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A four-game stretch against the four best offenses in the Big 12 has come and gone. Iowa State defensive coordinator Wally Burnham is sleeping easier now, visions of streaking receivers no longer dancing in his head.
The Cyclones' Saturday opponent, Kansas State, is not in the mold of the high-octane conference powers. But the slow-moving Wildcats are still a complex team to prepare for.
Burnham usually shrugs off the challenges of facing a team with the potential to play multiple quarterbacks. Texas didn't bother him in that facet, neither did Texas Tech or Oklahoma State. Kansas State uses two quarterbacks, Jake Waters and Daniel Sams. So why is Burnham more concerned this week?
Not only do the Wildcats change quarterbacks routinely throughout the game, they rotate throughout an offensive series, so Sams might come in on third-and-three, Waters on third-and-seven. It's a matter of figuring out Kansas State's tendencies in each situation, with each quarterback, and then hoping the Wildcats don't do anything too different than what showed up on film.
"Waters is a real, real effective thrower. Sams is too, but they don't ask Sams to do it a lot," Burnham said. "In that respect you are preparing for two different quarterbacks. They ask Waters to do probably a bit more running than they ask Sams to do passing, do you understand what I'm saying? In that respect we try to get our kids knowledgeable: Hey, that's Sams, No. 4, back there, he might run the ball!"
Break it down like this: Waters passes better than Sams. Sams runs better than Waters. Walters will run the ball more than Sams will throw it.
It's almost like preparing for four different quarterbacks. Which quarterback will we get on this down? Passing Sams or Running Sams? And this one? Passing Waters or Running Waters?
Burnham will simplify things for his players by recognizing common trends and clues that might predict the coming play.
"They have other personnel they put in with that quarterback, it's kind of like a chess game," he said. "Who is No. 4 (Sams) in there with at running back, who is No. 15 (Waters) in there with at running back? So we've got to do a good job with those kind of things."
In the first quarter against West Virginia, Sams began a drive with two completed passes — he completed all eight attempts in the game — then ran for a loss of yards, then handed off for no gain to running back John Hubert.
With the Wildcats facing third-and-15, head coach Bill Snyder summoned Waters from the bullpen. Quick and easy, he hit Tyler Lockett on a deep post for a 35-yard touchdown.
Waters finished the game 10-for-13 for 198 yards and three scores, to go with 55 yards rushing, the JUCO transfer's best day as a Wildcat.
Sams is a different animal, the backup to Collin Klein last season, a far less-polished passer but with the potential to become one of the most dynamic offensive threats in the Big 12. As his passing fundamentals continue to develop (in the last three games he has completed eight, seven and 21 passes; in the first four he attempted zero, two, two and zero), it's his ground prowess that has gotten him playing time. Twice he has gone over 100 yards in a game, his season-high being 199 yards on 30 attempts, and three touchdowns, in a 10-point loss to Baylor.
This is likely because the Wildcats have been down in many games, as their 3-4 record so obviously suggests, but Sams has 60 rushes when the Wildcats are losing by seven points or less. When they're winning any margin, he has 20 total rushes. And he's more than happy to pull down the leather and hit the hole on first down, with 53 attempts — more than any other down. On average, he picks up nearly five yards in that situation.
The only time Kansas State is rather predictable is in short yardage. The Wildcats have attempted 16 passes inside the opponent's 20, compared to 45 rushes (Sams accounts for 60 of those). On third down, with less than two to go, Kansas State has no pass attempts and 14 rushes.
Our background work completed, let's take a look at some of the things the Wildcats do offensively.
There are a few staple formations, with personnel jargon that changes dependent on how many tight ends and backs are in the game. The Wildcats run most of the same stuff out of every different look, but they like to give the defense something to think about.
The pistol in 11 personnel (1 back, 1 tight end).
The shotgun in 21 personnel (2 backs, 1 tight end), which here is a running look because of where fullback Glenn Gronkowski, younger brother of Rob, is lined up.
Gun in 11.
This one's interesting. It's shotgun, with 21 personnel. That's running back John Hubert at the top of the field. He began the play in the backfield opposite of Gronk but went in motion. We'll come back to that one.
Let's watch as this play develops. Waters is under center, a rarity in the offense, with Gronk and Hubert behind him. The Wildcats have a tight end on the right side of the line of scrimmage.
The first giveaway to the play is that opposing NDSU is playing zone, as it doesn't have but one defensive back lined up on the wide side of the field to match Kansas State's two wideouts. This eliminates any in-play work Waters has to do. At this point, he knows where he's going.
The furthest receiver blocks across while the slot moves laterally. It's essentially a stretch run play, designed to fit an offense of the 21st century. You'll even notice a pulling guard in the second shot, who's careful to stay behind the LOS before the pass is caught, ensuring legality. Then he'll try to seal off the weak side linebacker. It's an easy eight yards and will go for more if ISU's tackling is spotty.
Nothing is more frustrating to a defense than an inability to stop the same play over and over. Oklahoma of the early-2000s was dominant running the same H-back motion, Quentin Griffin draws out of the shotgun.
The moment ISU linebacker Jeremiah George was asked about Kansas State's slow-moving run game Monday, a weary smile stretched across his face.
"We have to fit gaps accordingly and when you see something you want to run through, we're going to have to work on being a little more patient," George said. "That can be a problem because on one play you might want to be patient but you're supposed to escort that run gap and then other times you want to be patient but you can't because you have to take it, and vice versa. It can be confusing at times. You just have to watch film as the week goes on so on Saturday I know exactly what I'm supposed to do."
Collin Klein was a Heisman Finalist because of this play, and Snyder hasn't changed a thing. The quarterback, with a fullback or Hubert aligned slightly in front of him, will take the snap and take a hesitation step backward to allow the offensive line to open a lane and to also suck overeager defenders up. He'll then bide his time, moving horizontally, until he finds a hole. Then he'll hit it behind a convoy of blockers.
George said it's easy to lose sight of the quarterback because of the size of Kansas State's offensive line, but the way to effectively play this look is to make sure the defensive linemen and the three linebackers each occupy their gap. One err or missed tackle, of which ISU had 17 last week, could result in a big offensive play. This is the point of emphasis for the Cyclones this week, who could be without starting WLB Luke Knott, and who also did not do a good job at all fitting their responsibilities against Oklahoma State, which ran for 342 yards.
Waters and Sams run this play differently.
"[Sams] does a good job ad-libbing, adjusting to things," Burnham said. "We've got to be aggressive and make him move laterally."
Here's a perfect example of ad-libbing, with Sams hitting one hole, then bouncing it outside in the other direction for a touchdown. His speed makes the difference. No linebacker can shade one way then suddenly adjust to a cutback against Sams, who was clocked running a 4.3 40-yard dash in high school.
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A better passer, Waters is also more likely to run a passing version of this play. It's considered play-action, as the quarterback will often fake a step into the pocket, which mimics what he'd do if he were running, and then pull back and survey the field.
That's what Waters is doing on this play, sucking in the strong side linebacker while the tight end sneaks out for a nine-yard gain. The offensive line is pass-blocking — but that's hard for the defense to recognize because the line moves somewhat laterally on the same running plays as well — while Gronk instead of paving some room is chipping in pass protection.
A wrinkle to this play is Hubert lining up in the shotgun then motioning out to the sideline. This keeps the cornerback honest against the delayed tight end route; instead of playing freely, he's now responsible for that third of Hubert, and thus, that third of the field.
According to George, the middle linebacker needs to be responsible for the middle of the field if it's a pass. Not an easy assignment, as he also needs to plug a gap, but the Cyclones are fortunate to have a really good one in George.
How to stop this offense? If the Cyclones can occupy gaps in the front four and force the quarterback to take extra time to make a decision, they can have a lot of success. The Wildcats move laterally on all these plays before cutting in. Keep them moving laterally until they reach the sideline.
In their win last week over West Virginia, 13 of the Wildcat's 43 rushing attempts were of the slow-developing variety, with a few speed options sprinkled in along with the basic handoffs to Hubert.
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How does the pain signal reach the brain?
Following the excitation of pain receptors, the message to the brain is sent via one of two pathways. The fast pathway is characterized by myelinated, thin fibers that send messages quickly, giving a sensation of bright pain. The slow pathway is characterized by unmyelinated fibers that send messages much slower, generating a nagging pain sensation.
The fast pathway allows the organism to directly detect where the injury is located, the severity of the injury and for how long the pain has been present. In this sense, the fast pathway is also a warning system, reacting in immediate terms. This system connects to the thalamus, making synaptic connections via A-delta fibers that in turn project onto the motor and sensory areas of the cortex. A-delta fibers are intermediate sized, myelinated sensory nerve fibers that transmit pain and temperature signals. These synapses with the myelination of its neurons explain the quick speed of transmission.
The slow pathway is a reminder system where the brain stays aware of a previous injury, provides continuous recognition or the presence of pain and thus restricts normal activity. Emotional pain is also attributed to the slow pathway because the injured person associates qualities to the painful sensations due to the more continuous, nagging aspect of the pain. The limbic system and prefrontal cortex are believed to mediate this emotional aspect of pain sensation.
Transmission Route:
Small non-myelinated C-fibers detect tissue damage due to a drop in pH and a release of chemicals (such as histamines and bradykin). C-fibers mainly respond to chemical sensors, as well as pressure and temperature. Peripheral sensitization causes serotonin, prostaglandins, thromboxane and leucotrienes in the damaged tissue to signal for up-regulation of C-fibers. C-fibers once activated then generate an electrical impulse. These electrical impulses travel along the nerve of the dorsal horn of the spinal cord. Once the dorsal horn is activated in the process of pain sensitization, it is called central sensitization, whereas previously the sensitization was only peripheral. Both mechanisms are present with chronic pain.
Role of the Dorsal Horn
Substance P is released in the dorsal horn which is located in the central nervous system is a regulator of different functions including mood, anxiety/stress, respiratory rhythm and pain among others. Substance P channels pain impulses from the peripheral receptors to the central nervous system. In the dorsal horn C-fibers also release other excitatory neurotransmitters. The dorsal horn, put simply is where fibers from the slow pathway converge. Spinal neuron discharge from the dorsal horn can be 10 times as strong as that of a single pain receptor and high neuronal activity can occur 100 seconds after removal of the pain inducing stimulus. Neurons released from the dorsal horn continue to the brain where the sensation is recognized in multiple areas. The limbic region and prefrontal cortex are believed to mediate this emotional aspect of pain sensation. Neural connection occurs in the slow pathway to the hypothalamus and amygdala as well as diffusing to other parts of the brain. View here for an extensive list defining all the parts of the brain to which the slow pathway connects. The below diagram illustrates the relation of many of the affected regions.
Notice that the explanations of the affected centers are only explained in terms of how they affect pain sensation. Each area also has other regulatory and necessary functions.
Reticular Formation- Network of neurons on the brain stem involved in consciousness,
breathing regulation, sensory stimuli transmission to higher brain centers and
constant shifting of muscular activity.
Medulla- A relay station in the crossing of motor tracts between the spinal cord and the
brain. The medulla also contains respiratory, vasomotor and cardiac centers and control of reflex activities.
Pons- Bridge-like structure linking parts of the brain, and also serving as a relay station
from the medulla to higher cortical structures of the brain. The pons also contains the respiratory system.
Midbrain- Nerve pathway of the cerebral hemisphere, containing auditory and visual
reflex centers.
Hypothalamus- Located between the thalamus and the midbrain, the hypothalamus functions as a control center for the autonomic nervous system. Regulation of sleep cycles, body temperature and appetite are all controlled here.
Thalamus- Translator of inputs processed into a form that is readable by the cerebral cortex. Process and relays sensory information.


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A nethead prep-school kid accidentally videos the death of two schoolmates and then suffers the repercussions.
Angsty, vacuous, voyeuristic — teens of the YouTube generation are NYU film grad Antonio Campos' debut feature subject. When prep-school boy Rob (Ezra Miller), a web-porn-and-clips-addicted bundle of anxiety, accidentally captures the drug deaths of two schoolmates while shooting a video club project, the aftermath is disquieting, the school's banal counselling measures only exacerbating his alienation. The usual boarding-school types are evoked with authenticity in a spare, carefully (sometimes maddeningly) framed mix of celluloid with virals and DV. It has striking scenes, but struggles to say anything concrete between artful pretensions and Van Sant/Haneke influences.
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Nickelodeon is letting the people decide whether Chris Brown deserves one of its 2009 Kids' Choice Awards. The children's network says it will leave the singer on the ballot for the March 28 show, despite an online petition to have him removed.
Brown has been charged with two felonies in the alleged assault on girlfriend Rihanna after a pre-Grammy Awards gala last month.
Last Friday, the same day he was in court in Los Angeles to answer charges, Brown posted a plea for votes on his MySpace page, without making mention of the incident. Brown, 19, is nominated for favorite male singer and favorite song (Kiss Kiss), which is competing with Rihanna's Don't Stop the Music. Brown won male singer in 2008 and was nominated in 2007. Rihanna, 21, also is up for female singer this year.
Since his arrest, Brown has lost several endorsement deals, but some fellow artists say they would have no problem working with Brown or Rihanna.
"I wouldn't take anybody's personal issues or problems," Akon told the Associated Press "I won't hold them accountable for that when it comes to work."
Jesse McCartney told Extra that he'd "love to work with both of them." Brown has "always been supportive of me, too."
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Wait, what? Ducati is making a diesel motorbike?
No, silly – a Diesel motorbike. Ducati's teamed up with fashion brand Diesel for this special edition bike, dolled up in "urban military chic."
What's "urban military chic" when it's at home?
Well, you get a new lick of paint, with yellow brake callipers, the frame finished in black and the bodywork painted in Diesel Brave Green with a matte finish. You also get some swanky looking new exhaust heat shields, Diesel branding on the seat cover and a new dashboard cover. And – Diesel being a fashion brand, and all – it's also created a Capsule Collection of suitably stylish biker togs to match your ride, with treated rubber prints inspired by the bike's tyres.
Looks good to me – but is it all trousers and no mouth?
Nope – the bike's based on Ducati's Monster 1100EVO, so you get a 1078cc engine pumping out 100hp, Marzocchi front suspension and a Ducati Safety Pack comprising ABS brake system and 4-level Ducati Traction Control. It doesn't come cheap, though – expect to pay just shy of US$14,000 for the Ducati Monster Diesel.
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The banks of the Ucayali and Pachitea, at their confluence, are low, subject to overflow and unsuitable for settlement.
Furthermore, the Indians have been enslaved by the rubber men from the Ucayali.
On the Ucayali are numerous vagabond tribes, living for the most part in their canoes and temporary huts.
A second will continue that line eastward to the Ucayali River.
Of all the savage tribes that roam about the head waters of the Ucayali, the Cashibos alone are cannibals.
They are on both banks of the Javary and extend as far west as the Ucayali.
On the left bank of the Ucayali the dialect of the Panos prevails.
The officers of the "Morona" assured us that the same formation was traceable far up the Ucayali and Huallaga.
Several days after this we were approaching that part of the Ucayali, where we proposed to embark.
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Ahmadinejad's Swan Song: 'Wherever I Am, Politics Will Follow Me'
Author: Barbara Slavin Posted September 25, 2012
Introspection has never been Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's strong suit.
In New York for what is likely his final appearance before the UN General Assembly as Iran's president, Ahmadinejad has shown characteristic obliviousness to the impact of his words and an iron constitution in facing down journalists, think tankers, peace activists and myriad others invited to hear his musings.
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Sherman Hemsley, who died five weeks ago, still hasn't been buried because of a conflict involving his will.
News One reports:
In the will Hemsley signed six weeks before dying of lung cancer July 24, he named Flora Enchinton, 56, whom he called a "beloved partner," as sole beneficiary of his estate, which is estimated in court documents to be more than $50,000.
The will is being contested by Richard Thornton of Philadelphia who claims to be Hemsley's brother and says the will might not have been made by the actor.
Enchinton told the Associated Press on Wednesday that she had been friends with Hemsley and had been his manager for more than 20 years. Over the time she, Hemsley, and Hemsley's friend Kenny Johnston, 76, lived together, she said he never mentioned any relatives.
"Some people come out of the woodwork – they think Sherman, they think money," Enchinton said. "But the fact is that I did not know Sherman when he was in the limelight. I met them when they (Hemsley and Johnston) came running from Los Angeles with not one penny, when there was nothing but struggle."
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On Aug 23, 2004, at 2:25 PM, Ian Barwick wrote: > I don't know what the problem is, but you might want to check the > client encoding settings, and the encoding your characters are > arriving in (remembering all the time, in Postgres "UNICODE" really > means UTF-8). > > If you're using Perl (I'm guessing this is Bricolage-related) the > "_utf8_on"-ness of strings might be worth checking too, and also the > "pg_enable_utf8" flag in DBD::Pg. Bricolage is getting all its content at UTF-8. It has been working beautifully for some time. I tried setting the utf8 flag on the variable passed to the query, but it made no difference. I think that LIKE is doing the right thing, and = is not. And I need to find out how to get = to do the right thing. If I need to dump my database and run initdb to use C for LC_COLLATE, the, feh, I will. Right now I have: LC_COLLATE: en_US.UTF-8 LC_CTYPE: en_US.UTF-8 Regards, David
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Washington (AP) - Democrats and Republicans alike are denouncing Rep. Joe Wilson for shouting "You lie" at President Barack Obama during his speech to Congress, an extraordinary breach of decorum for which the South Carolina Republican swiftly apologized.
"There'll be time enough to consider whether or not we ought to make it clear that that action is unacceptable in the House of Representatives," House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer, D-Md., said late Wednesday on WTOP radio when asked about possible punishment for Wilson. "I've talked to Republican members who share that view."
"Let's see what he does," Hoyer said before Wilson issued an apology. "Then there's time enough to consider further action."
House Republicans did not immediately respond to a request for comment, but there was widespread condemnation of the outburst from members of both parties.
Wilson's outburst came after Obama said extending health care to all Americans who seek it would not mean insuring illegal immigrants.
"You lie!" Wilson shouted from his seat on the Republican side of the chamber.
Wilson's behavior caused a political hangover for him and possibly for the Republican critics Obama had cast as shrill and more interested in killing any health care overhaul than finding a way to provide it.
Later, Wilson was contrite.
"This evening I let my emotions get the best of me," he said in a statement. "While I disagree with the president's statement, my comments were inappropriate and regrettable. I extend sincere apologies to the president for this lack of civility."
He then tried to call Obama to apologize personally, but ended up talking with White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel instead, Wilson's office said.
By that time, the congressman's Web site had crashed, he had taken a beating on his Twitter page and Democrat Rob Miller had raised thousands of unexpected dollars online for a possible rematch with Wilson in next year's midterm elections, according to Lachlan McIntosh, Miller's campaign manager.
"Everybody was stunned," Rep. Maxine Waters, D-Calif., said of Wilson's eruption. "It was just something that nobody had ever witnessed before. We all felt embarrassed."
Republicans froze; several glanced in Wilson's direction.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi directed a fierce frown at him; first lady Michelle Obama pursed her lips and shook her head from side to side. Vice President Joe Biden looked down and shook his head too.
Obama, meanwhile, looked toward the outburst and replied, "That's not true" before going on with his speech.
Wilson appeared to consult his Blackberry for much of the rest of Obama's speech. He shook his head defiantly after several of the president's statements. When Obama finished, Wilson bolted from the chamber.
Wilson's behavior was "totally disrespectful," Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., who had been Obama's rival in the 2008 presidential election, said on CNN. "There is no place for it in that setting, or any other, and he should apologize for it immediately."
Associated Press writers Ben Evans in Washington and Jim Davenport in Columbia, S.C., contributed to this report.
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Venting of a natural gas pipeline will cause some ruckus in central Dearborn County on Saturday, October 3.
Local News
Gas Pipeline Venting Will Be Noisy Saturday
N. Ky. Schools Learn Their Performance Ratings
The Kentucky Department of Education has handed out report cards to school districts.
S-D School Board Could Vote To Fill Vacancy Friday
The Sunman-Dearborn Community Schools Board of Trustees meets Friday evening to consider adding a new board member.
Caucus To Replace McMillin Must Be Held Within 30 Days
A new state representative for House District 68 must be selected by the Indiana Republican Party within 30 days.
Food Retail Prices On The Rise Again
Grocery store prices are on the rise again, according to a survey by the Indiana Farm Bureau.
UPDATE: Battle Of Bluegrass Tractor Pull Championships Cancelled Due To Weather
For the first time ever, the nationally renowned Howes Lube/Battle of the Bluegrass Pulling Series will be hosting its Championship Pull in the state of Indiana.
Zipper Merge Expected To Help Traffic Flow On I-275 Carroll Cropper Bridge
A new merging system is scheduled to be implemented on both sides of the I-275 Carroll Cropper Bridge in the next couple of weeks, according to the Kentucky Transportation Cabinet District 6.
INDOT Recruiting Snow Plow Drivers For The Coming Winter
It won't be long before snow falls in southeast Indiana, and plow truck drivers will be needed to clear the roadways.
Dearborn Co. Health Department HIV, Hepatitis C Testing Oct. 5
The Dearborn County Health Department is continuing to host free and confidential HIV and hepatitis C testing.
3 Vehicles Stolen, 2 Set Ablaze, 1 Missing
Dearborn County Sheriff's Department is investigating after a tow truck is set on fire and two vehicles it was hauling disappeared.


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To phantom solidarity.
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Blogito, Ergo Sum
by Gregg Calkins
14 November 2007 a coolish and sunless Wednesday once more
Have the Democrats decided? According to the NYT this morning:
Democratic voters in Iowa and New Hampshire — the states that begin the presidential nominating battle — say Senator Barack Obama and John Edwards are more likely than Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton to say what they believe, rather than what they think voters want to hear, according to the latest New York Times/CBS News Polls. But they also view Mrs. Clinton as the best prepared and most electable Democrat in the field, the polls found.
She may be a liar but, unlike Bush, she's OUR liar? Edwards shrugged modestly and flashed his boyish grin.
Spitzer Dropping Plan of Licenses for Illegal Immigrants
Gov. Eliot Spitzer said opposition to his proposal has been too overwhelming to move forward.
Hillary said she's against the idea, now, too. Damn you, Spitzer, she muttered beneath her breath.
The Washington Post can only find this to say about the war in Iraq:
A budget dispute erupted into a full-scale battle Tuesday as President Bush vetoed the Democrats' top-priority domestic spending bill and the party's Senate leader threatened to withhold war funding if the president does not agree to pull out of Iraq.
The long-anticipated clash came to a head as Bush rejected a $606 billion bill to fund education, health and labor programs, complaining that it is too expensive and is larded with pork. Within hours, Senate Majority Leader Harry M. Reid (D-Nev.) declared that Bush will not get more money to pay for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan this year unless he accepts a plan to complete troop withdrawals by the end of next year.
Should be a good debate, because at some point Reid is bound to be asked if he still thinks the war is lost. Or will he adopt Senator Durbin's assertion...that we've killed them all, so it's time to come home?
Quite aside from a pro-or-con article about the war, I wonder how Hillary feels about the prospect of entering office with no more troops in Iraq? I mean, two years after our troops had been completely removed from Vietnam the North had rebuilt sufficiently to reinvade the South and win the war, supposedly defeating the U.S. and President Nixon. Can Hillary envision the same thing happening to her?
Republicans are sure to point out that it wouldn't have happened if they'd had their way, just as Democrats are arguing that the debacle in Iraq would not have happened if they'd had their way and sent enough troops to begin with.
I don't think I'd like taking office under those conditions, myself. Hillary will be a lot better off the safer and more stable Iraq is--as will we all, of course--because she was always FOR the war, after all. Remember? She'll be happy to show you her 1998 public law...got a copy right here, it just so happens...
Howard Kurtz in Media Notes is writing about campaign speech generally, but I was tickled by this example:
Mitt Romney once promised not to self-fund his campaign, and ever since has been busy robbing his kids' inheritance to do just that.
Isn't that great? You can't even spend your own money any more because it already belongs to your kids.
What do you know? Here's the Washington Times with a front page item titled "Are We Winning the War?"
The authors don't seem too certain, it seems, but they like the numbers. Only signs can be figured both ways...
The government of Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki said this week that sectarian violence between Shi'ite and Sunni fighters in Baghdad had dropped 77 percent from last year's high.
Mr. al-Maliki called it a sign that sectarian fighting in the capital "is closed now." Some skeptics countered that the drop reflects the fact that ethnic cleansing has now been completed in many once-mixed urban neighborhoods.
As Senator Durbin would say, we've run out of insurgents to kill.
And, of course, the authors do make some mistakes:
An alliance of convenience between U.S. forces and once-hostile Sunni tribes against al Qaeda has become so solid that former Sunni insurgents say they warned American troops to stay away as they took on al Qaeda terrorists themselves in a pitched battle late last week in the city of Samarra that produced heavy al Qaeda casualties.
Unmentioned was the rest of the story...the sheik was worried that American air support would be unable to distinguish his men from al-Qaeda, since none wore uniforms. Still, it was a promising sign just the same.
Here's the part that has AQI gnashing its teeth in frustration:
While declining, the fighting in Iraq has just returned to levels seen before the February 2006 bombing of the Shi'ite shrine in Samarra by extremists — an attack that sent violence between Sunnis and Shi'ites soaring.
So close, they moan...that's how close we came to causing a full-scale civil war.
Still, the critics moan, the Iraq government isn't working as well as the U.S. government does. After all, Iraq still has problems...
By this time, Harry Reid said, I'd have fixed everything! Me, too, chimed in Nancy Pelosi. Me, too, Benazir Bhutto trilled, poking her head through the curtain. Just give me another second, Putin added, and everything will be running smoothly.
Why is THIS problem so difficult to solve:
Congressional Republicans are scrambling to defuse the political time bomb they created in 2005 when they allowed states to issue driver's licenses to illegal aliens — but a key Republican and author of the Real ID Act says their new bill is unconstitutional.
"Driver's licenses are issued by the states, not the federal government. I do not believe it is constitutional for the federal government to tell the states who they can issue driver's licenses to and who they can't issue driver's licenses to," said Rep. F. James Sensenbrenner Jr., the Wisconsin Republican who wrote the 2005 law and its provision allowing states the option of giving licenses to illegal aliens.
So...let the federal government start issuing driver's licenses, not the states. Look, I'm all for the rights of the individual states, don't get me wrong, but the nation's highways are a national problem, not a state problem. As long as one state's licenses are acknowledged as valid by all other states then that makes it a national issue, I think. Driving laws and regulations need to be similarly made equal all across the nation, since state lines are wholly-artificial constructs and have nothing at all to do with driving skills and requirements.
The sensible thing, of course, if you didn't want to do that, was simply to make the driver's license illegal as a form of identification. That's a no-brainer, seems to me.
Illegal aliens are a federal problem, too...states do not have individual immigration laws, after all.
Make driver's licenses federal in nature, managed by the individual states, and take away their identification privileges...that would solve several problems in short order, seems to me.
Here's another no-brainer:
The Virginia State Crime Commission yesterday passed a sweeping list of recommendations focusing on illegal aliens who commit crimes, and anticipate General Assembly approval because they do not address the more polarizing issue of denying social services.
Of course, they already committed one crime just by being there illegally.
Peter Berkowitz writes about a dinner conversation he once had about Bush hatred, one in which he suggested...
...that however wrongheaded or harmful to the national interest the president's policies may have seemed to my progressive colleagues, hatred tended to cloud judgment, and therefore was a passion that a citizen should not be proud of being in the grips of and should avoid bringing to public debate. Propositions, one might have thought, that would not be controversial among intellectuals devoted to thinking and writing about politics.
But controversial they were. ...
But as at that D.C. dinner in late spring of 2004, so again in early autumn 2007 at dinner following the Princeton panel, several of my progressive colleagues seized upon my remarks against giving oneself over to hatred. And they vigorously rejected the notion. Both a professor of political theory and a nationally syndicated columnist insisted that I was wrong to condemn hatred as a passion that impaired political judgment. On the contrary, they argued, Bush hatred was fully warranted considering his theft of the 2000 election in Florida with the aid of the Supreme Court's decision in Bush v. Gore; his politicization of national security by making the invasion of Iraq an issue in the 2002 midterm elections; and his shredding of the Constitution to authorize the torture of enemy combatants.
Of course, these very examples illustrate nothing so much as the damage hatred inflicts on the intellect. Many of my colleagues at Princeton that evening seemed not to have considered that in 2000 it was Al Gore who shifted the election controversy to the courts by filing a lawsuit challenging decisions made by local Florida county election supervisors. Nor did many of my Princeton dinner companions take into account that between the Florida Supreme Court and the U.S. Supreme Court, 10 of 16 higher court judges--five of whom were Democratic appointees--found equal protection flaws with the recount scheme ordered by the intermediate Florida court. And they did not appear to have pondered Judge Richard Posner's sensible observation, much less themselves sensibly observe, that while indeed it was strange to have the U.S. Supreme Court decide a presidential election, it would have been even stranger for the election to have been decided by the Florida Supreme Court.
I've personally watched that irrationality in action. The irrationally angry don't care that it was Al Gore who put the election results in the hands of the courts, that was HIS ploy to win a recount and not any of Bush's doing, also once it got started in the court system it was bound to wind up in the USSC. It's interesting to note the 10 of 16 higher court judges made similar decisions, not merely the USSC.
Even more irrational, however, is their refusal to recognize that the votes actually WERE exhaustively recounted, by several different organizations, many of which could not by any stretch of the imagination have been considered partisans for Bush, in fact quite the opposite.
All decided that Bush won, which should have settled that argument for once and for all. But not for irrational people, it didn't.
As for the 2002 midterm elections, it is true that Mr. Bush took the question of whether to use military force against Iraq to the voters, placing many Democratic candidates that fall in awkward positions. But in a liberal democracy, especially from a progressive point of view, aren't questions of war and peace proper ones to put to the people--as Democrats did successfully in 2006?
You would think it would be considered the only proper venue...but not by irrational people.
And lord knows the Bush administration has blundered in its handling of legal issues that have arisen in the war on terror. But from the common progressive denunciations you would never know that the Bush administration has rejected torture as illegal. And you could easily overlook that in our system of government the executive branch, which has principal responsibility for defending the nation, is in wartime bound to overreach--especially when it confronts on a daily basis intelligence reports that describe terrifying threats--but that when checked by the Supreme Court the Bush administration has, in accordance with the system, promptly complied with the law.
This is another good point. The liberal press has chortled every time a court has ruled against George Bush, seemingly oblivious to the fact that every time he complied he proved that he was not, after all, shredding the Constitution.
The irrational won't accept the fact that it was a Democrat-controlled congress who rewrote the law to back Bush's treatment after the last USSC ruling. And the irrational similarly won't accept the fact that it is this same Congress which has declined to write the laws necessary to define torture clearly and also declare it to be illegal in all cases...preferring to leave the decision up to Bush, giving themselves room to maneuver.
In short, Bush hatred is not a rational response to actual Bush perfidy. Rather, Bush hatred compels its progressive victims--who pride themselves on their sophistication and sensitivity to nuance--to reduce complicated events and multilayered issues to simple matters of good and evil. Like all hatred in politics, Bush hatred blinds to the other sides of the argument, and constrains the hater to see a monster instead of a political opponent.
Prof. Starr shows in "Freedom's Power" that tolerance, generosity, and reasoned skepticism are hallmarks of the truly liberal spirit. His analysis suggests that the problem with progressives who have succumbed to Bush hatred is not their liberalism; it's their betrayal of it.
The problem I see them exhibiting is the fact that they consider themselves so far intellectually superior to all others of conservative bent that they are honestly unable to conceive of them being simply wrong. That idea simply cannot be tolerated.
I've always been amused at their "shredding the Constitution" charge, not only because of the way in which Bush has calmly followed every actual court ruling but also because these are the same people who argue Al Gore should have been elected because he won the popular vote. Shred the Constitution, anyone?
The conflict between more conservative and more liberal or progressive interpretations of the Constitution is as old as the document itself, and a venerable source of the nation's strength. It is wonderful for citizens to bring passion to it. Recognizing the common heritage that provides the ground for so many of the disagreements between right and left today will encourage both sides, if not to cherish their opponents, at least to discipline their passions and make them an ally of their reason.
The rational mind is in control of its passions; not the other way around.
Leave it to Tony Blankley to spell out the Democrat's worst nightmare:
It has become obligatory for both pro- and antiwar commentators to never mention the possibility of victory in Iraq. The most that antiwar people will admit is that the surge has gained a temporary military advantage in a war that cannot be won militarily. The most pro-war commentators will claim is that they see the possibility of "success" perhaps, maybe, someday, somehow.
But as of Veterans Day 2007, I think one can claim a very real expectation that next year the world may see a genuine, old-fashioned victory in the Iraq War. In five years we will have overturned Saddam's government, killed, captured or driven out of country almost all al Qaeda terrorists, suppressed the violent Shi'ite militias and induced the Sunni tribal leaders and their people to shun resistance and send their sons into the army and police and seek peaceful resolution of disputes. And we will have stood up a multisectarian, tribally inclusive army capable of maintaining the peace that our troops established.
Sadly for the Democrat Party, none of them can be enthusiastic about all of that happening before November 4 of next year.
Captain Ed on Iran's nuclear program, citing a New York Times item:
"Iran has met a key demand of the U.N. nuclear agency, handing over long-sought blueprints showing how to mold uranium metal into the shape of warheads, diplomats said Tuesday.
Iran's decision to release the documents, which were seen by U.N. inspectors two years ago, was seen as a concession designed to head off the threat of new U.N. sanctions.
But the diplomats said Tehran has failed to meet other requests made by the International Atomic Energy Agency in its attempts to end nearly two decades of nuclear secrecy on the part of Iran. ...
Both the IAEA and other experts have categorized the instructions outlined in the blueprints as having no value outside of a nuclear weapons programme."
Iran's explanation? Parents of teenagers will find some familiarity with this -- they have no idea how those blueprints got into their files. ... They claim the plans must have come with the illegal equipment they purchased from the AQ Khan network, from which they used to create their own reverse-engineered equipment.
The Captain is right about that neat "the dog ate my homework" explanation. But, as Ed points out:
That somehow evades the important fact that Iran would not release those blueprints in the two years since IAEA inspectors "stumbled" upon them, as the AP puts it.
It took them that long to think of this answer.
For the life of me, I can understand the people who believe that Iran does not want to obtain the bomb. Parents of teen-agers could tell you very easily.
Howard Fineman at Newsweek writes:
Heading into yet another TV debate, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton faces a potent enemy—not onstage, but in her own mind. She has a lifelong obsession with seeking out, and trying to control, unruly events and people. She often fails, and harms herself trying. If she doesn't ease up, she risks losing the race. Brainy women don't frighten voters; control freaks do.
Hillary hates surprises yet chooses to live in the most chaotic situations imaginable—from her eyes-wide-shut marriage to an undomesticated Arkansan, to a race for president in today's impossible-to-tame Wild West of bile-filled blogs and You Tube videos.
I've seen this disaster flick before. In her husband's 1992 campaign, she turned a family real-estate deal into a horror show by refusing to show documents about the transaction to The New York Times. She played the reporter along; then she stiffed him. The maneuver was too clever by half. "Whitewater" dogged the Clintons for years.
But Howard presumes something: that the documents would not have been extremely harmful. I worked as a real estate broker for 30 years and I have some passing familiarity with schemes of the sort that, as far as I can tell, bore some similarity to Whitewater.
Even when all of the schemes were technically legal there were still some niggling details and techniques which wouldn't really play well to the public, the investors, or the would-be buyers. A certain lack of disclosure, say, which bordered on the unethical and possibly the illegal, who could be sure?
And, after all, real estate developers are looking for "good deals" for themselves, ways to make money in the subdivision process. And for every "good deal" somebody manages to eke out by subtle stratagem, someone else of necessity suffers a "bad deal"...it's a zero-sum game, not a win-win.
Like Hillary's Rose Law Firm billing records...even if legal, they revealed things about her and her business tactics that she'd just as soon not have known.
If real estate transactions like this are too arcane for you, consider simply the used-car salesman. Assuming the man does not lie, and I have no doubt that there are many perfectly honest used-car salesman, do you seriously believe that everything he says is going to be in the best interests of his client? Well, sure.
Think who his client is, though. He's an agent for his boss, not for you. You are only a customer, and his obligation as an agent is not to get YOU the best deal, but his boss. If his boss has told him that if negotiations fail he is authorized to come down $500 on the sales price, will the salesman tell you this right up front, do you think? Of course you don't...that's what the negotiations are all about. If you can be persuaded...this usually requires him running back to the office to "check"...that $300 is the max, so much the better. Maybe you'd like to call that a win-win deal?
I don't know who this guy is but I loved the spin attempt!
I genuinely hope Joe Klein is right and Iraq's improvements are durable. And contrary to Joe's implication, I don't think, politically, this is something for Democrats to fear. The better Iraq is doing, the less of an issue it will be in the election. The less of an issue it is in the election, the more issues like the health care crisis, the mortgage meltdown, inequality, and global warming will come to the fore. Indeed, the less Iraq dominates the agenda, the more alternative foreign policy visions can emerge, and be tested, and become the new context for the discussion All that is good for the Left.
Indeed, I occasionally believe that Republicans know that once American troops leave Iraq, the country's need for the Republican Party, at least temporarily, will cease.
Of course he wants the war to go away, he says, virtually admitting that this is because the Republicans have been right about it all along. Take away their "right" positions, he reasons, and Republicans are no longer necessary...at least temporarily. Like until the next attack.
I have to laugh at the thought that he would write something so transparently true of the liberal program while seemingly proud and unaware that all he is doing it revealing dirty laundry.
Republicans are necessary...but only when there is a war going on. We may not need them between wars...temporarily...but the country will need them again, some day.
People sometimes say some revealing things inadvertently. Take this one, reported on The Fix:
Mark Penn, Clinton's pollster and key member of her inner circle, told us the candidate's recent stumbles are a predictable low in the course of a roller-coaster campaign.
"She will come through this period," Penn insisted. "We've been through this kind of period before."
Really? If you are doing your job, why have they happened? Why are they still happening? How many more will happen yet to come? In an attempt to slough the stumble off as nothing much, routine stuff, you know, aren't you admitting incompetence? This has happened before, no problem...as if you don't even care?
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This is a perspective of Mass Effect from someone who hadn't previously played any of the games and wasn't effected by the controversy in March.
My most favorite game from the Trilogy was the first. Playing on the X-Box, I was subjected to the horrible frame-rate so I tolerated the combat at that point. Playing the second game allowed me to appreciate the combat, changes and all, ultimately though Mass Effect 3 nailed-it. I missed my big numbers on my armor/guns in the other two games, 2 and 3 felt less like an RPG to me and more of games molded by their action.
I enjoyed the music more than anything else in the series, Jack Wall did an amazing job with the first two games. It is telling to me, of quality, that the Menu music for the first game isn't named anything, isn't included in the OST and yet is one of the best pieces. That song is used to amazing effect in 2 and 3 and serves to make emotional scenes even more poignant. I can't speak very highly of the third game's generic remixes of his work...
I dis-liked the storyline involving the kid; I was playing a Renegade and it contradicted my character. The ending didn't engulf me with rage, despite the internet's influence over me, I didn't feel angry I just found the re-colouring of that explosion lazy. The A, B or C 'ending-machine' I can forgive, I let that slide for Human Revolution. The kid stuff pays-off but, again, my character wouldn't be too scarred by what happened to the real-live (or dead) person. The 'Star Gazer' and his, grandson(?), came across hokey if only due to the Giant Bomb's regurgitation of the phrase over the past year.
I have a suspicion the ending would have left me wanting without the Leviathan DLC. The game seems to have the same problem as Assassin's Creed 3; it doesn't want to indulge the player with answers, it'd rather have them fill in the blanks, or sell you the answers at a later date. (It's seems to be more of the former)
Having to shoot some of my team-mates in three was hardcore but that's how I chose to play. I would liken shooting Urdnot to killing the Boss in Metal Gear Solid 3, just much worse, at least Kojima only made me shoot her once, this game made me commit to my decision and hit that Right Trigger, a further, two times. The third game in general made me depressed, shit was heavy. Being me, I accepted every side-mission and sometimes the game felt like a chore to me, however, considering how lost I felt after finishing the franchise I would say the game affected me more than I had realised.
Cerberus. You work for them in two, they justify themselves as doing what's necessary and claim that most rumors about their organisation aren't true, although in three they are the most evil motherfuckers who ever lived? That's out of left-field. To be fair, this is touched-upon, shortly by Illusive Man's psychology; trying to sucker Shepard in with personalities she'd feel sympathetic towards... still a bit silly. Evil might be the wrong word, after all, the Illusive Man seems to have the right idea at the denouement, I still elected to destroy the Reapers, it's what we came to do. Also, his goddamn face, who'd trust anything he was saying at that point?!
Space isn't necessarily my thing and whilst I liked watching the occasional Next Generation episode as an adolescent, I don't want to commit to buying the Blu-Ray releases. I find myself playing a number of games that have genres that wouldn't fly with me in other media, maybe i'm easily bored and the promise of interaction makes me pay more attention. Video games do tend to follow a certain structure; watch a cinematic then fight some hordes, I find that more my pace than to just sit back for 2-3 hours.
In closing, I need to elucidate, the series is fantastic and in writing this wall of text you should know I really like it. I do not give this treatment to every game I play. I felt like I needed to experience these games that I knew little about, they were held in such high-regards and they deserve it.
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GreenRoom Short Film Competition Calling for Submissions from Emerging Film Makers
Call out to emerging film makers to unveil beauty in the annual GreenRoom Short Film Competition
Registrations are open for emerging film makers aged 18 - 30 to enter the GreenRoom Short Film Competition hosted by the Adelaide Festival Centre's GreenRoom arts membership program.
The competition is an annual event as part of the Centre's highly successful OzAsia Festival, aimed at celebrating young emerging filmmakers and recognising the talent of local artists. This year's Festival focus is on Adelaide's sister city Shandong, which is known as a pivotal cultural and religious site for Taoism, Chinese Buddhism and Confucianism. Confucius was born in Shandong so it is fitting that this year's theme for the competition is based on the well-known Confucius proverb:
"Everything has its beauty, but not everyone sees it"
Films must be no longer than seven minutes and be created around this theme.
This year the prize pool has got even bigger with $2000 in cash thanks to ANZ and the winning film will be screened at the prestigious 2015 Adelaide Film Festival. ANZ have generously agreed to reward the People's Choice Award with a $500 cash prize and GreenRoom will reward the runner up with $500.
An ANZ representative said, "ANZ has proudly supported the OzAsia Festival for four years and are once again sponsoring the GreenRoom Short Film Competition. ANZ is proud to support this great initiative that captures the spirit of the young filmmakers and gives them the opportunity to display their skills and their passion for telling their story through film and is providing a prize to the winning film."
Joseph Mitchell, OzAsia Festival Director, said "OzAsia Festival is excited to be providing emerging young film makers the chance to hone their skills and showcase their talent at a grass roots level. What an amazing opportunity for the winner to have their film screened at the 2015 Adelaide Film Festival".
The competition has been a great stepping stone to success for previous entrants with last year's winning film BIRDBATH's actor James Smith winning best performer at this year's South Australian Screen Awards and the winner of the 2012 winner Pardesi, receiving a nomination for Best Comedy at the 2013 South Australian Screen Awards. Evidence that GreenRoom Short Film Competition definitely provides a platform for young emerging artists.


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Damara [dama-ra] as a name for girls. Damara means "calf; to tame; gentle". Damara is a version of Damaris (Greek, Latin).
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Damara is a rare given name for females. Damara is also a unique surname for all people. (2000 U.S. DEMOGRAPHICS)
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PREPARE NOW. If an employee claims unemployment while working for your organization, you may be asked to provide that person's wages in order to assist ADWS to determine quickly if wages are being reported accurately by the employee. ADWS has created a paperless online response system, which will enable us to quickly identify any employee reporting inaccuracies and may result in a refund of overpaid taxes to the employer.
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Cleared trees make way for park
|Stumps are all that's left this morning of dozens of
trees cut along the banks of Flat Branch on land being
prepared for a park at the head of the MKT Nature/Fitness
Ed Pfueller photo
By KATHLEEN McLAUGHLIN
of the Tribunes staff
Over the past 15 years or so, elm, black locust and mulberry trees took root among slabs of concrete and rubble in Flat Branch.
Its amazing, said Steve Saitta of the Columbia Parks and Recreation Department, but elm trees can grow in just about anything.
But they wont survive the citys effort to clean up the creek.
About 100 trees, ranging from 3 inches to 1 foot in diameter, are making way for a contractor to remove the rubble, push the banks back and install limestone boulders, Saitta said. The city plans to plant about $15,000 worth of shrubbery and "native" trees, he said.
"To me, the trees that are down there are native trees," said Rick Hansen, a wildlife biologist with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. Hansen attended a ribbon cutting Tuesday for the planned Flat Branch Park, the trailhead of the MKT Nature/Fitness Trail near Fourth and Cherry streets. The tree cutting began later in the week, and Hansen said, "We were horrified to see what they had done there."
The wildlife service reviews developments that use federal money or require a permit from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. Hansen said the service would never recommend removing an entire swath of trees. Although the creek is polluted, he said, it needs trees to stabilize the banks and provide shade for birds, small mammals and reptiles.
Saitta, who is a landscape architect, and a forester with the department decided that by the time the rubble was removed and the boulders installed, any remaining trees wouldnt have survived. The city would have shouldered the cost of removing dead trees.
Most trees that are left are on the high west bank. A large cottonwood behind the law office of Harlan, Harlan & Still will also remain.
"We sure like the trees that were there," state Rep. Tim Harlan said. He and his partner made a donation to the mayor-appointed trailhead park committee. Although he saw the initial plans, Harlan said he didnt imagine so many trees would come down. He said hes surprised the city didnt try to plan around them.
The creek is to become the focal point of the park, Saitta said. New gravel will line the bed, and a boulder or two will create riffles. Sidewalks will draw families to the banks, he said. "The end result will be pleasing to everybody."
Mayor Darwin Hindman said he was aware that the plans would require removing a "significant" number of trees but not every one on the east bank. Still, Hindman said hes satisfied that the park is well planned.
At this point, the creek, which serves as a storm-water chute, shows signs of its recent history as a dumping ground. Concrete rubble, cinder blocks and trash litter its bed and banks. The tree cutting has exposed graffiti on a commercial building that backs into the creek.
Hansen acknowledged that elm trees arent a type of tree that anyone would choose to plant, but he pointed out that the rest of the trail seems to have been left alone.
The cottonwood that shades the law office is by far the largest tree along that stretch, Saitta said. The next-largest was a honey locust about 25 years old, he said.
"Mid-size trees never become big trees because somebodys always cutting them down and improving them," Hansen said.
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The owner, identified only by his surname Wang, expressed his frustration with poor customer service by destroying the £276,000 model at the Qingdao International Convention Centre in China at the international Auto Show.
Video images show the men attack the supercar with gusto, leaving it with a shattered windscreen and mirrors, the grille broken and dents to the bodywork. It was draped in a banner accusing the Italian manufacturer of poor decision-making.
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Didactic elective for students interested in understanding oral health and its relationship to systemic health. Special interest to students planning careers in primary care, public health, or who are likely to practice in rural or underserved communities. Includes weekly seminars and clinical demonstrations. Credit/no-credit only. Offered: Sp.
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Did you know that cavities are catching? Did you know that gum disease can aggravate diabetes?
Oral health is increasingly recognized as a key ingredient in overall health. Regardless of speicalty, oral health should be part of the medical treatment plan. Oral health is an element in prenatal care and in the prevention of cavities (caries); the most common infectious disease of childhood. It is critical for patients with cancer, and for all patients with special needs - from babies with birth defects to adults with complex medication regimens. Knowing what to look for and what to do can make a difference in patient outcome.
In this course students will learn about normal growth and development, oral and systemic diseases, populations with special needs and dental trauma. Students will learn about how to apply flouride varnishes, conduct an oral exam and work in an interdisciplinary setting. Students will also learn about oral health issues facing developing nations and the public health aspects of oral care.
Student learning goals
1. Students will learn how to identify patient popultions at risk for oral disease, barriers to access and utilization of dental services, and the roles that physicians and other health care providers have in identification and prevention of oral disease.
2. Students will learn to identify risk factors for periodontal disease, screen for disease and refer to dentists; counsel patients about systemic impact of oral disease and list several common medical coditions that have oral signs and symptoms. Furthermore, students will be able to describe the impact of medical therapies including cancer treatment, anticonvulsants and immune suppressants on oral health. Students will also be able to discuss the management of simply injuries, complications fro dental infuries and/or infections and triage criteria for immediate care.
3. Students will learn how to preforam a systemic oral screening exam, identify mixed denttion in children, describe normal eruption patterns, common oral and dental anomalies and apply flouride varnishes.
4. Students will be able to describe how children's oral health is impacted by health habits, counsel mothers about caries process and prevention including diet and oral hygiene.
5. Students will be able to describe trends in oral cancer epidemiology, list behavioral risk factors, recognize the clinical signs and symptoms of oral cancer, and describe the medical treatments associated with oral cancer.
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69. Recent developments on investment securities in UNIDROIT (July 30, 2007)
TO: Chair, Committee on Federal Regulation of Securities
Chair, Committee on the Uniform Commercial Code
FROM: Harold Burman
This report as before covers developments broadly and does not review particular provisions; separate documentation is available on article-by-article issues. The two securities law projects discussed below are the first multilateral efforts to seek harmonization of private transactional law in the field of cross-border securities practice. One, the 2006 Hague Convention on law applicable to intermediated securities, has been concluded and we are examining possible US ratification. The second, the draft Unidroit convention on transactional securities law may be concluded in the fall 2008. It is not very likely that a third international project in this field may emerge for some years.
Both projects reflect the need for greater certainty in globalizing markets, and each can boost liquidity in markets, transactional commerce and trade, promote effective securities practices, and lower both market and systemic risks. Since both projects in the U.S. rest on uniform state law, state securities law interests as well as federal have been fully involved, along with the ABA and securities and market associations. Federal and public agency participation has included primarily SEC, Treasury, the New York Federal Reserve Bank, CFTC, State Department.
We will not repeat here the analysis provided previously, but note that the United States together with Switzerland signed the Convention in 2006 and the ABA has adopted a policy endorsing US ratification. Its provisions cover rules to determine applicable law, treatment of pre and post-convention interests, multi-unit states such as the U.S., etc. We expect to proceed with inter-agency clearance for a recommendation that the Administration transmit the Convention to the Senate for its advice and consent to US ratification. The Uniform Law Commissioners are expected to review the treaty as to its compatibility with UCC, in light of their recent action presenting such a review of the Uncitral Convention on assignments financing (UCC Article 9) together with proposed Senate report language to the floor at their annual meeting, which was approved by that body.
As securities trades and transfers as collateral or otherwise rose to very high volumes through computerized means, especially in countries employing intermediation, the inability of traditional property-based securities laws to effectuate the tracing of rights and interests in a timely manner, sufficient to permit current valuation or prevent significant systemic risk, became clear. The Convention's principal effect is to set out a means of rapidly determining law applicable to intermediated securities as they move from point to point, largely tracking UCC 8-110.
Notwithstanding the treaty, several countries primarily in the EU continue to question allowing party choice of law governing account agreements to play an important role in determining applicable law. We expect to continue exploring with the EU options to resolve the concerns expressed. We anticipate that with US and Swiss ratification, important securities market countries, other than those within the EU, may join the new treaty system.
Following conclusion of the Hague Convention (although concluded in November 2002, the practice of the Hague is to date conventions as of the year they are first signed), the second round on securities treaties was started at UNIDROIT as an effort to harmonize relevant areas of substantive transactional law. As cross-border transfers become increasingly common, and accounts increasingly hold securities from differing country origins, the uncertainties of what interests are actually effectively transferred have become significant issues for the international capital markets, and that is one point of focus of this draft second convention. Other important aspects include recognition of rules of securities settlement and clearing entities, and special rules on collateral transactions, closeout netting, etc. The objectives of the financial community on this project range from achieving a text that the U.S. can affirmatively seek to ratify, to being satisfied with a text that brings disparate securities systems closer together, or with a text that facilitates cross-border transactions regardless of differences remaining in underlying securities laws.
A Diplomatic Conference is expected to be set during 2008 to finalize the Convention; many financial community participants in the U.S. support that. Several EU countries have recommended deferring it for continued negotiations. The viewpoint of most is that deferral is tantamount to shelving the project. While it is of course not certain that sufficient agreement will be found or can result in a treaty text that makes substantial progress, this is likely to be the last international project on this area of law for some years (see comment on the OAS below).
It became clear during 2007 negotiations that gaining wider support for the draft treaty also meant bringing within its provisions so-called "directly-held" systems as well as intermediated systems (early drafts were limited to the latter). The existence of directly-held systems (such as those in China, Brazil, Finland, Spain, Greece and others), while significantly different amongst themselves, often involve requirements incompatible with US-style intermediated systems, such as matching debits and credits, traceability and limited scope of actions for intermediaries. The draft convention was altered at the recent May 2007 meeting so as to accommodate such systems where possible.
It also became clear that the world was not at this stage going to move robustly toward U.S. style intermediation, which in turn affected the nature of changes and amendments sought by the U.S. Indeed, a number of views have been expressed that fully developed intermediated systems if implemented in countries lacking strong securities regulation and other protective mechanisms, could pose risk. Thus the focus now on the treaty is to find as much common ground as is feasible, clarify what types of interests result from cross-border transfers, the extent of BF acquirer's rights, the extent of intermediaries' protection, etc.
Various regional developments need to be taken into account. Canada is currently moving closer to the UCC 8 framework, which might the affect changes at some point in Mexico as well so there is a harmonized North American securities market. Both conventions discussed, whether or not ratified, can play a role in that process. An earlier proposal by the U.S., supported by some Central and South American countries, to develop a new treaty on securities transactional law amongst the OAS states, was unsuccessful, in part because of the concurrent effort at UNIDROIT. Once UNIDROIT has concluded, the prospects for supplementary work within the OAS may be reexamined, although it is not clear at this point that there would be sufficient support for UCC-style securities laws in the region.
Progress within the EU and EU positions on either of the two treaties remains in doubt. There remain internal issues within the EU as to how if ever to rationalize their disparate securities markets, whether that would center around the EC or the ECB, whether it would be more regulatory than the U.S., etc. These and other issues, including preference by some EU states to have such negotiations take place within the EU and not at multilateral bodies such as the Hague and UNIDROIT, where non-EU states such as the US are major factors, make consensus within the EU on either convention difficult to achieve. In addition, under current EU procedures, a small group of states can constitute a blocking minority so as to prevent the European Council from authorizing individual EU states on ratify treaties. Such practices are likely to prevent for some time favorable action on the Hague Convention, and may lead to impasse as well at UNIDROIT. As a result, assessment of goals within the US financial community needs to look beyond the EU, except as such developments may promote parallel action within the EU (developments within the European Commission (EC) may reflect these treaties regardless of ratification).


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Daily Show Contributors, Like Cable News Brethren, Walk Tightrope With Political Donations
February 8, 2011 | Many bona fide news organizations have conflict-of-interest rules that prohibit employees from making financial contributions to politicians. But such rules in the world of cable news have become murkier -- even for programs who market "fake news," as the Daily Show has defined its product. And fake or not, the Daily Show, which routinely interviews powerful politicians, is viewed by many Americans as a legitimate news source.
Political Future Unknown, Alec Baldwin a Major Democratic Donor in Past and Present
January 26, 2011 | Regardless of what Baldwin's future brings, his past and present is marked by notably high and sustained levels of political giving, according to a Center for Responsive Politics analysis of federal campaign finance data.
MSNBC's Joe Scarborough, Suspended Over Political Donations, Has Political History of His Own
November 19, 2010 | MSNBC's newest suspension victim is former Congressman Joe Scarborough (R-Fla.), the current co-host of the network's "Morning Joe" program. Scarborough's recent political contributions build upon a history of giving to Republican candidates.
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The video gives a sneak peek at a series of events that force Aiden Bloom to examine his life, his career, and his family.
"Wish I Was Here" releases a teaser trailer ahead of its U.S. theatrical release on July 25. It features Zach Braff as a struggling actor, father, and husband trying to find the purpose of his life at the age of 35. He opts for homeschooling his two children after no longer being able to pay for private school.
Set against "Simple Song" by The Shins, the video opens with his character, Aiden Bloom, taking his kids to purchase a wig. It seems that he finds himself at major crossroads and juggles his real and imaginative lives. One scene shows him getting punched in the face and another sees him as a galactic explorer.
Braff directed and co-wrote the film with his brother Adam J. Braff. It's his first feature film directorial gig since 2004's "Garden State" which got numerous nods including WGA for Best Original Screenplay. It was crowd-funded through Kickstarter, successfully collecting over $3 million from fans.
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My interpretation is that Detroit's superior offense is explained by the fact that the Red Wings consistently had better offensive defensemen. Having fast, skilled defensemen who can pass and shoot is beneficial to elite scorers like Sakic and Yzerman. There are a few ways of looking at the data, but it all tells the same story:
- From 1989 to 2006, Detroit defensemen scored 3,187 points, compared to 2,673 points for Colorado. If you use the "goals created" stat on hockey-reference.com, Detroit's defensemen outscored Colorado's 1,056-910; this 146 goal differential explains 36% of Detroit's 412 goal advantage over this period.
- Over those 17 years, Colorado featured just two defensemen who averaged at least 0.5 ppg over 200 games: Sandis Ozolinsh (0.76 ppg over 333 games) and Rob Blake (0.65 ppg over 322 games). Over the same period, the Wings featured Lidstrom (0.74 ppg over 1,096 games), Chaisson (0.63 ppg over 397 games), Coffey (1.03 ppg over 231 games), Murphy (0.55 ppg over 312 games) and Racine (0.54 ppg over 231 games).
- Only 9 times did an Avalanche defenseman score a relatively pedestrian 50 points in a season (Ozolinsh x4; Blake x2; Bourque, Brown, Duchesne x1). This happened 18 times for Detroit (Lidstrom x11; Coffey x3; Murphy x2; Chiasson, Schneider x1). If you use a more rigorous standard (60 points in a season) Detroit has a 9-3 lead (and that excludes Coffey's 1995 season where he scored 58 points in a 48 game season). This is also reflected in the fact that, if you list all the seasons from Colorado and Detroit defensemen during this era, Detroit has 16 of the top 21 highest scoring seasons.
- It was obvious to anybody following hockey during the 1990s and early 2000s that, in the great western conference rivalry, Detroit clearly had superior defensemen, both offensively and overall.
Your position that Sakic had more offensive help than Yzerman cannot be reconciled with the facts that Detroit was consistently the higher scoring team and had a decisive edge in offense from defensemen.
EDIT: Now that I've dug into the numbers a bit deeper, I no longer accept the claim that Colorado had more top-end talent (as I said in post #43). If you compare the top thirty seasons from Detroit/Colorado forwards (excluding Yzerman/Sakic) from 1989 to 2006, it's even - in both cases the top thirty forwards other than the two #19s scored exactly 2,426 points (81 points per season). This is probably a better metric than counting top ten finishes because your metric arbitrarily counts seasons where a player just barely made the (Gretzky & Lemieux adjusted) top ten (such as Forsberg in 1997) and ignores seasons where a player just barely misses the (adjusted) top ten (such as Shanahan in 2000). If someone has time they can analyze the data in other ways but, overall, this tells me the two teams had comparable top-end talent upfront.
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