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The final leadership hustings of the race took place last night (27th November) in London and here is my exclusive report, jotted down throughout the night:
Arriving early, all us poor unfortunate undecideds were accosted by the various members of the opposing campaign teams and told why we were wrong to not to have chosen sooner, with leaflets, stickers and even DVDs shoved under our noses and into our defenceless palms. Tell me, at what point did leadership hustings become for those who had already made their minds up, as there certainly seemed to be more supporters than fence-sitters present?
A clear way to tell who was voting for who was to look at the balloons - grass stain green for Huhne and vomit yellow for Clegg - although I'm not entirely sure there were two candidates, as the layout of their respective stickers made it look as though they were all supporting a chap called Chris Clegg.
In the pre-speech melee:
- Lynne Featherstone
- Chris Rennard
- Susan Kramer
- James Graham
The Speeches - Chris Huhne
Huhne kicked things off, praising Vince Cable's acting leadership of the party (and even seeming to dare out loud whether he shouldn't continue in the post), before launching into the obligatory attack on Labour and the Tories and how they are fighting over the same (conservative ground). He insisted he wasn't that kind of man, and wouldn't lead the kind of party that would do the same.
He went as far to accuse Labour of corruption over the cash for peerages affair and divulged that he has asked the police to investigate the latest donations row - it's tempting to say here that there doesn't need to be an investigation, the chief suspect has already admitted the illegality.
He wrapped up the Labour and Tory bashing by saying he wants to lead a "radical" party, rather than a third conservative party. He used that word, radical, a lot, and I'm not sure that will necessarily win us votes. Can you see people voting for a party that adopts the rhetoric of anarchists?
Regarding Trident, he sees it as a way to make up for the shortfalls in the Army's spending which we've heard a bit about over the last week.
There was a bit about public service devolution, which I'm sure was very interesting, but I kind of glazed over during it.
When he moved on to civil liberties he sounded mildly patriotic in arguing that we shouldn't trade liberty for security - emphasising the British values inherent in the those civil liberties.
The environment is Huhne's obvious strong point, and he sounded his best during this part of the speech. He used the party's strong leadership on the environment during his tenure as environment spokesperson to argue that we would become as strong on the "bread and butter issues" if he were leader.
His final words:
"[Under my leadership] we will lead nothing less than a liberal revolution for the British people."
The Speeches - Nick Clegg
Clegg began by highlighting the inequalities in London - on housing, life-expectancy and life chances. But he wasn't all negative on the city, he also said it gave him "hope" through its multiculturalism, its dynamism and its economy. I liked the way he tuned his initial message to the London audience in a way I don't think Huhne did.
He broke his speech down in to five bite size chunks:
- Epidemic of powerlessness: He spoke on the giganticness of the state and private companies. He unfortunately co-opted Little Britain during this section ("computer says no" culture), but I did like the alliteration of "BT said talk to Talk-Talk, Talk-Talk said talk to BT" as much as he did. His theme here wasn't just that old chestnut of a government that hands power from Whitehall down to Town Hall, but also of a government that is on the side of the people all the time, not just on polling day.
- Social stagnation and segregation: He pointed to life chances being ruined by the current system of education. He called for a world class schools system for everyone (not just those who went to Westminster then), achieving this simply through injecting more cash (paid for how?) and he pledged to put education at the forefront of the party's policies going into the next election ("education, education, education" anyone?).
- Fear: Oooooo... I like that this was one of his themes. He argued that fear imprisoned us not just in our homes but also in our minds and that if we are really to be a party of social justice, we need to concentrate not just on civil liberties and human rights, but also apply our values to practical, everyday concerns of the poor (as it is those who have most to fear in modern day Britain).
- The Environment: He recognised that the environment isn't everyone's number one priority (hooray!), but he wants to motivate people to our cause, as well as making government and business do their fair share in combating climate change.
- Globalisation: Like public services devolution with Huhne, I kind of glazed over during this one - there was something about how it leads to apathy, which benefits populist reactionaries like the BNP.
Before I wrap this section up I should mention that unlike Huhne, Clegg spoke without notes. I don't know why, but this always impresses me.
His final words:
"We all want to live in a more liberal Britain."
The Questions
The notes here aren't as full, but I've picked out a couple of things which are of interest:
- There seemed to be a strong anti-US sentiment from both candidates (and from the hall)... Or maybe just pro-Europeanism.
- Positive Discrimination: This was the big shocker for me - Clegg endorsed positive discrimination if the Liberal Democrats don't recruit more ethnic minority candidates to elected positions. This is so wrong, I was honestly left openmouthed at the prospect. To replace one evil with another hardly does diversity any favours and will probably serve to alienate more people than it integrates. Thankfully, Huhne did not repeat this pledge.
Departures and Final Thoughts
I said to myself that the London leadership hustings would be the point when I would decide which candidate to vote, although I have to say I'm not particularly stark raving mad for either of them. They would both make excellent leaders, but this time I'm going for Clegg. He has impressed me throughout the campaign, he hasn't resorted to smearing his opponent (although he lost Brownie points for crying about it) and I think he is the one best place to articulate our values to those who previously haven't voted for us - Chris Huhne seems more interested in being "radical" and leading a "revolution", language I'm confident will alienate a lot of our potential supporters. The only thing that worries me about Clegg are his view on positive discrimination, but hey, the rate we're going through leaders at the moment, he won't be in charge come two elections time.


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May New Music became N(you) Music?
at 18:25 on 03 September 2009
The main problem we have with Contemporary Classical music is the fact that the message is just not getting out of the niche.
One of the most urgent challenges classical music has been recently facing is the task of spreading forth the message of how really new contemporary artistic music sounds and breaths. In academic and traditional amateurs circles we tend to view the Earlier Periods of classical music as an idealized time in which the unity of listener and creator was not only unique but prevailed. Absolutely wrong! It is certain that in all those glorious days it was also quite rare for anything sophisticated to enjoy a wider audience.
I remember with the word of Shakespeare that , the wits of former days
to subjects worse [that the one we produce today] have given admiring praise.
If you take the piano programs Clara Schuhmann delivered to posterity, it is not exactly the works of her lover(s) Robert Schuhmann and Brahms that dominate. It is more the works of salon composers who, although they were immensely popular at the time lets say like John Adams, remain more or less unknown today. There has always been an imbalance between the art of any particular time and the feedback of the audience and the cultural ambassadors of that time.
I sincerely do not think this lack of understanding however goes much further today than it did before. The term New Music with a capital N, was coined by Adorno, and for many came to identify a kind of expulsion from paradise a banishment from the Masters Club of all those bad intellectuals more interested in destroying and doing tabula rasa that worried of continuing the subtle art of building visionary architectures of sound. Instead it was nothing new, it was just a necessary a moment in which rethinking and revaluing the musical bricks was as necessary as the birth of the temperate system or the work of Guidone D Arezzo and friends. Evolution needs evaluation and choice but above all research and discovery.
Today the term New Music or Contemporary Music is perceived in too many different ways, most of them felt by the audience as extremely negative and awkward.
It serves as generic representative name for all contemporary artistic musical trends like serial, post-serial, minimalist, post-minimalist, post-modern, neo-modern and of course electronic music. The Ipodman-in-the-street on the other hand does not associate it with any kind of music played on any radio during daytime programs. For some educated ordinary people and newcomers as well however it is quite simply twelve tone music, even if this particular style does not actually exist any more. But lets face it for most people New Music or even Contemporary Music is purely and simply the latest pop commercial music.
Last year I did intensive Educational Projects in secondary and upper education schools, it was always the same story:
Q Write what music do you like and listen.
A I love new music. Every day I listen to all the latest songs.
Or worst the other way round
Q Professor which band do you work for?
A Oh I dont work for a band, I write classical music, for example, chamber and orchestral pieces...
Ah, classical! I think I once saw one classical concert. It was in the Arena in Verona o La Fenice in Venice. It was so atmospheric, exotic!
As a classical music composer I must now start putting some blame for our plight on our state-run TV stations and our education system, but it is our fault not the one of the people we have chosen to manage culture and entertainment for us. Every people has the rulers it deserves (Tacqueville) The forever dwindling number of educational and at the same time entertaining and inspiring programs on TV as well as on the radio has also played a major role in this development. I grew up in the 70s and 80s. This was the time when Germany, France, UK and Italy had only three TV stations and it was impossible to watch TV without being confronted again and again with an opera or theatre performance or reports about the latest art exhibitions. Back then there were no real protests about the programs being too intellectual or too highbrow, whereas these days on the other hand it might be quite a good thing if there were more protests at the abysmally poor quality of todays TV shows.
The whole thing is quite simple you cannot be curious about something you have never heard of the rule is and has always been Learning from exposure The teaching of art and music in our schools today has become so secondary an accessory due to the ever increasing focus on business-related subjects. This has led to the production of a new generation that knows increasingly little about something that has modeled all European culture, social and spiritual attitude. Our culture, our life, our civilization !
We need to evoke fascination and enthusiasm on the part both of the listeners and the performers. Artistic music should be neither trivial nor particularly simple and it should not borrow any of the usual clichés. It should always be striving to conquer new territory and go beyond popular aesthetics, open doors that have not have been previously opened (Pierre Boulez) . It can be, and at times really ought to be, challenging, difficult, demanding but , more than anything, it should need a second chance!
I am absolutely fighting those abominably conservative and reactionary people who are demanding a return to a much more acceptable and agreeable music, we all have seen what money can buy and it is not worth the price, we have other PRIORities.
Nobody should dare to point which direction music has to take. It will come about itself and I am convinced that music will always have a great appeal for all the generations of the future that are able to stop and listen, they wont be millions of people anyway.
Todays composers must realize we have two basic things to do if we are to survive. Educate the younger to be able to stop and listen not only to hear, draw new ways of opening up concerts, rehearsals and exchange. In a few words we must follow the foreseeing suggestions of Eric Booth in his book The teaching musicians Bible and jumping on the teachingartistis.com bus to be able not to miss our destination : art for a purpose!. Develop international digital and physical webs able to propose the same music one , two , three , many times in order to let everybody get accustomed with music that needs to become familiar to be able to be enjoyable. Forget therefore the flippant forms of Multi-Kulti music or World fusion and trans-post-neo movements the very idea alone of keeping on criss-crossing and revoking dead bodies is naïve and sick.
Real artistic music now has the unique opportunity to break away from all the other genres and to then so to say represent once again a spiritual outburst for us al. Bach and Beethoven, who transformed all the classical forms of their time into their particular languages and later raised to the dimension of a unique spiritual gurus of music, would be the perfect role model here. We already have composers like them, we only do not yet realize it!. On the many trips, residencies, masterclass and performances I have undertaken I have been able to enjoy this view of culture from the outside and inside and this has taught me so much among other things just how ridiculous and petty-minded the problems of the New Music scene seem when you are trying to get the message across to a cultural circle that does not have the slightest idea what New Music is all about. This enthusiasm for the music gives me hope for the future and the belief that the message of music can go further away beyond borders, styles, epochs and money.
Roberto David Rusconi
Composer and Educator
www.intrasonus.eu email@example.com
PS Please all neo and post tonalist or classicist avoid
answering and comments thanks!
Re: May New Music became N(you) Music?
at 08:26 on 05 September 2009
Unity of musical language in the classical period always was an illusion.
I can not not make an important point that the apparant unity of musical style over all genres in Mozart's time is an illusion caused by focusing too much on a subset of the music of that time in the educational system. It is such a widespread illusion that I sometimes forget that it is not true.
In 1800 it is to be presumed that more of the sorts of music which were collected by Percy Grainger, Bartok and Kodaly etc. were in existence. including the microtonal singing styles in the southern balkans and all the various types of court and folk music which existed in North Africa and the Middle East, than survived in 1900. 1900 was the time when collection of 'exotic' musics became relatively widespread. And this does not count the musics which were in existance in Asia and were interacting with European art music once initial exploration was replaced by cultural and intellectual exchange. The music which was first studied after 1900 clearly had hundreds of years of living culture before it came into our view and some styles might have had more practitioners than European court music..
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Interview: 'Chuck' star Zachary Levi on Comic-Con, fans and saying goodbye
One of the most memorable moments from Comic-Con came at the end of the last-ever "Chuck" panel. The moderator asked if any of the panelists had final words for the fans, and after producer Chris Fedak gave a speech, he passed the baton to leading man Zachary Levi, who needed a moment to compose himself, then thanked the fans one last time, his voice breaking as he got to the end. (You can watch it here.) And the crowd responded with a prolonged standing ovation.
Goodbyes like that are rare at Comic-Con, as few shows go into a season knowing it's the end the way "Chuck" will. But also there aren't a lot of stars who feed off the love of their fans quite the way Levi does. During the unfortunate end of last year's Comic-Con panel, when we ran out of time without a single fan question, everyone was surprised, but Levi was genuinely hurt, because interacting with the audience is something he so clearly enjoys.
After that farewell panel, I interviewed most of the show's cast (Vik Sahay and Scott Krinsky never made it down to my end of the line, unfortunately) for a series of quick-hit videos that I'm going to be posting through the blog tonight and tomorrow. By the time Levi and Josh Gomez made it to me, time was running particularly short, so Levi agreed to sit down with me some more later in the day at Nerd HQ, the off-site location Levi and his Nerd Machine company set up for this Con. You can watch the Levi/Gomez video here, and after the jump, my conversation with Levi, starting with a bit of discussion about the origin of Nerd HQ...
For the benefit of people who are not here, can you explain what this is about?
I just really love the world of Comic-Con, and what they do and how they bring all these wonderful people together. 200,000 genuine people who love what they're into. That's been the lifeblood of our show for so many years. If not for Comic-Con, we would not have the show we have. And over the years, I've been a little bummed out, like last year when we have awesome moderators like yourself, but we also have 4,000 fans who are dying to ask a question. For me, I'd rather just have an hour of fan Q&A. But that's me. Not everybody's the same. Maybe in a giant hall, that doesn't work. But what I really wanted to do was create a place that was a one-stop shop for the nerd triple crown. Mostly Comic-Con with a little bit of E3 and a little bit of CES all mixed in. For me it's all the same world. Nerd HQ allows fans to come in for free, and hang out and eat and drink and play video games that aren't on the market yet. While at the same time giving celebrities a place to come and chill in between the business that they're doing.
The thing that I'm most proud of is these Conversations for a Cause, which are our version of a panel, but it's a very different experience. Very intimate, 200 people, and offering them panels, some that coincide with Comic-Con, but we did a "Firefly" panel. There are no "Firefly" panels. It's been off the air for several years, but there are still thousands of Browncoats milling around Comic-Con hoping they could have time with Alan (Tudyk) and Adam (Baldwin) and Nathan (Fillion) and Jewel (Staite) and Morena (Baccarin). That was one of the biggest catalysts. I went to Nathan Fillion first and asked if he'd be into the idea, and he said yeah. We're giving fans an intimate experience: an hour Q&A, and often an hour signing afterwards. And to get to come, you just make a minimum donation of 20 bucks, it secures a seat, don't have to wait in line all day long, and all that money - every penny - goes to Operation Smile.
Is the plan to expand it beyond the world of Comic-Con, or to just make it a Comic-Con tradition and be back doing it next year?
Certainly make it a Comic-Con tradition, if Comic-Con is cool with it. I don't want to step on anybody's toes. I had heard that maybe they weren't so stoked with me wearing some of my Nerd HQ gear when I did the TV Guide Fan Favorites panel, which was really a bummer for me. I really do love Comic-Con. They had already sold all their passes before we had sold one panel. To me, I felt like I don't want to poach their business; I want to complement it. Give people a reason to keep coming down, have the business spill out, give it a whole South-by-Southwest feel. So as long as it's all simpatico, I'd love to keep coming back. And there are so many awesome cons we could go to, but also maybe doing a Nerd HQ at E3, and maybe having celebrity panels there. I honestly wanted to do something that would be good for our brand at The Nerd Machine. I wanted to throw a kick-ass party again, because we did that last year, and we wanted to have a booth at the convention, but then SDCC said they'd love to have us but the waiting list is three years. And we said, "Oh, geez, so sorry, we were unawares." And they suggested we find an off-site location. And as I started to investigate about having a party and a booth, we thought we might as well do it for all four days. I called every friend I had. I called Nathan, Adam, Jorge Garcia, Dominic Monaghan, Zach Quinto, Seth Green, Felicia Day - people I know that are in and of this world and really care about their fans. That's what it takes to be a part of this is to see how special it is.
I want to talk about what happened at the end of the panel, which was special in and of itself. You're an emotional guy in general, but were you expecting to have that reaction?
I was afraid that it might happen. And I say that somewhat jokingly, "afraid," because I'm not afraid to be transparent and be myself. But I don't want to put across like, "Oh, God, every time he talks, he's tearing up." But I have in the past at a couple of panels for the show. The first year, it was while we were off to the side watching the fan reaction to the pilot. And then after we had been saved after the footlong campaign, I teared up a little bit. I think if you are conscious of how privileged you are to have fans like that, you can't help but be moved. You can't help it. As a kid, you grow up and you want to be an actor, but you want to be an actor that people respond to, and support and believe in. So when people do, I can't not be touched. I can't not be, like, "Wow, they get me." They don't think we're collectively some crap show. They're with us, and they fight for us, and that's not easy. To fight for a show means taking out time from their day, and they have a life, they have a job, they have a family. So, to me, it's just a very personal thing - to know that it was our last panel, and that it was goodbye.
Barring some ridiculous miracle that's not likely to happen, the show's going away 13 episodes from now. You're not going to stop working, but your career may go in different areas. So how do you maintain that relationship with these fans?
There's a couple of things I take comfort in in being able to stay connected. One of them is being able to go do another show, sci-fi/fantasy genre, whatever, that would be really fun. Probably sci-fi; I want to go into space. I don't think I'd be a great vampire. I'd love to kill zombies, though; that'd be fun.
And if not that, the interesting thing is that in the last 10 years, Hollywood has really infused itself into Comic-Con, and that's a double-edged sword. It's become an entertainment con, and I think while the super hardcore purists are like, "What is this?" - and, trust me, when we first went down to Comic-Con, I was asking, "What are we doing at Comic-Con?" - I think that most fans are kind of stoked about it. They get to go to panels with shows that might not have been brought down before, but they're still with celebrities they know and love. Nerds don't just watch sci-fi. Nerds watch single-camera comedies, nerds watch dramas. I've got friends on "Shameless" and "Community," and it's awesome to see them down here - if it's awesome for the fans. That's the rudder. If your fans aren't okay with it, then you need to make adjustments. And if it's not as "pure" as what it once was, then okay. It should be organic, be able to breathe a little bit.
So if I go on to do a single-camera comedy, which I think would be a lot of fun to do, and fans want me to come down for Comic-Con, I'd love to do it. Or else I'll just come down to moderate something. And if nothing else, I'll keep coming down and doing HQ's if people are into it and they still want me to do 'em. I just like doing stuff that's fun, man. I believe that we're all capable of doing awesome stuff, and we're called to bring awesomeness into the world. Being able to put a smile on someone's face - a kid who didn't have 150 bucks to scrape together for a Comic-Con ticket, or did but didn't buy it fast enough, to give them an alternate, and say, "Hey, it's cool, you can come here" - I think that's special.
Fedak and I have talked over the years about how he's a nerd, I'm a nerd, you're a nerd, and there's all these things on the show he can't believe he gets to do. Like the super-bike sequence in the season 4 finale, which was his version of "Street Hawk." As a nerd yourself, I'm wondering if there have been moments where you've had that reaction: "I can't believe I get to do this."
Oh, dude, all the time.
I think the Intersect is one of the coolest things in any television show. I know I'm biased, but your brain being programmed like a computer and allowing a normal - sometimes even sub-normal - guy to now be able to do incredible things, the information and then the physical powers? I've always wanted to be an action hero, I've always wanted to do kung fu and shoot guns and ride motorcycles and do car chases, so all that is awesome. And aside from that, just the whole undercover aspect of it: getting to speak different languages or dialects, that's a lot of fun.
And totally separate from "Chuck," I'm a huge Disney nerd - a DisNerd - and to be able to be in a Disney musical?
On the action hero thing, I remember seeing a bit of B-roll footage from the first season from when you and Yvonne were filming "Chuck vs. the Wookiee." You're at poolside and trading fan-kicks, and I thought, "What if he ever does become an action guy?" When you got to season 3, how much work was that for you, to do the Chuck Fu?
It's a lot of work, whether you're doing the physical stuff or not. It's a long schedule, not easy to do, but our cast and crew are awesome and put forth everything every day. Adding on the fight stuff is a little bit more work. Fortunately or unfortunately, we normally learn those the day before we do the scene. So it's not like I'm laboring over it for weeks at a time. I'm only laboring over it for a couple of days. I can pick up the choreography - it's like a dance, and I've done a lot of musical theater stuff growing up. The hardest thing for me is just making it look as snappy as I can possibly make it. I've never taken martial arts in my life, and I'm a long, lean guy. You want it to look like Bruce Lee, but I'm a 6'4" white dude. It's not always as straight-up cool, but that's fine. That lends itself to the premise of the show and who "Chuck" is, anyway.
One of the things that's special about the show is that it's so many things in this one package. It's a comedy, it's a spy show, it's a romantic drama. Some people only do one part of it - Vic and Scott are pretty much only doing the comedy - and you have to do all of it. Is that hard, or is it fun because it's more?
I love it. What other show allows you that opportunity? I've done straight comedy with "Less Than Perfect," had an amazing time doing it. From an acting standpoint, you might come to the end of that going, "I have to show audiences that I can do drama. So I need to go do a drama now." Or vice versa. For me, I feel like I've been able to show people I can do comedy, drama, romance, action - at least to some extent on any one of those. And it does keep you on your toes, but I hope that at the end of the day, it's something that opens the door hopefully in cool ways in the future. People might go, "Oh, I've seen 'Chuck,' so I saw you do that."
Our show itself is very special in that regard. I've said this before: we're not as consistently as funny as a comedy, we're not as consistently dramatic as a drama, not as consistently action-packed as a "24" or whatever. So if you're looking for specifically any one of those genres, I don't know if "Chuck" is your style. But if you're looking for something that combines all of it, there's only one show, and that's ours. I don't know of any other one.
I think that's what made it so special for our fans. They get it, and they respond to it. There's plenty of shows, comedies and dramas, that get tons and tons of viewers, but maybe they're not quite as die-hard. And our fans are just die-hard, just awesome.
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Editor's note: The following story has been corrected. In addition, the following correction ran about this story on May 15, 2011.
A story about a meeting of Philadelphia's Zoning Code Commission failed to mention that some of Councilman Bill Green's remarks had been made in an interview two days earlier. In that interview, he said he thought City Council would table the new code unless the commission accepted the changes he was advocating, but he did not say he would initiate the tabling of it. Green said he was concerned about the impact of the zoning code on the entire city and had proposed phasing in the new code neighborhood by neighborhood as their land-use maps are updated, rather than adopting the code simultaneously citywide. The city's Northeast neighborhood was not being singled out for exemption.


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Hilda Solis on Abortion
Democratic Representative (CA-32)
Proponents support voting YES because:
Since 2 years ago, the last Stem Cell bill, public support has surged for stem cells. Research is proceeding unfettered and, in some cases, without ethical standards in other countries. And even when these countries have ethical standards, our failures are allowing them to gain the scientific edge over the US. Some suggest that it is Congress' role to tell researchers what kinds of cells to use. I suggest we are not the arbiters of research. Instead, we should foster all of these methods, and we should adequately fund and have ethical oversight over all ethical stem cell research.
Opponents support voting NO because:
A good deal has changed in the world of science. Amniotic fluid stem cells are now available to open a broad new area of research. I think the American people would welcome us having a hearing to understand more about this promising new area of science. As it stands today, we will simply have to debate the bill on the merits of information that is well over 2 years old, and I think that is unfortunate.
The recent findings of the pluripotent epithelial cells demonstrates how quickly the world has changed. Wouldn't it be nice to have the researcher before our committee and be able to ask those questions so we may make the best possible judgment for the American people?
EMILY's List operates as a donor network, recommending pro-choice Democratic women candidates to its members, who contribute directly to the candidates they choose. In the 1999-2000 election cycle, EMILY's List members contributed $9.3 million to pro-choice Democratic women candidates. In its 16-year history, EMILY's List has helped to elect four women governors, eleven women to the United States Senate and 53 women to the U.S. House of Representatives. "Women continue to be the power players in Democratic politics," said Ellen R. Malcolm, president of EMILY's List. "In 2002, redistricting could result in as many as 75 open seats, creating multiple opportunities to recruit and elect pro-choice Democratic women."
For over thirty years, NARAL Pro-Choice America has been the political arm of the pro-choice movement and a strong advocate of reproductive freedom and choice. NARAL Pro-Choice America's mission is to protect and preserve the right to choose while promoting policies and programs that improve women's health and make abortion less necessary. NARAL Pro-Choice America works to educate Americans and officeholders about reproductive rights and health issues and elect pro-choice candidates at all levels of government. The NARAL ratings are based on the votes the organization considered most important; the numbers reflect the percentage of time the representative voted the organization's preferred position.
OFFICIAL CONGRESSIONAL SUMMARY: Amends Medicaid to:
LEGISLATIVE OUTCOME:Referred to Senate Committee on Finance; never came to a vote.
OFFICIAL CONGRESSIONAL SUMMARY: Prohibits any federal funds from being provided to a hospital unless the hospital provides to women who are victims of sexual assault:
SPONSOR'S INTRODUCTORY REMARKS: Sen. CLINTON: This bill will help sexual assault survivors across the country get the medical care they need and deserve. It is hard to argue against this commonsense legislation. Rape--by definition--could never result in an intended pregnancy. Emergency contraception is a valuable tool that can prevent unintended pregnancy. This bill makes emergency contraception available for survivors of sexual assault at any hospital receiving public funds.
Every 2 minutes, a woman is sexually assaulted in the US, and each year, 25,000 to 32,000 women become pregnant as a result of rape or incest. 50% of those pregnancies end in abortion.
By providing access to emergency contraception, up to 95% of those unintended pregnancies could be prevented if emergency contraception is administered within the first 24 to 72 hours. In addition, emergency contraception could also give desperately needed peace of mind to women in crisis.
The FDA recently made EC available over the counter for women 18 years of age and older. Despite the ideologically driven agenda against this drug, the research has been consistently clear--this drug is safe and effective for preventing pregnancy. Women deserve access to EC. For millions of women, it represents peace of mind. For survivors of rape and sexual assault, it offers hope for healing and a tomorrow free of painful reminders of the past.
LEGISLATIVE OUTCOME:Referred to Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions; never came to a vote.
OnTheIssues.org interprets the 2006 NRLC scores as follows:
The ultimate goal of the National Right to Life Committee is to restore legal protection to innocent human life. The primary interest of the National Right to Life Committee and its members has been the abortion controversy; however, it is also concerned with related matters of medical ethics which relate to the right to life issues of euthanasia and infanticide. The Committee does not have a position on issues such as contraception, sex education, capital punishment, and national defense. The National Right to Life Committee was founded in 1973 in response to the Roe vs. Wade Supreme Court decision, legalizing the practice of human abortion in all 50 states, throughout the entire nine months of pregnancy.
The NRLC has been instrumental in achieving a number of legislative reforms at the national level, including a ban on non-therapeutic experimentation of unborn and newborn babies, a federal conscience clause guaranteeing medical personnel the right to refuse to participate in abortion procedures, and various amendments to appropriations bills which prohibit (or limit) the use of federal funds to subsidize or promote abortions in the United States and overseas.
In addition to maintaining a lobbying presence at the federal level, NRLC serves as a clearinghouse of information for its state affiliates and local chapters, its individual members, the press, and the public.
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Calling the Old Canada Road (Route 201) a scenic byway does a small injustice to this 78-mile drive between Solon and Sandy Bay Township along the Canadian border. It's not just scenic (think moose) but also grandly historic.
Benedict Arnold led troops through this wilderness on his spectacularly ill-fated mission to sack Quebec in 1775. A more lasting trail was blazed in the 19th century by Maine farmers who discovered a better market for livestock and produce in Canada than on their own coast.
The trip north today remains an excursion from the pastoral into the pine forests. You start out flanked by rolling farmland, then climb steadily into commercial timberland, the lair of moose. Logging trucks soon share the winding road with old school buses that ferry white-water enthusiasts to some of the most popular rafting in the East. Head with Raft Maine to The Forks (named after a river juncture) to get splendidly soaked on the Kennebec or Dead Rivers.
One don't-miss detour from The Forks is the hike to 90-foot Moxie Falls, one of Maine's highest cascades. It's just over a mile from the trailhead, which is two miles east of the river on Lake Moxie Road.
Continue your drive past Parlin Pond and the Appalachian Trail to the unvarnished town of Jackman ("Last Gas in the United States"), one of Maine's famed fishing, hunting, and snowmobiling outposts. Just south of town is Attean Lake, where you can find the landing phone to call for a shuttle to the Attean Lake Lodge, a family-friendly resort on a densely forested island.


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A judge has ordered legal aid for the man accused of first degree murder and attempted murder in the 2012 election night shooting.
Quebec Superior Court Justice Guy Cournoyer ruled that since Richard Henry Bain is willing to reimburse the government for his lawyer, he can't pay for a lawyer in time for his trial to start early next year and the case is so complex, he should be given a state-funded lawyer.
Justice Cournoyer noted that if lawyers had mentioned Bain wanted to pay back the government for a lawyer, this process could have gone a lot faster.
Cournoyer cited the seriousness of the charges and the complexity of the case for his ruling.
"It's totally unrealistic to say the charges against Mr. Bain are not complex,"
Cournoyer read from his written decision, adding that a jury trial is "exacting even for the most accomplished lawyer."
"There is no such thing as a simple trial when the charge is first degree murder."
Cournoyer said given Bain's financial situation, Bain is not able to afford a lawyer at the present time or to pay for one in time for his trial to start early next year. He also said there's no reasonable defence counsel who would take on a case with so many uncertainties. To decide anything else, would be "a figment of creative wishful thinking."
The judge said it's in Bain's best interest and society's best interest for him to have a state-funded lawyer, citing Bain's constitutional right to a speedy trial and the public's right to see the swift administration of justice.
The judge set a date late next month for the two sides to update him on the terms of reimbursement.
Stagehand Denis Blanchette was shot dead September 4, 2012 at the Metropolis where the PQ was having its election night victory party. Colleague Dave Courage was shot and seriously injured.
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Jewish Family Service Agency of Central NJ, a not-for-profit health and social services agency, located in Clark and Elizabeth, has been re-certified to offer the community a New Jersey Certified Adoption Program. The JFS Adoption Program has been recently re-credentialed by the State of New Jersey, Division of Youth and Family Service. The agency will continue to provide domestic home studies for families wishing to adopt. The Jewish Family Service Adoption Program offers counseling, adoption home studies, post-placement reports, identified adoptions, and birth parent counseling.
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Famous Mormon Writers and Authors
|Jeff Lindsay
Jeff is a registered US Patent Agent and a leading expert in Intellectual
Asset law and strategy. Jeff was one of the most prolific inventors in
company history with 101 granted US patents and more pending. After becoming
the company�s Corporate Patent Strategist and Senior Research Fellow, Jeff
developed and advanced the concept of �Disruptive Intellectual Asset
Strategy,� where intellectual assets are used to overcome normal barriers to
disruptive innovation. Jeff founded and chaired an Intellectual Asset group
dedicated to identifying and protecting �business methods,� and guided
Kimberly-Clark in pursuing an aggressive publications strategy.
Annette Lyon
Author of some great books such as
AT the journey's End House on the Hill, At the Waters Edge and Lost Without You
Marcia Lynn McClure
Marcia spins her tales of love, life and laughter�adventures woven around those compelling, romantic instances that most appeal to a woman's loving heart. Marcia feels that if her readers close one of her books with a contented sigh and a delighted smile, feeling rejuvenated, cheerful and edified, then she has achieved what she set out to do�shower refreshment and happiness on anyone having experienced the story.
|Sherry Ann Miller
Author of the award-winning Gift Series (five-book set can be read out of sequence and has won two first place awards, one third place award, and two fourth place awards in national competitions) and Warwick Saga (a 2-book set of historical fiction at its very best), Sherry researches family history tenaciously, and has gathered over fifty-thousand names for her PAF program.
K. L. Morgan
"These stories are full of exciting adventure, wonderful imagination, and romance.
Wholesome books such as these I recommend to my own children. You'll want to read K.L. Morgan's Castledance (2001), and Judges of Light
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Stephenie Meyer
Stephenie Meyer is the author to a young adult novel
entitled TWILIGHT and the soon to be published sequel NEW MOON
After the publication of her first novel, Twilight, booksellers chose Stephenie Meyer as one of the "most promising new authors of 2005" (Publishers Weekly).
From Stephenie's website: I am also a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (or Mormon, as we are commonly called�for more info on what that means, see www.mormon.org ) and that has a huge influence on who I am and my perspective on the world, and therefore what I write (though I have been asked more than once, "What's a nice Mormon girl like you doing writing about vampires?")
Brandon Mull
Brandon Mull is a writer who is best known as the author of the Fablehaven fantasy series. Mull Lives south of Salt Lake City, Utah and Graduated from Brigham Young University College in Utah. Mull lives on the side of a mountain above a prison with his wife and two kids. Because many young readers are interested in his books, Brandon crosses the country talking to students, with the message that "imagination can take you places."
Brenda Novak
Two-time Golden Heart finalist she writes contemporary romance from her home in Sacramento, California. Since her first sale to HarperCollins in 1998,Of Nobel Birth, she's sold seventeen books to Harlequin, thirteen for their Super romance line, three contemporary single titles and a novella. The Best Reviews
|Rachel Ann Nunes
While Rachel mainly focuses on writing contemporary women�s fiction with strong plots and characters, her works also include more generally focused novels. While serving an LDS mission to Portugal, Rachel met her husband, TJ. They now live in Utah Valley and are the parents of six children�three boys and three girls.
Carol Lynn Pearson
She has written several volumes of poetry including Beginnings, The Search,
The Growing Season, A Widening View, I Can�t Stop Smiling, and Women I Have Known and Been.
She created a one-woman play which she has performed more than three hundred times,
"Mother Wove the Morning," in which she play sixteen women throughout history in search of the female face of God,
a subject that has been a driving force in her life.
The video of the play earned an award from "Booklist" as "one of the top 25 videos of the year."
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Anne Perry
She has written more than 30 popular mysteries set in Victorian London, seven million copies in print.
"At first, I gave the missionaries such a hard time, because there were some things I couldn't accept,
but now I can't remember what they were. I really can't... I got down on my knees before I went to bed,
and I asked my Father in Heaven if it was true or not, and when I woke up in the morning,
the room was absolutely filled with light � and I don't mean sunlight."
Tristi Pinkston
She is the author of two LDS historical fiction novels, Nothing to Regret
and Strength to Endure, both World War II sagas produced by Granite
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explores the intricacies of war and the raw human emotion that accompanies
world conflict. She has been critically acclaimed for her in depth
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Fabrizio Poli
Fabrizio is a convert to the Church (baptized in July 1995) and never looked back since. Fabrizio says: "The gospel has and is bringing many great blessings to both my family and myself. He is an Airline Pilot for leading European Airline Ryan Air and his first book Your Attitude Determines Your Altitude: How to Fly Out of the Cube & Gain Your Freedom is doing very well here in the UK
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The Newman's Own Organic Guide to a Good Lifeby Nell Newman
It's fairly obvious that one can't be a 'perfect' environmentalist. But that's okay. Perfection isn't the goal. A good life is. And a good life has as much to do with your intent as with the end result. " --from the Introduction The Newman's Own Organics Guide to a Good Life is the essential book for those of us who can't live in an organic hemp tepee but do care about our quality of life, global warming, clean water, and disappearing resources. Nell Newman shows you how to do what is within easy reach. Along with realistic, practical advice, she shows how and why living a more environmentally conscious life benefits you and your immediate surroundings. In addition to recycling and reusing, the book covers consumer-related steps such as * how buying and eating organic food supports small farms (and tastes better, too) * how you can buy clean power through your regular power company * which long-distance telephone companies offer competitive pricing and service while returning a portion of their profits to environmental and educational organizations * where to buy everything--from pots and pans to pet food--so that you can "vote with your dollar" and feel good about your purchases Packed with profiles of fascinating--and sometimes zany--people and a heavy dose of sanity, this book is organized according to the way you really live, making it easy to identify what areas of change are viable for you. A resource directory of publications, retailers, groups, and associations is included in the back of the book. From the Trade Paperback edition.
Your Right to Know: Genetic Engineering and the Secret Changes in Your Foodby Andrew Kimbrell Nell Newman
A comprehensive guide to the health risks, organic options, shopping choices, and ways we can fight the corporate agro-industrial takeover of the food we eat.
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On-line version ISSN 1678-4782
VENTURA, Andréa Maria Cordeiro; GOES, Patrícia Freitas; OTOCH, José Pinhata and FERNANDES, José Carlos. Traumatic airway disruption in a child: a diagnostic challenge. J. Pediatr. (Rio J.) [online]. 2005, vol.81, n.2, pp.179-182. ISSN 0021-7557. http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/S0021-75572005000300016.
OBJECTIVE: To report a case of airway disruption in a child victim of blunt thoracic trauma due to falling off a sink. DESCRIPTION: Descriptive case report. A 34-month old boy victim of thoracic trauma was seen at the pediatric intensive care unit of a university hospital. Plain chest radiograph, thoracic computed tomography, bronchoscopy, thoracotomy, antibiotics, hemodynamic and respiratory support were performed. Plain chest radiograph, thoracic computed tomography and bronchoscopy were performed in order to arrive at a precise diagnosis of traumatic airway disruption associated with pulmonary contusion, pneumothorax, mediastinal and subcutaneous emphysema. The patient underwent thoracotomy for surgical repair of an almost complete disruption of the left main bronchus. Antibiotics and ventilatory support contributed to a favorable outcome without medium-term sequelae. COMMENTS: Children presenting with thoracic trauma must be investigated for uncommon, but potentially lethal injuries, such as tracheobronchial disruption, particularly in cases where there is strong clinical evidence. Diagnostic workup should be optimized with plain chest radiograph and thoracic computed tomography, while bronchoscopy will confirm the definitive diagnosis.
Keywords : Thoracic trauma; tracheobronchial disruption; pneumothorax; mediastinal emphysema; subcutaneous emphysema; children.


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EverQuest: The Broken Mirror
A goddess wakes and gazes into a looking glass. The reflection of her true nature fractures and breaks. Even as the looking glass shatters and the world around her dissolves, Anashti Sul only looks deeper still into the fragments as they drift away. When her fractured mind glimpses her surroundings, she discovers that she is adrift in an unknown time and place where gods and goddesses maintain direct influence over Norrath. A hunger for power wells within her, having passed many an age with no power at all and an upstart sitting in her place. With a whole new realm before her, she resolves to rule again!
Anashti Sul's passage through a rift into this reality caused her to split into the two most dominant aspects of herself - life and decay. Fully aware of each aspect, she knows that both must command a plane of power lest she weaken entirely and crumble into the nothingness of The Void. And so she crafts a plot to infect the planes of Norrath with a war that threatens to collapse the balance of all life! Are you brave enough to face the might of a goddess who is ravenous to rule? Will you prevent the chaos she would unleash in all of Norrath?
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Glasgow Airport commits to staff training with customer charter launch
Glasgow Airport has teamed up with a HR consultancy to launch its customer charter, in a bid to improve customer service at the airport.
Renfrewshire based Rainbow HR worked with Glasgow Airport's management team to hold a series of staff focus groups with employees to understand what they understood as great service. This formed the basis of the training programme.
To ensure the charter meets the expectations and reflects the opinions of its employees, the airport also produced a customer training video and delivered over 40 customer training sessions to over 280 security and engineering staff.
The charter, which summarises the airport's commitment to improving the service it provides to its customers, will be rolled out throughout 2012 and will contain a number of key commitments.
The commitments, which have been designed around the customer's airport journey include being efficient, friendly, helpful and knowledgeable in a clean, litter free environment.
As part of the customer charter's commitment to improving customer service at the airport, a new interactive customer feedback station has been installed in the security hall. The station, which will capture instant feedback from every customer travelling through security, will be the first of its kind for a UK airport.
Fiona Irvine, Director at Rainbow HR says: "Following the customer survey and the development of the charter, the Airport implemented customer service training which Rainbow HR facilitated. Our job was to ensure staff displayed behaviour in line with the charter's key commitments which were to be efficient, friendly, helpful and knowledgeable in a clean litter free environment.
"Ultimately, the training was designed to educate staff on how their actions could make or break the customer experience and therefore tarnish the airport's image – and it was effective."
To enhance the training experience Glasgow Airport and Rainbow HR then went onto to design a DVD, which focused on staff attitudes. The film, which is based on real life customer experiences, showed a good and bad scenario. The DVD followed two passengers from the moment they were dropped off until they boarded the aircraft. While the scripts were identical, the attitudes employed by staff were incredibly different.
Lesley Malcolm, Rainbow HR consultant and training facilitator adds: "The customer experience is greatly influenced by staff attitude. Behaviour influences experience. The DVD encouraged staff to put themselves in the customer's shoes and understand the impact of poor service on the customers experience within the airport and that this is all down to individual staff attitude in delivering that good or bad service."
The impact of the training showed a positive shift in the ratio of compliments to complaints with customers reporting 7:1 in favour of their visit.
Following on from the success of the initial customer training programmes, the airport is rolling out its training plan by working with the remaining 4,000 third party employees based at Glasgow International Airport to ensure that every customer at the airport has a great experience no matter who they come into contact with during their visit.
Craig Martin, Head of HR for Glasgow Airport, says: "We are extremely proud of our customer charter and I would like to take this opportunity to thank the team at Rainbow HR for the continued dedication and commitment in helping to develop the charter and for the first class support in the delivery of the employee training too."


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Virtual Firewall For VMs
Virtual machines on the same server can communicate with one another without ever touching the physical network, possibly bypassing security and monitoring controls you've carefully constructed on that network. VMs also can move from one physical server to another, which may disrupt security policies if moving from a more-secure to a less-secure physical host.
Enter Altor Networks. Founded by Check Point Software veterans, Altor builds virtual firewalls to control inter-VM communication and enforce security policies. Its product, Altor VF, is a virtual appliance that, when installed on a physical server, discovers the VMs on the host by communicating with VMware's vCenter Server (formerly Virtual Center). From there, IT teams create policies for each virtual machine on the host, such as restricting or allowing inter-VM communications, or routing VM traffic elsewhere, such as an intrusion-detection system that scans traffic for attacks.
Policies can also move with a VM as it travels from one physical host to another, though only for hosts running the Altor VF virtual appliance. In addition to the firewall, Altor Networks offers a Web-based management console where administrators can create policies and monitor the status of VMs controlled by firewall. It provides traffic information such as protocols in use, shows bandwidth consumption, and tracks changes to firewall policies.
The company has partnerships with established security vendors, including ArcSight. For example, an Altor virtual firewall can export firewall logs to ArcSight's security event management platform for real-time and historical analysis of security events.
Altor VF is priced at $2,000 per VMware ESX hypervisor, regardless of the number of virtual machines.
Virtualization security is still an immature market, so Altor has an opportunity to establish itself. But booming markets draw competition, and that's what's happening here. VMware acquired Blue Lane, which is primarily focused on intrusion detection, but which also provides inter-VM visibility. Plus, VMware has released an API, called VMsafe, that may let established security vendors build their own virtual machine security products for the VMware platform.
Finally, Altor must compete with alternative approaches. In one example, startup Montego Networks' virtual switch includes security capabilities such as policy enforcement and secure inter-VM communication.
-- Andrew Conry Murray
A Storage Cloud That Won't Break The Bank
With its Storage Delivery Network, Nirvanix is one of the early leaders in the storage-as-a-service market. Founded in 2007, Nirvanix competes with Amazon's Simple Storage Service and a growing number of other on-demand storage services. The 25 cents per gigabyte per month is for a single node on NirvanixSDN; it's 48 cents per gigabyte for two nodes.
Customers can sign up for Nirvanix's service in a few minutes with a credit card, e-mail address, and other basic information. Or they can go through a salesperson and sign an enterprise contract at a negotiated rate.
Many customers start with the self-service, pay-as-you-go option as a way of getting experience, then transition to an enterprise account once their comfort level--and storage usage--grows. About two-thirds of the company's customers have self-service accounts and one-third have enterprise accounts. Storage workload helps determine the starting point. If companies have more than 2 TB to manage, Nirvanix steers them toward direct sales rather than self-service.
Nirvanix finds first-time enterprise customers may take 12 to 18 weeks to get up and running, factoring in the time it takes to meet, write up a contact and service-level agreement, and get vendor approval through the customer's internal procurement process.
In general, companies use Nirvanix as an alternative to on-premises systems for data backup and to store files--documents, audio, video, and other data--that are large and accessed relatively infrequently.
Nirvanix is only 2 years old, but already it has lived through some of the ups and downs of being a startup. The company was forced into damage control after MediaMax--also known as the Linkup and spun off from Nirvanix's parent company, Streamload--closed last August, leaving some consumers without access to their data. Nirvanix is a separate company, focused on businesses rather than consumers, but it still had to fend off guilt by association for having been spun off from the same parent.
And Nirvanix started off this year with a change at the top. In January, Nirvanix founder Patrick Harr was replaced as CEO by Jim Zierick, the former CEO of Aspyra, a specialist in the health care industry. Change in management isn't unusual at startups, but it does underscore the inherent risks.
So far, so good. Earlier this month, Nirvanix announced a partnership with Ocarina Networks--another InformationWeek Startup 50 company--to join their technologies to create a compression-in-the-cloud combo. Ocarina's technology compresses a variety of file types by 50% or more. Together, the products can be used to optimize the transfer and storage of large files in the cloud.
It's that type of innovation that will cause IT professionals to take a look. And the cost of entry--the price of a gumball--is one that even cash-strapped companies can afford.
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When individuals are diagnosed with cancer, they are faced with many
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Our specially trained staff provide services including screening and
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Staple Tor, late morning.
Nice lighting. Great capture.
I like the rock wall in the background, but I'm not sure about the combination of the grassy stuff and the nearmost rock. My eye just kind of flits between the two.
Somehow it just doesnt feel that balanced.
Somehow it just doesnt feel that balanced.
The composition is not ideal. I just like the contrast in the image and the early sun striking the grasses.


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Heres a thought for you, were i come from the PS3 is the only next-gen consle in stock. Now you think about that.
Heres a thought for you, were i come from the PS3 is the only next-gen consle in stock. Now you think about that.
for 600 dollars you can get-
blueray player
highgraphics ps2 with less games the the 360
60gb membeory that you'll never use
that is y wii hate
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kids only? Adults 30+ also buy this console. Also i just kinda wished sony took out the blu-ray player..it's just so useless, $30 for a blu-ray disc to me is not worth it. Go to blockbuster and buy a DvD for only $7-$10. A movie depends on the storyline not how realistic it is. If sony did do this it will probably be only 350-400, which is affordable and probably many more people would buy it. And sadly PS3 had the worst launched system in history. I hope the PS3 can somehow make a comeback..Originally Posted by Wii&Ps3
You're all basically saying it's too expensive... well thats your problem, doesn't make it any less of a good console.
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PSN ID: AerialSpirit
Well I'd say it is worth it... but not many people are willing to buy it for that much, it has gone a bit over the top with its features, with the blu ray player and everything it is a good price, but it isn't completely necessary.Originally Posted by RivalDestiny
For someone willing to pay £425 for it, it's ok. They shouldn't be criticised for buying it though.
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PSN ID: AerialSpirit
i like the ps3, but i'm gonna wait possibly 2 or 3 years.
i want the bugs to all be ironed out, and possibly price drops.
i actually got my ps2 when the ps3 came out - maybe i'll wait until the next playstation comes out =p
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Kingdom Hearts
Wait, so the Blu-Ray is only going to be 3GB? I'm stickin to a normal DVD with 1.7GB more space than a Blu-Ray, if what you say is true that is, that's right, the average DVD±R/RW holds 4.7GB, and for DVD±R/RW DL that's around 8~9GB, a whopping 6GB more than what you say Blu-Ray can handleOriginally Posted by asdfnick
The Blu-Ray Disc can really hold 25GB, a DL disc can hold 50GB
I do believe you are right about the disc being blue thing, but I think that's just an advertising joke since it's called Blu-Ray, I bet they will be in different colors like they do CDs and DVDs, but it is read by a blue-violet ray of light hence Blu-Ray
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lol dont take what i said about the blu ray seriously. i have no idea how big it is. i was just estimating. it is about the size of 4 dvds tho. I was just saying its just a larger dvd that you pay more for, where if you downloaded it, you would just be paying for the media, not the blu ray disc itselfOriginally Posted by gamechaser001
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Can you make a casserole for two? Have it ready to bake in 15 minutes? And, while not exactly diet food, can it be healthy? You bet.
Knowledge that dinner is ready to pull from the refrigerator and slide into the oven is the lure of the casserole in this age of quick and easy cooking. In our mothers' time, it was simply chic to build dinner with layers of soups, vegetables, cheese, sour cream, mayonnaise, and, often, chicken or ham. But it is possible to make ahead a one-dish meal for two that is both nutritious and convenient.
To put together a portion-controlled casserole, you need some smaller baking dishes, such as 1½- to 2-cup au gratin dishes or ramekins for individual servings or a 3- to 4-cup baking dish to combine the ingredients for two servings. To keep it lower in fat and sodium, rely on low-fat prepared sauces, low-fat sour cream, light mayonnaise, and reduced-fat condensed soups to bind the ingredients.
Our moms had to start from scratch to make their trendy casseroles - cooking the chicken, shucking the corn, etc.; now we can use rotisserie chicken, containers and bags of pre-cut or frozen vegetables and other quick-cooking ingredients.
With these casseroles, you won't spend as much time chopping and precooking as generations of cooks did before us - just to get it all mixed up in a baking dish. They are as quick to assemble as they are to bake, and you know you'll have dinner ready and waiting.
Chicken and Broccoli Cobbler
1 1/2 cups cubed sourdough French baguette
2 tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil
1/4 cup freshly grated Asiago or Parmesan cheese
1 1/4 cups chopped cooked chicken
3/4 cup frozen broccoli florets
1/2 jarred roasted red bell pepper, chopped
2/3 cup refrigerated light Alfredo sauce (such as Buitoni)
3 tablespoons reduced-fat or fat-free sour cream
1 tablespoon dry sherry
Preheat oven to 400 degrees. Toss bread cubes with olive oil and cheese.
Combine chicken, broccoli, Alfredo sauce, sour cream, and sherry in a medium bowl. Spoon filling into individual baking dishes or a 1-quart baking dish coated with cooking spray; top with bread cubes. (Cobblers may be covered and refrigerated up to 24 hours before baking.)
Bake 25 to 30 minutes or until bubbly and tops are toasted. Makes 2 servings.
Tex Mex Sheperd's Pie
6 ounces ground beef sirloin
3/4 cup prechopped fresh onion, bell pepper, and celery blend
1 to 1 1/2 teaspoons chili powder
2/3 cup rinsed and drained black beans
1/3 cup frozen corn kernels
1/2 cup mild salsa
Salt and freshly ground pepper to taste
1 1/4 cups (5 ounces) grated reduced-fat cheddar cheese
1 1/2 cups refrigerated mashed potatoes
Preheat oven to 375 degrees if cooking immediately. Cook ground sirloin and vegetable blend in a nonstick skillet until beef is browned. Drain. Stir in chili powder, black beans, corn, salsa, salt and pepper.
Spoon into individual baking dishes or a 1-quart baking dish coated with cooking spray; sprinkle evenly with half of cheese. Spoon potatoes over filling, sealing to edges; sprinkle with remaining cheese. (Casseroles may be covered and refrigerated up to 24 hours before baking.) Bake, uncovered, 20 to 30 minutes or until hot. Makes 2 servings.


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Core Commitment to Writing
With the inception of the Millsaps Core Curriculum, the Millsaps faculty charged the Core Council with approving core courses that "are intended to foster development of the general abilities of a liberally educated person." One specified core ability was "the ability to express one's thoughts and feelings coherently and persuasively through written. . . communication." To make certain that students develop their writing ability, the Core Council urges that all faculty teaching in the core assign writing to their students in all core courses. As a guide to the faculty, the Core Council has established the following requirements and guidelines for writing in core courses.
Core Writing Requirements
IDST 1000: Introduction to Thinking and Writing
IDST 1000 is the foundation course for the development of writing skills. Each section should require students to:
Core Topics courses provide our students with instruction in writing that complements and builds on the work in IDST 1000. Core 2-5 courses will require students to:
See Part 11 of this manual for further discussion on teaching writing, including discussion of revision techniques, and for a listing of various kinds of writing assignments suitable for core courses in every division.
Heritage has comparable requirements for writing as do the Core 2-5 courses. Heritage will require its students each semester to:
See Part II of this manual for further discussion on teaching writing, including a discussion of revision techniques, and for a listing of various kinds of writing assignments suitable for core courses in every division.
Core 6 courses in the social and behavioral sciences play an important part in the development of writing skills. Core 6 courses should require their students to:
See Part II of this manual for further discussion on teaching writing, including a discussion on revision techniques, and for a listing of various kinds of assignments suitable for core courses in every division.
5. WRITING IN CORE 7, 8 and 9
These courses in the natural sciences, mathematics and computer science also have the responsibility to foster the development of students' writing ability. But the writing should be appropriate to the course material and the discipline. Although Core 8 courses are encouraged to include writing in their courses, only Core 7 and Core 9 courses are required to do so. Teachers of Core 7 and Core 9 courses will require their students to:
See Part II of this manual for further discussion on teaching writing, including discussion on revision techniques, and for a listing of various kinds of writing assignments suitable for core courses in every division.
Students will generally have completed their core and their writing proficiency requirements in their sophomore year. Passing the proficiency requirements is an indication that students have reached minimal levels of writing proficiency at the lower division level. Research, however, indicates that students can easily regress unless they are challenged to continue writing at more advanced levels as they progress in their majors. Each department will, of course, decide how they will ensure the continued growth of their students' skills. The writing mandated in the Core 10 course merely provides a "capstone" experience to core and departmental writing requirements.
All Core 10 courses must include a reflective paper of at least five pages. It need not be a research paper, but the assignment will draw upon students' critical thinking skills, that is, their ability to think in complex ways, to bring multiple perspectives to bear upon an issue, and to make well reasoned judgments. Other writing assignments are left to the discretion of the teacher.
A student who double-majors may be required to write two reflective-paper assignments. This will happen if the reflective papers assigned in the Senior Seminars of both majors are also a requirement of each major. However, to satisfy the Core 10 requirement, a student need only write one reflective paper.
Noting a need for more uniformity in the required reflective paper, the Core Council has adopted the following suggested writing assignment. It strongly recommends that Core 10 faculty use this assignment, but realizes that specific course considerations may not allow the use of this assignment in certain situations.
Writing portfolios will be returned to all students enrolled in Core 10 courses as a help for students reflecting back on the totality of their liberal arts education. The Core Council also asks that all reflective papers be submitted to its office where they may be used in the future as part of a comprehensive assessment of the College core curriculum.
Suggested Core 10 Reflective Paper Assignment:
This paper should be based on thoughtful, evaluative reflection of your experience at Millsaps College. Focus your attention on the specific texts you have read, courses you have taken, the academic challenges you have confronted, the social experiences that left a deep impression on you, the professors who taught you and perhaps influenced you in some way, the adventures you have undertaken. What were your hopes and expectations before you came to Millsaps? Have these hopes and expectations been realized, changed? If so, how? In what way? Has your work in the (Physics, English, etc.) major complemented your Millsaps Core coursework and has it aided you in achieving your hopes and expectations on a more personal level? Do you believe that you have obtained a good liberal arts education at Millsaps College with its emphasis on specific liberal arts abilities? How? Why? Do you feel prepared to move on to the next phase of your life? You may find it helpful to consider readings about the value of the liberal arts introduced to you in Core 1 or other Core courses.
Your paper will be evaluated in the depth and specificity of your analysis as well as on the clarity, creativity and organization of your prose. Length: Five pages or more. Please hand in three copies.
Frank and Rachel Anne Laney Award
The Frank and Rachel Anne Laney Award will be given each spring for the best Reflective Paper written to satisfy the Core 10 requirement during the academic year. The Award is intended to encourage students to reflect on the value of their education in the liberal arts.
The Laney Award will be presented at Commencement and will carry a substantial cash prize. Submitted papers will be reviewed by a faculty panel to determine the best paper. The best paper along with other selected papers from those submitted will be published annually. These papers will be given to every incoming freshman the following fall, and the best paper (and perhaps other selections) will be required reading.
Deadline: Any student may submit his or her Core 10 reflective paper to the Core office in order to be considered for this award. A late-April date will be set each year.
Length: The usual expectation is that Core 10 papers will be from 4-5 pages. For the purposes of this award, papers may not exceed 8 typed, double-spaced pages.
Judging: Papers will be reviewed anonymously by a committee of four faculty members, including the Writing Director (who will chair the committee) and one faculty member from each division of the College (appointed by the Dean of the College).
Disposition of Papers: In addition to the winning paper, the top ten or twelve papers will be printed and collected each year for the next freshman class to read. The papers will also be published on the College Web site so that everyone has access to them.
Criteria: In judging papers, the committee will consider the quality of thought and expression, as well as the writer's ability to relate the Core experience to the major and to the wider context of the liberal arts.
Format: All papers must be neatly typed (word-processed) on standard white paper with a cover sheet including the student's name and the title of the paper. The student's name should appear nowhere else in the manuscript. In the Core office the cover sheet will be detached and a number will be assigned to each for the purposes of anonymity.