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Damian Ryan: Leaders must be climate science champions
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- 25 September 2013
Ahead of the IPCC launch, Damian Ryan, Senior Policy Manager, The Climate Group, writes about the need for leaders to be climate science champions. You can read more by Damian here.
Damian writes:
Here at The Climate Group, our theory of change is a simple one. We believe that a relatively small group of committed leaders can have a disproportionate impact on tackling climate change. Through their words, actions and force of personality, these leaders can help create the economic, technological, social and political tipping-points that accelerate the shift to a low carbon future.
This week, as the climate world gears up for the release of the much anticipated Fifth Assessment Report (AR5) from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the need for leaders of this kind to step forward and champion climate science is critical.
The necessity for this call to action, frustratingly, is an indictment of our collective efforts to date. The fact is, we don't need another 1000-page report to explain why we must reduce greenhouse gases to avoid dangerous climate change. The IPCC has already produced four of these in the last 23 years. What we are missing–and have been for the last two decades–is a critical mass of forward thinking decision makers, in business, government and civil society.
More than ever, today's leaders need to take the scientific evidence presented to them and translate it into concrete actions. This means real transformative change in how we produce and consume energy and run our economies, not simply tinkering on the side.
The comforting but false hope of climate skeptics
Part of the reason for the lack of such action to date has been the success of the climate skeptic community in creating an atmosphere of doubt about the science.
It is true that skepticism and recognition of uncertainty in natural systems are healthy and essential parts of the scientific process. But these pillars of rational and empirical research have been cynically manipulated in politics, business and in the media. The sometimes explicit, sometimes implied message has been that the immense body of climate science research remains insufficient to justify ambitious action to reduce emissions. This is simply not the case.
Efforts to downplay the latest and yet-to-be-released findings from the IPCC are already underway. Claims that the planet hasn't warmed for over a decade, that Arctic sea ice is growing not shrinking and that the atmosphere is far less sensitive to changes in carbon dioxide than previously thought, appear to form the basis of the skeptic strategy. All three claims are simply wrong or hugely misleading at best.
The reality is that the planet as a whole–i.e. taking into account air, sea and land–has continued to warm over the last decade and a half, even as atmospheric surface temperatures have plateaued over the same period. Scientists now have very strong evidence to suggest that the oceans have absorbed the majority of the excess heat, even if the precise mechanism for this remains uncertain. Focusing on a single temperature record (i.e. the atmospheric one), as climate skeptics have done, is simply disingenuous.
Much too has been made of the so-called recovery in Arctic summer sea ice this year. Such claims are again a deliberate misreading of the data. Although this year's ice coverage was 50% above last year's record-breaking low, it was still the sixth lowest on record, confirming a long-term declining trend that has been evident for some time.
Finally, there is the issue of climate sensitivity. In layman's terms, this is the atmospheric temperature change expected from a doubling in concentration of CO2. The temperature range of climate sensitivity has always been wide (from as low as around 1oC to more than 6oC) but with a best estimate of between 2oC and 4.5o C. Some of the latest research suggests that the upper extremes are now unlikely.
These early findings have been repackaged by skeptics and sold as proof that CO2 is far less damaging than scientists have claimed. In truth, the evidence still points to warming between 1.5oC and 4.5oC. Such temperature change, as the World Bank and other leading institutions have noted, will bring tremendous challenges at best and catastrophic change if the upper end of the range were reached.
Like the Sirens of Greek mythology, the alluring voice of climate skeptics is comforting but ultimately perilous. It offers an easy out for decision makers but with no mention of the tremendous risk to companies and communities that comes from inaction. It is also a voice that fails to recognize the enormous economic opportunities and co-benefits, such as biodiversity protection and less pollution that come from tackling climate change.
Time to step up to the plate
The task facing leaders as the IPCC releases its new report is a simple one. Whether in business, government or civil society, they have an obligation today to speak out in support of the evidence presented by climate scientists. Failure to do so puts their companies and communities at risk and their own reputations and legacy on the line.
Scientific, evidenced-based decision making must remain at the heart of any pragmatic and effective response to climate change. Leaders have a responsibility for making sure a tipping point in understanding of and support for climate science occurs as quickly as possible. Without this the merchants of doubt win, and we all lose.
Related news:
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The Climate Group releases exclusive climate science briefings, ahead of its live broadcast with IPCC report authors
Event info: Climate Week NYC 2013


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Preventing Heart Attacks with Aggressive Dietary Intervention
Most people think going to cardiologists and radiologists to get evaluated to see if they have a significant coronary blockage will enable an intervention at an early enough point to save their life; they are dead wrong. Angioplasties and stent placements as well as cardiac surgery treat symptoms, not the disease. Seventy to eighty percent of all myocardial infarctions (heart attacks) are caused by plaque that is not obstructive or visible on angiography or stress tests.
Heart attacks result from a defect in the plaque wall which leads to a thrombus (blood clot). Even a small coating of vulnerable plaque, invisible to cardiac testing, can cause a heart attack and typically does. The important point to remember is this: Individuals without major blockages of their great vessels, with only 30 to 50 percent stenosis (narrowing), are even more likely to develop a fatal cardiac event, (compared to those with more significant blockages) yet these individuals are not even shown to have heart disease with a stress test or angiography. Stress testing only identifies blockages that obstruct greater than eighty-five percent of the vessel lumen. A normal stress test is meaningless and does not mean you do not have significant heart disease or won't shortly have a heart attack.
Bypass surgery and angioplasty only attempt to treat a small segment of the diseased heart, usually with only temporary benefit. Since atherosclerotic plaque blankets all the vessels in the heart, bypassing or removing the most diseased portion, still does not address all the shallow and non-obstructive lipid deposits. The major burden of disease is left intact and therefore the potential for a deadly heart attack is largely unaffected. These mechanical interventions do not address the cause of the disease and only treat the symptoms it is not surprising that the patients undergoing bypass and angioplasty experience disease progression, graft shutdown, restenosis, and more procedures because their heart disease continues to advance.
Using surgical and high-tech interventions as a substitute for a healthful diet is doomed to fail. When extensive coronary artery disease is present and surgical/high-tech intervention occurs, we still leave the vast bulk of plaque essentially untreated because atherosclerosis is a dietary-induced disease and is spread all over the heart, not only in those areas visualized by angiograms and then treated. When we combine these marginally effective or ineffective medical interventions with the wrong dietary advice given by most doctors and dieticians (to reduce fat and cholesterol and eat less red meat and more chicken and fish) we get predictable future cardiac tragedies. Numerous studies have demonstrated that following the typical dietary recommendations of the American Heart Association to hold cholesterol to less than 200 mg per day and to reduce dietary fat to less than 30 percent doesn't work.1 These diets fail to realize that the nutritional cause of heart disease is not simply a question of eating less fat. Moderation kills, because heart disease still advances.
There is irrefutable evidence that high cholesterol levels are associated with increased risk of coronary heart disease (CHD). Make no doubt about it: lowering your Low Density Lipoprotein (LDL) cholesterol below 100 offers powerful protection against heart disease. LDL cholesterol is the bad guy that promotes the plaque that leads to blockages and heart attacks. Thus, the more LDL-cholesterol you have in your blood, the greater your risk of heart disease. The evidence is overwhelming today that heart attacks, which kill half of all Americans, are entirely preventable. Heart disease is a condition that is preventable and reversible through aggressive nutritional intervention and cholesterol-lowering.
The good news is symptoms, as well as blockages, easily melt away with nutritional excellence, without any cardiac intervention. The risks and complications of cardiac interventions and bypass surgeries are simply not necessary when people adopt an effective nutritional strategy. Instead of expensive and invasive medicine, we need doctors to educate and motivate patients to take charge of their own health. While our population is committing suicide with their knives and forks, they run to doctors expecting to be saved. Unfortunately, it is almost impossible to escape from the biological laws of cause and effect. Good health has to be earned, it can't be bought.
Compelling data from numerous population and interventional studies show that the combination of a natural plant-based diet and aggressive lipid-lowering will prevent, arrest, and even reverse heart disease. Only via nutritional excellence can you address all the invisible, but potentially dangerous plaque throughout your coronary arteries. Unlike surgery and angioplasty, the dietary approach addressed in this book does not merely treat your heart, but rejuvenates all your blood vessels and protects your entire body against heart attacks, strokes, pulmonary embolisms, venous thrombosis, peripheral vascular disease, and vascular dementia. It is your most valuable insurance policy to secure a longer life free of medical tragedy.
Studies preformed by Dean Ornish and other investigators have also documented the effects of a low-fat vegetarian (vegan) diet on patients with heart disease and found reversal of the condition occurred in the majority of patients. The reversal was modest, but nevertheless, no study previously showed diet could be so effective at preventing and reversing heart disease.
Caldwell Esselstyn, Jr., M.D. of the Cleveland Clinic went a step further and put together a program utilizing a vegetarian plant-based diet with the addition of cholesterol-lowering medication in 18 patients who had severe angiographically demonstrated coronary artery disease. All of these high-risk patients with advanced heart disease were noted to have no coronary events during the following 12 years, and on repeat angiogram, 70% were found to have regression of their disease and none had progression.2 When you consider these 18 patients had experienced 50 coronary events during the 8 years before this study, you have to agree on the effectiveness of combining plant-based nutrition with cholesterol lowering.
I have observed the same thing in my medical practice over the last 15 years: the combination of superior nutrition with a plant-based, vegetable-predominant diet and cholesterol-lowering therapy stops heart disease cold.
1. Ornish D, Scherwitz IW, Billings JH, et al. Intensive lifestyle changes for reversal of coronary heart disease. JAMA 1998;280:2001-2007.
2. Esselstyn CB, Resolving the coronary artery disease epidemic through plant-based nutrition. Prev Cardiol 2001;4:171-177.

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American media's limited bandwidth for news describes the meaning of a headline by The Hill titled: "Bowe Bergdahl's release bumps VA scandal from political spotlight."
Can they walk, talk, and chew at the same time? Reading a story by The Hill this evening, it says that the Bowe Bergdahl story has pushed the Shinseki VA story out of the headlines. That implies that the media is done with Shinseki and the VA for now, and American viewers must now cram their brains with Bergdahl. But, I thought we weren't done with Snowden yet.
Maybe part of the problem is that President Obama gives too much press to everything that he does. He isn't selective. For instance, did he have to drag Bergdahl's family before the cameras to make the announcement that the POW was returned in exchange for the release of 5 terrorists whom we chose to not classify as POWs because they were not fighting for a nation state?
The Shinseki snafu was real news because it affects millions of Veterans. The Bergdahl story is real news because of the potential effect on American soldiers who are subject to kidnapping by terrorists.
The Hill reports that Hagel says we don't negotiate with terrorists, but we just did.
"We didn't negotiate with terrorists," Hagel said on NBC's "Meet the Press." "Sgt. Bergdahl is a prisoner of war, that's a normal process in getting your prisoners back... We don't let anyone out of Guantanamo, and I will not sign off on any detainee coming out of Guantanamo unless I am assured…that we can efficiently mitigate any risk to American security."
Rice said on CNN's "State of the Union" that Defense Department officials consulted with the Department of Justice officials prior to the transfers.
"Given the acute urgency of the health condition of Sgt. Bergdahl and given the president's constitutional responsibilities, it was determined that it was necessary and appropriate not to adhere to the 30-day notification requirements because it would have potentially meant that the opportunity to get Sgt. Bergdahl would have been lost," Rice said on CNN."
Read more: http://thehill.com/policy/defense/207856-bergdahl-bumps-va-from-spotlight#ixzz33QxN3ZOx
Now, before we have Bowe Bergdahl evaluated, let's have a 90 day review of the military healthcare system. (See the video)


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2012 Stewardship CampaignPrint
God gives us so many gifts. We are called to share those gifts – our time, our talents, and our money – to do God's work in the church and in the world. Westminster's Stewardship Committee chose Galatians 5:22-26 as a lens through which to reflect our gifts this year.
"But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace,
patience, kindness, generosity, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control."
- Galatians 5:22
Stewardship Packet MaterialsStewardship packets are available for pick-up in the Courtyard on October 2 and October 9. Packets not picked up after these dates will be mailed to recipients.
- Introduction Letter from Chris Tuttle and Dave Pottenger
- Top 10 Reasons to Fill Out and Return Your Time & Talent Pledge
- Time & Talent Pledge
- Opportunities to Serve Booklet
- 2011 Financial Data
- Pledge Card
- Electronic Giving Booklet
- Words on Westminster's Support
- The 2012 Stewardship Committee
Newsletter Articles
- August 24- Stewards of the Spirit: Preparing for Stewardship Season (p. 5)
- September 7- Gaining Momemtum (p. 3)
- September 21- Considering Our Gifts (p. 3)
- October 5- Chris's Letter (p. 1), Gifts Given, Gifts Received (p. 5)
- October 19- One Body, Many Members (p. 5)
- October 2- "Peace & Kindness: The Sustaining Silence" by Chris Tuttle
- October 9- "Joy & Patience: My Soul Thirsts for God" by Taylor Lewis Guthrie Hartman
- October 16- "Generosity: Barns or Purses?" by Chris Tuttle
- October 23- "Faithfulness and Gentleness: It's Not All About Us" by the Rev. Dr. Pete Peery (sermon text and audio not available)
- October 30- "Love and Self-Control: Standing the Test of Time" by Chris Tuttle


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- 1/3 cup shortening
- 1/2 cup sugar
- 1 egg
- 1-1/2 cups all-purpose flour
- 1-1/2 teaspoons baking powder
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1/4 teaspoon ground nutmeg
- 1/2 cup milk
- 1/2 cup sugar
- 1-1/2 teaspoons ground cinnamon
- 3 tablespoons butter, melted
- In a large bowl, cream shortening and sugar until light and fluffy. Beat in egg. Combine the flour, baking powder, salt and nutmeg; add to creamed mixture alternately with milk until well combined.
- Fill greased muffin cups half full. Bake at 350° for 15-20 minutes or until a toothpick comes out clean.
- Add butter to a shallow bowl. In another shallow bowl, combine sugar and cinnamon. Dip muffin tops in butter, then in cinnamon-sugar. Serve warm. Yield: 1 dozen.
Reviews for Cinnamon Muffins
"Very good hot or cold. Next time I'd substitute cinnamon for the nutmeg in the batter."
"This is a good recipe. The texture is not what I was expecting, but it did taste good. The recipe as written made very tiny muffins. Next time I will either double it or maybe make fewer muffins. The kids loved them, though, so it is definitely a keeper."
"I love this recipe! I used butter instead of shortening and made a double batch. Although they aren't browned when they come out of the oven as someone mentioned, they are very pretty and so tasty with the cinnamon sugar topping. Easy, good, and special enough to share."
"I used butter instead of shortening and whole wheat white flour with a little extra sugar to avoid the bland reviews! Tested them on my four daughters around the morning breakfast table...they voted four stars. Quick, easy, and on-hand ingredients."
"i made this for desert. very good and best when warm. they disappeared fast!!! so i might double the amounts to get more :) very good recipe."


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With just over a decade since the 9/11 terrorist attacks, the 9/11 Memorial Museum will finally be open to the public on May 21, 2014 at the very spot that the World Trade Center once stood.
The museum will include photos, videos, audio, and more than 10, 000 artifacts collected from the day of the terrorist attacks, including a charred ambulance and fire truck. Even more special is that the museum allows the 2,983 people who died in the attacks to come alive again for the visitors with pictures, biographies, and even oral histories by their family members. The museum also examines the time leading up to the attacks and the impact they have had on society even still today.
Tickets are available at 911memorial.org with hours 9-5 daily. The museum is free for everyone on Tuesdays from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. and at all times to 9/11 family members and rescue workers.


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Maui's Sugar Cane Train ceased operations on August 1, 2014.
The famous and well-known tourist attraction closed its doors due to financial considerations. For over 45 years, the Sugar Cane Train has steamed along a 6-mile track and served millions of visitors and tourists to Maui. The 40-minute ride was particularly popular with families with small children who had never seen or heard a steam locomotive.
"Not only the tourists will miss the Sugar Cane Train, but the locals will miss the daily steam whistle of the locomotive," says Elizabeth Boney. "We hear it every day here in Lahaina on the west side, and we'll miss it."
Travel, Top 10 Lists, Polls Only & Homemade Food!
The Hawaiian island of Maui is an incredible island to visit, and Waikiki is one of the most famous beaches. Also, Honolulu airport is the "gateway" to Bangkok, one of the most visited cities in the world.
Lists & Polls Of Everything! Look at Top 10 Lists and also voice your opinion at Polls Only.
Love Delicious Homemade Food? Check-out the "Homemade Gurus" at Homemade Pizza and Homemade Mexican food. They have delicious recipes.
Top 10 Maui Restaurants.
- Mama's Fish House is one of the most well-known restaurants on Maui.
- In Lahaina Town, try Lahaina Grill. It's one of the best restaurants on Maui.
- Merriman's Hawaiian Restaurant in Kapalua has won many awards for outstanding food.
- The Pineapple Grill in Kapalua is a popular, upscale restaurant popular with locals and tourists alike.
- On the west side of Maui, try Star Noodle. It's one of the most popular restaurants on the island.
- The Plantation House in Kapalua offers an excellent fine dining experience.
- Sarento's On The Beach in the Kihei area of Maui is always recognized for outstanding food and service.
- Hali' imaile General Store has pleased customers since opening in 1988 with its upcountry location.
- Japengo At The Maui Hyatt Regency Resort & Spa is a recent addition to the Top 10 Restaurants on Maui.
- Roy's in Ka'anapali has consistently been one of the top restaurants on Maui, Hawaii.
Maui's Top Attractions.
- Haleakala National Park lets you visit one of the most rare sights in the world at over 32,000 feet.
- The Road To Hana takes a full day but is one of the most famous drives in the world.
- One of the wettest and most beautiful valleys on all the Hawaiian islands is at Iao Valley.
- Visit 7 Sacred Pools (Ohe'o Gulch) past Hana on the far windward side of Maui.
- A "must-see" beach is Big Beach at Makena State Park on the southwest side of Maui, Hawaii.
- Lahaina Town & Banyan Tree on the west side of Maui is a historic whaling town with much to see.
- Stroll through gardens with over 45 varieties of lavender at the Ali'i Kula Lavender Farm.
- One of Maui's top-rated family attractions in the Maui Ocean Center.
- Maui Tropical Plantation offers rides through a tropical plantation and has a fun zipline.
- The Sugar Museum is located on Hawaii's largest working sugar factory.
- Tedeschi Winery produces wine from Maui-grown grapes at the Ulupalakua Ranch.
- Surfing Goat Dairy has world-class cheese made upcountry in a unique setting.
Maui's Top Activities.
- See a unique perspective of Maui with a zipline adventure with Piiholo Ranch Adventures and Skyline Eco Adventures.
- See Molokini or the remote stretches of the Kanaio Coast with Red Line Rafting.
- Atlantis Submarines offers you the only underwater tour adventure on Maui that the whole family can enjoy.
- To rent snorkel equipment on Maui, go to Snorkel Bob's or Boss Frog's.
- Want to see another Hawaiian island? Go with Expeditions to the island of Lanai.
- There's nothing like seeing Maui from a helicopter and Blue Hawaiian may be the best of Maui.
- Looking to jet ski? Jet Ski Maui is a seasonal activity but is a lot of fun even for beginners.
- Sunset dining on Maui gives you an unforgettable experience, and the Maui Princess is the boat to be on.
- Want to parasail while on Maui? UFO Parasail on Kaanapali Beach has been doing it longer than anyone.
- Bike down the Haleakala volcano for an amazing experience with Haleakala Bike Company.
- Trilogy offers one of the best excursions on Maui with several different daily tours.
- Enjoy The Road To Hana in a luxury vehicle with The Maui Touring Company.
- Go with the whale experts at Pacific Whale Foundation. They offer a wide variety of daily excursions.
- Wanting to go horseback riding on Maui? Go with Pony Express Tours for the best experience.
- Go sportfishing out of Lahaina Harbor with Start Me Up.
- Captain Steve's Rafting Adventures is the top dolphin and whale tour company on Maui.
- Warren and Annabelle's magic show is one of the best entertainment values on Maui.
- For the best luau on Maui, go to the Old Lahaina Luau in Lahaina Town on the west side of Maui.


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Jubilations Dinner Theatre
1200 - 37 St SW, Calgary, AB
403-249-7799 | Website
This dinner theatre experience offers entertainment lighter than the meals.
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Curious about seeing actors in both their professional and natural environments? Head to Jubilations Dinner Theatre where thespian upstarts entertain the multitudes onstage, and wait on tables before and during the show.
Located at the old Westbrook Cineplex Odeon movie theatre off Bow Trail, the venue underwent a major transformation, and voila; a spacious spot that now houses Jubilations and Aussie Rules Foodhouse & Bar.
The Draw
Patrons at Jubilations get a four-course, sit-down meal with soup, salad, a choice of beef, chicken, fish or pasta and two choices for dessert. But the real fun is in finding out whether the waiter or waitress taking your order has nabbed the lead in the show you're about to see. As far as the entertainment itinerary is concerned, it's usually light musical comedies made up of a series of song and dance numbers played out in three acts.
Another interesting feature to the Jubilations concept is the audience participation. Willing participants can count on being invited up to the stage to join the cast.
So if you're up for a bellyful of food and laughs, this is for you.
Information & Tickets: (403) 249-7799


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This is the second edition of a book of landscapes of the mind and body.
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Player of the Day: Thomas Sorensen
by Will Martin
Goalkeeper in today's spotlight.
Signed from Odense BK in Denmark in the summer of 1998, Thomas Sorensen would go on to make 191 appearances in a five-year stay on Wearside.
Sorensen was part of the youth academy at Danish top-flight side Odense Boldklub and, though he never made the first team, he enjoyed loan spells at Vejle and Svendborg, playing a full season as number one for the latter.
Manager Peter Reid splashed nigh-on £1m for the 22-year-old in the summer of 1998, and by the end of his first season any doubters has been firmly silenced.
The Black Cats bounced back from the heartbreak of a play-off final defeat to Charlton Athletic the previous year to win the Football League Championship emphatically, finishing the season with a record 105 points.
Sorensen kept an astonishing 29 clean sheets - a club record – as he put in a string of near faultless displays throughout the season.
Following the Black Cats' promotion to the Premiership, Sorensen had another fine season, starting all but one game in the top flight and keeping nine clean sheets, as Sunderland recorded their highest finish in 46 years.
The Black Cats repeated their seventh-placed finish in the 2000-01 campaign. Sorensen made a further 34 league appearances, shutting out the opposition in twelve games.
Sorensen's finest hour in a Sunderland shirt came in November 2000; the Danish international saved Alan Shearer's late penalty to send the Black Cats' fans into raptures whilst also sealing Sunderland their second consecutive victory on Tyneside.
Sorensen made another 55 league appearances, despite missing almost half of the 2002-03 season through injury, though he was sold to Aston Villa at the end of the campaign following the club's relegation from the top flight.
The Danish international spent five years at Villa Park, making 158 appearances, before joining Stoke City in 2008 where he is still plying his trade.
Sorensen has been capped 101 times by Denmark after taking the reins from Peter Schmeichel in 2000.
He retired from international football in August 2012 as the eighth most capped player in Danish history.


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Feb. 15, 2012
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TUSCALOOSA, Ala. -
The women's basketball team (11-15, 1-11 SEC) will host seventh-ranked Kentucky (21-4, 10-2 SEC) on Thursday in the Crimson Tide's first of two final home games of the 2011-12 season. Tipoff in Foster Auditorium is slated for 6:30 p.m. CT.
Thursday's game is the second meeting between the two teams this season, with the first occurring on January 29, in Lexington. The Wildcats came out on top in the game by an 82-68 decision. In the earlier game, junior Kyra Crosby and sophomore Jasmine Robinson led Alabama in scoring with 14 points apiece. Sophomore Khristin Lee followed closely with 12 points, in addition to six rebounds, two assists and a pair of steals. The Tide trailed by as many as 25 in the game, but was able to pull within 11 late in the second half.
"We feel like we can play with Kentucky," said Alabama head coach Wendell Hudson. "We've been playing awful hard these last couple games, as we did in Lexington when we played Kentucky a few weeks ago. Since we have played them once already, we know what to look for and what to prepare for in practice as we get ready for Thursday's game."
In its last outing, Alabama dropped a 51-46 decision to LSU despite leading in all but 90 seconds of the game. The Tide caused 18 turnovers leading to 19 points. Junior Meghan Perkins and sophomore Shafontaye Myers led Alabama in scoring, with 10 points apiece. Freshman Aneesah Daniels grabbed seven boards to lead the Tide in rebounding, while junior Jessica Merritt grabbed six boards.
On the season, Alabama is led in scoring by Robinson (11.1 ppg), and in rebounding by Perkins (5.4 rpg).
Kentucky enters Thursday's game on a two-game losing streak having dropped games to LSU and Tennessee on the road. Thursday's game will be the Wildcats' third-straight away contest.
In Kentucky's loss at Tennessee on Monday night, freshman Bria Goss led three Wildcats in double figures with 15 points. Kentucky took two more shots than the Lady Volunteers, however Tennessee hit 59.0 percent of its attempts, while the Wildcats managed 33.3 percent.
On the season, junior A'dia Mathies leads Kentucky in scoring with an average of 15.0 points per game. She also leads the team in steals with 64 on the season. Mathies is followed by Goss, who chips in an average of 11.6 points per game. Sophomore Samarie Walker pulls down a team-best 6.1 rebounds per contest, while senior Amber Smith dishes out a team-high 3.0 assists per game.


text: Johannesburg - Over 96% of cellphone users in South Africa met the deadline for Rica, according to figures given by major cellphone companies on Friday.Cell C said that close to 97% of its customer base registered before midnight on Thursday.Vodacom Group [JSE:VOD] said that its figure was about 96%, based on official subscriber numbers in March. Just under a million Vodacom customers were disconnected on Friday after failing to meet the Rica deadline, the service provider said.8ta had Rica'd all of its customers by WednesdayMTN Group [JSE:MTN] declined to mention an exact percentage. At a Rica briefing by the communications department on Wednesday, it was announced that 98% of MTN sim cards were registered for contract customers and 96% for prepaid users."We don't want to comment on our percentages but we will say we are quite impressed at the turnout of our subscribers and those who have been disconnected can come back to the Ayoba," spokesperson Bridget Bhengu said."It might take a bit longer than normal but you will be back on the network within two to 24 hours."Cell C CEO Lars Reichelt said that the network was also welcoming back those who had been disconnected."Customers have a grace period of 120 days from the deadline date to reactivate their cut-off lines or face the possibility of losing their numbers."Vodacom customers who had been cut off could visit their local store or one of over 170 000 Rica agents across the country.


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In the paper of Faltings' "p-adic Hodge theory", Faltings showed an example of almost etale extension before he proved the almost purity theorem. The example is following:
Let $k$ be a perfect field of characteristic $p$ and $W(k)$ the ring of Witt vectors, $W(k)(x_{1},...,x_{d})$ a localization of $W(k)[x_{1},...,x_{d}]$ at $p$. Let $V$ be the completion of $W(k)(x_{1},...,x_{2})$ with function field $K:=K(V)$, and $V_{n}$ be the extension of $V$ which generated by the $p^{n+1}$-th roots of unite together with $p^{n}$-th roots of $x_{i}$. If $W$ is a normalization of $V$ in another finite extension $L$ of $K$, and $W_{n}$ the composite of $W$ and $V_{n}$, and $p^{a_{n}}W_{n}$ the different of $W_{n}$ over $V_{n}$. If we use the notation $W_{\infty}$ (resp. $V_{\infty}$) to denote the union of $W_{n}$ (resp.$V_{n}$).
The Theorem 1.2 of Faltings' paper tell us $a_{n}$ converge to $0$ for $n \rightarrow \infty$, and then $V_{\infty} \longrightarrow W_{\infty}$ is almost etale extension.
My question is:
Why the almost etale extension of $W_{\infty}/V_{\infty}$ is deduced by theorem 1.2 ? Is this checked by the definition of almost etale ?


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College Hockey:Peverly Pair, Ackley Acrobatics Helps Saints Down Cats
BURLINGTON, Vt. — Rich Peverley scored two goals — one shorthanded and one on the power play — and Kevin Ackley recorded 43 saves as the St. Lawrence Saints defeated Vermont, 5-2, Friday night in action at UVM's Gutterson Fieldhouse.
St. Lawrence, 5-13-0 overall and 3-5-0 in the ECAC, took a 1-0 at 9:25 of the first period when Stace Page scored a power-play goal from the blue line. Russ Bartlett and Peverley assisted on the goal, Page's sixth of the season. It came with Ryan Miller in the penalty box for obstruction interference.
Mike Muir gave the Saints a 2-0 early in the second period when he got the puck past Vermont goalie Shawn Conschafter on a wraparound. Charlie Daniels assisted on the goal, Muir's second of the season and of his career.
St. Lawrence increased its lead to 3-0 at 4:42 of the period when Peverley scored his fourth of the season on the power play. Robin Carruthers and Page assisted.
Vermont, 2-14-2 overall and 2-6-1 in ECAC play, cut into St. Lawrence's lead late in the second period when Scott Mifsud blocked a shot and broke in alone on Ackley, slipping the puck through the pads just as a St. Lawrence power play was ending. The goal was Mifsud's fourth of the season
The second period ended with Ryan Glenn smashing Vermont's Ryan Cox into the boards. Glenn received a five-minute major for boarding, and the Catamounts began the third period with a five-minute power play.
Just 15 seconds into the third, John Longo scored his team-leading fourth power-play goal of the season, with assists going to Cox and Bryson Busniuk. Later in the power play, Peverley scored his second of the night shorthanded to give St. Lawrence a 4-2 lead.
Blair Clarance scored his eighth goal of the season at 18:27 to make for the final margin.
Conschafter recorded 27 saves for Vermont.
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STATS: 2008-09 Individual Game-by-Game
2008-09 (Senior): As the lone senior leading a young and energetic roster, finished his Fresno State career as the 41st highest scorer in Bulldog history with 876 points for an average of 9.2 points over a 95-game career ... after spending the vast majority of his collegiate career solely on the wing, split time at the point and wing while helping direct the Bulldog offense to top the WAC for the third straight year with the most 3-pointers made per game (7.2) with a team-high 117 assists ... started 23 of 25 games played ... averaged 12.9 points, 4.7 assists and 4.4 rebounds per game for his best complete season as a Bulldog ... recorded a career-high 22 points against San Jose State on Jan. 10, 2009 ... scored a game-winning fall-away jumper off an inbounds pass from freshman point guard Bryce Cartwright with 0.9 seconds left for the `Dogs first road victory of the season, 66-64, over the Pacific Tigers on Dec. 6, 2009 ... delivered a clutch 20 points in thrilling 90-87 overtime win at Cal Poly on Dec. 29, 2009, including a critical set of 3-pointers and five vital free throws ... knocked down the `Dogs biggest shot of the season by softly lofting a 15-foot go-ahead jumper with 21.7 seconds remaining to lift Fresno state ahead for good in 62-58 opening round victory against Hawai'i in the 2009 WAC Tournament.
2007-08 (Junior): Played in 14 games, starting 12 while averaging a career-best 29 minutes per game ... sidelined due to injury during first half of 2007-08 ... surpassed the 550-point career mark in the regular season finale against Nevada on March 8, 2008 ... made 15 three-pointers on 50 attempts ... fourth on team with 3.7 rebounds per game and 24 steals ... scored a career-high 21 points and five three-pointers in 75-68 win over Portland on Nov. 9, 2007 ... recorded double digit point totals in five games.
2006-07 (Redshirt): Redshirted the season.
2005-06 (Sophomore): Closed out the year with six straight double figure games and averaged 14.2 points and 4.8 rebounds per game while totaling eight steals, a block and 14 assists ... also closed out the season by posting double figures in 13 of last 15 games for an average of 12.1 points and 5.2 rebounds per game ... recorded his 18th double figure game at Nevada ... was one rebound away, twice, from recording first career double-double (vs. Utah State and vs. New Mexico State) ... set a season-high and tied career-high in rebounds (9) versus New Mexico State ... in his 40th career game, collected his 100th rebound against San Francisco ... had season-high three offensive rebounds vs. Iona, USF, New Mexico State and Creighton ... tied his career-high in field goals (7) at Creighton ... versus San Francisco, had a team-high 16 points to go along with a team-best seven rebounds ... set career-high in assists (5) vs. New Mexico State ... has a career-high 7-10 mark at the free throw line against Iona ... collected a career-high 18 points, four 3-pointers and two blocks against Buffalo ... has a career-high four steals against Cal Poly and Idaho ... has career-high 41 minutes against Utah State ... eclipsed the 400-career point plateau versus Boise State ... in the final overall WAC stats, finished seventh in steals per game (1.42) ... in the final WAC games, only, finished third in steals per game (1.57) and 14th in rebounding (5.3) ... starting 20, played in 26 of the team's 28 games ... named team's Best Defensive and Most Improved player.
2004-05 (Freshman): Played in all 30 games, starting seven ... starting four of the last eight games, averaging 6.6 points per game in this span ... scored a season-high 15 points, twice, in the season-opener against Maryland-Eastern Shore and Buffalo ... a top reserve who made 35.0 percent of his three-point attempts ... averaged 5.0 points per game.
Washington Union High School: Lettered all four years at Washington Union ... led school to the Central Section's Division III title as a senior ... named to the state's All-Division III team ... ended his prep career with 1,960 points, fourth-best in school history and 11th-best in section history ... wrapped up a stellar senior campaign averaging nearly 20 points per game.
Personal: Born Jan. 30, 1986 ... parents' names are Landrea Wade and Jonathan Willis ... has two brothers, Trevon Willis and Vernell Green, and two sisters, Vennessa Willis and Yolandrea Green.
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Summit Widener
This new student wilderness backpacking program is designed to help ease the transition into Widener.
- Begins: Friday, August 16, 2013
- Ends: Tuesday, August 20, 2013
- Cost: $150
- Capacity: 30 students
Summit Widener
The Summit Widener backpacking trip makes the transition into the Widener Pride an epic experience for getting to know fellow students and carrying success into your first day on campus. Summit Widener uses the outdoor setting to establish new friends, new experience, and counts as Physical Education credit. Leaders acclimate you to more than the Appalachian Trial and camping out. They will lead you to coming back to campus with new friends, new memories, and a boost of Widener confidence.
Most new adventures bring challenges and with a typical ratio of 1:6 trip leaders to participants succeeding this challenge is extremely likely. Well-trained student leaders guide the multi-day self-supported trip. Leaders focus on making sure each participant knows where they are going for the day, and how to leverage skills gained on the trip start for making friends and navigating Widener when you return to campus. Each year, students reflect on the self-confidence this trip built and carried through their first semester.
Summit Widener serves as a first-time backpacking experience for many students. If you have never been backpacking before and not being sure what to wear, Summit Widener leaders will outfit you. We have packs, tents, and more, and the leaders will provide details for the personal items you will want.
As for the physical side of Summit Widener, completing the trip earns students a half-credit (0.5) of the one credit required to graduate from Widener (see FAQs for information on the Physical Education requirement). The physical effort for Summit Widener is moderate. We will be hiking on top of the mountains for the most part, but we do have to walk up to get there, and what goes up, must come down! In walking to the top and down to the bottom, we may experience an elevation gain or loss of up to 1000 feet. Some paths are narrow, rocky, and we may cross a brook with no bridge. All the while, the student leaders moderate the hiking pace, make sure packs are not too heavy, stop to take breaks, and create a team spirit to optimize success.
Camp out, make friends, and accomplish more than a physical challenge with your new Widener classmates!
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Summit Widener starts late afternoon, Friday, August 16. Resident students move into their room during the day, and all participants will gather just before having dinner together. Friday night leaders will get everyone prepped and help pack. Saturday morning we leave and return to campus Tuesday, August 20. This trip is open to 30 first-year students and the cost is $150. For additional information, contact Michael Lombardo, Associate Dean for Student Affairs, at 610-499-4385 or via email at email@example.com
Limited spots are available, so register now by completing the Widener Pre-Orientation Application and select Summit Widener.


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The Value of a Good Guide
Jason Fry | July 26, 2010 8:10 a.m.
What I left out, in an effort to let the columns speak for themselves, was the trouble I'd had finding them. I stuck with my local papers (the Times, Post, Daily News), checked in with a national publication (Sports Illustrated) and tried two writers I admired and figured would be great fits for taking Steinbrenner's measure (Alex Belth and Joe Posnanski).
But in doing so, I knew I was just scratching the surface. I knew there were columnists in Ohio and Florida and all across the U.S. who had some unique take on Steinbrenner that I was missing. I knew there were lots of writers considering him on blogs I hadn't had the good fortune to find yet. While I really liked the columns I found, it was frustrating knowing there were other writers out there whose work would remain unfamiliar to me.
There's a Web lesson in that – and an opportunity for publishers. While Web search has changed our lives, it has built-in limitations we sometimes forget. People can overcome those limitations, provided they have skills that come with the territory for journalists. We can be the guides our readers need, even to subjects we don't normally cover.
First, the Web lesson.
I now search for anything and everything, from who won't start for my fantasy baseball team to the weather to curing miscellaneous household annoyances to finding a hotel to getting a PDF of a long-discarded owner's manual to what people are saying about me to satisfying my random curiosity about a million different things. (What's that fish my kid caught earlier this month in Maine? Did they ever fill that terrifying sinkhole in Guatemala City?) I'm sure you do many of the same things.
The ability to search has changed our lives: We can find answers to sophisticated questions, solve problems and learn things without ever leaving the house. And we can also dive amazingly deep, going from the absolute latest news about, say, the BP oil spill or Rod Barajas's oblique injury to technical or historical or conspiratorial discussions about same. (We can also waste an astonishing amount of time in idle curiosity and shoptalk, of course. So it is with any tool.)
But while search is very good at answering specific questions or giving you a survey of general information, it's not good at other things. It can't parse "give me the best columns on George Steinbrenner," let alone "show me George Steinbrenner columns that will make me laugh, cry or think differently about the man." Part of the problem is that news still takes a while to be assessed by readers, discussed, linked and then indexed and ranked by Google and other search engines – by the time that process is complete, we're on to the next thing.
Twitter, Facebook and other forms of social search can help with that, and real-time results from them are reshaping and informing search engines. And they do a lot to address what's missing from search, zeroing in on the qualitative and the ineffable. My Twitter feed is a very high-quality news feed personalized for me because I follow people who are interested in what I'm interested in and whose judgment I trust. Google can't find me great sportswriting that will make me think differently, but Twitter can.
Or at least it can within the bounds of the personalization I've set. Which is what happened to me after Steinbrenner's death: I wanted to know more about him, but I didn't have a starting point, daily rounds or good filters to bring me that information. I couldn't extract it from Google because what I wanted defied indexing. It wasn't waiting for me in Twitter because it's not what I normally concern myself with.
What I needed was a good guide. And that's where the opportunity lies.
I may not have cared much about Steinbrenner, but it wasn't a big stretch to anticipate that I might: Besides the fact that I'm a baseball fan from the same city as his team, Steinbrenner's death was a subject of national and even international interest. After word of his death got out, lots of people – Yankees fans, Mets fans, baseball fans, New Yorkers, and those interested in big, messy, iconic American lives – suddenly had a relatively brief but intense interest in him. They wanted summations, commentaries, biographies and everything else involved in trying to sum him up.
Your publication may not have a Yankees beat, or even a baseball beat. But it's a part of people's daily habits – the place they go when they wake up and are rubbing the sleep from their eyes, or when they kill off those morning emails and have a few minutes to settle into the day, or while eating lunch at their desks, or when they need a few minutes to stave off the 3 p.m. lull. It's where they go to find out what's new.
Sometimes, what's new will be something that everybody's talking about. If so, be your readers' starting point – even if that something isn't what you ordinarily cover. Find me six to eight stories about Steinbrenner, or about why Don Mattingly ran afoul of the umpires, or about whatever else will have everybody talking. Write them up as a quick narrative full of links. No matter what beat we cover, journalism makes us experts at filtering information, assessing its quality, summarizing it and explaining what it means. Search engines, for all their wonders, can't do that nearly as quickly or as well as we can. And thanks to hyperlinks, we can send our readers to most any publication in the world, allowing us to leverage other people's work and insights for our own audience.
Why would you want to send readers elsewhere? Because by doing so, you're making them a promise: We may not cover what you want to know ourselves, but we'll find out who does and point the way. That's a bargain that will work in your favor the next time – and all the times after that.
Jason Fry is a freelance writer and media consultant in Brooklyn, N.Y. He spent more than 12 years at The Wall Street Journal Online, serving as a writer, columnist, editor and projects guy. While at WSJ.com he edited and co-wrote The Daily Fix, a daily roundup of the best sportswriting online. He blogs about the Mets at Faith and Fear in Flushing, and about the newspaper industry at Reinventing the Newsroom. Write to him at firstname.lastname@example.com, visit him on Facebook, or follow him on Twitter.


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Our Favorite NFL Draft Moment Came When Denard Robinson Was Selected
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Why, hello!
The former Michigan quarterback is trying to make the NFL as a receiver. A throw like this might just convince the Arizona Cardinals to let him run their offense.
Remember the lullaby afternoons of September, when we all figured we'd see a Heisman winner who merited the award? Maybe a Geno Smith, slinging the ball all over the yard, or even a Matt Barkley, who despite being named after Big Bird's dog had the right pedigree and weaponry (Robert Woods and Marquise Lee catching…
Some stock car named Denard Robinson suited up for Michigan today and accomplished more offense than the entire Michigan offense. This sounds impossible but it is not. Like the American financial system, college football's statistics attribute success to individual performance while collectivizing the losses.…
While Robinson may not be able to take Bolt, it seems incontrovertible that he did toke Bolt. To be fair, Denard himself admits he'd get destroyed in the 100m against Bolt, but thinks he'd have a shot in a 40-yard dash.
Apparently, my favorite football team plays dirty. Would you allow me a brief moment to wring my hands in distress? Here's what New York Magazine political writer and Michigan fanboy wrote from his fainting couch the other day:
And as the above screen grab indicates, that person was rather prolific for a few minutes in articulating just how much of an asshole the Michigan quarterback has been. Though Robinson's account was unverified by Twitter and there had been several fake accounts under his name previously, this ESPN report says he had…
Your morning roundup for Sept. 11, a day to remember those we lost. Got any stories or photos for us? Tip your editors.
In the last two weeks, while racking up more total yardage on his own than 86 teams, Denard Robinson, Michigan's dreadlocked, dual-threat quarterback, emerged as the early favorite to win the Heisman Trophy. The longer his campaign lasts, the more it could revolve around one student's photograph.


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Cork Bits: ideas for your Napa Valley weekend
The month of December is here and the local events are plentiful–and this time around we've come up with several that won't cost you a dime!
If you'll be in our neck of the woods this coming weekend, here are a few items worth checking out.
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- From 6:30pm – 8pm Peju Winery will host its Holiday open house where you're invited to enjoy Peju wines paired with small bites while shopping for holiday wine gifts. There is no charge for the event and you can call 707-963-3600 for more information
- From 8pm – 11pm Cornerstone Cellars and Page Cellars will host the Ehlers Lane Art Collective at their new tasting rooms in Yountville. The event is free and you'll be able to view local art and meet the artists, including Melissa Baker, Mercedes Baker, Christopher Jones Marino, and Justin V. Manes. Call 707-945-0388 for all the details
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- From 10:30am – 12:30pm the 17th Annual Festival of Trees will take place at the Meritage Resort & Spa in Napa. The cost is $85 per person for this fashion show and luncheon, which will see all proceeds benefit the Napa Valley Symphony. Call 707-226-8742 for more information
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- From 11am – 4pm both days the Rutherford Wineries Passport Weekend will take place. For $65 per person for both days ($50 per person for Sunday only) the wineries of the Rutherford Appellation will offer exclusive barrel tastings, wine and food pairings, and special discounts. Ring 707-302-1124 for all the details
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Nov. 16, 2007
SEATTLE, Wash - University of Washington students received a firsthand lesson in the importance of affordable homeownership today, as they watched a family begin building their own home on the UW campus with the help of Husky sports team coaches, including head men's football coach Tyrone Willingham and basketball coach Lorenzo Romar, UW athletes, students, and volunteers from Bank of America. Habitat for Humanity led the build along side Heidi Gerber and her daughter, Jessica, who will donate 500 hours of labor to help build their first home.
The Habitat build reflects a longstanding commitment by Bank of America and UW to create housing opportunities for local families. The Gerber's home will be part of the new Snoqualmie Ridge community of 4,000 new homes being built 25 miles east of Seattle. Habitat for Humanity is building 50 homes in this community for low-income families.
In addition, the Bank of America Charitable Foundation also provided a $100,000 grant to help build a Habitat home for a second family, Cathy Miller and her grandson, Karim. Bank of America volunteers have been helping the Millers build their home in Redmond since the summer. The Millers were also on hand at UW to help build the Gerber home.
"We are so pleased to have Bank of America and the University of Washington as partners in our mission to eliminate substandard housing from our community," said Tom Granger, Executive Director of Habitat for Humanity of East King County. "This wall raising and house sponsorship takes the involvement of Bank of America and the University of Washington to a new level here in this area. This high visibility event shines a spotlight on the serious problem of affordable housing in our community."
"Bank of America is pleased to further Habitat's efforts to provide affordable housing for deserving families across Puget Sound," said Peter Joers, Washington state president, Bank of America. "With this financial support and the dedication of Bank of America volunteers, we've been able to help two hard working families build their new homes."
Bank of America is a long time supporter of Habitat for Humanity, most recently announcing a $6 million donation from the Bank of America Charitable Foundation to Habitat for Humanity International that will increase the nonprofit's capacity to provide quality, affordable housing for families worldwide. Habitat for Humanity will utilize the funds to support their general operations as well as financing home construction and renovation for families around the world.
"Our athletes, cheerleaders and student volunteers have generously donated their time to be able to provide affordable housing to a very deserving family," said Todd Turner, UW's director of intercollegiate athletics. "Teaming up with our great partner, Bank of America, we are able to continue our ongoing efforts in the community and this project is a reflection of that."
Habitat-built homes are available to people living in substandard housing who earn between 25 to 50 percent of median income. Applicants must also have a two year stable work history and good credit, and must complete 500 hours of sweat equity.
What began 20 years ago as a home sponsorship program has become an expanded and multifaceted partnership. Under former Bank of America Chairman and CEO Hugh McColl Jr.'s leadership, a commitment to Habitat turned the Jimmy Carter Work Project into a 14-house "blitz build" in Charlotte and the first worldwide House Raising Week. The Bank of America Charitable Foundation has donated more than $12 million to home-building efforts with Habitat for Humanity International since 2002 as well as $200,000 to local affiliates to increase building capacity and $250,000 to Operation Home Delivery, Habitat's hurricane recovery project. The corporation has also given $600,000 to Operation Home Delivery.
About Bank of America Corporate Philanthropy
Bank of America has embarked on an unprecedented 10-year goal to give $1.5 billion to nonprofit organizations engaged in improving the quality and vitality of their neighborhoods. The Bank of America Charitable Foundation will give more than $200 million in 2007, making the bank one of the most generous corporate donors in the world. Bank of America approaches giving through a national strategy called "neighborhood excellence" under which it works with local leaders to identify and meet the most pressing needs of individual communities. Through Team Bank of America, bank associate volunteers contribute more than 500,000 hours each year to improve the quality of life in their communities nationwide. For more information about Bank of America Corporate Philanthropy, please visit www.bankofamerica.com/foundation.
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AP Calculus: Evolution of a Calculator Policy
AP Calculus: Evolution of a Calculator Policy
The College Board and Educational Testing Service (ETS) had been under pressure from some mathematics educators since the early 1980s to allow calculators on their standardized tests.
The myriad uncertainties of introducing calculators seemed to be too numerous to risk pioneering this effort on such high-volume assessments as the SAT®, so they asked the AP Calculus Development Committee what they thought about allowing calculators on the AP Calculus Exams. The Committee, aware of the capabilities of the scientific calculators available at the time, conjectured that they would not make much difference one way or the other. They therefore agreed to allow students the optional use of scientific calculators on the AP Exams in 1983 and 1984.
Calculators certainly were making a difference.
At the 1983 AP Reading (scoring of the free-response questions), it became apparent that the calculators certainly were making a difference but not in a positive direction. Students who clearly knew the calculus were being led into mistakes by the unwise use of their (obviously unfamiliar) calculators. Since the calculators were not even required, this introduced an unfortunate confounding factor into the measurement of calculus proficiency, the intended outcome of the exam. The experiment continued for a second year but only because there were no effective means for calling it off. It had failed from the start in the only way that had mattered.
The calculator question came up again in 1989
under highly different circumstances. Calculators by that time could sketch graphs of functions, run programs, and store significant quantities of data. The NCTM Standards were calling for the regular use of graphing calculators in all classes beyond grade 10, and the early architects of calculus reform, with graphing technology in mind, were stressing the graphical representations of calculus as much as the traditional analytic representations. The AP Calculus Development Committee saw the potential for the new graphing machines to enhance the teaching and learning of calculus, but their previous experiment with calculators had shown them the dangers of introducing them into the testing process without first assessing their probable impact. They had also learned that optional calculator use confounded the measurement process, so the decision this time would have to be either to disallow them or to require them -- and requiring them meant writing questions for which they would be needed.
The College Board funded a carefully-designed "calculator impact study"
in April of 1990 that led to a 100-page report from ETS measurement specialists, notably Rick Morgan, Joe Stevens, and longtime ETS-AP liaison, Chan Jones. A distinguished panel of experts from ETS, the College Board, and various mathematical societies then gathered with the Committee in October to analyze that report and suggest a course of action. Their eventual recommendation was to require scientific calculators for the 1993 and 1994 exams -- a temporary measure -- but to move the AP Program toward graphing calculators with an eye toward requiring them in 1995. Three former chairs of the Committee were among the university mathematicians who contributed at that historic meeting, but the calculator decision and many other transitional details over the next four tumultuous years would be communicated to AP teachers by one of their own: Dan Kennedy of Baylor School in Chattanooga. It was at that meeting that he became the first high school teacher to chair the AP Calculus Committee in 35 years.
No reasons for delaying implementation.
In 1993 the Committee surveyed colleges and secondary schools across the country to assess the acceptance and availability of graphing calculators. As the results of the survey turned up no reasons for delaying implementation, the first "graphing-calculator-active" exams were given in June of 1995, right on the predicted schedule. Sage observers had cautioned the Program to be prepared for a slow growth year due to the dramatic transition, yet 1995 surprisingly produced an unusually large jump in the number of AP Calculus Exams administered. While not all those students were successful, the feeling was universal that the calculator experiment was. Granted, lessons have been learned in that year and every subsequent year about how to ask and answer calculus questions in a calculator environment, but nobody who has scored the students' responses has doubted whether the questions are testing the actual understanding of calculus.
Preparing teachers to accept and utilize the graphing calculator.
The meticulous planning behind exam development was only one factor in the successful introduction of technology into AP Calculus; there was also the matter of preparing teachers to accept and utilize the graphing calculator -- not as a novelty but as an integral component of their calculus courses. With its national curriculum and its well-established program of workshops and Summer Institutes, the AP Program became the mechanism to spread the message nationally. A highly successful initiative called TICAP (Technology Intensive Calculus for Advanced Placement) conceived and directed by John Kenelly, John Harvey, and Wade Curry, the former College Board director of AP, showed the way. Before the NSF funding had run out, 125,000 AP students were learning calculus with graphing calculators in their hands. TICAP is now considered a model for achieving the goals of education reform.
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On Saturday, Jan. 18, KOMO 4 News reported that an Everett, Washington turtle trafficker plead guilty to a federal conspiracy and received a one-year prison sentence.
Nathaniel Swanson, 36, had owned Seattle Reptiles in Everett and Swanee's Exotics in Monroe. He faced federal charges along with two other men for smuggling rare and endangered turtles into China.
Swanson had asked to be sentenced to probation and described himself as a reptile lover. Prosecutors had asked that Swanson be sentenced to a federal prison term of 18 months.
Seattle U.S. Attorney Jenny Durkan said that the turtles' legs were taped inside their shells to inhibit movement - and keep them from arousing suspicion while they were being smuggled. Many of the animals died during or soon after transport.
Most of the illegally trafficked turtles were protected under international law. The surviving turtles were seized and are now living at zoos and wildlife centers. As part of his sentence, Swanson must share in the $28,500 cost of caring for the animals.
For four years, Swanson and two Hong Kong-born middlemen smuggled the rare turtles into China.
Swanson, Tak Ming Tsang, and Cheuk Yin Ko shipped protected and endangered reptiles across the Pacific. Tsang and Ko have also been prosecuted.
"While reptile trafficking may not garner the hefty price tags or media attention of ivory or certain other species such as tigers or rhinos, it is a very prolific illegal trade," Assistant U.S. Attorneys James Oesterle and Matthew Diggs said in court papers.
"The trade of reptiles as pets in Asia, combined with habitat destruction worldwide, has significantly diminished native turtle populations."
The three men were charged in May of 2013 and plead guilty to related offenses.
Most of the turtles that the three men allegedly shipped out of the U.S. were eastern box turtles, a species considered to be vulnerable to extinction.
Box turtles like the eastern box turtle are slow to mature, long lived, and have relatively few offspring per year, making the box turtle a species particularly susceptible to human-induced issues.
Swanson also allegedly smuggled at least one critically endangered Arakan forest turtle - a species long thought to be extinct.
According to ARKIVE, until 1994, the Arakan forest turtle was thought to be extinct, with the last prior sighting in 1908. Sadly, the 1994 rediscovery occurred when a few specimens were found in a Chinese food market.
According to PETA, wildlife smuggling is devastating to animal populations: animals suffer and die during transit, there is the threat of spreading disease, and wild animals are inappropriate as "pets."
During the investigation, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service agents seized several boxes containing approximately 20 turtles each.
In a letter to the court, the World Wildlife Fund stated that as habitat for freshwater turtles becomes scarce, people are eating and collecting turtles taken by hunters. More than 10 million turtles are eaten annually in Southeast Asia.
According to court records, defendant Tsang is a Hong Kong resident who has been pursuing his two-year associates degree for six years...and has been in the U.S. on a student visa for six out of the past seven years. He has yet to earn the degree.
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|Cato Policy Analysis No. 278
|August 15, 1997
by Gary Wolfram
Gary Wolfram is George Munson Professor of Political Economy at Hillsdale College in Michigan.
Executive Summary
State governments spent more than $44 billion on higher education in 1995-96. Legislators should consider the effect that direct provision of higher education has on private colleges and universities.
Private colleges are essential to diverse and independent education and to the maintenance of a civil society independent of the state.
Heavy subsidies to state-run colleges are making life difficult for the independent sector of higher education. In-state tuition covers only about 28 percent of the costs of providing an education in a public college.
At the beginning of this century, more than four of every five students were enrolled in private colleges. Now almost four of every five students are enrolled in public universities. Economic analysis suggests--not surprisingly--that below-cost tuition at public colleges draws students away from the private sector. More than 300 private colleges closed their doors between 1969-70 and 1992-93.
Legislators should stop using below-cost tuition to lure students from private to public colleges. They should eliminate direct subsidies to universities, require the universities to charge tuition sufficient to cover costs, and give financial aid directly to students, to be spent at either public or private colleges. Otherwise, we may eliminate a vital part of civil society.
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Ateneo de Manila is enjoying its best season yet in UAAP women's football by heading into the holidays atop the table, thanks to a 1- 0 victory over defending champion Far Eastern University (FEU) at the close of 2013 hostilities last week.
The Lady Eagles, who have yet to win their first UAAP crown and perennially languishing at the bottom of the standings, lead Season 76 with five points on a 2-2-0 won-drawn-lost record.
The Ateneo-FEU clash last November 27 was halted in the 56th minute because of heavy rains. It was re-played last December 20 at the FEU-Diliman pitch.
FEU, winners in three of the last six seasons, has beaten De La Salle and University of Santo Tomas (UST) before losing to Ateneo. The Lady Tamaraws share second place with the Tigresses with seven points each on identical 2-1-1 records after the first four games.
FEU, however, has a superior goal difference (+5) over UST (+1) to earn a twice-to-beat incentive in the final four.
De La Salle is in fourth place with 4 points on a 1-1-2 record. University of the Philippines, who scored a 1-1 draw with FEU to highlight their first round campaign, has not tasted victory in 13 matches dating back to Season 74 and rounds out the table with a 0-1-3 won-draw-lost record.
Hostilities resume on January 12 at Ateneo's Moro Lorenzo Field with FEU taking on UP at 1 p.m. UST facing De La Salle at 3 p.m.


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|Wrong direction is a logical fallacy of causation where the actual cause and effect are reversed. The cause is said to be the effect and vice versa.
Wikipedia's discussion of this fallacy is confusing insofar as, after giving a definition similar to the one above, they then go on to introduce examples where cause and effect are unclear, rather than factually known. But cases where the cause is unclear are already described by cum hoc ergo propter hoc (which was the subject of episode 24) or post hoc ergo propter hoc (episode 47). Therefore in this discussion I shall adhere strictly to the definition above; that is, the cases where cause and effect are factually known but fallaciously reversed.
Example 1:
The reasoning was that the people got sick because the lice left. The real reason however is that lice are extremely sensitive to body temperature. A small increase of body temperature, such as in a fever, will make the lice look for another host. The medical thermometer had not yet been invented, so this increase in temperature was rarely noticed. Noticeable symptoms came later, giving the impression that the lice left before the person got sick.
Example 2:
This is a wrong direction fallacy because the preponderance of evidence is that most apparent terrorism is covertly carried out by, or instigated by, security agencies. So the actual causal relationship is that it is the power of the security agencies that ultimately causes terrorism.
Example 3:
This is a wrong direction fallacy because the harmful social effects of narcotic drugs are mostly caused by their illegality. In the typical case, a narcotic drug had less problems associated with it before it was made illegal as compared to after it was made illegal.
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A seven-car crash closed the northbound lanes of U.S. Highway 1 in Jensen Beach on Friday night.
Authorities with the Martin County Sheriff's Office said the crash happened near Northwest Goldenrod Road.
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For the average mobile phone user, the built-in battery is typically powerful enough for an average day's use. However, there are specific applications where the built-in battery is not sufficient. These scenarios include extended use of GPS navigation such as when the phone is used for geocaching or using VOIP services such as FreedomPop. Then, there are smartphone addicts who are glued to their devices 18 hours a day and the need for a mobile power pack becomes increasingly necessary.
Battery packs come in a variety of form factors and capacities. The early generation of battery packs simply repackaged cheap existing cylinder Li-Ion battery packs into bulky bricks with little thought to aesthetics or design.
JLAB managed to design a beautiful sleek power pack that would feel right at home next to the monolith in Stanley Kubrick and Arthur C. Clarke's 2001: A Space Odyssey. The JLAB Volt packs an impressive 5000 mAh in a form factor well suited to be paired with most smartphones. The 2.75" x 5.25" x 3/8" aluminum clad case is sturdy with a texture reminiscent of a vinyl record (for those old enough to have seen one). When stacked with an iPhone 5 or Samsung Galaxy S4, it's nearly a perfect match.
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JLAB is currently offering it for $39.99, which is $10 less than what they are selling it for on Amazon.


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How America's Largest Worker Owned Co-Op Lifts People Out of Poverty
by Laura FlandersAug 14, 2014
- Cooperative Home Care Associates' 2,300 workers enjoy good wages, regular hours, and family health insurance. With an investment of $1.2 million into the cooperative sector, New York City is hoping to build on the group's success.
Gar Alperovitz on Why the New Economy Movement Needs to Think Big
by Scott GastJul 02, 2014
- His new book, "What Then Must We Do?" imagines how a new economic system might actually emerge, from the bottom up, in the next few decades.
Worker-Owned Co-ops Get $1 Million in NYC Spending
by Liz PleasantJun 27, 2014
- New York City's newly approved budget allocates $1.2 million for developing and supporting worker-owned cooperative businesses.
Will Jackson, Miss., Be the New Co-op Capital of the South?
May 23, 2014
- Three months after the death of Jackson's radical mayor, the city's residents are working to make his vision of cooperative economics a reality.
This Omaha Bike Shop Is Training a New Generation of Cyclists
May 12, 2014
- "Pretty soon they're using it to travel downtown and expand their understanding of the community they live in."
After Death of Radical Mayor, Mississippi's Capital Wrestles With His Economic Vision
by Laura FlandersApr 01, 2014
- Mayor Chokwe Lumumba implemented only the first steps of his plan to address Jackson's extreme income inequality, which most seriously affected black residents. Now the city faces a choice between vastly different approaches to economic development.
Mondragón and the System Problem
by Gar Alperovitz, Thomas M. HannaMar 24, 2014
- Among the lessons of a major cooperative business' bankruptcy: The success of big co-ops might depend on things like radically reforming transportation and other parts of the larger economy.
Infographic: A Guided Tour of the New Economy
Mar 03, 2014
- What will the transition to a "new economy" really look like? To find out, explore this interactive infographic from the group New England New Economy Transition.
A Year After Sandy, a Co-op Alliance Could Bring Jobs Back to the Rockaways
by Laura FlandersOct 29, 2013
- Last year, Sandy massively disrupted of some of the East Coast's neighborhood economies. But worker-owned cooperatives are creating jobs with real wealth and meaning.
Co-Op Academy Teaches Workers to Build Green and Cooperative Businesses
Aug 14, 2013
- GRITtv's Laura Flanders speaks with the founder of the program and takes you inside one of its classes.
Mark Dworkin and Melissa Young: A New Economy for Present Times
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Worker-Owned Window Factory Opens for Business
May 09, 2013
- When the company known as Republic Windows and Doors closed its Chicago factory, the workers raised the money to buy back the company themselves. The worker-owned cooperative they formed opens today.
From Housing to Health Care, 7 Co-ops That Are Changing Our Economy
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- How manufacturers, retailers, restaurants, and others are doing business the cooperative way.
"10 Reasons Why Co-ops Rock" Poster
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- Toolbox for Education and Social Change has a great classroom tool on cooperatives. You can buy its "10 Reasons Why Co-ops Rock" poster at pay-what-you-want prices. Available in Spanish, too.
Occupy Sandy Funds Growth of Worker-Owned Co-Ops
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Angry Birds seem to be everywhere these days. They were a popular hHalloween costume this year and have been seen on everything from t-shirts, plush dolls and keychains to inflatable funhouse castles, streaming media players and gummy candies.
So is should come as no surprised that Rovio Entertainment's birds have made their way into the world of Formula One sponsorship, covering the helmet of Caterham driver Heikki Kovalainen. The Finn says he's a big fan of the game – and not just because Rovio is from Finland.
Rumour has it that Angry Birds will get a racing-themed update sometime this summer (as well as even more branded merchandise), so fans of the grumpy flying avians should keep their eyes open. Pictures and the full press release are below.
Caterham's press release:
Angry Birds flies into Formula 1 with Heikki Kovalainen Kovalainen and Rovio to collaborate on an innovative and novel merchandise and webgame partnership.
March 15, 2012 — Espoo, Finland — Rovio Entertainment announced today their merchandising and webgame partnership with Finnish Formula 1 star Heikki Kovalainen. Kovalainen will also be sporting a brand new co-branded Angry Birds helmet, which will debut at this weekend's inaugural Formula 1 race in Melbourne, Australia.
"This is a great partnership on many levels," said Heikki Kovalainen. "It's the first time that I've partnered with a gaming company, and it fits with my larger focus on partnering with unique brands. As a Finn, I'm also happy to be backing a Finnish company on a global platform. Most importantly, I'm a big Angry Birds fan!"
"We're so excited to be working with Heikki on this, the first partnership of its kind in F1," said Harri Koponen, EVP Consumer Products at Rovio Entertainment. "The helmet looks amazing, and we think people are really going to enjoy the webgame and merchandise."
Martin Anayi of IMG Worldwide worked closely with Mikael Hästbacka of Numea Consulting to bring Heikki and Rovio Entertainment together, based on Heikki's enthusiasm for supporting Finnish companies looking for an international platform. With Angry Birds being a true online phenomenon, having recently flown through 17mn 'likes' on Facebook alone, a collaboration with Heikki and the Finnish company seemed like a natural fit.
The co-branded merchandise line will be released later this spring with the webgame, which will feature fun Angry Birds game levels with a racing theme in addition to other bespoke content, launching later in the summer.
For more information, check www.rovio.com or contact email@example.com andwww.heikkikovalainen.com.
About Rovio Entertainment
Rovio is an industry-changing entertainment media company based in Finland, and the creator of the globally successful Angry Birds franchise. Angry Birds, a casual puzzle game, became an international phenomenon within a year of release, and is now the number one paid app of all time. Following this success in mobile gaming, Angry Birds has expanded rapidly in entertainment, publishing, and licensing to become a beloved international brand. For more information, see www.rovio.com.