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—To examine the temporal relationship between accumulating data from randomized control trials of treatments for myocardial infarction and the recommendations of clinical experts writing review articles and textbook chapters.
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—(1) MEDLINE search from 1966 to present; search terms used were myocardial infarction, clinical trials, multicenter studies, double-blind method, meta-analysis, and the text word "random:"; (2) references from pertinent articles and books; and (3) all editions of English-language general medical texts and manuals and review articles on treatment of myocardial infarction.
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—Finding and analyzing all therapeutic trials in a given field has become such a difficult and specialized task that the clinical experts called on to summarize the evidence in a timely fashion need access to better databases and new statistical techniques to assist them in this important task.(JAMA. 1992;268:240-248)
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Collective Intelligence and Neutral Point of View: The Case of Wikipedia
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June 14, 2012
We examine whether collective intelligence helps achieve a neutral point of view using data from a decade of Wikipedia's articles on US politics. Our null hypothesis builds on Linus' Law, often expressed as "Given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow." Our findings are consistent with a narrow interpretation of Linus' Law, namely, a greater number of contributors to an article makes an article more neutral. No evidence supports a broad interpretation of Linus' Law. Moreover, several empirical facts suggest the law does not shape many articles. The majority of articles receive little attention, and most articles change only mildly from their initial slant.
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As Fleet Week Begins, A Shipload of Work for Navy, Marines and Coast Guard
By Elliott Ramos
Amid the R&R festivities of New York's Fleet Week, there's a shipload of work for visiting service members.
Most assume the service members in town are on leave, but many of them are still on duty with strict orders to participate in the more than 300 community outreach events in the five boroughs and Long Island.
A military command center is set up on Pier 88 in Manhattan, offering an unfettered view of the Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum docked at the adjacent pier. Inside, public affairs officers from the U.S. Navy, Marine Corps and Coast Guard sit over laptops and answer calls between meetings, making final preparations for the over 3,000 service members due to arrive for Wednesday morning's Parade of Ships.
"This is the Super Bowl of Fleet Weeks," said Michael Salerno, the Navy's director of Fleet Week, a reference to the many Fleet Weeks that take part around the country, the first of which originated in San Diego in 1935 and is now in its 23rd iteration in New York.
Mr. Salerno is one of the few who work exclusively on Fleet Week throughout the year.
On the surface, it's a huge spectacle that New York loves, with many residents clamoring to show off the city's hospitality.
For the military, it's an all-out public relations offensive.
"We're here to tell the sea service story; what the Navy, Marine Corps, and Coast Guard team does for us on a day to day basis," said Beth Baker, public affairs officer for the Navy's Mid-Atlantic region.
That story may well seem ubiquitous as the military's presence will be seen by the crowds at Citi Field to traders on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange.
The show of force requires intense coordination from high-ranking military personnel. Various flag officers will convene for an Executive Orientation Board, which will meet with numerous city officials during the week.
"This is the largest community outreach event in the United States Navy," said Baker.
With no event too big or small, communities invite military personnel to religious ceremonies, schools, libraries and performances. "We want to be good guests, we have RSVP'ed for number of events and want to make sure our sailors show up for it," said Capt. Mark Genung, chief of staff for the Navy's Second Expeditionary Strike Group.
Dozens, and at times hundreds of military officers and civilians work year-round to coordinate logistics for everything from the docking of ships to free MTA fare for service members.
The military, in turn, pitches in at a number of community outreach events, dispatching service members to soup kitchens, blood drives and visitations to children's hospitals.
"We all just want to work hard for the greater good. There's a very specific goal here to say thank you to those that are giving over and above themselves," said Susan Marenoff, executive director of the Intrepid, which has found itself in the news last week following the abrupt resignation of its chief, Bill White.
Marenoff said she has attended two to three meetings daily the past month in preparation of Fleet Week. The museum works in tandem with the military's committees, but has a sizable personnel of their own for museum-sponsored events, including 60 volunteers, many of whom are World War II and Vietnam veterans.
The Intrepid will host a gala where former secretary of state Henry Kissinger will present an award to Gen. David Petraeus on Thursday.
Public relations and community events aside, Sailors, Coast Guardsmen, and Marines will have ample time to take in the city, but the week also provides an opportunity to reflect on what happened at the World Trade Center.
"As our ships come in, there will be a salute for what happened there," Capt. Genung said. "This will be a reminder for our younger sailors who enlisted after 9/11 that will resonate for them… some of them have even requested to re-enlist in front of the World Trade Center site."


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When the market hits 8000K again the US Citizen will be dragging Senators and Congressmen to the Tribunals which will be held by the new US GOVERNMENT which will utlimately come from low level politicans from the local front.
Many will be looking forward to dragging these career politicans (finally old man lautenberg kicks it, reid next?) and lobbyists all out and confiscating properties and freezing bank accounts to pay for these tribunals and retribution for crimes committed against the US CITIZEN.
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I am trying to do a posting and I am getting the this error
No Amount tolerance range entered for your company code XXXX.
I checked oba0, oba3 and oba4, I have values defined in those areas for my company code, but still I am not able to do a posting. Does anyone have any ideas as to what could be wrong.
In OBA3, you should have blank tolerance group for your company code.
After that you copy that blank to your company code and give a tolerance group name.
Hope this will solve your problem.
Thanks Ravi for your response.
I created the blank tolerance group for my company code in oba3. But having the same issue.
Do you know of any other place which I need to take a look.
Edited by: chaitu on Feb 17, 2009 12:41 AM
Can you please update the message number for this error?
Thanks again for your response, the message num is F5103
Go to Tcode : OBA4 and maintain the following
1) Maintain your company Code.
2)Leave group blank (Use only if ur company configured with tolerance grp level employee)
3) Maintain "Amount per document"
4) Maintain "Amount per open item account item"
5) Maintain "Cash discount per line item"
and permited payment difference.
This will resolve your issue
Menu Path IMG Financial Accounting General Ledger Accounting Business Transactions Open Item Clearing Clearing Differences Define Tolerance Group for G/L Accounts
Transaction Code OB09
For G/L account clearing, tolerance groups define the limits within which differences are accepted and automatically posted to predefined accounts. The groups defined here can be assigned in the general ledger account master record.
· Define Tolerance Groups for Employees : Not defining tolerance groups will
2. Cash Discounts
· Assign User / Tolerance Groups : assign.
IMG > Financial Accounting > FA Global Settings > Document > Line Items > Define Tolerance Group for
In this activity, amount limits are pre-defined for employees w.r.t the following:
? the maximum document amount the employee is authorized to post
? the maximum amount the employee can enter as a line item in a customer or
vendor account
? the maximum cash discount percentage the employee can grant in a line item
? the maximum acceptable tolerance for payment differences for the employee.
Apart from the above, u2018maximumu2019 payment difference can also be defined whereby differences are automatically
posted to cash discount, revenue or expense account as required. Any difference is first adjusted to cash discount
(to the extent allowed here and permitted by max cash discount % defined above) and if this limit is exhausted,
balance is adjusted to the revenue or expense account (which can be a combination of absolute amount & a %)
F Note: Allowed Payment differences are posted automatically within certain tolerance groups.
This way the system can post the difference by correcting the cash discount or by posting to a
separate expense or revenue account.
F Note: There must be at least one Tolerance Group for each Company. Leaving u2018Groupu2019 field
u2018blanku2019 means the limits are applicable to all the employees. If any employee(s) is to be
allowed some other limits, another Tolerance Group has to be created and populated with the
employee identification (via next IMG step : u201CAssign users to Tolerance Groupsu201D). Rest of the
employees will be governed by u2018blanku2019 Tolerance Group.
I actually had my user name associated with a wrong tolerance group, removing my username entry resolved the issue.
Thanks everyone.
Hi Chaitanya,
It would be very helpful if you kindly share the steps which you followed to resolve the issue.
I mean share the steps that you followed to remove your user name from the wrong tolerance group.
How we can find that our user name is assigned to wrong tolerance group ?
Thanks and Regards,
Go to ob57 and remove the user ID in front of the company code
I a facing similar issue and OB57 also there is no user id maintained .. Can some please help


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On April 15, The News published a front-page article on the razing of yet another industrial icon, the Saginaw Malleable Iron Plant. In operation nearly a century and employing as many as 3,500 workers, it is sad to see Malleable go.
Even sadder is the fact that (according to the article) this is only one of 128 factories closed over the past 30 years by the domestic Big Three. One hundred twenty-eight factories and tens of thousands of associated family supporting jobs, all gone thanks to Toyota, Honda, Kia, Volkswagen, Hyundai, Nissan, etc. All of these manufacturers are able to import hundreds of thousands of cars into our market while their domestic markets are essentially closed to our products.
A "Newsweek" article in October 2009 quotes Leo Gerard, United Steel Workers chief: "For some reason we are prepared as a society to tolerate a deficit in automobiles between South Korea and Japan of $45 billion per year. A billion dollars equals 13,000 family-supporting jobs, just in the auto sector."
That equates to over a half million jobs.
In Japan, buying a Japanese car is considered a good thing. Only in the U.S. does the need to be trendy trump any feeling of supporting U.S. companies.
Buyers of foreign cars like to talk about what great quality, reliability, etc., they get with their foreign cars. An article in "Newsweek" Feb. 22 punches a hole in that argument. The U.S. government tracks complaints auto buyers make to various government agencies about their cars. Based on complaints from 2001 to February 2010, the worst manufacturer is Volkswagen, at 235 complaints per 100,000 cars sold.
Foreign car buyers in the U.S. are trying to satisfy their need to be trendy, sophisticated or whatever.
The fact that their purchases are costing their neighbors jobs and destroying the economy of Michigan and this country are not as important as salving their own ego.


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Don't let your schooling get in the way of your education.
One must read this page having in mind that it discusses a
school. Many leading educators have fought against exactly these problems, like Montessori and Vigotski, and proposed different perspectives. The school you discuss was forged in the industrial revolution and supposed to create well-conforming workers, in a
kind of management philosophy. --
The purpose of the school system is supposedly to provide the necessary education so that each person can live an independent life; the criticisms in this page seems to say that such education does not teach you enough about things you will encounter in your life.
In school ...
the ability to work successfully alone is rewarded much more than the ability to work successfully in a team. In business, it's vice versa. (It's hard to believe that American schools EVER taught such an individualistic thing as this, but they certainly don't now! --
sharing information with other people or building upon the work of others is cheating.
the ability to behave is rewarded highly. This skill
useful if you want to be just a
important. While some forms of misbehavior are harmless, many forms are highly disruptive to other students. "Good behavior" is good practice for
s and
s alike (though there are many
s who think otherwise - that programming skill is, and should be, license to be an asshole). I should note that when I refer to "good behavior" here, I am excluding "shut up and don't ask questions"-style rules that stifle creativity; instead I'm referring to things like "don't talk out of turn", "don't fight on the playground", etc.
effort is rewarded more highly than achievement. Therefore you may learn how to appear to be trying hard at things you already know how to do. (In Asian countries and probably elsewhere, only achievement is measured and rewarded; effort without achievement is not rewarded at all.)
however, in the
, you are often exactly as required to look busy as you are to accomplish things.
you get a rather nasty illusion if you tend to be very intelligent. After many years of getting the best grades (or marks), you start to gain a lot of confidence in your ability to solve problems. You think of yourself as more capable of getting the right answer than your fellow classmate, and
you're right
. You
more capable of answering the questions correctly than your classmates. The illusion is that when you get out of school and into the
, you are not necessarily more capable of doing the task at hand than your coworkers. The reason is that while it may be true that your coworkers aren't as quick on their mental feet as you are, they may have much more valuable experience in a problem domain than you. Since in school everyone studies out of the same book, everyone is exposed to the same information. But in the
, we can learn from absolutely anyone, because there is something that they've experienced that we haven't.
the reward is not from whatever you have accomplished; it is some external reward: the grade, acceptance from others, etc., preparing you to focus on your income when you grow up, and not attend to the actual consequences of your work.
for any problem, there is exactly one correct solution, and people in authority can tell you what it is.
That certainly wasn't
school experience, and I went to public school.
you will be promoted every year along with everyone else, unless you are doing very, very, very poorly.
a distorted view of the future. Most of what you learn in school is not very useful in the real world.
As far as learning from everyone goes, there can be an
between minds. Sometimes the information gained isn't worth the time taken to extract it.
One interesting skill I learned in school was how to deal with conflicting missing and wrong information. My dad and I were reading some blueprints that were very badly done, they referenced parts that were no longer part of the system, gave numbers that didn't make sense and left out important dimensions, because of my experience dealing with poorly written science labs I knew how to figure our the information I needed while my dad was still stuck on how horribly done the blueprints were.
Another bad lesson we learn in school is that when we say "I don't know" on a test (i.e. leave an answer blank) it's usually counted the same as if we got it wrong. While this perhaps encourages kids to experiment and take a risk by guessing, it also discourages them from saying "I don't know." However, I have found that when I start saying "I don't know," I start learning! Acknowledging the limits of my knowledge empowers me to expand my limits. --
It takes a lot of guts (or just plain stupidity) for a student to document anything under "open issues", "limitations" or "bugs", yet these headings are important.
(I've seen a few instructors count wrong answers against the students, giving them a disincentive to guess. Typically... +1 for correct, zero for no answer, -1/4 for incorrect answers. --
When forced to use multiple-choice sections, I do +1 correct, 0 no answer, -1 incorrect.
does anyone else notice the contradiction here? You cannot both avoid penalising an admission that you don't know, and also avoid penalising a guess.
At least in the old days, the college entrance exams where scored so that if you had five choices, and guessed, you had negative expectation - eliminate one choice, expectation was zero, eliminate 2 (so you were guessing among three choices) and you had positive expectation. The questions were usually set up so that at least one of the choices was patently wrong. For example: The U. S. Civil War started in 1) 1066 2) 1776 3) 1861 4) 1914 5) 1998. Well if you can even remember 1492, throw out 1066, and if you know the Civil War didn't start in your own lifetime, there goes 1998. Now you have a positive expectation even though knowledge of American History is minimal. --
, who was New York State Teacher of the Year in 1991, wrote some interesting insights about bad things he taught in school:
Stay in the class where you belong
No work is worth finishing
Surrender your will
Be a conformist
Your self-respect should depend on my measure of your worth
There is no escape
For the details, see
Sounds a lot like
School Is Hell
Also see
's book, "If you want to be rich and happy, don't go to school." (
It is not clear that those two categories are correlated. If they are, it may be in the negative sense only... :)
Thanks for the link. After reading the info available on the site, I went to
and picked up 2 of
's books.
I agree 100% with Robert's writings. My business school educational has value as an artificial credential to others in the
, but I rarely fall back on what was taught. I always disliked curriculums that simply showed me how to go work for other people. Software Developers/Craftsman/Engineers hold the key to developing
and should learn to reap the royalties of their work. --
All I can say to this is that this is nothing like what I went through at school in Australia:
Stay in the class where you belong
Where classes are differentiated on ability, it's usually the student's choice which one they go for. Teachers can and do counsel students on which class they should be in, but the student's choice is paramount.
No work is worth finishing
Work not finished in the course of the lesson is invariably either handed out as homework, or continued in the next lesson. The ability to time-box your work is important.
Surrender your will
Yeah, right. While teachers are in an authority position, it's far from unquestioned authority. The particular example of withholding toilet access from students would never be permitted.
This may also have something to do with the
Be a conformist
Conformity is usually a peer-group issue. In the example given of not being in control of the curriculum, students are presented with a wide range of elective and required courses. As they progress, the number of required courses becomes fewer and fewer, so that by grade 11 (the second-last year of study) there are no longer any required courses. Within a course, there is typically a core curriculum objective, and optional ones. Teachers are encouraged to consult with students on the optional objectives, and frequently within a class, different optional objectives may apply between students.
Your self-respect should depend on my measure of your worth
Report cards have nothing to do with self-respect. They are an objective measure of performance against objective goals. Nor is it a casual exercise; schools undertake large-scale moderation exercises to demonstrate consistency in grading between teachers, and between schools. Teachers that are unable to defend their assessment of a student's work (both positively and negatively) will find their own performance metrics suffer, and the student will have their work reassessed.
If a student equates their report cards with their own sense of self-worth, then they have other emotional issues.
Or their parents :-)
There is no escape
Of course there's an escape. You cannot be forced to study. The idea that students are under 24/7 surveillance is ridiculous; in class, students are merely required not to be disruptive. Out of class hours (such as lunchtime), supervision is restricted to ensuring there's no violence. Out of school, homework is rarely burdensome, can be ignored if you don't care about the grade, and certainly doesn't stop you trying to learn from other sources.
On the other hand, some things you simply have to
to be good at. The teacher can help you learn to read (my first grade teacher gave me a lot of good tips that I'm passing on to my children), but you learn to read by reading, and that includes a lot of reading you don't do in school. Mind you, "practice" is a four-letter word these days. As for not being disruptive, I'm afraid there are people who would equate any kind of discipline with subjugation. These are the folks who would strike a match on a no-smoking sign. --
The premise that only 50 contact hours are required to impart basic numeracy and literacy is an interesting one, which I choose to disbelieve but not dispute other than to say that I certainly haven't seen any examples of someone being taught to read and write to an acceptable adult literacy level in a week. Regardless of that, 50 hours is
enough to impart other basic skills. The 19th-century America that Gatto loves so much saw only a very small percentage of students actually acquire a full education; the vast majority of youths ended up either doing unskilled labour or entering apprenticeships typically imposed by parents.
I have read Gatto, and I think he is a little bit prone to exaggeration. The 50-hour claim does not ring true to me either. On the other hand, we should distinguish between basic literacy and adult literacy. If you define basic literacy as being able to decode plainly written prose without major hesitations, I think 50 hours is pretty reasonable.
I think that 50 hours would probably be adequate to acquire enough basic reading skills for someone to teach themselves the rest. Learning vocabulary and the subtleties of any mother tongue is an ongoing process, of course, but the seed is planted.
Apart from quibbling over a few numbers, though, I agree with Gatto's deeper point, which is that institutional education is unsatisfying. Growing up in American schools, I had a lot of the same choices as Robert - freedom to pick my classes, freedom to finish my homework, freedom to conform to my peers instead of teachers, freedom not to study, etc. - but I never had interesting educational experiences. I don't recall many days of high school where I went into school and said, I want to learn X today, and I could just go find an adult who knew X and have him explain X to me. Even though I loved to learn things, and did quite well in school, my curiosity had been conditioned out.
There was only one exception - journalism class. My journalism teacher encouraged the same sort of chaos that Gatto seems to encourage. It was fun, and we learned as much about journalism from the people who worked at the printer shops as we did from our teacher (to the teacher's credit).
The 19th-century America that Gatto loves so much saw only a very small percentage of students actually acquire a full education; the vast majority of youths ended up either during unskilled labour or entering apprenticeships typically imposed by parents.
Are you defining "full education" as X years of institutional schooling? If so, you are missing Gatto's point entirely. Remember that 19th century Americans created 20th century America. Even if you disagree with the benefits of industrialization - e.g. you might argue that industrialization creates the same dehumanizing effects as institutional learning - it's hard to dispute the progress that Americans (and others) made during the late 19th century. Some of the folks driving that progress must have learned
in their education, even if that education never included seven-period-per-day, regimented institutional schooling.
Hmmm... I would define a "full education", at least for the 19th century, as being the "very model of a modern Major General". :) A person with a full education would be fully literate, fully numerate (including trigonometry, geometry, and calculus), know geography, have a solid grounding in logical reasoning and history (both classical and modern), and have a reasonable grasp of the law. This would be the solid grounding required for further specialization.
Historically, this has always been the privilege of the educational elite, whilst at the same time being the goal of the educational system. 19th Century America certainly didn't have a large percentage of people who would fit that category (I will leave open the question of whether 21st Century America does...). As stated earlier, the
vast majority
of individuals dropped out of formal and informal general education early, so as to pursue either a trade or take up unskilled labour. Nor was 19th Century America unique in this; the whole industrialized world was like this at this time. Fortunately, it seems like it takes only a small percentage of educated "movers and shakers" to advance a nation.
Please note that I'm not disparaging those people who did drop out of the educational system. Those same tradespeople and labourers were invaluable in building a modern nation, and in many ways, the decline in the number of skilled tradespeople is going to hurt our various societies. But I am questioning the value of lauding an educational system that failed to achieve the goals mentioned above (or even the more limited goals of functional literacy and numeracy) for the majority of students, and which by all accounts was far more repressive than the very liberal educational systems available today.
Gatto does not advocate child labor; he just wants less regimentation in modern schooling. He does not suggest that we use nineteenth century schooling methods for a modern world; he merely points out that education happened before institutional schooling. Americans who finished school in the nineteenth century were literate and numerate long before educational bureaucracies modernized the methods of learning.
The experiences described do not describe my schooling, my daughters' schooling, nor the schooling of my nieces and nephews. The literacy level described is belied by the vast number of signatories using 'X' instead of their names until the last of the 1800's. The idea of everyone returning to growing their own food and preparing it all the time is ludicrous. I live in the country, and I don't want to do that. It simply consumes too much of the day. Gatto sounds more like someone who was not allowed to do what he wanted and has romanticized the past into what he would have liked it to have been, not what it was. Read some of the Little House series to see mid 1800 education. Not the free-wheeling associative stuff romanticized, but rote learning (I'm actually in favor of more of that). -- X
Perhaps we could write about formal education because we are formally educated. Education should not be seen as a solution to real life problems. It teaches us to look into different problems in different ways. With education we learned critical reasoning. With education we learned to analyse the problem domain. With education we learnt to learn from mistakes. The list is endless. The problem is that we leave our education once we leave schools. That's one thing we don't learn from school - to continue educating ourselves. --
Vast chunks of the first five to seven years of your schooling were devoted to teaching you how to read write and count. Which were all vital to being able to participate in your university education, or for it to mean anything to you. But this seems to be wandering off the topic of
. --
Why does this page sound like so much like whining? The points listed above seems to apply equally well to BadStuffWeLearnAtWork
, BadStuffWeLearnAtHome
, Bad
Church, or generally Bad
Life. It seems obvious to me that in any environment, what you learned is probably not universally applicable (what is?). With the varied destiny of all the people who went through the school system, it is inevitable that each person will learn a lot of stuff in school that is inapplicable to his later life. Is this page trying to say that it is better to spend the school years elsewhere than in a school?
To abolish schooling, you will need a complete replacement, not merely alternatives. Are you asserting that the current alternatives are enough to completely replace existing school systems? I very much doubt that. Take modern (western) medicine as an analogy, there a lot of alternative medical care available, and some works extremely well for some patients, but I don't think anyone is ready to replace the mainstream medicine with any of the alternatives. Going from an alternative to a complete replacement is a very very big leap, one that neither
seems to be ready for.
Your change in wording changes absolutely nothing. Why is it that
can't replace the school system? From you I hear a big fat silence. Except for "they don't seem to be ready". Well please enlighten us mere mortals when they will "seem" ready to you. "Plausible" "seems", you're just addicted to the
, aren't you? And on such weasel words you base broad universal claims like "there's nothing better than the education system" and "people who complain about the education system are whiners". Oh yeah, tarring provably superior alternatives to the piss-poor education system we have now by associating them with pseudo-scientific medical care was a nice touch. A nice job of pseudo-reasoning all through. Please come back when you have some arguments.
The simple fact is that the current schooling system is the status quo. Right, I haven't made any arguments why the
cannot replace mainstream schools, but then, neither have you shown me that they can. Those few alternatives mentioned have not been tested on a
scale. Until some countries have put thousands of kids through these alternatives and found better results (whatever "better" means), the burden of proof is upon these alternatives. Note that I am not claiming that one is "better", but simply that to replace the current mainstream, you better to have concrete evidence that the new way will work, and will work better. Asking "why won't it do?" and then pointing to the silence will not convince people to change.
Until some countries have put thousands of kids through these alternatives and found better results (whatever "better" means), the burden of proof is upon these alternatives.
First it's an argument from status quo, and second it's entirely circular. How do you propose that
replace the normal school system if the only argument you'll accept towards doing just that is that someone's already done it?
Because that's how the people are convinced. New drugs requires tests on humans, landing a job requires prior experience, bidding projects requires references, ..., etc. The simplest way to prove to people something will work is to show them where it has worked. Of course, there will be brave new souls who will try new things hoping it will work. But when you are talking about applying something to almost every child in a country, people will want references.
There are plenty of arguments and plenty of evidence in favour of
, including thousands of students who have gone through them.
have been around for more than a century for ####'s sake! Why should I bother repeating them here when they're already on a half-dozen other Wiki pages (not even counting outside web sites)? You're just trying to excuse refusing to see what's in front of you by churlishly demanding to be spoon-fed against your will! What right do you have to my time?
You are right, I have no right to your time. If you deemed that there is enough evidence to convince people
can replace the current mainstream schooling, fine. Let's end the discussion here and stop wasting our time. It just happens that I have gone through the current schooling system and think it is fine (not perfect, but not as worthless as this page seem to suggest).
See also
, UnSchooling
, WhyAreTheyTellingMeThis
the ability to work successfully alone is rewarded much more than the ability to work successfully in a team. In business, it's vice versa. (It's hard to believe that American schools EVER taught such an individualistic thing as this, but they certainly don't now! --
You mean American schools
teach children to work alone? We must live in different Americas. In the schools I attended, working together on say, a test, or homework, was called "cheating" and severely punished. This attitude is not "individualistic", it's
and incompatible with success in adult life. IMO this view for contention with the tendency toward rote-learning as the single greatest sin that the US school system inflicts upon its subjects. --
[It may be incompatible but it is still practiced both in schools and in the workplace. A former coworker of mine is now encountering a performance evaluation that is graded "on the curve". Within their groups, the boss/evaluator must classify the workers into fixed-ratio subcategories of performance. For example, 10% elite, 20% good, 40% acceptable, 20% needs improvement, and 10% failing. The failing group are fired immediately, and only the top two groups are given increases in pay, with most going to the top group. The mind-bender occurs when this policy is forced upon a group of 5 solid programmers, and 1 must be let go. Team building is discouraged and backstabbing encouraged when one realizes that selective withholding of information could lead to advancement within one's own group... (A bit of an aside - feel free to refactor elsewhere)]
...some interesting insights about bad things he taught in school:
Seems to apply equally to work (at least in software development work)
Stay in the class where you belong
Stay in the cubicle/team/office where you belong
No work is worth finishing
Most projects fail anyway, the requirements of what you are doing now may change tomorrow, requiring complete re-working.
Surrender your will
Be a conformist
How many times have you wished you can use whatever OS/language/tools you prefer instead of the one forced on you?
Your self-respect should depend on my measure of your worth
And that is your salary.
There is no escape
Would you be where you are working if you have another better choice?
quote: "Knowledge is that which remains when you have forgotten everything you learned in school."
A Marie Curie one to go with it:
"It must be much better for children to drown in the water than to be caged in a class room of the current educational system."
Here are some of the major suggestions or observations from a controversial blog:
Math and science are overemphasized. This is similar to issues raised in
. No need to revisit it here. {Some material already moved there.}
Strongly disagree, in the sense that mathematics is hardly taught at all. What is taught is a bit of basic arithmetic (very useful) and a hodge-podge of pattern matching. Students that had learned something about mathematics would be much better prepared to think about the world they live in and information they are given than the current crop are.
Lying, exaggerating, and social manipulation should be taught. This is not being condoned as proper behavior, only as preparation for the office politics of the real world. Understanding the dynamic of office politics is useful even if you don't agree with the motivations behind it. A variation of "know thy enemy".
This seems to be the primary occupation of high-school years though. True, it is taught by peer groups, but still. It isn't like high school serves much academic purpose.
Don't let students hide from their weaknesses. Being a math-whiz alone may not save one from having to learn and use social skills, for example. And, a sports-whiz should probably know some math in case they are injured for life.
Business and marketing skills are important. Nothing heretic about that. The author does believe that globalism will greatly diminish pure-tech jobs and thus requiring more business-oriented skills for most students. Whether this is true or not probably belongs in one of the globalism topics such as
Making people happy is more important than being right. Boat rocking is often not appreciated in the Dilbertian world. Even if you feel shaking up the status quo is good for the company, it may not be good for your career.
In any given company, there are usually far more opinions than there are those who want to listen to opinions.
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Wine Maker Notes
Napa Valley enjoys a Mediterranean climate with a long growing season that is marked by warm, summer days and cool evenings. These climate conditions are ideal for grapes to ripen slowly and evenly; promoting a balance between sugar and acid development. We experienced climate conditions that reaffirm Napa Valley's excellent reputation for grape growing. The 2007 growing season for our Cabernet Sauvignon started hot but yielded to long, temperate days with cooler nights. Ultimately, the steady temperatures allowed the grapes to reach maturity with a long, slow even-ripening.
Technical Notes
Guarachi Family Wines' Cabernet Sauvignon is from the Georges III, Lincoln, and Winfield Vineyards in Napa Valley. The Georges III vineyard in Napa's Rutherford is the most prominent. It once belonged to the historic Beaulieu Vineyard, which was originally planted by Georges DeLatour of Beaulieu in 1928.
In September 2007, our grapes were harvested and a total of 23.23 tons were extracted from these vineyards, producing a limited 2,539 cases. Our 2007 Cabernet Sauvignon underwent malolactic fermentation in French oak barrels and was aged for 18 months.


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We stayed at the Sheraton pre-cruise and used the Holland transfers. The Sheraton is lovely and in a great location, we walked almost everywhere. If I were to do this again, I would book the hotel myself and take cabs from the airport and to the pier and save about $150 - 200. The only free wi-fi at the Sheraton is in the lobby, which I consider archaic. Our rooms were ready for early check-in. The Holland transfer from the airport was slow and awkward to get to. They mismarked two of our party as having already taken the shuttle, so that 80+ year old couple had to schlep their own luggage and pay for a taxi. Others sat on the shuttle bus for 45 minutes waiting to fill the last TWO seats before the driver would leave the airport.
That said, we fell in love with Seattle (see port review).
The weather for this cruise was darn near perfect. Sunny and mid-40's to mid-60's all but 3 days. One day at sea it rained steadily, oh well. Kodiak and Victoria had intermittent showers, nothing an occasional umbrella use couldn't handle. The two sea days had some rolling, especially at night. The rest of the time very calm & smooth sailing.
Embarkation was easy, took about 30 minutes from arrival at the pier to arrival in our cabin. Disembarkation was also easy, you can choose what time you get off the ship. We choose the last time, 9:00-9:15, waited with friends in their cabin and walked off with our luggage and were on the pier. Taxis are plentiful and quick to get,but using the shuttle took us nearly an hour to get off the pier. Taxi to the airport was $55. Shuttle was $9 pp.
Service: Apparently about 20% of the staff were new this voyage, and there were minor slips and glitches especially the first few days. The experienced staff were outstanding. Our dining room stewards were stellar. Everyone was very friendly and eager to be of help. I heard laughing and singing behind the kitchen doors and I liked it that the staff were enjoying their work. The staff seem to know when you want them and when you don't, and always wear a smile. The only really bad service was from the photo staff. Their printer went out after the first formal night, only a couple of days into the voyage, and they continued to take pictures anyway. I had a gift certificate for a photo from my travel agent and used it for the only picture of us in the gallery, and the photo staff charged us for it anyway after accepting my certificate. We were not the only ones double-charged. They were actually rude to one of my friends who tried to buy a DVD of the trip.
Dining: The MDR took forever for breakfast and lunch, we just went to the Lido, and usually sat by the pool to eat. The Lido was always crowded, and there were lines for omelettes and sandwiches. Food itself was fine, not gourmet but it is a buffet. Coffee varied from good to so-so, if you are a coffee freak then buy it from the Explorations Cafe. We had fixed seating early dinner,and ate in the MDR every night. Food was very good. Portions were smallish, and my husband ordered two entrees a couple of times. Salads were too small, soup bowls were half filled. If you order all three courses and a dessert though, you will leave satisfied. I had no complaints. Steaks at our table were not always done the way they were ordered, just ask for another one. There were always 3 or 4 fish choices, and that's what I usually ate. Lobster was offered twice, king crab once, ling cod, rockfish, halibut a couple of times and salmon every day. I had lamb a couple of times and it was excellent. Dining is meant to be a leisurely experience, plan on enjoying your dinner companions and the ambiance for an hour and a half. What's your rush? We had lunch in the Pinnacle Grill one sea day. Worth the extra money? If you like being fawned over, then yes. I thought our regular dining room servers were equal or better than the Pinnacle Grill servers. The food was about the same quality as the main dining room at their best. I ate well, often, and all I wanted & lost two pounds, probably because of all the stairs and all the walking on shore.
The cabin: 7055, a DD partial ocean-view. The window looked directly astern over a small public deck. I thought it had an awkward layout, half the sofa was in a narrow alcove that made it unusable. It was only a few steps away from the door (marked emergency exit but we used it anyway) to a deck overlooking the wake, large enough for 6 or 8 deck chairs. The outside stairs to the pool/lido deck minimally blocked our window. The window was large and had one-way glass so we had perfect privacy. We didn't use the deck much, it was too cool on sea days for deck sitting, but it was lovely to stand there out of the wind and watch the wake. Not many people seemed to use it, but a couple of smokers found it and they were out there much of the time, so I tended to not go out there. The cabin is under the outdoor pool, and the noise from the pool pumps was constant and loud. It was very steady, and soon became a background white noise. Once or twice we had noise at night when the furniture around the pool was being moved. The cabin was very clean and comfortable, more storage than we needed and a roomier shower than I've had on other lines. Shower gel, hand soap, shampoo, conditioner, shower cap, and lotion all supplied, also two hairdryers. There was only ONE electrical outlet in the cabin, at the desk. A 4 space power strip was supplied. No outlets in the bathroom.
Ship highpoints: The library! A great space, very quiet and well appointed. Lots of books available for loan. The piano bar! We ended up here most nights, Roy from South Africa is very talented. The Crows Nest! Too noisy for me at night, but a great place for daytime relaxation. The art! Scattered around the ship, every once in a while I would come across something new. Very good pieces.
The entertainment: The ship's company of singers and dancers were very talented, but their costumes and staging was dated. After the first couple of performances, we missed the others. There were some very good performers brought in for one night only, they were all excellent. Especially enjoyed the comedian Lee Baylis. The crew shows were the best, but they didn't start until 11 at night. Many people did not stay up for them, which is too bad. Well worth waiting for.
The itinerary: This was our first trip to Alaska, so I have nothing to compare it to. But I thought the mix of Sea days/short port days/long port days was very good. Plenty of time to relax, not so much that you got bored, the time in most ports was just about right. I will do port reviews, but there were a couple that are not in the port list so will review them here.
Homer: Weather was 50 F and partly cloudy, no wind to speak of. DH went fishing for halibut, caught his 2 halibut limit and a ling cod. Used the ship's excursion and was very pleased with the guide. The 65-70 lbs of hanging weight came to 22 lbs of fillets shipped home, cost $168 for processing & shipping frozen. Arrived in fine shape, we had some for dinner last night. Yum! I went with the rest of our group on a private excursion with the Center for Alaskan Coastal Studies. They picked us up at the dock, sent us across the bay on a water taxi to their field station where we went tide pooling, walking on nature trails around the peninsula, and visited the station itself. They supplied waterproof boots and a light snack. Our naturalist guide, Howard, was wonderful, very knowledgeable, personable and enthusiastic. We saw and touched all kinds of sea stars, anemones, sea cucumbers, crabs, mussels,butter clams, so much more. This is a strenuous clamber-about, and a couple of the older people had a difficult time with some of the slippery rocks and steep gangways. We were their first cruise ship tour group - guinea pigs! Two thumbs up for this excursion, it's tied for my favorite excursion with whale watching in Juneau. Highly recommend. http://akcoastalstdies.org They got us back to the spit with time for a little shopping if you wanted. I thought the spit looked very tourist-trappy, we just went back to the ship.
Kodiak: Weather @ 42 F high, drizzly and foggy. We went on a private expedition with Dake of Memory Makers. Dake is cheerful, knowledgeable, down to earth and friendly. Going on a tour with him felt like being shown around by an old friend you haven't seen in years. Very comfortable older GMC van, only room for 6 people at a time so his tours are all very personal. He's a photographer and will customize tours for photogs. Highly recommend. Kodiak Island is gorgeous, rugged, feels like the end of the earth. There are TONS of bald eagles, we do not see any bears. The fog limits us some. There is only one kind of tree on Kodiak Island, the Sitka Spruce. The forests are all spruce and moss, and have an eerie feel like a fairy tale. Not the kind with happy endings, the scary kind. This is a real fishing town, not very tourist friendly. You have to walk about 15-20 minutes to town from the dock, it's mostly level but I don't think a wheelchair could do it. Have a beer in Henry's Restaurant, shop at the craft sale at the Native Center.
Scenic cruising: Inside passage beautiful, hard to find a place next to a window. People tended to camp out for the day in a favorite spot. Tracey Arm was breathtaking, we did not get to the Sawyer Glaciers because of ice, but were very satisfied with the time spent there. We viewed from a friend's suite balcony, starboard and very forward, and had perfect views of one side going in and the other going out. Hubbard Glacier was another highpoint of the trip, we viewed from the same friend's balcony. Saw calving 10 or 12 times, nothing huge but impressive to us. Heard the crash of ice into the water, and did you know glaciers have a smell to them? Like ice too long in the freezer. Sipped cocoa and marveled, took lots of photos and got giddy with the gorgeousness. Wonderful day.


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Michelle Renee Domingue
Rayne, LA - Funeral services will be held at St. Joseph Catholic Church, Saturday, December 7, 2013 at 10:30 am for Michelle Renee Domingue , 39, who died Wednesday, December 4, 2013 in Regional Medical Center in Lafayette, LA.
Interment will be in St. Joseph Cemetery #2 in the Mausoleum.
Surviving are two daughters, Brittanie Ashlers, Haleigh Domingue, three step brothers, Daniel Domingue, Gary Domingue, Stephen Domingue, one step sister, Patty Tibodeaux, three aunts, Martha Hanks Dupuis, Patty Hanks Arceneaux and husband Billy, Sharon Hanks one uncle, Larry Hanks and wife Irene.
She was preceded in death by parents, Gloria Hanks Domingue and Dallas Domingue, maternal grandparents, Wallace and Aurelia Arceneaux Hanks, paternal grandparents Felix Domingue, Jr. and Eula Benoit Domingue, two uncles, Ronald Hanks, Ralph Dupuis, Sr..
A rosary will be recited Friday, December 6, 2013 at 7:00 pm at Gossen Funeral Home in Rayne, LA.
Friends will be received at Gossen Funeral Home, Inc., Rayne, LA.Friday, December 6, 2013 from 4:00 pm until 8:30 pm and Saturday, December 7, 2013 from 8:00 am until 10:00 am.
Pallbearers will be Scott Dupuis, Kane Hanks, Jason Hanks, Adam Menard, Ernest "Ty" Istre and Tim Trahan. Honorary Pallbearers will be Ralph Dupuis, III, Chris Dupuis, Kennon Hanks and Andrew Royer
Friends may view the obituary and guestbook online at www.gossenfuneralhome.net.
Arrangements have been entrusted to Gossen Funeral Home, Inc. of Rayne, LA, (337) 334-3141.


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I am currently a postdoc of the Fondation Sciences Mathématiques de Paris at UPMC (Paris 6), in the Laboratoire Jacques-Louis Lions. My research interests are in problems related to mathematical general relativity.
I received my Ph.D. in 2012 as a student of Mihalis Dafermos in Cambridge. Since then I have been a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Toronto, and at the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute in Berkeley. In Toronto, I worked with Spyros Alexakis, while at MSRI, I was mentored by Hans Lindblad. I was also a Visiting Postdoctoral Research Associate at Princeton.
Curriculum Vitae: CV.
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In this paper I prove several decay statements for solutions to the wave equation on Schwarzschild black hole spacetimes in all dimensions. While the quantitative decay rates had been established in the 3+1-dimensional case, c.f. Luk (2009), the main interest in this paper lies in its method of proof, which uses and extends the "new physical-space approach to decay" of Dafermos and Rodnianski (2009).
Published version: Springer, arXiv: 1207.6055v2
In this paper I develop the global study of linear waves on Kerr de Sitter spacetimes. I am particularly interested here in the so-called cosmological region that is bounded in the past by the cosmological horizons and to the future by a spacelike hypersurface at infinity. It is shown that the expansion of that region provides a stability mechanism that manifests itself in a global redshift effect; moreover this effect persists in a large class of expanding cosmologies near the Schwarzschild de Sitter geometry. Global boundedness and decay results are obtained when our estimates are combined with earlier work concerning the stationary region by Dafermos and Rodnianski (2007) and Dyatlov (2010).
Published version: Elsevier, arXiv: 1312.1989
Video: Banff, Geometry and Inverse problems workshop (Spyros Alexakis).
We explore in this paper the question if solutions to wave equations are completely determined from their radiation towards infinity. We are led to show that if the radiation fields of two solutions to a wave equation with suitably fast decaying coefficients conincide to all orders on suitable parts of null infinity, then these solutions indeed coincide in a neighborhood of infinity. The size of this neighborhood depends strongly on the geometry of the asymptotically flat background spacetime; in particular we find that a positive mass of the spacetime works strongly in our favor.
arXiv:: 1504.04592
Video: Simons Center for Geometry and Physics (Volker Schlue)
Cf. Oberwolfach Report: Extended abstract, 3 pages.
In this paper we address an older question in general relativity: Is it possible for an isolated self-gravitating relativistic system to be in periodic motion? We prove that any asymptotically flat spacetime, which is assumed to be time-periodic and a solution to the Einstein vacuum equations far away from the sources, must be stationary, at least near infinity. Thus genuinely time-periodic solutions do not exist. This problem has been repeatedly studied, first by Papapetrou [Annalen der Physik, 1957], and most recently by Bicak, Scholz and Tod [arXiv:1003.3402], whose approach yields a symmetry "at infinity". Our proof relies crucially on the uniqueness results for linear waves obtained in our previous [3.] for the extension of this symmetry to the spacetime.
Contents: 1. The equivalence principle and its consequences, 2. Einstein's field equations in the presence of matter, 3. Spherical Symmetry, 4. Dynamical Formulation of General Relativity, Slow Motion Approximation, Gravitational Radiation.
Description: A course on general relativity theory for advanced undergraduates and beginning graduate students in mathematics and physics alike. Please refer to the Syllabus for details.
Lectures will be in the winter on Tue & Thu 1-3PM in BA 6183, Tutorials are Wed 4-5PM in BA 4010, and my office hours are Thu 4PM - 5PM in BA 6120.
Course materials: Lecture notes, Problem sets [1: Lorentz transformations] , [2: Receding observers], [3: Tidal forces], [4: Geodesic coordinates], [5: Electromagnetic field], [6: Perfect fluids], [7: Surface gravity], [8: Radiation field]; Projects.
A course on vector calculus with applications in the natural sciences. We follow the Syllabus, but please check black board for frequent announcements. I teach the Thursday 6PM - 9PM session in MP 103, and my office hours are Tuesdays 4PM - 6PM. [Some nice complementary notes at the level of the course on Kepler's Laws can be found on Gilbert Weinstein's website.]
Additional reading: The lecture notes on Sobolev spaces by Willie Wong from the previous year may be useful for this course.


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When you use Smuckers grape jelly as a lubricant for jerking off. Or any other flavor would work too, I suppose. From some random episode of Reno 911.
Wait, I thought that's what the jelly in the glove compartment was for. If it's not for jelly tugs, why is it in there?
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The act of inserting ones member into a jelly jar with the intention of using it to jerk off.
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A jelly tug is masturbating with any type of jelly or jam
I ran out of KY so I decided to use grape jelly for a nice jelly tug.
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The act of male masturbation using grape (or any other flavor) jelly as a lubricant
Jim was so horny that he just lubed up with concord grape and went with a jelly tug.
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Jerking off using jelly (usually grape jelly) as opposed to normal lubricant.
"Don't jelly tug outside, or the mosquitoes will get you."
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When a man masterbates using jelly as a lubricant.
Best results if jelly is microwaved so jelly is fairly warm. Increases pleasure.
Best results if jelly is microwaved so jelly is fairly warm. Increases pleasure.
I was looking to spice up my masterbatory experience so I gave myself a jelly tug. Wasn't that messy either.
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I caught my brother doing a jelly tug last night.
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Birthday thank yousMay 21st 2016 8:16 am
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I want to thank everybody for the pawsome gifts and pictures. I had a great day and got lots of treats. I'm a very lucky kitty to have so many good friends.
My gotcha dayOctober 19th 2015 4:26 pm
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I can't believe it's my gotcha day already. I am so happy to have such a pawsome forever home. I want to thank everybody for all the pawsome gifts, comments and pixs. I am very luck to have so many pawtastic friends.
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I had such a pawsome birthday. Thank you everyfur for all the gifties, kind words and pawsome pictures. I love them all. I'm so lucky to have such good friends like you.
It's my Gotcha day todayOctober 19th 2013 9:15 am
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I can't believe it's my third gotcha day today. My momcat forgot all about it too. She just went to work and never said a word to me. I sure hope she brings me some treats home tonight. Thank you everybody for sending the gifites, comments and pawmails. I sure am a lucky kitty to have such good friends.
Happy Birthday to meMay 20th 2013 11:51 am
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I am three years old today. I am getting lots of extra lovings and treats from my momcat. I want to thank all my pawsome friends who have left me gifties and sent me pawmails. I am a very lucky girl.
Spring TagApril 2nd 2013 5:07 pm
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I was tagged by my BFF Princess Tu Two
Thank you everybody for all the pawsome eggsApril 1st 2013 12:50 pm
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Thank you all for the pawsome Easter eggs for me and my family. We love them all very much. I'm sorry my momcat didn't have time to send any this time. I hope you all had a great Easter. We got a basket from the bunny and have been having fun playing with it. I hope you all had a great Easter.
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I hope you all have a pawsome New Year. May it bring you prosperity and good things. I am lucky as I was rescued and have a great home. I have so much to be grateful for. Let's hope next year is even better. My momcat is going to be home with us. Stay safe and have a great night everybody.
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I can't believe it's going to be two years tomorrow that I've had a furever home. I'll never furget that day I saw her. I was homeless and hungry. I was roaming the neighborhood looking for something to eat and I spotted this hooman at her mailbox. She turned and saw me, I saw the word SUCKER on her forehead and I knew she was the one. I ran to her and rubbed against her legs and purred. She picked up up and I kneaded her face. How could she have resisted that? The rest is history. I am so lucky, I sure hope my momcat gives me extra lovings and treats.
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I got these clumpies by my rear end. Big clumps of matted fur. My momcat kept trying to get rid of them, but everytime she tried I meowed and got mad. She finally cut them, but they were still there close to my skin. It sure didn't feel very good to me. She got a wire comb called a flea comb and told me to hold still. Like that is going to happen. She took that comb and it pulled my clumpies out. It didn't feel very good and I let her know it. I meowed and gave her a smackey paw. Then she did it again. Now my clumpies are all gone and I feel so much better. My momcat told me that if I wasn't so chunky I could clean myself better. I can't belive she told me I was chunky. She calls me her tootsie roll. Do you ever get any clumpies, if so, how does your momcat get rid of them?
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ARLINGTON — Nick Markakis hit a home run and the go-ahead single, Chris Davis homered against his former team just as Nelson Cruz did a day earlier, and the Baltimore Orioles beat the Texas Rangers, 6-5, on Wednesday night.
Markakis' single in the sixth inning came after Adrian Beltre's second home run of the game — a three-run shot — pulled Texas even at 5-all in the fifth. Beltre drove in all five Texas runs.
Cruz had three singles and reached twice on errors by Luis Sardinas, a surprise fill-in at shortstop for Elvis Andrus. It was the second time in less than a week the two-time All-Star wasn't in the starting lineup.
Bud Norris (4-5) allowing six hits and five runs in five innings for the Orioles, and the bullpen pitched four scoreless innings. Zach Britton earned his fifth save.
Davis, who was traded to the Orioles by Texas in 2011 and led the majors with 53 homers last year, had his eighth this season on a towering shot to right field for a 5-2 lead in the fifth.
Cruz, who chose Baltimore over Texas as a free agent in the offseason and leads the big leagues with 21 home runs, hit a three-run homer in a series-opening win Tuesday.
Markakis hit his fourth homer against rookie starter Nick Martinez (1-2) in the third. The left-handed hitter's go-ahead single came off Aaron Poreda, a lefty brought in to face him.
Beltre gave the Rangers a 2-1 lead with an opposite-field shot off the facing of the upper deck in right field in the first inning and went the other away again in the fifth for his eighth homer of the season.
Beltre's tying shot came after Norris was hit on the right forearm on a one-hopper by Mitch Moreland that turned into a single. After a lengthy chat with manager Buck Showalter and the trainer, Norris stayed in and got two quick strikes on Beltre, who fouled off three more pitches before sending a line drive into the Texas bullpen.
Norris left the game after the inning with a right forearm contusion.
Both of Sardinas' errors led to runs. He dropped a popup with two outs in the first, and Cruz scored on a single by Adam Jones. A throwing error in the third came before another run-scoring single by Jones and a sacrifice fly from J.J. Hardy.
Andrus grounded out as a pinch-hitter in the sixth and stayed in at shortstop.
NOTES: Orioles RHP Miguel Gonzalez was scratched from his Thursday start in Texas and replaced by RHP Chris Tillman. Gonzalez is nursing soreness on his right side, but there's no diagnosis. He was scheduled for an MRI. ... The Rangers observed a moment of silence for Don Zimmer, who died Wednesday. He managed the Rangers in 1981 and part of 1982. ... Orioles closer Tommy Hunter (left groin strain) will pitch in a simulated game Thursday after getting through fielding practice with no issues


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HIV/AIDS remains a global health problem of unprecedented dimensions.
Unknown 27 years ago, HIV/AIDS has already caused an estimated 25 million deaths worldwide and has generated profound demographic changes in the most heavily affected countries. According to the Joint United Nations programme on HIV/AIDS, sub-Saharan Africa remains the epicenter of the pandemic and region most heavily affected by HIV/AIDS, accounting for 67% of all people living with HIV globally and for 75% of AIDS deaths in 2007 [UNAIDS, 2008]. Malawi is among the ten sub-Saharan countries with the highest HIV prevalence in the world, estimated at 12% of adults aged 15-49 by the National HIV Prevention Strategy [2009], and pegged at 11.9% by UNAIDS [2008]. Other sub-Saharan countries with highest global prevalence rates include; Swaziland- 26.1%, Lesotho- 23.2%, Botswana- 23.1%, South Africa- 18.1%, Zimbabwe- 15.3%, Namibia- 15.3%, Zambia- 15.2%, Mozambique- 12.2% and Kenya- high but not documented; in such descending order.
Several factors account for the high prevalence rate not only in Malawi in particular but sub-Saharan Africa as a whole. Such a constellation of variables range from cultural determinants across the continuum to socio-economic, environmental, psychosocial and other structural determinants. In Malawi culture is one of the most powerful precursors and predisposing factors to contracting HIV and it is interlinked with many other variables in the whole equation. There are several cultural practices across the nation from Nsanje to Chitipa that one can rightly construe as counterproductive relative to the fight against the spread of HIV/AIDS.
Kulowa kufa- a widow cleansing ritual -is practiced in the lower shire. Kusasa/kuchotsa fumbi- sexual cleansing of graduate initiates -is practiced in most parts of the southern region. Chokolo- widow inheritance- is practiced by many ethnic groups across the nation. Chimwanamaye- mutual exchange of wives or girl friends among peers as an expression of good friendship or to strengthen friendship ties- is practiced in certain parts of the southern and central regions. Nhlazi- offering a younger sister to a son in law in appreciation for proper care of the elder sister- is practiced in certain parts of the northern region. Kupimbira- offering in marriage a young girl of unmarriageable age in exchange for material or financial support – is practiced in the northern region. Mitala- polygamy- is practiced by several ethnic groups across the nation and lastly Fisi/chipambanjete- a ritual where some men are tasked with anonymously deflowering virgins- is a practice common in both the southern and central regions of the nation. Above all else cultural initiations of adolescents among the Chewa of central Malawi, the Yao of southern Malawi, the Lomwe of southern Malawi and several other ethnic groupings even in the northern region have a bearing in the spread of the pandemic. It is believed adolescents who have been initiated or even circumcised are more likely to be sexually experienced and active compared to those who are not. This is considered the case because the curriculum in traditional initiation rites condones and encourages sexual exploration. Such cultural dynamics as have been highlighted by no means posit not an optimistic overture in this struggle against HIV/AIDS bearing in mind that old traditions die hard with experience having explicitly taught us that many societies vehemently resist change to their long cherished traditional values, beliefs, attitudes and behaviors.
Multiple and concurrent partnership is another factor that is exponentially perpetrating the spread of HIV/AIDS in Malawi and other sub-Saharan high prevalence nations. Especially so among men of economic standing and even those construed as influential, having several partners is seen as prestigious- a sign of machismo, popularity, potency, virility and manhood. This behaviour is considered normative and is even promoted and condoned by women. Faithfulness to one partner is stereotyped as a sign of weakness which is culturally construed to be a resultant of the man having been given love portions by his wife. Women are thus expected to remain faithful but men to philander irrespective of marital status. These attitudes, beliefs and values militate against contemporary preventive philosophies such as zero-grazing or one-love where persons are expected to be faithful to only one partner of their choosing in marriage or otherwise.
Psychologically research has further indicated that most people do not consider themselves to be at risk of infection by HIV either as a function of cognitive processes such as optimism of personal precautions taken or motivational processes such as are a result of wishful thinking. This has been shown to be heightened even against odds of risky sexual debuts or exposure to HIV. Among the youth for instance lack of intra-personal skills to resist social pressure has been shown to exacerbate such confounded risk perception registering a gap in the need to enhance life-options and social skills training in the age group. Skills training for instance self-efficacy training motivates the youth to uphold the belief and confidence in their ability to withstand social pressure vis-à-vis indulgence in risky sexual behaviours. UNICEF [2006] states that about nine in every ten young people aged 15-19 in sub-Saharan Africa have heard of HIV/AIDS but most are not familiar with the ABCs of prevention- abstinence, being faithful to one partner and use of condoms. This scenario again paints a gloomy and pessimistic picture in the war against AIDS since the youth provide us with a window of hope not only in the area of mitigation but overall curtailing of the pandemic.
A culture of silence also surrounds most reproductive health issues with many parents not comfortable with and considering such sexual issues taboo. Compounding this lack of education is the fact that most young people are left to learn about sex from peers or worse still as already highlighted in the foregoing through initiation rituals where they are exposed to a curricular that perpetrates sexual activity hence fuelling the spread of the pandemic. Many youths are also economically dependent and socially inexperienced and not having been taught or otherwise learnt to protect themselves means being at pernicious risk to the shackles of HIV/AIDS. Psychological egocentrism further fosters and instills a sense of invulnerability among so many teenage youth.
Notwithstanding HIV/AIDS has had several devastating repercussions in Malawi in particular and sub-Saharan Africa in general. First and foremost HIV/AIDS is depleting adult productive capacity with teachers, doctors, lawyers, farmers, engineers and what have you falling prey to the deadly scourge. Secondly, public resources are being drained in no measure comparable to any other plague in history. Especially for the ever dependent economies of Africa and Asia, this has fostered economic underdevelopment and overreliance on western donors further perpetrating the dependency syndrome. Thirdly, relative to life expectancy, gains made previously are drastically being reduced. AIDS is erasing decades of progress made in extending life expectancy which for Malawi is now tagged at around 37 or 40 thereof, whereas it could have been 62 in sub-Saharan Africa in general without AIDS. HIV/AIDS has above all else also put extra pressure on the already limited resources through overtaxing health care facilities, payment of premature death benefits, caring for AIDS orphans and many other liabilities bequeathed. Governments are spending a lot to purchase drugs to curtail opportunistic infections and on ARVs for AIDS patients hence taxing the health sector already overstretched by other tropical diseases as Tuberculosis and Malaria. The question however still remains whether we are fighting a winning battle considering the many variables and factors militating against behavioral change in our cultural, socio-economic as well as psychosocial domains. It might be plausible to bet we still have higher mountains to climb and a long way to go.
NAC (2009) National HIV Prevention Strategy [2009-2013]
UNAIDS (2008) Report on the global AIDS epidemic, Geneva.
UNICEF (2006) How does HIV affect young people? http://www.unicef.org.
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HUDSON COUNTY -- A second Hudson County law enforcement official has pleaded guilty in a Jersey City bounty hunter scheme, authorities said.
Alberto Vazquez, 40, of Apex, N.C., pleaded guilty in Superior Court in Morristown to third-degree official misconduct for authorizing fake certificates of surrender of fugitives — also known as "body receipts" — presented by Jersey City bounty hunter Adel Mikhaeil, and in return accepting periodic payments totalling $3,500. Vazquez is facing 270 days in jail and probation.
Vazquez, a former Hudson County sheriff's detective, is the second law enforcement official and fifth of eight co-defendants to plead guilty in the case.
Mikhaeil, Vazquez, two other Hudson County law enforcement officials, and four others were ensnared in an investigation of Mikhaeil by the New Jersey State Police, the state Division of Criminal Justice and the state Attorney General's Office.
Mikhaeil, who remains free on $50,000 bail, is accused of using the body receipts to collect higher fees from insurance companies that had posted bail for the fugitives and were paying for their capture. Mikhaeil turned in receipts to insurance firms to receive bail bond payments on fugitive arrests that either never occurred or were captures made by law-enforcemet, authorities said.
Under his plea, Vazquez faces a lifetime ban on public employment in New Jersey. In return, four other charges dismissed will be dismissed.
Charges are still pending against Mikhaeil and Kenneth Sisk, a former supervising detective in the Hudson County Prosecutor's Office accused of signing two false body receipts; and Trevor Williams, who worked for Mikhaeil.
The four who previously pleaded guilty are former Hudson County Sheriff's Officer William Chadwick of Keansburg, who pleaded guilty to official misconduct and accepting $5,500 from Mikhaeil, and now faces five years in prison; two insurance firm employees and another Mikhaeil employee, who face 364 days in jail and/or probation.


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A dusting of confectioners' sugar adds to the appeal of these soft and chewy apricot bars. A packages baking mix makes them a snap to prepare.
- 1 package (6 ounces) dried apricots
- 1 cup water
- 2-1/2 cups plus 2/3 cup biscuit/baking mix, divided
- 1/2 cup sugar
- 1/2 cup cold butter
- 2 cups packed brown sugar
- 4 eggs
- 1 cup chopped walnuts
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- Confectioners' sugar
- In a saucepan, bring the apricots and water to a boil. Reduce heat; simmer, uncovered, for 10 minutes. Drain and cool. Chop apricots and set aside.
- In a bowl, combine 2-1/2 cups biscuit mix and sugar. Cut in butter until crumbly. Pat into an ungreased 15-in. x 10-in. x 1-in. baking pan. Bake at 350° for 10-12 minutes or until edges are lightly browned. Cool on a wire rack.
- In a large bowl, beat brown sugar and eggs until blended. Stir in the apricots, walnuts, vanilla and remaining biscuit mix; spread over crust.
- Bake for 20-25 minutes or until golden brown. Cool on a wire rack. Cut into bars. Dust with confectioners' sugar. Store in the refrigerator. Yield: 5 dozen.
Originally published as Snowy Apricot Bars in Taste of Home's Holiday & Celebrations Cookbook Annual 2004, p80
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