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On Monday, a lawyer representing Devyani Khobragade, the Indian diplomat indicted on charges of alleged visa fraud in the U.S., is expected to appear in a New York court to defend his client against the allegations, including that she underpaid and overworked her domestic help.
The prosecution's case, in part, centers around allegations that Ms. Khobragade had her domestic worker enter into two contracts: The first in which she promised to pay the woman a rate in accordance with the minimum wage required for such workers to obtain a U.S. visa, and the second, which agreed to a far lower salary and superseded the first.
Daniel Arshack told The Wall Street Journal that his client, Ms. Khobragade, kept her promise to pay her domestic worker in line with U.S. labor laws governing work visas.
The prosecution, in an indictment before a grand jury on Thursday, had alleged that the diplomat, who returned home to India last week, but still faces a case against her in the U.S., paid the woman a little less than $1.50 an hour and often required her to work more than 100 hours a week, without a full day off. This, prosecutors say, was in contravention of U.S. visa laws.
Ms. Khobragade's arrest led to a diplomatic stand-off between the India and the U.S., which dismissed Ms. Khobragade from the country after she was indicted. India, in retaliation, asked the U.S. to remove one of its diplomats based in New Delhi.
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In an emailed statement to the Journal, Mr. Arshack set out the case for his client's innocence.
"Witnesses who actually stayed in the home have confirmed that the domestic worker had a very light work load, time off and plenty of spare money to give to people to bring home to India and to purchase gifts to send home to India," the lawyer wrote.
"Dr. Khobragade entered into a contract to pay the domestic worker $9.75 per hour for 40 hours work. That is precisely what the worker received," he added.
The prosecution, in the indictment, alleged that Ms. Khobragade had Sangeeta Richard, the domestic worker, enter a second agreement "setting forth the true terms of employment, which provided for the payment of a legally insufficient wage (a total of 30,000 rupees – approximately $573 per month or $6,876 per year, regardless of the number of overtime hours)."
To that, Mr. Arshack said that the second contact did not replace the first one. "It simply guaranteed that a portion of the funds discussed and promised to be paid during the signing of the first contract would be paid in India," he wrote.
The second contract merely facilitated the payment of a portion of the funds earned under the first contract to be paid in India to the domestic worker's husband, the lawyer said.
Prosecutors alleged Ms. Khobragade made false statements to U.S. visa officials in order to gain a U.S. visa for her domestic worker. "The allegations are false and demonstrate a disturbing lack of investigation," Mr. Arshack said in response. He added that the statements made in the application for a visa for the domestic worker were made by the worker herself.
"Every question was answered by the domestic worker and the certification of accuracy was made [by] the domestic worker," he wrote. Once the visa application was completed, the domestic worker went to the U.S. Embassy in Delhi alone for a face-to-face interview with a visa officer, he said.
During the interview, Mr. Arshack alleges, the domestic worker confirmed the accuracy of all of the information that she had provided in the visa application and presented the contract between herself and Ms. Khobragade.
Ms. Richard, the domestic worker who remains in the U.S., could not immediately be reached for comment.
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I attended the ST. Louis Rams Training Camp in Earth City, Missouri this morning.
I arrived when the gates opened and left after snagging a few autographs.
Leonard Little DE #91
Was present at camp, which surprised me because I knew he was dealing with some legal matters over an incident in the off season.
Dexter Coakley LB #52
Looked very impressive, how ever I never realized how short he was until I saw him in person.
Reggie Hodges P #4
Rookie from Ball State acquired in the 6th round of the 2005 NFL Draft, looked very solid punting the ball.
Terry Fair CB #30 and DeJaun Groce CB #24
Spent time returning punts
Vontrell Jamison DE # 94
Rookie form Clemson is freaking Huge! He worked hard and made some big plays. IMO he has a great shot of making the team.
Torry Holt WR #81
Did not dress for practice. He didnt appear to be seriously injured but was heard grunting during stretches and did not participate in any drills.
Jerome Carter S #42
Rookie from Florida State showed excellent speed and good work ethics. He looks to have a promising future.
Madison Hedgecock TE #38
Rookie from North Carolina looked great out on the felid. He is one of the best young blocking TE I have seen in years. He was a brick wall out on the felid.
Steven Jackson RB #39
Really impressed me. He looked very comfortable in the starting RB position. He did great in blocking drills and in scrimmidge he has showed great vision. He caught a 10 yard floater from Bulger and ran for a TD of a hand off. Every time I watch this guy I am more impressed, Im going on record saying he will make the Pro Bowl within 2 Years and be a top 5 RB within 3 years.
Marshall Faulk RB #28
Didnt impress, at 32 he just doesnt have that burst he use to have. He will still make a great mentor for Steven Jackson and a solid back up for the ST. Louis Rams.
Alex Barron
Was listed on the official roster I received but I did not see him out there. I could just be blind or he might not have done anything impressive to catch my eye. Help me out Rams fans is Barron under contract yet?
I hope you have enjoyed my notes on training camp, I woke up 4 this morning and my mother and I drove to Earth City Missouri. It was worth it though, I got to spend some quality time with my mother and watch a Rams team that looks very solid. Watch out next year NFC West.
I just wanna make you guys jealous so I will tell you that I got a football signed by Dane Looker, Jerametrius Butler, Micheal Hawthrone, Tyoka Jackson, and Kevin Curtis. I also got Kevins Rookie card signed and my mother got her T-Shirt signed by him. All of them are really nice guys. Ok well I'm heading back to the Vikings Forum but before I go I just wanna tell you good luck next year and I'm sorry your gonna lose to the Vikes in the Playoffs.
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Thanks alot for the notes man, and I'm glad you had a good time. Torry Holt is just out with a tight back, he'll be fine. All your notes were pretty much right on with some other stuff i've been hearing here and there. I'm going to try to make it up there this weekend for the scrimmage they're having, but I don't know...it's a 5 hour drive.
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Discussion in 'Fan Zone' started by juck, Jun 8, 2009.
I didn't get too either. But somebody filled me in.
Luke swan got kicked off.
If it's Hawkins, he might never be worthy as a wide receiver, but if he can show something as a kick returner, he might have a chance.
Michael Lewis (the kick returner, not the safety) started out a notch below most of the guys on the show, but he became an All-Pro.
I'm a big fan of Holley, but I'll be happy with Hawkins as well. They're my top two, and both can ball.
I like Moten as well. Seems like he's always making a play.
Dont worry if you missed it, they will reshow it at least 5 more times this week.
Same here. From the first day they showed video from these guys' college days, Hawkins stuck out for me.
For a "bum" taking the 80 spot on the training camp roster, he's got some pretty unique fluidity in the way he runs. Not only is he blazing fast straight-line wise, but he's able to run routes without much wasted movement. Granted, he's small, but he has that route-running ability and speed that you have to have when you're undersized.
I was dead set against this TV show from the start, but I must admit, I kinda think this guy makes the team too. It doesn't matter who he's going up against in this show. If you look past the opponent, you see him doing some pretty interesting things in the way he runs, cuts, jukes and gets open that you wouldn't expect from someone so unheralded.
Punt returner? Competitor for some playing time as a slot receiver? Wouldn't surprise me. I like this kid.
Have you seen any of it? I recommend you try to catch this episode. Look past *who* Hawkins is beating, and look solely on how he does it. I know it sounds silly on the surface, but he's surprisingly good.
For those who wanted a recap, the offense had to score five times or the defense needed five stops to get the victory in the drill. Hawkins scored three of the offense's touchdowns.
But again, Hos, the TDs are immaterial. The way he was scoring them was eye catching. His fluidity is something to watch. His body is leaning one way while his legs are high-gearing it the other.
Let's put it this way. If he wins this show, the show will have given us a much, much better training camp body -- at worst -- than I ever imagined.
You can watch online at spike.com, or you can wait till Thursday when it re-airs. But if you can't wait, I'll post below what happens. If you want to wait DON'T READ ANY FURTHER!
Darren Woodson makes a guest appearance to sort of talk up the dbs. The first drill was the jump ball in the corner of the end zone. The dbs clearly had the advantage since they knew exactly where the wrs were going. Still Holley, Gonzalez, and Hawkins had some nice grabs. Motrel Jones looked like crap. Plenty of interceptions as well. Ahmaad Smith and Donte Gamble stood out to me as strong performers. WR Luke Swan spent the entire drill on the bike, trying to keep his legs warm. After the drill was over Michael Irvin basically told Steve Gonzalez he needs to tighten up.
The scrimmage later that night was the 2 minute drill in which the ball is placed on the offense's 30 yard line. All the wrs would run routes against all the dbs at the same time, with a practice quarterback trying to throw them the ball and move the line of scrimmage 70 yards for a touchdown. A few of the dbs performed well, particularly Moten who had a pick six. Outside of that it got pretty ugly for the dbs with the wrs running all over them. They all had some nice grabs. Even Montrell Jones. The two wrs who stood out to me the most were Holley and Hawkins with Hawkins being by far the best athlete on the field. Kid is just so fast, makes some disgusting cuts and is just all over the place. There was one play where Holley caught the ball, then lateralled to Hawkins who just burned everyone on the field.
In the end it came down to Washington and Swan, with Swan getting the cut. He tried at one point in the show to get on the field and make some cuts but he was no match to the dbs. Having lost a step, Michael Irvin and co. agreed there is no purpose in keeping him. It is unfortunate, but his injury cannot allow him to proceed on the show.
Hope that helps those who missed!!! Also, if I'm wrong on my recollection please let me know!
Nice recap, LSU. And I agree on Montrell Jones. He's one of those guys who looks good in pads (other than the fact he's considerably overweight still), but just doesn't impress me. Irvin called him a "beast" last week I believe, but I don't see it. He's sluggish on the field, doesn't exhibit much explosion or hops, and is generally just a tease for a man his size.
Yeah I totally agree. I think Montrell should be a tight end somewhere. He's got the body for it, if he could learn to block maybe he can get on with some team there. But he absolutely comes across to me as lazy.
No, he's still on 'Get me out of here I am a celebrity', lol.
I think.
If Hawkins has any chance it's because he may get a shot as the punt returner.
Without revealing another spoiler, one of the two guys you mentioned wasn't in the War Room at the end. Maybe you got them mixed up.
Bill Bates started off as a ham & egger. Glad that the coaches at the time didn't think he was unworthy.
What does it matter where a guy came from if he can play?
Just what is a "ham and egger"?
Most of these guys are a complete joke like many here are saying. Montrell Jones has all the physical ability in the world but he's dumb as a brick and just kinda goofy. Gamble has the right mentality but is too small and doesn't stand out in any one area. Washington is just down right laughable. The majority of the rest of them are just guys.
But Hawkins... can play. You could see that early on and it's becoming more and more evident that he is in a different league altogether when compared to the others. Lucky for Dallas, he happens to appear as the most intelligent, well-grounded guy out there AND plays a style/position that the Cowboys do not currently have filled on their roster. He also has NFL bloodlines. I'm absolutely cheering for him. The league has taken a shift towards the Wes Welkers/Darren Sproles' of the game now and little, shifty guys CAN succeed in today's game.
On a side note, I think Smith is best of the DBs.
I disagree with that.
I finally watched a little of this show last night and Hawkins was impressive given the competition.
He looked like he was a step above the DBs who were covering him in that drill. He was very quick and fast.
That still doesn't mean he can play in the NFL. It just means he's better than the group of DBs playing against him in these skeleton drills. He's very very small and while he looks like he's blazing, that doesn't mean much.
I guess he is this year's Amendola.
I think we've created a new adjective.
I agree that Hawkins will be the winner.
It has so many uses. Adjective, action verb, even a noun.
When a vertically challenged spunky fellow with no chance to make it impresses someone based off YouTube highlights:
"He's a little Amendolaish. I am rooting for him."
When they fumble a punt return in their first exhibition game:
"Ah, man, he Amendolaed! He's gotta wrap up when he's hit."
When he runs a bad route and it results in a game-losing interception:
"That was an Amendola, he cut it too short."
When they don't see significant time in the final preseason game:
"I don't get what it wrong with our coaches. He got Amendolaed and it wasn't fair. He didn't even get a chance to show what he can do."
When said player doesn't even get signed to a future's contract with Dallas and signs with another team:
"We will Amendola the day we let that guy get away."
I will rue the day I didn't realize the full capabilities of that word.


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Is the writing on the sprawl for city's identity?
METROPOLIS. The word traces its origins to Greek antiquity and yet carries with it a sense of the future. In 20 years, it is projected that Melbourne will be the metropolis of Australia, having overtaken Sydney as the most populous city. It is estimated that 1500 people a week are moving to our city and that Melbourne's population will hit 6.2 million by 2020, a decade earlier than previously thought. Eight years after that we will be bigger than Sydney. This is a stunning reversal on a decade ago when Victoria was losing people to other states. Two years ago, the Australian Bureau of Statistics projected that it would take until 2051 for Melbourne's population to reach 5 million, still 600,000 behind Sydney's. Now, people are leaving Sydney, driven out by rising costs. Clearly, the ground has shifted. It represents a fundamental shift in the make-up of Melbourne and poses huge challenges in how the city should grow and, from that, how its personality is maintained.
Melburnians may think they know their city and what makes it so liveable. However, a population boom on the scale that is happening now has the potential to change the city, and once that change is put into effect it may well be irreversible. Melbourne may become a victim of its own success.
Yesterday the Premier, John Brumby, acted swiftly to release the pressure on housing supply. The state will zone all available land within the urban growth boundary as residential. It is expected to reduce by 12 months the time it takes to prepare land for development. The new Urban Growth Zone will allow for the fast-tracking of rezonings, particularly in Wyndham and Melton-Caroline Springs in the west, Casey-Cardinia in the east, Hume in the north and Whittlesea in the north-east. It provides the capacity for 90,000 new housing blocks to be developed.
The Government's release of the land in the context of the housing crisis nationwide is to be applauded, but it also puts pressure on the Government over its 2030 strategy for managing urban sprawl. Without proper and careful planning Melbourne is in danger of losing the qualities that make it attractive to people in the first place. The elements that define a city, what makes it attractive to people, needs to be built into urban development. Hence the crucial importance of having the infrastructure in place to meet that need. It is reassuring that the Planning Minister, Justin Madden, noted this very requirement yesterday that a housing development is not merely a suburb, but a community.
The other plank in Mr Brumby's announcement was that the land release would help alleviate the crisis in housing affordability. This is true, up to a point. As Cath Smith, chief executive of the Victorian Council of Social Services, told ABC radio, "You get a dwelling you can afford to rent and a big petrol bill", because amenities such as public transport and schools are not nearby.
Distance matters. And how one travels from Point A to Point B around Melbourne is a controversial subject. With a Treasury analysis showing that between 2001 and 2006 the city's population increased by 270,000 and more than 86,000 households the number of motor vehicles on the roads has also soared.
If the city wants to retain its image of liveability then it must tackle the inadequacies of public transport on the urban fringes. It is noted that a multibillion-dollar tunnel proposal joining CityLink with the Eastern Freeway is expected to be endorsed soon by the Government. It is hoped that major rail works also are considered. Last September, Delfin Lend Lease announced plans for a $4.5 billion new suburb at Kalkallo, 30 kilometres north of Melbourne, outside the growth boundary, but which would include a V/Line station and bus network. It is still awaiting government approval.
The land rezoning announced yesterday shows the dilemma of trying to reconcile the spirit of the 2030 strategy with the needs of the moment. The growth in outer urban housing is about 60% of the metropolitan total, while 2030's aim was to reduce such growth to half that amount. As a blueprint, Melbourne 2030 is already a fading parchment, its parameters made redundant by changing demographics and financial circumstances.
A central plank of planning is density. However, there is no density in a sprawl, and therein lies a potential calamity for this city's liveability. Melbourne faces the threat of developing two images: the vibrant facade of the inner city and the slouch of the suburbs. The impetus for the trend to the outer urban regions is affordability. Priced out of the inner city, many people have no choice but to look to the fringe. With the Reserve Bank raising rates again yesterday for the 12th consecutive time, this movement can only be exacerbated. Given the population boom the State Government should consider establishing a body to oversee planning for the entire city, from Carlton to Casey. It may be a marvellous initiative to ensure a boom, managed properly, does not bust the identity of the metropolis.
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I have a table containing different words, each is assigned to a category.
fld_Name | catID
cheese | 1
water | 1
bread | 1
dog | 2
cat | 2
horse | 2
trousers | 3
hat | 3
jumper | 3
Users can pick from a category, and have the words randomly combined.
SELECT fld_Name FROM words WHERE catID = 1 ORDER BY RAND() LIMIT 3
SELECT fld_Name FROM words WHERE catID = 2 ORDER BY RAND() LIMIT 3
Then I put the results in an array and link the words from the 2 record sets together to get random combinations.
I wondered though, if it would be possible to do this using one single SQL statement?
I tried this:
SELECT DISTINCT v1. fld_Name,
FROM (SELECT fld_Name
FROM words
WHERE catID = 1
LIMIT 3) v1,
(SELECT fld_Name
FROM words
WHERE catID = 2
LIMIT 3) v2;
But that doesn't really work, because it just generates output like this:
fld_Name | fld_Name
water | horse
bread | horse
cheese | horse
water | dog
bread | dog
cheese | dog
water | cat
bread | cat
cheese | cat
Whereas I'd like to get something like this:
fld_Name | fld_Name
water | horse
bread | cat
cheese | dog
But of course it doesn't do that - for each record in the "v2" table it loops through all of the records in the "v1" table...
I'm not sure this can be done, or I don't have the skills to do it, so was interested to see if anyone had any ideas.
I could just stick with the way I'm doing it now - e.g. using a scripting language to handle the output of the SQLs, but was just curious to see if there is a better way.
Apologies for my mistakes etc.
Any advice much appreciated.
You could use a UNION, so the query will return 6 rows. You'll still have to handle the rest in your scripting code.


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Five-star scouting report by Jay Skurski: Bills could play role of spoiler if they turn up heat on Fish
1. Get Mario Williams going again The Bills were victorious in their first meeting with Miami thanks largely to Mario Williams' timely strip sack of Dolphins quarterback Ryan Tannehill. That set up a winning 31-yard field goal by Dan Carpenter. Williams, however, has had just two sacks since that Week Seven victory. He'll be expected to once again dominate his matchup against tackle Tyson Clabo. Miami benched Clabo after he was dominated by Williams in the first meeting, but regained his job following the Jonathan Martin-Richie Incognito scandal. The Bills have 49 sacks this season – one off the franchise record of 50 set in 1964. The Dolphins have allowed 51 sacks, most in the NFL.
2. Tannehill turning it on. The Bills held Tannehill to his lowest completion percentage of the season in Week Seven, when he went 19 of 37 for 197 yards. In the past three weeks, however, he's had eight touchdowns and just two interceptions during a three-game winning streak. In that time, he's also had a passer rating of 103.2. In his second season, Tannehill has a completion percentage of 62.4. He's thrown 23 touchdowns - nearly double the 12 he had as a rookie.
3. Win the ground game. Miami ranks 22nd in the league against the run, giving up 117 yards per game, and hulking defensive tackle Paul Soliai is nursing an ankle injury. The Bills have attempted more rushes than any team in the NFL, with 460. A windy, wet day calls for another heavy dose of Fred Jackson and C.J. Spiller, who is healthier today than he was in Week Seven meeting. Establishing the run should also take pressure off Thad Lewis, who faces his hometown team for a second time this year. The Dolphins have 41 sacks (tied for seventh in the NFL) and 17 interceptions (tied for sixth).
4. Pop one on special teams. Leodis McKelvin is running out of time if he wants to continue his streak of consecutive seasons with a punt return for a touchdown to three. McKelvin ranks just 21st in the NFL with an average punt return of 6.4 yards – a year after leading the league with an 18.7 yard average. He's returned 28 punts, which is tied for eighth most in the league.
5. Let it rain, let it rain, let it rain. Ok, so maybe it doesn't have the same ring as "let it snow," but the Bills need to use the elements to their advantage. Heavy rain is expected this afternoon, and if the temperature dips a few degrees lower than forecast, that could turn to a wintry mix. The Bills have been practicing outside in the elements under Doug Marrone – not to get used to the cold, but the swirling winds inside Ralph Wilson Stadium. As Marv Levy used to say, "when it's too tough for them, it's just right for us." The Bills need to make that the case today.
Outlook: If the Dolphins win out, they're in the playoffs, so they've got a lot more to play for. But this is a good matchup for the Bills, who should embrace the role of spoilers.
Prediction: Bills 27, Dolphins 20


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The 50 Funniest Baseball Quotes
"Ninety percent of this game is half mental."—Yogi Berra
"The way to make coaches think you're in shape in the spring is to get a tan."—Whitey Ford
"I'd be willing to bet you, if I was a betting man, that I have never bet on baseball."—Pete Rose
How about 47 more? Just a heads up. Yogi Berra's (pictured left back in his playing days) name appears a lot.
The aarp.org has listed the top 50 funniest baseball quotes of all-time. If you need a good laugh, or just want to reminisce, click here and check it out.


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15. 7. 2005 - Czech Airlines begins regular flights to Žilina
Prague, 15 July 2005
Czech Airlines begins regular service between Prague and Žilina from July 15, 2005. The new flight will be operated in early afternoon, daily, except for Saturdays. Czech Airlines will thus renew its regular service to the third largest town in Slovakia after more than 25 years, when the last regular flight landed at Žilina airport at the turn of the seventies and eighties.
Czech Airlines plans to operate the Žilina flight on business days and Sundays, departing from Prague at 12:25 and arriving in Žilina at 13:30 during the Summer season. The return flight will depart Žilina at 14:15 arriving in Prague at 15:25. The flight will be operated by ATR42 - 500 airplanes for 46 passengers which are the newest generation of this type of turboprop airplanes.
In addition to the Žilina service, Czech Airlines offers connections to another three Slovak destinations – Bratislava (26 weekly flights), Košice (26 weekly flights) and Sliač (6 weekly flights). Over the January – May 2005 period, Czech Airlines transported almost 73 620 passengers on its flights to Slovakia which represents a growth of 8% if compared with the same period of the previous year.
Duration of flight:
- Prague-Žilina: 1 hour 5 min
- Žilina-Prague: 1 hour 10 min
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The Archives of Babel
September 25, 2009 - February 26, 2010
Reception on October 30, 2009; 4:00-6:00 p.m. in the Pitts Room
Introduction to the exhibition presented at 4:30 p.m.
The Archives of Babel at Furman Universitys Special Collections and Archives cannot, obviously, house a complete collection of works in every language. However, Special Collections and Archives does contain a surprising array of materials written both in and about a variety of languages. With this exhibition, we hope to display a small and diverse sampling of materials featuring different languages and with varying dates of origin. Understanding language to be an effort at communication or articulation that is bound by context, we aim to broaden notions of language to include non-traditional forms, including music, film, and visual media. If humankind failed to attain infinitude in height or in a universal discourse, we have very nearly achieved it through the breadth, depth, and diversity of language.
Linguists define a language as a speech variety that is not mutually intelligible with other speech varieties (Bernard Comrie in Aronoff and Ress-Miller, 2001, p. 19). Many linguists consider the topic of the origin of language(s) to be too speculative to take seriously as a legitimate field of debate. Quasi-scientific attempts to answer this question from the past two hundred years have produced theories ranging from the Natural Sounds Source theory (i.e., lexicons derive from an onomatopoeic imitation of surroundings) to the Yo-Heave-Ho theory, which speculates that language evolved from the sounds workers made as they performed their tasks. Divine Origin theory, on the other hand, claims that a divine source provided humankind with the means to communicate in the form of language. Specifically, the Judeo-Christian tradition holds that human efforts to construct a tower reaching to heaven were thwarted by God. The punishment imposed: a fracturing of a universal mode of communication into a multitude of languages.
The story of humankinds relationship to language is driven by the inevitable tension between celebrating difference (or at the very least, acknowledging it) and striving to overcome it. Numerous attempts have been made to recreate the scene of Babel and attain infinitude and universal comprehension. This Dream of a Common Language has surfaced in philosophy, poetry, art, music, film, and science. The visual and audio elements of The Archives of Babel represent forms of languages as much as writing and speech, and in this capacity they ostensibly fulfill such historical efforts to repair Babel more successfully than written or spoken language. Although the audiovisual arts often succeed in eliminating the logistical barriers of traditional language, such media cannot be said to be universal or free from the taint of context.
The Archives of Babel is marked by a relative dearth of strictly visual or audio media. Rather, it is a deeply text-based collection, thereby highlighting the profound and numerous differences of these many languages a fact that will strike a majority of non-polyglots as uncomfortably obvious. Not only do the vast differences between these languages span culture and location, they also demonstrate the weight of history by morphing over time.
Danielle Fisher
Barthes, Roland. Mythologies. New York: Hill and Wang, 1972.
Encyclopedia Brittanica Online
Hansen, Miriam. Babel and Babylon: Spectatorship in American Silent Film. Cambridge, MA: Harvard UPress, 1991.
Heller-Roazen, Daniel. Echolalias: On the Forgetting of Language New York: Zone Books, 2005
Link to the "Family of Man" exhibition: http://www.luxembourg.co.uk/clervaux.html#family
Link to Roland Barthes' "The Great Family of Man" essay: http://www.arts.ucsb.edu/faculty/budgett/classes/art19/familyman.pdf


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Here's how you can get a fully transparent panel in Linux Mint 14.
1. Open a terminal window.
2. Type in the following commands, then hit Enter.
sudo cp -R /usr/share/themes/Mint-X ~/.themes/
sudo pluma ~/.themes/Mint-X/gtk-2.0/Apps/panel.rc
3. The second command will open the file in your default text editor.
4. Find both instances of this: Panel/panelbg.png
5. Comment out the both instances by placing a # at the beginning of each line.
6. Save the file.
7. Log out and then log back in. Your panel should now be fully transparent.
For more, see the original article at the link below.
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Cockroaches and Cows Now Safe from Fallout
In 1963 the Roberts Dairy Company of Omaha conducted a two-week survival test for thirty-five cows, one bull, and two unfortunate university students in a concrete cattle fallout shelter on its farm at Elkhorn. Thank goodness the animals weren't rabbits!
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Sabot at Stony Point, a Reggio-inspired preschool through 8th grade school in Richmond, VA, seeks a Director of Communications and Marketing to develop and oversee comprehensive communications and marketing strategies for the school. Through strategic and systematic communications with all constituencies, this member of the administrative team will help to promote a school culture of engagement, inclusion, transparency, satisfaction and confidence. The Director will also support the admissions process – and enhance Sabot's visibility and eminence – through marketing, media relations, public relations, and publications. By helping to showcase Sabot's pedagogy and impact on our students and on the field of education, the Director of Communications and Marketing will help our organization to live our aspiration to be A Small School for Big Change.
Responsibilities: • Design and implement a comprehensive communication strategy to elevate and sustain communications with and among: Faculty and staff, Current parents, Prospective parents, Grandparents, Alumni, Donors, Board of Directors • Lead school marketing efforts including brand management, messaging, and creation of digital and print materials • Implement a social media marketing plan • Optimize the Sabot at Stony Point website as a source of information for, and communication with, key constituencies and audiences • Develop and maintain strong, working relationships with local, specialty and national media • Capture, distill, and disseminate essential features and outcomes of our approach • Write and edit press releases, OpEd pieces, and feature articles • Provide Project Management for publications including semi-annual newsletters and the Annual Report
Full position description: http://sabotatstonypoint.org/sites/all/files/Director%20of%20Communications%20&%20Marketing%202017.pdf
Applicant must: • upon employment, be able to pass criminal background checks • have an understanding of and enthusiasm for Sabot's mission and program • be able to work collaboratively with numerous members of the staff and school community • be able to coordinate and manage workflow of content creators including writers, designers, photographers, videographers • hold a minimum of three years experience in relevant positions • have excellent written and verbal communication skills • hold a bachelor's degree or higher in communications, marketing, public relations or related field • have knowledge of print production process, design through press • have experience with digital photography • be familiar with web content management systems and social media integration


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The 'High School Musical' babe would love to wear a Marchesa dress on her future wedding, saying 'Anyone would be lucky to have a Marchesa dress in their wedding.'
Vanessa Hudgens recently split from Zac Efron, but that does not prevent her from dreaming of her wedding. The 22-year-old actress has chosen a designer for her gown on the special day. "I want [Marchesa] to dress me for my wedding," she told People after attending the design house's New York Fashion Week presentation on Wednesday, February 16.
"[Their] lace work just blows my mind," she said of designers Georgina Chapman and Keren Craig's signature embellishment. She added, "Anyone would be lucky to have a Marchesa dress in their wedding."
But the star realized that she needs a groom to make it happen, saying "I don't know when that is going to be." Vanessa continued, "But when it happens Georgina's going to do it. Already got one hassle out of the way!"
Vanessa Hudgens recently got her first tattoo inked on her neck. She made it at a parlor owned by Bang Bang and later MTV VJ Ruby Rose unveiled Vanessa's butterfly tattoo via twitpic.


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One of them has bigger amplitude than the other, or their periodicity is different.
periodicity is the scientific name for the Harmony of the Spheres.
The record of daily periodicity given in Fig. 23 may be regarded as a typical example.
In science, as in morals and politics, there is absolutely no periodicity.
Between these limits it fluctuates in a somewhat irregular way, in which the property of periodicity is not conspicuous.
Art, like commerce and everything else, obeys the law of periodicity.
And so it happens that those oscillations of apperception are directly adjusted to the periodicity of the impressions.
We must now institute some inquiries as to 51 the causes of the periodicity of the spots.
periodicity characterizes the female organization, and developes feminine force.
The question of periodicity is so important that it overthrows most glacial hypotheses.
periodicity pe·ri·o·dic·i·ty (pĭr'ē-ə-dĭs'ĭ-tē)
The quality or state of being periodic; recurrence at regular intervals.
The tendency of chemical elements to have similar properties when arranged according to their atomic number.
The position of an element in the periodic table.


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CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – With five varsity records broken on the second day of the Ivy League Men's Swimming and Diving Championships at Harvard's Blodgett Pool, the University of Pennsylvania men's swimming team held on to third place in the standings, with 723 points. Harvard and Princeton maintain the top two places with 1011 points and 929 points, respectively.
In the first event of the evening, Penn set a new varsity record in the 200 medley relay with its second place finish and gave the Red and Blue 56 points. The Quakers – freshman Phillip Hu, sophomore Kyle Yu, senior Rhoads Worster, and sophomore Eric Schultz – touched the wall at 1:27.33, breaking the school record (1:29.13) that was set in 2011.
Sophomore Chris Swanson set the second new record of the evening for Penn, after battling with Yale's Brian Hogan for first place in the 1000 free. Swanson touched the wall 14 hundredths of a second behind Hogan but broke the varsity record (9:01.40) he set last year with his time of 8:53.02.
A third varsity record was reset in the 400 IM by freshman Grant Proctor. Earlier in the day during preliminaries, Proctor swam the event in 3:51.01, breaking sophomore Brendan Crystal's time of 3:52.30 set last year. In the finals, his time of 3:52.24 made the NCAA B Cut (3:54.49).
In the preliminaries of the 100 fly, Worster put up a time of 46.97 besting the record he set last year (47.99). Later in the evening, Worster swam the event in 47.05, making the NCAA B Cut of 48.29 and gave the Quakers 27 team points with his third place finish.
Worster hadn't put up his last record of the day, as he also set a new time in the 100 back. Last year the record was set at 48.95 by junior Dillon McHugh, but Worster swam the event faster in both the preliminaries (48.42) and the finals (48.63).
The other finals that took place were the 200 free, 100 breast, 800 free relay, and the 3 meter dive consolation rounds.
Harvard stacked up the A Finals in the 200 free, having five out of the eight swimmers. In the B Final, Schultz came up with the top time of 1:38.01, earning ninth place overall and 20 team points. Junior Alex Porter swam in the C Final and finished third and 19th overall with his time of 1:40.65.
Freshman Cole Hurwitz and Yu swam in the A Final of the 100 breast and earning Penn a total of 49 points. Hurwitz took fourth after touching the wall at 54.34 and made the NCAA B Cut time of 55.39. Yu also made the B Cut and took seventh with a time of 55.05. A third Quaker, sophomore Bobby Francis, also made the NCAA B Cut after finishing first in the B Final with a time of 55.07. Junior Chris Lyons joined Francis in the B Final and came in at 55.94.
Consolation rounds for the 3 meter dive took place before the last event of the evening, and freshman Jack Stein finished in first in the B Final with a score of 333.20.
The day's events ended with the 800 free relay. Penn earned its last 52 points from McHugh, sophomore Bradley Wachenfeld, Swanson, and Proctor, who swam the event in 6:35.86.
Action resumes Saturday at 11 a.m. with preliminary heats. The final heats will begin at 6 p.m.
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The Silent Epidemic
Everybody assumes that the biggest killers of children in poor countries are diseases like cholera, pneumonia and dysentery. Yet it's not actually true - in countries like Bangladesh drowning is the number one killer and it's a leading cause of death across south-east Asia.
That's a quarter of a million child fatalities every year - as many as all the children and adults who drowned in the Asian tsunami of 2004. Yet because most child drownings go unrecorded and because they happen in ones and twos every day, rather than in one great cataclysmic event, the problem has gone largely un-reported. It's a hidden killer - a 'silent epidemic'.
Mark Whitaker reports from Bangladesh and Vietnam - where the problem was identified with the help of the first US Ambassador to the country after the war, Pete Peterson. An ex-fighter pilot who spent six years as a prisoner of war in Hanoi, Peterson founded The Alliance for Safe Children which led the research that revealed the problem, and now leads a large drowning prevention programme.
Children drown in these countries because there are so many ponds, irrigation ditches and rivers, often within yards of each house. Few know how to swim and the youngest are particularly vulnerable when mothers are too busy to supervise them closely.
In Bangladesh, a country much of which is under water, TASC is pioneering a huge programme of 'survival swimming', training local instructors to teach simple swimming strokes, treading water and safe rescue. For children aged one to four there's a parallel programme of village creches to keep them safe while their mothers do the chores.
(Image: Children use a pipe as a bridge in Bangladesh, Credit: AFP/Getty Images)


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Red Sox blast six homers in rout of Orioles
BOSTON (AP) David Ortiz and Adrian Gonzalez homered near the deepest part of Fenway Park.
Dustin Pedroia blasted a shot all the way out of the historic ballpark.
It was difficult to say which was the most impressive because of the volume in Boston's 10-4 rout of the Baltimore Orioles on Thursday night. The Red Sox hit six home runs, including three in a row in the seventh inning while pulling away against the struggling Orioles.
BOX SCORE: Red Sox 10, Orioles 4
"We swung the bats great, and we just have to keep it going," said Pedroia, whose three-run shot in the third cleared the seats above the Green Monster. "There were a lot of good pitches to hit tonight, and we didn't miss them."
Jacoby Ellsbury hit a two-run shot, and Gonzalez hit his 17th of the season for Boston, which delighted the home fans with a succession of blasts in the seventh inning. Ortiz, Josh Reddick and Jarrod Saltalamacchia hit solo shots as the Red Sox moved a half-game up on the Yankees with New York's loss at home to Tampa Bay.
"There's a lot of games to be played. We're not going to get too excited because we're a half-game up or whatever," Pedroia said. "What is it, July?"
Andrew Miller (3-0) won his third consecutive start, allowing three runs on six hits in five innings. He was hardly overwhelming, walking four while striking out none, but he was good enough to give Boston's beleaguered rotation another much-needed solid start before the bullpen took over with Boston up 5-3.
"I had no concern whatsoever," said Saltalamacchia, Boston's catcher. "His fastball is usually pretty good, and it was. There was a few early control problems, but obviously he settled down and pitched fine."
The Orioles lost their fourth in a row and ninth in 10 games. Baltimore has allowed 40 runs during the four-game skid.
"Very similar starts by both pitchers. It's just they did a little better job in righting the ship," Baltimore manager Buck Showalter said. "It's that time of year when people are kind of emptying the tank in the bullpen because of the off days coming up. A short leash on the starters and we don't have that luxury."
Baltimore starter Jake Arrieta (9-6) allowed the first two homers, starting with Pedroia's drive on a 3-1 pitch that landed in the parking lot behind the Green Monster and put Boston up 3-2. Arrieta had walked Marco Scutaro and Ellsbury to start the inning, then Pedroia cleared the bases.
"That could have easily been avoided, or it could have been a solo shot. It did a lot more damage than it should have," Arrieta said. "I wasn't able to get the ball and was in a lot of deep counts."
Gonzalez hit a shot over the center-field wall that put Boston up 5-3 in the fourth, then Ellsbury hit a two-run homer off reliever Jason Berken in the sixth. Ellsbury and home plate umpire Bill Welke bumped into each other as both watched the ball stay inside the right-field pole and give the Red Sox a 7-3 lead.
Pedro Viola came out of Baltimore's bullpen in the seventh and failed to get an out.
Ortiz made it 8-3 with a line drive to straightaway center, just clearing the wall near the deepest part of Fenway. Reddick followed Ortiz with a homer to right, just his second this season, then Saltalamacchia made it three in a row, clearing the Green Monster as Boston fans cheered the homer hat trick.
It was the first time this season the Red Sox strung together three consecutive homers, and the six home run total was the most for Boston since hitting six in a 10-0 win vs. the Orioles in September 2009.
"It's a very good offense, and we all talked about it before the season started," Gonzalez said. "We're capable of putting up a lot of runs. We saw the ball good today."
Baltimore opened the game on back-to-back singles by J.J. Hardy and Nick Markakis. Hardy led off with a single off the Green Monster, followed by Markakis' single to left and another single by Adam Jones, who lined one off Miller that bounced into right field and allowed Hardy to score.
NOTES: The Red Sox honored former manager Dick Williams with a video tribute in the fourth inning, highlighting the "Impossible Dream" pennant winners managed by Williams. The tribute showed highlights of Boston's surprise turnaround and first World Series appearance since 1946 to the tune of Dream the Impossible Dream from the musical Man of La Mancha. Williams died Thursday at age 82. Both teams left seven runners on base. Baltimore fell to 2-3 against Boston this season. Boston's Kevin Youkilis followed his three extra-base hit night Wednesday with his third double in two games. Ortiz led off the second with a double to left, barely sliding safely into second under the tag. Sox fans cheered the burly DH's hustle. Almost half of Boston's 13 hits were home runs.
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AIR extends the existing Flash URLLoader, URLStream, and FileReference classes with a new event type, HTTP_RESPONSE_STATUS. If you're writing an AIR application, you probably want to use this new event instead of HTTP_STATUS. Both events are instances of HTTPStatusEvent, but there are two major differences.
Additional Properties The HTTPStatusEvent has two new properties, responseHeaders and responseURL. These properties are available for HTTP_RESPONSE_STATUS but not HTTP_STATUS.
Earlier Dispatch The HTTP_STATUS event is dispatched after the request is completed and immediately before the COMPLETE event itself is sent. HTTP_RESPONSE_STATUS is dispatched as soon as the headers have been processed, before the data is available. If your request contains a lot of data or is made over a slow link, this can be significantly earlier.
Why did AIR introduce the new event type, instead of just re-using HTTP_STATUS? Compatibility: We didn't want to break any existing code.


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West Indies will field a weak batting line-up in the four-match Test series that starts at Lord's on 17 May.
Brian Lara is retired and Marlon Samuels out of favour, while one of the few experienced batsmen, Ramnaresh Sarwan, will be full of the cares of captaincy.
It will certainly be a big opportunity for the mercurial Steve Harmison to terrorise an opposition line-up again.
Inevitably, should he shine in the series, more cynical observers will have said it should have happened in Brisbane last November.
Under the cruel Queensland sun, with the gaze of what seemed like the entire world fixed on the first ball of the Ashes, Harmison infamously picked out Andrew Flintoff at second slip with his opening salvo.
That horrible series, though, was merely the most recent chapter of a difficult period in the career of the 28-year-old son of Ashington, and passionate Newcastle fan.
His last 20 Tests have produced just one match-winning performance, at Old Trafford in the summer of 2006.
Tormented by wides and batsmen prepared to counter-attack him at every opportunity, the Harmison aura has slipped.
And his often insipid performances have been symptomatic of an England team so far short of their Ashes-winning form.
Once formidable in one-day internationals, Harmison has walked away from that format completely.
But perhaps fortified by his long break from cricket, his early season returns this term for Durham have been as encouraging as anyone could possibly hope for.
After three County Championship matches, he is the leading wicket-taker with 24 scalps at an average of 14.37, he is clearly a happier soul than he was in Australia.
Lancashire's Stuart Law, a recent opponent said: "Steve Harmison was seriously good. Brad Hodge came off and said '****, he was quick!' That's a good sign coming from someone like him. I love Harmy. I think the best is still to come from him.
"He gave away one-day cricket [for England] too quickly and if I was [coach] Peter Moores I'd be seeing if he would change his mind. If he bowls like he did on Monday, nobody will lay a bat on him in any form of cricket."
"Harmy" has suffered homesickness ever since the late 2004-05 tour of South Africa, but ironically it was on an overseas tour that he came of age.
At Sabina Park in Jamaica barely three years ago, a venue beloved of West Indian pacemen of old, he produced one of the deadliest spells seen in a Test match.
The pitch was not the worst to bat on, but Harmison made maximum use of whatever it did offer - some pace and some inconsistent bounce - to return 7-12 in the second innings.
Skittled for 47, West Indies were crushed by 10 wickets and have since proved easy pickings for England.
Harmison was the first really "mean" fast bowler England had unearthed since Duncan Fletcher and Nasser Hussain had rebuilt the side in 1999.
Having seemed a self-effacing individual in his early interviews, the man himself quietly relished in the role of England's number one bowler.
And the eye-catching performances continued.
He took 6-61 in the first innings in Trinidad, six more wickets in Barbados, and helping demolish New Zealand and West Indies - again - in the English summer that followed.
It had been a remarkable few months, and Harmison was officially the number one bowler in world cricket.
Perhaps most importantly, he had galvanised a pace-bowling unit that would be the key to winning the Ashes the following season.
Sadly, the glory days are long since over.
Matthew Hoggard has done his best to keep the ship afloat, but Andrew Flintoff was side-tracked by captaincy in Australia, and
Simon Jones has suffered long-term injuries.
It all changes now. There is a fresh feeling about the squad with the appointment of Moores, and the focus is on the future.
It would be nice to see a new fast bowler pencilled in as a possible Ashes or World Cup winner after this summer.
And a big summer for Harmison might inspire someone like Stuart Broad or Charlie Shreck to make a big impression.


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The sham of public education "reform" continues apace in Detroit.
According to a Detroit Free Press report, the effort to "improve" the Detroit Public Schools district has now resulted in more than half of the city being without a comprehensive DPS high school.
And while retired crappy car executive Roy Roberts may crow about news that the district ended the school year with a nearly $12-million surplus, any enthusiasm over this should be quickly tempered by the fact that the district will be spending about 14 percent of its state aid on repaying debts, not serving students.
The $784-million budget for 2012-13 relies on cutting 1,889 positions and reimposing a 10% wage cut on all employees except food service assistants. It also increases class sizes from 30 to 33 for Grades 4 and 5 and from 35 to 38 in Grades 6 through 12.
The 2011-12 school year will end with an $11.9-million surplus, but DPS will continue to carry an $80-million deficit from prior years and continue to pay on about $500 million in long-term loans the district accumulated to try to cover past deficits.
DPS projects it will enroll 49,852 students for next school year, a decline of about 25% in one year because the district plans to close buildings and transfer 15 schools to the new statewide district.
So despite the drop in enrollment, class sizes will balloon and teachers will earn less. Not exactly a recipe for educational triumph.
Even worse, though, is the accelerated push to turn even more Detroit schools over to charter- and contract-school operators. While no one argues whether charters should have a place in the district, there is indeed plenty of debate over just how significant that role should be.
And there is absolutely no evidence that suggests that pushing nearly 40 percent of Detroit students into charters will improve the schools in one of the nation's most education-strapped big cities.
There also needs to be intense scrutiny over whom Roberts gives these old DPS schools over to. In the past, charter applications have been submitted by the likes of opportunist ministers and "businessmen" such as Robert Shumake, a scummy real-estate developer who has lied about his credentials, been at the center of controversy involving the Detroit pension fund and been sued by Fifth Third Bank for an alleged role in what reports described as a $10-million fraud plot.
When Roberts claims to want to reform education in Detroit, concerned parents need to make sure he doesn't do it by giving away schools to lowlifes and hustlers who will take the money and watch as our children continue to flunk out and fail.
Roberts' plan allows DPS to become a boutique district with a handful of decent schools such as Cass Tech—allowing the bad-exec-turned-worse-EM to crow even louder about his half-assed "successes."
But as the plan is unfolding now, the remainder of the city school kids—that is to say most of them—would be pawned off on the Education Achievement Authority of Michigan (a sort of "holding cell" for bad schools) or shoveled into charter institutions that too often have no track record of success and lack oversight.
So the school operators get paid off of students' bodies. The media get to fabricate shallow stories of an educational "turnaround." And Roberts gets to say he balanced a budget and boosted performance in a district that was failing miserably.
Everyone wins—except the children, of course.


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National Church Residences, located in Upper Arlington, Ohio, a suburb of Columbus, is a nationally respected, innovative leader in integrating housing, healthcare and supportive services for seniors of all income levels and families. With 330 communities in 28 states and Puerto Rico, National Church Residences operates five continuing care retirement communities and is the nation's largest not-for-profit developer and manager of affordable senior housing.
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2012-03-08 / Schools
Head of elementary ed gets big promotion
Robert Iezza, director of elementary education for the Conejo Valley Unified School District, will step into the role of assistant superintendent of instructional services starting in the 2012-13 school year.
Iezza's appointment was approved by the board of education at its Feb. 21 meeting. He will replace Janet Cosaro, deputy superintendent, who will retire in June.
The school board is expected to approve a new director of elementary education at its March 27 meeting, Iezza said.
Iezza has spent his 25-year career in CVUSD serving as an adaptive P.E. teacher, dean and assistant principal of instruction at Newbury Park High School, assistant principal at Madrona Elementary School and principal at Maple and Conejo elementary schools. He has been director of elementary education for the past five years.
"I'm excited about this opportunity. This has been my work home for 25 years. I live in this community. My children went through our schools. I have a real stake in the schools here," said Iezza, who grew up in Glendale and moved to the Conejo Valley in 1983.
When he takes over for Cosaro on July 1, Iezza will lead a department that has lost two directors, two assistant directors and some support staff due to budget cuts.
"We want to be as effective, if not more effective, with a smaller team," he said.
He also hopes to be a strong liaison for parents.
"The parent community is a big part of what makes our district successful. It's important that I have a sense of what the community's expectations are."
Iezza's major focus will be preparing staff, students and parents for the national Common Core Standards and related assessment test, which will replace the California Standard Test starting in the 2014-15 school year.
The new test was created to better measure students' readiness for college and a career, Iezza said.
The CST is administered to students in grades two through 11, but it hasn't been decided whether the CCS exam will be given in the same grade levels, he said.
"We're constantly looking for ways to improve instructional programs and be visionaries to get kids career and college ready," Iezza said.
Cosaro, who's worked in education for 35 years, sees "more active online learning" in the future.
"What will really be important is the integration of technology into what students are doing," Cosaro said. "Our world has changed."
The deputy superintendent chose her career as a student at the University of Redlands. She went on to obtain her master's degree at Cal State Northridge before working for the Los Angeles County Office of Education and then Las Virgenes Unified School District.
She moved to CVUSD in 1999, where she's served as special education coordinator, assistant principal at Lang Ranch Elementary, principal at Ladera Elementary, director of special education and director of curriculum and instruction.
Cosaro now looks forward to devoting more time to her almost- 2-year-old twin grandsons. She'll also keep busy with Picnic Time, her family's picnic products manufacturing company.
After Cosaro's retirement was announced at last month's school board meeting, trustees thanked her for her service.
"I always admired the fact that, with all your responsibilities, you always remain so calm and have so much dignity," trustee Mike Dunn told her.
Trustee Tim Stephens said Cosaro has "shone brightly" in all of her roles.
"In each position that she's filled . . . she's stepped up big time and showed she had the right skills for each of those jobs. It takes an exceptional person (to do that)," Stephens said.
Cosaro called her departure bittersweet.
"When I was deciding on a career, a very popular book was 'What Color Is Your Parachute?' In the last few weeks I've been thinking about who has packed my parachute," Cosaro told the board. "Those are the people that I've worked with through the years who've contributed to my success."


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Colors of Indian corn
Q: Why are some corn kernels
colored? And why those particular colors?
A: Why are heads on top of necks? Why are hearts
connected to blood vessels? Why are kernels colored? The answer is the same:
genes. Genes govern everything from the tiniest molecular interaction within
a cell to the shape of the whole body and also the color of corn.
Corn kernels have different colors because of genes
that control color. Each kernel is an individual with its own set of genes,
like an embryo. Kernels are siblings housed on the same ear and so naturally
have many different colors. By naturally, I mean, through the course of natural
selection. One-color ears are unnatural products of human selection.
Livestock feeders prefer vitamin-rich yellow kernels,
Southerners like white kernels, and Native Americans favor blue. Years of deliberate
selection, careful pollination, and storing of seeds produced these single-color
corn ears.
Saying an ear naturally has many colors does not
completely answer your question: why these colors? On a deeper
level: what does color do for corn?
In general, colors help a plant attract or repel
other organisms or hide from predators. Colors also occur as an integral part
of biochemical reactions. For example, the chlorophyll in green leaves reflects
green light as it absorbs red and blue light from the Sun during photosynthesis.
Some studies suggest corn pigments promote resistance
to insects or fungi that invade an ear of corn.
By the way, corn has been around a long time. Primitive
peoples of Central America or Mexico were the horticultural geniuses who first
cultivated corn at least 5,600 years ago.
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500g lamb backstrap, rubbed with spice seasoning
2 cups du puy lentils
1 tbs sumac
1 bunch kale or spinach
100g persian fetta
500ml beef stock
150ml red wine
1 onion, diced fine
1 carrot, diced fine
1 stick of celery, diced fine
2 cloves garlic, crushed and chopped finely
olive oil
Coat hot pan with olive oil, add carrots, onion, celery and garlic - sweat for 15 minutes or until onion and garlic start to brown.
Deglaze pan with red wine, add beef stock and bring to a simmer. Reduce in a pan until sticky.
Put lentils into water and bring to a the boil - cook to al dente and strain. Season with salt & pepper.
Seal lamb backstraps in a hot pan on each side for 5 minutes.
Bake for a further 5 minutes and then rest for a further five minutes.
Whip feta with sumac until smooth.
Add lentils to sticky reduction and toss through chopped kale until wilted.
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Springtime: Three Portraits, 1976
A muted, yet provocative composition on the changing face of the labor movement - or more appropriately, its immobility - in Western Europe in the 1970s, Johan van der Keuken's Springtime: Three Portraits articulates the struggle of the working class under the protracted climate of an austere, stagnant global economy (stemming in part from the OPEC oil crisis) and industrial recession through first person testimonies and quotidian observations of society's increasingly fragile and economically vulnerable middle class. This sense of work time as stasis is prefigured in the opening shot of an impressive wall clock in the suburban home of unemployed garment factory foreman, Joop Uchtman in Den Helder who, despite his productive working relationship with the factory seamstresses under his supervision, was laid off during company downsizing, as local industries sought to shrink their higher waged domestic workforce in favor of overseas outsourcing as a means of reducing operational costs and retaining global competitiveness. Threading through Uchtman's alternately expressed pride at his work (and implied humiliation at having to become dependent on the state and his wife) and anxiety over the repercussions of his inability to find a new job on his young family, with his all too familiar daily routine of reporting to the labor office in person to confirm that he has not secured a job and is eligible to receive unemployment benefits, and seeking advice from a friend on the merits - and illusion - of enrolling in state-sponsored vocational retraining, the recurring image of the clock becomes, not only a metaphor for the bureaucratic rituals of his vain search to find a job, but also reminder of his expiring state-assisted benefits, the dream of a comfortable middle class life being slowly swept away with the swinging of the pendulum.
In Frankfurt, the intersection between past and present, history and memory is embodied in the establishing shot of social activist and former teacher, Doris Schwert listening to a reel tape recording of her father's wartime testimony as a partisan rebel and political prisoner who fought against the Fascists in Germany and Spain in the 1930s and 40s. Instilled with her father's socialist ideals of solidarity and worker empowerment, Schwert's student radicalism and subsequent political engagement as a young teacher had drawn increasing concern from school administrators and West German officials who saw her ties to the communist party as tantamount to an act of ideological sabotage in the waging of the Cold War. Contrasting the images of protest graffiti demanding the reinstatement of the blacklisted, left-leaning teachers at her former school with recruitment posters tacked near empty classrooms that paradoxically tout equal opportunity to job seekers even with such insidious former affiliations as the Nazi party and wartime service in the SS, van der Keuken presents the idea of work time as historical recursion, where lessons from the past are whitewashed and reinvented to conform to the sociopolitical and economic expediencies of an amnesic present, a sobering reality that is punctuated by the chapter's concluding, intercutting shot of a confectionery store window display that is lined with premium chocolate Easter baskets and archival footage of a postwar Frankfurt street in ruins, the metaphoric resurrection of a national soul, fueled not by moral enlightenment, but exploitation and consumerism.
The near wordless Amsterdam closing chapter chronicles a day in the work life of metal worker, Jan Van Haagen, from his early morning suburban commute on his bicycle, to the bellowing of a factory horn that signals the official start of the work day (a sound akin to an air raid signal that also recalls the image of wartime Europe introduced in the Frankfurt chapter), to the union-synchronized meal break, to a passing anecdote of a senior co-worker's health problems that led to an early death after refusing to use an exhaust hood during welding operations (in favor of the company's earlier policy of instituting milk breaks as a means of bolstering employee health after working with hazardous materials), to the closing of the workshop in the afternoon. As in the Den Helder chapter, the clock becomes a recurring motif, marking through the workers' prescribed labor and break schedule with the monotonous ritual of fabrication and assembly. Framed against the image of a constantly turning exhaust vent on the facing wall of the building, the juxtaposition between the factory clock and the exhaust fan illustrates the idea of work time as a cultivated environment for social as well as technological progress, a humanization of industrial production.
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Since the mid 1980s, I've worked in university and corporate research, as a manager and technical editor for an international industry association, and held a range of technical and commercial management positions related to the steel and automotive industries. I hold a PhD in chemical engineering from Birmingham University, an MBA from Warwick, and an MSc in Science Communication from Imperial College. In 2008, I left industry to focus on my passion for science and technology and to share that enthusiasm with others.
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TOP STORY > > Lawmakers decide to hike tax on natural gas
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If, as anticipated, the House and Senate approve each others versions of the $100-million-a-year gas severance tax increase today that will benefit local road projects, Gov. Mike Beebe is likely to sign the tax into law sometime this afternoon, according to Matt DeCample, the governors spokesman.
The old rate was less than three-20ths of a percent, while the new rate will be 5 percent.
The House approved its version 81 to 16 Tuesday and the Senate approved a similar version 32 to 3.
While thats a drop in the bucket compared to the $19 billion worth of maintenance and new construction the state Highway
Department has identified over the next 10 years, its far better than nothing. Thats according to Metroplan executivedirector Jim McKenzie.
Of that $19 billion, $8.8 billion will be needed just to maintain the existing highways, and the state Highway and Transportation Department has identified only about $4.1 billion in revenues, plus another billion dollars over 10 years from the new tax.
McKenzie, a longtime advocate of increasing the states severance tax, said, $100 million doesnt buy what it used to.
Cabot will eventually average maybe $170,000 a year in increased road funds, Lonoke $30,000, Jacksonville $125,000 and Sherwood $167,000, according to figures from the Department of Finance and Administration.
The governor worked out his proposal with the companies extracting the gas from the Fayetteville Shale, then gathered legislative support before calling his special session.
Of the new revenues, which are phased in, although not gradually, the state Highway Department will get 70 percent of the road and highway money, the counties will get 15 percent and the cities will get 15 percent. Five percent of the total will go the states general fund.
It will take a while before (the state sees) the $100 million and the resource will deplete as it is extracted, McKenzie said.
In its first year, Pulaski County would receive $631,591, with a high of $871,870.
Jacksonville would receive an estimated $134,937 in 2009, with a high of $240,099 in 2015.
Sherwood would receive $97,026 the first year, topping out at $172,642 a year.
Little Rock would receive $826,029 the first year and a high of $1,469,782 a year, and North Little Rock would receive $272,585 the first year and a high of $485,021.
Lonoke County would receive $140,136 the first year and amounts ranging from $180,631 the first year and nearly $250,000 in 2015.
In the highest year, before the revenue starts falling off, Austin would receive $4,856, Cabot $176,084; Carlisle $18,491; England $24,206; Lonoke $34,406 and Ward $20,706.
Scott Bennett of the Highway Department says the state needs an additional $150 million a year in funds just to meet the maintenance needs. At best, the severance tax will get them half of that, McKenzie said. Thats still not money to complete the North Belt Freeway, work on Hwy. 67/167 or build the new I-430/630 interchange in west Little Rock, he added.


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Seeking to learn what is needed for a healthier, happier place to live, the Yavapai County Health Department is seeking input on the 2017 Community Health Assessment.
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Where do the world's greatest artists get their creative spark? In this fascinating documentary, director Michael Apted (Coal Miner's Daughter, Gorillas in the Mist) presents an in-depth exploration of the creative process. Acclaimed geniuses, such as rock musician David Bowie, pop artist Roy Lichtenstein, clay artist Naranjo-Morse and glass artist Dale Chihuly, discuss how and why they work the way they do.


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Suffering makes us seek the light.
Suffering, little sufferings, big sufferings – it makes us seek the light. In larger sufferings, we of course throw our hands up, hit our knees, and pray. We find ourselves lost for any control or even effort – so we beg God for his assistance. We should be begging for mercy – but more often than not it a pleading for help.
It is the little sufferings where we often forget to seek God, and yet it is precisely those times that we should most easily seek Him. If we are lost in little ways, it is so conceited and full of ourselves if we think we can find the path, alone – without light. Shouldn't we most want to ask God for the little favors since they are so little?
Saint Lucy is an important saint to our family. We are fiercely devoted to her, and she has often found much favor for us. I think God wants us to learn from the Saints – ways to love Him the way they did. With Lucy it was unwavering devotion – blind devotion. Yet, her name, she was the light – in her blindness, and devotion – it is then that we can most see God.
Saint Lucy – let us know that it is always darkest before the dawn, but that once we find the light and the light appears let us not forget the night. Let that night, the darkness remain in us just enough to keep us close to the light.
Saint Lucy – Ora Pro Nobis.


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5 Tenets of the Nutritarian Diet
Dr. Joel Fuhrmans approach to food is cheaper, safer, and more effective than many other interventions for chronic lifestyle diseases.
Why would I, a lifestyle medicine physician, leave a job, be separated from my family for seven months, and move more than 2,000 miles away? Simple—because Joel Fuhrman, MD, asked me to, that's why. Recently, the New York Times best-selling author asked me to join Dr. Fuhrman's Health Oasis, a new healthcare clinic that uses behavioral modification and something he calls the "Nutritarian diet" to reverse chronic diseases and overcome food addictions. Fuhrman's Nutritarian diet reduces refined and processed grains, simple sugars, meat, and dairy in favor of beans, whole grains, legumes, fruit, and vegetables; is nutrient-dense; and is full of the vital micronutrients (vitamins, minerals, and phytochemicals) and macronutrients (protein, carbohydrates, and fat) that allow the body to thrive. As a vegan doctor, I couldn't say no. Still, many people aren't quite sure what the Nutritarian diet entails. When they ask, here are five of the most important tenets I think best explain this new approach to eating.
1. The health equation
The first scientific principle of the Nutritarian diet is the health equation. Health is determined by the nutrient density of your food in relation to the number of calories that your food contains. For example, "health" is really just a way of looking at nutrients and calories, so to gain a higher health quotient, you need to consume foods high in nutrients and low in calories. Eating kale (which has a high nutrient/low calorie value) is much preferred when compared to a vegan chocolate cake (low nutrients and high calories).
2. Eat the rainbow
The next step in the Nutritarian diet is the comprehensive nutrient adequacy. In laymen's terms, this is the equivalent of the saying "eat the rainbow." However, even the most optimal diet might not provide all the micronutrients needed to optimize health. To remedy any potential deficiencies, incorporate supplements (such as vitamins B-12 and D, algae-derived EPA, omega-3 fatty acids, zinc, and iodine) to your diet to ensure excellent health.
3. Keep harmful hormones in check
Once your diet is full of colorful fruit and vegetables, the next step in the Nutritarian diet is to monitor potentially harmful hormones. The Nutritarian diet is hormonally favorable to other diets because it keeps insulin and Insulin-like Growth Factor 1 (IGF-1) at the lowest necessary levels. When elevated, these hormones increase the risks of certain cancers. Therefore, avoiding foods that raise them—such as high-glycemic-index foods (sugar, processed grains, and processed foods)—is important.
4. Avoid toxins found in food
Lastly, avoidance of toxins is another key principle of the Nutritarian diet. Toxins such as polychlorinated biphenyls, dioxins, and mercury can be found in foods. Many of these substances are chemicals that can cause cancer and are found in contaminated animal products.
5. Behavioral modifications
In addition to the Nutritarian diet, the Health Oasis uses behavioral modification as a cornerstone to better living. By incorporating a safe, controlled environment, our therapists change behavior and support people who are plagued by chronic disease and food addiction by helping patients understand why they "eat their feelings," stress eat, and yo-yo diet. Then, we teach them self-monitoring tools to combat these negative lifestyle traits. Whereas other medical models do not address the reasons that cause physical, mental, and emotional addiction, we teach practical skills (cooking demonstrations, shopping in a grocery store, dealing with social stresses, and how to survive a restaurant) as ways to help overcome chronic lifestyle diseases. So far, I have seen a 50-pound weight loss in five-and-a-half weeks, a patient's cholesterol drop 60 points in three weeks, people stopping all hypertension medications in seven days, and the normalization of blood sugars in less than a few weeks. Depression, anxiety, and insomnia that previously plagued people completely resolves, even after decades of medications and other treatments.
Laurie Marbas, MD, MBA, is the medical director at Dr. Fuhrman's Health Oasis in Boca Raton, FL.
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