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I have a 5 and a half year old son who was just diagnosed as having very high functioning Autism with some speech delay and language delay. He is a gem with the sweetest heart and is so capable with math, computers, sports and other things far beyond his years.
My wife has been planning to divorce me for two years without my knowledge and hit me with divorce papers two months ago. We live in FL but she is a Canadian by birth and wants to unilaterally take our son with her to Canada and therefore I would never see him again essentially.
I was caught totally off guard, she had already plans for two years and was running fast and furious. I since found out she had stolen huge amounts of money from our savings and my company which I guess was to be able to fund her getaway.
I have been a fully involved father to my son his entire life. I understand the law and all the attorneys are telling me she will never leave the country and I will get 50% shared custody.
Nevertheless I feel horrified I did not see this coming and every study I read says children with Autism cannot maintain strong relationships in long distances. Meaning even if I call everyday and put him on Skype, my bond with him will eventually and quickly break. Also I am reading that the children will suffer extremely and get resentful of the parent who is taking them away. I know each day that I leave him back at home with his mother he is screaming why is mommy so bad and not letting daddy be with him. He is having nightmares that I am leaving him and he will never see me again; it breaks me to hear those cries in his sleep.
I have no idea what to do, she is draining me with motions trying to bankrupt me before I can get to court in 7 weeks with motion and allegation after one another and never ending. I believed I was a good husband but definitely I know I am a great father and caregiver to my son. I wonder if there are any fathers out there that had similar experiences and how they managed to get through it and also ideally win to keep their children.
Thank you,
Can you move to Canada? That is a horrible thing she is doing, if she loves her son, she should try and work things out. the situation she is putting her son in, isn't going to help his autism, and will definitely put a negative spin on relationships for him. I'm sorry, and hope you stay strong, don't letbhim go. Take care.
I hope you and your wife can still reconcile. Anyway, from what I have read, Canada is good to its children especially children with autism. My brother always mention this to me and from some of the articles I have read, Canada maybe is a good place to raise a child with autism.
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Beyond `stages of change:' using readiness for change and caregiver-reported problems to identify meaningful subgroups in a child welfare sample
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You dream big. So do we. UCF is an emerging preeminent research university in Florida and one of the largest universities in the U.S. But we're not just bigger — we're better. We're one of the best colleges when it comes to quality, access, impact and value. In fact, Forbes has named UCF one of the nation's most affordable colleges, while both The Princeton Review and Kiplinger's rank us a best-value university.
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Два футбольных поля высшего класса в туристической зоне Санта-Сусанны
Santa Susanna
Santa Susanna is located on the North of the Costa de Barcelona-Maresme and is situated between the sea and the mountains near the Montenegre-Corredor National Park and of course the beautiful blue sea which graces the coast. Santa Susanna is situated on a 12.5 km2 area between two other resorts called Pineda de Mar and Malgrat de Mar. Within this 12.5km2 area, you will also find the Turó de Montagut" (215m), Turó de la Guardia" (241m) and Turó de Miralles" (335m), 3 small mountains which sit behind the resort.
Brilliant location and easy to reach by road, highway and rail.
This part of the Costa Barcelona-Maresme has been growing for a long time as a tourist destination meaning that it now offers more than 15,000 hotel rooms.
Santa Susanna has a modern feel to it and offers tourists all they could ever desire from a beach holiday. The resort has top class beaches, brilliant sporting facilities both in Santa Susanna and in the immediate vicinity and a boat station offering a wide range of water sports. With all this in mind, its easy to see why Santa Susanna has been awarded the Family Tourism and Sports Tourism award.
Nature lovers can enjoy the mountain areas which surround the resort as well as the recreational activities which go with a landscape of this type.
In the old town of Santa Susanna, those interested in architecture or historic sites can visit the church, the old kernel or the "Can Rates" house where various plays and events are hosted on a regular basis.
Spend your holidays in Santa Susanna. We offer the following option in Hotel Aquamarina + Wellness.


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The US Supreme Court rejects an appeal from an anti-Muslim group that wants to put ads on Boston-area mass transit that authorities rejected as inflammatory.
The justices on Monday let stand court rulings that upheld rejection of the ads by the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority. The agency says ads from the American Freedom Defense Initiative using the word "savage" to describe Palestinians and Muslims were "demeaning or disparaging."
The group, which bills itself as pro-Israel, claims the rejection violates its right to free speech and shows a double standard on the part of the transit agency because it allowed a pro-Palestinian group to run a subway ad.
The ads in question described the conflict as between "civilized man and the savage." The MBTA accepted a different version that was critical of people engaged in "savage acts."
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Woman's Hospital
Woman's Hospital, 100 Woman's Way (Airline Highway and Pecue), will hold the following events:
- "Here We Birth Again — Birth Refresher Class for Parents" will be from 2 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. Sunday at the hospital, Conference Room 2. Cost is $25 per couple.
- "Prenatal Yoga" will be from 6 p.m. to 7 p.m. Monday at Destination Maternity, 5921 Bluebonnet Blvd. Cost is $12 per class.
- "Baby Steps," a light exercise class for mothers to do with their babies, will be from 10:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. Tuesday at Destination Maternity. Cost is $12 per class.
- "Strong Mamas," an exercise class to prepare for pregnancy body changes, will be from 6:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. Tuesday at Destination Maternity. Cost is $12 per class.
Register at http://www.womans.org or (225) 231-5475.
Mary Bird Perkins
Mary Bird Perkins Cancer Center will hold a free breast cancer screening from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. Monday at Woman's Hospital, 100 Woman's Way. Call (225) 215-1234.
Capital Area Court Appointed Special Advocates Association, 848 Louisiana Ave., will hold an informational session for those interested in becoming CASA advocates at noon Monday. Court Appointed Special Advocates help neglected and abused children in the foster care system find a safe and permanent home. Call (225) 379-8598.
HIV services
The following HIV services will be offered this week:
- Metro Health will offer free, confidential HIV testing from 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday through Wednesday at the Dr. Leo S. Butler Community Center, 950 E. Washington St. Syphilis testing will be conducted from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. Wednesday.
Metro Health will also offer testing from 9 a.m. to noon Monday and Tuesday, and 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Wednesday at the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Community Center, 4000 Gus Young Ave.; 9 a.m. to 11 a.m. and 4 p.m. to 7 p.m. Tuesday at Earl K. Long Mid-City, North Foster at Gus Young Avenue; and 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. Wednesday at Delmont Service Center, 3535 Riley St. For more information, call (225) 338-9333.
- Family Service of Greater Baton Rouge, 4727 Revere Ave., will offer free, confidential HIV testing and counseling from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday and Tuesday at the office. Call (225) 927-9810 or visit http://www.fsgbr.org.
Cancer Services
Cancer Services of Greater Baton Rouge, 550 Lobdell Ave., will hold the following free events this week:
- "YogaThrive: Yoga for Cancer Survivors" will be at 10:30 a.m. Monday at The Red Shoes, 2303 Government St. Registration is required.
- Digestive & Urinary Cancers Support Group will meet at noon Monday at the office.
- "Fit & Fearless," an exercise program for cancer survivors, will be at 5:15 p.m. Monday at BREC Independence Park, 7500 Independence Blvd. Registration is required.
- "Fit & Fearless: Total Body Workout," an exercise program for cancer survivors, will be at 9:30 a.m. Tuesday at BREC Independence Park. Registration is required.
- Breast Cancer Support Group will meet at 11:30 a.m. Wednesday at the office.
- Oral, Head & Neck Support Group will meet at 4 p.m. Wednesday at the office.
Call (225) 927-2273.
Family Service
Family Service of Greater Baton Rouge, 4727 Revere Ave., will offer counseling services for children, individuals and families who need help with a wide range of emotional, behavioral and relationship problems from 8:30 a.m. to 8 p.m. Monday and Tuesday.
Fee is based on a sliding scale. Private insurance and Medicaid are accepted. Call (225) 924-0123.
Grief Recovery
The Grief Recovery Center, 4919 Jamestown Ave., Suite 101, will offer the following events and opportunity this week:
- A bereavement support group for adults will meet from 6:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. Monday at the office.
- A bereavement support group for adults will meet from 6:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. Tuesday at St. Alphonsus Catholic Church, 14040 Greenwell Springs Road.
All support groups are free and confidential. Call (225) 924-6621.
Grief support
The Community Grief Support Group, in partnership with several other local agencies, will meet at noon Tuesday at Cancer Services of Greater Baton Rouge, 550 Lobdell Ave. The group is open to anyone coping with the loss of a loved one. Call (225) 927-2273.
Depression and Bi-Polar Support Alliance will meet from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. Tuesday at La Madeline Restaurant, 7915 Jefferson Highway. Meetings are free and open to people diagnosed with any depressive or bi-polar disorder. Family and friends are welcome. Call (225) 275-2778.
Survivors of Suicide
Survivors of Suicide, a free support group for people whose lives have been impacted by the loss of a loved one, neighbor, co-worker or friend to suicide, will meet from 6:30 p.m. to 8 p.m. Tuesday at the Baton Rouge Crisis Intervention Center, 4837 Revere Ave.
Call (225) 924-1431.
Alzheimer's Services
Alzheimer's Services of the Capital Area, 3772 North Blvd., will hold the following caregiver network group meeting for caregivers and family members of people with Alzheimer's disease or dementia: 2 p.m. to 3 p.m. Tuesday at PACE of Baton Rouge, 7436 Bishop Ott Drive.
Call (225) 334-7494.
Lane Regional
Lane Regional Medical Center, 6300 Main St., Zachary, will hold a Safe Sitter babysitter training class from 8:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Tuesday at the center. The program is offered to children ages 11-13. Class size is limited, and registration is required. Cost is $20. Call (225) 654-5263.
Red Cross
The Louisiana Capital Area Chapter American Red Cross, 4655 Sherwood Common Blvd., will hold the following classes:
- "Adult and Pediatric First Aid/CPR/AED" will be from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. Tuesday at the office. Cost is $110.
- "Adult CPR" will be from 8 a.m. to noon Wednesday at the office. Cost is $70.
- "Adult First Aid/CPR/AED" will be from 8 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 27, at the office. Cost is $90.
Call (225) 291-4533 or visit http://www.batonrouge.redcross.org.
The Hospice of BR
The Hospice of Baton Rouge, 9063 Siegen Lane, will offer the following events and opportunity this week:
- A free grief support group sessions will be at 10 a.m. Tuesday at Sunrise Assisted Living, 9351 Siegen Lane.
- A special Holiday Grief Support Group will meet at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday at Ochsner Medical Center, 17000 Medical Center Drive. Call (225) 767-4673.
- The hospice is seeking volunteers for patient/caregiver support, health fairs and office assistance. Call (225) 767-4673.
Life Source Services
Life Source Services Hospice, 3049 S. Sherwood Forest Blvd., will offer the following events and opportunity this week:
- A grief support group will meet from 6 p.m. to 7 p.m. Tuesday at the Resthaven's Swan Room, 11817 Jefferson Highway.
- A support group meet from 10 a.m. to 11 a.m. Friday at La Plantation Retirement Community, 26635 La. 16 (Pete's Highway) in Denham Srpings.
- LSS is seeking volunteers for many of its projects. Call (225) 291-9421.
BR General
Baton Rouge General will hold Healthy Steps: Lebed Exercise Program, a free exercise program offering healing through dance and movement, from 3:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. Tuesday at the Baton Rouge General, Mid City location, 3600 Florida Blvd., and at the same time Thursday at the Bluebonnet location, 8585 Picardy Ave. Call (225) 763-4050 to register.
National Alliance on Mental Illness will hold a Connection Recovery Support Group meeting for those who lives are affected by mental illness at 10 a.m. Wednesday at the Denham Springs/Walker Branch Library, 8101 U.S. Highway 90 in Denham Springs. For more information, call (225) 291-6262.
Co-Dependency Anonymous 12 Step — including Step 11 — meeting will be at 7 p.m. Wednesday at the University United Methodist Church, 3350 Dalrymple Drive, Room 204 of the Trice Building.
Call (225) 922-9543, and for literature, visit http://www.coda.org.
Neuropathy pain
The Diabetic Foot Institute, 5428 O'Donovan Drive, Suite D, will offer complimentary diabetic foot screenings on Friday. Screening will include thermal imaging, blood flow study, gait analysis and neuropathy screening. Call (225) 761-0025 to schedule.
Amedisys Hospice
Amedisys Hospice, Baton Rouge, 13702 Coursey Blvd., Suite 6A, is looking for volunteers to help with patients and their family members with life-limiting illnesses.
Volunteer opportunities include direct patient, indirect patient, comfort cooks and bereavement. Call (225) 751-4599.
Al-Anon Family Groups, a 12-step program to help those affected by someone's problem drinking, holds meetings daily in the Baton Rouge area. There are no fees. Meetings are confidential. Call (225) 924-0029 or visit http://www.batonrougealanon.org.
Narcotics Anon.
Need help with a drug problem? Narcotics Anonymous holds daily meetings. Call the helpline at (225) 381-9609.


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Slow Asian polymer market demand expected before Lunar New Year
- Written by Staff Reporter
ASIA – Polymer companies in Asia are bracing themselves for a slowdown in market demand that is expected to last until at least after the Lunar New Year holidays in mid-February.
Demand in the last months of 2011 has been disappointing, say Asian polymer suppliers, and business is not expected to pick up this short-trading month because of the upcoming Chinese New Year holidays (starting 23 January, for 15 days).
According to a Malaysian distributor, domestic producers have reported a low demand in the local market, forcing them to lower the prices of their PP and PE: "We believe that most buyers will only be active for about two weeks this month due to the Chinese New Year holidays and we expect most buyers to purchase in smaller than normal amounts," he said.
Another Malaysian plastic packaging converter also said that they are not planning to buy any material before the Chinese New Year, as they believe prices will drop in the beginning of February. The company said it has already amassed enough raw materials to meet their production needs in the coming month.
Polymer demand in China has also been sluggish due to the slowdown in the Mainland's economy, in turn affecting demand, particularly for PVC for the construction sector.
Locally-held LLDPE prices in China were stable to slightly firmer in the last week of 2011 on the back of firmer LLDPE futures prices and speculation that the LLDPE market might be near the bottom, although LDPE and HDPE prices were stable to softer on the week.
"LLDPE prices have moved higher as LLDPE demand is relatively better than demand for other PE products," commented a distributor who lifted his LLDPE prices. "But LLDPE demand is still disappointing and we are not planning to make any fresh purchases given the gloomy global economic outlook."
Stronger upstream feedstock cost have led players in the industry to forecast much firmer prices of PS and ABS at the start of the year, but outlook for these products are reportedly poor due to the upcoming Chinese New Year.
"We left our prices unchanged this week as we did not want to scare away buyers in the last week of the year. We feel that demand will not prove strong enough to support any major up-tick in prices over the near term," a Chinese producer reportedly said.
One producer who increased their prices just this week said that their sales was not what they have expected and was only able to strike some deals this week.
In Southeast Asia, converters are forecasting much firmer PS prices while adding that they did not make any fresh purchases at higher offer levels
One converter in Malaysia said, "We are planning to wait until after the holidays before making any fresh purchases as we want to track the market movements for a while longer."


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Williams-Sonoma Goldtouch Sandwich-Cookie Cake Pan
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SassyInTheCity's recommendation
It's sweltering in our office... and for some reason, that makes us want this delicious cookie cake. We can just imagine a cold glass of milk, soft-chocolatey cake and delicious cool whipped cream... Unfortunately, we're going to have to settle for our luke-warm tea and stale croissant. Sigh.
We must both be subscribed to the Williams-Sonoma e-mail newsletters... :) We recommended this at the same time! So fabulous. Haha.
- AmandaGayle
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Let's cut to the chase... this is a giant Oreo, and it looks so delish that I might have to buy myself one of these cake pan sets and make myself one. This would be perfect for totally sabotaging my diet and getting me through a day of PMS (...or a whole week if I have some Ben & Jerry's Half Baked ice cream to go with it).
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I like anything that has to do with oreos!
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Leggo of My Oreo! The only thing I need with this is a crystal goblet filled with Silk Soy Milk. Or a pint of So Delicious Vanilla Ice Cream.
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Target: Chicago Mayor, Rahm Emanuel
Goal: Urge support for a Chicken Ordinance in Chicago to preserve the raising of chickens in the city
Chicago law permits residents to humanely keep chickens as pets and for eggs in within the city limits. However, pending legislation threatens to take away Chicagoans right to domestic enjoyment and fresh home-grown eggs.
Local activist group, Chicago Chicken Enthusiasts, aims to preserve the city's existing policies, teach chicken owners best practices, and dispel common myths. Contrary to popular belief, chickens rarely carry any diseases and create less noise, waste, and odor than dogs. There are currently no limit to the number of chickens Chicago residents can keep in their yards.
Chicago is not alone in its interest in urban farming. Many other states and municipalities allow poultry within city limits; however, the regulations vary greatly. Thankfully, the slaughter of all animals, including chickens, is prohibited in Chicago and punishable by law. As described in WindyCityGal Linda's blog, "Eating your own chicken's eggs is a great pleasure. They're as fresh as possible, the texture is more firm, and you know the chickens were treated humanely."
By passing a Chicken Ordinance in Chicago, we can control the urban poultry movement by setting a limit on the number of chickens allowed without a permit, require training workshops on best practices, and enforce anti-slaughtering laws. The Chicago Chicken Enthusiasts need our support to continue providing resources for coop construction contractors, feed and supply vendors, and educational events.
Sign the below petition to show your support for a Chicken Ordinance in Chicago to preserve the responsible and humane raising of chickens in the city.[gravityform id=1 name=Signthe Petition: ajax=false]
Dear Mayor Emanuel,
Raising chickens in the city has benefited Chicagoans for many years. Urban poultry practices provide financially frugal households with affordable nutrition and lasting enjoyment.
Despite common myths, chickens do not provide excessive noise, disease, or unwanted predators in residential areas. In fact, chickens are much less of a nuisance than the common household pets we all know and love.
I am urging you to support a Chicken Ordinance in Chicago to preserve the responsible and humane raising of chickens in the city. By implanting guidelines for urban chicken ownership, we can bridge the gap of understanding between chicken owners and their neighbors.
[Your Name Here]
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In Saints Row®: The Third™, the world is yours for the taking. The Syndicate, the legendary criminal fraternity with influence across the globe, thinks otherwise. In the "Strap It On" announcement trailer, the Saints encounter their new enemy for the first time, igniting a bloody war for power that will set the city of Steelport on fire. "Strap It On" with the announcement trailer for Saints Row®: The Third™.
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text: Tyler Technologies, Inc. (NYSE: TYL) will discuss the company's third quarter 2013 results during a conference call and webcast on Thursday, October 24, 2013. The teleconference begins at 10 a.m. EDT and will be hosted by John S. Marr Jr., president and CEO, and Brian K. Miller, executive vice president and chief financial officer. The related press release will be issued after the market closes on Wednesday, October 23, 2013. To participate in the teleconference, please call in a few minutes before the start time: 877-317-6789 for U.S. callers and 412-317-6789 for international callers, and reference confirmation code 10034411 when prompted. A replay will be available two hours after completion of the call through October 31, 2013. To access the replay, please dial 877-344-7529 (U.S. callers) and 412-317-0088 (international callers) and reference passcode 10034411. The live webcast and archived replay can also be accessed at www.tylertech.com. About Tyler Technologies, Inc. Tyler Technologies (NYSE: TYL) is a leading provider of end-to-end information management solutions and services for local governments. Tyler partners with clients to empower the public sector — cities, counties, schools and other government entities — to become more efficient, more accessible and more responsive to the needs of citizens. Tyler's client base includes more than 11,000 local government offices in all 50 states, Canada, the Caribbean, the United Kingdom and other international locations. Forbes has named Tyler one of "America's Best Small Companies" five times in the last six years. More information about Plano-based Tyler Technologies can be found at www.tylertech.com.


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Dont tell me to shut up it wasnt intended to be a diss, calm down, I think you've seriously said it enough. & I use more than 30% water and it still works fine.
Dont tell me to shut up it wasnt intended to be a diss, calm down, I think you've seriously said it enough. & I use more than 30% water and it still works fine.
OMG, u write?!
Dont give a damn and I've never gave a fuck..
Dont give a damn and I've never gave a fuck..
hmm... olick, where ya been? and wheres rogue been? i havent talked to him in a while...
Do you know why you do NOT add more than 30% water?..
Because the acrylic paint won`t form a stable paint film if it`s thinned
with more than 30% water..
Happy now?...
and now go and play nintendo
fuck double post
might as well post this.
small portion on my inkpaintbookthing
excuse my wonderfull handwriting
bb=i forgot haha
make ur own dam candy/baby colors.
Zen man, chill out.
For the second time im not trying to diss you, goddamn.
Thanks for the info though, appreciate it.
damn, that blows major cock =/
hope he gets out soon.
those rusto colors look sick too, esp. the 1p+1y mix. never thought about having a little inkpaintcolorbookthing. haha
thanks man, peace
I can never get acrylic to flow right through my mops. Ive thinned it down and it comes out streaky and i dont put enough and it barely comes out. What mop works best with it, ive used staz-on and some window writer mop with mo-hair. thanks
that was ment as a dis.
chill out dude, acrylics have no up side, olick proves this with his color/recipe book, just cuz ppl dont know what a color wheel is and cant figure out how to make colors,dusint make acrylics cool or useful. and what person who is active in graffiti dusint have at least three thinners or solvents laying around.
i just use acrylics cause its much simpler and easier to get.
in my town they buff everything quick, so i might as well use acrylic.
just made some acrylic using one third water. can anyone tell me if this is too much water or paint or is it just the brand/type of paint?
paint that i used on the right
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i always have trouble with coverage with acrylic, oil based comes out alot better for me but i was thinking if i could get some good acrylic it would be cheaper and easier
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This is an interesting thread. I have always hoped more sisters and brothers would get into cosplay, and I do see quite a few in my con travels. Down in Texas at A-kon and AnimeFEST, there's this wonderful girl I know who does a terriffic Anthy. Another gent I met in seattle got out the green face paint and antenna and whamo..Piccolo! He had the muscles for it....
And another cute winsom girl I met had the figure to do Nadia. Strange that no one has dug up Claudia from Macross. A pioneer in strong black anime characters if there ever where any. And there ARE a lot of them, you just have to look. And just because you are black it doesn't mean you can't do the other characters... I mean, A brother cosplaying as Kenshin would be wicked dope. And sisters doing Mai Shiranui or Kasumi...cold shower time! And some of the absolute totally kawaii children are of asian /pacific island and black heritage, and when they cosplay in their teens and twenties, look out.
The only thing keeping more of our ilk out of cosplay/anime is the current infatuation with gangsta rap and other influences. It makes it hard for some of the kids to deal with their peers when they "break faith" and do their own thing.
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The Shakespeare Conference: SHK 25.052 Tuesday, 28 January 2014
Date: January 24, 2014 at 8:36:25 AM EST
Subject: Scanning Shakespeare's Verse
Date: January 24, 2014 at 1:27:02 PM EST
Subject: Re: SHAKSPER: Scanning Shakespeare's Verse
Date: January 24, 2014 at 1:28:57 PM EST
Subject: Re: SHAKSPER: Scanning Shakespeare's Verse
Date: January 24, 2014 at 9:40:11 PM EST
Subject: Re: SHAKSPER: Scanning Shakespeare's Verse
Date: January 27, 2014 at 5:28:54 PM EST
Subject: Scanning Shakespeare's Verse
Date: January 24, 2014 at 8:36:25 AM EST
Subject: Scanning Shakespeare's Verse
Robert Pinsky can claim what he likes ('English doesn't have anapaests or other three-pulsed feet') but I'd like to know what metre he thinks Byron used in writing 'The Destruction of Sennacherib' or Longfellow in 'Evangeline'.
Ros Barber
Date: January 24, 2014 at 1:27:02 PM EST
Subject: Re: SHAKSPER: Scanning Shakespeare's Verse
> I think the debate over whether a beat, as opposed to a syllable,
>can be counted as a metrical foot illustrates why rhythm is not the
>same as meter. A beat has no effect on the scansion; otherwise,
>the meter of any line varies with how the actor delivers it. But it
>strongly affects how the line sounds and, of course, how it is
>I am sorry to be so dense, but I am not sure what you are
>correcting about my post. I thought I said that the description
>in question was accurate only in terms of sound, and not
>technically accurate about the meter. Is there some other
>level of distinction I am missing?
Date: January 24, 2014 at 1:28:57 PM EST
Subject: Re: SHAKSPER: Scanning Shakespeare's Verse
>Larry Weiss is also correct: rhythm is not the same as meter, and a
>beat has no effect on the scansion. (Although a small correction: a
>syllable and a metrical foot are not the same thing. A metrical foot is
>a pattern of two or three syllables. Perhaps 'as' was intended as 'in'?)
Date: January 24, 2014 at 9:40:11 PM EST
Subject: Re: SHAKSPER: Scanning Shakespeare's Verse
Ros Barber: my system of scansion is just as complicated as it needs to be to describe (and illuminate) a complex reality, but no more: it does not, for example, make any use of the antiquated Trager-Smith four stress levels, but it does recognise the need to distinguish different kinds of prominence in syllables. The de-DUM is certainly there, but not all de-DUMs are the same, and the differences are important for rhythm. I agree that teaching a grossly simplistic scansion based on the metres of a dead language is always going to be 'taxing', because all it does is (vaguely) register subjectivities: look at the astonishing level of confusion revealed in this brief online discussion. It tends to convince intelligent students that scansion is a kind of solemn but pointless game. I find that teaching a system that makes sense in terms of the structures of English is much more effective, and more rewarding. I would also add that it's a grave error to suppose that rhythm has nothing to do with meaning, as your last sentence suggests: the title of my most recent book is not <Esoteric but Pointless Metrical Analysis for Obsessives> but <Rhythm and Meaning in Shakespeare: A Guide for Readers and Actors>. If you visit the publisher's site http://www.publishing.monash.edu/books/rms-9781921867811.html you'll find a couple of enthusiastic endorsements from practical theatre people.
Peter Groves
Monash University
Date: January 27, 2014 at 5:28:54 PM EST
Subject: Scanning Shakespeare's Verse
Ros Barber responded to Robert Projansky's remarks on scansion:
> Could he please point us to ANY reputable scansion textbook
> where a caesura (a soundless pause) counts as a metrical beat?
Glancing at his first lines, I saw Projansky accepts the First Folio as is, and I recognized the still-current belief that F transmits Shakespeare's orders to players with seemingly anomalous punctuation, irregular verse, and short lines; where spoken performance is augmented by a presumably meaningful "silence of the hams." Because I reject theory based on authoritative F transmission as textually naïve, I postponed reading the remainder with an attempt to remember its modern advocate (who, I guess, builds on Percy Simpson) and with a reflection that its rationale is "because it works."
But Ros got me to wondering if there is any justification for that take on poetry outside Shakespeare or whether it's a Wholly Folio phenomenon. Theory tied to belief in the purity of one textual amalgamation of demonstrably corrupt parts can't be true. That's especially so (if possible) when faith is placed in vagaries of punctuation and hypermetrical verse. Can things be "right" when the text is substantively a crapshoot? If Ros's suspicions are correct, this thinking must be isolated. Yet I wouldn't consign the sect to a fortress outside Waco; it is merely orthodoxy offshot. Ros and Peter Groves are F Troupers themselves, and Tony Burton believes recognition of corruption is "simply one more way of overruling Shakespeare." But textual criticism is more than that. Editors generally accept their responsibility to get the texts as right as possible. In the case of Hamlet, that means Q2 overrules F (most of the time). This would be clearer if editors were not infected with the same bad assumptions; there are no shortcuts to Shakespeare's text, maddening as the high road may be—and even if we can't get there from here. "What he has left us" is not exactly what he wrote; far from it. So, returning to Robert Projansky's argument it was interesting to see that
> If you know how to treat Shakespeare's texts as Elizabethan
> players did, according to Patrick Tucker, you will find just
> about all of Shakespeare's verse scans quite nicely,
> regardless of line length. The proof that Tucker is right is
> right there in the pudding: it works — aloud, onstage."
"Elizabethan players according to Patrick Tucker" should not be confused with Elizabethan players. "Just about all of Shakespeare's verse" means "verse according to F, no questions asked"; & "aloud, onstage" means "except for the moments of silence" while the modern actor counts 'a-one, a-two . . .' and the guy in the front row interprets the frown, not as an intro to Myron Floren, but as a sign of deep thought. Does this work? Why not? Is it right? Textual criticism that takes history into account says it isn't.
Greg Woodruff advises:
> Robert Pinsky [says] there is always a greater and lesser
> stress in each foot, but some "greater" stresses are less
> than a neighboring foot's "lesser" beat, thus one can hear
> three, or four, levels of stress, but they always occur in pairs.
> (He even argues that English doesn't really have anapest
> and other three pulsed feet.)
Pinsky knew his van Dam, whether he knew it or not. The other day I cited his assertions from WSP&T: "The term accent or stress expresses a purely relative conception. In pronouncing a word of two or more syllables . . . we invariably give to one of these syllables a louder, clearer and perhaps comparatively slower intonation than to the others, and this . . . we call the accented syllable. . . . As a rule . . . the two accents exemplified in the word irreparability, are clearly distinguishable by the ear as differing in strength . . . which does not express an absolute quantity, but only a something more as compared with another quantity. . . . [In pronouncing] irreparability, the ordinary speaker lays less stress on the sixth syllable than on the first, while both . . . belong to the unstressed syllables of the word. . . . Whether a word of one syllable is stressed or unstressed, exclusively depends on its contextual position with regard to its neighbor-words" (174-75). Thus Ros Barber is partly in agreement when she notes,
> Conrad Geller is correct: there are more than two levels
> of stress, but traditional scansion only acknowledges two.
There may as well be innumerable levels of stress (but only one of laid-back; is that fair?); in the iambic foot what matters is the comparative stress of each syllable to its proper neighbor.
> Larry Weiss is also correct: rhythm is not the same as
> meter, and a beat has no effect on the scansion . . .
I agree. We aren't talking time, music, rap, Ovid, or Bunker Hill. But see Kurt Daw, below.
> Reading something 'more recent and more scholarly' wouldn't
> really help.
That depends on how much more scholarly, which 'recent' is often not. The main thing is to avoid what is now called presentism, wherein some older scholarship is more careful. In Shakespeare's case, example and authority from his era are all-important.
> . . . we're much more interested in what the words . . . mean.
Sometimes scansion helps to decide what words mean, or even whether they belong.
Kurt Daw responded to Larry Weiss:
> I thought I said that the description in question was accurate
> only in terms of sound, and not technically accurate about
> the meter. Is there some other level of distinction I am missing?
I read Daw as intended but I think Ros saw two distinctions: pentameter with more syllables doesn't add up, sound-wise; and an imaginary silent syllable is impossible to categorize. More important, an invisible element is proposed to be instruction (by Shakespeare himself) beyond ordinary language. It's worse when features taken as Shakespearian code are seen by sober authorities as corruptions.
Believers in F's primacy are forced to ignore fundamentals. To compare a statement from another field: "An astronomer Concerned with the mechanics of the solar system will hopefully never dare to question the principles of mathematics." Most Shakespeareans don't question principles; they don't even bother with them. F doesn't have much in the way of an introduction but it's the cat's meow; so we can skip Jenkins's (or anyone's) discussion of F's faults. Peter Groves demonstrates:
> Gerald Downs' apparently more reliable Q2 version of
> the lines I quoted reveals God to be an early-adopting
> animal rights activist, forbidding not (as we thought)
> suicide but "seale slaughter".
As I've noted, Q2 is corrupt; but this is a minor error that Q3 and Q4 repeat, which shows what can happen in reprints. F corrects Q2 in many places. We can't justify F's errors by that fact, however.
> If he were to look at some scholarship a little more recent
> than Van Dam, Dover Wilson and Harold Jenkins, he would
> find a widespread view that F1 represents (as it clearly does
> in this line) not a corruption but a revision of Q2.
By "revision of Q2," if there's a point, Peter Groves must mean, "by Shakespeare." But too much of F is thoughtlessly revised to set that notion against the corruption and the printing history. F is a revision (so is Q2), but that in itself says little. When discussing scansion Q2 should be consulted and differences from F should always be reported.
> George Wright's excellent and highly-regarded Shakespeare's Metrical Art.
Unless I'm mistaken, Wright never even mentions corruption. A quick tour of his book seems to confirm the lapse. But Wright is a good judge: "Gascoigne, in particular, observed that English stress does not always come in two weights . . . . He realized that certain words had a kind of middle stress value and were capable . . . of occupying either stressed or unstressed positions in the line . . . . Words of this kind evidently puzzled the Elizabethan, who derived from Latin poetry the belief that individual syllables . . . were inherently long or short . . ." (52).
As I noted, van Dam believed the puzzlement continues with the use of classical terms (such as Wright employs) that have no English analogies. George Wright's point can be seen in Dr. Thomas Campion's "Observations in the Art of English Poesy" (1602). The well-known Latin and English poet compares the two, where the 'quantity' (duration) of Latin forms seems to be forced onto English:
"I haue obserued, and so may any one that is either practis'd in singing, or hath a natural eare able to time a song, that the Latine verses of sixe feete, as the Heroick and Iambick, or of fiue feete, as the Trochaick, are in nature all of the same length of sound with our English verses of fiue feete; for either of them being tim'd with the hand . . . they fill vp quantity (as it were) of fiue sem'briefs. . . . The pure Iambick in English needs small demonstration, because it consists simply of Iambick feete. . . ."
It seems to me that timing Latin and English verse with the hand in such fashion as to equate six feet of the one with five feet of the other wouldn't work any better than Gerald Ford's walking and chewing gum. The same objection applies to "beats" in F, which could not be measured by Campion's 'sem'brief.'
Robert Projansky observes,
> That one-beat pause comes, in my FF, right after a colon.
Q2 has 'end them,' but F's heavier punctuation is general. Punctuation was the province of the printer, always so when texts were gathered willy-nilly. In these instances it doesn't really matter. Campion, for example: "Though, as I said before, the natural breathing-place of our English Iambick verse is in the last sillable of the second foote . . . yet no man is tyed altogether to obserue this rule, but he may alter it . . ." What difference do colons, extra syllables, beats, or silent treatments make if our only criterion is that "it works"? If by 'end,' Hamlet refers to his own end, couldn't a pause "work" itself in before 'to die'? One trouble with advocating theories of this kind is, there's too little tie-in with prior knowledge. That's what R. M. Alden had to contend with in 1924 (PMLA) when he took on Simpson, Pollard, and J. D. Wilson over their similar claims; and why I hinted that 1H4's printing history precludes ad hoc special guidance in F. (According to Alden, Simpson held the magical punctuation to be in the quartos, and that Wilson moved it to F.) I agree that actors should obey their creative artists (directors, compositors, Shakespeare, Patrick Tucker); theirs is not to reason why. I may look at this again but a specific refutation is not necessary in light of textual history. A bit inconsistently, I see my discussion with Ros Barber differently. She says:
> I am not going to reply to Gerald Downs; I have long ago
> learnt not to continue conversations where there is clearly
> no room for agreement, especially not such time-consuming
> ones. We must agree to differ.
Continued conversation is what inquiry is about. I seldom hope to convince those with whom I take issue, but a reply might be helpful to others (might not). The evidence John Jones brings to bear seemed worthy of remark, especially where he contradicts Ros. Besides, time is consuming us; why not get even? Is one obliged to get things right for teaching, or does one teach "no room for agreement"? I'll try one last time, again with T. Campion:
"The Synalaephas or Elisions in our toong are either necessary to auoid the hollowness and gaping in our verse, as to and the, t'inchaunt, th'inchaunter, or may be vsd at pleasure, as for let vs to say let's; for we will, wee'l; for euery, ev'ry: for they are, th'ar; . . . . Also, because our English Orthography . . . differs from our common pronunciation, we must esteeme our sillables as we speake, not as we write; for the sound of them in a verse is to be valued, and not their letters . . ." Interestingly, when Campion uses to or the in his own verse before a vowel, he always drops one vowel, and thereby one syllable.
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A FORMER East Lancashire Cricket Club player has died at the age of 72.
Father-of-three Brian Ratcliffe, who joined the club as a junior in the 1950s, died at home after a battle with stomach cancer.
Tributes have been paid to the 'committed' and 'friendly' team member, who had captained his side in the 1960s and 1970s.
Larry Pearson, chairman of the East Lancashire Cricket Club, said the batsman was very well-respected.
He said: "Brian was a player for many years before he retired in the 1980s.
"He came to the club as a junior and then he got into the first team and captained them for many years. His first year was in 1963 and he continued until 1967 and then he had another spell in the 1970s for several years.
"He was a very friendly man and he was very, very devoted to his cricket.
"Brian got on with everybody.
"He was somebody that was very much involved with the club and he took his responsibilities very seriously."
Grandfather Mr Ratcliffe, who also enjoyed playing golf, lived in Colenso Road, in Blackburn, before retiring to North Wales with his wife Margaret.
The draughtsman, who had worked at the Royal Ordnance Factory in Lower Darwen, last visited the club around three years ago on a trip to East Lancashire.
Mr Pearson said: "Brian liked Wales and he went on holiday there a lot. He felt that it would suit his lifestyle.
"He played quite a lot of golf in his last years.
"His death is very sad news because he was generally a fit and healthy man "It is a big loss for the club and everyone who knew him."


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Town Panchayats Administration
District Municipalities Act
The Town Panchayats are governed by Tamil Nadu District Municipalities Act 1920. There are 529 Town Panchayats in the state which are classified into four grades, based on the income criteria :
Organisational Setup
Chronological Developments
Till 1981, the Town Panchayats were under the administrative control of Directorate of Rural Development. During 1981, the Government vide G.O. Ms. 828 Dated 7.5.1981, constituted a separate Directorate for the Town Panchayats with the nomenclature of 'Directorate of Town Panchayats'. However the administrative control of the Directorate of Town Panchayats continued to be with the Rural Development Department at the Secretariat as they were governed under the Tamil Nadu Panchayats Act 1958.
Following the introduction of 73rd and 74th amendments to the Constitution of India in the year 1993, all the Town Panchayats were reconstituted under the Tamil Nadu District Municipalities Act, 1920 and treated as transitional area. i.e. an area in transition from rural area to an Urban area. Necessary amendments were brought on to the Tamil Nadu District Municipalities Act, 1920 for this purpose and a separate chapter in respect of Town Panchayats was inserted in the said Act. Consequently though the nomenclature 'Town Panchayat' remained unchanged, the administrative control of the Directorate of Town Panchayats was brought under the Municipal Administration and Water Supply Department at the Secretariat.
Now there are 529 Town Panchayats in the 16 Zones and classified as below:
Importance of the Department
Town Panchayats are drivers of economic growth and offer opportunities for social and cultural development of people. The Total population of the Town Panchayats is 70,89,528, which accounts for 11.36% of the total population of the State as per 2001 Census and 25.80% in Urban Population. There has been huge flow of floating population to all these towns from adjoining rural areas. Many of the Town Panchayats are of Tourism, Pilgrim importance and heritage towns and also the economic, industrial clusters. It is therefore, necessary to provide adequate infrastructure facilities such as water supply, sanitation, roads, street lighting and other public amenities such as Slaughter houses, Burial / Cremation Ground, bus stands, Shandies. The Government proposes to adopt a holistic approach covering all civic amenities and infrastructure to these towns.
Activities of the Department
Town Panchayats Department formulates and implements responsive programmes, services and activities to facilitate urban communities to bring about positive change and strengthen their social and economic fabrics. In this effort the department has very effectively used all the available resources, funds and grants that have been provided under various schemes by Government of India, besides adding State Financial resources wherever needed, and funds and financial resources are ploughed into the developmental efforts of Town Panchayats for better delivery of cure amenities.
Objective and goal of Town Panchayat Department:
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III. Town Panchayats Level
Executive Officer of the Town Panchayats is the Executive authority of the Town Panchayat. He is assisted by Head Clerk, Junior Assistant, Bill Collector, Typist for the maintenance of records, Collection of taxes, maintenance of assets and in ensuring the publicity and propaganda and in implementation of Government Programmes.
Functions of Town Panchayats
The Town Panchayats are responsible in delivery of the following civic services:
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When it comes to recruiting, Waer said it's more than athleticism. Chemistry is critical, and that's makes coming to WSU especially attractive.
"Donnie has done the right things," said Waer, who spent the past six seasons with Fresno State, helping the Bulldogs to five NCAA appearances and the 2008 national title.
"I'm just really excited to be here," he added. "I'm excited to meet the team and start working with them in the fall."
Marbut said he's pleased to be bringing in an assistant coach who already knows what Cougar athletics are all about, and that he feels Waer brings the team one step closer to Omaha.
The Cougs finished 28-28 in the just-concluded season, but the youth -- especially in the pitching ranks -- is a source of great optimism for the future.
"The best thing about these freshmen is they (step) away (for the summer) and will become sophomores," Marbut said.
Marbut left Friday's event early because two of his former players, long-ball hitters Taylor Ard and Derek Jones, were making their professional baseball debuts against each other in a season opener in the Tri-Cities. Jones is with the Tri-City Dust Devils, a Colorado Rockies farm team, and Ard is with the Seattle Mariners' Everett Aquasox farm club.
Earlier in the evening, Marbut talked to Cougfan.com about the decision to take next season's home series against the Huskies and move it to the Tri-Cities. The decision makes sense for two reasons, he said. School at WSU will be out for the summer when the series takes place, and "the Tri-Cities and Yakima County Coug fans are tremendous -- it's the least we can do to reciprocate."
Looking to the 2013 season, Marbut said one challenge he faces is finding a way to fill the holes left by Jones and Ard. He said there aren't just two new players he's planning to have step up and simply take over. Instead, he's looking to his team to come together and collectively fill that production void.
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Previously revealed in Union's "Moustrap" short movie with Chris Gibbs, the Fila and Clarks "Filabees" fuses the best of both brands into one sleek shoe. The custom takes the timelessness of Clarks and the athleticism of Fila to create a new version of the Clarks Wallabee silhouette. The mid-top shoe incorporates a bright red Fila-branded heel cushion for a snug fit while other details include navy blue laces and a crepe sole.
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Facebook has acquired real-time feed aggregator FriendFeed, Facebook has just announced.
As part of the deal, all 12 employees of FriendFeed, which was founded by ex-Googlers Bret Taylor, Jim Norris, Paul Buchheit, and Sanjeev Singh, will join Facebook immediately. Terms of the deal were not disclosed, but we're guessing it's mostly or all stock. (FriendFeed had raised $5 million from its founders and Benchmark Capital.)
The acquisition is only the second in Facebook's history. Two years ago, the company acquired "web OS" company Parakey in a hire-by-acquisition deal that brought Parakey co-founders Blake Ross and Joe Hewitt to the company.
In our view, FriendFeed is also largely a talent acquisition. Buchheit was one of the original creators of Gmail, and Taylor and Norris were part of the original Google Maps team, so the company brings a depth of experience building large scale consumer products to the table. However, FriendFeed has struggled to gain widespread consumer adoption, and US traffic to FriendFeed.com recently leveled out to around 1 million monthly uniques according to Compete.
Nevertheless, the two companies share similar long term product visions. FriendFeed has been steadily building a real-time aggregation service that makes it easy to share online activity with friends. The company's product has remained clear and streamlined in the two years since it was founded, enabling users to follow others' activity streams in real time, comment on and "like" shared content, and search the stream – all features that Facebook either has integrated into its core service over the last year or is in the process of integrating, showing some important similarities in product vision between the two companies. As Facebook continues to open up its service to more asymmetric following, the FriendFeed team's experience could prove very valuable.
This is not the first time Facebook has considered acquiring a company in the space. Last year, Facebook was in heavy discussions to acquire Twitter, but those talks fell through. Now, it will be the FriendFeed shareholders that will be exchanging their stock certificates. Facebook has recently been creating new ways for users to share information more publicly that are more similar to the public nature of sharing on Twitter.
As for FriendFeed.com and the FriendFeed API, FriendFeed says both will continue to "operate normally for the time being as the teams determine the longer term plans for the product."
Here's the full announcement from Facebook:
PALO ALTO, CALIF.—August 10, 2009—Facebook today announced that it has agreed to acquire FriendFeed, the innovative service for sharing online. As part of the agreement, all FriendFeed employees will join Facebook and FriendFeed's four founders will hold senior roles on Facebook's engineering and product teams.
"Facebook and FriendFeed share a common vision of giving people tools to share and connect with their friends," said Bret Taylor, a FriendFeed co-founder and, previously, the group product manager who launched Google Maps. "We can't wait to join the team and bring many of the innovations we've developed at FriendFeed to Facebook's 250 million users around the world."
"As we spent time with Mark and his leadership team, we were impressed by the open, creative culture they've built and their desire to have us contribute to it," said Paul Buchheit, another FriendFeed co-founder. Buchheit, the Google engineer behind Gmail and the originator of Google's "Don't be evil" motto, added, "It was immediately obvious to us how passionate Facebook's engineers are about creating simple, ground-breaking ways for people to share, and we are extremely excited to join such a like-minded group."
Taylor and Buchheit founded FriendFeed along with Jim Norris and Sanjeev Singh in October 2007 after all four played key roles at Google for products like Gmail and Google Maps. At FriendFeed, they've brought together a world-class team of engineers and designers.
"Since I first tried FriendFeed, I've admired their team for creating such a simple and elegant service for people to share information," said Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook founder and CEO. "As this shows, our culture continues to make Facebook a place where the best engineers come to build things quickly that lots of people will use."
FriendFeed is based in Mountain View, Calif. and has 12 employees. FriendFeed.com will continue to operate normally for the time being as the teams determine the longer term plans for the product.
Financial terms of the acquisition were not released.


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By Howard Hurlbut
Guest columnist
The U.S. abortion rate has fallen to its lowest point since 1973, the year Roe v. Wade was decided by the Supreme Court.
The most recent report (2011) shows a decrease to 16.9 abortions per 1,000 women ages 15 to 44 — compared to 29.3 abortions in 1981.
This report by the non-profit Guttmacher Institute is considered more up-to-date than abortion statistics compiled by the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
From 2008 to 2011, the rate declined by 13 percent. Rachel Jones, lead author of the report, said this decline was primarily due to increased use of contraceptives.
State legislatures passed a record number of anti-abortion laws in 2011, but most of these laws were not implemented until after the study concluded.
Air Force leaders revise testing to halt cheating
Air Force leaders are working to address a cheating scandal involving 92 launch officers at an Air Force base responsible for 150 Minuteman nuclear missiles.
At first, 34 launch officers were suspended for cheating — with that number eventually rising to 92.
The officers' security clearances have been suspended and they have been taken off launch duty.
Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel has ordered a full review of the Pentagon's entire nuclear weapons force, including bomber crews and Navy missile submarines.
Officials acknowledged that the cheating emerged from a climate of fear created by commanders who based promotions on the scores from monthly tests.
These tests cover missile safety, code handling, and launch procedures.
Former Air Force officers say that test cheating by missile launch personnel has been common for a number of years.
Secretary of the Air Force Deborah Lee James is planning to revise promotion procedures and make written tests only part of officer evaluation.
Reports by Associated Press, beginning 10 months ago, revealed serious security lapses, burnout, and low morale within the missile forces.
The Air Force has 450 land-based intercontinental missiles on alert at all times. They are handled by 500 launch control officers.
Perhaps the severest pressure on these officers is working in remote subterranean bunkers on 24 hour 'alert' shifts. How does one remain alert on such stressful duty for 24 hours at a time?
Congress may help P.O. become more profitable
A Senate bill, The Postal Reform of 2013, would permit the U.S. Post Office to become more self-sustaining.
This bill would allow the Post Office to sell a wider range of retail items as well as government permits such as fishing licenses.
The Post Office could also renegotiate pension policies for new employees – and base funding of retiree health plans on employee demographics.
This Senate bill by Sen. Thomas Carper (D-Del.) and Sen. Tom Coburn (R-Okla.) is very similar to a House bill by Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Cal.).
The bill would be even better if it permitted post offices to partner with banks to offer basic financial services such as check cashing and short–term loans.
Sept. 11 planner now advocates nonviolence
Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, planner of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, has written a religious manifesto advising Muslims not to use violence to spread Islam.
He says his time in the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay has not been wasted because he has "been with the Only One True God."
Mohammed may become a key defense witness in the New York trial of Sulaiman abu Ghaith, the top al-Qaida propagandist charged in connection with the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.
Arrangements for his testimony would be complicated, but his testimony has been presented in two previous trials of al-Qaida members.
Commercial fundraisers keep 63% of donations
Commercial fundraisers using telemarketing solicitations collected almost $300 million in the name of non-profit organizations in California.
However, only $108 million (37 percent) of that figure was paid to the non-profits. The commercial fundraisers kept the rest for themselves.
In some cases the nonprofits' payments to the fundraisers totaled much more than these charities received back in donations.
If donors knew the facts, they would find other ways of contributing to nonprofits. But the Supreme Court has ruled that the fundraisers can't be required to reveal their percentage.
Before you contribute, consult CharityNavigator.org.
Howard Hurlbut is an emeritus professor of the University of Redlands and a resident of Redlands.


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I'm running monowall 1.2 (built on 09 October 2005) on an HP Pavilion
8565C. It has been working fine for quite some time. Recently I
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class service. At the same time, I started getting "Watchdog Timeout"
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and everything is fine again (until the next time.) It took me quite a
while to connect the watchdog timeouts with the loss of connection.
Even more puzzling, the watchdog timeout errors appear to be related to
activity. That is, I get this error when doing streaming video or
audio, or anything else which requires large amounts of bandwidth.
I recently made another interesting discovery. If I hit "enter" on the
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To enjoy the Torta del Casar cheese completely, it should be tempered two hours before its degustation.
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Many of the guards who have greater access to the most sensitive offices in Parliament House than the Prime Minister do not have security clearances and many are casual staff.
Bureaucrats are spending $25 million over four years turning the building into a fortress, but nearly half the guards who secure offices, guard Parliament and MPs, X-ray bags and scan people are casuals.
Even full-time staff, many of whom are former soldiers, emergency workers and police, have not been security cleared.
It is understood a full security clearance for a guard, involving extensive checking by intelligence bodies and police, costs about $5000 a head.
But the Department of Parliamentary Services has been reluctant to spend the money in the face of budget cuts and an increased spending on proofing the building against terror attacks.
There are 170 staff who guard the interior of Parliament House.
Morale is believed to be so low and staff turnover so high - understood to be about 10 per cent a year - that permanent staff in the parliamentary security service number only 99. The rest are casuals.
Only 15 of 170 staff in supervising positions have been vetted. The rest have been subjected to police reference checks, which cover basic criminal records such as convictions for drug offences.
All guards can gain entry to every Parliament House office and access details of all parliamentary pass holders through the computer-checking system.
Frank Walmsley, a senior organiser at the Australian Federal Police Association- the body that represents the protective staff - said the guards should be security cleared so that MPs and other occupants in the building had full confidence in them.
Parliamentary Services secretary Hilary Penfold did not rule out upgrading mandatory security vetting of guards.
She said the present checks were at the level required by the Commonwealth Protective Security Manual.
However, she added: "There is scope for us to look at those requirements to see whether they are adequate for us. We do need to look harder at that."
Ms Penfold disputed the suggestion that there was a greater casualisation of the workforce, but said it was true that extra staff were needed when Parliament was sitting so "casual staff were needed to cover that fluctuation in need".
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BEIJING (Reuters) - Two workers died during the construction of the showpiece stadium for this year's Olympic Games and not the 10 reported last week, Beijing officials said on Monday.
A British newspaper article last week accused China of covering up the accidental deaths of at least 10 workers during the construction of the $400 million National Stadium, nicknamed the "Bird's Nest".
"There were two deaths in the Bird's Nest, one in 2006 and one in 2007," Ding Zhenkuan, deputy chief of the Beijing Bureau of Work Safety, told a news conference.
There was also one serious injury and three lighter injuries, Ding said.
China's Minister of the State Administration of Work Safety, Li Yizhong, last Wednesday said he would order an investigation into the Sunday Times report. If there had been any cover-up of fatal accidents, he said, those responsible would be punished.
Ground was broken on the 91,000-seat stadium in 2003 and it was the only one of the 36 Olympic venues in China not completed by the end of last year.
Scheduled to be completed by the end of March, it will host the opening and closing ceremonies as well as athletics and soccer at the August 8-24 Games.
The Sunday Times report said the "conservative estimate" of 10 deaths "was reached by comparing numerous accounts of witnesses who worked at the site in different periods".
The building of any big stadium without a fatality is unusual and at least one worker has died during the construction of each of the main arenas for the last three Summer Games.
In 2007, a total of 101,480 Chinese died in workplace accidents -- including 81,649 deaths from road accidents.
Some 17,000 workers, mainly migrants from poorer provinces surrounding Beijing, were working on the Olympic venues at the height of construction.
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This preparation is a double salt of potassium and iron; it is therefore wrongly called tartrate of iron as is commonly heard.
With sulphate of potassa it forms a double salt (manganese alum).
Let us compare, now, the relations between the solubility curve for the double salt, and those for the two constituent salts.
At this point, the double salt can exist together with the single salts in contact with solution.
As can be seen from the diagram, however, the solution in E contains less of component A than is contained in the double salt.
This diagram explains very clearly the phenomenon of the decomposition of a double salt at the transition point.
It must, of course, be understood that the temperature is on that side of the transition point on which the double salt is stable.
In the case of solution Z, first component B and afterwards the double salt will be deposited.
The point of intersection of these lines then gives the composition of the double salt.
If the evaporation is discontinued before the solution has attained the composition F, only double salt will have separated out.
double salt
A salt that crystallizes from an aqueous solution of a mixture of two different ions. The mineral dolomite (CaMg(CO3)2), for example, is a double salt that crystallizes from a solution containing both calcium and magnesium ions. Double salts exist only as solids. Compare complex salt, simple salt.


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They rocked it out earlier this week on The Late Show with Jimmy Fallon! At first they performed "Breakin' the Law" But then came back to do a web exclusive performance of 'You've Got Another Thing Comin"!
Loudwire.com has the full story, here!
For a group of guys in their 60's they rocked it out better than most guys I know in their 20's. Priest's still got it for sure!
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To some photographers, photographing large people seems a more daunting task than usual. And it's not, really. Any body type, shape and size has techniques to optimise some features and minimise others.
The first thing to acknowledge here is that large people know that they're large. As with any body type (skinny included) their body image may cause them to believe that their either larger or smaller than they are. You can tastefully discuss body image with them clients which is something I may be inclined to do with any type of person. Understanding how a client feels about their body is always a great thing to know. And if they've scheduled a photo session, they're probably already pretty confident people.
As a society, we try to find ways to make people look smaller and we think that smaller = more attractive, but this doesn't need to be our primary focus when shooting large people. Making them appear comfortable? Now that's important. And I agree, laying on the ground is usually a no-go. Here are a few tips I've found helpful:
- Use a telephoto lens or the longest zoom that you have. This will compress the shot and keep it from suffering from widening distortion. Experiment with the distortion correction in Photoshop to see if there's any barreling that you don't notice on first inspection.
- Don't shoot from a low angle.
- You can shoot from higher up looking down, but beware that this is a way overused tactic for photographing larger people so throw in lots of other types of framing, not just this one.
- You can use one subject's body to shield another (if one is lighter than the other)
- Obviously, you have the option of not photographing their whole body. Try different varieties of head-and-shoulders shots, but beware that they may feel that you're saying that they're unattractive if you don't also provide them with body shots. Your job is to photograph them like you would anyone else so don't think you're doing them a favour by completely ignoring their entire body.
- In a post of mine this week on posing families, try the 'huddle' and 'squeeze in' poses which eliminates full body shots.
Thanks so much for reading and share your tips below!
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