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The Christmas tree and Neapolitan Baroque crèche at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, a long-standing yuletide tradition in New York, is now on view for the holiday season through January 8, 2012. The brightly lit, 20-foot blue spruce—with a collection of 18th-century Neapolitan angels and cherubs hovering among its boughs and groups of realistic crèche figures flanking the Nativity scene at its base—once again delights holiday visitors in the Museum's Medieval Sculpture Hall. Set in front of the 18th-century Spanish choir screen from the Cathedral of Valladolid, with recorded Christmas music in the background and daily lighting ceremonies, the installation reflects the spirit of the holiday season.
This exhibit of the crèche is made possible by gifts to The Christmas Tree Fund and the Loretta Hines Howard Fund.
The annual Christmas display has evolved through the generosity, enthusiasm, and dedication of the late Loretta Hines Howard, who began collecting crèche figures in 1925. Soon after, Mrs. Howard conceived the idea of presenting the elaborate Nativity scene within a Christmas tree, angels swirling upward to the crowning star.
This unusual combination was first presented to the public in 1957, with the Metropolitan's first exhibition of Mrs. Howard's collection. Since 1964, more than two hundred 18th-century Neapolitan crèche figures have been given to the Museum by Loretta Hines Howard, and they have been displayed each holiday season for more than 40 years. Linn Howard, Mrs. Howard's daughter, worked with her mother for many years on the annual installation. Following her mother's death in 1982, she has continued to create new settings for the figures she adds to the collection. Andrea Selby, Linn Howard's daughter, follows the tradition passed down by her mother and grandmother and joins in the creation of the display each year.
The towering tree is adorned with cherubs and some 50 gracefully suspended angels. The landscape at the base displays the figures and scenery of the Neapolitan Christmas crib. This display mingles three basic elements that are traditional to 18th-century Naples: the Nativity, with adoring shepherds and their flocks; the procession of the three Magi and their exotically dressed retinue of Asians and Africans; and, most distinctively, a crowd of colorful townspeople and peasants representing lifelike characters with intriguing facial expressions. The theatrical scene is enhanced by a charming assortment of animals—sheep, goats, horses, a camel, and an elephant—and by background pieces that create a dramatic setting for the Nativity, including the ruins of a Roman temple, several quaint houses, and a typical Italian fountain with a lion's-mask waterspout.
The popular Christmas custom of restaging the Nativity is traditionally credited to Saint Francis of Assisi. The employment of man-made figures to reenact the hallowed events reached its height of complexity and artistic excellence in 18th-century Naples, where local families, often assisted by professional stage directors, vied to outdo each other in presenting elaborate and theatrical crèche displays. The high artistic estimation of the genre is evidenced in works of the finest sculptors of the period—including Giuseppe Sammartino and his pupils Salvatore di Franco, Giuseppe Gori, and Angelo Viva—who were called on to model the terracotta heads and shoulders of the extraordinary crèche figures. The Howard collection includes numerous works attributed to these as well as to other prominent artists.


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Dear fellow alumnae/i,
With the support of the Alumnae Association, I retired in January 2011 as editor of the Alumnae Bulletin to work on my own creative projects.
I returned to Bryn Mawr in December 1989 after eight years as a newspaper reporter and editor. It has been my privilege for the last 21 years to discover how individual alumnae work to make the world a better place—for their families and communities, in the arts, business, science, education and government—and then to bring those stories to all of you. Working on campus has also provided constant intellectual nourishment, dear colleagues, and year after year, the wonderful students.
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In this issue, the Bulletin hosts the Annual Report of the College. We have had fun planning the May 2011 issue, which will report on "digital Bryn Mawr." Article topics will include the use of technology across the disciplines to transform the process of acquiring a liberal arts education and the exciting jobs of alumnae who work in new media and web 2.0.
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The telecoms regulator, Oftel, has cleared the way for much of the UK's population to receive access to high-speed internet services.
The organisation has set out revised charges for operators to gain access to BT's network of phone lines which feed into individual homes, dubbed the local loop.
Companies such as Energis and Redstone will be able to offer broadband internet access to individual home-owners, competing against one another and BT.
They will pay £122 rental a year, with a one-off charge of £88 for each local loop connection, which is usually an individual house.
The operators will decide the final cost to be passed on to the customers.
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BT has long been criticised by its rivals for delaying access to its local exchanges, although OFTEL said on Friday the process of so-called local loop unbundling was now "accelerating".
The benefits of competition include improved customer services and the driving down of prices.
The charges come into effect immediately, and BT has committed to opening 600 local exchanges to third parties within six months.
Broadband service providers allow home surfers to go online using a high-speed Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Lines (ADSL) connection that works via their telephone line.
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BT must offer shared access from the beginning of 2001, with charges for this service to be established by Oftel early next year.
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Photoelectron spectroscopy applies the principle of the photoelectric effect to study orbital energies of atoms and molecules. High-energy radiation (usually UV or x-ray) is absorbed by a sample...
Photoelectron spectroscopy applies the principle of the photoelectric effect to study orbital energies of atoms and molecules. High-energy radiation (usually UV or x-ray) is absorbed by a sample and an electron is ejected. The orbital enegy can be calculated from the known energy of the radiation and the measured energy of the electron lost. The following energy differences were determined for several electrons transitions:
change of energy from 2 to 1= 4.098x10^-17 J
change of energy from 3 to 1= 4.854x10^-17 J
change of energy from 5 to 1= 5.254x10^-17 J
change of energy from 4 to 2 = 1.024x10^-17 J
Calculate the energy change and the wavelength of a photon emitted in the following transition: level 3 to 2.
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We are looking for the energy transition from level 3 to 2 and finding the wavelength of the associated photon released. We are given several energy transitions but the two that are relevant here are the first two given. We see the energy for going from 3 to 1 and also the energy for going from 2 to 1. If we subtract the 2 to 1 number from the 3 to 1 number, we are left with the energy associated with going from 3 to 2.
4.854 x 10^-17 J - 4.098 x 10^-17 J = 0.756 x 10^-17 J
Now that we know the energy for the transition, we can calculate the wavelength for the photon emitted via the equation below:
E = hc/lambda
where E is the energy, h is Plank's constant, c is the speed of light, and lambda is the wavelength. Solving for lambda:
lambda = hc/E
We can look up that the value of hc (remember that both numbers are constants) is 1.986 x 10^-25 Jm. Now divide by the energy to get the wavelength:
1.986 x 10^-25 Jm / 0.756 x 10^-17 J = 2.63 x 10^-8 m
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My c.a.t scan shows I have an ovarian cyst and gallstones. Which issue should I take care of first? Do I have to remove my gallbladder?
Not necessarily: The ovarian cyst should resolve on it's own, and is not likely to need intervention. The gallstones and gallbladder only need removed if they are causing symptoms, and inflammation of the gallbladder. Many people are walking around with gallstones, and don't know it. ...Read more
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A cyst is a structure or mass that consists of a cellular lined sac. It is typically filled with fluid but may be filled with solid material. It can be congenital, traumatic, or acquired. They may develop nearly anywhere in the body and usually require complete excision for eradication or they are likely to recur. Fluid filled sacs that are not cellular lined ...Read more
Have rt lower abdomen pain has had appendix, gallbladder, part hysterectomy & back surgery an have small ovarian cyst. What could pain be?
Hard to say: There are many possibities and usually a detailed exam and appropriate studies can determine the cause. Among some of the possibilities include diverticulitis, scar tissue from your prior surgery, a hernia, an irritation from a nerve in your back above where you had your previous back surgery just to name a few. I would encourage you to be seen. ...Read more
I have right achey pain from below my ribs to my upper back and nauseous on and off since November . Saw Gyn and had an ultrasound .. Negative for ovarian cysts, fibroids , iud misplacment and endometriosis. PCP didn't think it waw my gallbladder.
Gallbladder: Hi, considering the location of pain it sounds more like gallbladder or liver issue. You should have an ultrasound gallbladder related. And have your liver enzymes checked, and your bilirubin levels checked. ...Read more
If i had my gall bladder removed and use to have the IUD 6 yes ago, also had an ovarian cyst. Am i still able to get pregnant?
Family Practice: Your gallbladder has no affect on getting pregnant. Having an ovarian cyst usually doesn't either unless you have poly cystic disease. It makes it harder but with treatment pregnancy may occur. ...Read more
Why is my lower back swollen after gall bladder surgery with an ovarian cyst removal?
Please call the doc : Who did your surgery, they know what they did and how it went, that is included in your post op care the doc is supposed to answer all ?S like this and do the proper txment if there is a problem. ...Read more
Had lapro surgery for ovarian cysts and lysis of afhesions from previous gallbladder surgery bad pain lft side of belly botton 9 dys ago what is it ??
Abdominal pain: Get an evaluation. It is not clear when your latest surgery occurred. You could possibly have new adhesions. See your surgeon for an evaluation and ultrasound or cat scan of the abdomen. ...Read more
Pain in right RLQ, swollen lymph nodes abdomen wall via CT, appendix not visible. No Gallbladder, no ovarian cysts. Hematuria, labs ok. Disdended abd?
May still be apendix: Pain in RLQ concerning for appendicitis, ectopic pregnancy & ovarian torsion. A simple pregnancy test rules out ectopic. CT us usually the tool for appendicitis. Did they use oral and IC contrast? (Oral is chalky stuff you drink, IV makes you feel hot all over). If contrast given, appendicitis less likely.. Lymph nodes likely "mesenteric adenitis", which is OK. if worsens, go back to doc ...Read more
Surgery 9.dys ago bad pain left.side.of.belly button had lapro 4 ovarian cysts and lysis of adhesions from previous gall bladder s feel really bloated?
Schedule follow up: Usually people are feeling pretty normal 9 days after a laparoscopic surgery. If you are still having pain then it is important to schedule a follow up post op visit with the doctor who did your surgery to make sure all is ok. ...Read more
Breast cancer, lymphadema, ovarian cysts,fibroid, atrophic kidney, gallbladder polyps, diverticula, appendicitis, osteoprosis, ddd are they connected?
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I suffer panic attacks, if I need surgery for an ovarian cyst is there anything I can do to control the panic? Thanks
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Yet another reason to be careful about what you post on facebook.
Yet another reason to be careful about what you post on facebook.
Have an old computer fried by a virus years ago sitting in the basement collecting dust? Maybe there's an old TV in the garage that won't work anymore because it's not compatible with the "digital switch" enacted a few years back? Whatever the case, here's you're chance to recycle those old technological relics of days gone by.
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CBS announced Sunday that is pulling the plug on the William Shatner vehicle '$#*! My Dad Says' after just one season.
The sitcom, which was based on the popular Twitter feed by Justin Halpern, debuted to strong ratings last fall, but stumbled as the season progressed. Critics' reviews, meanwhile, were less than kind.
Also getting the axe: the legal drama 'The Defenders' and the new comedy 'Mad Love,' co-starring Judy Greer.
And now for the most convoluted-sounding show ever: EW.com is reporting that Bristol Palin will star in a reality series for Bio, in which she and her son, Tripp, will move from Alaska to Los Angeles to live with actors Chris and Kyle Massey. Oh, and she'll also work for a charity.
According to the report, Bio has ordered 10 half-hour episodes of the series, with a launch date set for later this year.
Palin and Kyle Massey met while they competed during the eleventh season of 'Dancing With the Stars,' in which they finished in third and second place, respectively.


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Festival hit Look BothWays by Australian director SarahWatt took the main Propeller Award at the eighth Motovun Film Festival (July24-28) in Istria, Croatia. Both the Amnesty International Human Rights andFIPRESCI awards went to Erwin Wagenhofer's ambitious documentary We Feed theWorld.
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Web extra: Hear from some of Dallas's new and unheralded chefs in our video feature.
It's cliché to paint Dallas as a city that likes things big. Whether it be stadiums, scandals or the name recognition of chefs at the restaurants we flock to, size has always mattered in these parts. We cheered Kent Rathbun, chef-owner of Abacus, not only for his achievements on the television hit Top Chef, but also for hoisting a moose head with his bare hands during the course of that series. And it was only a couple years ago when venues opened by a couple of the area's most famous kitchen celebrities-Stephan Pyles and Dean Fearing-took turns capturing popular fancy.
They still hold sway, these big-name chefs. But since the moose incident and the glitzy grand openings, a group of nobodies began poking giant holes in our starry facade. As Dallas Fish Market neared completion, the owners tapped Randy Morgan to head the kitchen, and he quickly turned the downtown space into the city's finest seafood restaurant. Young Julian Barsotti arrived and his place, Nonna, quickly put a stop to all that "Dallas has no good Italian" talk. Then along came Graham Dodds at Bolsa, an Oak Cliff destination dedicated to fresh, local and seasonal ingredients-and last year's hottest new establishment.
This year has been much the same. Nick Badovinus' return to the scene caused considerable buzz and two-hour waits for dinner at Neighborhood Services. More recently, Marc Cassel stepped back into the kitchen after a two-year hiatus, stirring much the same frenzy. Yet at the same time, the unknown (in this market) Sarah Johannes filed into the other much ballyhooed new restaurant, Wolfgang Puck's Five-Sixty. Almost immediately critics began mentioning her work alongside that of Anthony Bombaci (Nana) and Avner Samuel (Aurora). Jean-Marie Cadot worked quietly in North Dallas' Lavendou for quite some time, drawing little media attention. In 2009, he joined with chef Gaspar Stantic, setting up Cadot-a contender for best new restaurant. Out in Rockwall, Randall Copeland and Nathan Tate's AVA followed Bolsa's local-seasonal lead.
"I think there's been a grassroots movement for four or five years now, but people weren't necessarily aware of it," Copeland says of the so-called "locavore" trend, which has allowed some of these new chefs to break into the culinary spotlight. "The guys at Bolsa had no idea the people that would come-it's working."
Many of these new restaurants have adopted the local-seasonal-sustainable mantra to some extent. They've also been willing to discard the perks of a once pretentious scene, refusing to accept reservations, welcoming diners clad in non-designer jeans or even shorts, packing tables close together and so on. Unlike the 500-seat steak palaces that dominated fine dining in the late '90s boom, these guys think simple and small. Bella in Uptown boasts room for perhaps 50 guests. Lumi, the fun Asian-Brazilian dumpling spot on McKinney Avenue, allows for about the same, but parking for maybe 15 cars. Bolsa doesn't even offer valet parking. One of the owners, Chris Zielke, encourages new arrivals to pull up on the sidewalk. "Hey, this is Oak Cliff," he says, deliberately shrugging at big-city niceties. By consciously breaking traditional Dallas rules ("I grew up here and didn't know there were four seasons," Copeland points out, explaining the city's reluctance to join the "slow foods" movement), these chefs have eroded the tiers that defined nightlife for so long. One now sees ballgame attire at Bob's and Al Biernat's, while almost every restaurant with aspirations for success touts organic dishes.
For his part, Barsotti eschews over-engineered dishes. "When I go over there [to Italy]," he says, "I come back inspired to be simplistic." David Pedack even took a step back, opening a bar on Henderson-Blue Collar Bar-featuring mid-century blue plate items, such as Salisbury steak.
The big boys have, of course, taken notice. Rathbun followed Pedack's lead with a more extravagant Blue Plate Kitchen. And Pyles is ready to throw open the doors on an "international small plates" destination called Samar.
However fresh these faces may seem to the local dining crowd, the rising stars have spent considerable time in professional kitchens. Copeland served as sous chef at the Green Room and then in Las Vegas before AVA. "It took me a good couple years-watching, asking questions," Morgan says of his seafood apprenticeship, which included a stint with Oceanaire. "There are so many ways and combinations to do fish." Christopher Short of the outstanding Bella served as executive chef for the Crescent Court and for The Mansion's private dining program. "It's not as glamorous as people think," he says of restaurant life. "You gotta have strong legs under you, because the day is long and the weeks get longer.
"True enough. But their work is changing the way Dallas perceives both dining and celebrity. For the first time in quite awhile, smaller is better.By Dave Faries
Long before tapas, small plates and shared plates became trendy, the Spanish grabbed simple bites at the bar to tide them over until 10 or 11 p.m., when dinner is served. Cava's piquillo peppers appetizer is like an homage to that simple tradition. They merely sauté the peppers in olive oil (a lot of olive oil) with some garlic. That's it—nothing fancy, but the flavors roil from earthy, bitter and herbaceous to piquant, even sweet. In a city where chefs put a lot of time and effort into starters, Cava's basic dish stands out.
For decades Dwight Harvey held down a real, corporate-type job, cooking barbecue on the weekends. He and his son eventually turned this into a casual catering venture and, finally, a full-fledged barbecue joint. The Harveys are particular about their wood, using pecan to slow-cook brisket, ribs and the other usual suspects. Their rub lends a strong, sweet-spicy character to the meats. If there's a downside, it's the cramped space. A set of tables out front provide seating, but you must force your way to the counter to place orders, especially during the lunch rush. There's a large contingent of downtown cubicle dwellers who frequent the place. For those who want to run the south-side-after-dark risk, Off the Bone stays open late—as in 2 a.m. late—on weekends.
Generally, when you see two restroom doors in a restaurant, they lead into two different restrooms—you know, boys and girls, cowpokes and cowgirls, damas y caballeros, etc. Not so at Cowboy Chow, however, where both doors lead into the same communal restroom. Sure, everyone gets their own individual walled-off stall with a full door, but it's still awkward when you run into your date at the communal sink. And considering all the delicious Navajo fry bread, red pepper brisket, homemade chocolate chip ice cream and (especially) sweet watermelon tea you'll be consuming, there's no way you'll be able to avoid it.
First the chefs at AVA, one of whom worked at the Green Room, brought back that long-lost restaurant's mussels recipe. Then the man himself announced his return. Years ago Marc Cassel guided the little Deep Ellum bar/restaurant to greatness. His style? Collision cuisine—the happy smashing of contrasting flavors and techniques into something that worked, and magically so. In July, Dallas' prodigal chef returned, opening Park on Henderson Avenue to almost instant success. The Dallas Morning News reported guests raising toasts to Cassel's chicken-fried steak. That's big news.
Phil and Janet Cobb you know from the Black-Eyed Pea chain (Phil's doing) and Mi Piaci (Janet), as well as some other once-famous stops. The name Chris Andrews is associated with Holy Smokes, a once well-regarded barbecue place. And then there's Dotty Griffith, former restaurant critic for The Dallas Morning News. All of these familiar names have come back to life and converged, like culinary zombies, on a small bit of real estate in Carrollton. The meat's pretty good. The names behind it are impressive as hell.


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Energy and Initiative
It is expected that students will take a very active role in learning the material of this course. Formal assignments will play only a small role in the learning process. We expect that students will:
- Read books and web documents to glean information.
- Examine interesting web sites and learn how such sites are designed and programmed. These sites may include the course sites by the instructors and students in the course and may also include external sites.
- Conduct web programming experiments and create proof-of-concept demonstration pages that illustrate the successful experiments.
- Create at least one major web site that acts as an integrative project. This web site should be aesthetically pleasing and must demonstrate a variety of web development techniques.
- Optionally, create web services to serve data from your site to external sites.
It is expected that students will build a major web site on the ASP server that will show what they have learned and accomplished. Each student web site must be designed as a learning tool for the other students in the course. Thus both the quality of the work and its documentation is important.
We expect that students will do this work without explicit prompting by the instructors. All students must act as self starters.
We insist that students work energetically day-by-day and week-by-week. We strongly discourage a big bang approach wherein most of the work is done in the last few weeks. If we have evidence that you have taken a big bang approach despite this warning then we will make a severe deduction in your grade regardless of what you have done.
MS students in CCIS normally take 2 courses per semester. Therefore, we expect that one half of your time is spent on CS 5610. This translates to 20-25 hours per week.
These 20-25 hours will be spent thinking, planning, exploring existing sites, designing and implementing experiments, creating documentation, and building an excellent integrative project.
Source, Statistics, Site Statistics, Search, and File List
The course will operate in an open-source manner. To make this automatic, each student must deploy the following tools from Professor Rasala's site:
- Source Server
- Statistics Server
- Site Statistics Server
- Search Server
- File List Server
Source Server will automatically serve the source of all text and image files on the site. This will mean that as soon as you post such files to the web, those files will be visible to the instructors and to the other students in the course. This server provides links to download individual files.
Statistics Server will display statistics about the files in each directory on your site including file size, creation time, and last modification time. The last modification time is most accurate because sometimes SFTP software changes the creation time when a file is deposited on a server. This server provides links to view and download individual files.
Site Statistics Server will display statistics about all directories on your site including the number of files in the directory, the total number of bytes in all sych files, and the earliest and latest creation time and modification time. This server provides links to the Statistics Server for each directory.
Search Server provides both plain text and regular expression search. This tool allows you to select whether to search the entire site, one directory, or an individual file. This server provides links to view and download individual files.
File List Server provides the ability to list files that were created or modified within a given range of dates. It is a key tool that lets us find out whether you have done steady work or attempted a big bang approach.
You may find all of these tools helpful to you when you are exploring your site, especially, when you are looking for bugs.
You may find directions for downloading essential files that form the backbone of your initial web site at:
Essential Utility Files to Download and Install
The huge advantage of creating your initial site in this way is that Source Server, Statistics Server, Site Statistics Server, Search Server, and File List Server will be on your site from day one. It is therefore mandatory that you start your site with the essential files. Do not think of proceeding any other way.
These servers play the following roles:
- The servers support the open source philosophy of the course.
- The servers are critical when you ask the instructors to help you with debugging a problem on your site.
- The servers play an essential role in the final grading process.
Because Source Server, Statistics Server, Site Statistics Server, Search Server, and File List Server are essential tools in the grading process at the end of the semester, these tools must be present on your site in unmodified form. If you fail to have these tools installed in unmodified form then you will fail the course.
To install your local site on the ASP.NET web server, you should read the directions on the above link to the essential files and you should follow the startup steps as described in Startup.
Documentation is an essential part of the course. The instructors and your fellow students must be able to understand what you did, why you did it, what were the challenges, and how they were overcome.
You must document your pages in well written English. You must also have a very clean and well organized coding style and thoughtful code comments. In practice, many students show the sites created in this course to future employers so be certain to demonstrate the quality of your thinking and work in your documentation and coding style.
There are several possible ways to organize the documentation.
- You may devote a section of your site to documentation and link each documentation page to the corresponding web site page and perhaps if appropriate to the source code.
- You may link a particular web site page to a page with its documentation.
- You may organize documentation into one or more stories using the Story Utility
The first form of documentation is less intrusive since there is no need to change the appearance of a web site page in order to provide a link to its documentation. However, in the case of pages that show experiments, the second form of documentation may be just the right approach to take.
Organizing a sequence of documentation pages into a story using the Story Utility will be very efficient for the instructors during grading. Your kindness in doing things this way will be appreciated.
You may write the documentation using classic HTML with CCS for creating the styles.
In addition to regular documentation, you may wish to write explanations of web development topics. If you learn a topic and think you have a better way to explain it, then write up your thoughts and experiments and make them public. Furthermore, give references to books and/or online resources. This may be a real contribution to the course.
Note also that some documentation may appear in blog posts.
Giving Credit for the Work of Others
If you make use of the work of others, you must give explicit and complete credit both in your English documentation and in your code comments. Provide appropriate links to the sites on which your work is based. If you state and we are made aware of the fact that you have used the work of another student or used tools from an external site, then that is fine.
In cases where you have used resources that you did not create, you should state how much of your site is based on your own work and how much is based on the work of others.
If you fail to give explicit credit then that will be considered plagiarism.
Time pressure is no excuse. The first thing you should do with a file that is taken from another source is to add the documentation that credits the source.
Upon completion of a piece of work that is installed and documented on the ASP
server, students may announce this work to the instructors and students in the
course using the e-mail address:
Comments from other students will be welcome. Try to be as positive as possible in such comments ... we all need support. You may also use this e-mail address to seek help from the instructors and the students in the course if you have technical problems.
To contact only the instructors, use the e-mail address:
Progress Blog
Each student will also be required to maintain a Progress Blog. This blog should quickly summarize what work has been done on a given day whether reading, design, experimentation, coding, or site building. The blog may also give more extended comments or point to completed work and its documentation. As the instructors review your site during the term, it will be a very bad sign to see long periods of time with no entries in your blog.
There are several extremely important rules about blog posts.
- Never change a blog post once it has been posted. This will mess with the dating of the post and cause the post to get out of order. This also tampers with the historical record of your work. If you must make further comments or a correction, simply make a new blog post.
- Never remove all blog posts with the intention of reloading them. This completely messes up the dating and can have the effect of making your blog unreadable at the time your site is graded.
- If you are making multiple blog posts, upload each one individually in the order in which you want the posts to appear. If you upload a collection of files by SFTP at once, you lose control of the order in which the files are loaded and therefore dated on the server.
The course expectation is that you will have several meaningful blog posts per week. Occasional random posts or posts that are not informative do not count. Keep in mind that grading often starts by skimming your blog. This gives your instructor a quick overview of your work and progress during the course. If you do not have much of blog, you will give a bad impression.
Team Work
It is permissible to form a team to do a particular piece of work and to dissolve that team when the work is done. In this case, the work may be placed on the site for one team member or may be distributed across sites. If the work involves web services that call other web services then it is likely that the work will need to be distributed.
Provide appropriate links on all student sites involved. Also, explain in the documentation who did what. Keep in mind that if you do form a team, then the team must accomplish more than what one student could accomplish.
If you have any questions about team work, talk with your instructor ahead of time.
Public Tools and Web Services
It is permissible to add public toolkits to your site. In the documentation for your site, you must explain the use of such tools and provide appropriate links. It is also permissible to connect to free, public web services on the internet and indeed it will probably make your experience in the course more valuable if you do so. It is important that the services be free so that others can play with your work without incurring charges.
Some students in the past have asked about using site templates that are available for free on the internet. These are not permitted because such templates will interfere with your learning of the basic skills of the course including HTML5, CSS3, C#, Javascript, jQuery, etc. If you see something you like, don't copy it but rather figure out how to create it yourself. Then make something even better.
Consistent with college policy, you may not hack into non-public sites (of course you knew this).
Course Grades
Grades will be determined by the impact each student makes on the learning process for everyone and the quality of what is presented on the student web site. There will be no exams. We will learn what you have done from one-on-one conversations, from your class comments, from what your site does, and from the code and documentation publicly available on your site.
All materials created in the course must be left on the server when the course is over so that they may be used as a springboard for future courses. You retain all rights to develop the work after the course in whatever way you choose. Indeed, some of you may produce artifacts that are worth distributing on your own internet site when the course is complete.
The following is adapted from an e-mail in Spring 2009 when the question of grades arose at the end of the semester.
Your basic responsibility is to build a site that shows:
- You have done a substantial amount of work.
- You have learned a lot.
- You have been thinking.
- You have not followed a big bang approach leaving most of the work to the end of the semester.
You must have a substantial number of experiments that document your learning process over time.
You should have one excellent large project or several very high quality mini-projects.
If your site looks thin, your grade will be thin also.
To put it in other words:
- If you, looking at your own site, would give yourself a B or a C, don't ask us to give you an A.
- If you, looking at your with site in comparison with sites from other students in the course, see that your site is thin, don't ask us to give you an A.
Keep in mind that blogs, documentation, and clean code also matter very much. If we cannot figure out what you did easily or if your site is a mess, look out.
The moral is that the time to worry about your grade is at the beginning of the semester and during the semester. Then you are in control. You can put in the energy, create the sites, make the documentation, post the blogs, and also have fun. You can make your case for an A grade by the sheer quality and effort you put in. You are also making a great online resume for your future job search.
However, if you wait until the end, you are toast, given our refusal to reward big bang programming.
By the way, to get an idea of what the best sites do in comparison with more ordinary sites, you may examine student sites from past years using the links from Professor Rasala's home page.


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I am estimating a simultaneous equation probit model with two equations as
where both Y1 and Y2 are binary. Y1 and Y2 are related and endogenous.
X1 and X2 are sets of exogenous variables and e1 and e2 error terms.
X1 and X2 may have some common variables but not all for the purpose
of identification.
There is a method described in Madalla (1983) (model 6, Ch#8,Page#
247) in order to estimate this type of models. But I do not know how
to compute the variance-covariance
matrix using the same. The formula for calculating variance and
covariance matrix uses PDF (Probability density function) and CDF
(Cumulative density function) but it is not mentioned how to calculate
those after the probit estimation.
My questions are:
(i) Is there any code in Stata which can help estimating this model
(like CDSIMEQ).
(ii) Can I use 'biprobit' in order to estimate this model?
(iii) Is there any other way to estimate this model?
Please help.
Thank you in advance.
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|Miller Groves takes 18-A volleyball lead with win over North Hopkins
|From Staff Reports
Sept. 28, 2006 - MILLER GROVE - The Miller Grove Lady Hornets remained undefeated in district play with a five-game win over North Hopkins Tuesday night.
Miller Grove won by scores of 25-15, 25-18, 27-29, 16-25, 15-10.
"This was a really tough game for us as well as important," said MGHS coach Melissa Kethley. "The girls came out ready with terrific enthusiasm and an optimistic attitude. The Lady Hornets played hard all five games and in the end came out with a good win."
Natalie Bailey had a double-double with 17 points, 14 kills, six digs and two blocks, Adrian Estrada had a double-double with 16 service points, 29 assists and one dig, Becca George finished with 14 service points, seven kills, four blocks and two digs, Jennifer Mayfield had 26 service points, six digs and one kill.
Amanda Sims finished with 18 points and six digs, Angelic Rios had eight points, nine kills and 12 digs, and Dianne Sparks had three kills.
The Lady Hornets are now 14-8 overall and 2-0 in District 15-A.
Kethley also praised the play of her junior high teams which also defeated North Hopkins.
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Three Choirs Festival: An English Farewell
Saturday 29 Jul 2017, 7.45pm
Worcester Cathedral
Gerald Raphael Finzi (14 July 1901 – 27 September 1956) was a British composer. Finzi is best known as a song-writer, but also wrote in other genres. Large-scale compositions by Finzi include the cantata Dies natalis for solo voice and string orchestra, and his concertos for cello and clarinet.
Gerald Finzi was born in London, the son of John Abraham (Jack) Finzi (of Italian Jewish descent) and Eliza Emma (Lizzie) Leverson (daughter of Montague Leverson, of German Jewish descent). Finzi became one of the most characteristically "English" composers of his generation. Despite being an agnostic, he wrote some inspired and imposing Christian choral music. Finzi's father, a successful shipbroker, died just a fortnight short of his son's eighth birthday. Finzi was educated privately. During World War I the family settled in Harrogate, and Finzi began to study music at Christ Church, High Harrogate, under Ernest Farrar from 1915. Farrar was then aged thirty, a former pupil of Stanford who described him as "very shy, but full of poetry". Finzi found him a sympathetic teacher, and Farrar's death at the Western Front affected him deeply. During these formative years he also suffered the loss of three of his brothers. These adversities contributed to Finzi's bleak outlook on life, but he found solace in the poetry of Thomas Traherne and his favourite, Thomas Hardy, whose poems, as well as those by Christina Rossetti, he began to set to music. In the poetry of Hardy, Traherne, and later William Wordsworth, Finzi was attracted by the recurrent motif of the innocence of childhood corrupted by adult experience. From the very beginning, most of his music was elegiac in tone.
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MMA was first organized in by a group of Montessori teachers and administrators interested in creating a regional Montessori network. MMA's board of Directors is a volunteer group of administrators and teachers from member schools who meet throughout the school year to plan MMA events and manage the organization. MMA hosts an annual Head of School Networking meeting each winter, which the Heads of all member schools are invited to attend. If you are interested in becoming more involved with the board contact a board member for information. Meeting dates are posted in advance on this website in the "Events" section.
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Classifieds for Montessori Teachers
Maine Montessori Association Cultural KitsThe Maine Montessori Association owns a collection of Cultural Kits for use in the classroom. They may be borrowed by member schools. For more information, contact Joe or Joanne Alex at 827-2404.
AVAILABLE KITS: 1. RUSSIA Created by Ticia Berube, Casco Bay Montessori School 2.SOUTHWEST NATIVE AMERICANS by Barbara Cegalis, Island Montessori School 3.IRELAND Created by Adele Carey, Kennebec Montessori School 4.MEXICO Created by Amy Peterson-Roper, Bangor Montessori School 5.CANADA Created by Joanne Alex, Stillwater Montessori School 6.FAR EAST Created by Kathy Martin, Winfield Montessori School 7. FRANCE Created by Joyce Mallery, formerly w/Hampden Montessori School, and Anita Tassel, Bangor Montessori School 8. NEW ZEALAND Created by Joanne Alex, Stillwater Montessori School 9.MAYAN CULTURE Created by Debbie Duplisses, Kennebec Montessori School10.NORWAY Created by Joanne Alex, Stillwater Montessori School11.CHINA Created by Martha and Donald Monahan, NorthEast Montessori Institute.12. NEPAL Created by Tracy Tyson, Montessori Teacher working in Nepal13. TURKEY Created by Elizabeth Schaab, Bangor Montessori School
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Read the full story here Web Link posted Friday, May 8, 2009, 12:38 PM
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Video sheds light on origins of Silicon Valley
Original post made on May 8, 2009
Read the full story here Web Link posted Friday, May 8, 2009, 12:38 PM
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a resident of Waverly Park
on May 8, 2009 at 8:30 pm
I recently suggested the following equation as a simple definition of the formation of Silicon Valley:
S + F+ WW = SiV
S is the Shockley "traitorous eight" semiconductor technologists,
F is Fairchild Camera and Instrument Corp. initial seed money for S in forming Fairchild Semiconductor in 1957,
WW is Walker's Wagon Wheel bar on Middlefield in Mountain View where semiconductor people met and business plans were formulated during the decade of the 60's, and
SiV is Silicon Valley as so known by 1970 thanks to Don C. Hoefler of Electronic News paper.
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The Best Films of 2010
11 Jan 2011 // 4:00 PM
Among this year's winners include a fake documentary, a comedy about Jihad, a vampire story NOT dealing with tacky tween romance, a haunting hillbilly noir, and an elegant tale about clones. Not necessarily the usual cinematic suspects.
2010 Summer Movie Preview - June
3 May 2010 // 5:00 PM
After May's gangbusters' start, June settles down with The A-Team, Toy Story 3, and more Twilight.
'Toy Story 3': F.A.O My Schwartz
18 Jun 2010 // 1:00 AM
In the cleverly entertaining Toy Story 3, Ken is confused and superficial, and also pretty fabulous.
Monsters, Inc. (2001)
1 Nov 2001 // 9:00 AM
The Sanctity of Memory: 'Toy Story 3' (Blu-ray)
2 Nov 2010 // 5:30 AM
Not only are these wildly entertaining family films crafted with the very best of aesthetic and technological acumen, but they represent how crucial memories are, and reluctant we are to let them go.
'Toy Story 3' and the Best Scene of the Summer
24 Jun 2010 // 12:25 AM
Instead of reviewing the film itself, we focus on a single sequence -- again, call it the "incinerator stand-off"-- and use it as a means of explaining Pixar's enduring power within the artform.


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Sixx:A.M. Reveal New Album Title, Track List, and Cover Art
Sixx:A.M. has announced that their third album (cover art pictured right), 'Modern Vintage,' will be released on October 7. The band will also release a new single, "Gotta Get It Right," next week.
The group is comprised of bassist Nikki Sixx, vocalist James Michael, and guitarist DJ Ashba.
Track list:
1. Stars
2. Gotta Get It Right
3. Relief
4. Get Ya Some
5. Let's Go
6. Drive
7. Give Me A Love
8. Hyperventilate
9. High On The Music
10. Miracle
11. Before It's Over
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Q&A on the Nazi Culture
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FictionPress.com https://www.fictionpress.com FictionPress.com: Lillypool Story feed for writer: Lillypool 2017-07-28T08:33:20-08:00 tag:fictionpress.com,2017-07-28:/atom/u/868544/ Lillypool https://www.fictionpress.com/u/868544/Lillypool 2014-02-14T14:30:58-08:00 2014-02-14T14:30:58-08:00 Valentine's Day tag:fictionpress.com,2014-02-14:story.3182237 Author: Lillypool
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Lilly Cooke hates Valentine's Day...until a secret admirer goes out of his way to help her enjoy February 14th. One-shot. Lillypool https://www.fictionpress.com/u/868544/Lillypool 2013-10-27T09:57:18-08:00 2013-10-27T09:57:18-08:00 Child of Steel tag:fictionpress.com,2012-09-16:story.3058734 Author: Lillypool
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Gabby wakes up in a frozen forest at the age of eight years old. She doesn't know how she got there, or who she is. But eventually, she is brought to an elite school that teaches children how to ride and work with dragons. Now, at the age of thirteen, she, her dragon named Sky, and her three friends are on a quest to find out about Gabby's past, present, and future. Lillypool https://www.fictionpress.com/u/868544/Lillypool 2012-09-04T14:51:13-08:00 2012-09-04T14:51:13-08:00 Country Kids tag:fictionpress.com,2012-09-04:story.3055812 Author: Lillypool
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When an all-out city kid named Josh moves into the farm next door, Lindsey doesn't know what to expect. But over the summer, she teaches him and his little sister about farm life and what it means to be "Country". Better then it sounds-I stink at summaries.


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|Virginia Parents Stop Nosy Questionnaire!
FAIRFAX COUNTY, VA - A controversial nosy questionnaire scheduled to be given to area children in grades 6-12 at the end of April was scrapped by the company that produced it. The 169-question survey asks students about their sexual behavior, use of drugs and alcohol, whether they have ever considered suicide, and other personal matters. Fairfax County officials said they were unable to release the Channing Bete Company that produced the survey from liability, and the company declined to take the risk of lawsuits filed by parents who object to the survey's intrusive personal questions.
The Washington Post reported (4-23-03) that the survey was "hotly protested by many parents" who do not want their children quizzed during school time about how old they were when they first had sex, whether or not they've ever had oral sex, and other sex questions. Participation in the survey was said to be voluntary, and the sex questions were to have been given only to 10th and 12th graders. All remaining questions about personal behavior, suicide, and other personal matters would have been given to 6th, 8th, 10th and 12th-grade students.
A spokesman for the Massachusetts-based Channing Bete Company told the Washington Times (4-24-03): "We didn't have an issue with the content - the handful of sex questions that were added by Fairfax County. We just made a business decision that we couldn't take a legal risk."
As reported in Education Reporter (March 2003), Channing Bete has sold its "Communities That Care" (CTC) questionnaires to about 400 communities nationwide to be given to middle and high school students for the purpose of measuring "a comprehensive set of risk factors" affecting teens. Survey results are used to obtain grant monies for funding health curricula and community programs that many parents and citizens don't even want.
The new survey was scheduled as a follow-up to the CTC questionnaire given to Fairfax County children in 2001, which asked them whether they engaged in binge drinking, used various drugs, and probed for their experience with guns or other weapons. According to the Washington Post, the results of that survey enabled the county "to qualify for more than $1 million in grants for various programs."
Channing Bete was apparently put on guard by the two lawsuits filed in Ridge-wood, N.J. since 1999 to challenge nosy-survey violations of children's innocence and privacy (see Education Reporter, Jan. and Feb. 2002, and Feb. 2003). Last year, the New Jersey legislature passed a law prohibiting nosy questionnaires without prior written parental consent.
Fairfax County officials, however, seem undeterred by parental outrage. Laura Yager, director of prevention services for the Fairfax-Falls Church Community Services Board, told the Washington Post: "Because this was an unfortunate circumstance, our hope is that we will still be able to do a survey in the future."


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Guide to Baseball Novels: L
- LaBate, Jim. Mickey Mantle Day in Amsterdam. Illustrated by Brian Bateman. Clifton Park, NY: Mohawk River Press, 1999. The Comet's car breaks down upstate, and the town of Amsterdam spends a memorable summer's day with No. 7.
- LaFlamme, Mark. Asterisk. n.p.: Booklocker, 2006. In the not-too-distant future, a young fan learns why a famous ballplayer had his statue torn down and his memory disgraced.
SF novella that asks the question: what constitutes performance enhancement, and why do we fear it?
- Landers, Linda Stowe. A Season to Remember. New York: Avalon, 1989. Young ace sportswriter wins the love of a mega-star ballplayer.
One of Avalon's "Career Romances" series, which proceed in fairly typical paths toward a romantic resolution, while maintaining a strong interest in the professional success of the heroine.
- Lardner, Ring has his own page in the Guide.
- Lasser, Scott. Battle Creek. New York: Morrow, 1999. Michigan amateur baseball coach drives toward an elusive championship with the help of a young slugger sprung from prison and a crafty old spitballing pitcher.
This one collapses under the weight of its own clichés, which it offers with no apparent irony. Notable for having the largest body count (9 corpses) of any non-mystery baseball novel.
- Latour, José. Havana World Series. New York: Grove, 2003. Casino heist plays out against the backdrop of the 1958 World Series.
The Series is described in much detail, though it is mere background. Competent crime fiction with interesting historical and geographical material.
- Leavy, Jane. Squeeze Play. New York: Doubleday, 1990. Woman sportswriter for an imaginary Washington DC paper covers the (equally imaginary) return of the Senators to the capital.
A long, drawn-out team-of-misfits novel with way too much detail; the kind of book where every player on the team has a quirky character note and an impossible name.
- Lebowitz, Paul. Breaking Balls. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2001. Junkball pitcher makes it from the lowest minors to the Show.
Step by painful step.
- Lefcourt, Peter. The Dreyfus Affair: A Love Story. New York: Random House, 1992. Star double-play combination fall in love with each other, and are banned from baseball till a sportswriter named Zola champions their cause.
A thin attempt to be a feel-good book about gay romance; its humor is forced.
- Leonard, Sam. A Difficult Trade: The Baseball Mystery. San Francisco: Robert D. Reed, 2000. Would a Miami team owner, keen to break up a championship club, arrange for a hit man to shoot an overpaid and overinsured star?
Actually I'm sure the idea has occurred to Marlins owners more than once. In this fictional version, ace Miami detective Stanley Starfish tries to uncover the skullduggery.
- Levine, Peter. The Rabbi of Swat. East Lansing: Michigan State University Press, 1999. Jewish pitcher from Brooklyn becomes a rookie sensation for the 1928 Giants.
A fantasia, narrated by Levine with counterpoint from the ghost of Babe Ruth. Nice evocations of 1920s New York help along a self-consciously familiar story.
- Linden, Jason. When the Sparrow Sings. n.p.: CreateSpace, 2014. Emotionally-baggaged pitcher prepares to take a World Series mound in the wake of his father's death.
- Littlefield, Bill. Prospect. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1989. The story of a young prospect's rise to the major leagues is told in counterpoint by his great-aunt and by the scout that she coaxes out of retirement to sign him.
Low-key novel with themes of rejuvenation, love, and interracial harmony.
- Logan, Kristina. Hometown Hero. New York: Silhouette, 1991. Fund-raiser strikes up a relationship with a swaggering, intensely masculine baseball star, and tries to rope him into helping with a celebrity cook-off.
Gauzy romance features the two main characters kissing, pulling away, circling in plot arcs for another few dozen pages, kissing more intensely, and so on, till Matt announces to Julie that he wants to marry her and have children with her: "I've been committed to baseball for so long that it was hard to believe that someone else was becoming more important to me" (185-186).
- Lombardo, Billy. The Man with Two Arms. New York: Overlook, 2010. A magnificent pitching prospect, trained to be ambidextrous by his father, develops clairvoyant abilities.
Numinous significance floats just beyond the reader's grasp in this peculiar magical-realist tale. Read more about The Man with Two Arms at lection.
- Looney, Mike. Heroes Are Hard to Find. Baltimore: PublishAmerica, 2003. Magical-realist yarn features a veteran ballplayer turning boy again for another chance at life; loosely calqued onto the persona of Mickey Mantle.
- Lorenz, Tom. Guys Like Us. New York: Viking, 1980. Chicago softball star turns 30 and spirals deeper than ever into improvidence and unemployment.
A realistic comic novel that is sometimes too true to be funny. Lorenz's portraits of men giving up direction of their lives in everything except ballplaying are beautifully telling.
- Lupica, Mike. Wild Pitch. New York: Putnam's, 2002. Washed-up star, patched together by miracle doctor, gets a last shot at pitching in the majors.
Unfunny and notably foul-mouthed, riddled with ethnic stereotypes, this novel is stuck in a time-warp of clichés and plot formulas.


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The act of parliament gives the police powers to disperse groups of youths in designated trouble spots.
It also extends anti-social behaviour orders to younger children aged 12 to 15.
And it gives the courts powers to close down drinking dens or clubs where drugs have been discovered.
The anti-social behaviour measures were demanded by backbench Labour MSPs, under pressure from their constituents to put order and respect back into their communities.
Dispersal powers
They were pushed through parliament, despite considerable scepticism from the opposition parties, senior police officers and social workers.
Some argued that the legislation was unnecessary and may backfire.
But police are now be able to exercise the powers.
People on the housing estates will be waiting to see if forces do in fact impose "dispersal zones" or close down drink and drug dens.
The courts have been given new powers to penalise 12 to 15-year-old trouble makers.
Justice Minister Cathy Jamieson said it was now up to police and local
authorities to make use of the new powers.
She said: "They have a responsibility to their communities to use them
whenever and wherever appropriate.
"I will be looking to them to do just that - and I will be looking to communities themselves to ensure that the potential of these new powers are translated into action on the ground."
Ms Jamieson added: "Anti-social behaviour is a problem - but my message to
hard-working people across the country is a positive one.
"Anti-social behaviour need not be tolerated. The law is on your side. The
executive is on your side. Together, with your support, we can help deliver a safer, stronger Scotland."
The Association of Chief Police Officers in Scotland (Acpos) welcomed the new
legislation but said the new powers would not be used "indiscriminately".
Tayside Police Chief Constable and Acpos member John Vine said officers now
had a range of options for dealing with persistent anti-social behaviour.
"I welcome this innovative approach but must stress that these new powers
will not be used indiscriminately," he said.
"Instances of anti-social behaviour are assessed individually often in partnership with the relevant local authority and a tactic is selected that has both a good chance of success and which is proportionate to the problem.
"Powers under this act, such as the dispersal of groups, will not be used
unless a problem is serious and persistent and where it is unlikely that other
methods will be successful."
'Decent people'
However during a debate on housing, Conservative MSP Bill Aitken said that the lives of many people throughout Scotland are still being made a misery as a result of the behaviour of anti-social tenants.
He said: "The executive must carry a significant share of the blame for the fact that landlords are in many respects impotent to deal with those who disrupt and indeed make extremely unhappy those unfortunate enough to live beside them.
"The Housing (Scotland) Act not only makes it extremely difficult to evict rowdy and disruptive tenants but we have the bizarre situation whereby housing associations and local authorities are legally bound to rehouse those who have already been evicted by another housing provider.
"This is absolutely ludicrous and results in housing associations having to rehouse individuals who have frequently been evicted as a result of drug dealing, disorder and sometimes wilful fire-raising beside decent people who seek only to get on with their lives."


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The Hong Kong question: The United States cannot remain neutral
Nearly three weeks of anti-Beijing demonstrations in Hong Kong apparently have stalled out. But only in the short term. Make no mistake, despite the seemingly successful strategy of Chinese and Hong Kong authorities to exhaust and divide the largely student-led protesters, we are nonetheless witnessing one of the 21st century's most decisive confrontations.
The United Kingdom transferred Hong Kong to China in 1997 pursuant to a "Sino-British Joint Declaration," guaranteeing Hong Kong "a high degree of autonomy" for 50 years as a distinctive "special administrative region" of the People's Republic. Beijing would be responsible for foreign and defense policy but the joint declaration required that Hong Kong continue functioning as a unique entity under the "one country, two systems" concept China itself originally proposed.
Unfortunately, however, China has systematically undermined the declaration, taking an ever-firmer grasp of "internal" Hong Kong affairs. China's own economic growth has diminished the city-state's previous status as an economic colossus; Beijing is more confident it can act with impunity.
Hong Kong's "Basic Law" elaborates the joint declaration's intentions, providing ultimately for universal suffrage. But it is vague on specifics regarding the electoral process. Thus, after the handover, Hong Kong's chief executives all have been selected by a committee essentially handpicked by Beijing, thus guaranteeing the outcome.
Nonetheless, Beijing agreed that the 2017 chief executive election would be through universal suffrage. But it insisted that it screen and approve all potential candidates. This restriction obviously means that only nominations acceptable to Beijing will pass muster. So much for democracy.
For China's Communist Party, this issue is an existential question. The ability to accept or reject candidates for Hong Kong chief executive is absolutely critical for Beijing. Compromising could sign the party's death warrant as China's ruling power.
If "anti-Beijing" candidates can contest and even win Hong Kong elections, the rest of China will immediately notice, possibly spreading the democratic "infection" uncontrollably throughout the country.
Similarly, the student demonstrators and their supporters (including many scattered around China proper) see the issue as their last hope for sustaining representative government in Hong Kong. Beijing believes that the truly dominant opinion in Hong Kong is that business is more important than free elections. There is a generational gap on this issue. Hong Kong's older citizens remember the hardships they endured as refugees from the mainland before Hong Kong's remarkable economic growth. Beijing hopes to persuade them to maintain their focus on business as their dominant goal rather than free government, which they certainly did not enjoy while prospering under British rule.
In retrospect, one can ask whether Beijing ever intended to honor the joint declaration. Deng Xiaoping famously pressured Margaret Thatcher in 1982, saying, "I could walk in and take the whole lot this afternoon." Indeed, "one country, two systems" originally was devised to reincorporate Taiwan into China; Taiwan emphatically rejected the concept, fearing that Beijing's authoritarian government would strangle its nascent democracy, whatever was initially agreed.
As the protests escalated, however, the initial U.S. response last month was pathetically weak. Our Hong Kong consulate issued a statement saying "we do not take sides in the discussion of Hong Kong's political development." While the State Department has since modified this embarrassing stance, the Obama administration is still hiding in the weeds. Britain, Canada and Australia have all more vigorously supported the pro-democracy citizens.
China asserts that foreign countries should keep hands off because the status of Hong Kong's elections is a purely internal matter. This is manifestly false. The Sino-British Joint Declaration is an international agreement, a treaty ratified by both parties and even filed with the United Nations. China's failure to comply with the joint declaration's foundational objectives and obligations will long be remembered.
While we have not yet seen Chinese tanks on Hong Kong streets reminiscent of Tiananmen Square in June 1989, crushing democratic dissent in Hong Kong undercuts Beijing's credibility regarding all its international commitments, no matter the subject.
The United States cannot abandon or remain neutral in the struggle of Hong Kong's people to fully implement the joint declaration's clear intentions. For America in effect to ignore the push for truly free and fair elections in Hong Kong would signal to Beijing a free pass on whether China must honor its international agreements. This is not a matter of legal technicalities but of fundamental political honesty between governments and peoples.
Washington's weakness over Hong Kong will reverberate around the world, especially in the capitals of our adversaries. Declining U.S. protection of its own interests in eastern and central Europe (exemplified by passivity against Russian aggression in Ukraine); our collapsing influence in the Middle East; our failure to prevent proliferation of weapons of mass destruction; and our inability to counter China's near-belligerent territorial claims in the South China Sea all point in the same direction. Hong Kong might seem distant but its future will tell us a lot about America's.
John Bolton, a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, was the U.S. permanent representative to the United Nations and, previously, the undersecretary of State for arms control and international security.


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Did he denounce the involvement of organized crime in the abduction and disappearance of 43 students in the nearby city of Iguala?
"Zeidan has no choice but to deny knowledge or involvement," said Obeidi.
Last June Barclays agreed to pay a $453 million fine to settle charges over its involvement in the LIBOR scandal.
This History Channel tells all, and in the process debunks some myths about his involvement with the Manhattan Project.
Situation follows situation in rapid success, demanding close attention to keep clear of the meshes of involvement.
The involvement of language, in particular of writing and reading, is significant.
There is severe neuralgic pain, and paralysis from involvement of the facial nerve is an early symptom.
For others, it will become what they themselves make of it through their involvement.
As our involvement in the war in Vietnam comes to an end, we must now go on to build a generation of peace.


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While Montana suffers from one of the highest suicide rates in the nation, the lack of a statewide plan for "suicide hotlines" has left the job of crisis support to community mental health organizations, which may not be up to the challenge of providing that critical first line of defense in preventing suicides. It's a situation that is in need of attention, state mental health officials say.
Missoula poses a prime example of the inefficiency of state crisis response systems. A call to 9-1-1 from a suicidal person will likely result in a police officer being sent to the scene, provided his or her location can be readily determined. If a person sounds depressed and in need of verbal counseling, 9-1-1 dispatchers will inform them of the 24-hour emergency line maintained by the Western Montana Mental Health Center (MHC). Likewise, calls to First Call For Help, a catch-all crisis hotline, are quick-linked to the MHC emergency line.
But as MHC Director Gene Durand notes, their crisis hotline is not set up as a conventional suicide hotline. Calls during business hours are answered by a MHC receptionist, who is trained in suicide awareness but not suicide counseling. After-hours calls are answered by a switchboard operator. In either case, standard procedure dictates that a mental health professional, one of a team of staffers who serve on a rotating 24-hour on-call system, be paged to respond. Both MHC and the switchboard have the ability to direct-connect the mental health professional to the person in crisis.
Nevertheless, holes in the system are large and readily apparent. For one, the on-call mental health professional may not be readily available by pager. Besides the chances of simple human error, members of the mental health team often go places where pagers are prohibited, such as jails. Likewise, crisis calls to MHC during regular business hours are not guaranteed to get an immediate response. In fact, two afternoon calls from the Independent to the emergency crisis hotline last week went unanswered. Compounding the problem is the difficulty of even finding a crisis hotline number listed in any Missoula-area phone book.
Durand says that MHC has begun efforts to provide a more reliable suicide crisis line. "We're truly not set up along the lines of a suicide hotline," Durand says. "It needs to be more responsive. We'd much rather have people in distress talking to a person with training than reaching an answering service."
The Montana Department of Public Health and Human Services has implemented a "Strategic Suicide Prevention Plan," which includes streamlining and monitoring suicide hotlines throughout the state. In 1999, 161 suicides occurred in Montana, or roughly 18 per 100,000 people. That figure is nearly double the national average of 10.7 per 100,000. The 24-hour emergency hotline at MHC is (406) 532-9710.