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8-Second Action: Bull Riding Comes to NYC
Douglas Duncan was like a lot of other first-time New York City tourists. He was wowed by the lights, he was impressed with its inhabitants and he did a fair amount of walking up and down city streets. One major difference: the Texan was bucked off two bulls during his first visit to Manhattan and went to bed Friday as leader of the Professional Bull Riders' New York Invitational at Madison Square Garden.
After it was over, he told me that he planned to go out and celebrate a little bit. "I love my job, I'm not married and I like to have fun," Duncan said. But first, he had to go back to the ring and participate in a time-honored tradition of all the riders in the PBR: signing autographs for any fan who wanted one.
I was rookie bull-riding spectator. At Madison Square Garden, where a weekend competition started Friday night, bull after bull bucked their riders and sauntered for a moment before charging at one of the brightly-dressed bullfighters. The rider-less bulls then took a few laps around the ring, violently changing directions before eventually being corralled into the backstage pen.
New Yorkers are somewhat spoiled by the breadth and depth of entertainment we're offered on a daily basis. A Broadway musical that tourists from the rest of the country might build an entire vacation around can be just another Tuesday night activity for those who live in the Big Apple. But the annual bull-riding weekend at Madison Square Garden reverses the pecking order: an activity regularly available throughout much of the country is a rare spectacle in New York.
The first tip for newcomers: don't refer to it as a rodeo — a major faux pas.
"This is not a rodeo," a PBR organizer told me before the event.
Rodeos include things like calf roping and pole bending, with bull riding reserved for the climax of the competition. The three-day event is just bull riding. It would be like if baseball's top 40 power hitters decided to break off from the majors and start a league that just featured a home run derby.
As strangers to the sport, my friend and I made the requisite jokes. The names of the bulls — Rusty Zipper, Eskimo Joe, Uncle Carl, Bone Handle — sounded like sex acts. The dirt spread throughout the famed basketball and hockey arena — shipped in from New Jersey and to be returned there when the bull-riding is finished — featured somewhat sloppily-drawn chalk lettering spelling "PBR" in the middle. It can seem a little hokey at first.
But there's nothing hokey about watching 40 men tossed around by cattle. The lights went down, and a group of men holding metal cans came out onto the dirt floor and traced the letters with gasoline. Fireworks burst up from the ground and ignited the letters. The top five riders from last year were introduced with fanfare that matched the welcome NBA stars LeBron James, Dwyane Wade and Chris Bosh received in their Miami debut.
One common bull-riding misconception is that it's uncouth to cheer for the bull — that the sport pits man against animal in a one-on-one battle. On the contrary, cheering for the bull is encouraged: the better the bull, the better the rider's score.
Ned Cross, a seven-year PBR veteran who finished tied for third in Friday night's first round, says that one of the first things new fans have to understand is that it's not just about how long you stay on the bull. "It's just eight seconds," he says. "And you're scored just in that eight seconds."
Those who last the eight seconds—and there aren't many who do—are judged by a panel of four officials who grade both rider and bull on 25-point scales. The totals are added together and then divided by two. Cheer for the bull and you are, in essence, cheering for the rider.
"People love bulls," Cross says. "They're our partners in this deal. The harder they buck the better we score. We want a good bull."
So do the riders stroll up to the bull they've been randomly matched with to ride that night to have a little pep talk and try to get a feel for them? Not exactly.
"You don't pet the bulls," Cross cautions.
In the backstage area of Madison Square Garden is a makeshift pen where the bulls are kept. PBR has stock contractors who supply the bulls to the tour. Some bulls sell for over $1 million.
Jeff Robinson, the 2010 Contractor of the Year, owns the tour's most famous bull: Chicken on a Chain. PBR sells stuffed bulls and t-shirts with Chicken on a Chain's name emblazoned on the merchandise. Robinson says that the bull has passionate fans and a massive following: 454 people "like" Chicken on a Chain's Facebook page and his Twitter account has 957 followers.
Several riders on the bull-riding tour are multi-millionaires, and the sport appears to be lucrative. Robinson tells me that he even changed the name of some of his bulls for corporate sponsors. The bull formerly known as Major Pain is now Super Duty. "Ford gave us some money to change his name," he says.
Larry the Cable Guy, a popular comedian, also sponsors of some of Robinson's bulls. And, sure enough, the fifth bull to be sent out on Friday night is called Git Er Done, named after Larry the Cable Guy's slogan. Other bulls named Red Bull and MySpace will try to buck riders off before the night is through.
Footage of bull-riding competitions from the past often features clowns waving their hands wildly to distract bulls who have tossed their riders. Those days are gone — the clown has evolved into the bullfighter. They don't wear any makeup, they have no use for wigs and they take their jobs very seriously. To become a professional bullfighter, you need to be voted into the job each year by PBR's riders.
Frank Newsom has been bullfighting since he was a high school student in Oklahoma, when he worked on a ranch owned by a professional bullrider. "After work every day we'd go riding, get on bulls, and we'd kind of take turns saving each other," Newsom explains. "I liked being on the ground better. I liked saving guys."
He says the profession has changed since he started out 16 years ago. Back then, bullfighters wore makeup and baggy clothes and tried to entertain the crowds. Now PBR employs just one man in clown makeup, Flint Rasmussen, to do the entertaining: he dances to Beyonce songs, runs into the stands to interview fans and jumps around during lulls in the competition.
The bullfighters focus on getting the rider out of harm's way. "We're specialized now," says Newsom, who works out four times a week to prepare for his job. "All we have got to do is go in there and protect. We're there for protection."
Just 10 minutes into the New York Invitational on Friday, Newsom had already been knocked to the ground and pinned against a wall by a charging bull — right between the horns. He stood up and the crowd let out a passionate cheer.
"A good night is when everybody walks away," he says. "You're going to have bumps and bruises even on a good night. But we can all go celebrate and come back the next day and do it again."


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"Silent" Ukemi
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Re: "Silent" Ukemi
I think the easy (and probably the best) answer is to get Donovan Waite`s two tape series on ukemi.
Another thing to do is do various rolls and such that you normally do during practice and look and listen to when and how you make sound. Then you can explore ways to change them so that they are silent and still allow you to be safe and give both you and your partners good practice. For example. a lot of noise comes from the feet hitting the mat after a forward roll. It would be an excellent practice for you to dream up and try various ways so that they don`t hit. That would be much more productive than having someone tell where to put your feet.
As far as silent ukemi being good or not, the sound comes from something smacking into something else, right? To prevent injury, nage must lessen the power of the technique or uke must tighten their muscles to an extreme degree, or they must utilize special equipment (meaning soft mats.) None of this seems like a good idea to be done on a regular basis.
I`m confused by your example. By it, can I assume that you mean that silent ukemi can only be done in response to nage`s poor "architecture"?
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You will learn how to optimize any website for speed by diving into the details of how mobile and desktop browsers render pages.
This course is also a part of our Front-End Web Developer Nanodegree.
From Ilya Grigorik's High Performance Browser Networking:
"The emergence and the fast growth of the web performance optimization (WPO) industry within the past few years is a telltale sign of the growing importance and demand for speed and faster user experiences by the users. And this is not simply a psychological need for speed in our ever accelerating and connected world, but a requirement driven by empirical results, as measured with respect to the bottom-line performance of the many online businesses:
Simply put, speed is a feature."
You will optimize an online portfolio for speed, which you can share with the world to showcase your skills!
Making a great first impression is absolutely key and an online portfolio can help you stand apart from the crowd. We'll give you a template for a modern, mobile-friendly portfolio which you'll be able to completely customize so that it shows off your work and your skills the way you want. But before you show it off to the world, you'll practice your web performance skills by optimizing the portfolio to render as fast as possible.
This course is for any and all web developers, whether you started learning about HTML, CSS and JavaScript recently or have been building websites since the nineties!
Most importantly, you should be able to explain the overall purpose of HTML, CSS and JavaScript with respect to website structure. In addition, you should be comfortable reading and writing HTML documents and modifying JavaScript files.
This course is taught with Google Chrome and Google Chrome Canary.
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You will optimize a provided website with a number of optimization- and performance-related issues so that it achieves a target PageSpeed score and runs at 60 frames per second.
Throughout the course, you'll build a performance toolbox to help you build faster website experiences by taking advantage of PageSpeed Insights recommendations and measuring page performance on mobile and desktop with Chrome Developer Tools.
Then comes the really fun part: optimization! You'll learn about easy-to-implement performance gains and develop a simple and powerful model for uncovering optimization opportunities.
You'll put your newfound performance skillset to the test with the final project, where you'll be optimizing your own online portfolio website!
You can't optimize what you can't measure, so in this lesson you'll learn how to open Chrome Developer Tools to measure the performance of mobile and desktop websites.
Throughout the lesson, you'll learn how to take advantage of the Timeline view in Chrome Developer Tools to measure each and every step's performance on mobile and desktop.
You'll explore easy HTML, CSS and JavaScript optimizations with significant performance implications, some of which are as simple as adding a single attribute to an HTML tag! Along the way, you'll be developing the skills to help you diagnose opportunities for optimizations, including:
Ilya Grigorik is a web performance engineer at Google and the author of High Performance Browser Networking (O'Reilly). When he's not optimizing web performance, he is likely found working on new performance or analytics related open source projects, launching fun projects like vimgolf.com, or optimizing his triathlon times. Prior to focusing on web performance, Ilya spent 5 years measuring and optimizing performance of social campaigns - he was the founder of PostRank, which was acquired and integrated into Google Analytics. In short, he likes to optimize and make things fast.
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Family planning and reproductive health: the link to environmental preservation
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- Speidel, J.J., Weiss, D.C., Ethelston, S.A. et al. Popul Environ (2007) 28: 247. doi:10.1007/s11111-007-0051-8
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This paper seeks to refocus the attention of environmentalists on the importance of population trends to environmental sustainability and identifies prevention of unintended pregnancy as potential common ground for environmentalists and family planning advocates. The health and other welfare benefits of preventing unintended pregnancy are felt most keenly by individual women, men, and their families. At the same time, however, preventing unwanted pregnancies usually results in smaller family size, an important factor in slowing population growth and, as a result, a source of broader benefits—including environmental benefits—to society.
KeywordsPopulationEnvironmentFamily planningReproductive healthUnintended pregnancyHIV/AIDS
Population–environment interactions: population growth, consumption, and human impact
As much as half of the Earth's total biological productivity has already been diverted to human use, depleting our natural resources and impairing the capacity of life-supporting ecosystems (Brown, 2004; Ehrlich, 1990; Green, 1992; Millennium Ecosystem Assessment, 2005; United Nations Development Programme, United Nations Environment Programme, World Bank, World Resources Institute, 2002; Wilson, 2002; World Resources Institute, 1998). Continued growth in the world's population will add to this environmental burden and, in places where growth is proceeding rapidly, will undermine the prospects for socioeconomic development (Kendall, 2005; Population Summit of the World's Scientific Academies, 1993; Wilson, 2002). The United Nations (UN) medium-variant population projection suggests that between 2000 and 2050, the world will have to accommodate 3 billion additional people and support desperately needed advances in living standards for nearly 3 billion people living in poverty (Population Division of the Department of Economic and Social Affairs of the United Nations Secretariat, 2005; World Bank, 2005).
The impact of humans on their environment is related to population size, per capita consumption, and the environmental impact of the technology used to produce what is consumed. Between 1950 and 2000, the world's population more than doubled, from 2.5 to 6.1 billion (Population Division of the Department of Economic and Social Affairs of the United Nations Secretariat, 2005). At the same time, the gross world product expanded nearly seven-fold, from approximately $7 to $46 trillion of annual output (Assadourian, 2003). Continued modest growth in per capita consumption, at a rate of just 2% annually, would result in a four-fold increase in per capita consumption by 2075. Combined with a projected 52% increase in population size over the same period, this level of consumption could require economic production to increase six-fold (Population Division, Department of Economic and Social Affairs, United Nations, 2004). To achieve this without further degradation of important ecosystems presents a daunting challenge.
The recent UN-sponsored Millennium Ecosystem Assessment, which was conducted by more than 1,300 experts in 95 countries, examined the effects of ecosystem change on human health and well-being (Millennium Ecosystem Assessment, 2005). It found that humans have changed ecosystems more rapidly and extensively over the past 50 years than during any other period, primarily to meet increasing demands for food, fresh water, timber, fiber, and fuel. The Millennium Ecosystem Assessment estimated that 60% of ecosystem services—the benefits people obtain from ecosystems—are being degraded or used unsustainably (Millennium Ecosystem Assessment, 2005).
World population growth
The numbers
The UN medium-variant projection suggests a further decline in the TFR worldwide to 2.1 by 2050, although population will increase to 9.1 billion (Population Division of the Department of Economic and Social Affairs of the United Nations Secretariat, 2005). Developing countries currently account for 95% of world population growth (United Nations, Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Population Division, 2005a).
Despite projected declines in fertility, the annual number of births worldwide is expected to remain high (McDevitt, 2005). Previously high fertility rates have left many poor countries with large numbers of women of reproductive age; their numbers are projected to increase from 1.6 to 2.1 billion between 2005 and 2050 (Population Division of the Department of Economic and Social Affairs of the United Nations Secretariat, 2005). As these women have children, population size will increase even as fertility rates decline, a phenomenon known as population momentum. For example, although China's TFR has fallen below the replacement level of 2.1, the large number of couples of reproductive age has kept the country's population growing by about 8 million annually (Population Reference Bureau, 2007b).
High-fertility still persists in much of the developing world, ensuring that population growth will continue. In 2006, average family size among the 4 billion people living in less developed countries outside of China was estimated at 3.4 children, with an annual population growth rate of 1.8% (Population Reference Bureau, 2007b). At this rate, the population of these countries would double in just 39 years. Even taking projected declines in fertility in these regions into account, the number of people living in less developed countries outside China is projected to increase by more than 60% by 2050, from 4 billion today to more than 6.5 billion (Population Reference Bureau, 2007b).
Sources of world population growth
Contrary to what some people may think, future population growth will not be due primarily to the desire for large families. In 1994, Bongaarts estimated that most of the projected population increase in developing countries will result from population momentum (49%), followed by unwanted pregnancies (33%), and high desired family size (18%) (Bongaarts, 1994).
The significance of unwanted pregnancies for population growth can be seen in the high proportion of pregnancies that are unplanned each year: out of 210 million pregnancies worldwide, 80 million (38%) are unplanned, and 46 million (22% of all pregnancies) end in abortion (Alan Guttmacher Institute, 1999).
Yet reducing unintended pregnancy is the factor in continued population growth that is most amenable to program and policy intervention. Organized family planning programs have a 40-year track record of success in helping hundreds of millions of couples choose the number and timing of their pregnancies. Indeed, surveys show that more than 200 million women in developing countries who would like to delay their next pregnancy, or stop bearing children altogether, must rely on traditional, less effective methods of contraception (64 million) or are using no method because they lack access or face other barriers to using contraception (137 million) (Singh, Darroch, Vlassoff, & Nadeau, 2003). These barriers include cultural values that support high fertility, opposition to use of contraception by family members, and fears about health risks or side effects of contraception (Carr & Khan, 2004).
U.S. population growth
The numbers
The high levels of consumption and large population of the United States have a disproportionate environmental impact. In contrast to almost all other developed countries, the United States is experiencing relatively rapid population growth (Perry & Mackun, 2005). Now the world's third-largest country, it is projected to grow from 300 million in 2006 to nearly 350 million in 2025, and to 420 million by 2050 (Population Reference Bureau, 2007b).
Sources of U.S. population growth
Natural increase (births exceeding deaths) accounts for 60% of population growth in the United States, with 4.1 million births and 2.4 million deaths in 2003; immigration accounts for the remaining 40% of annual growth (Kent & Mather, 2002; Munson & Sutton, 2004).
Unintended pregnancy is a major contributing factor to the relatively high birth rate in the United States. Of 6.4 million pregnancies in 2001—the most recent year for which data is available—almost half (3.1 million) were unintended (as were 82% of the 811,000 annual teen pregnancies), resulting in 1.1 million miscarriages, 1.3 million abortions, and of a total of 4 million births, 1.4 million were unintended (Finer & Henshaw, 2006). Without these 1.4 million unintended births, the natural increase of the U.S. population would be about 300,000 per year, less than 20 percent of what it is today. In other words, unintended pregnancy can be said to account for roughly half of the current increase of 2.9 million people to the U.S. population each year (U.S. Census Bureau, Population Division, 2007)
The contribution of immigration to U.S. population growth is also important. Between 2000 and 2004, 4.3 million immigrants, including an estimated 2 million illegal immigrants, arrived in the country (Camarota, 2004). Migration expert Jeffrey Passel estimates there are 11.5–12 million undocumented immigrants in the United States (Passel, 2006). There is also an important relationship between immigration and natural increase: nearly one-quarter of babies born in 2002 had a foreign-born mother, an increase from 6% in 1970 (Camarota, 2005).
Facing the challenges of rapid population growth: politics and policy
Placing a priority on family planning
Between 1960 and 2005, contraceptive prevalence in less developed countries increased from 9% (30 million users) to 58% (550 million users) among married women of reproductive age (Population Division of the Department of Economic and Social Affairs of the United Nations Secretariat, 2005; Population Reference Bureau, 2005, 2007a, b; United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs Population Division 2005).
During the same time period, the TFR in developing countries declined by half, from 6.0 to 3.1 (Population Division of the Department of Economic and Social Affairs of the United Nations Secretariat, 2005).
The impact of organized family planning programs on population growth is clear: such programs were responsible for at least 40% of the fertility decline in developing countries from the 1960s through the end of the 1980s (Vlassoff, Singh, Darroch, Carbone, & Bernstein, 2004). At the same time, fewer pregnancies, appropriately spaced, means less exposure to the risks associated with pregnancy and childbirth. Indeed, use of family planning could prevent at least one-quarter of maternal deaths in developing countries (Levine et al., 2006).
The experiences of Thailand, Iran, and California demonstrate how publicly supported family planning programs can successfully curb population growth.
Thailand's government launched its population program in 1970, making available a broad array of contraceptives distributed by nurses, midwives, and within communities (Rosenfield, 1971). By the late 1980s, Thailand's TFR had dropped below replacement-level to fewer than two births per woman (compared with about seven births per woman just two decades earlier) and currently remains low at 1.7 (Hirschman, Tan, Chamratrithirong, & Guest, 1994; Population Reference Bureau, 2007b).
As described elsewhere in this journal, the Iranian government, with the support of Muslim religious leaders, restored its national family planning program in 1989. Subsequently, the TFR dropped from 5.5 in 1988 to 2.8 in 1996 and is currently at the replacement-level of 2.0 births per woman (Abbasi-Shavazi, 2002; Population Reference Bureau, 2007b).
During the program's first 5 years, the number of clients served more than doubled—from 750,000 to 1.55 million (Bixby Center for Reproductive Health Research & Policy, 2005).
The contraceptive services provided by Family PACT in 2002 averted an estimated 205,000 unintended pregnancies (Foster et al., 2006). Every dollar spent on Family PACT avoided public expenditures—for medical care, income support, and social services for women and their children—that would have cost $2.76 over 2 years and $5.33 over 5 years (Brindis, Amaral, Foster, & Biggs, 2005). An investment of $403.8 million in 2002 therefore saved $1.1 billion over 2 years and will save $2.2 billion over 5 years.
Meeting the growing need for resources
International challenges
Increased financial resources will be needed not only to maintain contraceptive use at current levels, but also to meet growing demands for family planning. Even if the proportion of couples using contraceptives were to remain level between 2000 and 2015, developing countries would still have to serve 125 million additional couples (Ethelston, Bechtel, Chaya, Kantner, & Vogel, 2004).
However, the global community has failed to provide the funds needed to meet the current unmet demand for family planning, let alone fulfill the 1994 International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD) goal of universal access to this and other basic reproductive health services. The ICPD estimated the cost of a limited array of programs for family planning, safe childbirth, and STI/HIV/AIDS prevention at $18.5 billion by 2005 ($25 billion when adjusted for inflation), of which two-thirds was to come from developing countries and one-third from donor countries (UNFPA, 2005). Revised cost estimates, by Speidel and UNAIDS, call for $14 billion in annual spending for family planning, $15 billion for reproductive health, and $14.9 billion for the full range of HIV/AIDS prevention, treatment, care, and support (Speidel, 2005; UNAIDS, 2005). These adjustments for inflation and the increased price tag for reproductive health and STI/HIV/AIDS bring the annual funding target for 2005 to $45.8 billion, rather than the original $18.5 billion.
2005 ICPD funding targets adjusted for inflation, broadened HIV/AIDS and reproductive health services compared to projected 2005 population assistance and domestic expenditures (in $ billions and percents)
2005 Original ICPD target (1993$)
Revised 2005 target adjusted for inflation, HIV/AIDS and reproductive health (2005$)
2005 Projected expenditures
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Donor share (one-third)
Developing country share
An analysis of donor funding by area of activity shows great divergence in the priority afforded to each. It is notable that most of the recent increase in donor outlays for population assistance has been for HIV/AIDS, while donor funds specifically allocated for family planning have decreased over the past decade.
Funding for STI/HIV/AIDS activities increased from 9% of total population assistance to 54%. Donor countries are expected to have spent almost two-thirds of their population assistance on STI/HIV/AIDS activities in 2005.
Funding for basic reproductive health services increased, with fluctuations, from 18% in 1995 to 25% in 2004.
Funding explicitly for family planning services decreased, with fluctuations, from a high of 55% in 1995 to just 9% in 2004; however, some family planning is now funded from within the reproductive health category.
Funding for family planning activities decreased in absolute dollar amounts from $723 to $442 million (a decrease of 39 %), while funds for STI/HIV/AIDS activities increased 22-fold.
2005 ICPD funding targets for donors adjusted for inflation, broadened HIV/AIDS and reproductive health services compared to estimated 2004 donor population assistance by category targets (in $ billions and percents)
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Original ICPD donor target (1993$)
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U.S. challenges
Public funding for family planning services in the United States is not keeping pace with demands. A recent study estimates the annual cost of family planning for each client at between $124 and $487 with a mid-range estimate of $203 (Frost, Sonfield, Gold, & Ahmed, 2006). California's Family PACT Program annually spends $236 per client provided with contraceptives (Howell, 2006). With half of the 34 million U.S. women in need of contraceptive services reliant on public funding, an annual expenditure of about $3.5 billion is needed (Sonfield, 2003). This can be compared to public outlays of $1.261 billion for contraceptive services in 2001-about one-third of the total needed (Sonfield & Gold, 2005).
Addressing population: a neglected approach to environmental preservation
Environmental advocates and conservation program planners generally understand the importance of population issues, but have often given them a lower priority than deserved. Reasons include lack of scientific expertise, the belief that tackling population issues is too controversial or unlikely to yield success, and a perceived absence of moral standing given the disproportionately high rates of consumption in developed countries. Prevention of unintended pregnancy is a strategy that, for most of the public, is not controversial, yet can have a substantial impact on reducing population growth and the concomitant pressures it places on the environment. The successful family planning programs found in many settings, as diverse as Thailand, Iran, and California, show that such programs are desired, feasible, and cost-effective.
Environmental organizations can make an important contribution by educating their membership, policy makers, and the public about the need for global action to improve access to family planning both in the United States and worldwide. Environmental organizations can build and mobilize a base of grassroots activists to advocate for improved family planning and reproductive health policies and programs, and they can help raise public awareness about the links between population and environment.
Country-level advocacy to reduce restrictions on access to family planning information and services, including for young people and the unmarried,
Advocacy for the financial and human resources necessary to strengthen family planning and related reproductive health services, including programs that address the HIV/AIDS epidemic,
Supporting access to all methods of family planning including the safe abortion services that are essential to reproductive health and childbearing choices, and
Advocacy for international development efforts such as education (especially for girls) that encourage slower population growth.
Outreach and education about how population growth affects the environment and quality of life,
Advocacy and other efforts to help ensure universal access to sexuality information, education, and services, especially for young people,
Advocacy to ensure that all reproductive health policies and programs are based on scientific evidence, rather than ideological beliefs,
Advocacy in support of universal access to affordable family planning programs, especially those that serve low-income populations and youth,
Advocacy in support of universal and affordable access to abortion,
Outreach and advocacy in support of an open and rational dialogue around U.S. immigration policies and programs.
As worldwide awareness of environmental deterioration increases, the energy and efforts of the environmental community, working with media, decision makers, and the public, could have a profound impact on improving family planning and reproductive health policies and programs that benefit women, men, families, society, and the environment.
The population field needs increased commitment, appropriate policies, and adequate human and financial resources. If these conditions are fulfilled, population growth will slow, reproductive health will be improved, and the environment protected.
The total fertility rate or TFR is the average number of children a woman has over her lifetime.


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Adrien Broner is the NOT THE NEXT BIG THING
By Hector Gonzalez: After tonight's fight, Adrien Broner vs Paulie Malignaggi, Adrien Broner failed to prove that he is boxing's next big thing. My scorecard is as follows; rounds 1-5, 10 for Malignaggi and rounds 6-9, 11 & 12 for Broner, which would technically be a draw. I believe that some rounds could have gone either way, but I will give Broner enthusiasts the benefit of the doubt because who won and who lost is not the point of the article.
The point is that Broner did not meet the expectation. After all for a guy who was the 13- 1 favorite, he certainly did not look like it.
To fully appreciate my perspective you have to go back in time. We'll start with a fight that happened in 2009. It was Fernando Quintero vs Adrien Broner.
Having referenced both the Quintero fight and the Ponce De Leon fight, tonight's fight would be the third fight that could be considered skeptical victories for Broner.
I would encourage people to Youtube the Broner vs Quintero fight. Teddy Atlas draws out Broner's mistakes such as Broner spreading his feet to wide making him immobile and making his body an easy target. Even though the fight took place in 2009, unfortunately those are mistakes that he continued to make during tonight's fight.
There is another fighter who comes to mind who recently was also called the 'Next Big Star' and that is Amir Khan. Many of us who had been paying attention to the flaws in Amir Khan predicted that he was going to lose very soon (look up some of my past articles on Amir Khan on BN24) based on the flaws we saw and how they would match up against other fighters. I believe that Adrien Broner is going to have a similar fate and it will be against a fighter who can move well, has good body punching ability, and who can fight at a distance.
During tonight's interview, Broner said that he would let the fans decide who they want him to fight next. I'll provide 3 names- 1.) Lucas Matthysse, 2.) Robert Guerrero, 3.) Keith Thurman. I believe that all three of the fighters listed above will beat Adrian Broner. Contact Hector Gonzalez @ email@example.com or Twitter #Hegotistic


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It's this time of year that makes you grateful for the blessings you have in your life. Mother's Day is Sunday, a time when grateful and loving thoughts and just saying "Thank you, Mom" becomes paramount. Simple acts of kindness, the flowers, spending time, dinner or even just a voice on the phone calling to say hello are all special to any mother.
For some moms and some dads, too, the focus is on much more than the ability to make it another day with their child. To help support those families, Joey's Eagles holds a special event Saturday at Shawnee Inn called Mother's Tea. It is one of the biggest fundraisers for the organization, and it provides a special time for all moms, daughters and those who want to support families in need.
It's tea, little cakes, Cinderella, wonderful gifts and, most of all, the chance to both take a break from sickness for some and support those who really need the help for others. It runs 10 a.m.-1 p.m. with a tricky tray. The $10 per person cost directly benefits Joey's Eagles.
Joey's Eagles is a nonprofit organization established in 1996 in memory of Joseph Grampp, son of organization founder Nelly Grampp. Its goal is to provide support for families with children and young adults facing cancer or other serious illnesses.
Through donations and fundraisers such as the Mother's Tea, Joey's Eagles can provide financial support in times of crisis. Joey's Eagles hosts events throughout the year to bring a bit of joy to those families facing illness every day.
The group also provides positive, self-esteem opportunities for these children and gives ongoing support to their parents. It meets throughout the year, where parental support sessions and planned group activities are held to provide a resource for all members of the family.
You may never need the services and support of Joey's Eagles, but it is certain that someone you know probably does or will need it. This event allows all of us to do something that is both a support to those in need and to recognize just how thankful those of us with healthy children are each and every day.
Purchase tickets in advance (or perhaps just purchase the ticket for someone you know needs a break or something special), by PayPal at joeyseagles.or, or call Nelly at 570-994-5526 or email her at email@example.com to let her know you will be attending.
"When you are a mother, you are never really alone in your thoughts. A mother always has to think twice, once for herself and once for her child," once said actress Sophia Loren.
Wishing every mother a wonderful Mother's Day filled with many blessings.
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Nate Beeler cartoon on Hillary Clinton.
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Password Madness
By mduigou on Sep 04, 2010
I recently had to change my password for a single signon service I use. I opted to include a "?" in my new password. Over the next couple of days I discovered that I could only enter my password on some of the sites I needed to use. On others it was consistently rejected. Luckily because it was single signon I could sign on to one site and then navigate to the another that wouldn't allow me to enter my password.
After a few days I figured out that some sites just didn't like my password. I decided to change my password to something that didn't include "?". Lo and behold, I could now log in using any of the sites which used the single signon service. Sigh.
It bothers me that standards for passwords are still so inconsistent. Case sensitive, case insenstive, spaces allowed, no spaces allowed, numbers allowed, numbers not allowed, random allowability of symbols. Usually the reasons for the restrictions are bizarre and arbitrary (what to do with computers isn't?). It's very frustrating for users to work with these varying restrictions imposed by multiple sites. It would certainly make things easier if more effort was spent to allow users the maximum flexibility in their password choice and probably more importantly that the behaviour was more consistent among sites. Perhaps industry specific standards or best practices could reduce the frustration around password policies. It's worth a try.


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He is one serio vato. Serio is one of the best chicano rappers I know. Nightmares Turned Into Reality from Califas 2 Washifas
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For reals , Is that so. Telling me the truth. Seriously
I'm Serio, I want to go to that party tonight
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Pronounced: Se-Ree-O, the 'se' part is elongated, said with an arched brow and tilting the head back.
Meaning(s): 'is that so'; 'are you serious'
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11/11/03 New Technology
50th forehearth CONTI DRAIN® ordered
Based on a SORG system developed for furnace applications, the patented CONTI DRAIN® system was first applied to a conventional forehearth in October 1999. An immediate success on that line, a further 2 systems were installed on the same furnace a few months later. Now, just 4 years after the initial installation the 50th system has been sold.
One of the reasons for the difficulty of removing zircon cords is the fact that the contaminated material usually sits on the channel bottom, and therefore cannot be reached by stirrers. The forehearth CONTI DRAIN® is able to remove the glass from the channel bottom in a controlled manner, and thus remove the material which is responsible for the unsightly cords in the finished product.
Optimum drain performance is obtained with a specially developed drain channel block, but the CONTI DRAIN system has also been successfully installed on four operational forehearths by drilling the existing channel blocks from outside, thus minimising the down-time.
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Montesano is not likely to be the next home of a recreational pot store. The only applicant that really stood a chance notified the city that he was backing off from his proposal to place a store at Monte Square. Joshua Miller told the city in a letter on Jan. 19 that he was, instead, considering placing a facility at Brady. The county does not have a moratorium on marijuana and is actively working on a plan for the placement of proposed retail outlets.
"I'm sorry for all of the trouble which I have put you, and the council, as well as the clerks through to try and convince you all that Montesano would be a good site for this store," Miller wrote. "… It is my opinion that the community of Montesano is not yet ready for this type of progressive thinking and if they would rather drive out of town to buy their marijuana legally or down the street to the illegal dealers, who am I to try to stop them? I mean no disrespect to the community to the city by that last statement. Montesano is still a very conservative town and I can respect their wishes to keep this type of business outside of their neighborhood."
The Montesano City Council is one of the only cities on the Harbor that never set up a moratorium banning the placement of marijuana facilities. Council members have said that applicants just need to follow the state Liquor Control Board's rules. In this case, the only real feasible place for a marijuana outlet in the city that is not within 1,000 feet of parks, day cares, schools or transit centers is on the outskirts of town near the Mary's River Lumber facility. Miller had tried to argue that his proposed placement of a retail outlet at Monte Square was a legal use of the requirements.
But city officials argued that a strip of land across the street where youth soccer plays is considered a park, plus the property line is still within 1,000 feet of Fleet Park.
Another proposed store on Marcy in downtown Montesano is also too close to Fleet Park.
"I would suggest that even though the Montesano city limits will not be harboring any marijuana businesses, they should consider adopting some penalties for smoking or consuming the substance publicly as prescribed by the state," Miller wrote. "I may be a pot head, but even I agree there have to be limitations and our future generations should be sheltered as well as protected from all adult activities."


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Formations of, Acquisitions by, and Mergers of Bank Holding Companies
The companies listed in this notice have applied to the Board for approval, pursuant to the Bank Holding Company Act of 1956 (12 U.S.C. 1841 et seq.) (BHC Act), Regulation Y (12 CFR part 225), and all other applicable statutes and regulations to become a bank holding company and/or to acquire the assets or the ownership of, control of, or the power to vote shares of a bank or bank holding company and all of the banks and nonbanking companies owned by the bank holding company, including the companies listed below.
The applications listed below, as well as other related filings required by the Board, are available for immediate inspection at the Federal Reserve Bank indicated. The applications will also be available for inspection at the offices of the Board of Governors. Interested persons may express their views in writing on the standards enumerated in the BHC Act (12 U.S.C. 1842(c)). If the proposal also involves the acquisition of a nonbanking company, the review also includes whether the acquisition of the nonbanking company complies with the standards in section 4 of the BHC Act (12 U.S.C. 1843). Unless otherwise noted, nonbanking activities will be conducted throughout the United States.
Unless otherwise noted, comments regarding each of these applications must be received at the Reserve Bank indicated or the offices of the Board of Governors not later than November 15, 2012.
A. Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland (Nadine Wallman, Vice President) 1455 East Sixth Street, Cleveland, Ohio 44101-2566:
1. FirstMerit Corporation, Akron, Ohio; to acquire 100 percent of the voting shares of Citizens Republic Bancorp, and thereby indirectly acquire voting shares of Citizens Bank, both in Flint, Michigan.
Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, October 16, 2012.
Margaret McCloskey Shanks,
Associate Secretary of the Board.
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INDIO, Calif. -- Minnie Lee Taylor, 71, died April 22, 2005, at Indio.
Born Feb. 16, 1934, in Walls, Miss., she was the daughter of the late Benjamin and Louise Jackson Taylor.
Survivors include: one daughter, Myra Preyer of Portageville, Mo.; one son, Richard Morgan of Portageville; one brother, Richard Taylor of California; one sister, Annie Frazier of Indio; and 13 grandchildren and 15 great-
One son, Anthony Noel; and two brothers, Charlie Odell Taylor and Silas Taylor Sr., also preceded her in death.
Visitation is from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. Friday at DeLisle Funeral Home in Portageville.
Services are scheduled for 2 p.m. Saturday at Zion Rock Church with the Rev. Robert Anderson officiating.
Burial will follow in the Portageville Cemetery.


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20" M light-alloy wheels.
The 20" M Double-spoke light-alloy wheels are available exclusively for the BMW M6 Gran Coupé in two different, expressive versions.
The BMW M6 Gran Coupé dazzles with its 20" M Double-spoke 433 M light-alloy wheels, fitted as standard. These burnished rims are painted Orbit Grey. An alternative option is the cast 20" M Double-spoke 343 M light-alloy wheels in a high-quality Bicolour look. Both designs include mixed tyres and display the striking M tag that identifies them as high-performance products at a glance.


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Rookie Yunel Escobar drove in the game winning run in the bottom of the tenth inning as Atlanta beat Colorado 6-5. Escobar won the game with a run-scoring single. The liner to left easily brought home Jeff Francoeur from second.
Atlanta's sixth pitcher, Oscar Villarreal, got the win, his second against one loss. Taylor Buchholz gave up the single to Escobar and got the loss, his fourth against 5 wins.
The Braves took 2 of 3 games from the Rockies in the series.


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Walter Kasberg wrote:
> I have got an AVM Fritz!Box 5140. At the moment I am using a
> T-com DSL Box. But I would like to switch to the AVM modem to
> use Internet telephone. How woul I connect my PC to internet.
> With the T-com DSLmodem i did it over pppoe.
> Any hint is appreciated.
Suggest you ask in a VOIP newsgroup. If in the uk then
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The previous evening, John Lennon and Neil Aspinall left Celle in West Germany, where Lennon was filming How I Won The War with Richard Lester, for a break in Paris, France.
On this day they were joined by Paul McCartney and Brian Epstein, who had travelled to Paris from London. The four men had a weekend break together in the city, and on Sunday 18 September Lennon and Aspinall went to Spain to continue filming.


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KENNEBUNK — Kennebunk High School's Class of 2013 is organizing a Pre-Prom Fashion Show and Expo to raise money for their project graduation, a chemical-free year-end celebration.
The event will be held at 6:30 p.m. on Saturday, Jan. 19, in the KHS auditorium.
Christine Blake, of Christine Blake Designs and Sparkle Therapy, will be bringing many of her designs and other brand names to the show, which will be up to 80 percent off of retail price. In addition, she will donate 15 percent of her sales to the class.
Men's Wearhouse from South Portland will be providing tuxedos for the fashion show.
In addition to the event's two clothing sponsors, Karen Sutton and other professionals from Clippers in Lower Village will provide complimentary hair and make-up to models and will be available as a vendor at the show.
Vendors have the opportunity to be a part of the show at no cost for a table in exchange for a door prize. Vendors will also be able to place a flyer/business card inside gift bags at no charge (vendor provides the information), which will be given to each participant. Vendors will also be included in the event's program. To volunteer as a vendor, contact Lisa Ottman at firstname.lastname@example.com or (207) 286-5631.
Tickets are $7 each and includes two chances for door prizes. Tickets will be on sale during lunches at KHS or by calling Ottman at (207) 286-5631.
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|IN RE: the Termination of the Parent–Child Relationship of A.B.
|May 30, 2008
|No. 02A03–0712–JV–599.
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|May 30, 2008
|No. 55A05-0703-CR-148.
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|May 30, 2008
|No. 34A02-0711-CV-959.
|IN RE: the ADOPTION OF D.C.
|May 29, 2008
|No. 22A01-0709-CV-425.
|R.J.G., Appellant-Respondent, v. STATE
|May 29, 2008
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|May 27, 2008
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|May 23, 2008
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|May 20, 2008
|No. 77A01-0708-CV-385.
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|No. 47A05-0712-JV-678.
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|May 16, 2008
|No. 43A03-0708-CV-420.
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|May 16, 2008
|No. 76A04-0711-CR-630.
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|May 16, 2008
|No. 74A04-0712-CV-683.
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|May 16, 2008
|No. 49A04-0610-CV-557.
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|May 16, 2008
|No. 43A04-0707-CV-390.
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|May 16, 2008
|No. 20A04-0710-PC-589.
|MASSEY v. CONSECO SERVICES
|May 15, 2008
|No. 29A05-0610-CV-565.
|MEREDITH v. STATE
|May 15, 2008
|No. 89A04-0703-CR-148.
|CHILDS v. STATE
|May 15, 2008
|No. 49A02-0711-CR-944.
|STATE v. POLLARD
|May 13, 2008
|No. 05A02-0707-CR-640.
|OWENS v. STATE
|May 13, 2008
|No. 75A03-0710-CR-462.
|TAPELY II v. STATE
|May 13, 2008
|No. 42A01-0708-CR-359.
|BELDEN INC v. AMERICAN ELECTRONIC COMPONENTS INC
|May 9, 2008
|No. 89A01-0709-CV-447.
|FRY v. STATE
|May 9, 2008
|No. 49A02-0709-CR-821.
|KENDALL v. STATE
|May 9, 2008
|No. 49A05-0707-PC-391.
|QUIROZ v. STATE
|May 9, 2008
|No. 45A04-0712-CR-682.
|STATE v. RAY
|May 9, 2008
|No. 89A01-0708-CR-396.
|OB GYN ASSOCIATES OF NORTHERN INDIANA v. RANSBOTTOM
|May 8, 2008
|No. 71A03-0711-CV-503.
|GERLACH v. WOODKE
|May 8, 2008
|No. 93A02-0710-EX-903.
|COLEN v. OHIO COUNTY
|May 8, 2008
|No. 58A01-0709-CV-434.
|TOWN OF GEORGETOWN v. EDWARDS COMMUNITY INC
|May 8, 2008
|No. 22A01-0704-CV-169.
|ALLSTATE INSURANCE COMPANY v. FIELDS
|May 8, 2008
|No. 45A03-0612-CV-602.
|PETERSON v. LAMBERT
|May 8, 2008
|No. 52A05-0707-CV-417.
|R.E.I., Appellant-Respondent, v. STATE
|May 7, 2008
|No. 71A05-0712-JV-700.
|NATURE LINK INC v. PRZYBYLA
|May 7, 2008
|No. 53A01-0706-CV-286.
|FILICE v. STATE
|May 7, 2008
|No. 49A02-0707-CR-591.
|FORGEY v. STATE
|May 6, 2008
|No. 73A01-0708-CR-390.
|GREGORY v. STATE
|May 5, 2008
|No. 15A01-0708-CR-348.
|Philip-Anthony BONNER, a minor, by his parents and next friends, Joseph and LaTanya BONNER, William-Thomas Bobo, a minor, by his mother and next friend, Clarissa Wan Bobo, John Brooks, Jr., a minor, by his father and next friend, John Brooks, Sr., Aaron..
|May 2, 2008
|No. 49A02-0702-CV-188.
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PARKERSBURG - A Parkersburg man was charged with third-offense felony drunken driving Tuesday night, the Parkersburg Police Department said Wednesday.
Gordon Craig Skeen, 47, 504 Eighth Ave., was charged after a caller to the 911 Center reported a drunken individual was preparing to drive from a bar on Seventh Street, Sgt. Greg Collins, department spokesman, said. The incident was reported around 11 p.m.
Officer C.E. Morehead saw a 2008 Toyota Yaris leaving the parking lot of the Six Pence Pub and conducted a traffic stop of the driver in the 3000 block of Seventh Street, Collins said. The driver stopped the car in the middle of the traffic lane, he said.
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According to Morehead, the driver, Skeen, smelled of alcohol and had bloodshot and glassy eyes, Collins said.
Skeen failed a series of field sobriety tests, was arrested for DUI and taken to headquarters for processing where he tested 0.224 on a blood-alcohol concentration test, Collins said. Also, a computer check found Skeen had two prior DUI convictions on Jan. 5, 2011, and Nov. 24, 2008, Collins said.
He was charged with third-offense DUI, a felony, and arraigned Wednesday morning in Wood County Magistrate Court where he posted a $5,000 bond and was released.


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One of the most powerful features of AutoCAD is the ability to save blocks with 'hidden' information and bmp/jpeg files contained within them, and then being able to both re-import and export blocks so that a spreadsheet application such as MS Excel can be used to interpret the data- very useful for keeping track of stock etc in a warehouse or for the making of BOM's. By using a template, data can be compiled in a way that fits the users needs.
I'd love to see this function implemented in Q-Cad.


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Although they aren't available for purchase yet, these Swarovski encrusted contact lenses beat out over 4,000 entries and won second place in the Crystal Vision contest held by Swarovski and Designboom. Mallier placed tiny Swarovski crystals around the rim of the lenses in a single, circular pattern. The result is certainly eye-catching, but I can't help but wonder if this is completely safe. Would you wear these bling-ed out lenses?
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If there's one thing gamers really like, it's freedom. An open world to explore and do whatever they want, especially when they have godlike powers that let them morph into any shape and wreak havoc on an entire city. Prototype promises to be that game.
As Alex Mercer, a genetically altered man who has lost his memory, you wield amazing shape-shifting powers which you'll need to find those responsible for radically changing you and exact your revenge. You'll have to rip and shred your way through a populated New York City brimming with citizens, military and a faction of "infected" individuals. It's a three-way war between you, the military and those who've been infected by a strange virus. You'll have to uncover the dark conspiracy that lies at the heart of everything that's happened to you and the people around you.
One of the ways Prototype sets itself apart from other, similar games is in how you use Alex's different abilities. By consuming any living person you come in contact with, you actually absorb their memories, physical appearance and any special abilities they had to use at your disposal. As you do this you unlock the memories they had which give you clues to your own identity, solving the overall puzzle of what's happened to you, and why. Plus, you can mix the abilities and unique characteristics of those you absorb to become even more powerful, combining them into weapons like razor sharp claws, blades, armored skin, shields and more. In effect, you become the ultimate weapon giving you countless ways to play.
Borrowing from games like Mirror's Edge, the art of "Parkour" was a huge influence on the way Alex moves – nothing is an obstacle for Alex as he smoothly negotiates a bustling New York City. Up walls, over cars and scaling high buildings are seemingly effortless actions for Alex and his super-human strength and agility.
Another unique element present in Prototype is Alex's ability to blend into a crowd by looking like anyone – a soldier, a citizen or an officer. You can choose a full-frontal assault or go for a more stealthy way of infiltrating the enemy. For example, consume a victim who has access to restricted areas and assume his identity to move in and out, undetected. Want to steal a helicopter but you don't know how to fly one? Sneak up on a pilot and absorb his piloting skills. Soon enough, you'll be able commandeer other vehicles, such as cars and tanks, by consuming even more people around you. Use these vehicles to do as much damage as possible and then disappear if the action gets too hot. You'll easily be able to slip in and out of restricted areas throughout New York City to learn as much as you can about what's going on behind the scenes.
In a game as big as all Manhattan, you can bet you'll be in for some seriously tough boss battles! Yet, even in a setting as big as this, you'll feel the world closing in on you as you are surrounded by thousands of pedestrians, hundreds of different vehicles and a thriving representation of the world's most famous city.
Set for release in June of 2009, Radical Entertainment looks set to unleash a very promising game full of astounding possibilities for the PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 and PC.


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Adventures In Plagiarism At #GSDMC12
February 3rd, 2012 by Dan Meyer
I was sitting in a morning session with six other people at the Greater San Diego Math Council's annual conference when I saw a slide that looked familiar.
At first I figured I had read that language in some paper or another in grad school. ("Aversion" seems like the sort of language an academic might use to paper over a lack of insight.) Then I remembered I had used that language. When I wrote it in a presentation I gave two years ago.
The presenter went on to describe each of those bullet points using exactly the same words I did in that presentation, in exactly the same tone of voice. Fella had rehearsed.
Four things:
- The good news is that we've apparently solved the "perseverance" problem in the last two years.
- Don Whiteside storified my livetweeting and added his commentary.
- I edited his slide next to mine and described the rest of his plagiarism under the heading "This is not okay." I'll send that e-mail off to him, the president of his council, and the conference head later today.
- How should this have gone? Against the judgement of some folk on Twitter, I'm choosing not to name his name. I figure it isn't sporting to slug someone beneath your weight class. (Define "weight class" however you want, okay.) I figure he'll have to explain himself the next time he wants to give a talk in San Diego (or he should, if GSDMC has any self-respect) and that's enough. I'm open to counter-proposals.
2011 Feb 3. Since you're all no doubt dying for updates, my plagiarist attended my session this afternoon. (I don't know why that surprised me. Of course he attended my session. Where else is he going to get fresh material?) This was before I e-mailed him. He came up to introduce himself as I was setting up. Before he got too far into his introduction, I said, "Yeah, I know who you are. I was in your session this morning."
"You were?" he said, and very obviously winced. "I may have borrowed some of your material."
"'Borrowed' isn't the word I'd use," I said.
He apologized several times. I thanked him. He left. I sent the e-mail. We're square.
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I'm seeing many commenters who think that frowning upon plagiarism is all about credit, but that's a very shallow view. In this case, the plagiarist completely disconnected the audience from Dan Meyer's extensive work in this area. That means they can't read the extended discussions, they can't draw on other related resources, they can't contact the real author and ask their own questions. They can't connect to the author to follow future developments.
The plagiarist is standing at the top of a well, with the audience at the bottom. He throws down a loaf of bread and a few pages from a book, and leads the audience to believe that basically that's all that exists outside the hole, and he's the only one who can provide it to them.
I really want to give the plagiarist the benefit of the doubt, that it was a stupid mistake that hasn't happened before or since. But I can't get past the idea that some of us spend 40 hours or more putting together the best 1 hour presentation we can. The plagiarist took the easy way out. It's disrespectful to the original author, to the subject, and to the audience. I tend to think that disrespect like that doesn't just randomly rear its head once.
47 Responses to "Adventures In Plagiarism At #GSDMC12"
He put your list into comic sans. You aren't square. I don't know what it would take to make that square.
on 03 Feb 2012 at 5:47 pm2 bob lochel
Math Fight! I have been chuckling to myself following this. But when someone near you asks "what's so funny", you realize that the time required to get them to up to speed is inversely proportional to the humor payoff. I hear he is working on a 4-act process for presenting inquiry problems.
on 03 Feb 2012 at 5:59 pm3 louise
Are you sure this wasn't a demonstration? Looks like he covered all the bases – lack of initiative ( has to take some else's ideas), lack of retention ( who did I steal this from?), aversion to word problems (copies out the words, but does not comprehend…), eagerness for formula ( heck, here's a formula talk that I can copy!)
Thanks to Don, who managed to plagiarize both people's slides as well as a conference catalog and post them on the interwebs. (what? there's a difference between using an example and pretending something is your own idea?)
Great story, and thanks for all you have actually given to us in your posted work. Really.
on 03 Feb 2012 at 6:21 pm4 Aaron Hampshire
Come on, man. There's no reason to post cat fights like this on such an incredible blog. As a physics teacher, this is my first year teaching math, and your ideas and philosophy have greatly influenced me. But this… this is a bit below who you are in my opinion.
Stick to what you do and why you do it, not a remix of the drama we hear about from our students everyday. Then again, it's your blog…
on 03 Feb 2012 at 6:42 pm5 blink
This is a pretty egregious example, but for someone who wants to spread ideas there is also a tension. After all, we *want* good ideas to travel and be repeated. Moreover, getting the original message verbatim is often better than a watered-down reinterpreted version.
For example, I think Howard Gardner would be happier if interpreters of his theory of Multiple Intelligences photocopied chapters from his book rather than "explain" his ideas themselves!
At the other extreme, a few years ago I attended a Kagan workshop about cooperative learning structures. They gave us a primer on copyright infringement, required us to sign agreements pledging to uphold their intellectual property rights, and told stories about teachers who had lost their jobs for violating similar pledges. Even though I learned quite a bit at the workshop, I left with a bad taste in my mouth thinking these people are not interested in spreading there ideas but merely selling their product.
on 03 Feb 2012 at 6:47 pm6 mr bombastic
Too funny! Based on the dialogue and commentary, I would have guessed I was about to witness a minor league profesional wrestling event. Sayre's law remains intact.
on 03 Feb 2012 at 6:48 pm7 John. Scammell
@Aaron, you just don't get it. Dan generously puts his ideas out for people to use in their classes. That doesn't make it OK for people to present them to their colleagues as their own. I make my living providing professional learning to math teachers. I share ideas that are my own, as well as ideas I get from people like Dan. Whenever I share ideas that aren't my own, I always cite the source. It would be unprofessional for me to do otherwise.
on 03 Feb 2012 at 7:15 pm8 Christopher Danielson
Yeah, what John said. It's all about the citation. All.
on 03 Feb 2012 at 7:24 pm9 John Scammell
I meant to add, too, that I typically contact the person BEFORE I share their stuff. It's a professional courtesy. I let them know that I would like to use it and I make sure it's OK. As much as possible, I let them know afterwords how it went over with the teachers I worked with.
on 03 Feb 2012 at 7:46 pm10 Sarcasymptote
@aaron- what scammell said, plus: f I had paid a hundred bucks for a conference to see a session that was lifted from something I had seen on youtube, I'd be pretty miffed. While this might not be a huge deal in the great scheme of things, I wouldn't call stealing intellectual property and passing it off as one's own petty.
Dan, thanks for keeping it tactful and classy, as always.
on 03 Feb 2012 at 7:48 pm11 Aaron Hampshire
No, doubt, John. I TOTALLY agree! I would be so pissed if I were Dan. I think Dan has a right to be angry. And I think the other guy should be ashamed. I get it. I really do.
I just think, why put it on the blog? It makes me think Dan does this all for reasons other than the kids…
on 03 Feb 2012 at 8:10 pm12 Alex Eckert
Good stuff my man. I sit in front of my computer getting ready to prepare my lesson for tomorrow morning for a small group of "second career" teachers on backwards mapping. I'm struggling to make sure that at every turn I remind them that we've based our PD this year at my school on Understanding by Design by Grant Wiggins and Jay McTighe and that, though I wish it weren't the case, none of what I'm going to say to them hasn't been said before by people much smarter than me.
It takes a big man (I think you're 6'7″) to be square with this fella.
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on 03 Feb 2012 at 9:09 pm14 Timon Piccini (@MrPicc112)
I don't think I am saying anything new, but FWIW, I think we all know that Dan is very open with the work that he does. He is definitely a set of shoulders upon which we have all stood, and our appreciation for that should be shown, not stolen. I just hope that whoever this is can admit fault, and give credit where credit is due. I hope Dan can be gracious as well, so that we can continue to learn from him and his unique insights.
Dan, keep fighting the good fight, you have our support!
on 04 Feb 2012 at 12:37 am15 Debbie
I feel the same as Aaron. Perhaps Dan could clarify what dissemination of his ideas he's really proud of, what he could tolerate and what feels like plagiarism to him.
on 04 Feb 2012 at 12:55 am16 Pete
We've used some of Dan's materials at our professional development meetings in the past, but rather than rehearse the speech and pass it off as our own, we just played the video which Dan uploaded online. We then shared the link to Dan's blog and discussed the points we felt were relevant. That's the way it should be.
on 04 Feb 2012 at 4:16 am17 Debbie
I read a bit more about what had happened, and can see how Dan's work has just been lifted and copied word-for-word. I see this is more than just working with Dan's ideas.
on 04 Feb 2012 at 6:03 am18 Monica
Dan, thanks for sharing this story.
So many valuable lessons for all of us, learners ourselves and teachers from whom students learn more in life than simply mathematics.
-If you don't have your integrity, what do you have?
-Furthermore, a simple "(Meyers, 2011)" opens the door for the audience to see that mathematics educators are like mathematicians-problem solvers where we build on the works of others, looking for connections and applications.
This blog is a wonderful vehicle for learning about mathematics education in the way math should be learned…through dialogue.
on 04 Feb 2012 at 6:06 am19 Doug Belshaw
As one of the people who was encouraging you to stand up in his session and shout "I am Spartacus", I have to say that your option was *way* classier and more effective.
Skills. :-)
I think the sad part of this whole tale is that the presenter had an opportunity to take what he learned from Dan, give him credit, and then build on the work with his own experience and research. If it was my work, I probably would have responded the same way.
This year I changed my physics and calculus courses over to standards-based grading. I will be presenting what I've done to my coworkers in a PD in the near future. I would never presume to take credit for any of the ideas. They will be handed a reference list, starting with Dan's discussions here on his blog.
Doing anything less is dishonest and shameful.
on 04 Feb 2012 at 10:43 am21 Elizabeth
Thanks for the story Dan! I'm sure it will become a cocktail party classic in your far future.
I start almost all of my PD sessions with your TED talk, and go on to explain that my deepest wish is to be able to channel you for the remainder of the training session. It's difficult, being only 5'3″.
Thank you for ALL of the ideas, brainwork, and humor you continue to give us.
on 04 Feb 2012 at 11:21 am22 Chris Sears
You handled that better than I would have.
Scott is dead on about this presenters wasted opportunity to add to the culture and knowledge of math education.
For the record, I don't want to stand on your shoulders. I think my weight would hurt you, and that's a long way to fall. ;-)
Just to bounce off a few comments.
I owe my current career and my family owes its wellbeing to the easy transfer of ideas and intellectual property over the Internet. The fact that my talk and my work are easily found online makes my life and my work better. That's why I license everything under the loosest possible constraints outside the public domain. CC-BY means you can even sell my work and keep that money for yourself. You only have to attach my name.
I require credit in part because it's the right and fair thing to do. Even if I were dead and could no longer profit from my work, though, it would still be the right thing to do. Because my plagiarist pushed the discipline of education forward not even an inch by parroting my words without credit. He didn't add a new spin to my argument. He didn't critique my argument. He didn't give credit so that people could go research the rest of my argument. Self-cannibalism is a terrible strategy for growth.
I posted this, in large part, because it was too weird not to. It's also hard to know how to handle these situations. It's possible that someone reading this post will one day have the exact same experience. Whether they follow my lead or take a different path, it can only benefit that person to know how someone else handled it.
on 04 Feb 2012 at 12:27 pm24 Matt
Dan, thanks for sharing this experience.
I am planning to give a summary of the situation to my students to illustrate the importance of citing sources in their upcoming research project. I'll also be sure to give you credit for the idea.
on 04 Feb 2012 at 12:31 pm25 David Wees
I'm with you, Dan. I post my materials under a Creative Commons Attribution, Share-Alike, NonCommercial license, and the most important aspect of that license in my mind is the attribution.
I have used your stuff in my presentations as well, Dan, and John, you know I've used your stuff as well, but both times with appropriate attribution.
I'm not sure what an appropriate "punishment" is though. Given that the event happened in San Diego, we could probably, with some work, look up to find the name of that presenter, so this blog post isn't quite anonymously shaming that person. It has been traditional to publicly shame people who have plagiarized work, and this has done nothing to prevent other people from plagiarizing. If our intention is to try and reduce the rate of plagiarism, then I think it might be time for a new tactic (although I'm not sure what that tactic might be).
Can anyone comment on whether the rate of plagiarism has increased or decreased in the past five years? Maybe we will need to wait until the Internet is no longer "new" (another 20 years?) and see if the plagiarism rate has stabilized, and then see if we can see what the effect of varying policies is on a local level that seem to be successful in reducing plagiarism rate.
I watched an interested TED talk the other day (see http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/en/mark_pagel_how_language_transformed_humanity.html) which suggested that language was developed as a way to discuss ideas and learn how to cooperate, and as a result of trying to prevent people from stealing your ideas (watch the video to understand the argument). Point is, humanity has been grappling with this problem for 200,000 years and we do not appear to be any closer to a solution.
on 04 Feb 2012 at 1:44 pm26 Fawn Nguyen
Wow. To have the nerve to plagiarize your work is astoundingly stupid, not to mention illegal and unethical. Even if you were not in the room, Dan, I would think that another audience member would recognize your work! One born each minute, too bad it's an educator.
on 04 Feb 2012 at 2:57 pm27 Amanda, uk
You should be flattered that he found your words so wise and inspiring that he found the need to use them himself.
This is what I have thought when it's happened to me, a long time ago……but this is from a UK perspective…..and we are all very happy when someone uses our words as it makes us feel we have had an influence and someone has taken notice of us.
In short, it makes us feel very clever. We don't worry so much about the 'illegal and unethical' bit over here. Bit of a cheeky bugger though.
on 04 Feb 2012 at 5:01 pm28 Fawn Nguyen
@Amanda, I'm sure Dan would be flattered IF Mr. Whiteside had given Dan credit. "Cheeky bugger," makes me smile, I think of my favorite guy Eddie Izzard :)
on 04 Feb 2012 at 6:27 pm29 Peter Price
Definitely out of your weight class, Dan.
I agree with sentiments already expressed, 100%.
This guy is totally off base and totally out of your league. Your response has been restrained and creative. Leaving identifying features out of your posts was the right thing to do – if he ever comes here, the embarrassment should be enough to show him what the community thinks of his conduct.
This will be an example for my classes for preservice teachers on scholarly practice / plagiarism / social media / being an educator in an ICT-rich world. Well done.
on 04 Feb 2012 at 8:13 pm30 mr bombastic
Someone stealing your words is not the same as stealing your ideas. The ideas expressed in the Ted talk were already commonly held ideas that you expressed in an entertaining, eloquent, and passionate way. The words were yours, but the ideas had been around for a very long time. That power point slide? Good grief.
So, some loser lifted your Ted talk, you confronted him, and notified the relevant parties. Sensible enough. What he/she was doing was dishonest, weird, and ridiculous – it should be stopped.
But then we get the blog post: So, like, this kid stole this bike that I found, and I saw him at the mall, and he, like, almost crapped his pants when he saw me, and I was going to totally kick his ass, but he was way below my, like, weight class, so …
You are puffing out your chest over some nut job speaking to six goobers at a math conference. Relax. Have a sense of humor. Ask a bunch of questions at the talk, but address him/her as Dan when you ask the questions. That is my suggestion for a better way to deal with the situation. More humor, less ego.
on 05 Feb 2012 at 3:39 am31 teachermrw
Hey, Dan.
Not a math person, but a foreign language girl. That said, I like your blog, and find that much of what you say and about what you write parallel language teaching and learning.
Dan, I understand, and, I think confronting the presenter in a firm albeit professional manner was the way to go here. If he's a decent enough human being, he's reflected on his interaction with you, and, is contemplating on how to develop his own knowledge, rather than using yours and calling it his expertise. That said, a simple hat tip to you regarding the slide, and anything else he used, would have given him more credibility.
Speaking of foreign language teachers, Dan, why are there none listed in your blogroll, hmmm?
on 05 Feb 2012 at 4:46 am32 Debbie
Dan did right to quietly challenge the other presenter, he was even right to raise it with the organisers. What I'm uncomfortable with is his writing a blog post about it. I admire so much about both Dan and his work but I feel this last action lacks dignity and kindness.
on 05 Feb 2012 at 8:00 am33 a different eric
my whole classroom is a dan myer carbon copy.
i feel kind of bad about it.
then again, i take no credit for it, either.
and it works better anything i've ever tried.
@a different eric:
I might be walking a fine ethical line here, but I don't really care how anyone uses my stuff in the classroom. If I cared, I would include a "CC-BY Dan Meyer" at the end of every video and at the bottom of every handout. At the level of professional development, though, where we're trying to advance each other and advance the entire discipline, that's where citation matters most to me. If you aren't adding to the ideas or critiquing the ideas or sending people back to the source of the ideas, we are all on a treadmill, running in place.
on 05 Feb 2012 at 10:42 am35 blaw0013
Dear Dan and the @ddmeyer community,
I am the president and conference organizer for the Greater San Diego Math Council 2012 Conference. I wish to apologize to Dan for the experience, and the poor judgment shown by one of our presenters.
I had a similar experience when teaching in Colorado almost 20 years ago. Along with some colleagues at my high school, we developed some rather forward thinking assessment tools involving student portfolios. One year, our state's presidential award winner shared some of the work she did as evidence of her excellence and damn if it wasn't 90%+ duplicated from our work. My reaction was very similar to Dan's, somewhat conflicted–feeling ripped off and pissed at first, but eventually settling into reasonable calm and self-satisfaction recognizing that others valued my work.
I hope at minimum the sheer embarrassment of the whole situation created a long-term learning experience for Dan's plagiarist. And I hope his apology was sincere; I imagine it was. I suspect we won't have to blacklist him from the speaker applications for future conferences; I believe he won't bother submitting a request again. Maybe we could put on our application form a checkbox that says "I plan to use Dan Meyer's intellectual property and have received his permission in advance."
Maybe if Dan wasn't wearing the gorilla mask in the audience, the guy would have skipped that part of his talk?
Again, Dan – my sincerest apologies.
Brian R. Lawler
on 05 Feb 2012 at 4:34 pm36 paintermath
Upon reading this post, I had very similar thoughts to those of blink (see above). As teachers, we all need to answer the question, "why am I in this profession and what do I hope to accomplish?" I would argue that we all want to improve the lives of our students and, to a larger extent, the system itself. Does it matter who gets the credit as long as the larger mission is accomplished?
Having said this, I too have had a protectionist view of some of my materials at times, which I then have to fight to suppress. He should have given you credit but at least the ideas are circulating! Keep in mind, there is only one of you and a whole bunch of people that the message needs to reach.
on 05 Feb 2012 at 5:29 pm37 Peter Robertson
How would this situation have hypothetically played out if the presenter had given the credit for the source of this information to Dan Meyer before presenting it?
What if he presented Dan's perspective (and gave credit) and then compared/contrasted it with other leading maths ed specialists/researchers. (giving them credit as well). Yeah he isn't coming up with anything new, but at least he is giving credit where credit is due and possibly demonstrating some of his own analysis by comparing perspectives.
Just wondering what this presenter could have done differently in order to save face.
on 05 Feb 2012 at 5:55 pm38 Lenny VerMaas
As a long time teacher who frequently gives presentations at state conferences I ran into a similar situation. I considered it a compliment that someone would think my work worth of sharing. My guess is that this is not a presentation for which he was going to make money. I have shared many many of Dan's ideas, thoughts, links, and videos. I do give credit to Dan. The the important consideration is that students somewhere will enjoy learning mathematics.
on 05 Feb 2012 at 9:49 pm39 Mr. Vaudrey
Yup, Plagiarist is off-base.
Yup, s/he should have cited.
Yup, it's wrong because s/he didn't make any edits or changes to improve it.
All these comments (including yours, Dan) hover around the point: the Plagiarist got paid to present Dan's findings at the conference. Even if s/he was aware of your licensing, this individual chose to peddle your wares for a buck. This kind of laziness and aversion to work is exactly what makes our students take shortcuts, as you all mentioned above.
Also, I cringed when reading your response after your session, and I didn't even do anything wrong. You're well in your rights to give your plagiarist reason to squirm.
on 06 Feb 2012 at 6:43 am40 Alex Eckert
Reading through this post a second time I find it ironically funny that this guy lacked the perseverance to comprehensively plagiarize you.
on 06 Feb 2012 at 6:48 am41 John Scammell
At least if he would have explained his rationale for leaving perseverance out (which still befuddles me), he would have advanced the conversation.
on 06 Feb 2012 at 11:03 am42 CarolH
About 10 years ago, I attended a conference where the keynote speaker had attended several regional and national conferences I'd presented at over a 2-3 year time period. When she recognized me in the audience, before she started her keynote, she had me stand and introduced me to the audience as her "muse" in getting started in the math education professional development business.
Considering at least 1/3 of her slides came from originals I'd created for my presentation, I thought she did the best she could to get out of trouble by acknowledging me. But, she had never asked for my permission to use them in her presentation, nor had she credited them to me in her handouts.
Very unprofessional of her and awkward all around.
on 06 Feb 2012 at 11:13 am43 Dave
I'm seeing many commenters who think that frowning upon plagiarism is all about credit, but that's a very shallow view. In this case, the plagiarist completely disconnected the audience from Dan Meyer's extensive work in this area. That means they can't read the extended discussions, they can't draw on other related resources, they can't contact the real author and ask their own questions. They can't connect to the author to follow future developments.
The plagiarist is standing at the top of a well, with the audience at the bottom. He throws down a loaf of bread and a few pages from a book, and leads the audience to believe that basically that's all that exists outside the hole, and he's the only one who can provide it to them.
I really want to give the plagiarist the benefit of the doubt, that it was a stupid mistake that hasn't happened before or since. But I can't get past the idea that some of us spend 40 hours or more putting together the best 1 hour presentation we can. The plagiarist took the easy way out. It's disrespectful to the original author, to the subject, and to the audience. I tend to think that disrespect like that doesn't just randomly rear its head once.
on 07 Feb 2012 at 3:02 pm44 Glenda
Thanks for sharing. You got to the heart of the problem for me when you highlighted how without proper citation we loose the thread of information; the breadcrumbs that lead us back to valuable sources. That was what was stolen, our opportunity to make connections. (Loved the 'well' analogy.)
on 10 Feb 2012 at 9:36 am45 Robert
I think Dan did the right thing here by putting this discussion out in the open.
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