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Remember Rick Santorum, former top social conservative senator from Pennsylvania? Well, he's probably running for president. And he just can't stand Barack Obama's position on abortion, which is "almost remarkable for a black man" to have.
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Potential 2012 presidential candidate and former Sen. Rick Santorum (R-PA) doesn't understand how President Obama could not answer whether a "human life" is protected by the Constitution from the moment of conception: "The question is — and this is what Barack Obama didn't want to answer — is that human life a person under the Constitution? And Barack Obama says no. Well if that person — human life is not a person, then — I find it almost remarkable for a black man to say, 'we're going to decide who are people and who are not people.'"
Ugh! The "Since Barack Obama is black, he should understand X" line of argumentation must never be used. It's so cheap. When Obama was moving slowly (or not at all) on various gay rights issues during his first two years, you'd occasionally read on some gay blogs, "you'd think that since he's black, he'd be more sympathetic to other civil rights movements." And now, with abortion, it's, "you'd think that since he's black, he'd be more appreciative of zygotes," or something. It's not a winning formulation.


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Attorney-GeneralSenator the Hon George Brandis QC
Minister for the Environment The Hon Greg Hunt MP
The Government today announced that Cabinet has decided to establish a Royal Commission into the former government's Home Insulation Programme which tragically cost the lives of four young men and caused extensive damage to property and lives. This is in line with the promise announced during the election campaign.
The Government will shortly recommend Terms of Reference to the Governor-General for her consideration and recommend the appointment of an eminent lawyer as the Royal Commissioner. The Terms of Reference and the identity of the Royal Commissioner will be published as soon as they have been approved by the Governor-General.
The Royal Commission will focus on:
The Commission will examine all relevant matters from the inception of the policy to the finalisation of the programme and will take into account the findings of coronial inquests and other inquiries into the Home Insulation Programme.
This Royal Commission will give the families of the four young men—Matthew Fuller, Rueben Barnes, Mitchell Sweeney and Marcus Wilson—who died while installing insulation, the answers they have been seeking.
Importantly, the Government consulted the families in developing the proposed Terms of Reference for the Royal Commission. The Commission is to report on or before 30 June 2014.

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An introduction to the methods and subject matter of philosophy, through detailed examination of several important philosophical issues: personal identity and the possibility of immortality, the rationality of belief in God, and the nature of ethical obligation. Readings will be drawn from historical and contemporary sources.
Open to Global Opportunities RAP students only.
This class meets in Northeast Residential Area
Consideration of some of the most important theories about right and wrong, good and evil, and virtue and vice. In each case, one focus will be on clear and accurate formulation of the theory. Another focus will be on understanding and evaluating classic objections to the theory. Readings from Plato, Aristotle, Epicurus, Bentham, Mill, Kant, Ross, Moore, and others.
Survey of theories of the ideal relation between citizens and states, focusing on classic defenses and critiques of the state, democracy, citizenship, civil disobedience, gender, and problems of globalization.
Open to students in any RAP program from the Southwest Residential Area.
An introduction to ethics through issues of medicine and health care. Topics include abortion, treatment of impaired infants, euthanasia, physician-assisted suicide, truth-telling, medical experimentation on human beings and on animals, and the allocation of scarce medical resources.
This class will provide a survey of some of the topics in medical ethics, with possible topics including cloning, distribution of medical resources, homosexuality, abortion, and animal experimentation.
This course is a survey of texts from the early modern period (16th-18th centuries) by canonical male, and recently rediscovered female, European rationalist and empiricist philosophers. Figures may include Descartes, Elisabeth of Bohemia, Malebranche, Astell, Cavendish, Berkeley, and Hume. Historical and literary interpretation will supplement philosophical analysis in reconstructing the arguments in these works. Students are expected to utilize critical reasoning skills in their evaluations of these arguments. Students will have ample opportunity to demonstrate their mastery of interpretive and analytical skills in the weekly at-home writing assignment, and in the essay exams. The course will focus on central metaphysical, theological and epistemological themes, including scepticism, causation, mind-body problems, the mechanical account of bodies, the existence of God, the problem of induction, and a priori knowledge. Given the importance and breadth of the texts and topics covered, the stress on critical evaluation of arguments, and the emphasis on written and verbal expression, this course meets the objectives of the General Education (Historical Studies) curriculum. Prerequisites: two courses in philosophy. This course is not open to students who have taken Phil 330 with the instructor.
An introduction to topics concerning the nature of space and time. The first third of the course will focus on questions concerning the nature of space and time in Newtonian mechanics. From there, we transition from space and time to spacetime, and an introduction to the special and general theories of relativity. The last third of the course will focus on questions concerning the metaphysics of time and the possibility of time travel. Requirements: at least two courses in philosophy and a strong stomach for math and physics.
The title of this course is "Matters of Taste". We will discus various topics relating to both aesthetic and gustatory taste such as: What does it mean to say someone has good taste -- do some people have better tastes in art, literature, music, or food than others? What is the relationship between aesthetic taste and gustatory taste? What is the nature of beauty and what is its relationship to aesthetic taste? What is the importance of taste or beauty in life and in art? What is the relationship between pleasure and taste? What are the limits of taste -- can disturbing or revolting things be aesthetically valuable? Note: this is course in aesthetics and not a survey course on the philosophy of art (though we will cover many issues relating to taste in art.)
This course will be a close reading of Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics in tandem with important commentary literature, including two or three published papers by authors who once took a similar course at UMass. Students will be expected to make one or two presentations on sections of Aristotle, plus one or two presentations on a commentary piece, and then write a seminar paper at the end. Texts: Aristotle, The Nicomachean Ethicsm Oxford (Ross ranslation), and The Blackwell Guide to Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics, Richard Kraut, ed., Blackwell, 2006, plus two or three xeroxed papers.
We will begin with an examination of Aristotle's metaphysical views about gender difference, as well as some key medieval and Renaissance texts on this issue. These works will give us the historical backdrop to the seventeenth- and eighteenth-century debates about gender equality and difference. We will examine Gournay's use of Pyrrhonean sceptical arguments, and Schurman's use of Aristotelian views and his syllogistic logic, in addressing issues about women's moral and cognitive abilities, and the social roles appropriate for women. We will then turn to recent debates in the secondary literature about whether Descartes' philosophical method and his doctrine of mind-body distinctness helped to pave the way for a post-Aristotelian, early modern picture of gender difference—one in which women would play little or no role in the search after scientific knowledge. In order to have a better historical grasp of these issues, we will look at the strikingly different views about gender difference in the work of two of Descartes' 17th-century followers, Poullain de la Barre and Malebranche, as well as Lambert's 18th-century response to them. The end of the course will be devoted to Enlightenment debates on gender just prior to the French Revolution; we will focus on the work of Rousseau and Wollstonecraft, among others. Prerequisites for undergraduates: two 300-level courses in philosophy. The course will be conducted as a seminar.


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Bosko explores the musical possibilities of war.
A war is raging, and Bosko is whistling a happy tune and oiling his airplane as bombs burst all around him. An enemy pilot spots Bosko and drops a bomb right on him, leaving Bosko and his plane huddling in a crater. Angry, Bosko starts up his plane and takes to the skies to chase down the enemy pilot. Bosko pulls out his machine gun and begins firing at the enemy plane. The enemy pilot pulls out a huge cannon, and a few shots destroys Bosko's plane and sends him falling to Earth. He bounces off a piano and lands in a pair of long underwear. He spots Honey prancing by the remains of the bombed-out house and approaches her. "Parlez vous?" he asks. Bosko has to repeat himself a few times before Honey understands and replies with "Ooooo, wee wee!". "Ooooo la la!!" shouts Bosko as he plants a big kiss on Honey. She walks away uninterested, to which Bosko comments "Well shut my mouth!". He goes over to the piano and begins playing. Honey eventually begins to dance in the remains of the bombed-out house. The enemy pilot spots them and drops a bomb on them, leaving Honey dazed and Bosko plucking at harp strings. Now angrier than before, Bosko creates a makeshift plane out of a stove pipe, a meat grinder, a bench, a pot, a broom and a dachshund. He grabs a picket fence and uses the meat grinder to shoot the pickets into the rear of the enemy plane. The enemy pulls out his machine gun and begins firing at Bosko, but Bosko takes the stove pipe and bends it into a "U" shape, shooting the enemy's bullets right back at him. The enemy takes out his cannon again, and shoots it right into the dog's mouth. Bosko squeezes it out of the dog and back at the enemy plane, smashing it into a swarm of miniature planes. Bosko takes out some bug spray and shoots the mini-planes out of the air. Bosko spits at the one tiny plane that remains, and then laughs cheerfully.
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Black through the years. (7-8)
OK, so this is really the polar opposite of transformation. Angelou creates an image of stasis so we can see just how devastating the transformations of Stanza 2 actually are. Notice the sense of eternal continuity in these lines. It makes it almost impossible to imagine that anything would ever change. Of course, that's why the changes seem so unbelievable to begin with.
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Thus she has lain. (17)
Tricked you! You thought we were done with this quote, didn't you? Well, here's the sneaky part – it actually appears several times in the poem. At the end of Stanza 2, however, it means something drastically different than it did in Stanza 1. Now it's a poignant testimony to all that the continent has suffered at the hands of slavers. The land may lie without change, but its people are being uprooted.


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LETTER: How can prayer offend unbelievers?
Published: Monday, September 9, 2013 at 8:00 p.m.
Last Modified: Monday, September 9, 2013 at 8:18 p.m.
Dear Editor: In recent articles in The Tuscaloosa News, I have been impressed with the unbeliever's attitude toward those who openly pray to God.
One comment from a person who sees the need for public prayers was, "We need more prayer in America, not less." I hope I quoted this person correctly, and I agree with it 100 percent.
I was taught to pray in the 1930s by loving parents. My wife and I would not go through any day without talking to God several times. I have led prayers in a school, in a courthouse, in visiting inmates in local jails and many other places. I need not apologize to the unbelievers. I find it very difficult to understand how my prayers (or any believer's prayer) could offend the unbeliever.
To attack the sincere praying person is also to question our God who teaches us to pray. America, let's do more praying! We all certainly need prayer.
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- Understanding how good typography promotes reading
- Choosing web-safe fonts
- Applying web fonts in CSS with @font-face
- Adding and applying the Google Fonts syntax
- Finding and applying a good font size, line height, and line length
- Improving a color palette by improving contrast and reducing optical vibration
- Understanding how people mentally organize, or chunk, visual elements
- Applying a system of hierarchy in HTML and CSS
- Applying vertical spacing in CSS
- Adding emphasis within a heading
- Understanding classic and modernist typographic pages
- Adding a list of links
- Creating drop caps
- Fixing quotation marks, apostrophes, and dashes
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In this lesson, we're going to add rule lines to our sans serif bibliography. First, I want to go over some of the things to think about when using rule lines. Rule lines can be used to help chunk text for readers, but they should be used sparingly. If you use a rule line for everything, they lose their power. We lose the strong visual separation between sections, and instead we see a page of lines. Also, when you create lines, use the principle of similarity. If rule lines are meant to separate text into similar chunks of information, the lines should look similar to each other.
If we use lines that look too different from each other, they began to suggest that each section is unique in some way. Here, it looks like the second section is subordinate to the first, like it's a subsection of the top section, but it's not. Here the first section looks more like an introduction to the second section, because the thick rule line below looks like it's the start of the main content, like it's more important even though it's not. On the other hand, sometimes you need to use different kinds of rule lines when there is a different kind of separation.
For example, if we were to add a footer to this layout and wanted to add a rule line, using the exact same kind of rule line might cause a momentary confusion. We expect the rule line to mean, here is a footer separated from the rest of the page. In this case, using a different kind of rule, maybe one that's dotted or a different color will help the reader see immediately that ohhh, whatever comes after this line is different from what came after the other lines. When working with rule lines, you also want to keep them as subtle as possible.
We'll see them, they'll work. You don't have to hit us over the head with them. You might try using a color that stands out less or a thinner rule line to help keep the lines subtle. Finally, keep the rule lines closer to the text they belong to. Here, the rule line suggests the section above it is ending. It draws our eyes to the text above it. Here, the rule line suggests that the next section is beginning. It draws our eyes to the text below it. Here, the rule is just in the middle, which is fine.
It separates the space. But we lose the extra hierarchy gained when visually associating the rule with the text it belongs to. The rule has less meaning here than it does here. It's a subtle difference, but it helps with the chunking. So okay, let's add a 1-pixel rule line to the top of each of the sections in our bibliography. We'll keep the color the same as the text so the rules don't pop out so much and we'll keep it simple. You need the files biblio_sans_rule.html and biblio_sans_rule.css from the Exercise folder.
Open the HTML file in the browser to see what we're working with. The page is just like we left it the last time. All the sections are neatly wrapped in their divs. Let's add the rule lines. We'll do this in our CSS file. We're going to add the rule line above each section. So we'll do it by adding a top border to each section div. So here's our section_container.
We'll add border-top. We're going to make it 1 pixel solid and we're going to use the same color as our text. Quick thing to do here is we can just actually copy that and paste it down here, so we've got a good match, and this will give us a simple 1 pixel solid blue line at the top of each section div. Let's save that and refresh. There we are! It's coming in here.
I think it's maybe a little bit too tight to the text. So we're going to go back in and add a little space. We're going to add padding to the top of our section container because padding gives us space inside the div, so the space will be inside between the border and the content. We'll add padding-top and let's see. We're going to try 1em. So this will give us 10 pixels of space.
We're going to start with this amount of space because it's double the amount of space that we used between our authors and our descriptions and I'd like to try to keep things sort of mathematically related. It gives me a place to start. We can refresh that and see that's working much better. It doesn't feel like it's only connected with that one title. But now the problem is I think we need a little bit more space above the rule line to really help the sections sort of separate from each other. Back in our CSS, we're going to add space above the rule line by using a margin, because margins add space outside of the div.
So the space will be outside of the border, between the border and the div above it. We'll add a margin-top. We're going to try 1.4 em. I'm starting with that measurement because that equals the measurement of our text. We're already using that measurement elsewhere in this file. I'm saving it. We can review it. I think that looks good. That looks like a good separation there. One of the things I'm going to do is I'm going to take the time to scroll up and down.
I know that top is a little tight still. We'll fix that later. I think this is looking really good. All right! So with the rule lines in place, the hierarchy is all set for this version of the bibliography.


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The Baltimore Ravens play the Tennesee Titans at 4:30PM today. I expect this to be a defensive battle. They did play earlier in the year with the Titans winning by a score of 13-10. I expect a very similar game with the Titans winning 17-14. The weather will not be a factor in this game with 45 degree temperatures and no precipitation. The Arizona Cardinals travel to Carolina to face the Panthers tonight at 8:15PM. The Cardinals are 0-5 on the east coast this year and i dont expect them to get their first win tonight. The Cards may be without star wideout Boldin and that is not good for them. I expect the Panthers to win 28-14 and that may be genrous. The two games tomorrow will feature the Super Bowl Champion Giants hosting the Philadelphia Eagles who are flying high at 1:00PM tomorrow. The weather for this game will be a factor with 15-25mph winds expected and frigid temperaturs. I expect a rough and tough NFC east battle. I see the Giants prevailing by a score of 24-17. I think the Giants will get to McNabb a little and slow down Westbrook especially with the passing games being taken out by the weather. I think the Giants will run it and wear the eagles D down and control the time of posession. Tomorrow night will feature the San Diego Chargers traveling to Pittsburgh to face the Steelers. The weather will be a factor in this one as well. The temperature is supposed to be 24 degrees with 9 mph winds and a 10 percent chance of snow. I dont see anyway that the Chargers survive this game. I am calling the Steelers 21-10. If my predictions hold true we will have the 1 vs 2 seed in both conferences which will set up nicely. Enjoy the games on this cold,snowy day here in New Jersey. Go Big Blue
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This is Narcissus seated at a brook. From Harbiye, second century AD.
From the Enc. Britt.: in Greek mythology, the son of the river god Cephissus and the nymph Leiriope; he was distinguished for his beauty. His mother was told that he would have a long life, provided he never looked upon his own features. His rejection, however, of the love of the nymph Echo or of his lover Ameinias drew upon him the vengeance of the gods. He fell in love with his own reflection in the waters of a spring and pined away (or killed himself); the flower that bears his name sprang up where he died. According to another source, Narcissus, to console himself for the death of his beloved twin sister, his exact counterpart, sat gazing into the spring to recall her features.
The story may have derived from the ancient Greek superstition that it was unlucky or even fatal to see one's own reflection.
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Trying out UEFI boot security on a recent Linux system
State of the Boot
Opinions differ on the UEFI boot security system, but one thing is certain: Secure Boot is here to stay. We thought it was time to ask, "How hard is it to boot a popular Linux distribution in a UEFI Secure Boot environment?"
The Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) swept into the headlines a couple years ago as a comprehensive replacement for the BIOS system used to boot millions of personal computers around the world. UEFI, which is essentially "a specification that defines a software interface between an operating system and platform firmware," [1] is a vast project, with features that affect device drivers, time services, and many other aspects of computer operation. However, the feature that has captured the most attention is a controversial component known as Secure Boot.
UEFI Secure Boot was billed as a feature for making sure an "unauthorized" operating system doesn't take over the system, and the Linux community quickly realized that "unauthorized" means something more like "non-Microsoft."
Since then, open source coders have developed some techniques for co-existing with UEFI Secure Boot, and some Linux projects have even made their peace with Microsoft to become officially "authorized" through Microsoft's certificate authority.
Now that the smoke has cleared and the leading Linux distros have had time to respond to the challenges of UEFI Secure Boot, we thought it was a good time to take a look at the state of Secure Boot and Linux.
More on UEFI
The UEFI specification supports easily extensible firmware through a variety of modules. These modules include an embedded network module for remote maintenance, as well as modules for digital rights management and BIOS emulation. The Secure Boot technology included with UEFI checks to see whether the bootloader is signed with a cryptographic key that authorizes a firmware contained in the database. By checking the signature of the bootloader, the kernel, and possibly other userspace code, UEFI firmware can prohibit unsigned software from running on the system.
Windows 8, which is the first operating system to implement the full range of UEFI Secure Boot features, can thus prevent the execution of malicious code. However, the owner of the computer can no longer freely choose which operating system to install.
Secure Boot
UEFI Secure Boot validates the boot process. The UEFI specification 2.4 defines the following components and processes for this purpose:
- A programming interface for accessing cryptographically protected UEFI variables in flash memory
- A format for storing X.509 certificates in UEFI variables
- A method for validating the bootloader and the drivers using Authenticode signatures
- A mechanism for revocation of compromised certificates and signatures
UEFI Secure Boot distinguishes between the keys listed in Table 1 and Figure 1.
Table 1
UEFI Keys
Platform Key (PK)
Usually a key provided by the hardware manufacturer (OEM); the PK allows the manipulation of the KEK. Only one PK is possible.
Key Exchange Key (KEK)
Multiple certificates possible; different keys possible for different OS vendors (e.g., Microsoft KEK CA); the KEK allows manipulation of the db and dbx.
Authorized DB (db)
Multiple certificates and hashes possible (e.g., Microsoft Windows Production CA); for identifying trusted code.
Unauthorized DB (dbx)
Multiple certificates or hashes possible; for identifying compromised code or malicious code.
Furthermore, the specification describes two modes that Secure Boot can assume. The first is Setup mode. A UEFI firmware system whose Secure Boot implementation is operating in Setup mode does not protect the certificate store against tampering. In Setup mode, it is possible to save certificates and hashes in the UEFI certificate store, or remove them from the store, on a running operating system. This mode is used primarily to set up Secure Boot.
User mode severely restricts manipulation of the certificate store. Changes are no longer possible without authentication from the active operating system. To change the db or dbx certificate store, you need authorization by means of the private key stored in the KEK store of the certificate. Changing the KEK and PK store, however, requires the private key of the deposited platform key certificate.
Switching from User mode to Setup mode is possible by removing the platform keys. Removing a platform key requires knowledge of the private key associated with the platform key. Alternatively, you can use the UEFI Setup interface to change to Setup mode. Entering the Setup interface requires access to the hardware and, if necessary, knowledge of passwords.
UEFI Secure Boot does not prevent the installation of malware or modification of the bootloader, but it does ensure the reliability of the boot process. If the trustworthiness of the bootloader cannot be guaranteed, booting is prevented (shown in simplified form in Figure 2).
Secure Boot with Windows
Microsoft supports Secure Boot as of Windows 8. However, Secure Boot is not mandatory for the functionality of the operating system. You can't use older Microsoft operating systems with an active Secure Boot feature because Microsoft does not provide a signed bootloader for these older systems.
Hardware manufacturers who want to display the Windows 8 logo on their systems must support UEFI Secure Boot and enable the Secure Boot feature on delivery. Therefore, these systems must also have the necessary key material in the UEFI firmware. This key material includes, at a minimum, the Microsoft Windows Production PCA 2011 certificate that is used by Microsoft for signing its own products. Additionally, the hardware manufacturers can store other Microsoft certificates (e.g., the Microsoft Corporation UEFI CA 2011 certificate) and their own certificates in UEFI memory.
UEFI Secure Boot has mainly been used on client systems thus far. Future Microsoft operating systems are likely to make this technology available on server systems or even enforce its use.
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The former scrum-half took charge of Wales for the summer tour of Australia in the absence of injured full-time head coach Warren Gatland, who broke both his heels in a fall.
And Howley has now revealed that he will again take the reins for the autumn internationals against Argentina and Samoa.
As Gatland — pencilled in to head up the Lions tour of Australia in 2013 — spends time preparing for that task by scouting opposition, Howley will benefit from his absence as he gets the opportunity to further develop his top-level coaching and organisational skills by leading Wales into the aforementioned autumn games prior to Gatland's return for the New Zealand and Australia Tests.
Significantly, Howley has also revealed that he will then most likely be at the helm for Wales' Six Nations campaign, an important and timely yardstick of his development at international level on a coaching criteria.
"England play the Wallabies on the weekend of our Samoan game and Warren will be able to watch that, which will be great for us in terms of our preparation for taking on Australia," Howley revealed. "Then the plan is I will be in charge again through the Six Nations.
"Hopefully next season will be a chance for me to get some wins under my belt as Wales coach. I'm very competitive and I want to win."
After a 3-0 series whitewash in Australia this summer Howley received a very stark reality check of just what is involved on the front line, but as a former international and Wales backs coach since 2008 he has more than enough experience to know how to deal with that.
Additionally, the closeness of those defeats in Australia, particularly the second and third Tests, gave plenty of encouragement to Howley as he led a group of players with whom he has been working closely for some time on a respectable tour Down Under.
"Ultimately international rugby is about results," he said at the same time as he revealed his potential head coaching duties for Wales. "Any head coach will tell you that. That's where you will be judged and I'm not hiding away from the 3-0 whitewash in Australia.
"The challenge now is to learn the lessons from that and put those lessons into practice come the autumn."
There will be few doubters that Howley will be fully able to rise to that challenge, as he continues on a pathway to what is surely a permanent full-time position in the future.
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History Of Nari Niketan
Partition of the country brought a great gift to Jalandhar in 1947.
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A post office in Lyndon Center, Vermont, will need to find a new home next year.
For nearly 60 years, the post office has been in a building leased from the Lyndon Institute. The lease is expiring in March 2015 and the institute has notified the post office it won't be renewed because it has plans to use the building.
The Caledonian Record reports the post office is conducting a 60-day search for an alternate location that's nearby, or possibly close the office, which doesn't have its own postmaster and is not staffed full time.
Other small post offices in the area, including East Haven, Cabot, West Danville, are due to have their hours cut and lose a postmaster position.


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The Splendour Falls on Castle Walls
by Alfred Lord Tennyson
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Exactly how steamy is this poem?
Shmoopers, there's not a lot of sex happening here. The speaker is alone in the mountains, watching a sunset. (Yes, this would be a great spot to take a date, but he seems to be alone—apart from the mysterious bugler—at the time the poem is taking place.)


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- Oct 3:
- Jahi McMath: Family breaks silence on brain-dead girl's condition
- Oct 2:
- Jahi McMath: Attorney shows video he says proves Oakland girl moves feet, hands at mother's commands
- Oct 1:
- Jahi McMath: Family seeks to have brain-death ruling overturned, girl declared alive
- Aug 17:
- Reports that Jahi McMath is coming home are false
- Jun 20:
- Jahi McMath: Experts say New Jersey 'best destination' for brain-dead patients
- Jun 18:
- Jahi McMath being kept at New Jersey hospital
- Jun 13:
- Jahi McMath: Brain-dead Oakland girl receives certificate from school
- Jun 12:
- Jahi McMath getting diploma for eighth grade, family says
- Jun 11:
- Jahi McMath: Family pushing school to grant brain-dead teen's diploma
- Mar 13:
- Jahi McMath: Family calls state report 'B.S.'; new medical record details emerge
- Jahi McMath: State releases report on Children's Hospital Oakland's handling of patients
- Feb 27:
- Jahi McMath's family to get award from Terri Schiavo foundation
- Feb 19:
- Jahi McMath: Complete text of letter from brain-dead girl's mother
- Jahi McMath 'much better,' her mother says
- Feb 1:
- Jahi McMath: Is it safe to have tonsil surgery at Children's Hospital Oakland?
- Jan 27:
- Jahi McMath video claims to show her feet and toes move
- Jan 25:
- Jahi McMath: five similar brain death legal cases
- Jahi McMath: Could her case change how California determines death?
- Jan 17:
- John Horgan: Don't be too quick to judge Jahi McMath's family
- John Horgan: Readers react to Jahi McMath commentary
- Jan 9:
- Jahi McMath: Medical experts say organ failure inevitable
- Jan 8:
- Jahi McMath: Girl given breathing, feeding tubes, attorney says
- Jan 7:
- Jahi McMath: Streetfighting lawyer takes heat, death threats for brain-dead Oakland girl's family
- Jan 6:
- Jahi McMath: Family says brain-dead teen's body may be too deteriorated to save
- Document: Medical analysis of Jahi McMath's deteriorating condition
- Jahi McMath: Brain-dead girl moved to undisclosed care facility
- Jan 5:
- Jahi McMath: Brain-dead teen's family moves her from Children's Hospital Oakland
- Jahi McMath: Timeline of events in case of brain-dead Oakland teen
- Jahi McMath: 13-year-old brain-dead Oakland girl moved by family from hospital
- Jan 3:
- Daniel Borenstein: Mischaracterizations of Jahi's condition ignites insane legal fight
- Jahi McMath: Mom can remove brain-dead daughter from hospital, judge rules
- Jan 2:
- Jahi McMath: Case heads to federal court Friday
- Jan 1:
- Jahi McMath family spends first day of 2014 searching for doctor to help get teen to New York facility
- Dec 31:
- Document: Hospital decries Jahi McMath family's wishes to keep her on ventilator
- Jahi McMath may be transferred to treatment center in New York
- Jahi McMath: Terri Schiavo group secretly leading transfer efforts
- Jahi McMath: Hospital fights in court to remove brain-dead girl from ventilator
- Dec 30:
- Jahi McMath: Judge's order keeping girl on ventilator reinvigorates family
- Jahi McMath: Judge extends order keeping girl on ventilator
- Dec 29:
- Jahi McMath: Statement of Children's Hospital Oakland
- Jahi McMath: Mom and lawyer say only remaining option for brain-dead girl is a New York care facility
- Dec 28:
- Jahi McMath: Family, attorney release letter addressing critics
- Jahi McMath: Family trying to raise money to get 13-year-old airlifted out of state
- Dec 27:
- Jahi McMath: Hospital open to transferring brain-dead teen but won't perform surgery required by admitting facilities
- Jahi McMath: Children's Hospital Oakland agrees to release brain-dead girl to long-term care
- Contra Costa Times editorial: No one recovers from being brain dead
- Dec 26:
- Jahi McMath: Family ready to move brain-dead girl to new facility; hospital may refuse surgery request
- Jahi McMath: 2 years ago, a girl wound up severely brain damaged following similar surgery
- Jahi McMath: Family says they'll move brain-dead girl to another Bay Area facility
- Dec 25:
- Jahi McMath: Family tries to have normal holiday celebration in hospital waiting room
- Dec 24:
- Lost in the divisive battle over Jahi McMath is a mother's undeniable love
- Jahi McMath: Judge denies petition to keep girl on ventilator past Dec. 30
- Dec 23:
- Jahi McMath: Judge extends order to keep brain-dead girl on ventilator
- Dec 22:
- Faith leaders call on prosecutors to investigate Jahi McMath case
- Oakland: Need for tonsillectomies in question
- Dec 21:
- Jahi, her mom and 13 days at Children's Hospital Oakland
- Jahi McMath: Medicine's ability to keep a heart beating complicates how death is perceived
- Oakland: Emotional letter from Jahi McMath's mom to keep daughter 'warm'
- Dec 20:
- Oakland: Judge grants restraining order keeping Jahi McMath on ventilator through Monday
- Family of Oakland girl on ventilator furious after meeting with hospital officials
- Dec 18:
- Jahi McMath prayer vigil: "God knows we want a miracle"
- Family of Oakland girl on life support after tonsil surgery calls for international prayer vigil
- Dec 16:
- Family furious, hospital investigating after tonsil surgery leaves girl brain-dead
- Oakland: Girl declared brain dead after tonsil surgery may be taken off life support Tuesday
- Dec 15:
- Oakland girl, 13, declared brain-dead after tonsil surgery
Jahi McMath remains on life support at Children's Hospital Oakland nearly a week after doctors declared her brain dead; she had tonsil surgery on Dec. 9 to help her with sleep apnea but began bleeding and experienced cardiac arrest later that night. Doctors declared her brain dead on Dec. 12.
Her family held a vigil Wednesday night, meeting with friends and supporters at a church in Oakland, while people from around the world pledged on social media to pray for Jahi.
Amid the contentiousness to be expected after a seemingly routine surgery ends in tragedy, her family has said that hospital officials have been insensitive to their grief, pressuring them to agree to have the girl taken off life support.
Christopher Dolan, the family's attorney, said Wednesday that Jahi's mother, Nailah Winkfield, had asked the hospital for her child's records. A clerk initially agreed to give her the records, but a senior hospital staff member intervened, saying the records were "not final" and that "the doctors needed an opportunity to review their records to see if there were any 'errors' or any additional information that needed to be provided," Dolan said in an email Wednesday.
The family filed a formal request for the records Tuesday, but as of Wednesday, they had not been produced, Dolan said.
The hospital's chief of pediatrics, David Durand, said in an emailed statement that "Jahi's family has the same access to our medical records as the family of any patient at Children's. As a matter of policy, we do not release the entire medical record while the patient is in the hospital, since it is a document in continuous use. All families have the right to review the record while the patient is in the hospital, and have access to the entire record after the hospitalization has ended."
Santa Monica-based Consumer Watchdog condemned the withholding of the records Wednesday and called for California Attorney General Kamala Harris, Alameda County District Attorney Nancy O'Malley and California Medical Board President Sharon Levine to launch investigations into the girl's treatment.
"We need no further evidence than its refusal to share basic information with the family about their daughter's care to see that Children's Hospital can't impartially investigate its own possible negligence," said consumer advocate Carmen Balber.
Durand said in his statement that the hospital "promptly reported this matter to the California Department of Public Health, which is actively reviewing the matter in partnership with us." Durand further condemned what he called "unsubstantiated and inflammatory claims" from Consumer Watchdog, saying the group's statement was "replete with errors" that the hospital cannot address because of medical privacy laws.
Since taking on the case, Dolan said several lawyers have contacted him about their clients who "have suffered catastrophic outcomes at Children's Hospital Oakland and that they, too, ran into a brick wall when seeking to obtain medical records."
A statement on the Children's Hospital Oakland website says, "We can release your child's health information only when we receive proper written permission. You will need to submit written permission in the form of a release form or a letter to obtain private health information."
Most hospitals in the area say in policies posted online that they require a written consent form to be completed and signed before the hospital can release the documents. However, none mentions an altering of documentation or a delay due to an ongoing case.
Without the medical records to evaluate, Dolan said the family can't begin to evaluate if there was a doctor who was negligent. However, Dolan said, they believe "the care they received was unacceptable."
"They have complained that as Jahi was bleeding from her mouth and nose they were not given prompt assistance by a doctor and criticized the care she was given when she was directed to hold a cup under her mouth so she could bleed into it."
Death following a tonsillectomy is rare but the procedure itself has declined in popularity over the last 60 years.
The operation can end in death in amounts ranging from 1 in 10,000 to 1 in 35,000, with morbidity rates -- meaning a patient who suffers diseases or illness related to the operation but survives -- ranging from 1.5 percent to 14 percent.
Complications following a tonsillectomy are usually the result of postoperative bleeding, though other common complications include pain, nausea and vomiting, according to studies by several doctors in the last 20 years.
Staff writer Katie Nelson contributed to this report. Follow Kristin J. Bender at Twitter.com/kjbender.


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DALLAS: Companies from General Electric to yogurt producer Chobani are adding US workers, accelerating a rebound in hiring, as chief executive officers prepare for greater demand in a strengthening economic recovery. Boeing is bringing in more than 100 union machinists a week for a 60% boost in output by 2014.
Nissan will expand in Tennessee with 1,000 people making lithium-ion batteries. And a GE executive was at a Kentucky appliance plant before dawn this month to greet some of 500 new employees. "The next few years are going to be a different picture than what we saw in the last few," said Hamdi Ulukaya, CEO and founder of South Edmeston, New York-based Chobani, which is building a 300-worker plant in Twin Falls, Idaho.


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Dealpolitik: Backlash on Romney Taxes Could Affect M&A
As the attention shines on Mitt Romney's tax returns, it looks like when any fiscal reform plan is ultimately adopted capital gains rates are going up. The left thinks the tax burden should be higher on the wealthy and most capital gains taxes are paid by the wealthy. The right wants a flatter tax with lower marginal rates for all income and to do that most tax preferences like capital gains would have to go.
And the sticker shock from the Romney sub-15% tax rate is likely not over. The commentary so far has largely ignored the fact that capital gains are only taxed when an asset is sold. So Romney (as is any investor) is actually in control of when, if ever, any increase in the value of his property is taxed. And unless he needs to sell his appreciated assets (because, for example, he needs the money) he may never pay even the capital gains rate on the money he makes from the appreciation of investments if he holds on to the assets until he dies (or gives them to charity). Under current law, death resets the basis and this means his heirs would be able to sell with no capital gains tax whatsoever (although so far there is still an estate tax his estate would pay, but that is true whether or not a capital gains tax has been paid).
So I think it is a good bet that, despite some proposals that seem like outliers (Newt Gingrich claims he would set the capital gains rate to zero), tax rates on capital gains of individuals will be going up at some point in the future.
What impact will this have on the M&A world?
In every company sale there is always concern about the tax impact on that company's shareholders. Generally a sale of stock, whether on the market, in a tender offer or in a merger, triggers a tax on those shareholders. The current 15% capital gains preferential rate applies only to individual shareholders. But taxes on individuals are important in deal-making: Individuals own a substantial portion of publicly traded shares and, of course, management frequently has large share holdings which benefit from this rate And don't forget that the leaders of private equity funds, like Mr. Romney, all currently have the benefit of the 15% capital gains rate; and they make the decisions on if and when to sell their portfolio companies.
The impact on deals is not simple though. Although a favorable rate for individuals is important in deals, there are a number of constituents who do not benefit from the 15% rate. First, most corporations do not have a preferential capital gains rate, so their taxes on capital gains are, like other income, already taxed at rates of up to 35%. (There seems to be some consensus that there should be an effort to lower the corporate tax rate.) Second, many investors are not taxpayers at all. How can that be? Pension plans and mutual funds are not subject to tax (at least at the fund level).
But an increase in the 15% capital gains tax rate would be important to decision makers on deals. Here is what I think the reaction would be to a significant increase in the capital gains rate for individuals:
1. Initially, there would be a huge boom in M&A activity as investors hurry to take their chips off the table and take advantage of the favorable 15% capital gains rate before it expires. Moreover, there may be pressure on companies whose shares have significantly appreciated over the years to explore a sale. Private equity funds may seek to sell their portfolio companies earlier than they might otherwise in order not to pay the higher rate.
2. Once higher capital gains rates take effect, there is likely to be a slowdown in cash deals. First, much of the pipeline will have been cleared out before the rate increase. Second, because unrealized gains (i.e. gains on shares that are not sold) of shareholders are not taxed there will be larger economic incentives to retain appreciated assets longer. Why would a corporation enter into in a sale transaction which caused a significant tax on its shareholders unless it was absolutely necessary?
3. Finally, look for a large boon in "tax free" stock for stock "reorganizations." In reality these deals generally defer the tax to another day (unless the shares are held until death) and are not truly tax free. Under current law, there is no recognition of gain (and therefore no immediate tax) if the deal meets certain technical requirements for these reorganizations and the taxpayer receives stock of the acquiring corporation. Generally, at least 40-50% (sometimes as much as 100%) of the shareholders must receive the acquiring corporation's stock as the consideration for the transaction to qualify. So public companies will have a pricing advantage in acquisitions if the alternative transaction is cash and would trigger large capital gains taxes.
Just by public reaction to Mr. Romeny's taxes, elections do have have consequences.
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text: Russia Will Pay With Weapons To Use Kazakh Test Ranges. Aerospace Daily, Apr 08, 1998, pp 42B-43 Russian president Boris Yeltsin has signed the ratification bills for Russian-Kazakh treaties, which will allow Russia to pay Kazakhstan with weapons for the use of their four aircraft and missile test ranges. SBL Demonstrator Would Require Off-Board Target Hand-Off. Aerospace Daily, Apr 07, 1998, p 39 The Space Based Laser (SBL) concept under development by the AF and BMDO, would require a hand-off of target information from an off-board source in order to be compliant with the ABM Treaty, according to BrigGen James K Beale. SBIRS-Low Planners Weigh Requirements, Budget. Aerospace Daily, Apr 07, 1998, p 38 Several issues concerning the Space Based Infrared System Low (SBIRS-Low) program will be addressed by the Pentagon's Joint Requirements Oversight Council and the Defense Acquisition Board in the May/June timeframe. Among the issues are whether the satellites will provide a direct downlink to ground-based missile defense systems and balancing the requirements within a tight budget. National Missile Defense: An Overview Of Alternative Plans. Arms Control Today, Feb 01, 1998, p 38 This factfile highlights the differences between the Clinton Administration's "Three-Plus-Three" Program, Lugar's "Defend the United States of America Act of 1997," and Lott's "National Missile Defense Act of 1997." This article also discusses their different views on the ABM Treaty. Advancing The Arms Control Agenda: Pitfalls And Possibilities. Arms Control Today, Feb 01, 1998, pp 11-19 This article is an edited version of the panelists remarks from a panel discussion of the arms control issues facing the Clinton Administration and the Senate in the coming years, as well as, the state of US-Russian relations. Strategic Agreements And The CTB Treaty: Striking The Right Balance. Arms Control Today. Robert Bell, Feb 01, 1998, pp 3-10 This article is the edited version of Robert Bell's remarks and his responses to questions from the Arms Control Association's annual membership meeting. Bell serves as special assistant to the President for national security, providing advice for national security strategy, strategic nuclear and conventional arms control issues and weapons acquisition. Raytheon Completes SBIRS-Low Sensor. BMD Monitor, Apr 03, 1998, p 126 Raytheon has completed the building and assembly of the target acquisition sensor for the AF SBIRs Low Earth Orbit Flight Demonstration System (FDS). This system is the next geberation space based surveillance and early warning system which will replace the Defense Support System satellite. Emergency Supplemental Bills Head To Conference. BMD Monitor, Apr 03, 1998 The Senate equivalent to the "Theater Missile Defense Improvement Act of 1998," will provide $151m additional funds to improve several TMD programs, if amended. The Senate will appropriate the funds, but the Clinton Administration must designate it as an emergency requirement. This supplemental funding will make available funds for the procurement of items and equipment required for a third Arrow missile defense battery and other identified areas to combat the increasing ballistic missile threat. Space Laser Study Pares Down The Options. BMD Monitor, Apr 03, 1998, pp 118-119 The Air Force Research Lab's Lasers and Space Optical Systems Study (LASOSS) has completed the concept definition phase with 70 options marked as a high priority for further study. The concepts must have value to the military and include areas such as chemical or biological warfare agent detection, or the detection of underground structures. Air Force Offers Options For NMD Toolbox. BMD Monitor, Apr 03, 1998, pp 124-125 The Air Force has a number of elements that could be useful to the NMD program, possibly reducing the cost of the total system, according to AF BrigGen James Beale, who runs the Space and Nuclear Deterrence office. Lyles: BMDO Challenges Are Testing, Cost And Tech. BMD Monitor, Apr 03, 1998, pp 111-112 According to BMDO Director LtGen Lester Lyles, the main challenges facing missile defense programs are: hard testing, affordability, and a robust technology. Also, Lyles wants a review of test recommendations for NMD, once the LSI is chosen. Navy Area TBMD Flight Tests Planned For Winter. BMD Monitor, Apr 03, 1998, pp 114-115 The Navy expects the first firing of the Standard Missile this winter and has given the contractor Standard Missile Co. an incentive to deliver the missile as early as November. The test flight will be controlled without any target. Navy's SLAM-ER Moves Into Phase II LRIP. Defense Daily, Apr 08, 1998, p 5 The Navy's Standoff Land Attack Missile-Expanded Response (SLAM-ER) program has moved into the second phase of its low-rate initial production (LRIP), the service announced yesterday. Thurmond Concerned By Lack Of Focus On Defense Spending. Defense Daily. Sheila Foote, Apr 10, 1998, p 4 SASC Chairman Strom Thurmond (R-SC) said he is disturbed at the lack of debate in the Senate on defense spending levels during its recent consideration of the FY99 Budget Resolution. Army: MEADS Still Best Maneuver Force Protection Option. Defense Daily, Apr 08, 1998, p George Cahlink Col Perry Casto, the Army's air and defense missile division chief, said that the international MEADS is the most affordable system now available that would meet the Army's current and future air defense requirements for protecting maneuver forces. House, Senate To Reconcile Bills For More Missile Defense Funds. Defense News. Rick Maze, Apr 06, 1998, p 14 The US House of Representatives rushed passage of a bill to accelerate some theater missile defense programs late March. Its efforts will not bear fruit until the measure can be reconciled with a Senate version passed earlier in March. Welch Panel Questions Hit-To-Kill Technology, 'Unrealistic' THAAD Program Schedule. Inside Missile Defense. Daniel Dupont, Apr 01, 1998, pp 1, 15-16 A study group headed by retired Air Force Chief of Staff Gen Larry Welch asserted in its report that hit-to-kill technology, crucial to THAAD, NMD and Patriot PAC-3 and BMDO's stated preferred solution for its interceptors, may be more difficult to perfect than BMDO and other program officials have acknowledged. Army Puts MEADS In OSD Hands: Other Missile Systems May Have To Pay. Inside Missile Defense. Erin Winograd, Apr 01, 1998, p 2 Although the Medium Extneded Air Defense System (MEADS) remains a genuine need for the Army, the service does not have the money to put into the program. According to LtGen Paul Kern, the Army has asked OSD to help figure out a funding solution. OSD, however, appears to be willing to end US commitment to the international arrangement currently governing MEADS. Head Of BMDO Test Review Panel Sees Theater Wide Acceleration Unlikely. Inside Missile Defense, Thomas Duffy, Apr 01, 1998, pp 14-15 Retired Air Force Gen Larry Welch, who headed a panel that recently examined the testing plans for four of the Pentagon's missile defense programs, said last week that the Navy's upper tier missile defense program is an unlikely candidate for a schedule acceleration because its flight test plan is not aimed at testing the operational system the Navy would put to sea. BMDO Looking Again At Flight Test Plans For Hit-To-Kill Systems. Inside Missile Defense. Thomas Duffy, Apr 01, 1998, p 15 BMDO is reviewing the flight test programs of the four hit-to-kill missile defense systems now in development, including the Navy's Theater Wide program, according to BMDO Director LtGen Lyles. The review was spurred, in part, by the Welch panel's recent report on the hit-to-kill programs' flight test plans and by the failures in the Army's THAAD program. Latham, Welch To Co-Chair DSB Summer Study On JV 2010 Capabilities. Inside Missile Defense. Elaine Grossman, Apr 01, 1998, pp 20-21 The Department of Defense has tapped Donald Latham of Lockheed Martin and retired AF Gen Larry Welch of IDA to co-chair a new Defense Science Board task force reporting this summer on the warfighting capabilities needed to implement the military's new doctrinal template, Joint Vision 2010. BMDO To Recall Welch Panel To Review NMD Contractor Testing. Inside Missile Defense. Thomas Duffy, Apr 01, 1998, pp 1, 8 After DoD selects a single contracting team to develop and build a NMD system, BMDO will reconvene an independent panel to perform a risk analysis of the testing plan offered by the winning team, according to BMDO Director LtGen Lyles. BMDO 'Mandates' Cutting Support Contract Work To Save Funds For Higher Priorities. Inside Missile Defense, Daniel Dupont, Apr 01, 1998, pp 1, 20 According to Director LtGen Lyles, BMDO has "mandated" it will cut back on the number of systems engineering and technical assistance contracts it funds in an attempt to pare the infrastructure of the BMDO community and save scarce dollars. Colsa Garners Contract To Test THAAD Software. Space News, Apr 06, 1998, p 20 Colsa Corp will analyze and validate software for the US Army's THAAD system under a contract with a potential value of $89 million.


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This sounds like a kind of ribbing. I think what is saying is to *purl 1 then knit the second stitch from the end of the left hand needle through the back without taking anything off the left needle, then knit the stitch at the beginning of the left hand needle (the one you skipped), then let the two stitches come off the left hand needle. Repeat from the * across the row.
This will make very miniture cables which are like the knit st of the ribbing, and purl stitches between them for the purl st of the ribbing.
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IACC Subcommittee for Planning the Annual Strategic Plan Updating Process Meeting
The Interagency Autism Coordinating Committee (IACC) Subcommittee for Planning the Annual Strategic Plan Updating Process Meeting will take place on Friday, December 3, 2010 from 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. EDT, at the Bethesda Marriott in Bethesda, Maryland.
In this meeting, they plan to discuss the updating of the IACC Strategic Plan for ASD Research. Visit the IACC website for more details.
IACC workshop addresses strategies for streamlining services and supports
This guest post is by Carrie Masur Gillispie. She is a Government Relations intern at Autism Speaks with a Master of Education in school psychology.
The Interagency Autism Coordinating Committee (IACC) Services Subcommittee held a workshop on November 8th called "Building a Seamless System of Quality Services & Supports Across the Lifespan," in Rockville, Maryland (view the agenda here). The all-day event focused on policy issues related to the system of services and supports for people with autism spectrum disorders and their families. The workshop was open to the public, and several community members attended the event including parents, educators, medical professionals, and researchers.
Nancy Thaler of the National Association of State Directors of Developmental Disabilities Services, Bill East of the National Association of State Directors of Special Education, and K. Charlie Lakin of the University of Minnesota painted a picture of the current state of autism services. They noted that while services have come a long way over the past few years, families still need help with accessing service providers and support agencies who can meet their unique needs. They also noted concerns about the increasing demand for autism services due to increased prevalence and the fiscal challenges many states are facing in funding these services.
Self-direction care programs give people with autism more power over deciding how to use public funds to fit their individual needs. Several states have secured federal waivers that give individuals with autism a budget, and the authority to choose how to spend that money among a selection of services and supports. They can tailor a combination of providers to best support their needs. These programs are sometimes referred to as "Cash and Counsel." Michael Head of the Michigan Department of Community Health and James Conroy of the Center for Outcome Analysis discussed how to implement and evaluate these programs.
There are many different types of services and supports out there, and there is no one-size-fits-all combination to suit the unique needs of each person with autism. Donald Clintsman from the Washington State Department of Social and Health Services emphasized that it is important to cater those services according to each person's needs. He presented a standardized way to assess each person's needs in order to deliver the most appropriate services possible.
The training of professionals who work with people with autism was a key topic for three speakers. Kevin Ann Huckshorn from Delaware Health and Social Services presented training strategies to prevent and reduce the use of seclusion and restraint. Her model emphasized preventing conflict escalation and encouraging positive support. Carrie Blakeway of The Lewin Group and Erika Robbins from the Office of Ohio Health Plans highlighted issues surrounding hiring, educating, and supporting those who work with people with autism.
Sheldon Wheeler from the Maine Department of Health and Human Services presented examples of innovative strategies to give adults with autism better housing options such as individualized housing, homeownership, positive social environments, and housing modifications. Lisa Crabtree of Towson University and Julie LaBerge of the Bonduel School District in Wisconsin described peer support programs creating positive relationships and raising autism awareness in their schools. Jim Sinclair, co-founder and coordinator of the Autism Network International, described the advantages of people with autism providing peer support for others with autism.
Highlighting the need for streamlining the many service agencies within each state, John Martin from the Ohio Department of Developmental Disabilities discussed strategies for integrating government systems that provide autism-related services.
The subcommittee, as well as members of the IACC, had the opportunity to ask speakers questions about the most effective ways to build a more efficient system of services and supports. It was an information-packed day that fostered interesting discussions and several recommendations for achieving this important goal. Links to the speakers' presentations are expected to be posted on the IACC website next week.
IACC Services Workshop: Building a Seamless System of Quality Services & Supports Across the Lifespan
The Interagency Autism Coordinating Committee (IACC) will hold an IACC services workshop, "Building a Seamless System of Quality Services & Supports Across the Lifespan" on Monday, November 8 in Rockville, Md. The meeting is free and open to public and will also be available as a live videocast.
The workshop will focus on policy issues related to the system of services and supports for people with autism spectrum disorders and their families. Visit the IACC website for more details.
"Rest assured, you have the attention of the President and the White House"
"Rest assured, you have the attention of the President and the White House"
My first meeting as a public member of the IACC
By Geri Dawson, Chief Science Officer
Last Friday was my first meeting as a public member of the Interagency Autism Coordinating Committee (IACC). It was a particularly momentous meeting for the IACC because, for the first time, Kathleen Sebelius, Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS), attended the meeting along with two colleagues from DHHS, Howard Koh, Assistant Secretary for Health, and Henry Claypool, Director, Office on Disability. In addition, two representatives from the White House, Michael Strautmanis, Chief of Staff to the Assistant to the President for Intergovernmental Relations and Public Engagement, and Kareem Dale, Special Assistant to the President for Disability Policy, attended the meeting. Moreover, Francis Collins, Director of the National Institutes of Health, addressed the IACC. It was an auspicious beginning to my experience on this committee, to be sure.
The Secretary began by welcoming five new members to the IACC, which included Gerald Fischbach from the Simons Foundation, Marjorie Solomon from the MIND Institute at UC Davis, Ari Ne'Eman from the Autism Self-Advocacy Network, Denise Resnik from the Southwest Autism Research and Resource Center, and me, representing Autism Speaks. Secretary Sebelius began by telling the committee members that we "need to leverage all of our assets" and "work together across all agencies" to address the "alarming increase in autism rates" as well the need for "top notch research and services." She promised that she will be taking very seriously the recommendations that come from the IACC. She told the committee, "Rest assured, you have the attention of the President and the White House." Kareem Dale reiterated these themes, remarking that the White House's goal and mission are to give autism issues the "highest level of attention."
These encouraging remarks were followed by those of Dr. Collins, who also previously served as the Director of the NIH Genome Institute and the Human Genome Project. He began by stressing the need to understand the causes of autism and ways of preventing and treating this challenging condition. "I get the sense of urgency," Collins remarked, a point he said was especially made clear to him during an earlier meeting he held this year with parents and members of autism advocacy groups. "Parents are never happier than their saddest child," he remarked, "and if we can help with our resources, that's what we want to do." He noted that the IACC is distinguished among other government committees by its membership and activism, a fact that reflects the passion and urgency of the autism community. Dr. Collins shared his enthusiasm for the important role of genetics in the discovery of causes and treatments for autism, noting in particular, the exciting results of the Novartis clinical trial that was featured on the front page of last Friday's New York Times. He stated that he didn't think that the whole story is DNA, however, and that environmental factors and their interaction with genetic factors play key roles in understanding the causes of autism. In this regard, he described the National Children's Study, a huge NIH effort to follow 100,000 children from conception through adulthood to discover how environmental exposures are influencing children's health outcomes. He explained that autism is one of the stronger reasons for investing in this expensive effort. He also noted that research on behavioral interventions for ASD continue to be important. The necessity to avoid conservatism in the types of grants NIH funds, especially during hard economic times, was highlighted. Collins encouraged "out of the box" ideas that can open new perspectives and directions for autism research. He ended by again expressing his awareness of the great suffering that is experienced by many people with autism spectrum disorders and their families, ending with a quote from Winston Churchill – "If you are going through hell, keep going." "Let's all keep going," he urged the IACC members, "because on the other side, there will be more understanding and more hope."
I had the pleasure of giving the first talk after Dr. Collins. I reported on the activities and achievements of Autism Speaks' Autism Treatment Network (ATN). I described the goals of the ATN, which include improving access and quality of medical care for children with ASD, developing evidence-based treatment guidelines, providing clinician training in the medical treatment of ASD, and conducting research on medical treatments. I described the network of 14 academic centers that comprise the ATN, which provides care for over 5,000 children (with over 2,000 now part of the ATN patient registry). Based on data collected through the registry, I described the common kinds of medical issues that many children with ASD face, including GI problems, sleep disturbances, neurological conditions, among others. I also described the vision for the ATN, which is to increase the number of centers nationwide, improve quality of care through training and guideline development, and provide empirical support for novel and effective treatments for ASD. After my presentation, several people remarked that they were not previously aware of the extent to which medical conditions affect the quality of life for individuals with ASD. To read more about the other presentations at last Friday's IACC meeting, click here.
It is an honor to serve people with autism and their families on the IACC. I will do my best to represent all those who are suffering because of autism. My first charge will be to do everything I can to persuade our government to keep the promises made at Friday's meeting of the IACC.


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Cornell argues that the current debate between those seeing either an individual or a collective right in the Second Amendment are missing the real intention of the framers—to protect a "civic" right to "keep and bear arms." His readable and authoritative review of the amendment's history adds an interesting and balanced new approach to the old debate.
Spitzer advances the collective right interpretation of the Second Amendment in this solid exploration of the constitutional question and American gun culture.
Malcolm traces American ideas about gun rights and liberty into seventeenth-century England in arguing that the framers of the Second Amendment intended to guarantee an individual right to keep and bear arms.
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The Benefits of Calling it Quits
Sometimes you just have to call it quits. Take a step back and end it. This statement obviously doesn't apply to just startups but everything in life. Sometimes you've been working on a project for so long and so hard that you forget that you may just be building the perfect boat in the middle of the desert.
I recently called it quits on my startup, Catchr. The decision required a lot of thinking and a lot of weighing pros/cons but eventually I realized that it was time to call it quits.
After a wonderful summer of hard work, many different factors collided and allowed me to have the realization that it was time to wrap up my work. While it is sad to stop something that I put so much time and effort into, I feel better now that I know that if I didn't stop I would be still working on an ultimately doomed project.
In the end I decided that there was too much strong competition and that the market that I was trying to enter was too crowded. I also felt that progress in the startup wasn't happening at the rate at which I was happy with.
Now that I have called it quits I am finally starting to see many more holes in my business model and have realized that working on this project has made me a stronger individual. Working on Catchr has been the single best educational experience I've ever had in my life, and because of that experience many doors have opened and now I have more opportunities than ever before.
In the Laurier LaunchPad we always include a discussion of the lessons we've learnt in our presentations. The lesson learned here is: calling it quits isn't the end of the world, it's just the start of something else.
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A Quote by Pema Chodron on pema chodron, ego, peace, fear, irratable, and happiness
Ego is like a room of your own, a room with a view with the temperature and the smells and the music that you like. You want it your own way. You'd just like to have a little peace, you'd like to have a little happiness, you know, just gimme a break. But the more you think that way, the more you try to get life to come out so that it will always suit you, the more your dear of other people and what's outside your room grows. Rather than becoming more relaxed, you start pulling down the shades and locking the door. When you do go out, you find the experience more and more unsettling and disagreeable. You become touchier, more fearful, more irritable than ever. The more you try to get it your way, the less you feel at home.
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Clare have to work harder than the rest, says Colin Ryan
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Colin Ryan says All-Ireland champions Clare are fully aware that they need to work harder than the rest if they are to repeat the success of 2013.
Ryan top-scored for the Banner with 1-12 as they coasted into the final of the Waterford Crystal Cup, beating UCC 2-28 to 1-04 at Sixmilebridge.
The Newmarket-on-Fergus man told RTÉ Sport: "We know that if we're to keep ahead of the rest we have to work twice as hard 'cos they are all looking to knock us a small bit.
"We're up there, we don't want to be knocked [off] so we'll work as hard as we can to do that.
"Get a good start and it builds confidence. The whole team is showing form. There's plenty of lads there, Bobby Duggan is flying it so I think I have to continue what I'm doing. You want to continue winning and you want to continue working hard."
The semi-final between Tipperary and UL fell victim to the weather yesterday and has been re-fixed for Sunday, 2 February at 2pm in MacDonagh Park, Nenagh.
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