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In his new book Minding the Modern, Thomas Pfau presents a searching, and often scathing, indictment of the modern regime of personhood, which he regards as not only irredeemably soulless, but also endlessly self-deluding. In Pfau's view, to approach personhood in terms of historical regime already amounts to a capitulation, since doing so reproduces and thus extends the fragmentation to which it unwittingly gives rise. In a curious manner, Pfau shows himself willing to echo Michel Foucault's pronouncement in The Order of Things of the impending demise of man—at least insofar as moderns have engaged in a systematic effort to estrange themselves from logos, "the manifestation of the abiding framework within which alone meanings of any kind are to be prima facie achieved" (162). Yet this tragic tale also allows for a glimmer of hope: the resurrection of the dead is possible, if only the truth of unlikely prophets—including, in Pfau's account, Samuel Taylor Coleridge—would inspire deeper reverence.
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Prayer is technology. I think.posted by Jeffrey Guhin
My dissertation is a comparison of the use of prayer, scripture, science education, and "high technology" in four religious high schools, and I'm rather provocatively labeling these four categories "moral technologies": that is, tools created by (or provided to) humans that are used to accomplish certain moral goals. This definition builds upon Mitcham's more expansive understanding of technology, and it is obviously deeply indebted to Foucault.
Arab and American revolutions in historyposted by Abdullahi Ahmed An-Na`im
Thomas Farr, in his recent post, links the mass protests in the Arab world, combined with the persecution of Christian minorities in the region, and what he called "the Obama administration's striking indifference to America's statutory policy of advancing international religious freedom." In my view, if the Obama administration is to do anything with respect to the International Religious Freedom Act (IRFA), it should seek to repeal it and to dismantle the whole policy and institutional structure that it entails, because this statutory policy is an insult to and betrayal of victims of human rights violations throughout the world, including Christian minorities in the Arab world.
Disenchantment and the mind-dependence of the moralposted by Matthew Noah Smith
At the core of contemporary secularism is the denial of the existence of deities and the supernatural. There is only the natural, as described by our best sciences. This 'disenchantment' of the world seems to leave no place for value, and this exclusion of value from the world is, Akeel Bilgrami argues in his essay "What is Enchantment?" one of the central and damning failures of contemporary secularism.
How does secularism crowd values out of our picture of the world? If we accept a secularist metaphysics, then a necessary condition for the existence of values is that they can be accommodated by our best sciences. But our best sciences do not seem to have any room for values. Values make demands on human beings as actors—for instance, we ought to pursue the good, we ought to avoid the bad, and so on—but science describes no such free-standing "oughts."
A Catholic critique of capital?posted by Charles Gelman
A lengthy profile by John Cornwell, which appears in the November issue of Prospect, examines the biography and the philosophical work of Alasdair MacIntyre, particularly in regard to the relevance of his Marx-inflected Thomism for confronting the ongoing crisis of capitalist economies in Europe and the U.S.
Human moralityposted by Jessica Polebaum
At the NYTimes.com blog "The Stone," Frans de Waal, C. H. Candler Professor in Psychology and Director of the Living Links Center at the Yerkes National Primate Research Center at Emory University, writes on the roots of human morality, using a series of fascinating examples from research on primate behavior to illustrate man's natural attraction to "the good."
Understanding disenchantmentposted by Akeel Bilgrami
Jane Bennett's sympathetic yet critical commentary on my essay "What is Enchantment?" (published in the volume Varieties of Secularism in a Secular Age) describes the notion of disenchantment that I present as primarily addressing the theological displacements that emerged with the rise of the new science. Her own work, she says, offers a quite different focus, one of a mood or affect that "circulates between human bodies and the animal, vegetable, and mineral forces they encounter."
I don't doubt that this interesting focus is quite different from mine, though I think it would be wrong to represent my view as being focused on the theological. In my analysis, the theological had only a central genealogical role to play in the process of "disenchantment."
Religion, spirituality, and the sexual scandalposted by Katherine Pratt Ewing
Religion and the sex scandal are still closely linked, though the targets of public outrage have morphed: it is often religious authorities and bearers of traditional morality whose sexual desires and actions are publicized and condemned. With so many religious institutions and their authorities rocked by sex scandals in a litany of abuse and victimhood, it behooves us to ask what, precisely, is being exposed and denounced, and, conversely, what is being protected and perhaps even obscured. What aspects of "religion" are under fire in these scandals? What role does "spirituality" play in this discursive reconfiguration of sexuality and religion?
Teaching Catholicism and sexual moralityposted by David Walker
The dismissal of Kenneth Howell, a University of Illinois adjunct professor of Catholic history and thought, has generated much discussion and commentary in the last week, most of it focusing upon the appropriateness, tone, and argumentative validity of an email that he sent to students prior to their Spring semester exam.
The science of moralityposted by Laura Duane
Sam Harris, author and vehement secularist, argues that science can create a moral code as effectively as religion can.
Values for the Post-Crisis Economyposted by Ruth Braunstein
The World Economic Forum has released "Faith and the Global Agenda: Values for the Post-Crisis Economy," an annual report on issues related to the role of faith in global affairs. John J. DeGioia, the President of Georgetown University, which collaborated on the report, explains its rationale: "The economic and financial crisis is an opportunity to re-articulate the values that should underpin our global institutions going forward. The world's religious communities are critical repositories of those values."
No view from nowhereposted by Webb Keane
I'll start with a comment about my own angle of approach. There is of course no view from nowhere, and it is one task of the commentators to point out the blind spots that any perspective inevitably brings with it. As an anthropologist, my aim was not originally to construct a critique of modernity or of Christianity. The book emerged out of a long series of attempts to grapple with the challenges my research in Sumba presented to certain common sense assumptions about persons, materiality, and language. I came to see those assumptions as characteristic products of the liberal and secular world that produced the habits and disciplines within which many of us live, and thanks to which, in part, the book itself was written.
Speech and spaceposted by Michael Warner
Like Webb Keane, I have come to see some metapragmatic elements in evangelical culture as bringing about some important and related consequences: projects of translation that make religiosity into a portable content; modular conceptions of subjectivity and conversion; rhetorics of agentialized belief, and so on. Like him, I see many of these as processes that mark evangelicalism as a system of modernity, having perhaps even more in common with structures of the public sphere or scientific inquiry than with some rival modes of religiosity.
Christian modernsposted by Webb Keane
I argue that the moral narrative of modernity is a projection onto chronological time of a view of human moral and pragmatic self-transformation. This narrative, and the concrete projects it entails, runs into certain ubiquitous problems that arise from the material dimensions of human sociality and subjectivity. Protestantism was, historically, one major source of practices and concepts that express and try to control these problems. It was also a force for their circulation well beyond the Protestant, or even the religious, sphere as such.
President Obama's Catholic sensibilityposted by Michele Dillon
President Barack Obama's May 17 commencement address at the University of Notre Dame deftly demonstrated the president's unique ability to elevate civil discourse and to eloquently incorporate a deep religious sensibility into the nation's most divisive contemporary public debate. Many observers have rightly commented on Obama's important emphasis that the abortion issue requires "Open hearts. Open minds. Fair-minded words." What is equally impressive is the religious repertoire that Obama used in articulating his vision of how that so-hard-to-come-by common-ground might be achieved. I am not thinking of Obama's references to the "imperfections of man" and to "original sin," or to the invocation of "God's creation"—though these religious references are important. More striking was how Obama, a non-Catholic, showed his ability to think and to talk like a Catholic. […]
Obama's living virtuesposted by Jennifer Herdt
Obama's list of virtues comes in pairs, and the pairings are mutually illuminating. I will, though, examine them not in the order in which they are listed in the address, but rather according to the depth of their roots, beginning with those anchored most firmly in the ancient classical and, later, the Christian traditions of the West. What emerges when we take this angle of approach, I will argue, is not simple continuity. Neither do we uncover a sharply defined contrast between classical and Christian, or ancient and modern, virtues. Rather, what comes into focus is a continuously unfolding understanding of the virtues, driven on the one hand by socio-historical changes and on the other by efforts to resolve internal tensions in how the virtues are conceived, both singly and in relation to one another.
The cooling embersposted by Jason Bivins
Politics is not reducible to elections, of course. Yet these contests—particularly the quadrennial spectacle that is a Presidential race—usually conclude with opportunities for political reflection. Nowhere is this more evident than in the blogosphere, now crowded with academics' reflections mere days following the tallying of votes. […]
A religious war?posted by Jonathan VanAntwerpen
Today at The Daily Dish, Andrew Sullivan writes: 9/11 was a call, in my mind, to defend the Enlightenment from the nihilistic forces of murderous theocratic fanaticism.
Evangelicals and the relational self in Venezuelaposted by David Smilde
Anglophone scholars have long struggled to find a terminology with which to study non-Catholic Christianity in Latin America. We are used to studying Christianity in terms of Catholics versus Protestants, with "Evangelicals" being a subcategory of the latter. But Latin Americans tend to divide Christians into Catholics versus Evangelicals. To make matters worse, when scholars go to Latin America and start talking to those who call themselves Evangelical, they quickly realize that these are what would be called Pentecostals, as spirit baptism, faith healing and speaking in tongues all play a central role in their religious practice. […]
Does tolerance require struggle?posted by Jenny White
Abdullahi Ahmed An-Na'im's erudite and thought-provoking book Islam and The Secular State provides a clear-sighted argument made from within the Islamic tradition for a state formation that allows Islamic beliefs and culture to enter the public domain through politics (as one of many rationally contested visions) and thereby influence the laws of the land. The keys to An-Na'im's vision are Islamic morality and civic reason, both of which, in his interpretation, ensure a shared respect for constitutionalism, citizenship and human rights, and a neutral, secular state that provides an even playing field for public debate and makes sure that non-democratic instincts are kept in check. An-Na'im's utopian vision stumbles here, however, in failing to provide any mechanisms for achieving its desired outcomes beyond good will, morality, and reason. […]
Arguing with An-Na`imposted by Daniel Philpott
What is interesting about An-Na`im's arguments is that they ground the case for the secular state not in the Quran, not in claims about the presence of the imago Dei in the person or in some other source of the person's intrinsic dignity, not in natural law, some closely similar type of practical reason, or universal moral precepts, but rather in what might be called "second order" observations about the phenomenology of belief, the character of government, the lessons of history, and the like. To be sure, good reasons for the secular state lie therein. But are these arguments sufficient to ground an Islamic case for constitutionalism, human rights, and the secular state? I doubt it.
The cognitive revolution and the decline of monotheismposted by Kelly Bulkeley
To appreciate the cultural impact of the "cognitive revolution" discussed by David Brooks in his New York Times op-ed column "The Neural Buddhists" (May 13, 2008), we need to be clear about what has and has not been revolutionized by neuroscience. Brooks gets the research essentially right, but he overlooks some key issues raised by "neural Buddhism" that make me question his view of its future effects on religion and culture. […]
Secularism and the paradoxes of Muslim politicsposted by Robert Hefner
Few books in Islamic studies have been as eagerly awaited or intensely debated prior to publication as Abdullahi Ahmed An-Na`im's Islam and the Secular State: Negotiating the Future of Shari`a. Charles Howard Candler Professor of Law at Emory University, An-Na`im has for more than twenty years been a tireless proponent of a deeply religious but liberal-modernist reformation of Islamic politics and ethics. […]
"Trust me"posted by Penny Edgell
On Sunday evening at Messiah College, the two contenders for the Democratic presidential nomination agreed to talk in a "deeply personal" way about "issues of faith and compassion and how a president's faith can affect us all." […]
The confession forumposted by Omri Elisha
A funny thing happened on the way to last Sunday's Compassion Forum: the politics of religion gave way to the politics of confession.
Playposted by Mark C. Taylor
Sometimes we come closest to the gods in moments of play. When play is genuine, time is suspended and we are lifted into an eternal Now, where passing away seems to pass away. The value of play, like fine art, is intrinsic. We might say of play what Heidegger says of a rose, that it is "without why." Always purposeless, the beauty of play is that it is not utilitarian; it is valuable because it is impractical. As Nietzsche teaches in his "Gay Science," play, which is beyond good and evil, reveals the wisdom of unworldly folly and the folly of worldly wisdom. […]
Going beyondposted by Craig Calhoun
One of the main arguments of Charles Taylor's A Secular Age is that people, at least modern secular Westerners, have come routinely to think that the world as it is must be all there is. The contrast between immanence and transcendence is thus one of Taylor's main organizing themes. Immanence locates both our sense of reality and our sense of the good within the world around us; transcendence gives us a sense of something beyond. Taylor develops this in conjunction with a notion of "fullness" to try to evoke what it means to live in more constant engagement with that which is beyond the immediately given, the spiritual which might infuse nature, for example, or the Divine which might lift morality above a notion of ethics as mere fairness. […]
Sex and the subject of religionposted by Tracy Fessenden
The current campaign within the Archdiocese of New York to canonize the radical activist Dorothy Day (1897-1980) offers a good example of what Elizabeth Povinelli, writing here on December 13 ("Can Sex be a Minor Form of Spitting?"), calls the "mutual conditions and secret agreements" that tie the sexual revolution and Catholic teaching together behind the scenes—and of the "transformation in the field of sin" sealed in their alliance. It isn't simply that the candor with which Cardinal O'Connor and now Cardinal Egan have described Day's sexual agency, single motherhood, and presumed abortion signals the Church's accommodation to new, post-1960s norms of frankness.
Sex & aggressionposted by Jimmy Casas Klausen
I want to raise some questions about Taylor's account of "our moral landscape" after the mainstreaming of the sexual revolution in the 1960s. Our moral landscape has indeed changed—that is undeniable—and yet, in Taylor's hands, the cartography of that moral landscape appears all too familiar, and this is so because he does not take—indeed historically has not taken—the challenge of post-Nietzscheanism seriously.
The slipstream of disenchantment & the place of fullnessposted by Elizabeth Shakman Hurd
One of the most important books of our time, Charles Taylor's A Secular Age explains how many Europeans and their cultural heirs have come to experience moral fullness and identify their highest moral capacities and inspirations purely within the range of human power and without reference to God. It presents an alternative to "subtraction stories" of modernity in which superstition and belief are understood to have withered away, leaving room for modern science and humanism to flourish uninhibited by metaphysical constraints. […]
Secularism of a new kindposted by Robert N. Bellah
I have long admired Charles Taylor and have read most of what he has written and always found him helpful. Yet for me, A Secular Age is his breakthrough book—one of the most important books to be written in my lifetime. Taylor succeeds in no less than recasting the entire debate about secularism. From the very first pages it is clear that Taylor is doing something different from what others writing about secularization have achieved […]


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There are many different types of sales management jobs, and aspiring sales managers will find that the variances between them can make a difference when it comes to overall job satisfaction. In the current sales environment some organizations are choosing to merge sales departments and designate sales roles within the merged department while others are doing away with the separate definitions entirely and relying on all sales reps to pursue sales through all categories. This makes it important to understand the different types of sales management jobs.
Sales Management Jobs: Inside Sales
Inside sales is sales performed remotely. In some respects this makes sales management jobs in inside sales easier for the sales manager, since the sales manager can more easily track sales rep activities. However, inside sales has a higher ratio of cold calls than most other types of sales, so a sales manager must have a specific set of skills to succeed in inside sales. These include:
- The ability to maintain high morale throughout the team in tough selling environments
- A dedication to tracking and manipulating metrics in order to determine how sales numbers can best be improved
- A keen understanding of overcoming rejection in order to coach sales personnel on improving closing rates
Sales Management Jobs: Outside Sales
Outside or face to face sales is highly competitive and constantly fluid, as the individuals on outside sales teams may be meeting with prospects anywhere from the office to clients' offices to distant locations. This means that sales management jobs for outside sales require individuals who can be flexible, as well as individuals who:
- Understand the sales cycle and pipeline and can impart this information to others
- Are able to coach sales hunters effectively in team and one-on-one settings
- Can motivate outside sales people to go after outsized targets with confidence
Sales Management Jobs: Hybrid Sales
Hybrid sales is becoming more common as sales departments merge inside and outside sales from separate departments into a single entity. Sales management jobs in hybrid sales require sales managers to:
- Encourage sales through all available channels, and understand as well as measure how different sales are contributing to targets
- Be able to interact with a variety of different types of sales people successfully
- Incentivize sales in all categories so that sales people are performing the right activities at the right time for the business
Sales Management Jobs: Consultative Sales
The consultative role is most often seen in industries like pharmaceuticals; the sales reps working consultative selling roles do not sell directly, usually because of legal guidelines. Consultative selling can be difficult because it is often unclear how a sales person's activities are directly resulting in sales. This challenge must be owned by the sales manager who is interested in consultative sales management jobs. Sales managers in this sales category should also:
- Possess an intimate understanding of relationship based selling and be able to impart that information through coaching effectively
- Have a thorough knowledge of the industry in which they are operating in order to understand the pressures and restrictions to which consultative selling is often subjected
- Be able to think outside the box to help sales people find new sales opportunities
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Sales support departments are seen in organizations where the sales team has direct responsibility for selling and there is a clear process to allow sales people to let go of sold accounts and continue selling in the new business arena. Once sales people let go of sold accounts, these accounts typically go to a sales support department, which can sell add-ons and add value while providing customer service and other support functionalities. Sales managers in this role should have the same characteristics as inside sales managers, in addition to an intense focus on the customer service that drives sales support success.
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Confocal microscope image shows uptake of the nanocrystals by cancer cells.
The problem of efficiently delivering drugsespecially those that are hydrophobic or water-repellantto tumors or other disease sites has long challenged scientists to develop innovative delivery systems that keep these drugs intact until reaching their targets.
Now scientists in UBs Institute for Lasers, Photonics and Biophotonics and Roswell Park Cancer Institute (RPCI) have developed an innovative solution in which the delivery system is the drug itself.
The system involves the use of nanocrystals measuring about 100 nanometers of an anticancer drug currently in Phase I/II human clinical trials at RPCI. The UB researchers found that the nanocrystals of this compound were taken up by tumors in vivo, with efficacy comparable to conventional, surfactant-based delivery systems. In this case, the drug itself acts as its own carrier, says Haridas Pudavar, UB research assistant professor and a coauthor. The nanocrystals present a major advantage over other methods of delivery, according to Paras Prasad, SUNY Distinguished Professor in the Department of Chemistry, executive director of the institute and a coauthor.


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Reproductive Systems
Female Reproductive System
From the top of the uterus extend the fallopian tubes, which lead backward and downward to the ovaries. These are the two small sacs that contain the eggs. A woman is born with about 400,000 eggs.
Each month during her reproductive years, usually only a single egg, or ovum, matures. The egg matures inside a follicle within an ovary.
At midcycle, the egg is released from the follicle in a process called ovulation.
The egg then enters and travels down one of the fallopian tubes toward the uterus. When the egg reaches the end of the fallopian tube, it is ready for fertilization by the man's sperm.
This sequence of events is controlled by monthly changes in a woman's hormone levels. To help understand the process a little better, it is important to understand the role of the menstrual cycle and the hormones involved.
The Menstrual Cycle
The cycle is driven by two hormones:
- Follicle-stimulating hormone (FSH)
- Luteinizing hormone (LH)
Follicular Phase
On the first day of the cycle, when menstruation begins, the uterus sheds its lining from the previous cycle. During this phase, the pituitary gland, located at the base of the brain, releases two hormones, follicle-stimulating hormone (FSH) and luteinizing hormone (LH), which stimulate the ovary and cause follicular growth. The developing follicle secretes the hormone estrogen, which has several important roles in the body.
Ovulatory Phase
One of these roles results in midcycle changes in the cervical mucus about the time of ovulation. During the ovulatory phase, this abundant mucus is prepared to receive and nourish sperm from the man.
The ovulatory phase begins when the level of LH surges, causing the follicle to rupture and the egg to be released from the ovary. The fimbria of the fallopian tube sweep over the ovary and wave the egg into the fallopian tube.
Luteal Phase
After ovulation occurs, the luteal phase begins. During the luteal phase, the follicle that produced the egg becomes a functioning gland called the corpus luteum. The corpus luteum produces progesterone, which prepares the uterus with the rich lining needed for implantation.
If intercourse has taken place and the egg meets with sperm in the outer end of the tube, conception may occur. The fertilized egg travels through the tube toward the uterus with the help of tiny hairlike projections called cilia, which sweep the egg along. Once inside the uterus, the embryo implants into the lining on about the 20th day of the cycle. The corpus luteum can sense the pregnancy and will continue to produce progesterone, thus preserving the uterine lining and pregnancy.
If fertilization does not occur, the ovum passes through the uterus, and the corpus luteum will cease to function on about Day 26. The uterus will then break down, shed its lining several days later and the next menstrual period begins.
Male Reproductive System
The male reproductive system is also under the influence of hormones and is responsible for producing sperm. The male reproductive system is both internal and external.
The testes are located within the scrotal sac, the pouch of skin located below the man's penis. These are the two organs that produce both sperm and testosterone, the male hormone that helps maintain the male sexual characteristics.
As sperm are produced, they pass from the testes through the coiled channels of the epididymis, an organ that stores and nourishes them as they mature.
Once sperm are completely mature, they move into the vas deferens. This tubal structure connects the epididymis with the seminal vesicles, the two pouchlike glands that provide storage for the mature sperm. The entire process of sperm formation to maturation takes about 72 days.
When a man ejaculates (or expels the fluid from his penis) during intercourse, sperm from the seminal vesicles combine with a thick fluid from the prostate gland to create semen. This fluid (or ejaculate) is deposited into the woman's vagina.
Sperm Development
The development of normal, mature sperm is key in establishing male fertility and involves an interplay of several factors:
- An exchange of hormonal messages between the brain and the testicles
- A secretion of necessary reproductive hormones (testosterone) by Leydig cells and normal sperm development within Sertoli cells
- Normal transport of developing sperm from testicles to epididymis to vas deferens
The production of sperm is primarily regulated by three hormones:
- FSH (follicle-stimulating hormone)
- LH (luteinizing hormone)
- Testosterone
In the male, pituitary hormones are responsible for maintaining the sperm production process. The pituitary gland, which is located at the base of the brain, secretes FSH and LH, the same hormones necessary for regulating the female's reproductive functions.
FSH is responsible for stimulating sperm production in the testicles. LH stimulates the production of testosterone.
Under the influence of Sertoli cells and specific hormones, immature sperm cells develop through several stages and eventually become mature sperm cells, called spermatozoa. Spermatozoa are not yet motile. They must pass through the epididymis, where after 18–24 hours, they gain motility (movement). After acquiring the ability to move, mature sperm are stored in the vas deferens until ejaculation.


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It seems that this vacation has been one of happy discovery.
On Tuesday night, for example, it was decided that dinner would be taken at an Indian restaurant. I've never been a huge fan of Indian food myself, and it seems that Gerry's brother is of a similar opinion. When BlueMoon told me about the plans to go to this restaurant, though, she said she had her own hesitations the first time she went, as well, she being not particularly fond of curry. She assured the nervous eaters that there would, in fact, be yummy choices that we would find palatable, and she was absolutely correct. Though I likely won't go out of my way to eat Indian food, I now know what to order if I find myself in such an establishment again.
Yesterday, Mimi, BlueMoon, and I ditched the boys to do some chi-chi shopping in Winter Park. Mimi was particularly interested in going because there were two shops she wanted to visit; a spice and tea store and a place devoted entirely to the sale of olive oil and vinegars.
The spice shop I could see, but an oil and vinegar store? Really? I admit, I found myself having a hard time working up enthusiasm for that place.
Can you see where this is going?
Yeah; I walked out of the store having purchased four bottles of the stuff. BlueMoon talked me into buying a blend of butter- and garlic-infused oil (granted, she didn't have to work very hard) and the mushroom and sage oil was just too yummy to pass up. I also added a bottle each of lemon- and raspberry-infused white vinegars to my basket, and I am already dreaming of the yummy things I'm going to do with them when I get home; I foresee a couple of impressive chicken dishes in our futures.
I have no idea what we'll do for the rest of my stay (right now, we're partaking in some sloth and idleness while BlueMoon catches up on some work), but regardless of what the days bring, these two unexpectedly satisfying experiences are enough to convince me to go along with whatever happens; it's been really good so far.


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I hope this finds you all well and in the best of imaan. I was wondering if anybody had heard or read a daleel on surrogacy? The reason for the question is an interesting topic was introduced today on Muslim and surrogacy. I, personally, don't recall anything.
However, I know for a long time in our local community IVF (in vitro fertilization) was frowned upon terrible. Now, IVF (in vitro fertilization) seems to be the norm for those whom can afford the injections and etc.
Nevertheless, several people have had successful pregnancies without injections, just using the pill form medications such as metformin and clomid in combonation.
I am curious to know if any other sisters had heard of anything? I know some cultures really really frown upon it. Just wanting to know the religion stand points concerning it.


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What's in a name? A whole lot, for this Montreal boutique. Lowell is a town in Massachusetts known for manufacturing textiles, Jack Kerouac, French Canadian relations and for prospering during an era when local craftsmanship was the norm. Located on the historic Saint-Laurent Boulevard, the shop keeps the characteristics of its name in mind when it comes to their accessory collections — designers and life partners Rachel Fortin and Mathieu Mudie personally know and work with everyone involved in the creation.
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Murata has announced the Murata Power Solutions MEJ1 series of isolated 1 Watt DC-DC converters. Encapsulated in a 7 pin SIP package, the MEJ1 series offers basic and supplementary isolation to the internationally recognized UL60950 standard. The converter is certified to a continuous working voltage of 200 Vrms when operating in a maximum ambient temperature of + 85 degrees C. Input to output isolation is rated at 5,200 VDC for 1 second. The series also complies with the 3rd edition of medical safety standard UL60601-1 and provides the following MOOP (means of operator protection): 2 MOOP based upon a working voltage of 200 Vrms max. and 280Vpkmax., between primary and secondary and 1 MOOP based upon a working voltage of 200 Vrms max., between primary and its enclosure.
The series comprises 38 models with both single and dual output versions available. Single output models provide 3.3, 5, 9, 12, or 15 Vout. Dual versions provide both positive and negative outputs; 5, 12, 15, or 24 Vin is accommodated across the whole range and single output models also have a 3.3 Vin option.
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For the past 12 years there is one thing our golfers always look forward to every year. Harold Wieben has provided thousands of golf balls to our team since I have been here. You will find Harold on the course during the day looking around the creek banks and all other areas he can find balls. He then goes through each and every ball and separates them by condition. This year, Harold gave us over 800 balls.
Each golfer could then receive three- dozen balls. This is great for our kids as they usually never have to purchase any balls for the season. Our kids love going through and finding just the right golf balls. Some have a specific ball that they like to hit. There are times they find some of their old golf balls that they may have hit in a golf meet the previous year. When I asked Harold about just donating the balls he just says that it is his hobby. We all appreciate it!


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A lifetime of acting up
Trousers may be an impediment... Russell Brand.
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RUSSELL Brand may not be a household name here but that may soon change. The British comedian and charismatic bigmouth looks set for a huge career in Hollywood.
If his latest venture, the Judd Apatow-produced comedy Forgetting Sarah Marshall, takes off, the sexy, gothic-clad, eyeliner-wearing 32-year-old might come to Australia to do some stand-up later in the year.
"I've not been yet I'm really, really excited about it," Brand says over the phone from Hawaii. "I think it's a country I'm going to enjoy being in because people have got quite a saucy attitude, from what I can gather. There's not a class system and it'd be nice to be able to bounce around without being inhibited by that."
Meanwhile, Brand is bouncing around with the cream of Hollywood funnymen. He has just completed Hairspray director Adam Shankman's Bedtime Stories, starring Adam Sandler and Guy Pearce ("To me he'll always be Mike in Neighbours"), and is set to work again for Apatow (Anchorman, Superbad) in a movie with Jonah Hill.
He is naturally an Apatow fan. "His films have such incredible breadth. I think there's more sensitivity than we're used to in comedies that have that kind of mass appeal," Brand says.
Apatow, who enjoyed a huge success with Knocked Up, is known for his desire to explore US masculinity but in a comic fashion. So it's no coincidence that Forgetting Sarah Marshall's lead, Jason Segel (also from Knocked Up), does full frontal nudity in the film as lead character Peter Bretter. Segal has nobody to blame but himself, as he also wrote the screenplay.
In the film, Brand plays a hedonistic British rock star called Aldous who steals Bretter's TV-star girlfriend, Sarah Marshall (Kristen Bell). Bretter decides to take a vacation to help get over the break-up but fate sees the three of them holed up at the same Hawaiian resort. Brand swans around in a sarong, although he would have stripped off if he had been asked to.
"I don't mind doing full-frontal nudity as long as it isn't justified by the plot, as long as it's utterly gratuitous," he quips in his droll London tone. Back in England, Brand is better known for wearing tight stove-pipe pants. Don't they encumber him?
"Well, in a way they do but to tell you the truth often it's helpful to have some external restraint," he notes, referring to his sexual addiction, for which he has even tried to find a cure.
"Yes, I went to a clinic in Philadelphia for sexual addiction for a month some years ago but the condition in some of the other characters was so extreme that my own peccadillo for finding women attractive seemed quite minor by comparison."
It doesn't help that members of the fairer sex throw themselves at him: one audience member even bared her breasts on one of the many British TV shows on which he has appeared. A kind of reality comic character, Brand has hosted the Big Brother spin-off, Big Brother's Big Mouth ("My mouth was implicit in that title"), to critical success.
To a degree, his work is his confessional and he has even written an autobiography, My Booky Wook, which one reviewer called "glamorously debauched". It will be turned into a film by Michael Winterbottom, naturally starring Brand.
It's helped that he has been championed by Jonathan Ross, the king of British talk shows. On Ross's show, Brand's way with words and smut can be astounding. In Britain they either love him or loathe him. Where does his, er, inspiration come from?
"It's difficult to say," he admits. "I can only say I was a deeply solipsistic and insular little boy growing up ... and I think that I'm just a natural show-off. Having had some adversity in early life, I've got a lot to laugh at now."
Brand was only a few months old when his father left the family home in Essex. His mother battled cancer three times before he reached his teens. Diagnosed with depression, he was bulimic at 14 and started drinking and smoking at 16. He discovered a way out when he was cast in a school production of Bugsy Malone. He initially ventured into stand-up comedy after being thrown out of drama school, the same one attended by the likes of Pierce Brosnan, Paul Bettany and Colin Firth. He had gone there on a scholarship. What did he do that was naughty?
"Oh, I was a drug addict. I used to smash stuff up, cry, take drugs while at school, I had a mouse live in my hair, I broke school property - I was a whirlwind of annoyance. They tolerated it for three years because the work was good but at the end, due to various afflictions and addictions, the work deteriorated and I was slung out."
Now he has dealt with his addictions - he is vegetarian, into Buddhism and doesn't even drink coffee. But there's still the sex. "I've been five years clean from drugs and alcohol and it's much easier to live without them. My trousers may be an impediment but they're not nearly so impeding as heroin."
Brand is currently in local cinemas in his first major film role in St Trinian's as the lovable rascal Flash Harry, whom he describes as himself with a hat. "I trained as a method actor but I didn't tax myself overly in the creation of either of these characters [referring to Flash Harry and Aldous]," he admits. "Initially it was not my intention to dazzle people with my range. I've just wanted make films and to do stand-up but very soon I'd like to occupy a character a little further from myself."
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Stars Jason Segel, Kristen Bell, Russell Brand, Jonah Hill
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David Broder, please define "partisanship"
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Is there anything more predictable than a David Broder column lamenting an excess of partisanship on both sides? If so, it's a David Broder column lamenting an excess of partisanship on both sides without actually providing an example of excessive partisanship by Democrats.
Broder begins with a singularly odd complaint: that among members of Congress there is "no consensus about the accomplishments or outrages of this historic session." Why on earth would Broder expect there to be consensus among members of Congress about accomplishments and outrages? He does understand that we have multiple political parties because we don't all agree on everything, right?
Broder then attempts to explain why voters don't like Congress:
Most Republicans I have talked with say they are convinced their outnumbered legislators have done the right thing by denying virtually all their votes to Obama and using every device possible to slow down or derail his agenda.
Most of the Democrats I interviewed are just as certain that the folks in the White House and the House speaker's office were justified in pushing the health-care bill to final passage in the face of polls showing that most voters were opposed.
But the partisanship on both sides was a turnoff to independents.
Notice that what Broder describes the Democrats doing -- passing health care reform despite (some) polling suggesting it was unpopular -- isn't actually "partisanship." Depending on your point of view, it might be called "leadership" or "defying the will of the people" -- but it isn't "partisanship." Broder continues:
They were the people who had taken Obama seriously when he said he wanted to move Washington beyond the recriminations of the George W. Bush years. Regardless of their views on health care -- or the economy or education or anything else -- they are turned off by the inability of both parties to overcome their parochial concerns and agree on steps to curb the joblessness and debt that are consuming the country.
But Broder offers no example of Democratic inability to "overcome their parochial concerns" in order to get things done. Indeed, Democrats have repeatedly incorporated Republican-friendly ideas into their initiatives. Last year's stimulus package, for example, was smaller and more tax-cut-laden than many economists thought it should be, in a largely-unsuccessful effort to woo Republicans. And the health care package contained many ideas Republicans had previously supported before deciding to oppose anything and everything President Obama wanted to do, just because he wanted to do it.
And that is, in fact, what the Republicans decided to do. Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell has admitted as much. That is partisanship. Democrats passing legislation despite a lack of Republican support even after Democrats incorporated their ideas -- that is not partisanship.
Maybe that's why Broder didn't actually explain specifically what each party has done that constitutes an excess of "partisanship" -- if he did, it would be quite obvious that he's drawing a false equivalence and setting up a scenario in which the only way Democrats can avoid criticism for being partisan is by capitulating completely to Republicans.
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3 locations for canyoneering in Capitol Reef National Park
04/08/2014 11:58amCapitol Reef National Park offers some of the most exquisite and thrilling canyoneering in Southern Utah. Here are three rappel routes found in Capitol Reef that shouldn't be missed.
Peregrine falcon pair return to Temple Square
04/08/2014 6:53pmA pair of peregrine falcons is back at Temple Square this spring, ready to raise their young and thrill the people below.


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Long Beach Business Journal Year In Review
December 27th, 2012 – The Long Beach Business Journal "Year In Review" spotlights the top newsmakers, news stories and photos of 2012, plus a look ahead to what local issues we'll be watching closely in 2013. The seven-part series began December 24 and concludes January 1. Let us know what you think should or should not have made the lists.
• President Obama is re-elected to a second term having campaigned on higher taxes for those earning $250,000 or more.
• The "Fiscal Cliff" takes center stage after the election, with Democrats and Republicans maneuvering to find compromise as tax cuts set to expire and automatic spending cuts are set to occur.
• Hurricane Sandy matches all predictions about its potential for devastation when it slams the eastern seaboard in October, causing massive flooding and leaving those in its wake without power for weeks.
• America's recent boom in oil and natural gas development makes it poised to become energy independent in the 2020s.
• Marijuana is legalized for recreational use in Colorado and Washington despite a federal ban, signaling a new front in the drug war.
• Gen. David Patraeus resigns as head of the CIA after admitting to an extramarital affair that was first uncovered by the FBI.
• The Supreme Court affirms the constitutionality of Obamacare by calling the individual mandate a legitimate tax, with conservative Chief Justice John Roberts casting the deciding vote.
• Mass shootings in 2012, including at a Sikh Temple in Wisconsin, at a movie theater in Colorado and elementary school in Connecticut, horrify a nation and reframe the political debate about mental health and gun control.
• Facebook held its initial public offering (IPO) in May, an event that confused and possibly offended Wall Street with the over-priced stock trading down.
• Unemployment falls below 8 percent to its lowest level since December 2008, but the change stems in part from the fact that more Americans stopped looking for work and no longer are counted as jobless.


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December 8th , 9am to 6pm and December 9th, 9am to 1pm. . Fun for the whole family! Shop our gifts for everyone on your list! Santa's Workshop, Homemade Food and Baked Goods, Crafts, Many Door Prizes and Cash Raffle, Holiday Music, Cookie Decorating. Located at the gift shop on Saturday: Over 30 vendors, Trolley Rides, Portrait Studio onsite for Custom Holiday Pictures, Face Painting. Visit the Holiday Gift Shop at the Lehighton Borough Auditorium, 110 N. Third St., Lehighton Saturday only 9am to 4:30pm. FMI visit www.ssppschool.org or call 610-377-4466. Guest appearance by Frosty the Snowman.
Christmas Festival and 6th Annual One Stop Holiday Gift Shop
Date: Saturday, December 8, 2012
Location: SS Peter and Paul School, 307 Coal St., Lehighton


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There follows a discussion of John xiii, 1: xviii, 28, as compared with the Synoptics. See Scripture Manuals for Catholic Schools, St Matthew, pp. 217-9: St John, pp. 94-5. Either of the two views taken by modern scholars holds with the employment of unleavened bread at the institution of the Holy Eucharist. To be well within the law, the Jews of the time had all the leaven removed from their houses by sundown on the 13th Nisan, which evening is the earlier of the two assignable dates for the Last Supper.
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The Irish carrier's fare failed to include non-optional extra taxes and charges, the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) said.
These extra costs were anything from £11.70 to £21.70 across 20 UK airports.
But Ryanair, which is seeking to take over Irish rival Aer Lingus, said more than 14 million people viewed the ad and not one passenger had complained.
The advert's voice-over said Ryanair had "released four million zero fare seats on its website in an amazing autumn sale".
It added: "All fares under this offer are zero. Only taxes and charges are payable and we guarantee no fuel surcharges."
And large on-screen text said: "4 million seats £0 fare".
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After an investigation, prompted by a complaint from Monarch Airlines, the ASA found Ryanair in breach of advertising rules relating to pricing requirements.
It said the lowest amount payable was £11.70, and fares should have been advertising as starting at that price.
The ASA has ordered Ryanair not to repeat the advertisement.
Broadcaster ITV said viewers would have realised that flight costs would include taxes and charges on top of the £0 fee.
In May this year, the ASA upheld a complaint against Ryanair about an advert for three million free tickets.
It said the promotion failed to make clear that the offer did not include flights on Fridays.
Two years ago the ASA criticised Ryanair for a promotion for "giveaway" flights because passengers would have to pay charges and taxes.
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Software as a Service (SaaS) users need to pay attention to the scope of applications available from the vendors they are considering engaging. If the SaaS vendor provides precisely the applications your firm is seeking to move into the cloud environment, do not sign on with that vendor. Why? As the numerous benefits of SaaS become obvious, your firm will seek to put additional applications into the cloud. You need to plan for growth.
As users develop their RFPs for SaaS services, understanding the roadmap for implementation is crucial. The firm might start with applications readily found on most desktops due to the cost savings associated with licensing, management and maintenance of those applications. There really is no value in purchasing a suite of applications for everyone if the majority of users only use a few of the applications in the suite. This is one of the most compelling arguments to move to SaaS, the pay-per-drink model coupled with the reduced licensing costs. But where will you go from there?
Here are three things to consider when selecting a SaaS provider:
1. What business processes does the SaaS provider support?
Does the provider support all of the applications of unified communications? What about CRM? Will HR-centric applications be available when I need them?
Understanding your firm's application rollup to the cloud environment will help determine an appropriate long-term SaaS vendor fit. You may not need these applications right now, but having them available for when you do will save you substantial time and effort.
2. Does the SaaS provider offer application integration support across business processes?
The SaaS provider may have a world-class unified communications solution suite, but if it doesn't integrate with the CRM applications, you are building silos of functionality. Silos of functionality are a problem when the applications are in-house; imagine the problems you will face when the silos are in the cloud.
Before you seek a SaaS provider, be sure you know how business processes and the respective applications flow and intersect. A critical inflection point (aka integration point) between processes that is not supported should be a deal breaker.
3. How many SaaS vendors can you manage?
This is one of those questions that is never considered until it is too late. Service provider management was one area that caused a drop in the adoption of managed services. Without forethought, firms brought on too many service providers and the orchestration and coordination became overwhelming.
You can avoid the negative fallout of failed vendor management by understanding the ideal number of vendors you and your team are capable of managing concurrently.
We can all agree that moving toward business process virtualization, cloud computing and SaaS has the potential to offer significant long term value and cost savings. Your goal should be to find a SaaS provider that can work with your firm today as well as allow room for your firm to expand within its application service environment as the company becomes more comfortable with working in the cloud. If the SaaS shoe fits today, keep looking for a larger size.
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I'm primarily a windows user. I'm trying to dual boot with windows 7. I downloaded the BT5R2 64 GNOME ISO and burned a disc. When I pop in the disk it just windows just wants to burn another ISO disk from it. When I try to boot from disk it just doesn't work. Finally I got it to boot from pendrive using YUMI but when I boot it up it doesn't look anything like the videos or previews I've seen I just get the dragon graphic with a command line.
Question is how do I install this thing on a partition? From boot? From windows 7? From Ubuntu 12.10? Any type of actual install from the ISO.
Thanks in advance for any help.


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Peugeot AnnecyAugust 30, 2013
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The Peugeot Annecy makes it easier to grind ingredients in a fast and clean way. It includes a removable reservoir, storage lids, a tray and three razor sharp, stainless-steel blades — one for medium grinds, course grinds and shavings. Simply load and use just like a pepper mill.
It grates hard and semi-hard cheeses, most nuts and chocolate.
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This guidance describes the basic principles the agency recommends for development, evaluation, or application of qualitative mass spectrometric methods for confirming the identity of new animal drug residues. This guidance document is intended for technical professionals familiar with mass spectrometry. A glossary at the end of the guidance defines key terms used throughout the document. DATES: Submit written or electronic comments on agency guidances at any time. ADDRESSES: Submit written requests for single copies of the guidance document to the Communications Staff (HFV-12), Center for Veterinary Medicine, Food and Drug Administration, 7519 Standish Pl., Rockville, MD 20855. Send one self-addressed adhesive label to assist that office in processing your requests. Submit written comments on the guidance document to the Dockets Management Branch (HFA-305), Food and Drug Administration, 5630 Fishers Lane, rm. 1061, Rockville, MD 20852. Submit electronic comments to http://www.fda.gov/dockets/ecomments. Once on this site, select ``Docket No. 01D-0224 Guidance for Industry: Mass Spectrometry for Confirmation of the Identity of Animal Drug Residues'' and follow the directions. Comments should be identified with the full title of the guidance document and the docket number found in the heading of this document. See the SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION section for electronic access to the guidance document. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: David N. Heller, Center for Veterinary Medicine (HFV-510), Food and Drug Administration, 8401 Muirkirk Rd., Laurel, MD 20708, 301-827-8156, e-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: I. Background In the Federal Register of June 13, 2001 (66 FR 31938), FDA published a notice of availability for a draft guidance entitled ``Draft Guidance for Industry: Mass Spectrometry for Confirmation of the Identity of Animal Drug Residues'' giving interested persons until September 11, 2001, to submit comments. FDA considered all comments received and, where appropriate, incorporated them into the guidance. The guidance differs from the draft guidance in the following ways: [sbull] There is further clarification of interference testing, control samples, system suitability, minimum signal strength in full scan analysis, recommended rate of false negatives, and number of residue-incurred samples for validation. (The recommendation in the 1994 revision of CVM Guidance [numsign]3 for a smaller number of incurred samples for interlaboratory method trials has not been CVM's practice for some years. CVM is currently revising Guidance [numsign]3.) [sbull] Additional definitions were provided for comparison standard, control sample exact mass measurement, false positive rate, false negative rate, limit of confirmation, and validation. Other revisions in the glossary definitions were made to make the definitions consistent with definitions in existing regulations. [sbull] Use of the terms ``acceptability range'' and ``precursor ion'' is now consistent. [sbull] General recommendations on the subject of exact mass measurements have been added. Until specific standards for exact mass measurements in animal drug residue analysis are generally accepted, their use will be evaluated on a case-by-case basis. The Center for Veterinary Medicine (CVM) of FDA may modify this document if a more generally accepted standard for confirmation of animal drug residues using exact mass measurements is developed in the future. The purpose of this guidance document is to facilitate and expedite coordination between CVM and sponsors so the development, evaluation, and application of qualitative mass spectrometric methods will be completed in a consistent and timely manner. This guidance document is intended for technical professionals familiar with mass spectrometry. A glossary at the end of the guidance defines key terms used throughout the document. This guidance should be used: (1) In the development of new methods, (2) the review of methods submitted to [[Page 25618]] CVM, and (3) in the laboratory trial of methods submitted to CVM. The document should also help in making decisions about appropriate methodology in various regulatory situations and ensuring consistency in work done for CVM's purposes. Information collection provisions described in this guidance have been approved under OMB control numbers 0910-0032 and 0910-0325. II. 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Goldwave 5.12 released
GoldWave's advanced virtual editing system and an expandable plug-in architecture bring a new level of professional quality to your audio, while still being easy (and fun) to learn and use.
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The Gorham Town Board opened their meeting tonight to comments from residents about the dog breeding facility proposed by Curtis and Jolene Martin. The board initially approved a special use permit last week for the couple, who currently own a commercial dog breeding facility in Seneca County. The residents and animal welfare activists from around the area responded to the news with an uproar of protests, sharing their thoughts in emails, phone calls, and across the internet.According to … [Read more...]
Gorham residents speak out on dog breeding facility; approval nullified for now
USDA Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) reports on the Martin's Seneca Falls facility
Tonight the Gorham Town Board will hear from residents about the proposed wholesale commercial dog breeding facility proposed by breeders Curtis and Jolene Martin. The couple currently own a facility in Varick, NY where they breed roughly 300-400 dogs. (If you're behind, here are the posts about the proposed facility in Gorham, NY.)Over the last few days, I've listened while radio talk show hosts and even news reporters have mentioned the Martin's USDA violations at their Seneca County f … [Read more...]
Gorham Town Supervisor recommends moratorium on dog breeding
In the wake of the last week of outcry over proposed plans for a commercial dog breeding facility for Gorham, NY, Town Supervisor Fred Lightfoote has suggested that the Town Board enact a moratorium on dog- breeding facilities.People from all over the country have emailed and called the town to voice opposition to the board's approval last week of a special use permit for dog breeders Curtis and Jolene Martin to open a large, wholesale commercial dog breeding facility that would house bet … [Read more...]
What you can do about animal cruelty in your community (whether you live in Gorham or not)
This video from the Humane Society offers a glimpse at puppy mills and commercial breeding operations. The story that hit the news this week that a dog breeder is planning to build a large, wholesale commercial dog breeding facility in Gorham, NY has struck a nerve with animal lovers across the U.S.Unfortunately, emotions run high in situations like this, and there are lots of people who are all fired up with nowhere to direct that passion. So before everyone goes off half-cocked and … [Read more...]
Readers speak out on the Gorham dog breeding facility
2/4/12 ** PLEASE MAKE SURE YOU READ THIS UPDATE: What you can do about animal cruelty in your community (whether you live in Gorham or not) * * * * * * * * When I posted this week about the plans for a large scale wholesale dog breeding facility in Gorham, NY, I had no idea it would spark the flame it has. I'm sure there are lots of other bloggers covering the story, but readers here at Heavenly Creatures have brought up some interesting points:The term "puppy mill" is a super charged … [Read more...]
Large "wholesale" dog breeding facility (puppy mill) approved for Gorham, NY
** UPDATE 3/22/12: Moratorium passed! Read more here! ** ** PLEASE BE SURE YOU READ THE UPDATES TO THIS POST LISTED AT THE END FOR THE ENTIRE STORE **According to the Messenger Post newspapers in Canandaigua, NY, plans for a new dog breeding facility have been approved by the Ontario County Planning Board. The facility "could house hundreds of dogs in a new building planned for 4446 Route 247, north of the intersection of Lake to Lake Road" in Gorham, NY.The Ontario County Pla … [Read more...]


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Thodesen, J. and Gjedrem, T. (2006) Breeding programs on Atlantic salmon in Norway: lessons learned. In: Ponzoni, R.W. and Acosta, B.O and Ponniah, A.G. (eds.) Development of aquatic animal genetic improvement and dissemination programs: current status and action plans. Penang, Malaysia, WorldFish Center, pp. 22-26. (WorldFish Center Conference Proceedings,73)
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An early establishment of selective breeding programs on Atlantic salmon has been crucial for the success of developing efficient and sustainable salmon farming in Norway. A national selective breeding program was initiated by AKVAFORSK at the beginning of the 1970s, by collecting fertilized eggs from more than 40 Norwegian river populations. Several private selective breeding programs were also initiated in the 1970s and 1980s. While these private programs were initiated using individual selection (i.e. massselection) to genetically improve growth, the national program was designed to gradually include all economically important traits in the breeding objective (i.e. growth, age at sexual maturation, disease resistance and quality traits) using a combined family and within-family selection strategy. Independent of which selection strategy and program design used, it is important to secure and maintain a broad genetic variation in the breeding populations to maximize selection response. It has been documented that genetically improved salmon from the national selective breeding program grow twice as fast as wild Atlantic salmon and require 25 per cent less feed, while salmon representing the private breeding programs all show an intermediate growth performance. As a result of efficient dissemination of genetically improved Atlantic salmon, the Norwegian salmon farming industry has reduced its feed costs by more than US$ 230 million per year! The national selective breeding program on Atlantic salmon was commercialized into a breeding company (AquaGen) in 1992. Five years later, several private companies and the AKVAFORSK Genetics Center (AFGC) established a second breeding company (SalmoBreed) using breeding candidates from one of the private breeding programs. These two breeding companies have similar products, but different strategies on how to organize the breeding program and to disseminate the genetically improved seed to the Norwegian salmon industry. Greater competition has increased the necessity to document the genetic gain obtained from the different programs and to market the economic benefits of farming the genetically improved breeds. Both breeding companies have organized their dissemination to get a sufficient share of the economic benefits in order to sustain and improve their breeding programs.
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|Breeding programs on Atlantic salmon in Norway: lessons learned
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|Title of Book:
|Development of aquatic animal genetic improvement and dissemination programs: current status and action plans
|Series Name:
|WorldFish Center Conference Proceedings
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|Page Range:
|pp. 22-26
|WorldFish Center
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|Penang, Malaysia
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|WorldFish Center
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|Biotechnology; Genetics; Genetic drift; Genetic diversity; Fish culture; DNA; Induced breeding; Breeding success; Research programmes
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|Mr William Ko
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|16 Sep 2009 12:59
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County Londonderry farmer James Craig died when his tractor was in collision with a train at the unmanned crossing near Limavady.
No-one on the train was injured, although the driver was very shaken following the accident.
Ciaran Rogan from Translink said it was a very tragic accident.
"The risk level at this crossing is being reviewed and the incident is being fully investigated by the Rail Accident Investigation Board from Great Britain," Mr Rogan said.
However, he said it was not physically possible to remove crossings like this from the railway line and people would always need to get across.
There had not been an incident at this particular crossing before, he said, and such crossings were examined every six months.
The line between Castlerock and Londonderry, which was closed after the accident, was reopened on Friday morning.
The crash involved the 1505 BST train from Londonderry.
Passengers on the train reported hearing a loud bang at about 1530 BST and seeing smoke and sparks. The driver then informed them there had been a collision.
Mr Craig's son, Robert, described his father as "a character". He said he lived for his farming.
"He took very little holidays, just worked hard and he kept us working hard," he said.
"He was a strong Christian man, loved his church and he has gone to rest with the Lord."
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Oilers' LaForge Details Plans For New Downtown Edmonton Arena
Published September 1, 2009
|LaForge Says Oilers Not Interested In Staying
At Rexall Place Even If Building Is Updated
MAKING PROGRESS: In Edmonton, Terry Jones writes yesterday's announcement "spoke volumes in terms of telling the town Katz is not only going to make it happen, he's well down the road to making it a happening -- further down the road than he'd really care to admit right now for all sorts of political and financial reasons." LaForge "essentially admitted Katz is well on his way to buying up or securing options on a giant footprint of land downtown, much larger than most people have in their heads to house a hockey arena" (EDMONTON SUN, 9/1). Also in Edmonton, Michael Platt notes the issue of "using public tax dollars to pay for a private sports complex is always controversial," but a committee launched by Edmonton Mayor Stephen Mandel last year "recommended public investment in the new rink" (EDMONTON SUN, 9/1).
CITY OFFICIALS IN THE DARK: In Edmonton, Frank Landry cites city councillors as saying that they have been "left out of the game when it comes to talk of a new downtown arena." Edmonton City Councillor Bryan Anderson said that neither Katz "nor anyone from the Oilers organization has spoken to councillors about their plans." City Councillor Ben Henderson "stressed it's early in the process, and the Oilers will eventually have to seek council's approval before moving ahead" (EDMONTON SUN, 9/1). An EDMONTON JOURNAL editorial states there is a "sense a matter of great importance to the whole Edmonton family is getting worked out behind closed living-room doors, and that doesn't seem like the ideal way to avoid future controversy." The arena project "will only be a success if everyone feels they have been consulted and had a hand in making the choice" (EDMONTON JOURNAL, 9/1). Meanwhile, the EDMONTON SUN's Landry writes, "Where in the world is Daryl Katz?" Katz did not appear at yesterday's announcement, and LaForge said that Katz "likely won't make a public appearance until there's a big announcement to make" (EDMONTON SUN, 9/1).


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Hello all,
I have a table that I am trying to extract a year from the rows if they exist.
e.g.1857, the saga of new technology
I have tried to extract and do a type change but it doesn't seem to work.
// show oldest book
$count5 = mysql_query("select subject from $db_name.$table_name ") or die();
$row5 = mysql_num_rows($count5);
// get current year
$curr_year = date('Y');
for($i=0;$i<$row5;$i++) {
$temp = substr($row['subject'], 1, 6);
$subject_year = (int)$temp;
if ($subject_year > 1000 && $subject_year < $curr_year){
$oldest_book[$i] = substr($row['subject'], 1, 4);
$oldest_book[$i] = "";
It only displays zeroes. The subject is a utf-8 string coming out of a table array.
Can someone tell me what I'm doing wrong?
substring index starts at position 0 (zero) not position 1.
Change the
substr($row['subject'], 1, 6)
substr($row['subject'], 0, 6)
Hello zalucius,
Thanks for responding. It appears that you caught one of my mistakes.
Here is the corrected version.
// get books by year to determine oldest book
$result = mysql_query("select subject from $db_name.$table_name ")
or die('Query failed: ' . mysql_error()."

");
// # of rows returned
$numofrows = mysql_num_rows($result);
// create array
$oldest_book = array();
// get current year for comparison
$curr_year = date('Y');
// extract year and compare
for($i=0;$i<$numofrows;$i++) {
$row5 = mysql_fetch_array ($result);
$temp = substr($row5["subject"], 0, 6);
$subject_year = (int)$temp;
//print $i." - ".$subject_year."
";
//if ($subject_year > 1000 && $subject_year < $curr_year)
if ($subject_year != 0)
$oldest_book[$i] = $subject_year;
$oldest_book[$i] = "";
//print "
";var_dump($oldest_book);print "
";
Have you considered a change to your database, and store the year in a seperate field?
That would be a nice suggestion but I have simply inherited this from the people who use it. Another reason for this was because not every record includes a year.
Not a problem, thanks.


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Coroner Confirms Philip Seymour Hoffman's Cause of Death
Though drugs were assumed to be a factor in the death of Philip Seymour Hoffman, fans received confirmation on Friday (February 28) from the New York City coroner.
A spokeswoman for the NYC medical examiner explained that the "Hunger Games" star died from an "acute mixed drug intoxication" of drugs including, heroin, cocaine, amphetamines, and anti-anxiety drugs called benzodiazepines.
On February 2nd, the Oscar-winning actor was found in his Big Apple apartment with a needle in his arm and envelopes of heroin found inside.
This Sunday, Hoffman is expected to be remembered at the 2014 Academy Awards during the In Memoriam portion.


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Given the long list of free agents or potential free agents the Tigers have going into this off-season, it should be no surprise to hear that at least a couple of them won't be back. While Jeremy Bonderman and Gerald Laird have both worked hard for the club and given the organization a lot, especially Bonderman, it appears that the value they could hold on the open market likely out-weighs their value to the Tigers, and so they're both good bets to exit and end up elsewhere. Likewise, Johnny Damon gave the Tigers a quality professional hitter for the lineup, and showed loyalty to the club this past August by turning down a trade opportunity to go to the Red Sox, but given the number of young outfielders the Tigers have, as well as the need for a big bat, I don't expect to see Damon back in a Tigers' uniform either. Moving on, the Tigers have a pair of position players with options in Jhonny Peralta and Magglio Ordonez. Given the cost of the options, I don't think the Tigers will exercise either, however, I think the Tigers will attempt to resign both at a reduced rate, and will be successful in bringing back both. Finally, quite possibly the most difficult decision comes down on third baseman Brandon Inge, who has been a member of the organization since he was drafted more than 12 years ago. Inge still provides the club excellent defense, but for a team desperate to upgrade its offense, pursuing a top flight free agent like Adrian Beltre could be an option. Ultimately, I think the Tigers will pursue Beltre, but come up short, and instead bring Inge back on a short term contract.
Mark Anderson, Managing Editor
Trying to predict the Tigers off-season appears to be a daunting task this year, and I can honestly say I'm not confident in any of the thoughts or ideas I have. The Tigers list of free agents is likely to include Brandon Inge, Johnny Damon, Jeremy Bonderman, and Magglio Ordonez, and could also include the likes of Bobby Seay and Zach Miner if they are not offered arbitration, or Johnny Peralta if his option is not picked up by the team. Working just with the list of four known free agents at season's end, there is a good chance at least two of them return. Though the Tigers have stuck by him through a couple of tough years dealing with injuries and recovery, I'm not sure they will be bringing Jeremy Bonderman back, unless it happens in conjunction with a drastic pay cut. Magglio Ordonez is likely in a similar boat as far as pay cuts go, but the he has been a popular player in Detroit, still demonstrates good hitting ability, and may be a very viable offensive option for a team in dire need of offense. If his pride doesn't get in the way, and he is willing to accept a reasonable contract offer, he could easily be back in Detroit. The same can probably be said for both Brandon Inge and Johnny Damon. Damon's tenure has been brief, but by all accounts he has been well-received by the team and is still a solid player; though not the player he once was. If he is again willing to accept a one-year deal, he could come in as a part time player in left field. The Tigers are sorely lacking in viable third base options for 2011, and unless they are prepared to sink serious cash into Adrian Beltre, their best bet may be the return of another fan favorite. Inge is still a quality defender and he does enough with the bat that he's not an embarassment to run out there everyday. In the end, I think only two of the four Tigers free agents will be back for 2011, and I think those two will be Inge and Ordonez.
Jason Avery, Associate Editor, Amateur Baseball
If there is one free agent I expect the Tigers to re-sign, it's Brandon Inge. The Tigers don't really have anyone in the minor leagues that's ready to take over at third, and given the dearth of quality third basemen available in free agency sans Adrian Beltre, I wouldn't be surprised if the Tigers brought back Inge on a cheap one-year deal. That being said, Inge's return could hedge on what the Tigers do with Jhonny Peralta, or how they plan on making the left side of their infield for 2011. If the Tigers trade for a shortstop, they could pick up Peralta's option and install him at third base, or they could always trade for a third baseman outright. Of course, there is always the possibility of Inge getting an offer he can't refuse from another team and departing that way as well, so it will be interesting to see how everything plays itself out.
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|From: Stephen Bloch (sbloch at adelphi.edu)
Date: Sun May 15 09:36:17 EDT 2011
Eli writes: >> I'd rather have my >> students' files start with >> #lang bsl >> or >> #lang isll >> or something, as long as my students don't need to SEE that. > > -1. I presume the part you don't like is "my students don't need to SEE that"? I'm not suggesting that the choice of language should be invisible and inaccessible, only that the #lang syntax should be invisible much (if not all) of the time. For example, there might be a display near the top of the DrRacket window saying at all times what language we're in, without the word "#lang". If you want to change it, you click on that display and type in a new language choice, still without the word "#lang". If it's not recognized, you get an immediate error message. The language choice menu, if it still exists, would be just a shortcut for filling in one of several guaranteed-to-exist languages. You NEVER see the #lang line in the Definitions pane. >> Could we have a menu option in DrRacket to hide or show the #lang >> line (perhaps in a separate pane)? > > -1. > > As Shriram said, this is similar to how the language choice is encoded > in current teaching language files, and it leads to bad surprises -- > weird errors if you do add a `#lang' in the part that you do see That's a simple syntax error: "#lang blah" isn't legal syntax inside a module, in any language that I know of. One could give it a clear, informative error message: in racket, "You have two #lang lines in the same source file," and in DrRacket, something like "You've already specified the language in the language display at the top of the window". However, people are much less likely to put a "#lang" into the part that they do see if they've never seen the word "#lang", as would be true of DrRacket-using students. Those that use a vanilla text editor can clearly see that they've got two of them. > surprises when you edit the file outside of DrRacket See above. > , and confusions when you copy-paste the code and send it to someone else. Yes, copy-and-paste is a problem. If you copy-and-paste from one DrRacket window into another, they both presumably have (hidden) #lang lines, so things should be clear (either they're in the same language and everything works, or they're explicitly in different languages and you deserve what you get). If you copy-and-paste from DrRacket into a text file and then use that text file in racket or DrRacket, DrRacket will have to use its default language (see below). >> For the benefit of beginning students, I'd like to keep the language >> selection menu, but its effect would be to alter the (hidden) #lang >> line. > > IME, the language dialog is currently a major source of confusion. It > tempts people to choose languages that they shouldn't choose I'm not wedded to it myself, but I think it can be clearer and more transparent than it is now. I'm suggesting getting rid of "Use the language declared in the source", because that would ALWAYS be true. The menu, if it continues to exist, would be just shortcuts to some suggested languages. And if everything on this menu can also be invoked from #lang, that list could be trimmed down to only the ones used by significant numbers of beginners: say, the HtDP and DeinProgramm teaching languages and racket. The one UI drawback to this proposal (that I see) is that if one is currently in a language that isn't on the menu, nothing in the menu would be checked. One could switch from it to a "standard" language using the menu but wouldn't be able to get back using the menu; you'd need to click the language display and type in the language name. However, this would only affect people already using a language that's not in the menu, which means they must have used the manual override before, and they should be able to use it again. > BTW, to put these negatives in more perspective -- a *lot* of work has > been put to make the `#lang' lines very simple -- easy to remember, > and easy to write. So I view removing them from the user's explicit > reach and instead leaving it for some gui to generate as something > that goes against the whole idea of `#lang'. Shriram writes: > If you really wanted to accommodate all comers, > > - no #lang => language is BSL > - all other languages need their own #lang line Yes, that makes some sense. Philosophically, one would rather have the default language be racket -- I can imagine the howls of protest from somebody like Elliott who starts up racket or DrRacket, types in the first example from some non-HtDP Scheme book, and gets an error message because it's not in BSL. But as a teacher, I'd want BSL to be extremely easy to get to. > (Of course I'm glossing over the #lang bsl =/= BSL from menu, which is > a real annoyance.) How much difference is there? Can we fix it? Stephen Bloch sbloch at adelphi.edu
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After a productive trip to Bel-Air, Stone Barrington is back in Manhattan—and back in his element, ready to return to the world of deluxe fine dining and elegant high society that New York does best.
But then an unexpected visit from his friend and periodic lover, CIA assistant director Holly Barker, draws Stone into a dangerous game of murder and vengeance, against an enemy with plans bigger than they could ever imagine. . . .


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Sat. December 1, 2012 | Joel Anderson
GAINESVILLE — All season, Armwood endured inexperience, injuries and off-field struggles that threatened to ruin the defense of its vacated Class 6A state championship.
The Hawks limped through its worst regular season in 10 years, two narrow postseason victories and, finally, onto the field of an opponent that had been waiting more than a year to exact vengeance.
In the end, it was all too much: top-ranked Gainesville punished Armwood into submission Friday.
Rapheal Webb rushed for 214 yards and three touchdowns and Tony James added 137 and another score to send the host Hurricanes to a 42-10 win over Armwood in the Class 6A region final.
"It was going to have to end at some point," Hawks coach Sean Callahan said. "We came in banged up and it only got worse from there."
Armwood (9-4) suffered the worst playoff loss in school history and had not been beaten so badly since a 63-0 defeat to Jefferson in 2001.
This is the Hawks' earliest playoff exit since 2006, when they lost to Plant in the region semifinals.
Gainesville (13-0), which will face Navarre in the semifinals next Friday, had been waiting for retribution since its 17-14 loss to Armwood in last year's region final.
The Hurricanes' players and coaches had billed Friday as their "redemption game."
They enjoyed revenge in front of their home crowd at Citizens Field, where they have won 29 of their past 30 games and turned this one into a rout early in the third quarter.
"It's been a year coming," Gainesville coach James Thomson said. "I'm glad they made it this far."
They did but just barely, winning their first two playoff games by a total of six points and playing through injuries to quarterback Alvin Bailey (toe), defensive lineman Zeric Coleman (leg) and linebackers Marcus Jacobs (ankle) and Jordan Griffin (forearm).
Not long after the opening kickoff Friday, the injuries continued to mount: Bailey was limited; Griffin went out with a leg injury; Jacobs couldn't stay on the field; Coleman reinjured his leg; fullback Ronnie Cohen also went down with a leg injury; and defensive back Anthony McNealy left the game after a thunderous collision with Webb in the fourth quarter.
It all took its toll: Armwood, which had allowed more than 21 points only once this season, surrendered three touchdowns by halftime.
James finished off an 11-play, 82-yard drive near the end of the second quarter, shedding two tacklers en route to a 28-yard touchdown that essentially put away the game early.
"It wasn't a surprise to us," James said. "We came out and punished them."
Callahan pointed out that, for most of the game, he was playing freshman — 205-pound Eric Frazier — at middle linebacker.
"I've never seen so many injuries," Callahan said. "Eventually it was going to catch up with us."
Once the Hawks fell behind early, they were ill-equipped to rally against a Gainesville defense that had allowed only 55 points in its previous eight games.
Bailey, who was clearly lacking explosiveness because of his injury, was held to minus-7 yards on 12 attempts and completed 10 of 27 passes for 127 — most coming after the outcome was no longer in doubt.
The Hawks didn't get into the end zone until late in the third quarter, trailing 35-3. Bailey found Caylan Holloway streaking down the middle of the field for a 30-yard touchdown reception.
"We had a few nicks and bruises but we can't make excuses," said Bailey, a Florida commit who will return to Gainesville next fall. "This is definitely not the way I wanted it to end."


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After performing at a private wedding in Kuwait the Lebanese artist Huda Haddad headed to Cairo to record her latest song under the company "Arabica Music."
According to the London daily Elaph, the new song, called "Qool Tani" (Say Again) is sung in the Egyptian dialect and the lyrics were written by Dr. Nabil Khalaf. The song was composed by Walid Saed and distributed and recorded by Aded Ayesh.
On the other hand, Huda is meeting with musicians to prepare for the launch of her next album.
She will travel to Lebanon in the coming days to film of a music video clip for the song "Qool Tani."
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