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"Protecting children from violence; from commitments to action"
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"New developments in Science and Practice: Influences on Child Protection"
September 11 - 14, 2005
I am delighted to be here today to urge each and every one of you to Act Now on Violence against Children. I would also like to thank the INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR PREVENTION OF CHILD ABUSE AND NEGLECT (ISPCAN) and the GERMAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CHILD ABUSE AND NEGLECT (GESPCAN) for organizing this important conference. We in UNICEF are proud of our partnership with ISPCAN and pleased to be co-sponsoring this gathering of distinguished professionals who share our concerns and commitments for children.
Ladies and gentlemen, we can not wait another year, or week, or even one more day, before we take action to stop violence against children. No culture, religion or society condones this scourge. But in the next 24 hours, four children in the European region will die as a result of violence in their own homes. And for every child who dies, thousands more live on with the constant threat of violence. Children face violence each day beyond their homes: in their communities, in the classroom and in residential institutions. Violence against children is hidden and corrosive, destroying lives and potential and breeding societies that accept the unacceptable – that children can be beaten, exploited and humiliated.
It is possible that, in our lifetime, violence against children in all its forms will come to be seen as completely unacceptable and it is true that a shift in attitudes and values is already underway.
At the same time, the gap between theory and practice in most countries is still too wide. Children in Europe are just as vulnerable to violence as children in any other region. While there are examples of good practice in a number of countries, the European response is fragmented, small scale, and rarely documented or shared.
Violence undermines child development and is a gross violation of child rights, wherever it occurs: in their homes and in their schools, or in institutions that are meant to care for them. This violence must stop.
That means not only investigating, prosecuting and punishing perpetrators, but also developing broad initiatives to change the hearts and minds of society, and address the underlying issues that can trigger violence.
Recent assessments of trends of violence in Europe show that children suffer violence of all kinds, and that significant numbers are dying as a result . Extreme forms of violence linked to pornography and trafficking are on the rise, as is violence in the media . It is becoming clear that violence has less to do with a country's wealth, and more to do with attitudes to children and their political importance.
A 2003 UNICEF Report on child deaths through maltreatment in the 30 member states of the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) noted among the key findings, that:
Each year, about 3.500 children under the age of 15 die as a result of physical abuse and neglect in industrialized countries, including two every week in Germany and the UK and three a week in France .
Official figures reflect legal definitions of "abuse" rather than the true extent of violence. A 2001 UNICEF survey of children in 35 countries in Europe and Central Asia found that 59% had experienced violent behaviour in their own families. And a 2002 analysis of dozens of studies on corporal punishment confirmed one clear fact – it simply does not work. Its impact is entirely negative . Research has also revealed positive effects on children's lives in countries where corporal punishment has been prohibited.
Given the scale of the problem, the fact that corporal punishment is a useless disciplinary measure, and the benefits to children in countries that have banned it, I do not understand why so many States are still wavering on this issue.
One form of violence breeds another. Research into child sexual abuse in European families, for example, finds links between child sexual abuse and other forms of physical and emotional abuse. The research estimates that up to 20% of all children will be sexually assaulted during their childhood. Most are girls, and many are already extremely vulnerable, such as children with disabilities.
Emotional abuse must be the most common form of child maltreatment. But there is little or no data on abuse that leaves no evidence or scars other than the bruises imprinted on a child's heart and mind.
Violence against children is like an iceberg, with all but its tip buried in the depths of adult ignorance, self-deception and apathy. The tip represents the tiny proportion of violence that comes to official notice. Under the surface, hidden from view, there is a shocking mass of unreported, silent misery. Only the recognition of violence against children as a problem for an entire society will bring about the necessary systematic change.
Let me talk a little more about the standards and commitments that are already in place. In a global perspective, the European region is light years ahead in the legal prohibition of violence against children. Law reform is speeding along, thanks largely to strong regional human rights frameworks promoted by the Council of Europe and a vibrant civil society.
Every State has accepted its legal obligations under the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC). Article 19 of the Convention obliges States to protect every child "from all forms of physical or mental violence" while in care of parents or others". The 46 member states of the Council of Europe who have ratified the European Convention on Human Rights and the European Social Charter are bound by their complementary obligations, enforceable through the Council's human rights mechanisms.
But what do these treaties actually mean? They mean that States must not perpetrate violence against children. And States must do all they can to deter and prevent violence and protect children from violence wherever it occurs.
This region has many of the institutional structures needed to tackle the underlying causes of violence against children. Almost all countries have effective governance structures, universal school and health systems and strong media. These are countries with major resources at their disposal. In this sense, the region should be able to go further and move faster than many others and play a leadership role in combating violence.
Clear commitments to children have been made at intergovernmental meetings, most notably here in Berlin in 2001 at the First Intergovernmental Conference on Children in Europe and Central Asia. All governments pledged to, and I quote: "take all necessary measures in order to end all forms of violence against children, such as sexual abuse and exploitation and corporal punishment; combat violence in schools; protect children from violence and pornography in the media and on internet; end trafficking of children without criminalizing child victims and ensure comprehensive rehabilitation and social integration of affected children….."
States reaffirmed such commitment when they adopted A World Fit for Children, the Outcome Document of the General Assembly Special Session in 2002, as well as the Sarajevo Commitment of the Second Intergovernmental Conference on Making Europe and Central Asia Fit for Children in May 2004.
Despite all of these promises, the Committee on the Rights of the Child continues to find that, in every country, children are not fully protected from violence. This has motivated the Committee to ask the UN Secretary-General to conduct a Global Study on Violence against Children, a recommendation backed by the Commission on Human Rights.
In late 2003, the UN Secretary General appointed Professor Paulo Sergio Pinheiro as an Independent Expert to lead the Global Study and present its findings and recommendations to the General Assembly in 2006. There will also be a more detailed report, including in-depth information on the situation and on best practices, as well as a child-friendly version for children and young people.
The Study is a landmark moment in efforts to end the violence. Its aims are threefold:
To give international visibility to the whole issue of violence against children; Raising understanding of its causes and its impact on children and societies;
Information for the Study is being gathered in a number of ways. In 2004, the Study Secretariat sent all governments a detailed questionnaire and, to date, 106 countries, including 36 from Europe and Central Asia have responded. The outcomes of nine regional consultations are also feeding into the study. These include the Regional Consultation for Europe and Central Asia, held in Ljubljana, Slovenia, in July this year.
Some 300 participants from 46 countries took part in the Consultation, organised by the Council of Europe in partnership with UNICEF, WHO, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights and the NGO Advisory Panel. Hosted by the Government of Slovenia, the Consultation brought together, for the first time, senior government officials, international organizations, experts, academics and practitioners, NGOs and children to take stock of how violence affects children in an area stretching from the Atlantic coast of Ireland to the Sea of Japan.
While the Consultation aimed to provide information for the Global Study, it also aimed to shine a spotlight on violence against children in this region, and galvanise action under the slogan: ACT NOW!
Indeed, the Ljubljana Final Conclusions call for immediate, effective and region-wide action .
The Consultation was notable for the wealth of experience shared between Western and Eastern Europe. Despite the immense diversity of this region, it soon became clear that there was much common ground.
The role of the state, for example, was a recurring theme. Each state has clear accountabilities under the Convention on the Rights of the Child that apply to every child in every environment. The state has direct obligation to protect children from violence in all state institutions, including schools and residential facilities. And the state is the only actor that can really break the silence that surrounds hidden violence.
The Consultation called for a coherent 'strategy' in each country to combat violence against children. These must be based on a careful assessment of the problems and opportunities, the gaps in services and data, and the potential for alliances with professionals, parents and children themselves. Success, it was agreed, depended not on financial resources, but on courage and conviction to challenge conventional wisdom and mindsets. That requires clear vision, clear benchmarks, mass mobilization, and the genuine participation of children and young people.
The strategies need to reflect the strong symbolic power of laws that prohibit violence. When legislators take a stand on an issue, that issue is taken seriously. It sends a clear and powerful message to each family – violence is not acceptable.
They need to build up the capacities of parents, professionals and public authorities and reinforce their accountabilities. Parents and teachers, in particular, need help to lead the way in non-violent relationships between adults and children.
The strategies need to create a continuum of interlinked 'child sensitive' services that ensure a high standard of response to any child at risk of violence. They should establish effective, accessible and confidential channels through which children can report acts of violence – channels that can really take action on their behalf.
And finally, they should recognize children as strategic partners, who offer unique insights, understanding and creativity.
So, where do we go from here?
We need a recognition of this problem in legislation and in society. Legal standards are essential, but are not, on their own, enough to stop violence against children. We need to be bold, for example, in exposing the myth that home is the safest place for a child. No place should be considered sacred when it comes to the safety of children. We need to scrutinize our old assumptions and overhaul our protection mechanisms.
We need a strategic approach. This means, long term, sustainable approaches that build capacity, strengthen accountability, enhance monitoring, raise public awareness and involve children. Legal frameworks must be translated into action on the ground. Countries such as Sweden have shown how, over the span of one generation, it is possible to change parental attitudes by combining legal action with public dialogue. The 16 countries in our region that have prohibited physical violence against children in the home are on a similar course. Other countries need to follow their lead.
We need explicit prohibition of all forms of violence, including corporal punishment. Violence in the family is perhaps a great challenge. But addressing it "head on" will bring an immense strategic significance: if violence is forbidden in the family, it is, in effect, forbidden everywhere.
Prohibiting corporal punishment is the first decisive step. Any state, regardless of its wealth or poverty, has the power and capacity to enact such a measure. Banning corporal punishment sends a powerful message to the whole society – that the physical integrity of children must be respected.
We need to recognize the critical role of those who work with children. The State is obliged to ensure that its own institutions do not perpetuate violence. And the State is also obliged to promote and up-hold non-violent standards for all private service providers. We need transparency and open door policies for every institution where children spend their time. And we need to strengthen the capacities, skills and accountability of all professionals who have direct contact with children, including care providers, teachers, health and legal professionals, as well as social workers. That means effective performance monitoring systems and measures to ensure accountability to the clients and the community.
We need a 'new paradigm' for children – a paradigm that fosters relations based on trust and on a profound respect for children. We need parental education that creates new communication between children and adults and promotes non-violent child rearing. Paradigm shifts, once achieved, appear so obvious that any other course becomes almost unthinkable.
We need the active participation of children. This is not mere window-dressing, but an essential part of any effective strategy to improve child protection. After all, who is better informed than they? Whose opinion can be more valid? Whose experience more relevant? They can tell us what it means to experience violence, where it hurts, and how to shape our strategies for the greatest impact. For children to become strategic partners, it is not enough to give them the means to make their voices heard – we adults must listen, and we must act on what we hear.
And finally, yes we need more research. But do we need to wait for it before we act? Absolutely not. The data may be patchy, but that is no bar to action. We know enough to draw up our strategies. However, we do need much more analysis and much more sharing of the results. We need to share examples of what works. And we need to be open about what does not. A thoughtful research agenda on this issue, pursued by research "champions", would support effective advocacy, based on evidence.
Ladies and gentlemen, fellow professionals, in closing, let me remind you that the Convention on the Rights of the Child demands the physical integrity, safety and dignity of each and every child. This means that every child has the right to grow up without violence. This Conference will bring about better understanding of ways that we, the professionals, can make important contribution to building a protective environment around all children. An environment in which violence against children is consigned to the history books: something inconceivable in today's world.
Thank you.
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One of IKEA's most popular shelving units is not long for this world, and the Internet is not happy.
The Swedish company announced on its German Facebook page that it is discontinuing its EXPEDIT shelving unit.
A spokesperson for IKEA Canada confirmed to The Globe and Mail that the EXPEDIT is being phased out. But she said in an e-mail it was "not a discontinuation, rather a redesign with a new name."
"IKEA has updated and improved the EXPEDIT shelving unit with a sleek, new design that is more durable (with a more scratch-resistant surface), more child-friendly (with rounded corners), the cubes are the same size and still fits all existing storage baskets and boxes. With this new design, IKEA is giving EXPEDIT a new name: KALLAX," the spokesperson said.
But that hasn't stopped fans, particularly record collectors, from flipping out.
More than 20, 000 people have signed a Facebook petition to save the EXPEDIT shelf.
The EXPEDIT shelving unit is hugely popular, especially among vinyl fans, because its dimensions are perfect for storing records.
"Vinyl nerds descend on Ikea to purchase all the Expedit pieces. #hipsterapocalypse," one person tweeted upon hearing news of the planned discontinuation.
Amidst all the freaking out, Kelsey Campbell-Dollaghan pointed out on Gizmodo that there's a very good reason for the change, one most of us should be able to support.
IKEA uses one per cent of the world's wood supply, or 17.8 million cubic yards, she noted.
The new unit will have the same internal dimensions as the EXPEDIT, meaning your records are safe, people. What's changing is the thickness of the unit's out edge. That reduction will mean IKEA uses less wood, which is a good thing when you're gobbling up trees on such a massive scale.
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11 Annoying Things "50 Shades Of Grey" Fans Say
Fifty Shades of Grey! Fifty Shades of Grey! Fifty Shades of … ahhhh! Somebody get me an aspirin. I have not read this book.I have no plans to read this book. And yet I hear about this damn book so much it feels like I've read it. Ackk!! Why do I have no interest in it? I don't know exactly. I don't want to eat a live squid either and no one asks me to explain that.
But if I HAVE to give reasons, here are some: I read two paragraphs of the sample chapters on Amazon and couldn't get any farther. (Okay, so I read some.) I have other books that I want to read, and time is limited, so why would I waste my time reading something I don't? I do not judge you for reading the book (well, I do, but silently), so please do not judge me for not reading. Deal?
Maybe you also know some elusive women who don't want to read this book. Here are 11 annoying things Fifty Shades fans say to them. And shouldn't! Read more…


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Mr Akehurst, whose first term was due to expire at the end of the month, is also a director of CSL and Securency International, the central bank's polymer note printing authority.
"Mr Akehurst has made a valuable contribution to the deliberations of the RBA Board over the past five years and brings extensive business experience and knowledge of the mining and energy industries in particular," said Treasurer
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The nine-member board also includes the Governor, Deputy Governor and the Secretary of the Treasury.
The RBA has signalled it plans to keep official interest rates at 3.5 per cent while it assesses the effect of previous rate cuts, including the 0.75 of a percentage point cuts over May and June. Its next meeting is on August 7.
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THE Government has announced that it is going to build more gas-fired power stations and exploit gas reserves which lie under large swathes of Britain, including under York.
I believe this to be the wrong way to power the country, as it will result in us failing our obligations under the Climate Change Act to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 80 per cent by 2050. The government claims burning gas is low carbon; this is not do. Burning fossil methane may result in lower CO2 emissions per watt of electricity than burning coal or oil, but it is in no way "low carbon", as it adds unwanted CO2 into our atmosphere, from carbon which has been safely and naturally stored for millions of years.
Low-carbon energy comes from renewable resources, such as the sun, wind, waves, tides and local biomass. Gas may be a useful primary fuel (in homes) but to use it for generating electricity is madness.
The recent announcement also reiterated that "Carbon Capture and Storage" would continue to be explored. If this were to work, I'd be in favour, but the trial technology has not worked well, and is years away from being a commercial proposition. Taking yet more gas out of the ground is lazy and shortsighted.
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WILTSHIRE county player Lee Evans was in dominant form when The Bees Knees in Cirencester hosted a darts knockout tournament featuring 40 of the area's top players.
The field included stars from the Premier League Darts (PDC) including Mark Cox, Chris Aubrey, and up-and-coming youth player Jack Tweddle, so the standard was going to be high.
Local star Paul Boulton set the early pace, along with Stroud's Scott Lovell.
Evans eventually came out on top in the final against his Wiltshire county team-mate Tony Mauldon which means he has won the last four singles knockouts at The Bees Knees.
Evans and Mauldon joined forces to collect the Cirencester RBL Charity Pairs event.
The next knockout run by landlord Ty Benjafield at The Bees Knees should take place in early May.


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The OnLine Training Institute (OLTI) provides state-of-the art training to anyone who is interested, on the topic of criminal justice response to sexual assault. The OLTI offers the opportunity for interested professionals to expand their knowledge of cutting edge developments in the criminal justice and community response to sexual assault, with particular emphasis on those crimes committed by someone who is known to the victim ( i.e., non-strangers).
Participants in the OLTI can work through the various training modules to learn and review new information and then apply this newly acquired knowledge in realistic and interactive scenarios, as well as assessment methods such as quizzes, tests, and case studies.
All of the training modules in the OnLine Training Institute (OLTI) were developed with funding provided by the Office on Violence Against Women (OVW), U.S. Department of Justice. Each module was approved by OVW. OLTI modules are also peer-reviewed by experts in a range of professional disciplines, including law enforcement, prosecution, health care, victim advocacy, and related fields. Please see the acknowledgements for a list of the experts who provided peer review for each of the OLTI modules.


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Last week, liberal pundits charged Perry with racism, offering no evidence or falsified evidence. While the baseless racism charges surfaced on MSNBC, they might have originated in the Obama campaign.
The MSNBC attacks on Perry were egregious. First, on Monday night, liberal host Ed Schultz ran a clip of Perry in Iowa talking about the national debt. Perry spoke of "that big black cloud that hangs over America -- that debt, that is so monstrous," Perry said. But Schultz cut off the Perry clip before the words "that debt" and asserted flatly, "that black cloud that Perry is talking about is President Barack Obama."
Schultz apologized a day later for his deceptive editing, but he stood by the insinuation Perry is a race-baiter.
Chris Matthews played a similar game Tuesday. Responding to Perry's (occasional) defense of federalism and statement that the Voting Rights Act leads to gerrymandered congressional districts, Matthews said of Perry, "this is going to be Bull Connor with a smile."
In his own half-hearted apology, Matthews asserted that Perry - who appointed Texas's first black Supreme Court Chief justice -- supported school segregation.
This is familiar to the Republican base. Amid the fever swamps of Twitter and Internet message boards, getting called racist for critiquing Obama is the norm. But only after campaign season swung into full force did this tendency become mainstream on the Left.
And this theme of baseless insinuations of racism is emanating from Team Obama and the White House. Obama's press secretary Jay Carney referred to unnamed opponents "who wanted to secede from the union." The words "secede from the union" clearly invoke the Southern states' effort to preserve slavery in 1861.
Politifact has rated Carney's statement as "False," pointing out that Perry once jokingly referred to a supposed right of Texas to secede. He's repeatedly denied actually believing this. That didn't stop Carney. Facts rarely interfere with the Left's effort to tar conservatives as racist.
Robert Gibbs, Carney's predecessor and now an Obama campaign adviser, on TV last Tuesday joked that "Any day now, Rick Perry will ask to see the president's birth certificate."
I could find no record of Perry ever insinuating that Obama wasn't born in the United States. Gibbs was trying to lump Perry in with a racially tinged line of attack on Obama that suggested he was really born in Kenya. By calling Perry a borderline birther, Gibbs was essentially calling Perry a racist.
Rep. Charlie Rangel, a top House Democrat, is on message, too. "The guy from Texas, he's got the highest job accomplishments in the country, Governor Perry, but it's one stage away from slavery, from what I understand the salaries are."
Liberals commonly charge conservative politicians with employing racial "dog-whistle politics": speaking in code to excite white racism while maintaining plausible deniability.
Dog whistles are real -- and Republicans do employ them -- but Carney, Gibbs and Rangel sure look like they are blowing on a dog whistle of their own. Team Obama talks about Perry and birth certificates, secession, and slavery, setting the tone without having to actually charge racism -- they leave that up to the talking heads who hear the whistle.
Obama has not played the race card since 2008, when his stump speech included the assertion that Republican attacks on him would boil down to "and did I mention he's black." But Carney and Gibbs work for Obama, and they're introducing racial ugliness to this race.
Expect a different sort of ugliness if Romney is the nominee. Politico reported that a dozen different Obama officials used the word "weird" to describe the former Massachusetts governor -- it's not a stretch to see this as an anti-Mormon dig.
The irony is that Perry has benefited, in the short term, from this racial politics. Conservatives groan when they see media liberals falsely charging another white conservative with racism. Today, they're rallying behind the Texas governor -- much as Sarah Palin benefited from liberal apoplexy over her that got very personal and unhinged and seemed to focus on her having too many kids.
If we're lucky, Team Obama will decide soon that the race card and the Mormonism card do not make a winning hand.
Timothy P.Carney, The Examiner's senior political columnist, can be contacted at firstname.lastname@example.com. His column appears Monday and Thursday, and his stories and blog posts appear on ExaminerPolitics.com.


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Newsround's own Lizo Mzimba, probably Harry Potter's biggest fan, was first with the news. Here's what he thinks about it.
The first thing I thought was: "Wow!" Everyone's been waiting three years for this book and it's coming out in the summer!
It's going to be so great to find out what happens to Harry next.
Definite date
I'm really glad as well that it's a firm date, so we know exactly how long there is to wait.
I'm pleased too, because there's been so much rubbish written about how the book has been delayed or postponed.
JK Rowling always said she didn't know how long it would take to write book five, and now I'm just really, really pleased she's finished it.
I can't wait to read it.
No warning
I had no inkling the announcement was going to come this week.
In the interview I did with JK at the end of last year, she said she was putting the finishing touches to the book, so I suspected this might happen soon.
You always hope, but I still had no idea.
I'm also really pleased that the book will be coming out in the summer, like the other four books. It's great that they're sticking to tradition.
I don't think I've learnt so much that I've spoiled this book for myself.
JK's left a few clues, but not many, and she's given tiny hints in interviews.
I think I'm in for just as much of a surprise as anyone else.
JK's always been one of those authors who has always known what's going to happen all the way through her books, so I don't reckon there will be any changes.
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No knows if JK will be doing any interviews in the run up to the book's release.
But let's face it, it's one book that really doesn't need any extra publicity!
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a cute school girl who hardly parties ,drinks etc or a hot crazy girl who parties and drinks? just curious lol seems like guys prefer the fun and crazy ones !
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This is a wonderful show -- funny and serious at the same time. Nina Arianda hits stardom! Jim Belushi is terrific as tough guy Brock. Seeing the play gave me such a taste for more that I watched the video with Judy Holliday and Broderick Crawford -- this is even better! I wrote more about Born Yesterday at http://www.LetsTalkOff-Broadway.com
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THURROCK Courts Players have looked to playright Alan Ayckbourn again for their next offering at the Thameside Theatre.
The group will perform the comedy Season's Greetings at the theatre, in Orsett Road, Grays, from February 7 to 9 at 7.45pm.
The play, about an eventful get together on Christmas Eve, premiered in 1980 and has been performed regularly ever since.
The BBC showed it on TV in 1986 and comedienne Catherine Tate starred in a production at the National Theatre in 2010.
A spokesman for Thurrock Courts Players said: "It's Christmas Eve and Neville and his wife Belinda are the hosts, entertaining a former colleague of Neville's and his heavily pregnant wife.
"Both marriages are desperately unhappy, the husbands complacent bores, the wives feeling unloved and neglected.
"The explosive cherry on the comic cake is Neville's near-psychopathic security guard of an uncle, who wears a knife strapped to his calf.
"He is giving all the kiddies guns for Christmas and has prepared a few nasty surprises for the grown-ups too. Then something more disastrous occurs."
Tickets for the show are £10, reduced to £8 for concessions.
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Washington, DC—Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and Speaker Nancy Pelosi sent a letter to President Bush this evening, urging him to work with Democrats to strengthen the economy for struggling families on Main Street. Reid and Pelosi will meet Wednesday with the President and other bipartisan congressional leaders.
The full text of the letter is below:
April 8, 2008
The Honorable George W. Bush
The President of the United States
The White House
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW
Washington, D.C. 20500
Dear Mr. President:
We are writing in anticipation of tomorrow's meeting of the bicameral, bipartisan congressional leadership with you and other Administration leaders. There can be little doubt that the current economic slowdown combined with the rising costs of everything from gas to health care are putting tremendous pressure on America's working families. Last week's disturbing unemployment numbers and Chairman Bernanke's recession warning are further evidence of the need for swift and decisive bipartisan action.
While your Administration actively supported the Federal Reserve's swift responses to address Wall Street's problems during the ongoing economic crisis, millions of families across America continue to face the prospect of losing their homes and their jobs. We believe that Congress and your Administration must now turn their attention to Main Street and help families in crisis. We can do this by developing a financially prudent package of housing policy reforms that can avert a wider foreclosure crisis, expanding unemployment insurance at a time of significant job losses, helping ensure that critical government services are available for struggling families, and making investments in infrastructure and alternative energy to serve our national interests and create good paying jobs. We can do this by once again making American veterans a part of an American economic recovery, with a guaranteed college education.
We hope tomorrow's meeting will launch a bipartisan process to address the short-term housing crisis and bring relief to families struggling to make ends meet, including creating high-paying jobs here at home.
Thank you, Mr. President, for scheduling this meeting at such a critical time for our economy and the American people. We look forward to working with you
Speaker Nancy Pelosi
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Daniel John Simpson, 45, of Felton, Delaware to Laura S. Faircloth, 47, of Felton, Delaware on Dec. 28, 2013.
Denver James Cussins, 19, of Hambleton to Susan Michele Simmons, 20, of Davis on Dec. 9, 2013.
Jamie Todd Lewis, 32, of Mt. Lake Park, Md. to Katherine Nicole Bonner, 24, of Mt. Lake Park, Md. on Dec. 28, 2013.
Simon Joseph Reuben Ampel, 35, of Brooklyn, NY to Brittany Holly Hannah, 27, of Thomas on Jan. 7.


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Welcome to the first Morning Read of 2010.
Hope the holidays treated you well. Mine were marked by some emotional highs, some emotional lows, a bit of wild spending, and a lot of newly-formed memories of my sons and their reactions that I'll treasure forever.
Having said that, it's time to get the Morning Read back on its official Monday – Wednesday – Friday schedule, with the DVD column on Tuesday and the Motion/Captured Must-See on Thursday each week. If I can't get those columns all working right this year, chugging along at times you can expect to see them, then I'm not much of a columnist, am I?
Let's kick things off with words of wisdom from a very funny man, Dana Gould:
RT @DanaJGould: Live each day as if it was your last. Then, on the next day, pretend you're dead.
Indeed, sir. Indeed.
Over at Ain't It Cool, the great Mr. Beaks has published the only ten-best list that truly matters, a list of the ten greatest man-in-gorilla suit performances of all time. So, yes, he wins the Internet.
Devin Faraci is determined to write about more of the movies he sees this year. I know the feeling. I try to downplay my crazy as much as I can, so I didn't come right out and admit that my OCD is one of the reasons I got into film writing in the first place, but Devin seems to have embraced his, and today, he's writing about watching a documentary I really like, "In The Realms Of The Unreal." And to those of you who e-mailed me about what one guy hilariously called "Creamgate" over the weekend, no… I didn't run the piece to take a shot at Devin. I ran it to take a shot at my own short-fused self. And because it gave me a chance to chew on a scene I really dig. Devin even said it's okay for me to think about a scene too much, so all is love, right?
Anyone else find it sort of charming that the "Scott Pilgrim" folks aren't focused on building a franchise, but are instead determined to just give us one great film? Boy, I wish more people thought like this.
Speaking of "Pilgrim," check out this Twitter exchange from this morning between Bryan Lee O'Malley, the creator of the books, and Edgar Wright, who is hard at work finishing the film:
RT @radiomaru: I do not have a Scott Pilgrim trailer. I'm not hiding it, it isn't here in my pants, I haven't seen it, it doesn't exist.
RT @edgarwright: I would like to contest that and observe that you have a suspicious trailer-like bulge in your pocket.
RT@edgarwright: I'd like to add that a 4D Scott Pilgrim trailer was attached to all Avatar prints. Maybe you didn't have the right glasses on.
Damn my faulty 4D glasses! Damn them!
Speaking of "Avatar," have you seen the awesome gallery of photos taken during the worldwide tour to premiere the film? LIFE magazine just ran the gallery, and it's worth taking a look at the team taking what has become a victory lap, although at the time, I'm sure they must have all been wrasslin' with some almighty nerves.
Oh, wait, I lied. I've got another list for you, one designed to make you wince. Let's take a look back at ten of the most ill-advised roles of the last decade. Prepare to remember films you've struggled to forget for ten years now. I like it when people try to find a new way to break a decade down, like the ten most culturally poisonous films of the decade, which sort of falls along similar lines. Makes for good conversation.
I like Reid Rosfelt. He's a smart guy and a generally good egg. But I'm baffled how he can write an article saying that file-sharing is actually good for our business when a movie leaks early, a la "Wolverine." Did it hurt the film? Who knows? But can you actually make an argument that having a crappy work print out there serves as marketing? I think that's borderline irresponsible. Just because one megablockbuster survived a leak does not mean it's something studios should build into their business plans.
Now, I'm not going to rant and rave about copyright or the Generation Of Free Shit or any of that this morning. Because I think the issues in play are so complex that pontificating about them almost inevitably makes you sound like a boob. Case in point this morning: Bono. There is no rolling back the clock, sir, no matter how much people wish it was possible. Instead, the future has to be about acknowledging the paradigm shift in how people consume things and then outsmarting it, a la Radiohead. Stick your finger in the dike if you like, man, but trust me… you're getting wet.
Speaking of Radiohead, I love the idea of this new Peter Gabriel covers album, and I can't wait to get my hands on it. Legally. Ahem. And the notion of this being part one, with an album of all the covered artists then contributing their own Peter Gabriel covers for a later record? Awesome.
David Chen over at /Film wrote a really solid think piece about what the films of the last decade have to say about our cultural evolution over that same ten years, and I think he makes some cogent points. As I said in my review of "Avatar," I think the film is, at least in part, about our relationship with entertainment in general and the way that relationship is changing as entertainment becomes more and more immersive. Reality's getting thin, folks, and that's just going to get more pronounced, not less.
Finally, several people mentioned this Newsweek article about the Criterion Collection as a great read, but I think it's got the primary thesis of the piece wrong. These new titles that the company releases bring a financial windfall to them that allows them to go on tracking down and licensing titles that might otherwise never get released. One "Armageddon" pays for 50 restorations of a tiny obscure early Kurosawa title, and I'm more than happy with that trade-off. And here's some advice: if a title is added to the Criterion Collection that frosts your panties and makes you mad? Don't buy it. They're still one of the most important home video publishers that has ever existed. Period.
It's always daunting to jump back into this particular column after a break, so if I'm a bit rusty, bear with me. The year's just getting started, and I'm sure we've got tons and tons of great reads ahead.
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At the 2011 Juno Awards, after winning a crystal statuette signifying his status as this country's top musical artist, the greybeard Neil Young asked, "What year is this?" Looking at the 2012 nominees for album of the year, announced Tuesday at a press conference in Toronto, the question might well be, "What month is it?"
Of the five discs in contention, two are of December-only variety: Justin Bieber's Under the Mistletoe and Michael Bublé's Christmas. The reason for this ho-ho hijacking of a major category is that the nominations are based largely on sales figures. Those two yuletide LPs, of course, sold by the sleighfull.
What must music lovers the world over think when they see Feist's Metals left off a list of top Canadian records that values the jingles of bells and the ka-chings of cash registers over sublime singing and songwriting?
(Feist did nab four nominations, as did City and Colour, Dan Mangan, Drake, Hedley and Nickelback.)
The press-conference tidbit that drew the most smiles was the announcement that William Shatner would host this year's televised gala, on April 1, from Ottawa's Scotiabank Place. With the Star Trek captain and Priceline pitchman in charge, out-of-town guests now know whom to hit up for the best hotel rates.
Joel Zimmerman (aka Deadmau5) was a hit as one of the celebrity voices at the nomination affair. Disguised in his signature mouse-head helmet, the DJ announced a few noms and received three of his own.
Glaringly absent from this year's lists was the Weeknd, the working name of ballyhooed Toronto R&B artist Abel Tesfaye. Though he released three notable albums in 2011 ( House of Balloons, Thursday and Echoes of Silence), his achievements were ignored by the Canadian Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences. In the true spirit of Christmas, Tesfaye gives his albums away free – thus, no sales figures.
International superstar Drake, a booster of Tesfaye, does not take cash for his various mix tapes, but does charge for his recordings on Lil Wayne's Cash Money label. Drake's latest fine release, Take Care, received a nomination for this year's top-album trophy, as did the critically panned discs from Avril Lavigne ( Goodbye Lullabye) and Nickelback ( Here and Now).
Because sales figures are a matter of record, the field for album of the year was not a surprise. The absence of the Weeknd for the best new artist, however, was a doozie of an omission, especially given that Vancouver indie singer-songwriter Mangan, who's been around a while, did make the newcomer list. As well, why is Newfoundland's Hey Rosetta! on the list for top new group, years after making the Polaris Prize short list for its 2008 album Into Your Lungs (and around in your heart and on through your blood)?
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This is a guest post from author Arsalan Iftikhar. Network news anchor Katie Couric once declared that "bigotry expressed against Muslims in this country was one of the most disturbing stories to surface" in the last few years. At the time, Couric was referring to the proposed Park51 Islamic Center in lower Manhattan (sinisterly referred [Read More…]
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Speculation has been rampant as to the real reason that Zayn Malik jumped ship from his platinum-selling boy band One Direction and now Liam Payne is clearing it up.
During his chat with Capital FM's Breakfast show on Wednesday (May 20), the "Story of My Life" singer declared, "He wanted to go and spend some time with his family and missus."
Stepping out for an exciting evening, some of the hottest musicians and singers in the land converged on Las Vegas for the 2015 Billboard Music Awards last night (May 17).
Taylor Swift introduced her new music video for "Bad Blood," while also walking away with a whopping 8 trophies.
They're doing just fine since the departure of Zayn Malik, and the lads of One Direction stopped by the "Late Late Show with James Corden" on Thursday night (May 14) to chat about their reduced number.
It's no secret that social media isn't the most helpful arena for sorting out conflict, and when Zayn Malik and Louis Tomlinson threw down on Twitter yesterday (May 6) One Direction fans took aim at the recently departed band member.
Things have been understandably tense between Zayn Malik and the rest of One Direction ever since his abrupt departure, and now some of that vitriol has made its way into the social media realm.
Bravely soldiering on following the departure of Zayn Malik, the boys in One Direction are looking forward to releasing their new album and launching an updated sound.
In his interview with Capital FM Radio in the UK, Liam Payne explained, "Our fifth album is coming together really well," noting that they've found some "great songs" for the project.
He's been maintaining radio silence ever since announcing his departure from his popular boy band, and Zayn Malik finally reached out to One Direction fans via Twitter.
The 22-year-old English heartthrob tweeted, "Wanna say thanks to everyone that's been there for me over the last few weeks, love you all. You know who you are x. The x is a kiss by the way ha it's not a mystery… sorry to any confused."
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For he will deliver you from the snare of the fowler and from the deadly pestilence. He will cover you with his pinions, and under his wings you will find refuge; his faithfulness is a shield and buckler.
Thar She Blows!
God often uses obvious blessing and sometimes apparent catastrophic events to bring about sudden developments. He is the God of stability and the God of catastrophe, using them both for his good purposes.
Bethlehem and the Philippines
1. The global Diaconate is giving $10,000 to Converge Worldwide to be applied to relief work in the Philippines.
Was Katrina Intelligent Design?
Editor's Note: For resources on responding to Hurricane Katrina,
see the "Today at DG" section on the Desiring God homepage.
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Tsunami, Sovereignty, and Mercy
"The waves of death encompassed me, the torrents of destruction assailed
me. . . This God—his way is perfect" (2 Samuel 22:5, 31).
Tsunami and Repentance
From pulpits to news programs, from the New York Times to
the Wall Street Journal, the message of the tsunami was missed.
It is a double grief when lives are lost and lessons are not learned.
Every deadly calamity is a merciful call from God for the living to
repent. "Weep with those who weep," the Bible says. Yes, but let us
also weep for our own rebellion against the living God. Lesson one:
weep for the dead. Lesson two: weep for yourselves.
Whence and Why the Earthquake in Turkey?
"Weep with those who weep" (Romans 12:15). When love has wept
and worked, it must have some answers. Not all the answers, but
some. No earthquakes in the Bible are attributed to Satan. Many are
attributed to God.** This is because God is Lord of heaven and
earth. "He commands even the winds and the water, and they obey
Him" (Luke 8:25). "He sends forth His command to the earth. . . .
He gives snow like wool; He scatters the frost like ashes. He casts
forth His ice as fragments; who can stand before His cold? . . . He
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Let these numbers* fuel you to words ... to God in prayer.
Big Winds, Big God
Tornadoes remind us that we are small. In the Minneapolis StarTribune, a map showing the path of Sunday's tornado in North Minneapolis placed the arrow of the path directly over our daughter and son-in-law's house.
I have spent parts of three days in clean-up, insurance appeals, re-roofing arrangements, and humble worship of the God who makes the storm and calms the storm.
How to Pray for Japan
We watch the news, see the gripping images, hear the heart-wrenching statistics and wonder how to pray. The following prayer request was written over 10 years ago:
Global Diaconate Annual Report 2010
Only, they asked us to remember the poor, the very thing I was eager to do.—Galatians 2:10
This year Bethlehem Baptist Church has continued to have the opportunity to strategically care for the poor around the world through Bethlehem's generous giving from Treasuring Christ Together. The Global Diaconate task force has met monthly to make decisions on behalf of the church for the careful distribution of these funds.


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Obama Welcomes Brotherhood Run for Egyptian Presidency (FrontPageMagazine.com) By Ryan Mauro 04/03/12)
Source: http://frontpagemag.com/2012/04/03/obama-welcomes-brotherhood-run-for-egyptian-presidency/
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The Muslim Brotherhood swore up and down that it wouldnt seek the Egyptian presidency as proof of its desire for a pluralistic society. At the last minute, the Brotherhood nominated Khairat el-Shater. According to the New York Times, State Department officials actually look at this as a good thing that could stop the more puritanical Salafists from winning.
State Department officials said they were untroubled and even optimistic about the Brotherhoods reversal of its pledge not to seek the presidency, the Times reports.
Shater has had extensive contact with U.S. officials and has convinced them that hes not to be feared. Apparently, these U.S. officials have forgotten about (or never were informed of) the Muslim Brotherhoods ideology and history.
The Brotherhoods leaders preach a strategy of gradualism towards mastership of the world. Hamas has officially added a branch of the Muslim Brotherhood-Palestine to its name. The Vice Chairman of the Brotherhoods Freedom and Justice Party says Hamas is a resistance group and that Cairo should host one of its offices. The Brotherhoods leaders are not shy about their goal of destroying Israel and its internal documents refer to its work in America as a kind of grand jihad in eliminating and destroying Western civilization from within.
In November, a Brotherhood spokesman stated without equivocation, The Sharia, the Muslim legal framework, must be the foundation for everything. On November 24, senior Brotherhood leaders publicly preached violent jihad, and the International Union of Muslim Scholars, a Brotherhood entity, declared that it is time to revive the duty of jihad in all its forms. One top leader, Mohamad Katatni, predicts that the revolution in Egypt would lead to the elimination of the state of Israel.
The State Departments welcoming of Shaters candidacy is partly due to fear of the Salafist candidate, Hazem Salah Abu Ismail. He is outwardly hostile to the West. The Salafists shocked the West when they won nearly one-fourth of the vote in Egypts elections. The latest poll shows that Ismail leaped forward from as low as fifth place to second place at 22%, about 10% behind the secularist presidential frontrunner, Amr Moussa.
Ismail is happy about Shaters candidacy. He believes that it will take votes away from Abdel Moneim Aboul Fotouh, a Muslim Brotherhood leader whose membership was suspended when he ran for president against the leaderships wishes. Hes currently polling at 8%. The election is held in May, and if no single candidate gets more than 50% of the vote, a run-off is held between the top two candidates the next month. If it comes down to Moussa and Ismail, the Islamists will rally behind Ismail and give him a landslide victory.
Three long-standing Brotherhood officials resigned in protest of Shaters campaign. One of them, Kamal el-Helbawi, suspects that a deal has been struck between the ruling military council and the Brotherhood. He points out that the council declared Shater innocent of all charges brought against him. Shater serves as an important liaison between the military council and the Brotherhood.
Dr. Daniel Pipes and Cynthia Farahat believe that the military council has a power-sharing arrangement with the Islamists that will allow the generals to justify their rule. There were widespread allegations of fraud in the elections and reports that the military council even funded and supplied the Islamists.
Another reason for the welcoming of the Brotherhoods presidential campaign by some senior U.S. officials is that it is looked upon as a moderate Islamist group that can counter Al-Qaeda and similar jihadists.
Director of National Intelligence James Clapper said in January that Al-Qaeda probably will find it difficult to compete for local support with groups like the Muslim Brotherhood and that non- violent, pro-democracy demonstrations challenge Al-Qaedas violent jihadist ideology and might yield increased political power for secular or moderate Islamist parties.
When the Brotherhoods second-in-command said it would not recognize Israel under circumstances and might put the peace treaty up to a referendum, State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland brushed it off as the opinion of just one Brotherhood member. We have had other assurances from the party with regard to their commitment not only to universal human rights, but to the international obligations that the government of Egypt has undertaken, she said.
William Taylor, the State Department official overseeing U.S. aid to the countries affected by the Arab Spring, struck a similar tone when he was asked about why his office was giving election training to Brotherhood members. What we need to do is judge people and parties and movements on what they do, not what theyre called, he replied.
The second part of Taylors answer exposed his ignorance of what the Brotherhood preaches. He said, as long as parties, entities do not espouse or conduct violence, well work with them. The U.S. should not be afraid of [the Brotherhood]. We should deal with them, he feels. All indications are that the options are not good for the direction of Egypt. Islamic theocracy is the ultimate destination the only question is whether the country will arrive there by street car or speeding train. And so far, the Obama administrations role has only been to make this transition more expeditious. (Copyright © 2012 FrontPageMagazine.com 04/03/12)
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An quick and easy fruit cake for tea time. Best eaten fresh.
I mix the flour, sugar and butter in my mixer with the blade attachement until I get the breadcrumb stage and then freeze, then just remove from the freezer add the rest of the ingredients and bake. If you double, triple, etc. these first three ingredients to put in the freezer then you only need to weigh out 445g / 1lb then add the remaining ingredients to bake ONE cake and save the rest for another time.


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Strontium-90, a byproduct of uranium fission, is one of the pollutants emitted into the air by nuclear reactors. If inhaled or ingested, it collects in bones and tissue and increases the risks of cancer and leukemia, according to the Environmental Protection Agency.
The study, published this week in the journal The Science of the Total Environment, was done by the Radiation and Public Health Project (RPHP), a New York-based non-profit group that analyzes baby teeth for strontium-90. Baby teeth from counties near two nuclear plants in Florida and plants in California, New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania were compared with baby teeth from other counties in the same states.
Nuclear power companies denounce the RPHP study. They and some scientists say RPHP's findings are not based on sound science. "I don't question finding strontium-90 in teeth, because there better be strontium-90 in teeth," says Ralph Andersen, chief health physicist for the Nuclear Energy Institute, which represents power plant owners and operators. "I question how they compare data. I fail to see a factual basis for their conclusions."
Everyone is exposed to small amounts of strontium-90, the EPA says, because it was widely dispersed into the environment and the food chain by above-ground nuclear weapons tests in the 1950s and 1960s. The Nuclear Regulatory Commission says strontium-90 also was released into the environment by weapons tests of the French and Chinese governments between 1970 and 1980 and by an accident at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in the Ukraine in 1986.
The EPA wouldn't comment on the RPHP study and referred questions to the NRC. NRC spokeswoman Elizabeth Hayden says the agency won't comment until the study is reviewed by technical staff.
Joseph Mangano, one of five co-authors of the study, says RPHP takes no position on whether nuclear power plants should be allowed to operate. But its researchers "strongly suggest that the health risks of nuclear reactors should be given top priority in formulating policies for nuclear reactors."
The study looked at 2,089 teeth sent to the RPHP and analyzed by a radiochemistry laboratory in Ontario. It found that most counties near nuclear plants had strontium-90 levels that were 31% to 54% higher than counties farther away.
The highest levels were found in three counties near the Limerick power plant in Pottstown, Pa., and in three counties near the Indian Point nuclear facility in Buchanan, N.Y. Pottstown, the study notes, is "within 70 miles of 11 operating and two closed reactors, a concentration unmatched in the U.S."
The study says its most unexpected finding is that strontium-90 levels have steadily risen after decades of decline. Baby teeth of children born in 1994 to 1997 had nearly 50% higher strontium-90 concentration than those from children born in 1986 to 1989, the study found.
Nuclear experts and the federal government say strontium-90 levels should be dropping because above-ground atomic bomb tests stopped decades ago, below-ground tests and nuclear weapons production halted at least 12 years ago and nuclear fuels reprocessing ceased in the late 1970s.
"The only other source of strontium-90 that can explain this steady and dramatic rise in the 1990s is emissions from nuclear power reactors," the study says.
Robert Alvarez, an Energy Department senior policy adviser in the 1990s, says that conclusion is "too much of a leap, because of the need to factor in other multiple risk factors."
The EPA's Web site says, "People who live near or work in nuclear facilities may have increased exposure to strontium-90." But Patricia Milligan, NRC senior emergency preparedness specialist, says only a speck of strontium-90 is released each day from a nuclear plant.
The amount of strontium-90 released at every plant is less than limits established by the NRC and the EPA, says Stephen Klementowicz, the NRC's health physicist.
Alvarez, who is often critical of nuclear plant safety, isn't convinced RPHP has proved its case. But he says there may be a correlation between strontium-90 in baby teeth and childhood cancers.
RPHP is currently studying whether children with cancer have more strontium-90 in their teeth than other children, funded, in part, by a $25,000 allocation from New Jersey.


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Mitchell Blank Jr wrote: > The one tricky part is dev_alloc_name() function... it's current > algorithm is to search for "prefix0" through "prefix99" and if > they're all in use bail out. Not only does this mean that you > won't naturally end up with "ppp100", the search is N^2 (meaning > the time to set up N of them is N^3). The best algorithm compromise > isn't clear - I'd say that for each prefix in use ("ppp", "eth") keep > an ordered linked list of them, that way you can quickly linearly > scan looking for the lowest hole. An added optomization would be > to hold a "next_to_try_after" pointer into the list. (after adding > an interface, set to self. When deleting an interface, set to > our previous one if it's before next_to_try_after) which greatly > reduces the length of the search for many common access patterns. > This sounds complicated, but would actually be pretty easy to implement > using linux/list.h - just keep the next_to_try_after as the first > element and just rotate the list around it as it changes. VLAN, by default, allocs it's names in constant time (eth-dev-name + VLAN-ID) I would imagine FrameRelay and ATM could do something similar. ppp an others should be able to easily get it down to a linear search of the list by parsing the names in one pass, then allocating the first hole, or appending onto the end. I believe that will not touch any of the data structures, only a smarter, or just more specific, dev_alloc_name. The ppp component itself could keep track of things itself too, and just never call the dev_alloc_name, perhaps with a list as you mentioned... > The tricker part is where the IP stack searches through the list > itself (ipv4/devinet.c:inet_selcect_addr(), > ipv6/addrconf.c/ipv6_get_saddr())... I assume these are just used > for corner cases, right? I assume that things on the fast path > (selecting source IPs for outgoing packets is taken care by the > routing code, right?!?) I hope someone has a good answer here...I certainly have no idea! > Anyway, assuming that those code paths in ipv4 and ipv6 aren't > hotspots, some basic datastructure work in net/core/dev.c would > remove the algorithmic limitations on hosting thousands of devices. Thanks for the information! Ben -- Ben Greear (greearb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx) http://www.candelatech.com Author of ScryMUD: scry.wanfear.com 4444 (Released under GPL) http://scry.wanfear.com http://scry.wanfear.com/~greear
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10. First Community Corp.
Shares of First Community Corp. ( FCCO) of Lexington, S.C., closed at $8.50 Monday, returning 39% year-to-date, following a 10% return during 2011. The shares trade for 0.8 times their reported Sept. 30 tangible book value of $10.10, and for 11 times the consensus 2013 earnings estimate of 80 cents, among analysts polled by Thomson Reuters. Based on a quarterly payout of four cents, the shares have a dividend yield of 1.88%. The company had $606 million in total assets as of Sept. 30. Third-quarter net income available to common shareholders was $881,000, or 19 cents a share, compared to 760,000, or 23 cents a share, in the second quarter, and $790,000, or 24 cents a share, during the third quarter of 2011. Earnings-per-share declined because the company issued 1,875,000 common shares in July, at a price of $8.00 a share, shares of common stock at $8.00. The common offering preceded First Community's repurchase in late August of 3,780 preferred shares held by the government, for bailout assistance received through Troubled Assets Relief Program, or TARP, in November 2008. The company exited the TARP program, as the remaining TARP shares were sold at auction by the U.S. Treasury to outside investors. The TARP shares were originally priced at $1,000, while First Community and the outside investors paid a discounted price of $982.83 per share, which the company said was "the highest price paid to date for a company's shares in the Treasury's auctions." The company noted in its third-quarter earnings release that it "was able to price the offering at-the-market as compared to a discount which is typically seen in this type of offering, and that "this transaction represents the only successfully executed publicly underwritten common stock offering in more than five years for a bank in the Carolinas with $1 billion or less in total assets." First Community said that its earnings in the third quarter were reduced by $277,945, or four cents a share, because of one-time expenses associated with its exit from TARP. A third-quarter bright spot for the company was an increase in mortgage origination fees to $1,393,000, from $877,000 the previous quarter, and $698,000 a year earlier. CEO Mike Crapps said that "the acquisition of Palmetto South Mortgage Corporation in July of 2011 continues to be beneficial and, in combination with the legacy mortgage unit, is a real story of success." The increase in mortgage fee income helped offset a decline in net interest income and in the net interest margin (NIM), which is the difference between the average yield on loans and investments and the average cost for deposits and borrowings. First Community's third-quarter net interest income declined to $4.3 million, from $4.5 million in the second quarter, and $4.6 million in the third quarter of 2011. The net interest margin narrowed to a tax-adjusted 3.12% in the third quarter, from 3.30% the previous quarter, and 3.37% a year earlier, "driven primarily by declining yields in the investment portfolio and the loan portfolio which are only partially offset by declining funding costs. First Community did note, however, "that during the quarter, the company had excess liquidity from the equity offering and its use to repurchase the preferred shares. The company estimates the impact of this excess liquidity to have been approximately 6 basis points on its net-interest margin." The declining net interest margin is in line with the industry trend, since the Federal Reserve has kept its short-term target federal funds rate in a range of zero to 0.25% since the end of 2008, while the central bank September increased its monthly purchases of mortgage backed securities in an attempt to hold long-term rates at historically low levels. The company's third-quarter operating return on average assets (ROE) was 0.81%, according to Thomson Reuters Bank Insight, while its return on average tangible common equity was 9.57%. Brian Martin rates First Community "Outperform," with a $10 price target, saying on Oct. 19 after the earnings release that following the common equity raise and TARP exit that the company was "well positioned to capitalize on growth opportunities." "Given the current economic landscape this will almost certainly entail a combination of organic and external growth," Martin said, adding that many of the company's "South Carolina peers are unable to participate in M&A at the moment given ongoing credit problems and regulatory constraints. We estimate FCCO could add approximately $150 million in new assets and still maintain a 7% TCE ratio." Martin estimates that First Community will earn 84 cents a share in 2013. FCCO data by YCharts
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Haiku - Twin Happiness - Poem by john tiong chunghoo
twin happiness
identical boys escape
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judge frees twins
in drug offence
identity crisis
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Malaysian identical twin brothers have escaped hanging for drug trafficking as a court failed to decide which brother was the criminal, and cleared both.
A judge in the capital, Kuala Lumpur, said the case was unique and she could not send the wrong person to his death.
In 2003 police arrested one brother found driving drugs to a house. The second twin arrived soon afterwards and was also arrested.
Neither officers nor a DNA test could identify which twin owned the drugs.
Sathis and Sabarish Raj,27, cried in court when they heard the judge say that the prosecution had failed to prove which twin had been arrested first with a car containing 166kg of cannabis and almost 2kg of raw opium.
According to the New Straits Times, the judge told the court: 'I can't be calling the wrong twin to enter his defence. I can't be sending the wrong person to the gallows.'
Execution is mandatory for convicted drugs traffickers in Malaysia
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Anna Sui For Target/Gossip Girl Is A Mixed (But Mostly Cute) Bag
The day you've all been waiting for is imminent: Anna Sui's "Gossip Girl"-inspired line for Target is available to the public this Sunday. We weaseled our way into a sneak preview this week though, and we've got the lowdown on how the collection looks in real life. As is to be expected, there are a handful of hits and a few definite misses.
We loved a bunch of the Blair-esque pieces with their sweet but restrained detailing. While Vanessa's clothing group was mostly far too '70s and polyester-y for us and Serena's was rather cute, even if most of it didn't look much like Serena's style at all. (One Serena-inspired dress appeared to have teeth around the neck. We were scared.) Finally, the Jenny stuff ranged from adorable (like the dress at left) to tacky (check out the over-ripped, synthetic leggings after the jump and you'll know what we're talking about).
More images and info after the jump.
Clearly, the Soho pop-up shop housing the collection for a few days was pretty intensely decorated and rather awesome. Stuffed peacocks, velvet couches and black baroque mirrors abounded in the cool and eclectic space. In fact, it was so interesting in there that the decor distracted from all but the best of the clothes. The Jenny dress above is one of our favorites for $70. (If you've got any sort of a chest though steer clear, because it's just not going to fit in that thing.)
Less adorable were the handful of silly T-shirts inspired by the show. Dumb slogans (see above …) abounded, made even worse by would-be-cute lacy collars. Avoid at all costs! Other things to avoid include anything demonstratively made of synthetic fabrics or too heavy on the details. Because the line is relatively inexpensive — $20-$100 for most items — very detailed things aren't going to be particularly well made. So stick with the plethora of pretty, restrained options and you should be good to go.
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French Onion Soup Pizza
READY IN: 45mins
Recipe by MARIA MAC
This pizza has great flavors. If you like onion soup you will love this
Top Review by Cadillacgirl
A differet kind of pizza! The only thing I changed was I used a 10" pita as my little grocery store was out of pizza crusts. Took q while to get it together but tasted good when it came out! Made for My 3 Chefs, Nov 09.
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Ingredients Nutrition
- 10 ounces pizza dough
- 2 tablespoons butter
- 1 large vidalia onion
- 3 -4 garlic cloves
- salt
- pepper
- 1 sprig thyme
- 1⁄2 cup dry red wine
- 1 cup beef broth
- 1 tablespoon flour
- 1⁄4 cup heavy cream
- 1⁄3 lb gruyere cheese, sliced in chunks
Directions See How It's Made
- Add butter to skillet over medium heat. Once butter has melted, add onions, garlic, a good sprinkling of salt and pepper, and thyme. Allow onions to sweat down for about 10 minutes, then stir and let continue to sweat another 5 minutes.
- Add wine and beef broth, simmering about 5-10 minutes or until wine starts to oxidize and turn brown. When onions are cooked through, drain and save the broth and wine mixture.
- Add flour to wine and broth and boil mixture about 10 minutes it should be significantly reduced toabout 1/4 of what you started with.
- Remove from heat and add cream.
- Shape pizza dough into 10-12 inch diameter, 1/4 inch thick disk.
- Put reduced sauce on dough.
- Top with onions and then layer with chunks of Gruyere. Bake at 325 degrees on a middle to lower middle rack for about 15 minutes, checking to make sure the Gruyere doesn't burn.


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|Over 3,000 Veterans enter competition nationwide to the National Veterans Creative Arts Festival.
Each year, thousands of Veterans compete for a chance to attend the National Veterans Creative Arts Festival, a unique event designed to help Veterans use the creative arts as one form of rehabilitative treatment to help them recover from, and cope with, physical and emotional disabilities.
This year, 3,625 Veterans from 122 VA facilities entered the competition nationwide, with 143 of the medal-winning Veterans earning an invitation to participate in the 2010 Festival, hosted by the VA Medical Center in Tomah, Wisconsin
Jack Tongen is one of them. He writes poetry and plays the guitar as an outlet for thoughts and emotions he might not be able to express otherwise.
Across the country each year, Veterans treated at VA facilities compete in a local creative arts competition which includes 53 categories in the visual arts division that range from oil painting to leatherwork to paint-by-number kits. Online Gallery
In addition, there are 123 categories in the performing arts including music, dance, drama and creative writing. The creative writing division is a more recent addition to the competition and includes original works in poetry, essay, short story, and personal experience writing.
A national selection committee chooses first, second, and third place winners among all of the entries. Select winners are invited to attend the National Veterans Creative Arts Festival each year.
Ten years ago, Joel Koelsch dealt with his symptoms of war stress by writing, turning his private therapy into a novel based on his combat experiences in Vietnam.
Each Festival features an art exhibit showing the first place artwork from 53 categories. A live stage show, complete with orchestral accompaniment generously provided by the Music Performance Fund, is performed by Veterans who have achieved medal-winning status in a variety of categories from the performing arts divisions of music, drama and dance, as well as creative writing.
Workshops are offered during the Festival week for participants and staff, educating them in a variety of the arts, utilizing the talents of local community artists.
Kimberly Friske uses her art and creativity both as a form of generosity and healing. She has made more than 1000 baby quilts that she donates to those in need. They also earned her two first place awards.
The National Veterans Creative Arts Festival recognizes the progress and recovery made through therapy and raises the visibility of the creative achievements of our nation's Veterans after disease, disability or life crisis. The festival offers a week of learning, exploring, fellowship, and celebration of the healing power of the arts.
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|Director Logan Page addresses a good roads convention in Salt Lake City, UT, on the roads of different sections of the country, compared with roads in other countries. "Suffice it to say," he explains, "that the principle of state aid and supervision constitutes the germ of the only road administration which has proven successful in other countries."
|BPR Commissioner F. V. du Pont resigns to work as a consultant to Secretary of Commerce Sinclair Weeks in furthering President Dwight D. Eisenhower's road program. Secretary Weeks announces that Charles D. "Cap" Curtiss, Deputy Commissioner in charge of the Division of Finance and Management, will assume the administrative duties of Commissioner.


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Russell Rumberger, a faculty member in the Department of Education of UC Santa Barbara's Gevirtz School, has been named the 2013 recipient of the Elizabeth G. Cohen Distinguished Career in Applied Sociology Award from the American Educational Research Association (AERA).
Presented every two years by AERA's Sociology of Education special interest group (SIG), the Elizabeth G. Cohen Distinguished Career in Applied Sociology of Education Award recognizes a senior scholar who has successfully melded rigorous scholarly research with problem solving in practical settings. The Sociology of Education SIG provides a forum for the analysis of research that links sociological perspectives and methods with the study of educational issues.
Noted Rumberger's nominator for the Elizabeth G. Cohen Award: "Professor Rumberger is an internationally leading research scholar on one of the most pressing educational challenges of our time –– the dropout crisis. Over the past three decades, he has conducted dozens of influential research studies that inform our understanding of the sociological dynamics of dropout. Although few scholars have stepped out of their traditional academic role to enter the realm of public policy, over the last 15 years Professor Rumberger has progressively engaged policymakers, practitioners, and the broader public to bring rigorous research to bear on solutions to the dropout crisis."
Russell Rumberger recently served as Vice Provost for Education Partnerships, University of California Office of the President. A faculty member at UCSB since 1987, Professor Rumberger has published widely in several areas of education: education and work; the schooling of disadvantaged students, particularly school dropouts and linguistic minority students; school effectiveness; and education policy. He is author of the highly acclaimed book, Dropping Out: Why Students Drop Out of High School and What Can be Done About It (Harvard University Press, 2011). Rumberger has served as a member of the National Research Council's Committee on Increasing High School Students' Engagement and Motivation to Learn (2004), the Committee on the Impact of Mobility and Change on the Lives of Young Children, Schools, and Neighborhoods (2010), and the Committee on Improved Measurement of High School Dropout and Completion Rates (2011). He also served as a panel member for the Institute of Education Sciences' Practice Guide, Dropout Prevention (2008).
As Vice Provost for Education Partnerships, he was responsible for the University's engagement in P-20 education in California, including policies and programs that produce high quality teachers and promote achievement and college access for all students.
He currently directs the California Dropout Research Project, which is producing a series of reports and policy briefs about the dropout problem in California and a state policy agenda to improve California's high school graduation rate.


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"It's a disaster," says Amor of the 2011 introduction of rules which have made investment in art less attractive for Australia's 510,000 self-managed super funds.
Ominously for Amor,
The 2011 tightening of the rules about buying art in a self-managed scheme covers works purchased after July 1 of that year. From July 2016 all artworks, including those bought before July 2011, as well as other collectables such as coins and antiques, must adhere to the new regulations.
Lowenstein predicts self-managed fund members could sell most of the $500 million of art in their portfolios.
"It is essential the start date of July 2016 be extended, otherwise there will be a catastrophe in the art market," Lowenstein says.
Says Michael Fox, an arts accountant and valuer: "Prime Minister
"However, if the government runs a full three-year term, the next federal election will be held after June 30, 2016. That may be too late to prevent a flood of SMSF artworks coming on to the market."
Costs up 2pc to 5pc
Given that the annual turnover in Australia's secondary art market is just $100 million, armageddon may well be on its way.
Under the more stringent rules, artworks can no longer be stored at the home of the self-managed fund trustee and must be insured separately. Putting them under a general home and contents insurance policy is out of the question. They must also be purchased and sold at the market price, which must be verified by an independent valuer.
The requirements may seem innocuous, but Fox predicts the additional storage and insurance charges will add between 2 per cent and 5 per cent annually to the cost of owning a painting.
Artists most at risk of a tumble in sales are indigenous painters and mid-career and established artists, whose work tends to sell for more than $10,000. It is the works of these artists that self-managed funds have tended to favour in the hope they would appreciate in value over time.
Amor's response has been to warehouse his bigger works, with the hope of trying to sell them when the market eventually improves, and limit shows to smaller pieces. Financially, he says, he is fine, but others are not so lucky.
Sally Smart, known for her paper collages, is incensed by the impact of the rule changes on artists.
"Where is the support for our visual artists?," she says. "So often these are the same artists who are called upon and do donate generously their work and time to support our Australian culture in so many ways."
Major sell-off forecast
Figures from the Australian Tax Office show that do-it-yourself schemes owned $568 million of collectables in September 2013, the vast majority of which are assumed to be artworks.
Lowenstein predicts that much of the art owned by self-managed funds could be sold. The prospect of a flood of works washing through auction houses comes on top of an estimated 46 per cent plunge in the value of art sales for established artists between 2008 and 2012, according to Lowenstein.
Annual sales of established artists in Lowenstein's stable have fallen to $341,000 from $628,000, while those of his mid-career artists have fallen to $98,000 from $136,000. ATO statistics show that since the more stringent rules were introduced for newly purchased artworks in mid 2011, self-managed fund holdings of collectables have plummeted by 20 per cent.
The prospect of a collapse in the local art market has prompted artists and dealers to renew their efforts to lobby for a change in the rules, or at least a delay in their implementation. "I have been writing to every single living politician," says Lowenstein.
"I have written to the Prime Minister twice. I want him to be involved."
Earlier this year, the Australian Artists Association (AAA) sent letters to Abbott and four senior ministers, including Finance Minister
On March 31, the AAA wrote again to Abbott to request a meeting to discuss the issue and its impact – not just on artists, but on framers, art suppliers, magazine publishers, shipping agents and galleries.
Government holds firm
So far, the government has given no indication it is prepared to shift its stance.
In a letter dated March 6, former Assistant Treasurer
Liam Shorte of Genesys Wealth Advisers is sympathetic to the artists' plight, arguing that the government introduced the changes too quickly. But he predicts that even if the Coalition loosened the regulations, it is unlikely the art market would recover.
Self-managed fund trustees would be reluctant to purchase collectables for fear that the regulatory regime would change in the future. "It's too late. The horse has bolted. You are not going to build up that trust again," says Shorte.
Longer term, he agrees in principal with what the government is seeking to do. Buying art, like buying any other asset, must be done purely for the purpose of funding retirement – not decorating walls.
In the case of art, it is a particularly fickle investment," Shorte says. "Prices can depend on which artists and styles are in – or out – of fashion, making it a high-risk investment. It is too big a risk to take."
"You could discover the next Jeffrey Smart, but then there have been some pretty amazing incidents of forgery," says Cooper, whose review recommended that self-managed funds be banned from buying collectable items. "If paintings are inherently a good investment, why are people buying them through a self-managed fund and not with the money in their back pocket?"
Cooper also points out that allowing do-it-yourself schemes to buy art and decorate their homes is unfair to members of large pooled funds who cannot do the same.
"The old system benefited some people, but not the entire population," he says.
That is not to say that Cooper, like Shorte, is unsympathetic to the impact of the rule changes on artists. It is clear that a source of funding has been removed, he notes. The issue, though, is whether the government should be using super to help the arts.
"There are legitimate reasons why the government would want to support artists, but do you want one part of the retirement system to do that?" says Cooper.
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