ICAEW) and CA (SA) designations. He joined the PwC Network in April 1995. Before joining the Executive Board in 2013 he completed a four year term as PwC Middle East Senior Partner in September 2013 and prior to that was a partner in PwC New Zealand, where he led the Firm as Territory Senior Partner and Chief Executive Officer from 2003 to 2009 . He has worked in roles within a number of PwC member Firms and has lead the provision of PwC services to a range of leading clients
Ashley Unwin, Head of Consulting, joined the firm in May 2009 from Terra Firma Capital Partners Limited, where he was a Managing Director. Ashley had been acting Chief Operating Officer for EMI Music in North America and CEO for EMI Music in the UK and Ireland. He spent the early part of his career at Arthur Andersen becoming part of the Consulting Executive. Ashley became a member firm partner in 1999 and one of the youngest ever worldwide partners in 2001.
Dan Schwarzmann, Head of Clients and Markets, Dan has a Masters degree in Business Administration from City University and became a Partner in 1998. Before joining the Executive Board in 2014 he was responsible for the Business Recovery Services team in the UK from 2008.
The Supervisory Board is independent of the Executive Board. Twelve of its members are elected by the firm's partners for a four year terms of office, with six seats being filled every two years. In addition, the Chairman of the Executive Board and the UK members of the Board of PwC International Limited are ex officio members of the Supervisory Board.
The Supervisory Board generally meets monthly but may occasionally hold additional meetings as necessary. Six of the current elected Supervisory Board members took office on 1 January 2013and six on 1 January 2015.
The Supervisory Board provides the Chairman with guidance on matters of actual or potential concern to the partners. It is also responsible for approving the Annual Report, for recommending the admission of new partners, for overseeing the election process for the Alliance Senior Partner (who is also UK Chairman) and for checking that our policies on partners' remuneration are being properly applied. It also has the power through the Alliance Supervisory Board to initiate a ballot for the removal of the Alliance Senior Partner from office.
The Supervisory Board currently has three committees.
The Partner Affairs Committee: The overriding aim of this committee is to ensure that partners are fairly treated as partners and to satisfy itself that the firm has appropriate processes and procedures to ensure the successful development of partners over their careers. It makes recommendations to the Supervisory Board, which sets the Chairman's profit share and approves the Chairman's recommendations for the profit shares of the other Executive Board members.
The Audit and Risk Committee: This committee has the responsibility for reviewing the policies and processes for identifying, assessing and managing risks within the firm. It oversees the management of those risks, including financial control, compliance and independence. It also reviews the firm's financial statements and considers the scope, results and effectiveness of internal and external audit, including reviewing the external auditors' independence and any non-audit services and fees. The Chief Financial Officer and General Counsel, together with the internal and external auditors, attend the committee's meetings by invitation.
The Strategy and Governance Committee: This committee proposes to the Supervisory Board a forward agenda committing time effectively to strategic issues facing the LLP as well as to routine operational matters. It also deals with governance matters and transactions.
For the terms of reference of the Supervisory Board and of the Audit and Risk Committee, please go to Terms of Reference.
The members of the Supervisory Board from 1 January 2015 are:
Elected members:
Christine Adshead*
Dave Allen*
Pauline Campbell
Duncan Cox*
Mark Hudson*
Bill MacLeod
Sue Rissbrook*
Caroline Roxburgh*
Anne Simpson
Jim Stidham
Claire Stokes
Heather Swanston
Those marked with an asterisk will serve until 31 December 2016 and the others until 31 December 2018.
The Chairman of the Supervisory Board is Mark Hudson. The Deputy Chair is Christine Adshead.
Ex officio members:
Gerry Lagerberg Member of the Board of PricewaterhouseCoopers International Limited
Simon Friend Member of the Board of PricewaterhouseCoopers International Limited
Ian Powell Chairman of the Executive Board and Alliance Senior Partner
Partner Affairs Committee: Chair - Heather Swanston; Members - Duncan Cox, Bill Macleod, Anne Simpson, Jim Stidham,Claire Stokes
Audit and Risk Committee: Chair - Pauline Campbell; Members - Christine Adshead, Simon Friend, Caroline Roxburgh, Jim Stidham, Claire Stokes (part-time)
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I have been using find command to find files on my 1 tb hard disk. it takes very long. then I used locate which proved to be faster with regular update using updatedb. But the limitation of locate is that I cannot find files with certain size or modified/created time. can you suggest me any ideas on how to find files at more speed or in that case how to pipe output of locate command in a way that all other information like size, time, etc. can be displayed or redirected to a file.
I haven't seen an answer that comes near the wishes of Chaitanya. If you want to search on filename, a combination of locate, find, ls and grep could be sufficient. But I think Chaitanya want to search for example for 'all files created before 2011'. This can perfectly done with find, but I can imagine it will take a long time searching through 1TB (depends more on the amount of files, not necessarily the total size). To speed this up I think indexing is inevitable. The problem of locate (indexing with updatedb) is that it doesn't index creation time.
So what Chaitanya need is something that indexes the needed attributes of files (file name, file size, creation date, more?). And later something that can search on these attributes. As far as I know there is no out-of-the-box solution for this on Ubuntu.
An important comment of Chaitanya: "Now the thing is that I am designing a php based web gui...". Because your problem sounds quite specific, maybe you want to build somehting yourself. Some suggestions:
You can try Tracker. It has a daemon that waits for file changes and updates a database with all the metadata as possible, and a client that you can use to search for files. Note that it only indexes the user dir, not all the hard disk.
The main dawback is that it needs CPU time to index, so use it only if your computer has power to spare.
You will need to install both the server and client, they are named tracker and tracker-gui. If you search for tracker in the Software Center they are the two first matches. If you prefer to install them from the command line:
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Thx @Oli in AskUbuntu chat for tipping me off to "something" to get around shell escapes
The issue with locate is that it only collects file information occasionally on a regular cron schedule. You if you need mlocate to update its information, just run this
If you need a solution that is more "real-time" and updates constantly, I would suggest going with something that is specifically designed to monitor your filesystem, like
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Use "find option Parameter". See "man find" more detail. Use locate to find a document quickly and easily, eg. "locate *.jpg"
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DRIVERS are being warned of delays at one of the busiest intersections heading into Barnsley town centre.
Starting on Monday, work will be carried out at Townend roundabout to replace buried water mains.
Yorkshire Water and engineering partners Balfour Beatty, will be working to replace 230 metres of main which currently runs through the middle of the roundabout, and have been made inaccessible by years of construction above and around it.
To maintain access to the roundabout and minimise the impact on road users, the new water mains will be laid around the edge of the roundabout and in the adjoining grass verges between Dodworth Road, Summer Lane, Shambles Street and Peel Street.
There will be lane and road closures on each of the entrance and exit roads to the roundabout.
Closures will be kept to one exit or entrance at a time and diversions will be in place. The improvement works are expected to be completed early in October.


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Boston Children's has launched the world's 1st program dedicated to offering hand transplants to children who qualify.
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The Neurogenetics Program at Boston Children's Hospital is a collaboration of multiple clinics and medical professionals to provide specialty care for children with neurogenetic disorders and their families.
Pediatric neurogenetic disorders are diseases of the brain, spinal cord, nerves and muscles that are caused by changes in genes or chromosomes. There are hundreds of neurogenetic disorders that may present in very different ways. They may cause problems from birth or only become evident in later childhood. They include malformations of the brain, neurodevelopmental disorders, genetic syndromes as well as problems such as seizures, loss of muscle tone, balance and learning.
The Boston Children's Hospital Neurogenetics Program provides:
Here at Boston Children's Hospital, we have a number of specialty clinics within the Neurogenetics Program that are designed to provide care to patients who have a suspected or diagnosed neurogenetic disorder. These include:
These conditions are often rare, and require sophisticated diagnostic testing such as:
The Neurogenetics Program works closely with experts across Boston Children's, including:
Specialists in the Neurogenetics Program are also conducting groundbreaking research and clinical trials in neurogenetics.
The future of pediatrics will be forged by thinking differently, breaking paradigms and joining together in a shared vision of tackling the toughest challenges before us."


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This is a coffee table book meant to be a source of inspiration as you page through the book and reflect on God's word. Included are a variety of birds flowers, butterflies, scenery, eagles and snowflake photos with scripture throughout.
In the forty years I have been involved with photography, I continue to be amazed at the beauty of God's creation both large and small. Photography gives me an opportunity to spend time with God while enjoying the beauty that surrounds me.
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Brand? ~ For general everyday carry??? For most defensive type situations.
That would best/most effective all purpose defensive ammo.
The only firearms that I own in "9" are two older Walther P38s that I never shoot or even ever degrease. :rolleyes: I think I have some old "ball ammo" for them stashed.
I am a 9mm dummy...I admit it. :wink:
Somebody asked me that ammo question yesterday & I realized that I had absolutely no real idea.
I took a "stab in the dark unqualified answer at HOT Federal" but, I'll put the question to you guys that actually carry a 9 on a daily basis.
What impresses you with regard to general best performance, feed reliability, etc?
In other words what do you carry in yours?
I'm assuming that if you carry it...then you are carrying what you feel is the best and most effective round.
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Burger King Targeting Investors, Moms
The fast-food chain wants families and moms to stop by for bacon sundaes.
Just look what a bacon sundae can do for business: As of today, Burger King is a public company once again, trading on the NYSE after a two-year absence. (Ticker symbol: BKW — pretty sure the "W" stands for "Who the hell would want to buy Burger King stock?") But that's not the only news coming from the land of the Whopper: After years of mainlining a testosterone factor into its broad advertising strategies, the King wants a little family time. On the heels of its most ambitious menu expansion ever, NPR reports "the chain is abandoning its strategy of courting young men and going after a broader customer base of moms and families." Dads, you've been warned. [NPR, Earlier]