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We are Cub Scout Pack 1990 chartered by St. Theresa Catholic Church in Douglasville, GA and are part of the Indian Springs District under the jurisdiction of the Atlanta Area Council. Cub Scouting is open to boys from 1st through 5th grades, with each grade comprising a Den of approximately 10 boys.
Our Dens meet each Tuesday from 6:45 pm to 7:45 pm, and along with their leaders work on achievements, participate in a service project, or go on a field trip.
The third Tuesday of each month, all of the Dens come together for a Pack meeting to recognize the Scouts for their recent achievements and to update everyone on their activities for the previous month. This is a ceremonial meeting for all Scouts and their families where the Cubmaster and Den Leaders have the privilege of presenting awards to the Scouts for their achievements.

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Celebrity chef Paula Deen will be back in East Tennessee Friday after a visit earlier this month.
Deen will be in Pigeon Forge to kick off her 'Paula Deen Live!' tour and visit Gatlinburg for the opening of her new retail store.
Her live cooking show will be Saturday and Sunday. The 90-minute show will be a mix of cooking demonstrations, games and personal stories.
Deen launched the live cooking shows after the Food Network pulled the plug on her TV series last year.


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weMove Massachusetts, which served as the 2040 Long Range Plan for the State, was completed in May of 2014.. Since 2009, MassDOT has undertaken a wide-reaching reform effort, designed to improve how we do business, how we respond to our customers, and how we provide the transportation services that are a crucial foundation for the sustainable economic development of the Commonwealth. The weMove Massachusetts process was our first comprehensive effort to prioritize our transportation investments in a way that reflects what everyone feels is important for our transportation system. The goals of weMove Massachusetts were to:
A safe and efficient transportation system, one that provides users with a good range of options for getting around, is an important building block for a successful, prosperous, and equitable future. Before we get there, however, we must tackle a series of ongoing challenges:
By implementing a robust decision-making framework MassDOT, we will be able to spend our limited resources on investments into our transportation system that yield the greatest return in meeting our needs, to defend our investment decisions with data, and to meet these goals while understanding the aspirations and concerns of the traveling public.


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Ananthapur Overview
You can reach Ananthapur from Bangalore by road in about using a cab upon driving using a cab.
Located between Hyderabad and Bangalore highway, Ananthapur signifies historical evidence during the Bijayanagar Vidya kings. It is the largest district situated to the southern part of Andhra Pradesh with 64 Mandals. The British Indian Army was located in this city during the II world war. The city records low rainfall in India. It is also the home of Sri Satya Sai Baba. The closest airport to this city is Bangalore International and Puttarpathy Domestic aiport, from where you can easily hire cab rental services to reach the destinations. Timmamma Marrimanu (Banyan Tree) is spread across 5 acres and is recorded in the Guiness World Books..


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|A token of appreciation, recognition of service, or acknowledgement of having won a competition.
You want to encourage, motivate, or honor staff members and volunteers.
You have strong financial backing and/or a donor interested in supporting a special public initiative. You are seeking new ways to generate name-recognition and media attention.
You want to reach and motivate others in the community who may not be otherwise involved in the project.
You cannot clearly define the purpose of the award and its relevance to the project's goals.
You are not able to generate enthusiasm or interest either to fundraise for the award or to solicit nominations.
You do not have a broad public involvement campaign and have no means of letting others know about the reward.
|While rewarding project participants, and especially volunteers, should occur at any time, distributing other awards is best towards end of a project, or whenever there is a special accomplishments or unique situation.


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But my comedy onstage is just an amplification of what people do to each other.
Deprived of amplification, he silently stripped down and collapsed onstage.
Betty's nod merely admitted the fact, without supplement or amplification.
We must strike some sort of balance between my brevity and your amplification.
So it seemed on the whole more expedient to blurt out her remarks without any attempt at frills or amplification.
It is weak in amplification of examples during an age when amplification was practiced.
These, and similar expressions, show how much the Irish are disposed to metaphor and amplification.
The death of the martyrs was at that time an amplification of rhetoric.
A more formidable system for the foundation and amplification of lasting fortunes has not existed.
Of this, my present memoir is little more than an amplification.
1540s, "enlargement," from Latin amplificationem (nominative amplificatio) "a widening, extending," noun of action from past participle stem of amplificare (see amplify). Electronics sense is from 1915.
amplification am·pli·fi·ca·tion (ām'plə-fĭ-kā'shən)
The process of increasing the magnitude of a variable quantity, especially the magnitude of voltage, power, or current, without altering any other quality.
The result of such a process.
gene amplification n.
A cellular process characterized by the production of copies of a gene or genes to amplify the phenotype that the gene confers on the cell.
An increase in the magnitude or strength of an electric current, a force, or another physical quantity, such as a radio signal.
|gene amplification
An increase in the number of copies of a gene in a cell, resulting in an elevation in the level of the RNA or protein encoded for by the gene and a corresponding amplification of the phenotype that the gene confers on the cell. Drug resistance in cancer cells is linked to amplification of the gene that prevents absorption of the chemotherapeutic agent by the cell.
A process in a cell by which a particular gene is replicated so that more copies are available to produce a protein for the cell's use. For example, the genes that code for proteins involved in ribosomes are amplified early in the process of cell development so that there are sufficient numbers of them to assemble the cell.
Note: PCR, polymerase chain reaction, can be considered a type of man-made gene amplification process.


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lispdoc - results for copy-stream
(cl-fad:copy-stream from to &optional (checkp t))
|Function: Copies into TO (a stream) from FROM (also a stream) until the end of FROM is reached, in blocks of *stream-buffer-size*. The streams should have the same element type. If CHECKP is true, the streams are checked for compatibility of their types.
(alexandria.0.dev:copy-stream input output &key (element-type (stream-element-type input)) (buffer-size 4096) (buffer (make-array buffer-size element-type element-type)) finish-output)
|Function: Reads data from INPUT and writes it to OUTPUT. Both INPUT and OUTPUT must be streams, they will be passed to READ-SEQUENCE and WRITE-SEQUENCE and must have compatible element-types.
(copy-symbol symbol &optional (copy-props nil) &aux new-symbol)
|Function: Make and return a new uninterned symbol with the same print name as SYMBOL. If COPY-PROPS is false, the new symbol is neither bound nor fbound and has no properties, else it has a copy of SYMBOL's function, value and property list.
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HyperSpec - Function COPY-SYMBOL
(copy-seq sequence)
|Function: Return a copy of SEQUENCE which is EQUAL to SEQUENCE but not EQ.
(defun copy-board (board) (copy-seq board))
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CLtL2 - 14.1. Simple Sequence Functions
CLtL2 - 15.2. Lists
HyperSpec - Function COPY-SEQ
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(copy-tree object)
|Function: Recursively copy trees of conses.
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CLtL2 - 15.2. Lists
CLtL2 - 15.4. Substitution of Expressions
HyperSpec - Function COPY-TREE
PCL - lookup tables alists and plists
PCL - trees
(copy-list list)
|Function: Return a new list which is EQUAL to LIST. LIST may be improper.
(defun direct-slots (name) (copy-list (get name 'slots)))
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CLtL2 - 15.2. Lists
CLtL2 - 22.1.3. Macro Characters
HyperSpec - Function COPY-LIST
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On Lisp - New Utilities (Computation at Compile-Time)
PCL - combining recycling with shared structure
PCL - trees
(copy-structure structure)
|Function: Return a copy of STRUCTURE with the same (EQL) slot values.
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HyperSpec - Function COPY-STRUCTURE
(copy-alist alist)
|Function: Return a new association list which is EQUAL to ALIST.
|Mentioned in:
CLtL2 - 15.2. Lists
HyperSpec - Function COPY-ALIST
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Learn more about a botnet and the impact that one has on your computer or computer network.
A botnet is a network of compromised computers. The computers are infected with one or more trojan viruses that make outbound connections to Internet Relay Chat (IRC) servers. When the trojans arrive at the IRC servers, they are given commands to perform actions such as attacks and spam runs. Also, all modern trojans have keystroke loggers, so as soon as the bots connect to an IRC server, the trojan runner can pull financial information, passwords, and additional information from the victim's computer.
The next time that computer is connected to the Internet, that trojan will start up an IRC client and connect to a server. Sometimes it is a real IRC server, but more often it is an IRC server which has been set up on a shell account and paid for with a stolen credit card. The trojan will also have been coded to make the bot join a certain channel once it has connected.
The trojan may have downloaded to the victim's computer by being wrapped up in a file that looks innocent, usually a game crack or email attachment. Or, a trojan virus may sometimes be named to make you think it is an anti-virus program. The trojan may have been installed on the computer because there was some hidden code on a website that a person visited, which downloaded the virus to their machine.
The major difference between a bot in a botnet, and your common eggdrop or IRC client script bot in a channel, is that the botnet variety have been created with a trojan and, almost always, without the knowledge of the person whose computer they are running from.
Some of these trojans can not be identified with anti-virus software. You may have to reformat your machine to destroy the trojan.
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Our company has been established in 2009. We are providing wide range of transport and shipping services, especially connected with delivering groceries from all parts of the Europe.
Due to very strict, consequent and client-oriented trade policy, our business is growing constantly and rapidly. This growth has been recognized by our foreign suppliers, who found our services as much reliable as possible.
We are constantly expanding our business proposition. Currently we are offering transport of frozen:
- Fruits and vegetables from Europe and Middle East
- Fishes and seafood
- Milk and dairy products
Transport of fresh fruits and vegetables from companies located in Greece , Spain, Italy and Turkey is taking the most part of our services. Of course we are also eager to face any challenge for our customer satisfaction.
Groceries which we have in our offer are meeting high customer standards, because we are cooperating with reliable suppliers, who provide their best goods. Longstanding collaboration with many of them guarantees the highest quality of our products. Because of our employees experience with working with fresh products, we are always providing our services on time and we are meeting customer expectations.


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Sign-up resumes through May 5 for dairy disaster aid program
From Staff Reports
April 8, 2008 - Local dairy farmers who suffered production losses over the past three years may be eligible for special assistance from the federal government, but they have less than a month to sign up for the funding.
Eligible dairy producers who suffered production losses in 2005, 2006 or 2007 may apply to receive benefits under the Dairy Disaster Assistance Program III, the U.S. Department of Agriculture announced Monday.
Producers can sign up at the USDA Farm Service Agency (FSA) service center, located at 530 Hillcres Drive, until May 5, when the sign-up period will end.
The program will provide $16 million in benefits to dairy producers for dairy production losses that occurred between Jan. 1, 2005, and Dec. 31, 2007, because of natural disasters.
To be eligible, a producer's operation must be in a county designated a major disaster or emergency area by the president or declared a natural disaster area by the secretary of agriculture between Jan. 1, 2005, and Dec. 31, 2007.
Producers in contiguous counties are also eligible.
USDA designated Hopkins County as a primary natural disaster areas in August of 2006.
Producers in counties declared disaster areas by the president may be eligible, even though the agricultural loss was not covered by the declaration, if an FSA Administrator's Physical Loss Notice covered such losses.
FSA began enrolling producers in Dairy Disaster Assistance Program III in late 2007 and early 2008, then temporarily halted sign-up pending the completion of rulemaking which began with the issuance of a proposed rule for public comments on the program. Based on public comments, FSA made minor changes to the proposed DDAP-III rules. These changes are explained in the final DDAP-III regulations, which were published in the March 4 Federal Register.
The U.S. Troop Readiness, Veterans' Care, Katrina Recovery, and Iraq Accountability Appropriations Act, 2007 (2007 Act), signed by President Bush in May 2007, authorizes this program. The 2007 Act charges USDA with implementing the Dairy Disaster Assistance Program III (DDAP-III).
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I occasionally hear from readers who are concerned that journalists are veering more toward commentary than old-fashioned, just-the-facts reporting.
For example, a recent news piece covered Toronto Police Chief Bill Blair's comments after the shooting of Sammy Yatim, including a line suggesting that the chief was facing a "crisis of public confidence."
To me, that's a fair observation by the writer, analytical rather than personal opinion, but it raises a great issue.
Because of social media (where everyone has an opinion) and the explosion of online news tips and briefs (where many know the basic facts), the role of reporters is evolving. Their challenge is to help readers better understand what is happening – but also to add value by explaining why. That means using critical thinking skills and observation. And tapping the experience and knowledge they have gained covering a subject or a place.
Where does objectivity fit in, then? Jeffrey Dvorkin, a journalism professor at the University of Toronto (Scarborough), says that for many reporters, the "worst fear is being accused of bias." But sometimes they can go too far trying to prove their distance from a story. "In the process, we have lost our ability to both bear witness and to draw reasonable conclusions," he says. The way forward, he believes, is to keep reporting, but also to build on that to analyze events.
I agree. Great journalism demands more thinking – as well as the bravery to stand behind earned expertise and insight. There is, however, a difference between analysis and commentary. Analysis is based on either past or current reporting. It is fair and balanced, explanatory rather than opinionated. Comment is generally from a strong point of view, a sort of one-sided argument.
"Everyone can have a soapbox, but analysis requires marshalling of the evidence," says Christopher Waddell, the chair of Carleton University's journalism program. "The people writing analysis need to have some credibility and experience and not everybody can do it."
Credibility is key. A recent complaint came from HonestReporting Canada, an advocacy group whose mission is to "ensure Israel is represented fairly and accurately." It had several complaints about the wording in an online column by global affairs writer Patrick Martin. The article, "Have the European Union's sanctions made Israel jump," quotes a number of key Israeli officials discussing the EU's initiative to forbid member states from "engaging in any funding, co-operation, awarding of scholarships (etc.) to anyone residing in a Jewish settlement in territory captured by Israel in the 1967 Six-Day War." "For once," Mr. Martin concluded, "Europe is putting its money where its mouth is."
HonestReporting asked: "At what point does 'analysis' stray into 'personal opinion'? Some argue that it's an area of grey, but what's pretty clear is that a reporter's statements must be grounded in facts."
This is true. Mr. Martin says he was providing "an observation that Europe was putting its economic policy where its political statements were – not encouraging the EU to do this, nor applauding them, merely drawing a conclusion about the facts."
But I also believe that analysis needs to be clearly labelled and transparent to readers. I have sometimes complained to Globe editors about front-page stories not carrying clear tags indicating that they are something other than straight reporting. Mr. Martin's piece was posted on the Commentary section of The Globe's website, and includes his headshot, usually a signal that material will include analysis or opinion. The only problem: If you came to his article through a search or mobile, you may not have seen some of these signposts. There should be better clues to readers, perhaps by putting the word "analysis" into headlines.
However you come to Mr. Martin's piece, though, he is well qualified to offer analysis based on his experience. He spent two four-year terms in the Middle East as a correspondent (in 1991 and 2008) and has also been foreign editor and comment editor.
HonestReporting argues that if Mr. Martin wants to "shape public opinion, he should become a pundit." If that means he should continue to use his background and knowledge to explain Middle East politics to Globe readers, yes, that's true.Report Typo/Error
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Today's Lady News: Rush Limbaugh Rails Against "Overeducated, Young, Single White Women"
- Now that he's wagged his finger at brazen hussies, Rush Limbaugh is fulminating about "overeducated white women." Yes, today Rush railed against the author Tracie McMillan, who wrote a new book on food inequality called The American Way Of Eating: Undercover At Wal-mart, Applebee's, Farm Fields, And The Dinner Table. Apparently he is offended that this 1999 NYU grad wrote a book about food inequality when she studied political science in school, or something? I'm not even sure. Anyway, this is what he said today: "What is it with all these young, single white women? Overeducated doesn't mean intelligent." But at least he didn't call her a slut, right? [Media Matters]
- Speaking of Rush, as of this afternoon, a total of 32 advertisers have dropped from Rush's radio show, including AOL, Sears, Allstate Insurance, Geico, and John Deere. Check the link for the full list. [Think Progress]
- Eight current and former women in the U.S. military allege they were raped, assaulted or harassed while serving their country and retaliated against when they reported the abuse. [AP]
- Dear Mark Zuckerberg: please let the SCAR Project, which puts a face to breast cancer survivors, stay on Facebook. [The Daily Muse]
- Has abortion clinic violence deterred doctors from performing abortions? [Washington Post]
- A nursing mother was stopped by TSA agents because she was carrying her breast pump and was forced to pump milk in the women's bathroom because she was not allowed to fly with empty bottles. [HLNTV]
- Actress Regina King is reportedly playing NY Congresswoman Shirley Chisholm in an upcoming film about the first black person to run for president. [Madame Noire]
- Afghanistan appears to be scaling back its support of women's rights to appease the Taliban. For example, President Karzai has agreed with Muslim clerics that men and women should not mix at school or work. [Wall Street Journal, BBC]
- More on the European Union's quota plans to get more women in the boardroom. [Guardian UK]
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Far be it for me to critize someone else's spelling or grammar. Over the years I've let slip my fair share of typos. Of course, none of them were in permanent foot-high lettering, so let the the criticism commence!
Sign of the times: Your bad grammer is the reason you suck
Camille Grammer Implies Kelsey Does Drag
Kelsey Grammer's soon-to-be ex-wife appeared on The Howard Stern Show Wednesday morning and implied the former Frasier star is a perfect fit for La Cage aux Folles because he likes dressing up in women's clothing.
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Beijing, Sept 13, 2006
Over 2,850 people have died or gone missing in natural disasters in China this year, which have resulted in 191.8 billion yuan (23.9 billion dollars) in direct economic losses, state press said Wednesday.
"This year China has suffered the most severe natural disasters since 1998," Xinhua news agency quoted Li Liguo, vice-minister of the Ministry of Civil Affairs, as saying.
So far the state has only allocated 3.1 billion yuan (392 million dollars) in aid to help the over 13.2 million people affected by the disasters, he said.
An unusually severe typhoon season in China has been the biggest culprit, killing 2,295 people and leaving 564 missing, the report said.
Almost six million homes were severely damaged or destroyed.
"The number of people evacuated from disaster-hit areas this year is almost double the figure of the last few years," Li said.
Relief operations continued to face "great difficulties," Li said, as the government struggles to rebuild or repair many homes ahead of winter.
Typhoons Pearl, Saomai and Bilis ravaged southeastern China's Fujian province in recent months.
They also caused widespread flooding and landslides in other provinces in the region, including Hunan, Guangdong, Jiangxi and Guangxi, Li said.
The storms wreaked havoc on China's agricultural sector, resulting in the loss of around 40.5 billion kilograms of grain from January to the end of August, Xinhua said in a separate report, citing vice agriculture minister Fan Xiaojian.
This compares with 30.5 billion kilograms of grain lost to natural disasters over the whole of 2004 and 34.5 billion kilograms lost last year, the report said.
The ministry also said that typhoons and floods have killed 1.27 million head of livestock and 21 million poultry, the report added.
China is struck by severe summer flooding annually. The worst year in recent memory was 1998, when nearly 3,500 people died due to natural disasters.
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Ideas to rebuild the southern US city of New Orleans, devastated a year ago by a powerful hurricane, were showcased at an international architecture exhibition that opened in Venice, Italy on Sunday.
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Johannesburg: Zimbabwean cricketers Andy Flower and Henry Olonga have escaped punishment from the International Cricket Council (ICC) for their public protest against the regime of President Robert Mugabe during their World Cup clash against Namibia, it was announced on Friday. The two players earned worldwide praise for their courage in donning black armbands in the match at the Harare Sports Club on February 10 and for the powerful joint statement they released which strongly condemned living conditions in the strife- torn country.
They were reported to the ICC by its own board, the Zimbabwe Cricket Union (ZCU) whose patron is Mugabe, who claimed that the actions of the players brought the game into disrepute. "The ICC seeks at all times to avoid using cricket as a platform on which to advance political agendas and its very strong belief is that the players, officials and administrators within the game should refrain from doing the same," said Malcolm Speed, the head of the six-man technical committee which made the decision.
"The Committee requested that the players stop wearing black armbands to make political statements for the duration of the World Cup. There are enough people outside the sport seeking to achieve political ends through cricket for their own purposes, without the sports participants contributing to this matter. "In the case of Flower and Olonga, the players have blurred the lines between political issues and the sporting arena. While this is a principle that the ICC does not wish to see violated, it is also the case that there is no sound basis for finding that their actions have brought the game into disrepute and there is no charge that could be sustained under the ICC Code of Conduct."
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"I'm 18. I should be able to work where I choose," said Kimberly Sams, a freshman at East Tennessee State University. "If the basketball team can come in here and eat, then I should be able to work."
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Once upon a time, the dashing Mr. Skippy met beautiful Ms. Libbys.
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This baby came about after my pumpkin-spice latte post last week, when people left such super-awesome ideas on how to use up a can of pumpkin. I think at least three of you mentioned pumpkin pb as an option, so I had to play around with that idea first. Other recipes I'm working on: chocolate-pumpkin brownies and pumpkin-cream-cheese bars. If the recipes turn out well, I'll post those in the near future.
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While at Melbourne University she also indulged one of her prime interests - acting - appearing in classical and contemporary plays, a number of university revues and as an extra in a professional production of St Joan starring Zoe Caldwell.
Elizabeth wanted to continue her studies and become an academic, but her impaired mobility prevented it. She was despondent as she contemplated her future until a friend suggested that in radio she could use her rich voice, her acting ability and her intellect. In December 1963, she successfully auditioned for the ABC.
She soon became the complete all-rounder: television presenter, interviewer, the first ABC woman to do the all-night shift transmitting of cricket tests to the BBC, while her background, education and preference made her a natural presenter of classical music.
By 1970, Elizabeth was in Sydney presenting an outstanding radio program, discussing any subject that touched upon the human condition. It was strong fare for the Australia of the time. It was a good program, she later recalled, but people kept being sacked.
Crisis time arrived for Elizabeth when, while talking to social commentator Ray Taylor, she spoke of backlash - that hatred, that violence, that comes from fear of the different. During the discussion that followed comments were made that outraged ABC management and some of the audience. Amid protests and questions in Parliament about a left-wing libber on the ABC, the program was dropped.
Thirty years later Elizabeth found it ironic that the same syndrome - hatred and fear of the different - was still rampant among politicians and media commentators.
While in Sydney, she also ran a television program, Matinee, and later a TV current affairs program called - "unfortunately", she said - At Home this Morning with Elizabeth Bond. However, she told the Melbourne Herald in 1978, "I didn't ever enjoy being rostered on TV ... I hated being recognised in the street, I hated all that thing which is part of television. I didn't ever want to become a personality."
Elizabeth had married in Sydney but the marriage did not last. In the early 1970s she was back in Melbourne caring for her young son, Sam. These were difficult years and she was not confident of ever being able to return to work. However, in 1977 when the ABC asked her to return she agreed, observing: "It seems the prodigal is welcomed back."
She had been set a tough task, asked to take over the 8.30am-11am program on 3LO after the ABC had sacked the extremely popular Terry Lane, fuelling a huge public outcry and demonstrations outside Broadcast House. However, she quickly re-established herself as a leader of the objective, informed radio discussion and The Age reported, "Ms Bond's radio current affairs program commands a huge Melbourne audience".
Indeed, her ratings soon outstripped Terry Lane's and her program, the Melbourne counterpart to Caroline Jones's City Extra on 2BL - although the two presenters' styles were very different - became Melbourne's top-rating morning radio talk show. Many of her interviews, including a no-holds-barred encounter with the then prime minister, Malcolm Fraser, provided case studies in how to investigate, search and reveal without fear or favour.
She said to her producer: "Don't ask me to interview an actor to promote a show. Don't ask me to interview a publisher to promote a book. We're national broadcasting, not a PR company."
She introduced weekly contributions from commentators on national and international politics, media analysis, and business, and aired many consumers' concerns. The program was distinguished by the compere's ability to absorb huge amounts of material, to probe opinions rather than offer her own, and to nail an inconsistency or wild assertion - all presented with wit and a voice of rare quality.
While the demands of the daily program inevitably demanded a high price, Elizabeth refused to concede to a deteriorating physical condition. When she fractured her good leg (the other was already permanently straightened) she declined the opportunity to rest.
"If you carry me from the house to the car and then from the car to the studio," she told a stunned producer, "I think we'll cope quite well." And so she did.
In May 1979 she addressed an international conference on the media in Atlanta, Georgia. Fourteen countries were represented, with Elizabeth the only Australian invited. And in the same year she was awarded a gold citation in the United Nations Peace Awards.
At the end of that year, however, Elizabeth resigned, citing disagreements about the format of her show for the coming year and threats of interference by ABC management. Her air time was to be cut by 50 per cent and changes made that would, in her view, "totally alter the concept and standard" of the program. Not surprisingly, Elizabeth found this "entirely unacceptable".
Ranald Macdonald, managing director of David Syme, then publisher of The Age, asked her to join the newspaper's staff. Macdonald had ambitions for Elizabeth to chair international discussions and debates. She pioneered the first Dialogue Interviews for The Age and prepared a feasibility study for a proposed television series The Age Debates. However, Syme's venture into television via a controlling interest in RTV Hong Kong was short-lived.
In 1981, Elizabeth was appointed as the first community relations officer to the Royal Women's Hospital to improve the relationships between the hospital and the community, as well as relationships within the hospital itself. She introduced some innovative services relating to information, ethics and protocols, and for migrant and working women.
Her comment on her two years at the hospital was: "My conciliation and mediation skills were tested and honed!"
These skills helped in her appointment in 1982 as Victoria's first woman commissioner in the Liquor Licensing Commission, where she conducted hearings and handed down written decisions with courage and complete integrity.
The growing complexity of the commercial arrangements in the sector, and the understanding required in many areas of the law, led Elizabeth in 1989 at last to enrol in law at Melbourne University. She undertook the course part-time while still a full-time commissioner and single mother. She was a brilliant student, being awarded four exhibitions and two other prizes and obtaining a first-class degree in 1995.
Elizabeth entered into articles with Blake Dawson Waldron lawyers, but her deteriorating health caused her to resign three months before completing them.
During the 1980s, Elizabeth served the community as a foundation board member of the Meat Market Craft Centre, chairman of St Martins Youth Centre, a member of the ethics committee of the Royal Southern Memorial Hospital and the ABC Victorian advisory committee.
In 1978 she described her greatest pleasures to the National Times: "Friends, Sam, food ... I love cooking, absolutely adore it." She was, of course, a superb cook.
Elizabeth contributed a great deal to life. She was highly respected by her colleagues. She was a steadfast friend and family member who challenged, stimulated and inspired people through her achievements and intellect. And she was a great mother to Sam.
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Re: st:Command for clustering without sampling
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Re: st:Command for clustering without sampling
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Looks like sample selection will be a bigger problem than clustering,
but apparently you had no control as to who will be in the sample, in
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probability, sample, don't you?)
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Lai Wah Yen is one of the "original" Chinese restaurants in Ciudad Juarez, and has been in the same location for
as long as I have been in the El Paso/Juarez area (and who knows how long before that time?). Located across
the street from the more famous Shangri La, I have for the most part thought it was better than Shangri La.
Recently, though, I'm taking another look. Lai Wah Yen is an "old style" Chinese restaurant, serving the standard dishes such as chop suey, chow mein, sweet and sour pork, etc., although it does have a few Hunan and Szechuan dishes. I certainly would not say that the menu was very adventurous, though. There are no tofu or even any vegetarian dishes. The menu simply consists of about six or seven different sauces served with various types of meat.
There are several dinners (actually more like banquets, with huge amounts of food) that only cost slightly more than the single entrťes, so this is a good way to try the food. I had the "Comida Deluxe" served to two or more people, and in which no substitutions can be made. This had a huge amount of food with several appetizers, soup, four entrťes, and fried rice (and also includes tea). The good thing about it is that it contains several items with offsetting flavors, and the food seems fresh. The bad thing is that none of the items were exceptional.
The item I enjoyed the most was the almond chicken--normally white sauce is my least favorite Chinese sauce but the one here had a good flavor, and the fresh vegetables and almonds brought it out even more (the chicken was OK--at least it did not detract from the other flavors).
The sweet and sour chicken was OK but the sauce was like the Americanized sweet, gloppy version instead of the real Chinese sauce with offsetting flavors.
The broccoli beef was just not enjoyable--the brown sauce was not very good and the beef was even worse, but at least the broccoli was good.
There was also a duck dish with sweet and sour sauce that I did not like (it may have been too fatty, but in any case I think ducks should probably be left swimming on lakes rather than on restaurant serving trays).
I had eaten at Shangri La a few years ago (before I started writing my detailed reviews), and even though I wasn't blown away by the food there, I now think it is better than Lai Wah Yen. The interior of Shangri La is more pleasant, they do not try to serve ridiculous amounts of food, and it is less expensive. Mainly, though, I did not like the fact that Lai Wah Yen has ash trays on every table (fortunately nobody was smoking around me). I remember that Shangri La had a place where I could get away from the smoke, but I cannot say for sure that it was a designated non-smoking area. For now my recommendation would be to go to Shangri La, but I will have to go back for a more recent impression of things there.


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Completed Commissions:
Ancestral Gate | Growing Together | Homage to Roberto | I Am Order, You Are Chaos | Passages
Artist: Jose Rodriquez and David Mark Twidle
Date: 2006
Material: Granulated recycled rubber
Location: John Daniels School courtyard. 569 Congress Avenue.
Jose Emilio Rodriguez, an artist form Queens, New York, and David Mark Twidle from Ashbury Park, NJ completed, You are Order, I am Chaos...for the construction of the new John C. Daniels School, which was dedicated on November 12, 2006.
Installed in the open air courtyard of the school, You are Order, I am Chaos...suggests a physical and metaphorical center for the school. Large blue rubberized surfaces decorated with flowers (symbolizing youth) placed within concentric bands offers students the opportunity to become a part of the work of art - by walking over and standing on - these special spaces. The design of this artwork is based on a grid system designed by the architects. The flowers actually are placed specifically on the meeting points of the circular bands and axis of the grid.
Not surprisingly, the color blue was chosen for the large circular areas, which suggests large bodies of water to provide an intended effect of "tranquility" on the viewers. In addition, the artist hoped to bring to mind the effect teachers have on their students, much like a stone thrown into a body of water, whose ripples continue outward, affecting everything in its path. Further, the artist described the circles as representing students' thirst for knowledge, which is quenched by learning.
David Twidle designed and executed an interior mural which can be seen from inside and outside the courtyard. The various free-form elements and shapes are meant to both harmonize and contrast with the mosaic outside, so that each piece can stand on its own, but relate to each other.
Rodriguez and Twidle both believe that art can help create a sense of pride in place and a feeling of ownership, and that Daniels School students will be invigorated by these works.
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Even with a 15 percent reduction in time for good behavior, such a sentence would allow Madoff to get out of jail at 106.
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Our Living Language : Beginning students of chemistry are understandably puzzled by the term reduction: shouldn't a reduced atom or ion be one that loses electrons rather than gains them? The reason for the apparent contradiction comes from the early days of chemistry, where reduction and its counterpart, oxidation, were terms invented to describe reactions in which one substance lost an oxygen atom and the other substance gained it. In a reaction such as that between two molecules of hydrogen (2H2) and one of oxygen (O2) combining to produce two molecules of water (2H2O), the hydrogen atoms have gained oxygen atoms and were said to have become "oxidized," while the oxygen atoms have (as it were) lost them by attaching themselves to the hydrogens, and were said to have become "reduced." Importantly, though, in the process of gaining an oxygen atom, the hydrogen atoms have had to give up their electrons and share them with the oxygen atoms, while the oxygen atoms have gained electrons. Thus comes the apparent paradox that the "reduced" oxygen has in fact gained something, namely electrons. Today the terms oxidation and reduction are used of any reaction, not just one involving oxygen, where electrons are (respectively) lost or gained.
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We're starting to get genuinely worried about Erik Rush, as the conservative commentator in his latest column warns that not only will President Obama confiscate guns in order to usher in Chinese Communist rule, but he might also cancel the 2014 elections.
For some time, there have been unsubstantiated reports of the Obama administration engaging in clandestine negotiations with China toward satisfying America's debt to that nation via exchanges of land and resources. Such an arrangement would be illegal and treasonous of course, but given its deportment to date, that would not likely deter this administration.
Also, in the face of having trillions of dollars in debt called by China, and the economic catastrophe that would ensue, it is entirely possible that Obama might request and be granted some manner of dispensation from Congress to legitimize this pact.
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The extraordinarily capable and thoughtful Ezra Klein thinks that the [Washington Center for Economic Growth]() is wrongheaded–indeed, that the entire American left is now wrongheaded. And a number of us wish to register our dissent from his theses:
Ezra Klein: Inequality isn't 'the defining challenge of our time':
The organizing economic concern of the American left is–or is becoming–income inequality… Zucotti Park… Bill DeBlasio… President Obama…. Income inequality is easy to worry about. It offend…. Those who aren't unnerved by the datum that the income share of the top one percent has shot from about 10 percent in 1980 to more than 20 percent today can worry instead about inequality's attendant consequence: declining social mobility…. But is inequality really the country's most pressing problem?…
Jared Bernstein has been worrying about inequality since way before worrying about inequality was cool… [but] found that there wasn't strong evidence for the idea that inequality is weakening demand–or for any of the other theories tying inequality to a weaker economy…. That doesn't mean inequality isn't hurting growth. It just means it's difficult to find firm proof of it. But if inequality really was the central challenge to growth, would proof really be so hard to come by? Meanwhile, evidence of joblessness and weak growth are pervasive….
[Secular stagnation] is… a harder problem to mobilize a political coalition around. It doesn't offend our moral intuitions so much as confuse them. Someone making $85,000 annually can look at the incomes of the top one percent and be angry and scared. They can hear that Germany has more social mobility than the does the United States and be offended. The plight of the long-term unemployed and the economy's stubborn refusal to generate catch-up growth are more abstract…. It's fair to wonder whether any of this matters. The Obama administration would like to boost demand. But Congress isn't going to let them. Asking whether inequality or joblessness or growth is the defining economic challenge of our time is like asking how many John Boehners can dance on the head of a pin. But the same logic applies to inequality….
The game being played here is a longer one. Of late, inequality become a much more popular research topic…. Obama consigliere John Podesta founded the Washington Center for Equitable Growth, a think tank dedicated to funding research into inequality. The political system's focus on the issue is leading to more thinking, more concern, more ideas and more pressure for action…. That will matter… eventually. When the left next gets a chance to make economic policy, what will they choose to do? A world in which inequality is the top concern… [and] a world in which growth and unemployment are top concerns are worlds in which very different policies… [are] top priorities.
And Ashok Rao:
Ashok Rao: The Defining Problem of Our Age:
Ezra Klein… misses a few important points and, I think, doesn't do the best job of characterizing the progressive argument. Or maybe we're in agreement, and I've misunderstood–it's hard to tell (though, given that I'm commenting on a Wonkblog post, more likely than not)….
As long as your income is growing–even if not nearly as quickly as financiers on Wall Street–it's not hard to foolishly convince yourself that you have a same shot at those riches…. But when the music stops the story changes. Inequality is a problem, politically and economically, precisely because of secular stagnation…. It's worthwhile dividing problems into two categories: those that are urgent, and those that are important…. Let me be absolutely clear: the most urgent problem facing America today is unemployment…. But candidates for the most important problem are more diverse still… the tail risks from climate change… rising inequality and secular stagnation. But it is difficult to argue that growth is a uniquely more challenging problem….
The Wonkblog post suggests most of the connection between inequality and growth come[s] from a persistent demand shortfall resulting from income earned by those with a higher marginal propensity to save…. [But that] is hardly the most important link…. Most things we do to reduce inequality would also increase growth…. In fact, other than the second-best solution of the minimum wage, it's not easy to think of something that–within the Keynesian model many people in this conversation favor–would reduce inequality without improving growth [right now]…. You would really need a Republican to find a way to better one without bettering the other (and, arguably, the farm bill is a perfect example to this effect).
Let me now chime in.
First of all, we have a problem with words. "Economic growth" is usually taken to mean "increases in real GDP". Increases in real GDP are usually taken to mean "economic growth". But these two really should be distinguished. If real GDP grows because we are spending an extra 4% of our incomes on the services of financial intermediaries; but if we get no better corporate control, no better allocation of capital across industries and firms, less risk spreading, and more of a risk of financial crisis out of spending that extra 4%; then we have not really gotten any economic growth, have we? And if we spend an extra 3% of GDP on specialists, paying them more than GPs and having them do things done by GPs elsewhere, for no improvement in life expectancy, we haven't really gotten economic growth, have we? And if we spend an extra 4% on health-care administration, that is money down the toilet, isn't it? And if we imprison 1% of our population that's another 1% of GDP that isn't really economic growth, is it? All of these changes have taken place over the past generation. All of these are aspects of our massive increase in inequality. And there is the doubling of the top-1% share even though the top 1% have not grown noticeably more productive: they are supposed to deliver a more smoothly-functioning and faster-growing economy in return for their riches, and they have not done so. Half of the doubling from 10% to 20% of GDP is already accounted for, but the rest is another 5%.
Adding up all of these together, they mean that 17%-points of economic growth over the past 35 or so years really isn't economic growth at all because it was diverted into rising inequality instead. Yes, that 17%-points over a generation is measured in real GDP. No, it is not really there if you look deeper and focus on what GDP is supposed to be a proxy for: human material welfare.
And then there are the political consequences of inequality. A more unequal economy is one in which the voice of the rich speak louder in the political debate, and the rich want to keep what is theirs. Before 1975 the U.S. made a uniquely large effort to educate its people, and win the race between education and technology. The result was a middle-class society for white guys (and, alas, for white guys alone). Then came what Robert Kuttner calls The Revolt of the Haves: the great pulling-up of the ladder of free public higher education. The consequence was another factor pushing for the great widening of income inequality, as America began to lose the race between education and technology. And the consequence was that 0.3%/year of American real economic growth simply vanished as we were no longer making the requisite educational effort to keep our population the best-educated in the world. Over 35 years that failure has made us another 10% poorer–and more unequal to.
And then there is the direction of innovation. For decades, Kevin Murphy, Andrei Shleifer, and Robert Vishny, in papers like "Industrialization and the Big Push" and "The Allocation of Talent" have been worrying away at the question of the relationship between equality and growth. An equal income and wealth distribution provides powerful incentives to concentrate innovation and investment in activities that, broadly speaking, add significantly to human material welfare. An unequal income and wealth distribution provides powerful incentives to concentrate innovation and investment in activities that, broadly speaking, temporarily appease the ennui and the boredom of the upper class. An equal income and wealth distribution focuses talented people on the positive-sum question of how they can be useful. An unequal income and wealth distribution focuses talented people on the negative-sum question of how they can displace one of the big-time rent-seekers and become a big-time rent-seeker themselves.
And we haven't even gotten to the mechanisms that people like J.A. Hobson and Robert Reich and Joe Stiglitz think lie at the core of the relationship between inequality, overleverage, risk of financial crisis, and risk of secular stagnation: an unequal society producing a desire to keep up with the Joneses and resulting overleverage, and an unequal society with a poor and middle class without the money to spend to maintain aggregate demand at full employment through consumption and a satiated rich without the desire to bear the risk needed to maintain aggregate demand at full employment through investment and innovation.
It was fifty years ago that Brookings Institution economist Arthur Okun gave his Godwin lectures at Harvard: Equality an Efficiency: The Big Tradeoff. In it, he set forth the dominant metaphor that governed and governs our discussion of growth and inequality: the leaky bucket. The market, Okun said, produced a level of real production and a distribution of income. You could transfer wealth from rich to poor to get a better and more equal distribution of income–there was a bucket. But whenever you did so you disrupted incentives to produce to some degree–the bucket was leaky, and so when you transferred you got less to the poor than you had taken to the rich. It was, Arthur Okun thought, the job of Brookings Institution economists to how and where the bucket was leakiest and so at what angle to hold it and how close to full to fill it in order to do the most good.
And this leaky-bucket metaphor is the dominant framework within which Ezra Klein thinks.
And, as the Fearless Soon-to-Be-Ex-Leader over here at Equitable Growth John Podesta says, this is a wrong and unhelpful America. Take a look at America's economy and polity over the past generation, and tell me, if you can do so with a straight face, that any aspect of the large upward leap in inequality we have experienced has paid any benefits at all in terms of true–not measured real-GDP, but true human material welfare-enhancing–economic growth.
I don't think you can. I certainly can't. And I can see lots of micro places where higher inequality has itself deranged incentives and focused activity in the wrong places and so dragged down true real human material welfare-enhancing economic growth.
UPDATE: And Steve Randy Waldmann has a… stronger… reaction to the estimable Ezra Klein then the rest of us did:
Steve Randy Waldmann: interfluidity » Terrible.:
On the bright side, I guess I couldn't ask for a better example of the phenomenon I described in "Standards of Evidence" than this piece by Ezra Klein. It's terrible. I have no idea whether inequality is the "defining challenge of our time". That's a meaningless trope. But Klein's frames the question as an excuse to knock inequality down a few pegs from the economic priority list…. Here's the worst:
Economist Jared Bernstein has been worrying about inequality since way before worrying about inequality was cool. But in a careful paper released on the same day as Obama's speech, Bernstein found that there wasn't strong evidence for the idea that inequality is weakening demand — or for any of the other theories tying inequality to a weaker economy. There "is not enough concrete proof to lead objective observers to unequivocally conclude that inequality has held back growth," Bernstein wrote. That doesn't mean inequality isn't hurting growth. It just means it's difficult to find firm proof of it. But if inequality really was the central challenge to growth, would proof really be so hard to come by?
Read Bernstein's paper…. An intelligent reader would interpret Klein as saying that Bernstein looked for evidence, failed to find it, and concluded it just wasn't there. In fact, Bernstein reviews the research and finds lots of suggestive connections between inequality and growth. The unfortunate bit that Klein quotes reflects a kind of handwringing on Bernstein's part…. Bernstein offers a cautious invitation to take seriously evidence of connections between inequality and growth. Klein pulls the caution out of context and misuses it as an excuse to dismiss those connections….
There is no such thing as "the central challenge to growth". Proof is impossible to come by with respect to all macroeconomic controversies. Klein vapidly handwrings that, "Growth simply isn't producing enough jobs" without meaningfully addressing the question of how to achieve growth, or addressing the arguments that Bernstein carefully catalogs for why a broader distribution might be growth-supportive….
A policy apparatus for which inequality is not a "top concern" might content itself with spurring demand by protecting and increasing the wealth of the politically-connected rich, on the theory that anyone's misfortune hurts at the margin and providing support to the non-rich is politically impossible. But that's, like, totally science fiction, right?
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In best-selling author Danielle Steel's new novel, Big Girl, the main character, Victoria, struggles with her weight, body image and self-esteem from childhood through her 20s. Her parents frequently criticize her and favor her younger, thinner sister. The story chronicles Victoria's dieting attempts and food binges as she comes to terms with her unloving parents and finds a man who loves her just as she is. USA TODAY talked to Steel about the book.
Q: What inspired you to write Big Girl, which focuses on weight, body image and self-esteem?
A: Books are always written about beautiful people who find other beautiful people, but most people are regular people, and weight is an issue for a lot of them. I thought, it must be a drag to always have beautiful people highlighted in books. Why not make a heavier woman the star of the show? If you notice, I do not have Victoria lose weight by the end of the book, but she gets a great guy. I thought that was important and more real.
Q: What messages about weight and body image do you want readers to take away?
A: That it's OK to be you, less than perfect. Our role models are ridiculous. Most of the models that you see in Vogue are extremely young and way too thin to be healthy. We are a society that worships extreme youth, extreme thinness, extreme beauty — and anyone who doesn't measure up feels ugly. Women are born saying, "Do I look fat in this?" Somebody gave me a funny bracelet a few years ago that said, "Do I look fat in this bracelet?"
Q: What are the themes of the book?
A: There are two elements. One is her weight issue. She eats ice cream when she gets upset, and she's comparing herself to today's role models. The underlying theme is about cruel, narcissistic parents and how much they can damage their child. Victoria's parents give her the message that she is fat and ugly, and they constantly mention her weight.
Parents have huge power over their kids when they are younger. I had a tough German father, and he believed you should never tell children that they are good-looking. He told me, "You better develop your brains, because you are not going to get anywhere on your looks." I grew up feeling totally ugly.
Q: What is the best thing that a man can say to a woman about her weight? The worst?
A: "You look gorgeous, and I love you" always works.
Obviously, your mate can make you feel pretty bad. I remember once I bought a new cocktail dress, put it on and came out, and my husband put down his newspaper, looked at me over his glasses and said, "Is that a costume?" Needless to say I didn't feel comfortable wearing that again. A certain amount of honesty is a good thing, but you have to know where to limit it. I saw a refrigerator magnet once with a man lying dead on the floor with a woman standing over him with a gun, and it read, "The next time I ask 'Do I look fat in this?' you'll know what to say."
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The rest of the time I have been lucky. I'm 5-foot-1¾, and I weigh between 100 and 110 pounds. I'm not much of an eater. I don't care what I eat. I'm not a gourmet food person. ... I think peanut butter and jelly is high cuisine. I eat a light breakfast and one big meal a day.
I'm very active. I hate exercise with a passion. I run up and down the stairs. I chased my kids around for years and years. My children are now ages 22 to 40.
Thin people have other issues. Everybody has something they feel ugly about. Because my father was hard on me and convinced me I wasn't good-looking, I always told my kids how smart and good-looking they were.
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