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Charter Schools a Direct Attack on Kura Kaupapa Maori
Charter Schools a Direct Attack on Kura Kaupapa Maori and Public Education
Hone Harawira, Leader of MANA and MP for Te Tai Tokerau
Tuesday 14 May 2013
"The Maori Party is backing the introduction of well-funded charter schools even though they represent a direct attack on kura kaupapa Māori, and on public education generally," said Hone Harawira, Leader of MANA and MP for Te Tai Tokerau.
"Although successive governments have starved kura kaupapa of funding from the get-go, they remain one of the most successful educational initiatives for Maori by Māori, in the last 100 years" said Harawira. "But today, the Maori Party is supporting their National and ACT Party buddies spending massive amounts of money on charter schools while kura get bugger all."
Massey University Professor of Education, John O'Neill, said that early indications are that charter schools will cost the taxpayer more than twice as much as state schools.
"It's one thing for the rich white boys to give their mates all the lollies while laughing at the poor little Maori kids getting by on scraps … it's another thing entirely when their Maori buddy is cheering them on."
"The Maori Party should be ashamed for turning their backs on everything that kura kaupapa Maori stands for."
"Maori fought long and hard to get kohanga and then kura kaupapa because we knew that a commitment to the language, a commitment to whanau, and a commitment to kaupapa Maori were key elements in educational achievement for Maori students, and kura kaupapa have proven that to be the case time and time again."
"Charter schools will have no accountability to whanau, no commitment to Maori language, no requirement for kaupapa Maori, no commitment to the Maori or NZ curriculum, no commitment to put registered teachers in front of kids, no accountability or transparency under the Official Information Act or the Ombudsmen Act – and they're going to get more money than kura kaupapa ever got!"
"And without the oversight of the Auditor-General's Office, they're a scam waiting to happen" said Harawira, whose claims were backed up by Te Runanga o Ngai Tahu's submission on the Education Amendment Bill which said that charter schools were highly susceptible to fraud, waste and abuse.
Other submissions raised the fact that the charter schools model has failed overseas, including that of Dr Bronwyn Hayward, political scientist and senior lecturer at the University of Canterbury. Dr Hayward said that the charter school model was "naive and reckless" and that "our children deserve better."
"Our kids all deserve the very best in education, not failed experiments from overseas."
"This Thursday is Budget Day. That's when we'll see whether the Maori Party can deliver. If the Budget does not show at least a 25% increase in funding for kura kaupapa, an extension of the Kotahitanga programme, and a reinstatement of the Manaaki Tauira programme to assist Maori students in tertiary education, then the Maori Party will have failed. And if they have, Peter Sharples should resign as Associate Minister of Education with responsibility for Maori Medium Education for his failure to grow or even protect the success of kura kaupapa Maori while supporting the failed charter school model."


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Docket: 98D-1146 - Eval. the Safety of Antimicrobial NADs Re. their Microbiological Effects on Bacteria of Human Health Concern
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FDA DRAFT GUIDANCE FOR INDUSTRY: EVALUATING THE SAFETY OF ANTIMICROBIAL NEW ANIMAL DRUGS WITH REGARD TO THEIR MICROBIOLOGICAL EFFECTS ON BACTERIA OF HUMAN HEALTH CONCERN Statement of Peter D. Coppelman, Director, Keep Antibiotics Working (KAW): The Campaign to End Antibiotic Overuse The Problem I am Director of Keep Antibiotics Working (KAW): The Campaign to End Antibiotic Overuse. KAW is a broad coalition of health, consumer, agriculture, trade, environmental, humane, and other advocacy groups with a combined membership of over nine million members. While the coalition encompasses a broad range of interests, the organizations within the coalition have come together to address a very specific problem: the overuse of antibiotics in animal agriculture that is contributing to the growing public health problem of increasing resistance of bacteria to many antibiotics, making it harder to treat serious and life-threatening diseases. I will lay out the policy context in which KAW views the FDA's Draft Guidance for Industry. Experts from KAW member organizations will address more specific technical issues related to the Draft Guidance. A federal task force convened by the Department of Health and Human Services last year said that antibiotic resistance is a "growing menace to all people." The Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) estimates that seventy percent of antibiotics used in the United States are fed to animals that are not sick, and that half of those drugs are in eight classes of drugs that are identical or closely related to antibiotics used to treat humans. An estimated 24 million pounds of antibiotics are fed nontherapeutically to cattle, swine, and poultry annually. [Hogging It, p. 60 (1991)] In June 2002, the respected medical journal Clinical Infectious Diseases published the report of a Scientific Advisory Panel composed of physicians, veterinarians, microbiologists, and other experts. After a two-year study of more than 500 published papers, the Panel concluded that antibiotic use in farm animals "contributes to the growing problem of [antibiotic] resistance in animal and human infections," and that "antimicrobial resistance in pathogenic bacteria limits treatment options; raises health care costs; and increases the number, severity, and duration of infections." The Proposed FDA Response KAW and its member organizations commend the FDA for acknowledging that use of antibiotics in animal agriculture contributes to the growing problem of antibiotic resistance. This acknowledgement is a major step forward in the public dialogue on how to address this problem. We recognize and applaud the fact that FDA is setting out a thoughtful process for carefully reviewing applications for approving additional agricultural antibiotics. While we have some concerns about certain aspects of the proposed guidance as my colleagues will discuss, it's certainly a step in the right direction, and obviously important that future applications be carefully scrutinized so that we don't make the current problem worse. From our perspective the key question is whether the FDA is going to reevaluate the safety of antibiotics already approved for use in animal agriculture, because it is here that the greatest current danger to public health lies. The answer in the Draft Guidance is a definite "maybe." Only two pages in Appendix C of the Draft Guidance – out of a total document of 48 pages - address FDA's intentions with respect to already approved antibiotics. To us, this is a case of the tail wagging the dog. Discontinuance of the use of millions of pounds of drugs that have already been approved is of far greater importance to public health than approval of new drugs for use in agriculture. Only one novel antibiotic has been developed and approved for human use in the last 25 years. Furthermore, in Appendix C, FDA makes no commitment to do anything at all. Every operative phrase is preceded by the words "intends to" or "may." Most importantly, there is no commitment or timetable for the FDA to take any action or even begin to take action on any specific drug. A definite, binding timetable is the sine qua non of meaningful FDA action. The historical record also raises concerns about the FDA's ability to take action on a timely basis. In March, 1999 the Center for Science in the Public Interest and other organizations filed a "Petition to Rescind Approvals of the Subtherapeutic Uses in Livestock of Antibiotics Used in (or Related to Those Used in) Human Medicine." The FDA responded that, "For legal, scientific and resource reasons, withdrawal actions for the petitioned drugs need to be considered on a drug by drug basis." (Emphasis added) The FDA response also pointed out that, "The Agency's experience with contested, formal withdrawal proceedings is that the process can consume extensive periods of time and Agency resources." Indeed, the Agency noted that withdrawal of nitrofuran approvals took 20 years, and that withdrawal of DES approvals took six years. Because there are eight classifications of drugs used in animal agriculture that are important in human medicine, FDA procedures, by the Agency's own admission, could take over a hundred years! For all of these reasons, and until FDA demonstrates that it can and will take effective action to restrict current uses of antibiotics in animal agriculture, KAW and its member organizations believe that Congressional action is necessary. S. 2508/H.R. 3804, "The Preservation of Antibiotics for Human Treatment Act of 2002" would withdraw approvals for nontherapeutic agricultural use of eight specific named classes of antibiotics that are important in human medicine. This legislation is supported by the American Medical Association, the American Public Health Association, the American College of Preventive Medicine, the Ambulatory Pediatrics Association, and about 145 health, consumer, environmental, vulnerable population, and other organizations. In addition, the legislation would ban the use of Cipro-like drugs in poultry, proposed by FDA in 2000 but now tied up in FDA's endless administrative procedures. Conclusion In sum, we are greatly encouraged, but not fully satisfied, by the FDA draft guidance.


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Whitney Houston's wax figures are set to debut in New York, depicting the Queen of Pop in four poses to represent different points in her career — something the famous Madam Tussauds has never done before.
The wax figures will be unveiled by Madame Tussauds on Thursday, immortalizing the legendary singer in a medium other than music. In the 200 years the wax figure museum has operated, it's never made that many wax figures of a person.
Whitney Houston's family loves the idea of the wax figures, People magazine noted.
"We were extremely honored when Madame Tussauds approached us about doing four figures of Whitney from different points in her 30-year career," Pat Houston, Whitney's manager and sister-in-law, said in a statement on behalf of the family. "This is something we are excited to do for the fans."
After the big debut, the Whitney Houston wax figures will be on their way to different cities.
From People:
"Houston performing the national anthem at the 1991 Super Bowl is going to Washington, D.C.'s Tussauds; Hollywood will get her in her 1992 movie The Bodyguard; Las Vegas will display the young Houston as seen in her 1988 video for "I Wanna Dance with Somebody (Who Loves Me)"; and New York will exhibit a more recent likeness of the singer, from a 2009 photo shoot for her final studio album."
The Whitney Houston wax figures could bring comfort to a family still reeling from the death of the singer almost exactly one year ago. Her mother, Cissy Houston, has spoken about the regret she feels about her daughter's death, telling Reuters that she tried to help when he learned the depths of Whitney's drug abuse and partying.


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Keanu Reeves Leads 47 Ronin
In a Japanese period epic
He's currently menacing humanity in The Day The Earth Stood Still, but Keanu Reeves is planning a trip back to the 18th century for his next project, in 47 Ronin. Yup, Reeves will play one of the legendary band of masterless samurai, long considered the epitome of the bushido code, who avenged their master's death at great cost to their own lives in the early years of the 18th century.
The film's being written by Chris Morgan, who previously organised the insanity of Wanted as well as the upcoming Fast and Furious. This is planned as a "stylised" take on the tale, with Lord of the Rings style fantasy mixing with Gladiator-looking battle scenes - or so we are promised.
The plot concerns the 47 samurai who became ronin when their master was forced to commit seppuku after attacking a malicious court official. The ronin spent over a year lulling the official responsible into a false sense of security by apparently giving up the code, and then executed a precision attack on the wrongdoer, fully aware of the risk to their own lives.
The script is being tailored to Reeves, apparently, which we're guessing doesn't mean adding in "wow"s or "dude"s in this case. But with no director attached yet, this is all still some way off. Oh, and if you're considering the obvious objection that Reeves isn't Japanese, he has some Asian blood in his ancestry, so by Hollywood standards he's practically a native.


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Many chemicals we use in everyday life are derived from fossil resources. Due to the increasing concerns on the use of fossil resources, there has been much interest in producing chemicals from renewable resources through biotechnology.
Phenol is an important commodity chemical, and is a starting material for the production of numerous industrial chemicals and polymers, including bisphenol A and phenolic resins, and others. At present, the production of phenol entirely depends on the chemical synthesis from benzene, and its annual production exceeds 8 million tons worldwide. Microbial production of phenol seems to be a non-viable process considering the high toxicity of phenol to the cell.
In the paper published online in Biotechnology Journal, a Korean research team led by Distinguished Professor Sang Yup Lee at the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering from the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) reported the successful development of an engineered Escherichia coli (E. coli) strain which can produce phenol from glucose.
E. coli has been a workhorse for biological production of various value-added compounds such as succinic acid and 1,4-butanediol in industrial scale. However, due to its low tolerance to phenol, E. coli was not considered a viable host strain for the biological production of phenol.
Professor Lee's team, a leading research group in metabolic engineering, noted the genetic and physiological differences of various E. coli strains and investigated 18 different E. coli strains with respect to phenol tolerance and engineered all of the 18 strains simultaneously. If the traditional genetic engineering methods were used, this work would have taken years to do.
To overcome this challenge, the research team used synthetic small RNA (sRNA) technology they recently developed (Nature Biotechnology, vol 31, pp 170-174, 2013). The sRNA technology allowed the team to screen 18 E. coli strains with respect to the phenol tolerance, and the activities of the metabolic pathway and enzyme involved in the production of phenol.
The research team also metabolically engineered the E. coli strains to increase carbon flux toward phenol and finally generated an engineered E. coli strain which can produce phenol from glucose.
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An opportunistic attempt to cash in on the diminutive Moore's post-10 stardom by shamelessly ripping off the premise of The Life of Brian. Here we have, instead of the Gospels, a Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Promised Land, with Moore cast as the character denied his rightful place in Biblical history by some upstart called Moses. The director of Saturday Night Live opts for a comic style which falls uneasily between the New American anarchic comic farce and that pioneered by the 'Python' team. A string of promising cameos (DeLuise, Kahn, Pryor) none of which come off, and an underwritten script leave one very unsatisfied. Cecil B DeMille was cubits more comical than anything on show here.
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AYR United provide Wanderers ' first pre-season opponent of 2012-13.
Here are 10 things you probably didn't know about the Honest Men.
1. The club was formed in 1910 after an amalgamation between Ayr FC and Ayr Parkhead.
2. Ayr was the first managerial post for the mercurial Ally MacLeod, who went on to take charge of Scotland at the 1978 World Cup. He returned to the club in 1986 for a three-year spell.
3. Ayr's highest-ever league finish came in 1915, when they finished fourth behind Celtic, Rangers and Morton in the top division.
4. Former Scotland international Neil McBain played for the club between 1914 and 1921. He would go on to represent Liverpool, Everton and Manchester United in a sprawling career, and remains the oldest player to play a match in the Football League after turning out for New Brighton aged 51 and 120 days.
5. Jimmy Smith is another record breaker. His amazing 66 goals in just 38 league matches in 1927/8 is still a British record, eclipsing even Everton legend Dixie Dean who had hit 60 goals in the same year South of the Border.
6. Sam McMillian caused a stir in the late fifties after sitting on the ball during a match against Rangers at Ibrox. Ayr won the game 3-0.
7. When the Scottish Premier League was set up in 1975, Ayr were the only one of the 10 teams who were still part-time. They were relegated in 1978 and have never returned to the top flight.
8. Former Liverpool defender Steve Nicol and ex-Aston Villa striker turned pundit Alan McInally are among the players who started their career at Ayr. Sir Alex Ferguson also played for the club between 1973-4.
9. The club's nickname, The Honest Men, is taken from a line in the poem Tam O'Shanter by Robbie Burns. It reads: "Auld Ayr, wham ne'er a town surpasses, for honest men and bonnie lasses."
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Allegheny County Courthouse may finally be restored to its former glory
They are two of the most widely used histories of American architecture. They feature on their covers photo-collages of significant buildings:
One emphasizes New York's Chrysler Building, with smaller pictures of a big modern house on Long Island, a famous skyscraper in Philadelphia, and then our Allegheny County Courthouse and Jail.
The other shows the spiral interior of Frank Lloyd Wright's Guggenheim Museum, a window of a country church in Missouri, a cast-iron storefront from the 1850s, and our Allegheny County Courthouse and Jail.
Do you get the sense from this that there must be something tremendously important in American architectural history about the Allegheny County Courthouse and Jail?
These two county buildings have long been considered by most historians to be among the most significant architectural landmarks in the nation.
Our 1888 courthouse, sometimes neglected and often dismally "modernized" by successive waves of uncaring or unaware county bureaucrats, is going to be 125 years old next week. And this building may in fact — at long last — get the honor it deserves in its own town.
The jury, so to speak, is still out on just how extensive and how well-done any rejuvenation of the courthouse may be, but County Executive Rich Fitzgerald has appointed several committees to consider just that. Preliminary plans are likely to be announced within the next few months.
The courthouse and jail were designed by the eminent Boston architect, H.H. Richardson. Historians view Richardson as part of a triumvirate of highly original American architects from the late 19th and early 20th centuries, with Wright and Louis Sullivan, being the other two.
Richardson was by far the most honored — and imitated — architect of his day. But he died young, at age 47, as construction of Pittsburgh's courthouse was under way.
He said at the time, "If they honor me for the pigmy things I have already done, what will they say when they see Pittsburgh!"
The courthouse today is full of contradictions. You can still find some of the grandeur and "majesty of the law" that Richardson envisioned. His magnificent four-story interior stair hall is intact, and the spaces that unfold around you as you climb his steps provide, perhaps, the finest architectural experience in the city.
In other ways, though, the building has become depressingly workaday and has suffered some sad indignities that compromise some of what Richardson envisioned.
The courthouse was set on what was called Grant's Hill, the highest land in the Golden Triangle. It was intended to overlook the city with a commanding presence. But Henry Clay Frick built a 20-story skyscraper directly across from it in 1902, blocking off the views both to and from the still-new courthouse.
And that was just the start.
Subsequently, city fathers decided to finally excavate "The Hump" — a steep rise in streets that made it difficult to access Grant's Hill. By 1912, Grant Street in front of the courthouse had been lowered an astonishing 15 feet in total. A plaza-like platform was built at the front to preserve the original entrances. But this didn't last long, as the platform was removed in the 1920s to enable the widening of Grant Street.
That necessitated a significant lowering of the entrances so that, sadly, when you enter this distinguished building today, you are doing so through its basement.
Compounding matters, space-starved city and county officials later wedged new offices into the interior — using the original high-ceiling space of the courtrooms, and permanently lowering courtroom ceilings.
Beyond that, virtually all the once-elegant interiors came, over the years, to be awash in ugly fluorescent lighting and drably painted hallways. Courtroom ceilings were lowered again as air conditioning was installed. Awkward and seemingly improvised entrance spaces for remodeled offices — and even for what is now County Council chambers — still abound. Convenience and ease of renovation has trumped any architectural awareness.
Those are among the bad things. At the same time, there's still a lot of good. Besides the grand stair hall — which you can experience after taking a latter-day stairway up from the basement entrance — the building has one fully restored, high-ceilinged courtroom that readily recalls the majesty Richardson had in mind. In the hallways, once-miscellaneous furniture has essentially been banned and replaced by deftly designed wooden benches, and strips of fluorescent lights have been replaced by period fixtures. The Pittsburgh History & Landmarks Foundation and local historians have worked on these over the years.
A popular improvement has been the conversion of the courtyard of the courthouse — once a parking lot — into a parklet in the late 1970s. It's easy to enjoy this space and its central fountain, and be awed there by the number of windows that Richardson inserted into his heavy stone walls.
It's not clear to anyone yet how much restoration of the building will be possible and affordable. But a lot can be done even without major expenditures.
Aside from improving the individual courtrooms, some of which have a dated and worn modern style, attention can be paid to reception areas and entrances for individual offices. Beautiful period lighting fixtures should be retained, but possibly a sophisticated, modern supplemental lighting system — well hidden — can be devised to further illuminate halls and architectural details.
Finally, a program of "interpretation" should be undertaken, providing displays that illustrate and explain the differences between the historical monument that Richardson designed and the heavily used building of today.
Beyond that, can there be more restored courtrooms? Could somebody devise a better entrance? That all has to be determined. But it's good that a rethinking is under way.
John Conti is a former news reporter who has written extensively over the years about architecture, planning and historic-preservation issues.


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|See Also
|linfir , hilbert , pbfir , rcfir , srrcfir
fd = INPUT, COLUMN VECTOR, any numerical type. Specifies the
N+1 frequency segment endpoints for the filter. Values
in [Hz], 0<=f<=fs/2. Coerced to DOUBLE before local
Hd = INPUT, COLUMN VECTOR, any numerical type. Specifies
the 2*N frequency magnitude values for the filter.
fs = INPUT, scalar, any numerical type. Represents sampling
rate in [Samples/second]. Coerced to DOUBLE.
Ntaps = INPUT, scalar, any numerical type. Filter length in
[taps]. Coerced to INTEGER.
wintype = INPUT, string. One of ["RECTANGULAR"|
winparam = INPUT, scalar, any numerical type. Parameter
used by GAUSSIAN or KAISER window functions.
Coerced to DOUBLE.
RETURN: COLUMN VECTOR, DOUBLE, piece-wise linear FIR filter taps.
Create a linear phase FIR filter with a frequency
response that is constructed from a piece-wise linear
specification of N contiguous segments. With this function any
arbitrary frequency response may be obtained that may be
approximated in a piece-wise linear fashion.
This function returns a linear phase FIR based on the
specification of N piece-wise linear segments given in the
frequency domain. The linear segments need not be continuous;
discontinuities may be included. The piece-wise linear frequency
domain segment definitions are given by the user in column vector
'fd' which contains N+1 frequency points and in a matching
frequency response magnitude definition column vector 'Hd' that
contains 2*N magnitude values.
'fd' lists, in increasing order, the N+1 frequency axis endpoints
of the N frequency segments comprising the filter's desired
frequency response. The frequency domain over which the filter
response is specified is 0 to fs/2 (the Nyquist frequency). The
first 'fd' entry must be 0.0(zero) and the last 'fd' entry must be
equal to fs/2 while all intervening entries must be such that
0<fn<(fs/2) (strict inequality). For example: if you divide the
domain 0 to fs/2 into 4 segments, there would be 5 endpoints, 0
and fs/s being the first and last endpoints. They would be listed
in 'fd' as: fd = {0d0,f1,f2,f3,fs/2}. 'fd' may be any numerical
type but is coerced to DOUBLE before local processing.
'Hd' lists, in increasing order, the 2*N frequency response
magnitude values corresponding to the endpoints given in 'fd'.
It is constructed as N successive pairs of magnitude specifications,
one pair for each segment, where the first value is the frequency
response magnitude as the lower endpoint is approached from above,
and the second value is the magnitude as the upper endpoint
is approached from below.
'Ntaps' is the length of the requested filter. Must be >=2.
Hd(1) = mag at fd(1)=0.0 , approached from above, (Seg 1)
Hd(2) = mag at fd(2)=f1 , approached from below, (Seg 1)
Hd(3) = mag at fd(2)=f1 , approached from above, (Seg 2)
Hd(4) = mag at fd(3)=f2 , approached from below, (Seg 2)
Hd(5) = mag at fd(3)=f2 , approached from above, (Seg 3)
... etc.
Hd(2*N-1) = mag at fd(3)=f2 , approached from above, (Seg N)
Hd(2*N) = mag at fd(N)=fs/2 , approached from below. (Seg N)
'wintype' and 'winparam' specify a window function that may be
applied to the filter. See function 'winddata()' for details.
Plot the filter along with it's specification template.
# Arbitrary frequency response: 7 'random' segment definitions
# Sampling Rate = 10KHz
# Segment #1 = fd=[0.0KHz,0.5KHz] Hd=[0.5, 0.5]
# Segment #2 = fd=[0.5KHz,1.0KHz] Hd=[0.5, 0.7]
# Segment #3 = fd=[1.0KHz,2.0KHz] Hd=[0.0, 0.0]
# Segment #4 = fd=[2.0KHz,2.5KHz] Hd=[0.0, 0.3]
# Segment #5 = fd=[2.5KHz,3.5KHz] Hd=[0.3, 1.0]
# Segment #6 = fd=[3.5KHz,4.5KHz] Hd=[1.0, 0.6]
# Segment #7 = fd=[4.5KHz,5.0KHz] Hd=[0.6, 0.6]
# Note that fd 'covers' the whole 0 to fs/2 domain.
#--- A 'clear' way to construct fd and Hd ---
#--- fd just lists the successive endpoints ---
fd = {0.0d3,0.5d3,1.0d3,2.0d3,2.5d3,3.5d3,4.5d3,5.0d3}
#--- Hd can be constructed from the concatenation of the ---
#--- successive pairs of segment endpoint magnitudes ---
Hd1 = {0.5, 0.5}
Hd2 = {0.5, 0.7}
Hd3 = {0.0, 0.0}
Hd4 = {0.0, 0.3}
Hd5 = {0.3, 1.0}
Hd6 = {1.0, 0.6}
Hd7 = {0.6, 0.6}
Hd = {Hd1,Hd2,Hd3,Hd4,Hd5,Hd6,Hd7}
#--- Make a template to show specifications in plot ---
ft1 = {0.0d3,0.5d3}
ft2 = {0.5d3,1.0d3}
ft2a = {1.0d3,1.0d3} # a discontinuity here
ft3 = {1.0d3,2.0d3}
ft4 = {2.0d3,2.5d3}
ft5 = {2.5d3,3.5d3}
ft6 = {3.5d3,4.5d3}
ft7 = {4.5d3,5.0d3}
Ht1 = {0.5d0,0.5d0}
Ht2 = {0.5d0,0.7d0}
Ht2a = {0.7d0,0.0d0} # a discontinuity here
Ht3 = {0.0d0,0.0d0}
Ht4 = {0.0d0,0.3d0}
Ht5 = {0.3d0,1.0d0}
Ht6 = {1.0d0,0.6d0}
Ht7 = {0.6d0,0.6d0}
ft = {ft1,ft2,ft2a,ft3,ft4,ft5,ft6,ft7}; # final spec templates
Ht = {Ht1,Ht2,Ht2a,Ht3,Ht4,Ht5,Ht6,Ht7};
#--- Set up and make the filter ---
fs = 10d3; # Sampling Rate [Samples/Sec]
Ntaps = 65; # Filter Tap length
wintype = "GAUSSIAN"; # Window Type
winparam = 4d0; # Window Parameter
h = pwlfir( fd, Hd, fs, Ntaps, wintype, winparam);
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I really hope that the Pistons hire Isiah. I reallllllly do!
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Well at least according to this article, this is the case:
I really hope that the Pistons hire Isiah. I reallllllly do!
Slug 'em Sabres!!!!!
Another example of revisionist history
Yeah firing IT is why we have to rebuild 3 years later.
I guess he forgot that we won 61 games in RC's first year and could have done that the second year if it wasn't for the brawl.
IT is a great coach for teaching playes IMO and he is very creative on offense. Not much for strategy though IMO.
Funny thing is that the article didn't go into why IT would be good. It just said that he did good in Indiana and that he won 10 more games than he should have with New York.
All this is is a Piston fan wanting to have another piece of their history back. If they hire any former Piston as coach it should be Bill Laimbeer.
You say it as if all revisionist history is bad...which, as a history major, I can safely say it is not. But in this case, yes, yes it's bad.
this guy is an idiot we went into a major rebuilding effort after we drafted damon bailey and failed to capitalize on his basketball skill... we've been in a tailspin ever since, reaching the ECF several times and the finals once. this guy should do his homework
This is the darkest timeline.
As soon as we traded for Ron (which was Isiah's idea in the first place) we started the rebuilding process. We had an optical illusion leading the East at the ASG and unsustainable 61 win season while rebuilding. Hey, people like cotton candy too, but it isn't very filling.
Why do the things that we treasure most, slip away in time
Till to the music we grow deaf, to God's beauty blind
Why do the things that connect us slowly pull us apart?
Till we fall away in our own darkness, a stranger to our own hearts
And life itself, rushing over me
Life itself, the wind in black elms,
Life itself in your heart and in your eyes, I can't make it without you
The Knicks have a better roster than the Pacers and finished below them in the standings.
Come to the Dark Side -- There's cookies!
As for the topic at hand, (and I can't believe I'm about to defend Drew Sharp), I didn't get the impression he was saying that firing Isiah caused rebuilding, he was just saying the situation is worse now than when he was here (which, for you sunshiners with your heads in the sand, is true.)
It's the same argument that's been made in defense of Jim O'Brien the last week and a half.
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Rick came in and despite losing an AS center somehow managed to stave off this impending doom long enough to have a go at it.
And honestly the way things were going in year 2 I think they would have been good again. That cup at that moment was a perfect storm. 58 minutes of hostile, rough play prior to that hadn't been an issue.
Post-brawl was a different world.
BTW, disagree all you want but which team was involved in a major player fight that got way out of control this year, the Pacers or the Pistons? Let's talk about Isiah's influence on players, indications that they restrain themselves or that they cop the "Bad Boys" attitude to the extreme?
would disagree with that (the ECF "migraine".)
Come to the Dark Side -- There's cookies!
If they manage to get Oden and Conley, get rid of Randolph, and factor in my brother played ball with their GM, they'd be pretty damn attractive.
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Ron had issues with Rick pre-brawl.
"Conduct detrimental to winning" December, 2003
Refusing to board the team plane during the Miami series May, 2004
ECF "migraines" to miss team practice May, 2004
Walking into Conseco and declaring his plans to retire November, 2004
His rap album BS that was associated with the previous entry
Getting into a fist-fight with Jermaine O'Neal November, 2004
And then there was sooooomething else he did that month. Can't quite remember what.
But he was fine after that.
Only in a bizarre alt-reality in which Ron took his medicine and stopped doing all the behind-the-scenes bull**** that plagued his entire time in Chicago, his time with Isiah, and the entire post-brawl time he spend with Rick.
Yeah right.
More likely, you're just in denial that "lockerroom Ron" had more to do with why that team wasn't ever going to win a championship than "on-court Ron" had to do with by helping get them to 61 wins and advancing in the playoffs (and if I hear anything about the Miami series again - where SVG decided he'd ignore Ron and let him do whatever he wanted as long as he triple-teamed and swarmed JO I'll puke.)
PS - Hicks, you left out the technical foul in the very first preseason game where Rick pulled Ron from the game and Ron cursed at him, then sat in the bleachers in front of Larry Bird, and Bird had some harsh words for him. Sadly, that seems to be the last time Rick or Bird tried to take care of a player's on-court misbehavior. Something in that event left Rick neutered (probably because some of us know he asked Donnie to trade Ron in the fall of '03 and Donnie basically said, "you just coach the other 11, I'll handle him.") Brilliant.
And back then, I was excited about having Rick here because I thought he'd have the backbone to put the Ron-Artest shenanigans to a stop. Funny how that turned out... Funny is a funny word.
Why do the things that we treasure most, slip away in time
Till to the music we grow deaf, to God's beauty blind
Why do the things that connect us slowly pull us apart?
Till we fall away in our own darkness, a stranger to our own hearts
And life itself, rushing over me
Life itself, the wind in black elms,
Life itself in your heart and in your eyes, I can't make it without you
There's a thread over at RealGM asking which team has the worst future. I believe the Pacers are coming up more than anyone else.
Come to the Dark Side -- There's cookies!
finally, we're going to win something
This is the darkest timeline.
I'm sure someone will swoop in at the last minute and take the victory from out desperate sweaty little hands.
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This is the darkest timeline.


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Real estate and energy efficiency professionals have called into question the credibility of a study released last week by NAIOP, the Commercial Real Estate Development Association, which challenged the economic feasibility of developing office buildings with progressive energy efficiency goals.
But energy efficiency advocates were quick to dispute the study's findings, citing flawed assumptions and data that they said is incomplete or absent from the study altogether.
'Designing 30 percent better than code is a pretty darn easy thing to do if you know what you're doing,' said Peter D'Antonio, president of PCD Engineering Services Inc., a Colorado-based firm that designs energy efficient buildings and conducts energy modeling and commissioning. 'We know that to build more efficiently, it costs more money up front. But we've seen you can absolutely get that money back within 10 years.'
In a statement, the U.S. Green Building Council distanced itself from the NAIOP study, calling LEED-certified buildings 'proof-positive that you can achieve 30% and greater energy efficiency using integrated design with little or no additional first costs.'
And in a biting memo posted Monday on the web site of Architecture 2030, a green building advocacy organization, the group's founder, Edward Mazria, cast the NAIOP study as a 'disinformation campaign' that was meant to 'stall, confuse and distort' energy efficiency facts in advance of Senate hearings on improving building code standards."
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Broken 1884 Stone Found Far From GravesiteDonna HuntHerald DemocratSunday, July 7, 2013John
B. Francis died in 1884 in Grayson County, but it took almost a whole
community to find his broken grave marker that had disappeared unoticed
from Holloway Cemetery near Luella. The
story begins in the area where a massive pipeline is being built from
Lake Texoma near White Mound out of Luella off Red Road. A workman on
the pipeline, Jerry Parrish, who was working for Garney Construction
out of Kansas City, found a broken tombstone on private property near
the pipeline about a foot from the right of way.A roadway was
to be built there and fill dirt was going to be hauled in that would
have buried the stone forever. So Parrish put stakes and pink
danger tape around it so no one would mess with the find.In
early May the land owner's granddaughter and one of her friends, Amanda
Mayhue, both friends of Lea Head who lives between Tom Bean and
Whitewright, saw the marked spot and called Lea because they knew of
her interest in genealogy. After meeting them that very afternoon
and seeing the marker, Lea got on the computer and and began digging
around to find what she could about John B. Francis.She knew
David Franklin, who is from the family that has been in the area for a
long time, so she contacted him to see if he was familiar with the
Francis family. He wasn't, so Lea got in contact with Bevery
Martin, regent of the Martha Jefferson Randolph Daughters of the
American Revolution (DAR) Chapter in Sherman, who also is interested in
genealogy. Beverly and David's wife, Barbara, went out for a
look, and Beverly took the tombstone home for safe keeping after Amanda
photographed it.Lea's search on the internet didn't show any
Francis descendants. Ancestry.com did, however, show a John B.
Francis. But it was the Master Index on the Grayson County Genweb
where Lea found that Francis, his wife, son and daughter were buried in
Holloway Cemetery on Leulla Road between Luella and Highway 902.John
Holloway, President of the Holloway Cemetery Association, told Lea that
Judy Low was named historian of the cemetery last year. Judy was
familiar with the Francis name but didn't know any stones were missing.
At last the grave sites were located. A piece of the
limestone marker was still in the ground that matched the epitaph on
Francis' stone. The daughter's stone was also was broken, but was
still on the site.Once Lea and the others had a chance to view
the stone close up, they found that the engraver had put his signature
at the bottom. John Hackett Hilger was the stonemason who
prepared the tombstones back in the mid 1850s when the family died.
This knowledge sent Lea on another search that told her that
Hilger, who was born in 1849, had seven daughters and one son and came
to Sherman in 1876-77 as a marble cutter. He was the son of
German immigrants and is buried in West Hill Cemetery.Beverly
gave Lea the name of Jim Vandagriff, who owns Vandagriff Monument
Company southwest of Sherman. After a phone call from Lea, Jim
met her at the cemetery to see what needed to be done and to give her
an estimate for repairing and replacing the tombstones as well as
straightening the son's stone that was leaning.Lea said she had
already received one contribution to help pay for the repairs and the
family's stones all to be straightened and repaired. Several more
have been promised, and any others' contributions will be welcome.
She said since Vandagriff volunteered his labor on the repairs,
any amount received over his estimate of materials costs, will go to
him and his helper, Guillermo (William in English) Navarro Campos,
better known as "Memo" (Bill in English) or "Mo", who has been with
Vadagriff for eight years. I'm sure there will be any
number of people who are happy with Lea's persistance in in restoring
this Francis grave site. Among these are Charley and Nona Francis
of Shamrock, Texas, and Joe and Joyce Francis of Mineola, who were
contacted by Lea.Joe told her in an email that John was a
descendant of Captain Henry and Leah Francis of what is now Cripple
Creek, Va. Their sons, John and his brother Henry, Jr., left
Virginia after serving in the Revolutionary War. Their dad was
killed in a battle in North Carolina in which all three were involved.
John and Henry settled in Kentucky and both were prominent in the
development of Wayne and Pulaski counties.Eventually some
descendants of John and Henry, including John B., settled in Texas, and
there are supposed to be some descendants in Bells and possibly
elsewhere in Grayson County.Lea is associated with the Lucile
Teague Library in Tom Bean as a volunteer on Tuesday as acting
librarian. It is here that she assists anyone with family
research and building/maintaing the genealogy collection there.
She is Vice-President of the Tom Bean Friends of the Library and
four years ago organized and became the mentor for the First Saturday
Genealogy Group that is open to the public and meets from 2 until 4
p.m. on the first Saturday of the month.Two things that haven't been learned are how the stone got broken and how it ended up so far from the cemetery.It's
lucky, however, that Lea got put on the trail of the Francis stone.
The search for an answer was right up her alley and fortunately
she was able to find the solution. Once the repair on the stone
is completed, it will be researted in the Holloway Cemetery.http://heralddemocrat.com/sections/opinion/local-commentary/broken-1884-stone-found-far-gravesite.html#.Udl1EN-2lCY.emailHolloway Cemetery
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...movies: always enjoy a quality sci fi. the classic comedies and I will admit to tearing too with a good movie.
...music is almost always on and keeps me energized. I mostly like dance, electronic, hip-hop.
...food is a tough one with so many choices, especially coming from a family of major foodies! From a simple burger or salad to sushi or gourmet foie gras.
2. city and beach life, yes it is contrarian
3. iPhone, the "i" part and not the phone so much
4. learning, growing, imagining, creating
5. traveling, culture, languages, exploring
...going out with friends for dinner or grabbing a drink or three.
...biking or walking down to the beach for hours with no plan.
...staying home on the couch and watching the next movie on my never ending list.
...you appreciate family, lying is not an option, and consider yourself independent.
...you don't smoke, occasionally drink, and could enjoy a steak.
...you are open to just chatting, being friends or possibly going on an adventure!
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NEW Zealand shares have gained for a second day to a two-month high, led by OceanaGold, which exceeded its gold production forecasts.
The NZX50 advanced 28.668 points or about 0.6 per cent to 4950.339 on Wednesday.
Within the index 26 stock rose, 15 fell and nine were unchanged. Turnover was $107.9 million.
Melbourne-based mining group OceanaGold led the index higher, with the shares up 7.7 per cent to $2.11 after it said it beat its gold production forecasts for 2013.
"When there is any announcement out of a gold company about production rates you do get a knee jerk reaction from the market," said Mark Warminger, portfolio manager at Milford Asset Management.
"That will settle down in the following days and months. Ultimately it depends on the price of gold."
F&P Healthcare shares rose 3.9 per cent to $4.12, the highest the respiratory and sleep apnoea mask makers have been in nearly seven years.
Retirement village operators Ryman Healthcare, Summerset Group and Metlifecare joined the health sector rally.
Ryman was up 0.3 per cent to $8.17, Summerset also lifted 0.3 per cent to $3.65 and Metlifecare gained 0.2 per cent to $4.25
"Healthcare is a safe place to be, in case of any little hiccup in the market, health is seen as safe stock," Mr Warminger said.
Stocks with Australian interests rose as the kiwi dollar weakened against the Australian dollar.
SkyCity Entertainment Group, which has casinos in Darwin and Adelaide, advanced 1.8 per cent to $3.89, Fletcher Building rose 1.1 per cent to $9.16 and outdoor clothing retailer Kathmandu was up three per cent to $3.45.
Telecom shares rose 0.4 per cent to $5.80 after it won the final lot of 4G radio spectrum in the government's auction.
Shares in energy efficient light bulb maker and marketer Energy Mad doubled to an intraday two-year high price of 68 cents, after it said its cost saving bulbs will be sold in the US market through online retailer Amazon. The stock closed at 60 cents, up 76 per cent.
Trade Me Group led the decliners, dropping 1.7 per cent to $4.13 and Diligent Board Member Services fell 1.5 per cent to $4.68.
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text: On April 30, 2012 the Centinela Valley Union High School District sent documentation about two employees in response to the Daily Breeze request for misconduct files. The Daily Breeze has requested more detail about the firing of Principal Raul Carranza. The name of the teacher in the first case has been redacted by the Daily Breeze.


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Further to my review of the COOL-ER eBook Reader, it's worth noting that, elsewhere, the Internet is lighting up with comments, speculation and reviews about the coming storm in publishing that is the digitisation of literature. Check out this MacWorld story. It outlines the ten new ebook readers announced or released at CES this week.
I had a brief exchange with @Sifter on Twitter yesterday. He reminded me that the key factor in the digitisation of books is the development of a device that will bring such books to the masses. Remember a few years back when only students, tech journalists and geeks were using email? Then, suddenly, your mum and dad had email accounts. You could bank online. A tipping point had come. For ebooks, the tipping point will come with a device that can finally compete with the printed book as the technology best adapted for reading, short form and long.
Andy Ihnatko recently published a sensible round-up of what the fabled Apple Tablet (or iSlate, or iBook) might feature. Elsewhere, Neven Mrgan hopes that Apple will take the reins of the distribution model for writers so that publishing a book will be as easy as uploading photos to Flickr. John Gruber over at Daring Fireball has published two posts of speculating about the Tablet: the Tablet and Tablet Musings. How close will this device come to Apple's 1987 Knowledge Navigator concept video?
Friday Project author Caroline Smailes – in a post entitled I'm Cheap – announced that her books In Search of Adam and Black Boxes are now available as ebooks for the relatively cheap price of £1.05. This, I think, is more sensible than the sky-high figures I've seen elsewhere, and I expect the trend to continue throughout the industry. (Note that some authors, such as Cory Doctorow, have been giving away ebook versions of their commercial fiction for several years.)
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From San Francisco, where Virgin and United both have hubs, United, with a premium trans-con product, collected an average SFO/JFK fare of $319. Delta and American collected $280; Virgin, $253 and JetBlue, $191.
Read More: Note to JetBlue: Please Don't Change -- Just Drop Money-Losing Flights
When it began flying in 2007, Virgin America encountered rising fuel prices, a bad economy and intense trans-con competition. Between the second quarter of 2010 and the second quarter of 2012, the carrier took delivery of 25 Airbus A320 family aircraft. Then CEO Cush slammed on the brakes, enabling the airline to fully benefit from the airline industry's increase profitability. Now, with the fleet at 53 planes, deliveries have been curtailed until 2015.
"They had several difficult years when they tried to grow too fast," McAdoo said. "They realized that wasn't working. So they switched from being growth-oriented to being profit-oriented."
In the past three weeks, developments have come at a rapid pace. On July 28, Virgin America filed for an IPO. On Aug. 12, it reported second-quarter net income of $37 million, up from $9 million a year earlier. On Aug. 13, the Transport Workers Union announced it had won a union election among the flight attendants.
The carrier will move its Dallas operations from DFW to Love Field on the night of Oct. 12. On Oct. 28, it will inaugurate Love Field to New York LaGuardia, its first LaGuardia service.
Virgin America flight attendants elected to join the TWU after rejecting the same union in a 2011 vote. Of 737 flight attendants who voted, 58% backed the union.
"We are not a start-up airline anymore," said three-year flight attendant Jeremy Schoggins, who worked as a TWU organizer. "We are growing up. Management didn't want us to have (a union). But I love Virgin America. We are rock star flight attendants who take amazing care of our guests (who) love Virgin America. I want to make sure flight attendants get their fair share.
"Flight attendants don't have a big voice," Schoggins said. "Management asks us what we want every year, and we tell them, but we get only a fraction of those things." He said flight attendants would like a contract clause assuring that after 18 hours on duty, they can decline additional work. Additionally, he said, flight attendant issues involving hotel accommodations or catering or pay can take weeks to resolve because e-mails to supervisors may not be promptly returned. "With a union rep, I will always have someone I can go to," he said.
In a May 2013 interview with TheStreet, Cush declared, "Growing an airline is difficult in the best of times, and we haven't been in the best of times. We've had a huge recession and high commodity prices. We fought our way through those."
Although "going public brings a lot more headaches," Cush said, it also "opens up large pools of capital, not only in the equity markets but also access to debt markets, (so that) financing aircraft costs less." Currently, Virgin America's principal owner is New York hedge fund Cyrus Capital, with about 50%; Branson's Virgin Group has about 46%.
McAdoo said adding new markets, especially in limited access airports like LaGuardia and National, will help the airline because "it allows them to go through and pare back capacity in their weakest markets and reallocate it to new markets that might be pretty good -- it's a high-class problem."
All of the challenges JetBlue faces now, he said, seem minimal when compared to the problem of earlier years, when "the airplanes just kept coming and Virgin was trying to find profitable markets to put them in."
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Every few months, a new show surfaces and we all declare it the utter nadir of cultural decrepitude. Ding! It's time for another one of those. E! announced a new show called Bridalplasty today, which will follow soon-to-be-brides as they compete to win plastic surgery procedures. You know, to be "perfect."
According to E!'s official announcement, 12 "eager brides-to-be" shack up and compete for plastic surgeries off their "wish lists." "From muffin tops to crooked noses to flat chests, the perceived imperfections they hope to fix are extensive and dramatic," the statement reads. It gets worse:
In the finale, the "Bridalplasty" champion will be named and viewers will follow her journey as she prepares for her dream wedding, which includes undergoing all of the procedures on her plastic surgery "wish list," and her fiancé's anticipation as he waits to see her full transformation. In a moment anticipated all season long, the bride will finally walk down the aisle to reveal her new appearance to her husband-to-be. Viewers will witness his emotional and possibly shocked reaction as they stand at the altar and he lifts her veil to see her for the first time following her extreme plastic surgery. The dramatic finale marks the end of her quest for perfection and reveals if her dream wedding does in fact become a reality.
Yes, the plastic surgeon from The Swan is the plastic surgeon for this show, too. Of course.
I need to go wash my soul in boiling holy bleach. Bridalplasty hits on some of the vilest trends in unscripted programming: pathological vanity, the wedding industrial complex, and women degrading themselves for fame and sport.
Every generation gets the grotesque emotional bankruptcy it deserves, I guess. Are you not entertained, PopWatchers?


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Two bugs have been identified and fixed: one caused SHOCK Trouper to crash
and the other prevented LEVEL ONE OS9 from booting up. The new release
should be available soon and I hope to have it on the EMULATOR SIG (ACS BBS)
ASAP. So it IS possible, folks ….. I was wrong about thinking OS9 would
never run. AND am I glad to be wrong this time! So OS9 on a PC clone
system will not cost $350 if you were lucky or $999 if bought from Microware
(OS9000 cost that is) … OS9 Level one will be fairly cheap to implement!
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When I first moved to California, I began meeting and talking with several men who were homeless hustlers.
Miguel,Sean and a few other attractive and kind individuals schooled me in the ways of making money with your body. This was not new to me. Living in Harlem many years ago, my neighbor who lived down the hall supplemented her income by tricking. I learned a great deal about power and how it's wielded.
In more than one conversation, it was shared with me that sex, the need to not be alone and the soul crushing and mind numbing entity that is loneliness is a commodity that can be bought, sold and negotiated.
While no one would admit it, Capitalism and the need to survive and be seen ensure that with enough money things (sex with young bodies) can be purchased. While many people assume that sex workers only do this "type" of work because they're nasty and sex obsessed, the hustlers I've met do not see things as being this simplistic.
Within gay male culture the obsession on looks, youth, cock size and sexual prowess is mind boggling.
Add to this frightening mix of self doubt, the inability to stop the aging process (regardless of what those ads promise you), the almost blinding ways we are told that we are not enough (isolation) and the belief that with the proper amount of currency anything is attainable and you have an exchange that requires very little thinking and even less planning.
Although I am not a scientist and can't statistically prove the following statement, I am pretty certain that when certain factors present themselves, the issue of safe sex is generally not brought up.
I am not referring to repeated interactions with a semi-regular trick. Instead, what happens to young people who have to "give it up" in an effort to not be on the street.
What of the young individual who offers unprotected sex for a hamburger or slice of pizza and foolishly believes he is at no serious risk because he is not getting fucked. With few marketable skills and no money, it becomes difficult to tell the "$100 man" with the nice car and fat wallet that you might want to use condoms.
Miguel,when I first met him, was living on the street with this motto as his guiding principle : No money, no honey.
To him, his attractive physical attributes were the means of survival. This is a very tricky scenario because as gay men we are sanctioned to develop our self esteem based on our "hotness" and the ability to attract and ruminate in male attention. On a sunny day in NYC'S Village, I was approached with the assumption that I was "working".
Being mistaken for a hustler was both troubling and somewhat of an compliment.
At one moment I was thinking "eeek, how could you ?" and in the exact moment thinking "wow, this joker thinks somebody would pay me for sex." In that milisecond, I realized how I too had been seduced into thinking that I am young and desirable and this is what matters.
Intriguing take on something which is as old as humankind. I wonder, if
you substituted young and beautiful female for young gay male, might
there not be more similarities than differences? Perhaps those whom
society marginalizes are too often in the center of these situations.
And when you tack race onto the blender …
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Beijing (AFP) Feb 5, 2016
China on Friday quietly released the findings of an inquiry into its worst industrial accident in years, calling for 123 people connected to the deadly chemical blast to be punished.
The report followed an investigation by the State Council evaluating the cause of the August blast in the northern city of Tianjin that left at least 165 dead.
Industrial accidents are common in China where safety standards are often lax, but the massive blast sparked widespread anger over a perceived lack of transparency by officials about its causes and environmental impact.
The report appeared on the web site of the State Administration of Work Safety just as the country prepared for a days-long national holiday for Chinese New Year, when there is often a lull in media coverage.
The blast, which caused over $1 billion in damages, was caused by improper chemical storage by Tianjin Ruihai International Logistics, the document said.
Dry weather conditions allowed for the spontaneous combustion of "nitro-cotton", a flammable compound stored in the warehouse, it said. The fire then ignited other chemicals, including ammonium nitrate, a highly explosive compound commonly used in fertiliser and also in homemade bombs.
But the underlying cause was that government bodies in charge of the port, up to the ministerial level, routinely ignored or violated laws and regulations regarding chemical storage, according to the report.
It added that some officials connected to the explosion were guilty of "corruption" and "abuse of power" and recommended the 123 people, including five at the ministerial level, face disciplinary action.
Another 49 had already faced legal proceedings, it said.
Thousands of tonnes of hazardous chemicals were stored at the warehouse, some 600 metres (2000 feet) from residential buildings. Chinese regulations say hazardous materials should be stored at least 1,000 metres away from homes.
The blast released clouds of toxic chemicals into the air and created a large pool of contaminated water, and the report recommended continued monitoring of long-term health and environmental damage.
A spate of industrial accidents in recent years has raised concerns about the enforcement of residential zoning regulations, government transparency and adequacy of firefighter training in China.
On social media, some chided the report's recommendations.
"How could no one get the death penalty?", one commenter wrote. "So many people died!"
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2007.151: Reductions of integrable equations: dihedral group
2007.151: S. Lombardo and A.V. Mikhailov (2004) Reductions of integrable equations: dihedral group. Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and General, 37 (31). pp. 7727-7742. ISSN 0305-4770
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We discuss the algebraic and analytic structure of rational Lax operators. With algebraic reductions of Lax equations we associate a reduction group—a group of automorphisms of the corresponding infinite-dimensional Lie algebra. We present a complete study of dihedral reductions for sl(2,{\bb C}) Lax operators with simple poles and corresponding integrable equations. In the last section we give three examples of dihedral reductions for sl(N,{\bb C}) Lax operators.
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