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Reform movement fights waning interest
The reform movement increasingly embraces behind-the-scenes work.
Published May 1, 2007
Last spring, hundreds of thousands of people who never considered themselves activists took to the streets to fight for legal status for illegal immigrants.
Organizers hoped the huge turnouts at the marches, which took many by surprise, would be the catalyst needed to create a movement influential enough to result in legislative change.
But in the last year, the huge headline-grabbing rallies have given way to behind-the-scenes activities: voter drives, letter-writing campaigns, town hall meetings.
Marches taking place today across the United States including in Tampa, Orlando and Miami - the first major ones in a year - are not expected to produce the kind of attendance and attention they did last year.
"People question whether the fact that engagement this year is not as visible as last year means people are not interested, " said Clarissa Martinez, campaign manager for the Coalition for Comprehensive Immigration Reform. "To me ... it's just taking place in different forms."
Last weekend, the Florida Immigrant Coalition held training sessions in Plant City to teach students how to become organizers. Later this month, Voices for Justice will hold a citizenship drive in Indian River County.
And every week this spring, immigrant advocates from across the United States, including Florida, have traveled to the nation's capital to lobby members of Congress to embrace a proposal that would put millions of illegal immigrants on a path toward citizenship.
"The immigrant community is using different tactics, " said Flavia Jimenez, an immigrant policy analyst for the National Council of La Raza. "It's more sophisticated. The momentum has shifted."
While some agree the shift is part of the natural maturing of a still-young movement, others argue that it's a sign that organizers have not been able to maintain momentum.
"That is still much an open question, " said Louis DeSipio, who teaches Latino-Chicano Studies at the University of California at Irvine. "The marches had the short term effect they wanted to have. ... The question is whether they can channel that same energy and tap the same people to use popular pressure to ensure there is a legalization provision."
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In many ways, the movement's conversion reflects changes in Washington and across the nation.
Those spurred to action last year were reacting to a Republican proposal in Congress that would have led to severe criminal penalties for illegal immigrants.
This year, the newly Democrat-controlled Congress has no such proposal. In fact, it's more likely to pass a bill that would include some kind of a citizenship provision.
"The marches were really a reaction to what they felt was an attack, and we don't have that kind of attack this year, " said Jeanne Butterfield, executive director of the American Immigration Lawyers Association.
Other things have changed, too.
High-profile immigration raids at businesses around the country have frightened immigrants from coming out publicly.
"We decided not to march, " said Luis Ibarra, whose group Inmigrantes Latinos Unidos de la Florida helped organize a march of at least 75, 000 people in Fort Myers in April 2006. "Our people are afraid. The fear they have is that they will be deported and lose the good they have accomplished in this country."
Those who oppose proposals with a path to citizenship say immigrant advocates lost momentum after they suffered a backlash last year.
Many Americans resented immigrant advocates marching with flags from other nations and "A Day Without an Immigrant" in which many workers stayed home from work.
In March 2006, an estimated 500, 000 immigrant advocates marched in Los Angeles. Last month, a similar march attracted just 10, 000.
"The wind went out of their sails, " said Mark Krikorian, executive director for the Center for Immigration Studies. "They've been deflated."
Armando Navarro, a professor at the University of California at Riverside who helped organize marches last year, said divisions in leadership began to develop last May, with some wanting work stoppage and others wanting only marches.
As a result, he said, the movement has not developed a cohesive vision beyond defeating last year's bill.
"The movement has not held up, " said Navarro, who is writing a book on the subject. "It was crisis oriented. We did not look into the future strategically."
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Activists on both sides agree that unlike other movements - including the civil rights movement, which was already mature when Congress passed the Civil Rights Act of 1964 - this large-scale, national campaign is still struggling to find its way.
Immigrant advocates say their goal now is to attract support from mainstream Americans through education and to pressure federal lawmakers to pass immigrant-friendly proposals through grass roots lobbying.
That translates to increasing membership in their organizations and possibly even encouraging like-minded people to run for office.
In the last year, Florida's umbrella group for immigrant advocates has flourished.
The Florida Immigrant Coalition, based in Miami, had 60 smaller organizations. Now it has 80 and holds a telephone conference every Monday.
After the marches, members of various groups flocked to Palm Bay in Brevard County and Avon Park in Highlands County, where city councils had threatened to pass a pair of measures against illegal immigrants.
"After the marches we had to battle two anti-immigrant ordinances, " said Maria Rodriguez, director of the Florida Immigrant Coalition. "From that, there were new leaders, new organizations, new energy."
Joe Wright, a dairy farmer who sympathized with immigrant activists, spoke against the Avon Park ordinance. The experience prompted him to run for City Council. He won.
This spring, members of the Florida Immigrant Coalition from Plant City, Apopka, Fort Pierce, Homestead, Mulberry and Miami went to Washington to urge lawmakers to legalize undocumented immigrants.
"We've never seen as many local activists come to Washington to pressure lawmakers for comprehensive immigration reform, " said Frank Sharry, executive director for the National Immigration Forum. "There are so many groups coming in for lobby visits, we can't keep them straight."
Advocates say the introduction of a bill in the House recently led 70, 000 people to call members of Congress to voice their support.
"We are asking them that our people receive just immigration reform, " said Ibarra, the Fort Myers march organizer.
Times researcher Angie Drobnic Holan contributed to this report. Anita Kumar can be reached at email@example.com or 202 463-0576. Jose Cardenas can be reached at email@example.com or (727) 445-4224.
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Ordered from Verdant even though i have 2oz of Laoshan Black currently in my cupboard at the moment. Picked up another 4oz and a couple of samples!
What is Laoshan like? I've never had it.
It's one of my favourite black straight teas. It's malty with cocoa notes. It's my friend in shitty situations. It's not a tea for everyone, but it IS a tea for me :)
Like malt chocolate in tea form? Sounds interesting.
I was really worried that my beloved Ceylon Star From DavidsTea was going to be discontinued, since it was 48% off with other web special teas, that looked like they weren't that popular, so I went for it! 250 grams! That's a lot of tea! But I probably could drink that tea every morning, I like it so much. I also ordered another cute white elephant perfect mug at 40% off, since I love the one I have and thought it would be perfect for tea for two, or leaving one at the office and one at home. I also picked up two purple tins, since the web special teas don't come with one. :)
I bought 75g of some really nice green tea from Seven Cups. Green tea does not stay fresh for very long….
Made an unexpected order today since I found out Della Terra is discontinuing Apricot Carousel. So bummed because it's the only tea I've found with that combination of fruits that didn't also include mango (which I'm horribly allergic to) or coconut (which I've started to really hate in tea). I couldn't resist buying some up.
Apricot Carousel 2oz & 1oz
Try Me Pack – Cafe Vanilla, Pineapple Upside Down Cake, Wonders of Kashmir, Caramel Creme, & The Perfect Pear
The 4oz Apricot Carousel was already sold out and there was only one 2oz so I had to get creative. Lol. I hope they don't end up emailing me to tell me that someone got to the 2oz & 1oz packs before me.
And I figure that because lately I rarely make repeat orders to companies (unless I adore something) because there are so many new places I always want to try first, I figured I might as well get a try-me pack again.
Nice selection.
I hadn't ordered any tea for a while, but I just broke that hiatus with a pretty tall order from Yunnan Sourcing:
Sheng Pu:
-2011 YS "Autumn Xi Bang" raw cake 400g
-2013 YS "Ye Sheng Cha" Wild tree purple tea of Dehong 500g
-2011 YS Jing Gu Mini cake 100g
-2013 YS "Wu Liang Ye Sheng" sample
-2013 YS "Ai Lao Mountain" sample
-2012 YS "Autumn Mu Shu Cha" sample
-Feng Qing Gold Needle Dian Hong Black tea 100g Spring 2012
-"Hong Yun" Yi Wu Mountain Wild Arbor Black tea cake 180g
-Wu Yi Shan Rock Tea "Classic Rou Gui" Oolong 100g
-Jing Gu "White Pekoe Silver Needles" White Tea 100g
-Feng Qing "Ye Sheng Hong Cha" Wild Tree Purple Var. Black tea 50g
Used the YZY10 voucher and loyalty points
I'm pretty sure I overdid it, but I really can't wait! :)
and another Whispering Pines order, I'm loving it
The Sleeping Bear Blend
Campfire Blend
Painted Paradise Tea
Cherokee Mint
Blackburnian Tea
Coconut Chamomile
Breath of Life
Jasmine Coconut Green Tea
Imperial Shou Puerh Toucha
Guys! Just placed my first order with butiki teas! (and got to speak to Stacy on the phone!)
I ordered:
-caramel vanilla assam
-Taiwanese mountain black
-premium taiwanese assam
-maple pecan oolong
-cantaloupe cream
and a few samples: premium chai, another assam, and I think the rose violet calendula!
Oh my god I can't wait. I know absolutely nothing about the different kinds of black teas (darjeelings and their flushes; how Indian blacks differ from Taiwanese/Chinese blacks, what a yunan (sp?) even is, and oh so so many questions. We need to have an "ask the experts" session!). Anyway, so so so psyched.
That's a great first order! :) The best way to distinguish between the types of teas, regions, and flushes is to taste quite a bit of them. You will be able to tell the differences rather quickly. Yunnan is a province in China. Some great teas come from that area, including puerhs, bi luo chuns, yunnan gold, etc. On the phone I had mentioned that our Hattialli Golden Lion has a similarity to the Yunnan Gold teas. Yunnan Gold teas are some of my favorites.
that is a really great intro order, most of my all-time butiki faves, yum!
it's not the only good source for info by any means, but to get a better handle on the zillions of types of teas by region and type i recommend the harney and sons book on tea. it's available on kindle too. it helped me a lot when i felt totally overwhelmed at first about chinese and taiwanese teas, oolongs in particular. again, it's not one-stop, but it can help you get a general grasp enough that you can then do further research with some sense of what you're looking for.
Thanks sil! I suspect you're right. Now it's a matter of biding my time until they arrive. I want to like them so badly.
Thanks Stacy. I'm really looking forward to trying it. actually, one of the reasons I ordered an assam and a black were so as to be able to make actual real-life comparisons, because although I can read about them a lot, it's all fairly abstract until it's in a cup in front of me.
Exactly. Have fun experimenting and trying different teas! I Remember when I first started really trying different types of teas and comparing them. It was so much fun, though I still get excited today hunting down and trying new teas.
I'm not even sure how I found Yunomi.us but I must have signed up for their mailing list. I love Japanese greens! A few weeks ago they emailed me and said I had won some sencha, all I had to do was give them my address! So I got 1.76 oz of free sencha, YAY!
So then this week they sent me another email with a coupon for $10 off ANY purchase! SO GENEROUS! So today I ordered a 4 types of gyokuro (SQUEE!) sampler pack and some salted sakura blossoms. Only $3.50 including shipping with my coupon! I love it when free tea falls from the sky like that <3
Thanks Yunomi!!!

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I wanted to go a step up in darkness for the summer time from the usual "Bare" I use, so I chose this. I feel like while this is slightly darker it has a an added peachy tint to it that may not suit you if you have a real yellow or golden undertone.
It's nice that EM doesn't have so much fillers in their powders now, but I miss the way their foundations were like 5 years ago... This colour is warm and a bit orangey on my NC15 skin
great powder, but packaging lets it down a little
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the powder is light and a good colour with good coverage. It lasts longer than my previous liquid foundation too. However, the holes in the lid are too small and it is difficult to get enough powder out. Still definitely worth the price.
Tint of peach in it
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I wanted to go a step up in darkness for the summer time from the usual "Bare" I use, so I chose this. I feel like while this is slightly darker it has a an added peachy tint to it that may not suit you if you have a real yellow or golden undertone.
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I love it
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This mineral powder gives a good cover and are paraben/tacl/bismuth free.
Too pigmented!
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I previously tried (and finished) Everyday Minerals' Finishing Powder. I thought this version with a jojoba base would be slightly more moisturizing but it was just too pigmented for my liking. It felt heavy on my skin... I wanted to love this product because it is definitely formulated with clean ingredients but alas....


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Executive Director's Report- Week of February 22
Executive Director's Report - Week of February 22
By Steve Locke
Several weeks ago we were speaking about the recreational element of field hockey. In other words, are there viable recreation opportunities to play field hockey for all ages of athletes especially those who are post collegiate? We already have in place two programs specifically for youngsters ranging from 5 to 11 years of age. Both of those programs, Stick Starz and Turf Tykes, are experiencing exploding success in 2010. Ask USA Field Hockey's Laura Darling. She is reporting 55 inquiries to produce events so far with an eventual goal of 1,000 kids participating in 2010, a completely do-able goal. We even have Stick Starz and Turf Tykes events in both Harlem and the Bronx. But instead of saying What about the Children?, maybe we should be saying What about the Adults? Or, better yet, What about Everyone?
Sandy Kinnee, CEO for Dita, is an artist by trade and genuinely innovative. Sandy attended one of our creative meetings last week. David Miller, USA Field Hockey Manager of Membership and Events, conducted the meeting. The purpose was to begin the process of developing programs for event organizers to partner with USA Field Hockey. It occurs to us that there are a fair number of existing organizers producing events outside of the purview of USA Field Hockey. David's approach is to create a business proposition for event organizers to become involved with our association. The involvement is meant to provide event organizers budget relief, top shelf insurance for comprehensive protection, and mechanisms to be qualifiers for some of our already over-subscribed USA Field Hockey owned events. David spent several hours during the previous week talking to private event organizers in various locales throughout the USA. His discussions were about determining needs and what USA Field Hockey can bring to the table for organizers. The major issues for organizers seem to be acquiring facilities for venue use, insurance, any type of budget relief that could be found and adding cachet to an event by being a qualifier. All of those items are do-able and David is working on a package for 2011 that we will unwrap for your examination by mid-summer. In addition, David has developed a boilerplate pro-forma for event directors to demonstrate profitability. All great stuff for existing and/or newly minted event producers.
In the meantime, back to Sandy and his creative meanderings. Sandy was obviously quite enthralled with the possibilities of re-establishing recreational outlets for everyone to play field hockey. He told me that hockey, played recreationally, was found liberally in many pockets of the USA in the 70s and 80s. What happened? Maybe we became spoiled by always wanting turf. It makes one wonder what was taking place before artificial turf was introduced. Whatever and however, Sandy has created a top-of-mind version of a poster encouraging hockey playing by families no matter if the game is on turf, or grass, or indoors. It is a great start for re-introducing a great sport to the mainstream.
This poster is an initial effort. Do you have suggestions to modify or improve what Sandy produced? Let me know. (firstname.lastname@example.com)
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Volume: 3 Issue: 4 Date: December 2011
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Abstract:Recent experimental results have accumulated evidence that the neurons can change their response characteristics to adapt to the variations of the synaptic inputs, which is the so-called neuronal intrinsic plasticity mechanism. In this paper, we present a new model on neuronal intrinsic plasticity. We first show that the probability distribution of the neuronal firing rates is more suitable to be represented as a Weibull distribution than an exponential distribution. Then, we derive the intrinsic plasticity model based on information theory. This study provides a more realistic model for further research on the effects of intrinsic plasticity on various brain functions and dynamics.
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Abstract:Dynamic neural fields are recurrent neural networks which aim at modeling cortical activity evolution both in space and time. A self-organized formation of these fields has been rarely explored previously. The main reason for this is that learning-induced changes in effective connectivity constitute a severe problem with respect to network stability. In this paper, we present a novel network model which is able to self-organize even in face of experience-driven changes in the synaptic strengths of all connections. Key to the model is the incorporation of homeostatic mechanisms which explicitly address network stability. These mechanisms regulate activity of individual neurons in a similar manner as cortical activity is controlled. Namely, our model implements the homeostatic principles of synaptic scaling and intrinsic plasticity. By using fully plastic within-field connections our model further decouples learning from topological constraints. For this reason, we propose to incorporate an additional process which facilitates the development of topology preserving mappings. This process minimizes the wiring length between neurons. We thoroughly evaluated the model using artificial data as well as continuous speech. Our results demonstrate that the network is able to self-organize, maintains stable activity levels, and remains adaptive to variations in input strength and input distribution.
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Abstract:The paper proposes a novel research framework for building probabilistic computational neurogenetic models (pCNGM). The pCNGM is a multilevel modeling framework inspired by the multilevel information processes in the brain. The framework comprises a set of several dynamic models, namely low (molecular) level models, a more abstract dynamic model of a protein regulatory network (PRN) and a probabilistic spiking neural network model (pSNN), all linked together. Genes/proteins from the PRN control parameters of the pSNN and the spiking activity of the pSNN provides feedback to the PRN model. The overall spatio-temporal pattern of spiking activity of the pSNN is interpreted as the highest level state of the pCNGM. The paper demonstrates that this framework can be used for modeling both artificial cognitive systems and brain processes. In the former application, the pCNGM utilises parameters that correspond to sensory elements and neuromodulators. In the latter application a pCNGM uses data obtained from relevant genes/proteins to model their dynamic interaction that matches data related to brain development, higher-level brain function or disorder in different scenarios. An exemplar case study on Alzheimer's Disease is presented. Future applications of pCNGM are discussed.
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Abstract:The PURR-PUSS system (PP) is a versatile model of a human-like brain, designed to be implemented in parallel hardware and embodied in the head of a robot moving in the real world. The aim of the research with PP is to try out mechanisms for learning, intelligence and consciousness. Limitations of resources have dictated that the experiments with PP are made on a personal computer by simulating the brain and robot body in a microworld. The unique features of PP are multiple context and novelty-seeking. In this paper, a squash-pop microworld is described first, so that concrete examples can be given for a brief review of the PP system, followed by two new features called trail memory, to realize Baars' global workspace, and belief memory, to realize Rosenthal's higher order thoughts and Johnson-Laird's conscious reasoning. The extended system, PP*, is designed to give consciousness to the subconscious PP, but higher order thoughts and conscious reasoning prove to be elusive. A definition of a conscious robot provides a measure of progress.
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The Khronos Group on Tuesday said that it had ratified and released to public the OpenCL 1.0 specification, the first open, royalty-free standard for cross-platform, parallel programming of modern processors found in personal computers, servers and handheld/embedded devices. The creators of the standard hope that it will enable new performance heights and additional features on the wide range of new devices utilizing multi-core processors.
"The opportunity to effectively unlock the capabilities of new generations of programmable compute and graphics processors drove the unprecedented level of cooperation to refine the initial proposal from Apple into the ratified OpenCL 1.0 specification. As an open, cross-platform standard, OpenCL is a fundamental technology for next generation software development that will play a central role in the Khronos API ecosystem and we look forward to seeing implementations within the next year," said Neil Trevett, chair of the OpenCL working group, president of the Khronos Group and vice president at Nvidia.
OpenCL enables software developers to take full advantage of a diverse mix of multi-core central processing units (GPUs), graphics processing units (GPUs), Cell-type architectures and other parallel processors such as digital signal processors (DSPs). OpenCL consists of an API for coordinating parallel computation and a programming language for specifying those computations. Specifically, the OpenCL standard defines:
· A subset of the C99 programming language with extensions for parallelism;
· An API for coordinating data and task-based parallel computation across a wide range of heterogeneous processors;
· Numerical requirements based on the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers' IEEE 754 standard;
· Efficient interoperability with OpenGL, OpenGL ES and other graphics APIs.
OpenCL (Open Computing Language) promises to improve speed and responsiveness for a wide spectrum of applications in numerous market categories from gaming and entertainment to scientific and medical software. The widely supported OpenCL standard may give a real boost to GPGPU (general purpose computing on GPUs) as software will be able to take advantage of both CPUs and GPUs and developers will not have to tailor each program for a particular hardware implementation, which greatly eases development.
"AMD believes that broad adoption of industry standards by hardware and software vendors is essential to successfully harnessing the power of stream computing in a wide array of mainstream applications. AMD […] is an aggressive proponent of the OpenCL standard. Now that OpenCL 1.0 is ratified, AMD plans to evolve its ATI Stream Software Development Kit to comply with the new specification to give developers, businesses and consumers maximum choice and flexibility in leveraging the computational capabilities of our graphics processors," said Rick Bergman, senior vice president and general manager of ATI, graphics products group of Advanced Micro Dev icesAMD.
Proposed six months ago as a draft specification by Apple, OpenCL has been developed and ratified by industry-leading companies including 3Dlabs, Activision Blizzard, AMD, Apple, ARM, Barco, Broadcom, Codeplay, Electronic Arts, Ericsson, Freescale, HI, IBM, Intel Corporation, Imagination Technologies, Kestrel Institute, Motorola, Movidia, Nokia, Nvidia, QNX, RapidMind, Samsung, Seaweed, Takumi, Texas Instruments and Umeå University.
"We are excited about the industry-wide support for OpenCL. Apple developed OpenCL so that any application in Snow Leopard, the next major version of Mac OS X, can harness an amazing amount of computing power previously available only to graphics applications," said Bertrand Serlet, Apple's senior vice president of Software Engineering.


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In 2012, UNESCO condemned the killing of more than 120 journalists -- killed for the simple act of doing their jobs. Many, many more -- such as Ethiopian journalist Reeyot Alemu, recipient of 2013 Guillermo Cano World Press Freedom Day award -- are imprisoned or suffer from physical or legal assaults for exercising their right to freedom of expression. Ms. Alemu has written critically about political and social issues, particularly those affecting the poor and women, in her society. She was arrested in June 2011 while working for a national weekly newspaper and is serving a five-year prison sentence.
Today, on the 20th anniversary of UNESCO's World Press Freedom Day (WPFD), more than 400 people are gathered in Costa Rica to both recognize how far we have come and to note how much progress remains to be made to ensure freedom of expression and protection for journalists. The theme of this year's event is "Safe to Speak: Securing Freedom of Expression in All Media."
In today's rapidly changing environment, the focus is not only on the traditional realms of print, radio, and TV but also on freedom of expression online and for an increasing population of citizen journalists and bloggers. In a joint statement for WPFD, UN Secretary Ban Ki-Moon and UNESCO Director General Irina Bokova wrote, "Bloggers, citizen reporters and social media producers, as well as their sources, face increasing threats to their safety. In addition to physical dangers, they are being targeted with psychological and emotional violence through cyber-attacks, data breaches, intimidation, undue surveillance and invasions of privacy."
In recognition of the United States' strong support for UNESCO's work to ensure freedom of expression, high-level U.S. Government representatives at World Press Freedom Day include Anne Andrews, U.S. Ambassador to Costa Rica; Michael Hammer, Assistant Secretary of State for Public Affairs; and Jane Zimmerman, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor.
We have also sponsored 40 journalist "Fellows" from around the world -- everywhere from Bahrain to Zimbabwe -- to participate in the World Press Freedom Day event. Through their reporting on their experiences at the conference and by sharing the information and connections that they make here, the message of press freedom/freedom of expression is disseminated to a much wider audience -- much of which lives in places where it cannot take these freedoms for granted.
One recent, significant step forward is the UN Plan of Action on the Safety of Journalists and the Issue of Impunity. In April 2012, the Chief Executives of the UN system agencies officially endorsed the plan with UNESCO as the co-lead for its implementation. The plan focuses on coordination to help governments develop new legislation supporting freedom of expression and to fully implement existing legislation. It also focuses on raising awareness among governments, professional associations, and the general public of the risks faced by journalists. How to fully integrate this plan into national and societal frameworks is one of the main topics of the 2013 WPFD.


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Topic: CSS testing in IE when running on localhost on my mac
Any one have an tips/trick to test what pages will look like when running on my site is up an running on http://localshot:3000/
I currently render the page in safari then save the source move it to my pc and check it out, but i am sick of doing this.
Anyone succesful in changing some sort of parameter in apache to allow me to view it from the pc.
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Hi and welcome
regarding the sickness......it could just be coincidence eg a bug or it could have been connected to when you had you previous meals....eg too much food or too little.......these things are very individual and so a bit of trial and error.......
your plan seems fine as long as you don't push the long run too much...don't do it too fast and as said above .listen to your body
good luck
Suzie........don't confuse the ability to write lots of rubbish on this site with being able to run
I have only been running 6 years and doing triathlon the last 3.........I love the feeling after the runs............I tend to do longer races as i find I'm not built for speed but have the stamina and mental ability to go long...got a 47 miler in the beacons coming up in November...
so I have run lots of miles and I am still slowly running faster but will never be fast
not sure about the balls of the feet .I can remember a thread about it once.I will see if I can remember which one
Suzie - Hi and welcome to the forum you sound abit like me to be honest, I started seriously running about 4 months ago. I have entered a couple of 5K races and one 10K race so far, and finding it very addictive. I am female (Booey is my nicname and doesnt really give anything away) 43 years old and 5'3 tall and probably run about the speed you do
I have made sure I listened to the advice people have given me on here, don't try and do to much to soon, just enjoy it and make sure I take rest days
I am about to join my local running club this week and am alittle nervous that I will just slow them down but hey I gotta start somewhere and sure they will help me progress
welcome suzieQ,...just wanted to echo seren really, yep, your plan looks fine, dont do too much too soon. As for your feet,try "flexitol, Heel Balm"....its good stuff. (you can get it in Boots!)
Hi silvertop.....its a great way to keep running fresh and interesting......running from different starting points
Suzie....sensible to wait with the speed work until after the Great South......more sensible to get the legs used to running more mileage.........too mant people go into the speed work too soon..........and if you haven't learned to recognise the warning signs it can lead to injuries.......
I tend to avoid speedwork ( personal choice) but do the 5k Parkruns on a saturday which I count as my speed work...........that really helps my speed pick up a bit......
after the great south might be worth seeing if they are any in your area..........infact I would advise those to anyone taking up running............free and open to all abilities and help you focus on a pace you would never achieve on your own
Silver - I have to say that my hubby is a tad jealous about my weight loss since I started its just little comments I pick up on. He windsurfs and is pretty fit to be honest but has let a few pounds creep on since we first met, as we both had until now
When I first started seriously running a few months ago I entered the Silverstone HM next March to give me a goal to work towards, I am still pooping myself that I might not be capable haha
Its my first winter running also its my b/day the end of Oct when the clocks alter so hubby is buying me all my hi-viz gear also joining a running club so I can run with others
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What is the path from God to no god?
John Hockenberry leads with this intriguing question as part of The Takeaway's week-long series "Young Nation Under God?" As you'll hear from these three young non-believers, one's personal identity is intertwined in these former Christians' origin stories and family faith.
Daniel Munoz, Amber van Natten, and Emily Peterson give voice to why atheism and agnosticism are on the rise in the U.S. Now more than 25 percent of of millennials (those born between 1981 and 2000) have left organized religion. They offer insights into the challenge of actively leaving their traditions behind and why they are compelled to do so:
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Peanut Butter and other nut butters, such as almond butter, tend to get a bad reputation because they are about 180-200 calories per serving, which sounds like too much for those trying to watch calorie intake and lose weight. But, did you know peanut butter is actually packed with nutrition making those calories what we refer to as "nutrient-dense calories?" This means there are high amounts of nutrients per calorie. Foods like sugary soft drinks, cookies, chips, or other popular snack foods are referred to as "empty calories" because they don't have many nutrients for all of the calories they contain.
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I received confirmation from Ken Hulka, Manager, Muskegon County Road Commission that the Muskegon CRC has moved to uphold citizen's right to utilize all of the County's road system.
While conducting their annual Adopt-A-Forest and Adopt-A-Road event, the Two Trackers Four Wheel Drive Club found six 'Unimproved' County roads that were illegally obstructed without the County Road Commission's knowledge.
The CRC granted the Two Trackers permission to remove all of the obstructions. Five were removed successfully. One experienced 'complications' that required the CRC's involvement.
Three obstructions were replaced within a week and a letter was received from the adjoining land owner's attorney stating that it was his client's view that the roads in question were abandoned.
The County Road Commission and the Township both insist that they have not been abandoned and are legal roads that should be open to the public.
Mr. Hulka confirms that the process required to remove the obstruction from the road that experienced 'complications' had been approved by the Commission and that road would be open by next spring/ summer. He further verified that those roads that were immediately re-obstructed would be cleared by the end of the year with an accompanying letter from the CRC's Attorney informing the landowner's attorney that the CRC has NO record of ANY abandonment approval for any of the roads in question. They are County Roads and their obstruction is a crime.
This effort, combined with the Two Tracker's effort, will have the net effect of adding 7 miles of unimproved, two track roads and 8 decision points to the "rustic" public transportation system.
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I'm not going ANYWHERE near it before the CRC does their 're-opening'.
I sure would like to watch that!
If I can find out when it's going to happen, ya want to be the 2nd vehicle down it (right behind me)?
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That's awesome, and thanks go out to the County Road Commission for their involvement to keep public roads 'public'! Mr."Adjoining Land Owner" sound's like an asshat, and if he can get the road closed he will. So I'd be careful in that area.
Hat's off to you Two Trackers!!
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I guarantee that this will end up in Court before it's all settled.
This is just a step in the process.
IF he tries to get it abandoned legally, I'll be asking you all to attend the CRC Hearing to help me defend it!
Once the ROWs are open, we'll need to stress that everyone ONLY use the ROWs and NOT drive any of the other two tracks that are rightfully his.
I'm REALLY hoping he'll gate or post them rather than just try to catch unknowing wheelers and try to prosecute them for trespassing.
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Would there be such a thing where we could police ourselves and once the road is open make our OWN signs for those intersections (posted in the ROW of course) that would state that they are private and to please stay off.... similar to the signs you see at a boat launch stating to check your boat for invasive species? This might help considering it is not an ORV trail and not posted with the orange triangles, that can be hard to see and often turn up missing?
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Robinson has received an order from Scottsdale, Ariz.-based Universal Helicopters for four R44s and a pair of R22s. The training provider also has locations in Prescott, Ariz., Utah, California and Kansas. Robinson plans to begin deliveries of the six helicopters in January 2014.
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Taste the authentic spice combinations and delicious blend of sweet and savoury elements in Al Ambra's Morrocan dishes. This warm, inviting restaurant really comes alive at night with belly dancing and musical performances.
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Thursday, January 12, 2012
*** Did any of you miss the most awesome Kardashian photo ever? If you did (and SHAME ON YOU) check out my page and let's all make fun. Also, I saw a headline that read -- not kidding -- "Kim Kardashian replaced by French bulldog in Super Bowl commercial. It was a great day. ***
SO. Today I wanted to talk about something that has always bugged me a little. And since I generally have a short fuse, that category includes things like helicopter parents, people who think that their baby is a genius, people who walk slow in malls, Lady Gaga's shenanigans and people who confuse tights as pants. But you know what really annoys me?
The show "What Not to Wear."
I mean, don't get me wrong, I love me a makeover show and I wish Clinton Kelly could join Tim Gunn and be my best gays -- or best... ambiguous sexual orientation friends -- but one thing really bothers me about the show. You know the part when they throw out all of the poor person's clothes? That bugs me.
Here's why. When was the last time a fairy godmother -- or Stacy London -- appeared out of nowhere with $5,000 for you to spend? So there's probably a good chance that you'll never in your entire life have cause to toss out your entire wardrobe and start fresh. So that means you're pretty much workin' with what you have at this point. And while some clothes really need to be trashed, I generally think it's a rare person who doesn't have the good bones of a decent wardrobe already in her closet.
Even if you don't have a ton of money to spend on your clothes, I bet you have a couple of bucks here and there to buy the elements that could update a sloppy tee or your old faithful pair of jeans. Can we talk about this and I'll show you how? While I wish I could go through everyone's closet and yank out the pieces that don't work, you'll have to be satisfied with seeing some of the ways you can work stuff you already own into different, HNTDLAM-approved looks.
A Sloppy Shirt
This Gap tee is one of the most unstructured pieces of clothing I own. In case you haven't noticed, I'm kind of a high-detail super structured girl. While I think it's great, it can definitely look a little sloppy when I wear it with the wrong stuff -- especially my husband's basketball shorts. And who doesn't own a baggy white tee? If you don't, I would say you're probably a martian. Either way, you can totally update it by pairing it with skinnies. These are my beloved red ones and I scored them for $19. I just tucked the shirt in messily and added some heels and it's an instant upgrade. Another thing I sometimes do to make a white tee look more feminine is just roll the sleeves up once or twice. It just makes it look a little less I-won-this-at-a-school-fundraiser-esque,
A Button-Up (Or Button-Down I am So Conflicted)
Billabong long maxi skirt, $44
Wet Seal flat shoes, $15
Pewter jewelry, $13
Pendant, $15
I confess, I think I like button ups more than the average bear. It's like I'm just drawn to them because I love masculine styles with feminine touches. Yeah, button ups look super cute with boots, but how awesome would it be with something super girly, like a maxi skirt? Totally unexpected but still comfy enough to wear to lunch with the girls. I would wear major jewelry for fun but you could totally ditch the jewels and wear this to something super casual. It's a great way to get more mileage out of one super simple piece of clothing.
A Good Pair of Flats
I use flats to help tone down outfits that might be otherwise too va-va-voomy for regular use. It's like you can always get two outfits out of the same skirt: wear it with heels for superlong legs and to impress your hubby or tone it down with flats and you can wear it to a PTA meeting -- not that I have ever been to one. I wore this to something pretty casual, so out came the flats. Seriously, they are like no-fail footwear and you should absolutely fine a pair that you love. When it doubt, bring 'em out because they're more formal than sneakers but more casual than heels. Win-win, right?
A Pair of Straight-Legged Jeans
Old Navy fair isle cardigan, $30
Old Navy graphic tee, $17
H m blazer, £25
Quiksilver straight leg jeans, $42
High heels, $50
Toms shoes, $48
Fergalicious black flat boots, $40
Crystal earrings, $30
TopShop white shawl, £22
Dorothy Perkins tan belt, $9
If you only had the budget to buy one pair of jeans, I would definitely recommend a dark wash straight-legged pair. If you already have some in your closet, you need to know how super versatile they are. I'm wearing mine today! Check out the outfits above. They all have the same jeans. But since the leg is straight, you can cuff it over heels, tuck it into boots or even wear them with your super casual outfits (So I love TOMS, shut up.) Most other jeans need a specific type of shoe to look good, but you can get away with all of them if you have a good straight legged pair. Seriously, try and see how many outfits you can put together with them and you might not need to do a lot of shopping.
A Skinny Belt
I make no apologies for this: I love my Walmart belt. It was super cheap and it's reversible between cream and white. All I have to do is click the belt buckle around. I wear it SO MUCH. Obviously. If you have a skinny belt on hand, you can update a ton of outfits by just slapping a belt around them. I love the cardigan in this picture, but on its own it can look really conservative and that's just not me. I'll seriously belt anything... cardigans, jackets, pencil skirts, you name it. It's an awesome way to define your waist and look like you know what you're doing in one fell swoop. Just don't wear it to Thanksgiving dinner or you'll feel like it's going to pop open and hit someone in the eye.... not that I know that from personal experience or anything.
So, I challenge you to take a look at your closet and identify it's good bones. You'll probably find that instead of having nothing to wear and being sick of anything, there's a few pieces that can be reworked and worn in different ways to make them look more flattering and current. And since that saves you money, you can send the rest of it to me! YAY!
PS: What is your favorite closet staple? I would definitely say my straight-legged jeans and my beloved boots, but I'll take suggestions!


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SKANDIA – David Morrell Sullivan, 67, of Skandia, entered eternal life Sunday, May 5, 2013, at his home.
David was born Oct. 17, 1945, in Milwaukee, Wis., to Morrell and Dorothy (Zwigart) Sullivan. He was raised on the family farm near Lake Linden, helping out on the farm as he was able, even teaching his younger siblings how to do various jobs to help take the load off him.
He graduated from Lake Linden-Hubbell High School in 1963. It was shortly after graduation when David enlisted in the Navy Reserves, after eight years he transferred to the Army National Guard, retiring from the Guard in 1986. After two years of active service he entered Radio and Communications School, graduating in 1969, He ended up with a job as a disc jockey in Marquette. He loved music and had an extensive collection of vinyl records, having enough 45's to fill an entire room.
After several years in the radio communication field he took up employment with Northern Michigan University. With 33 years of service he retired in July, 2010. In the early 1970s, David married Celestine "Letty" Bigger, and together the couple established a home and began raising their family in Skandia and Harvey. David and Letty remained happily married for 38 years, until Letty's death in 2010. In his spare time, David enjoyed the outdoors and all it had to offer, including camping, especially in rustic campsites that didn't contain any of the modern amenities. He also enjoyed tinkering with various electronics, working and playing on computers. David was an avid lover of sports, especially the Detroit Lions, Red Wings and Pistons. He loved his grandchildren and all of the time he was able to spend with them.
He is survived by his children, Cynthia (Russ) Stolfus, Ron Gauthier, Tim (Gigi) Gauthier, and Amy Wilson; his mother, Dorothy Sullivan; siblings, Sharon (Marty) Holmes, Helen Sullivan, Kathy (Alan) Gyles, Paul (Marina) Sullivan, Marge (Mike) Hannon, Michele (Ken) Bell, LeAnn (Brian) Barnett, Norine (George) Gill and Sister Laurie Sullivan; many aunts, uncles, grandchildren and great-grandchildren; several nieces, nephews and cousins. In addition to his father, David was preceded in death by his wife, Letty, in 2010, and by an infant brother, Patrick, in 1960.
The family will receive friends at St. Louis the King Catholic Church in Harvey on Saturday, May 11, from 9 until 11 a.m. A Mass of Christian Burial will be celebrated at 11 a.m. with Rev. Ben Paris, pastor, as celebrant. A reception will follow in Father Gauthier Hall. Interment will be made at Northland Chapel Gardens Cemetery. In lieu of flowers, donations can be made to the American Heart Association.
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In short: Shifnal Half Marathon - Hilly But Well OrganisedIn full: First time doing this race, and its not a PB course, but if your looking for a nice summer rurla run, on mostly traffic free roads, and lovely Shropshire Sceanry then this is for you. Well orgaised and a good finish area at a local school, and an intresting town center start. Not many spectators, but its a small town! Plenty of water stations ever two miles, and staffed by some of the most supportive people I have ever seen. Will be back next year, more aware of the challenge ahead. Date of review: July 7, 2009
In short: Well organised and a really pleasant run.A bit lacking in atmosphere thoughDate of review: July 6, 2009
In short: The mixture in terrain really tests your muscles if you are only use to road running!Date of review: July 6, 2009
In short: my fist half marathon really enjoyed it I will be back next yearDate of review: July 6, 2009
In short: Yet again a lovely, well organised and welcoming race.In full: Done this race 3 times now and every year it just gets better. Well done and thank you to all the volunteers who helped to make the race such a success.Date of review: July 5, 2009
In short: Very Well OrganisedIn full: As I said in the thread I struggled with my back but enjoyed the race.The drinks stations were plenty and the scenary was pretty good.Didn't really see those Steeples though, must have been looking in the wrong place.Date of review: July 5, 2009
In short: Some tough sections, not pb materialDate of review: July 5, 2009
In short: Good eventIn full: This was a really well organised event, lots of good marshalls and a really good amount of water stops that other events could take note from. Course is a bit undulating but to me nothing too severe. Have to admit the local support was a bit lacking but a big thanks to everyone who organised this, I really enjoyed it and will be back next year.Date of review: July 5, 2009
In short: For my 1st HM this was no walk in the park. That said, well organised, challenging route, Will be back again next yearDate of review: July 5, 2009
In short: Really well organised - thank you Idsall School for great organisation, marshalling and water stations. Very pleasant run with a reasonable amount of challenge. Date of review: July 5, 2009
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Superb lyrebird
The superb lyrebird (Menura novaehollandiae) is a pheasant-sized Australian songbird, measuring approximately 100 cm (39 in) long and weighing around 1 kg (2.2 lb), with brown upper body plumage, greyish-brown below, rounded wings and strong legs. Among all extant songbirds only the common and thick-billed ravens regularly outweigh it and only the much more slender black sicklebill can rival its length.
The superb lyrebird is featured on the reverse side of the Australian 10 cent coin.
An Australian endemic, the superb lyrebird can be found in the forests of south-eastern Australia, from southern Victoria to south-eastern Queensland. Its diet consists mainly of small invertebrates found on the forest floor or in rotting logs. In the 1930s a small number were introduced to Tasmania amongst ill-founded fears it was in danger of becoming extinct. The Tasmanian population is currently thriving. Now widespread and common throughout its large range, the superb lyrebird is evaluated as being of least concern on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species.
The male is the bearer of an elaborate tail. The tail has sixteen feathers, with the two outermost together forming the shape of a lyre. Next within are two guard plumes and twelve long, lace-like feathers, known as filamentaries. Seven years are required for the tail to fully develop. During courtship displays, the male inverts his tail over his head, fanning his feathers to form a silvery white canopy. Young males and females have brown tail feathers which are camouflaged against the forest floor.
The superb lyrebird has an extraordinary ability to accurately mimic a huge variety of sounds. Both male and female lyrebirds sing but males are louder and sing more often.
In David Attenborough's Life of Birds (ep. 6), the lyrebird is described as able to imitate twenty bird species' calls, and a male is shown mimicking a car alarm, chainsaw and various camera shutters.
A recording of a superb lyrebird mimicking sounds of an electronic shooting game, workmen and chainsaws was added to the National Film and Sound Archive's Sounds of Australia registry in 2013.[2]
Mating habits[edit]
Superb lyrebirds breed in the depth of winter. Adult males start singing half an hour before sunrise from roosts high above the forest floor. Superb lyrebirds sing less often at other times of year but a stroll through their habitat on a rainy or misty day will sometimes find them active.
Superb lyrebirds have a promiscuous mating system. During the breeding season adult females and males defend separate territories and only females care for young. A female may visit several males before she mates [3] but it is not known if she mates more than once. The female lays a single egg and builds a domed nest often camouflaging it with ferns or moss.[4] The chick spends about nine months with the female before becoming independent.
The superb is one of the two lyrebirds in the family Menuridae, the other being the much rarer Albert's lyrebird.
The scientific name has been previously given as Menura superba. The bird was first illustrated and described scientifically as such by Major-General Thomas Davies on 4 November 1800 to the Linnean Society of London.[5][6] His work shows the tail feathers correctly displayed.
Lyrebirds are ancient Australian animals. The Australian Museum has fossils of lyrebirds dating back to about 15 million years ago.[7] The prehistoric Menura tyawanoides has been described from early Miocene fossils found at the famous Riversleigh site.
Museum specimens[edit]
John Gould's painting of a male and female pair of superb lyrebirds, painted from specimens at the British Museum, has the tail feathers of the male incorrectly displayed.
A specimen of a male superb lyrebird, at the American Museum of Natural History, also has the tail feathers displayed incorrectly.
Menura superba – superb lyrebird (1800) by Thomas Davies
John Gould's early 1800s painting of museum specimens of a male superb lyrebird (with tail feathers incorrectly displayed) and a female superb lyrebird
- ^ BirdLife International (2012). "Menura novaehollandiae". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2013.2. International Union for Conservation of Nature. Retrieved 26 November 2013.
- ^ National Film and Sound Archive: Sounds of Australia.
- ^ Lill, A. 1979. Assessment of male parental investment and pair bonding in the polygamous superb lyrebird, Auk, (vol. 96, pg 489-498).
- ^ Higgins, P. J., Peter, J. M. & Steele, W. K. 1990a. Superb lyrebird. In: Handbook of Australian, New Zealand & Antarctic birds (Ed. by Marchant, S. & Higgins, P. J.), pg 142-173. Melbourne Oxford University Press.
- ^ Davies, Thomas (4 November 1800). "Description of Menura superba, a Bird of New South Wales". Transactions of the Linnean Society 6. London (published 1802). pp. 207–10.
- ^ Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Lyre-Bird". Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press.
- ^ Boles, Walter (2011). "Lyrebird: Overview". Pulse of the Planet. Retrieved 3 October 2011.


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So here's your choice: Which would you rather do -- keep your current amount of debt or gain 25 pounds and be completely debt free.
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I'm going to make another NY pie this Saturday, the dough is in the fridge for 3 days. My TF this time will be .097. I topping it with capocollo, olives, and a mix of provolone/mozz cheese. For the sauce I am using San Marzano tomatoes for the first time.My question..... I found some whole milk mozz at Wally World, it's the Great Value brand. It's in block form. Would it be OK to use on my NY style, or will it release too much moisture?


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Frijoles charros is one of my all-time favorite Mexican dishes.
For weeks, José had been bugging me to make his Tía Carola's frijoles charros. Outside of El Charco de Las Ranas, his favorite taquería in Mexico City, Tía Carola's frijoles charros are the only ones he has ever raved about.
Until the day I decided to make them.
When I asked for the recipe, it felt like I was playing "teléfono descompuesto" with at least three people – where something surely gets lost every time someone relays the message on to another person. José called his sister, who called his aunt; then his sister called him back and he translated the ingredients to me. Note that he only relayed the ingredient list and not the portions. And he only got a vague set of instructions. Apparently, Tía Carola is not exactly keen on lots of details and also hadn't made this dish in at least 10 years. I'd be lying if I said I wasn't a bit nervous about making this vaunted recipe with such a vague idea of what I was supposed to do.
I returned from the store with a big bag of pinto beans. José argued with me that I had bought the wrong beans because they were supposed to be frijoles bayos. I knew that, but couldn't find them at the store so I settled confidently on a hand-sifted bag of carefully chosen pinto beans. I settled the argument with a quick google search that ended in my favor, which had me secretly feeling proud on the inside that I knew frijoles pintos and frijoles bayos were not the same, but often interchangeable because of their similarities in taste, color and texture ‑ especially in this recipe.
I knew when José argued with me about the beans that he was going to be a tough customer to please. I lit one of my San Judas Tadeo candles (the patron saint of lost causes and desperate situations) and hoped for a culinary Hail Mary with my limited instructions and the guesswork lying ahead. I was short on time with no room for mistakes since I was making the frijoles charros for lunch on a weekday and all I had as a backup were some emergency TV dinners in the freezer. Who could have ever imagined there could be so much pressure behind a pot of beans?
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In this unit art and science are brought together to make New Worlds. The emphasis is on lens-based technology as both scientific instrument and artistic medium. The course will examine the methodologies that construct the worldviews of science and art, and means by which scientific methods can be used for artistic purpose and vice-versa. Pseudo-science, scientific hoaxes, and science fiction and its mythologies are also subject to investigation and creation. Lectures will present examples of artists exploring science and scientists who use or investigate art or discover aesthetic means of visualising data. Photography exists only because of scientific and artistic interest in recording the phenomena of light. Learning the history of its development will provide understandings that can be put to work in the studio practice, and workshops will lead students in technical experimentation. Learning will equip students to make basic scientific documentation by means including microscopy, astro-photography, forensic imaging, as well as to critically analyse scientific claims and visual data. Assignment and folio outcomes are expected to be both artistic and scientific. Collaboration and teamwork will facilitate discovery.
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Jury finds Bohlke, Allina negligent in wrongful death trial
NEW ULM – A trial jury determined Friday that former New Ulm Medical Center (NUMC) emergency department physician Dale W. Bohlke, M.D. was negligent in the care of Verlyn Buls in the day leading up to Buls' death at the NUMC on Oct. 25, 2006, but that Buls was at least partially responsible for his own death.
The jury in the civil trial determined Friday afternoon that Bohlke had been negligent in his treatment of Buls and that the negligence caused Buls death. But the jury also determined that Buls was negligent for not divulging his complete medical symptoms. The jury determined the responsibility for Buls' death fell 40 percent on Buls and 60 percent on Bohlke.
The jury set the reasonable payout for its determination at $410,000. Since the jury determined the death was 60 percent Bohlke's fault, the final pay-out for surviving family of Buls will be $246,000.
The lawsuit, filed on behalf of Buls surviving family, was brought against Bohlke, the NUMC and the Allina Health Systems in Brown County District Court.
The lawsuit, which was filed Sept. 30, 2010, focused on 45-year-old Iowa trucker Buls, who collapsed and could not be resuscitated on Oct. 25, 2006 in the NUMC emergency department. He had been admitted earlier that morning and treated for urticaria (or hives) of unknown origin and abnormally low blood pressure. Buls had a history of taking anti-hypertensives (drugs used to treat high blood pressure, and tachycardia, or a heart rate exceeding 100 beats per minute), according to the court documents. He was released, but was re-admitted to the ER that evening, where he collapsed. The autopsy determined the cause of death was cardiac dysrhythmia (irregular heart beat) with underlying coronary artery disease, according to court documents.
The civil lawsuit claims Bohlke acted improperly in his initial examination of Buls when he measured Buls' heart beat, respiration and other vital statistics, then concluded the examination without ordering more extensive tests.
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Toby Freier, president of the New Ulm Medical Center, said in a statement that the hospital is saddened by the loss to the Buls family, but feels the weight of evidence still show the hospital care providers acted appropriately, given the information provided by Buls.
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Police are currently looking for the thief who stole a 100-year-old sword from St. Mary and All Saints' Church in Beaconsfield in the U.K.. The thief stole the sword, shoved it down his pants and then smiled at the church's surveillance camera before he left.
The sword originally belonged to 23-year-old Lieutenant Robert Septimus Grenfell who used the sword 100 years ago at the Battle of Khartoum in 1898, during which he died.
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Investors Are Betting Too Much on a Bionic ARM
It seems ARM Holdings
There's no disputing ARM's impressive business model and the company's unparalleled chip performance technology. But there's also no disputing the stock is expensive.
The fact ARM trades at a stout P/E of 82, which is almost five times Qualcomm
So far the wager has been very rewarding. ARM has posted solid growth over the past couple of years. However, increased competition from (among others) a resurgent Intel
With that in mind, I would adopt cautious optimism about how much should be expected from this company in the long term.
Another Solid Quarter
The company reported revenue of about $263 million, beating expectations handily, growing 26% year over year. When compared to what other chip companies within the sector have done, ARM's performance seems bionic.
ARM posted a 24% increase in license revenue while royalties shot up 33%. Surprisingly, license revenue was down more than 5% sequentially. Even though royalties did well year over year, royalties only grew 1% sequentially. This is an area where the company has consistently posted solid results.
Even though the overall performance of the chip sector has been soft this quarter relative to other quarters, the performance didn't sway that much. Besides, ARM has always outperformed in its license business regardless of what the sector did. Should investors be alarmed? This is one of the chief reasons I caution about taking a position in this stock today.
I'm not suggesting that ARM is not a worthwhile holding. But would you want to take a position now after a 5% sequential decline in license revenue without knowing yo what it may lead?
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Richard van Praag Passes Away
Long-time USBA member and player Richard van Praag passed away Oct. 1, 2008, after a long battle with Alzheimer's disease.
He was born in Ashland, Oregon on July 22, 1929. He grew up in Pasadena, California, where he became an eagle scout. After graduating from Padadena City College in 1950, he was drafted into the army where he served two years stateside at Fort Ord in Monterey, California, and Fort Huachuca in Arizona. Upon honorable discharge in 1952, he pursued his lifelong career as a buyer and purchasing agent in the electronic and aerospace industries.
Throughout his life his passions included (first and foremost) over 50 years of competitive badminton, umpiring baseball from little league to semi-pro (including a Dodger exhibition game), fishing (salt and freshwater), over 40 years of working in the press box for USC football games, reveling, and spending time with family and gradnchildren.
He took up badminton in 1947 at Pasadena City College, playing tournaments with his fathe r(Jack), and played in his first US Championships in 1949. As a member of the Pasadena Badminton Club for many years, he became friends with many of our former top players, and later joined the Manhattan Beach Badminton Club where he also helped coach in the junior program. Along with several US open and closed championships, and the Mexico City Open, he participated in and won numerous awards in local and national senior events including the Senior Olympics. He often noted how excited he was to watch and encourage younger players as they came up through the ranks and went on to become some of our best players.
He was preceded in passing by his parents Jack and Helen, and his sister, Marion Jero of Colorado Springs. He is also survived by his first wife, Carolyn of Seaside, Ca., his second wife, Marcia of Garden Grove, Ca., his daughter, Kathy Geier of Lafayette, Ca., a son John of Mission Hills, Ca., two stepchildren, and 9 grand and step-grandchildren. He will be sorely missed by those who knew him including family, friends, co-players in the badminton community nationwide, as well as friends from Rolling Hills Covenant and Grace Community Churches.
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