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Blow to Lowy as Westfield defers restructure vote
Westfield would demerge its Australian and New Zealand operations, with or without a merger with the Westfield Retail Trust.
For some it was the gambit of a master poker player. For others it was bullying. For the Lowys it was a simple statement of fact.
There would be no re-cutting the controversial deal with the Westfield Retail Trust. No analysis of options.
Either Westfield Retail votes yes. Or Westfield Group goes "nuclear".
The move galvanised a six-month debate about unfair merger ratios, high gearing, over the top fees and too many restructures.
When BT's Head of Property Securities, Peter Davidson, said the Westfield news was material and the vote should be postponed, Westfield Retail chairman, Dick Warburton, took the deferral option.
Most likely the next vote will be in favour. A 75 per cent vote is required and the proxies ran 74.1 per cent.
With the vote in favour very close, Warburton could well be right to give his security holders time to reflect.
Several of those who voted "no" are likely to change their vote when they know that Westfield will follow one option, not a reworking of the deal or the four possible options outlined in the security holder booklets.
And it is a sub-optimal option for Westfield Retail investors.
The new Westfield vehicle will own similar centres, but continue to manage the Westfield Retail centres.
Lowy's sparring partner from the Australian Shareholders Association, Stephen Mayne, said that a Westfield Retail, managed by, but competing for capital against, a new Scentre Group, would be "a sub-scale, stranded, less attractive vehicle".
Of course, the Lowy move may create quite the opposite reaction.
A number of institutional investors were outraged at what one described as a "corporate disgrace."
The issue had been debated for six months and Westfield Group had clearly outlined its alternatives.
And after all that, the vote was going down.
For a number of investors, the gambit highlighted the lack of independence in Westfield Retail.
And it was clear from the meetings that Westfield Retail investors were not all voting on the financials. Many were voting against the continual restructure of the Westfield empire.
One long-term Westfield backer also objected to the proxy solicitation.
The meetings did produce some extra information for security holders.
Westfield Group and Westfield Retail director Steven Lowy acknowledged a question for many investors.
Why, if the new structure was so good, did Westfield not do that in 2010 instead of creating what now seems like the hybrid Westfield Retail.
His answer was that the world was very different in 2010.
At the time, Westfield Group had less strength in the United States and Europe.
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Culture at the Crossroads
If Freud is correct that civilization arises out of the taming of wild sexual desire, then it is not difficult to speculate that the "End of Men," as writer Hannah Rosin put it, is due in part to their ability to enjoy virtually unlimited sexual transactions for free because of contraception. To put it most starkly: contraception makes sex cheap, but women end up paying for it.
The desire for cheap sex has, of course, historically been driven by men, or to be more precise, by the worst of men. Aristophanes (5th c. B.C.) recognized in his comedy Lysistrata that women retained power because of their ability to control men's access to sex, and modern science suggests that he was correct. The cheapening of sexual transactions that has resulted from widespread contraception amounts to a market correction that favors bad men—men who have no desire to care for a woman or her potential offspring.
The disconnect between the apparent benefit of contraception and the reality can be explained, in part, by what is known as "risk compensation," "risk homeostasis," or "offset hypothesis"—all of which point to a phenomenon that psychologists have studied in varied areas such as the use of seat belts, bicycle helmets, and speed limits. The logic is simple: when people undertake a risky activity with a sense of being protected, they amp up the risk level. Drivers of cars with airbags and antilock brakes aren't any safer than those without those features. People drive more carelessly around bike riders with bicycle helmets than without. And people who use contraception engage in risky sexual practices more frequently than those who don't.
Here is a clue to the "McDonaldization of sex": it seems rational to assert that contraception acts like a safety net in sexual encounters. Yet in the real world, this way of looking at sex is woefully inadequate. In short, it is no longer enough to imagine the effectiveness of contraception by imagining two people having sex. It is imperative to think of the way that populations as a whole behave. And on the whole, populations that use contraception engage in a great deal of risky sex.
Natural sexual behavior is not fundamentally rational, in the sense that it always involves careful forethought and planning. It is rooted in desire and passion which, as Plato once observed, can be like a wild horse that must be tamed by a charioteer of a person's will and harnessed to the tame horse of a person's reason. Moreover, sexual behavior, like much human behavior, is fundamentally mimetic. People take their social cues in matters of sexuality from the people around them in a society. (For a scholarly discussion on this, see the work of the theorist René Girard. Overview here.) Following Freud, when primitive men competed for the sexual favors of women who restricted their access to sex, the men had to compete for women by developing communication patterns and sensitivities to their needs. The resulting dynamic was civilization. Women called the shots, and men became more humane.
Tim Muldoon holds a Ph.D. in Catholic systematic theology and is an award-winning author and Catholic theologian of the new evangelization.

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Canadians Nick Kaczur and O.J. Atogwe hold their own against top prospects for this year's NFL draft
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"I didn't think they hurt themselves at all," Mike McCarthy, a scout with the NFL Chargers, told the Associated Press.
"I'd say they're both where we thought they would be."
As McCarthy told AP, Kaczur, a six-foot-five, 315-pound offensive lineman from the University of Toledo, is projected as a third-or fourth-round pick while Atogwe, a five-foot-11, 219-pound safety from Stanford, should go around the fourth and fifth rounds.
Kaczur, of Brantford, Ont., and Atogwe, of Windsor, Ont., were the only Canadians among the 333 players invited to work out at last week's combine in Indianapolis. Representatives from all 32 NFL teams speak with and test the top college football prospects at the combine.
Physical tests performed by the two Canadians include the 40-yard dash, bench press (number of reps at 225 pounds), vertical jump, broad jump, 20-yard shuttle, a three-cone drill, 60-yard shuttle and specific position tests.
According to the Associated Press, Kaczur was among 62 offensive linemen (27 tackles, 22 guards and 13 centres) interviewed and tested Thursday and Saturday, respectively.
Atogwe and 58 other defensive backs (including 13 free safeties and 13 strong safeties) did their interviews on the weekend before taking to the RCA Dome field Tuesday.
"He went about his job and didn't look out of place at all," McCarthy said of Kaczur to the Associated Press. "Nick could probably be a bit more defined physically speaking, but you have to consider he came out of junior football in Ontario right to Toledo.
"It was there at Toledo that he got on their (weight-training) program and regiment and had four years of it compared to some of the other kids who start doing that sort of stuff in high school. Overall, he did what was expected of him and did pretty well."
Atogwe posted an ordinary time of 4.61 seconds in his first run, and opted against doing the second because he felt tight. However, Atogwe returned to run the drills, which McCarthy said was a good sign.
"There really isn't a test for heart or one's will to go beyond an over-achiever," McCarthy told AP. "But for a kid to want to still go out there and perform even if he's not feeling 100 per cent tells you something."
While a player's results at the combine are important, McCarthy said they're not crucial because they don't tell the whole story.
"The biggest thing is what a guy can do on the football field."
Over the next six weeks, colleges will be conducting their own test sessions.
Stanford will conduct two days of pro testing (March 9, March 24) while NFL officials will be at Toledo on March 29. McCarthy also told the Associated Press that he expects McMaster Marauders star running back Jesse Lumsden to attend NFL testing sometime this month in either Arizona or California.
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Since traveling to North America centuries ago, the English language – as spoken by Americans – has evolved greatly. While not recognized as the official national language, English is considered the de facto common language. The US is home to two-thirds of the world's native English speakers, and while it is more homogenous than English as spoken in England, American English is spoken in a number of distinct regional dialects.
As compared to English as spoken in England, American English has both evolved away from its origins and kept a number of older characteristics long discarded in England. Examples of these older characteristics include the maintenance of rhotic speech, in which the "r" in words like "hard" and "butter" is clearly pronounced. American English also has not introduced the glottal stop in words like "button."
American English's evolution has many examples of new unique linguistic quirks. These unique characteristics include the identical pronunciations of similar words that receive different pronunciations in England: "cot" and "caught," and "marry" and "merry," to give two examples. Certain words rhyme that do not in England's speech: "hurry" and "furry," and "father" and "bother."
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The economical man has in his savings a balance wheel whose momentum carries him by hard places.
This little country has been called the "balance wheel of the world's trade."
The crutch engages with the upper part of the spring, and as the balance wheel swings the pallets are actuated.
The balance wheel was going back and forth quietly and faithfully.
Perhaps, even, the bearings of its balance wheel had finally become frozen and had brought it to a stop!
It served as a balance wheel to keep me from flying to pieces.
After the assembling comes the adjusting of the balance wheel and the hair spring.
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Join Docent Marianne Bloomfeld on Sunday, April 22 from 10:00 AM – 1:00 PM for a 3-mile more moderate (2.5 sneaker) walk with 360-degree views from the top of The Hook, 700 feet above the Hudson. Walkers will be delighted with scenic views of the Hudson River. The Docent will discuss flora, fauna and geology of the area, Ain't Nature Grand!
Most of the walk is moderate, but there are a few short, steep sections. The walk is linear. It goes east until it meets the Long Path. Then heads south to a high point on Hook Mountain overlooking the Hudson and Rockland Lake. The focus of the walk will be on the natural beauty of the area. About 15 minutes will be spent enjoying the scenery from the top of the mountain before returning along the same route. The terrain is a mostly cleared trail through the woods.
Walkers will meet in the rear of the parking lot at Rockland Lake State Park Executive Golf Course located in Congers, NY (10920)
Directions: From New City, take Congers Road and continue on it, bearing left, as it becomes Lake Road. At the traffic light on 9W (facing the North park entrance), make a right onto 9W. Go 1.2 miles to traffic light and turn left, into the South Park entrance. Keep right, passing parking lot #4 on your left, for 0.4 miles to the Executive Golf Course entrance road (Executive Road). Turn right and go 0.2 miles. Turn left into an unmarked driveway and park to the rear of the lot, away from the Clubhouse/golf course. Parking here is free.
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3. The Genoese/The Bosteros (Boca Juniors - Argentina)Argentinean fans do some of the wildest stuff you'll ever see at a sporting event. La Boca is a grimy industrial area in Buenos Aires, and so The Boca Juniors represent the working-class of the city. As such, their main rival is River Plate, a cross-town club associated with the upper class. In good football rhetoric, we can say that the Boca-River Superclasico rivalry is one of the fiercest derbies in the world.
Unike Barça's Culers who were named after their own bums, Boca's Bosteros derive its name from the horse's ass, as bosteros are manure handlers. Before La Boca built its current stadium, a brick factory that used a lot of horse manure stood in La Bombonera's place. The name, originally an insult, was embraced by the Genoese. At games, fans chant and climb the fences in order to dance and show off, and after a big win, they set off enough flares and firecrackers to make the stands appear to be on fire.
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'Just give me a minute to put my teeth in!"
It has been a wild week for 82-year-old Ed Deibel of the Northern Ontario Heritage Party. The clock on the wall behind the double-screen computer on which he hammers out his missives on how the North gets shortchanged has ticked past 2 p.m., the deadline for registering as a candidate for the June 12 provincial election, and he is getting a bit jittery waiting for the confirmation from Elections Ontario that eventually does come.
Teeth in, the man known for decades more for his bark than his bite is ready to go.
"On Monday I wasn't a leader, I wasn't a candidate, the party was going to be de-registered," he says. "Now I'm a candidate … and I guess I'm the leader."
There were only two registered candidates on the NOHP ticket, but then a group of disenchanted northerners in the riding of Thunder Bay-Atikokan rounded up 25 signatures, enough to get a name on the ballot, and they asked if the old leader of the often-dormant party would let his name stand.
Of course he would. Just because you're old – the vast majority of his years spent working for Bell and running a small motel and trailer park in North Bay – doesn't mean you're no longer up for the fight.
"I'd written off the election up until they called me," he says, laughing. "Now I'm running it!"
It all changed so suddenly he's having trouble getting used to it. He figured he was retired and comfortable enough sitting at his twin computer screens firing off e-mails to the likes of the Federation of Northern Ontario Municipalities ("They never responded") and Premier Kathleen Wynne ("She never responded").
Back in January, 2011, Mr. Deibel won $83,189 in a Lotto 6/49 draw and was able to take his seriously ill wife on a dream trip to Florida. (Phyllis Deibel passed on in 2012.) And then there's the $200 a month that comes in from Ontario hydro for the electricity produced by the solar panels his son has installed on the family home.
And yes, make no mistake, Ed Deibel, who battles Queen's Park at every turn, sees the irony in all this.
"Ha!" he says of the lottery win. "I got back all my two dollars I spent on tickets – and a lot more!"
More than 40 years ago, Mr. Deibel and a couple of dozen supporters camped out on the lawn of Queen's Park demanding an audience with then-premier Bill Davis. He eventually got in and asked Mr. Davis if he would support a plebiscite on whether Northern Ontario should or could be its own political entity. Mr. Davis, of course, refused.
The rebuffed northerners eventually formed their own political entity. It was never taken very seriously, having failed to elect a member to Queen's Park, but Mr. Deibel, who served briefly on the North Bay council, never stopped pressing his argument that Queen's Park had no sense whatsoever of the vast northern expanse of Canada's most populous province.
While he certainly has had his issues with Queen's Park, he considers himself a fervent Canadian nationalist. "It's in my DNA!"
What he wants from Queen's Park is recognition that the North is badly done by when decisions that affect it are taken far to the south.
His party commissioned a survey in April involving 508 voters in the 11 constituencies that are deemed Northern Ontario. More than half, 55 per cent, felt the provincial government has done a poor or very poor job of managing the affairs of the North. Nearly three-quarters, 74 per cent, do not feel that Southern Ontario-based governments have been effective in promoting northern development. And two-thirds, 67 per cent, feel the issues facing their region are significantly different from those facing residents down south.
Changing this reality is urgent, Mr. Deibel believes, because of the Ring of Fire mineral potential in the Ontario lands near James Bay, a vast development that has an economic potential of $120-billion, according to federal estimates.
"Not 'millions.' Not 'billions' with the 'B,'" Mr. Deibel says dismissively. "We're talking about trillions of dollars if Northern Ontario had control of its resources. The corporations don't own them – we do."
Do it right, he says, and "We'd have a different Canada – not just a different Ontario."
And so, even though he knows well beforehand what the outcome will be, Thunder Bay-Atikokan candidate Ed Deibel will be the voice of those who have grown used to not being heard. But one day, some day, he believes they will have to listen in Queen's Park for the simple reason that he has truth on his side.
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Best war and WWII movie ever. First war movie to have a REALISTIC boot camp for the actors. Ed Burns said he thought about quitting after day two. lol.
Troy ahead of Full Metal Jacket and Return of the King? Really?
Shouldn't there be a war in the movie if it's on this list? IE - Top Gun and A Few Good Men.
Pearl Harbor at #12? Really? Did anyone else find the movie laughable and really just a teenage love story stuck in a bad war film?
Overloaded with factual and historical inaccuracies. - I love the scene when a diving Japanese Zero which could dive at over 400 MPH, dropped a bomb and the bomb slowed down in mid air and dropped straight down. How does something that is traveling through the air at 400 MPH suddenely go straight down? Way to think it through Michael Bay! - corebare32
Fasten you seatbelts! The opening scene is the most intense thing ever. It puts you square in the middle of the action and doesn't allow you to escape the horror of what was WW2. - ClubberLang
Steven Spielberg's historical tale of honor, courage, heroism, dignity and hope. Truly the best of it's kind. - aeromaxx777
One of the greatest movies I've ever seen!V 14 Comments
Because this is very real with the funny crazy of real combat. The extended version is even better. 300 is just a CGI/bluescreen... not a MOVIE... this is one of the best movies EVER. - jaxworld
A great story about the Vietnam War, not about the action but the traumatizing effects it has on Americans - robertoantonioortuso
This is the greatest war movie, long, interesting, great storyline - roblist
The best war movie ever and Martin Sheen as Captain Willard is still to this day 1 of the greatest and most awesome movie characters of all timeV 4 Comments
A great and traumatising movie which gives a look at the brutal base training at the beginning and the combat in Vietnam
Boy's Listen Up, This one Sure Got Under Rated, Should be way up there
When he explodes the booby trap I had told my wife it was coming. Saw too many taken by such things, if it looks strange or out of place you run!
YOU'RE SO UGLY YOU CAN BE A MODERN ART MASTERPIECEV 6 Comments
Better than Saving Private Ryan... The Best
Great movie. Very strong and visual.
This one and Platoon are simply the best ever
This isn't even a war movieV 2 Comments
This movie is better than saving private Ryan, simply because it doesn't glorify war, there are no "heros" in wars, only soldiers, it also show the trial and tribulation of a squad and their decent into madness.
The best in my opinion.. Charlie Sheen at his best.. Followed closely by Saving Private Ryan (Omaha Beach scene is the BEST scene of any war movie)
This was awesome, by the way great soundtrack
Most accurate thing I've seen. - BoltMarksmanV 6 Comments
It is certainly one of the few great movies on this list! It ranks among such films as Saving Private Ryan and Troy when it comes to action!
A great movie. In fact one of the few movies of the 2000's which was actually ahead of it's time
wonderful movie. gives you the experience as if you were present there.
My favorite movie ever. I really connected with the characters and what the soldier says at the end of the movie really touched me. I love this movie.V 4 Comments
Such a great state of freedom and courage! The revenge scene is awesome and Mel Gibson is best actor of all times!
I am Scottish and I loved the movie only complaint is the historical accuracy
Mel Gibson movies are always good!
Mel Gibson!V 2 Comments
300 is really one of the greatest action movies ever made, it's the setting wich I have liked all my life, the struggle of that tiny army against the gargantuan forces of xerxes, in this movie is all very well made, the direction is very good and the visual style is simply awesome.
In my opinion, it should be 300 1, and Saving Private Ryan 2, the rest of the list I don't care about. The battle scenes are intense, and the actors really pulled it off, One of the greatest movies ever, Watch it before you vote for saving private ryan
i like this one cause through out the whole movie u c half naked guys w great chests ;) :p - ladylonghorn
The fight seen are too realisticV 14 Comments
Funny and has great action/war scenes but not so much to the point it's just uninteresting
"It seems all rotten eggs are in 1 basket... So our objective... BLOW UP THE BASKETV 1 Comment
not exactly a movie... but still absolutely incredible - whufc
Band of Brothers isn't a movie, but it is a work of art. Fantastic. I watched it 4 times.
Personal Favorite of mine. Very Personal actually, you have no idea.
I remember staying up every night watching this series - VenomxShockerV 2 Comments
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The finest acting yet! This movie is excellent and long. This is the best movie I have seen in my life and will go down as a legend!
BraD Pitt is a acting king and this movie is one of his perfect examples!
The most fantastic and diverse movie of all time! Brad Pitt plays a brilliant role and this movie is so much better than 300!
The writers for this movie sucked. And if you think pitt acted well, you need help.V 4 Comments
Sometimes classics are the best... It is an extremely realistic and sophisticated look at the human psyce and fear in warfare. I wrote a research paper on it and got an A!
Whack! Deniro and Walken at they're best. This movie is so deep and moving no way its not top 10.V 1 Comment
The new generation needs to watch this movie, then they'll understand, and yes it's better than American Sniper.
Great movie! Love the final battle, so epic!
It is the top rated movie. It should be in the top ten.. I ever seen this kind of movie in my life. It went down as a legend for me.. Action of the hero is really outstanding..
Inaccurate the legions would never have broken phalanx when the Gaul's charged it was an entertaining remake of "The Fall of The Roman Empire
A great flick!
It is the top rated movie. It should be in top ten.. It is one of the legend movie.. Hero's action really mindbllwing.. I ever seen this kind of movie in my life...
" this movie is the best ever, this is supposed to be in in first place.. The background score, the dialogues, acting,. It deserves to be in the first position"
THIS is a movie. The effects used to create massive amounts of violence that defined the movie were ahead of their time.
WOW I'm suprised this wasn't even in the list in the first place its the best war movie ever
Are you serious? Why is this even in the war movie section. It's fantasy for christs sake don't even try to say it's the best WAR movie, because it's a fantasy movie about a ringV 1 Comment
I legitimately started crying seeing that this is at #27. This is the best war movie of all time!
Very Tense and at some times sad and it tottaly disserved to win Best Picture
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Stocks to Watch After Black Friday 2013 – Express (EXPR)
Express (EXPR) will be the first of these smaller retailers to post last quarter's results. Remember: Black Friday 2013 won't show up until Q4 numbers, while all three stocks to watch are slated to release Q3 numbers. Express in particular will be one of the top stocks to watch on Wednesday, Dec. 4, as it releases Q3 numbers that morning.
The current expectation is for a profit of 25 cents per share of EXPR stock on sales of $499.7 million, vs. year-ago comparables of 20 cents and $468.5 million. That's a projected 25% improvement in Express earnings and a 6.6% increase in revenue, extending a pretty reliable three-year growth streak.
For what it's worth, Goldman Sachs currently rates EXPR stock as a buy, BMO considers the company attractive heading into its earnings report, and Mizuho recently initiated analytical coverage on Express, deeming it a buy.


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Fall 20121 Convocation Speech
Karen Paniagua
President, Associated Students
Fall 2012 Speakers
August 20, 2012
Ruben Armiñana
Andrew Rogerson
Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs
Margaret Purser
Chair of the Faculty
Karen Paniagua
Associated Students President
Marybeth Hull
Staff Representative to the Academic Senate
Good morning everyone I am honored to get to be speaking here today.
I did not come here today to talk about the problems facing this university. Those have been well documented and felt heavily all across the campus. It is time to accept that many of those problems are not going away any time soon and none of them are going to solve themselves. I am not here today to tell you what you have or have not been doing is right or wrong. I am here as an average student who hasn't been in the middle of SSU decision making to tell you what students think, talk about, worry about and hope for. We as a university community need to come together and start talking about how this university is going to not just survive this tough time but succeed and thrive.
The Universities strategic plan runs out at the end of this school year and I propose that we challenge ourselves over the next decade to use the issues currently facing this university as an opportunity to change. Many of the challenges we are facing today are not going to change, or go away, any time soon. It is time we come to terms with that reality and move forward. We as a University need to look towards the future, and begin to make forward thinking, visionary decisions and stop simply reacting and trying to stay afloat. The students at Sonoma State need to see us, the leaders of the University , do more than simply react to the challenges that are thrown our way, we need to be proactive, to anticipate and to create a University and a community that gives our students the opportunities and the education they need to succeed in today's world.
The pace of progress in today's world is astounding, many of the facts, techniques and strategies I have learned over my past four years at Sonoma State are already out of date and many more will be completely obsolete by the time this year's freshman graduate, four or five years from now. __That is not to say the lessons and experiences we have had both inside the classroom and out have no value.__ However it does mean that we as a University need to keep up, it is essential that students are offered an education that prepares them for the global 21st century that awaits them. I by no means claim to have all of the answers to how we should go about creating this environment, but I have some, and I can promise you my fellow students have many more. We are excited to be a part of the planning of a new Sonoma State and to start laying the ground for what the future will look like.
So first we need to plan for the new reality that faces the CSU system and Sonoma state, but on top of that we need to fight to put higher education back on the priority list of our state and our legislature. First and foremost we must build community within ourselves. It is no secret that Students, Staff, Faculty and Administration have struggled to trust each other and work together at times over the past. However it is also not a secret that the real problem, and the true culprit creating all of these challenges we face today, does not have a seat in a class or attend the Academic Senate or the GMC Board of Advisors. The culprit isn't part of the Sonoma State community, hasn't prioritized the Sonoma State community and has left higher education underfunded and floundering. It is time that we as a Sonoma State community get on the same page, work together and fight for what we need. In the upcoming November election Prop 30 holds the future of the CSU system in the balance, none of us really want to consider what it will mean to SSU and the CSU if WE do not get this measure passed. Analyzing what may happen, and sending a couple of groups to the capital and hoping things all fall in place is no longer acceptable. We as a Seawolf community need to rise together and move the voting population of our state. The students will do their part, this is not going to be, register a couple of hundred people and put up some fliers. It is our goal that by the time the election rolls around there is no one in the Sonoma State family that doesn't understand the critical nature of this proposition. However that is not good enough we need your help, support and cooperation. We need to move the Rohnert Park area, the Cotati area; but that's not enough, let's move Sonoma County, let's move the North Bay and the entire State of California because it is essential that we put our differences aside step to the plate and make a unified push to put higher education back on the legislature's priority list.
Finally I would like to talk a little bit about the new direction AS is headed and how I think it can help our University moving forward. I am new to the Associated Students and student government this year, I am a normal everyday student, I haven't been in the middle of the campus politics for the last few years and neither have the students that make up this year's senate; having said that, we come to the table with a fresh perspective, with new ideas and with a profound sense of optimism. We have no choice but to rely upon our fellow students for answers and perspectives; we are also determined to turn student government into a collective student body effort. I wanted to become student body president because I truly believe we, the students, staff, faculty and administration, have the power and the potential to make Sonoma State better this year and for many years to come. Sonoma State is our home and it is time we put our best foot forward, work together and create a better more promising future for this University. Thank you.


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BAHRAIN have withdrawn their bid to host the 2019 AFC Asian Cup, reports PATRICK SALOMON.
This was announced last night by Bahrain Football Association (BFA) vice-president for administrative and financial affairs Ahmed Al Nuaimi.
Bahrain have pulled out to make way for the other GCC national federations who are interested in hosting the quadrennial Asian Football Confederation (AFC) showcase, according to Al Nuaimi.
Bahrain's untimely withdrawal leaves only seven countries still vying to host the Asian Cup, including China, Iran, Oman, Thailand, and neighbouring GCC nations Kuwait, Saudi Arabia and the UAE.
Bahrain's interest in hosting the event was a result of the kingdom's successful hosting of the 21st Gulf Cup, held in January of this year. It was then soon announced that the BFA had submitted its initial application to stage the mega 16-nation event, and only recently had sent in to the AFC further requirements for the application process.
The 2019 tournament will be the 17th edition of the competition.
The winning bid is expected to be announced at the next AFC Asian Cup in January 2015, to be held in Australia.


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Senator Herbert H. Lehman tonight assailed the McCarran immigration law as an "act that bristles with hostility against the alien and foreign-born." He emphasized that its underlying assumption is that "every alien is a potential saboteur and criminal, and every potential immigrant must remain so is a potential saboteur and criminal, and every potential immigrant must remain so branded unless and until he can prove otherwise. The period of does not end with his admission to the United States, nor even with the time he becomes a citizen by naturalization. If he is foreign-born, the McCarran Act regards him as suspect until he dies."
Sen. Lehman spoke to an audience of 800 persons at the 57th Annual Gold Medal award Dinner of the Jewish War Veterans of the United states of America in the Waldorf Dinner of the Jewish War Veterans of the United States of America in the Waldorf Astoria. The veterans awarded him their Gold Medal of Merit for 1952 for "exceptional contributions to the Welfare and security of the United States and the advisement of mankind's struggle for freedom and dignity."
The award was presented on behalf of the veterans group by Nelson A. Rockefeller. The Senator was cited for his record as Governor of New York, director general of U. N. R. R. A. and United States Senator from New York. Jesse Moss, national commander of the Jewish War Veterans, pressed Sen. Lehman for "his ceaseless efforts to advance the frontiers of human freedom." Mr. Moss joined in the attack on the McCarran Act.
Calling for the repeal of the McCarran Act in favor of "a reasonable and enlightened immigration law," Sen. Lehman pointed out that "the McCarran Act sets forth a triple standard of justice–one standard for native–born American citizens, and still another–and the most arbitrary and high-handed of all–for aliens and immigrants."


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The Dickbrains
Surviving for only months during 1980, The Dickbrains were part of the first wave of Louisville Punk bands. Members went on to be in Freakwater.
from http://members.iglou.com/maxson/Music/Dickbrains/Dickbrains.html:
"The Dickbrains were very much of the Let's-Start-Our-Own-Band phenomenon. We became like the cute mascot of the scene, this bunch of kids who could barely play. We actually did refer to ourselves as the Bromley Contingent. Being in a band had the added bonus of giving us a legal right to be in a bar (all of us underage), as long as we were on the bill. The band barely lasted a handful of months; by June 1980, after about half a dozen performances, The Dickbrains were entering memory, abetted by a couple crummy live recordings. Material has been culled from these three cassettes and spruced up for the digital age on a sort of "All of . . . " CD-R entitled The Dickbrains: Dickbrains Rule! okay? It hints at the breadth of the band's songwriting. The beautiful thing about a band of that caliber was that we found it impossible to figure out covers, so other than a take on X-Ray Spex's Identity, it's all original material...."
There are several mp3s available for download here, courtesy of http://www.freakwater.net/
- Catherine Irwin - guitar
- Alec Irwin - bass
- Douglas Maxson - vocals, keyboard
- Charles Schultz - drums
- Tari Barr - vocals
- Drickbrains Rule! Ok? CD-R (self released)


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KP is an acceleration of skin shedding. It happens so fast that it plugs up the hair follicles and you get red bumps. Usually people get it on the backs of their arms but you can get it on your legs, too. If it turns out to be that, exfoliate and moisturize!
KP is genetic. Glad to hear you only have a few. Mild cases usually clear up by the time you are 30 and are easier to treat in the meantime. Sadly, my case is not mild and shows no signs of clearing up. I may have to resort to a prescription. I have heard that lotions with glycolic acid or urea are helpful. Brands that have been recommended to me: Epilyt, Carmol 20, Dermadoctor KP Duty (expensive, that one, can be found at Nordstrom). Good luck!
Did you know that kp is a form of eczema? I just found that out at my last visit to the doctor.
What is exzema? I always get in and psoriasis confused. I know one is just a very fancy name for EXTREMELY dry skin.
Whatever you do, don't loofah off those dry, bumpy patches. Your problem, called keratosis pilaris, happens when hair follicles become chronically clogged,


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Issachar Center for Urban Leadership
The Issachar Center for Urban Leadership equips young adults from and for low-income urban communities for transformative servant leadership.
Issachar hosts and creates gatherings for urban Christian leaders who work to understand the times and know what to do. With partners like Urban Young Life, Antioch Church, the Sankofa Institute, Colorado Uplift, and a growing community of alumni and friends, Issachar is a hub for relationships and initiatives that benefit our city and our world.
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All Issachar students attend college (most full-time). We provide tutoring, coaching, and a scholarship for up to four years, helping students develop the life and study skills necessary for graduation and beyond.
Residential Cohort
All apprentices live for two years in a 6-unit residential facility, learning to manage household responsibilities, pay rent, and live with others.
Leading from Below
Apprentices study public leadership, community engagement, and urban issues during dinner and training one night each week. Guests and partners regularly join us.
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Apprentices go through a spiritual formation program during an extended morning gathering once a week.
Community &Vocational Service
All apprentices continue to apply their learning and explore their calling while serving with local organizations for six to eight hours a week. In total, student responsibilities require about 60 hours a week. Students are given a stipend for rent and living expenses so that they can focus on Issachar Program requirements.


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Macquarie Media Group has struck a deal with the lenders to its debt-laden United States division American Consolidated Media that blocks any move by the banks to take control of the business until January 29 next year.
But the forbearance agreement came at a price: ACM agreed to pay the banks, which are owed $US133.7 million, a forbearance fee of 0.25 per cent of the aggregate principal balance of its loans.
It also agreed to a permanent 2.3 per cent increase in the interest rate on the loans.
Macquarie Media had previously flagged a 2 per cent increase in ACM's interest rate.
ACM, which owns about 100 local newspapers in the US, breached its September-quarter banking covenant tests.
Macquarie Media executives are continuing to negotiating with ACM's lenders about extending or changing its loans, which are due to be repaid in June 2010.
Earlier this month Reuters Basis Point quoted un-named banking industry sources who claimed ACM's banks had devised a debt-for-equity swap agreement and would take control of the company.
Like most US media companies, ACM has been crunched by the slump in US advertising markets over the past 18 months.
In late October, Macquarie Media said the ACM business - which it built by buying five newspaper companies in 2007 for a total of $360 million - posted a 15.8 per cent drop in revenue and a 21.1 per cent decline in earnings before interest, tax, depreciation and amortisation for the three months to September 30.
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My friend is Switzerland had one of those but his cable company just swapped it out for a new model
a couple weeks agao. Maybe they sold you his ;-)
On Thu, 06 Oct 2005 19:14:36 +0200, Manuel Kasper wrote:
> On 06.10.05 11:51 -0500, Ethan Bonick wrote:
>> Cisco or Linksys? I've never had good luck with Linksys equipment.
>> Always seems flakey.
> It's a Cisco uBR924 DOCSIS 1.0 cable router. That model has been EOL
> since mid 2001, but the biggest Swiss cable provider still sells
> them
> to their business customers (for 6 times the price that they'd cost
> on eBay). You can't use your own router either, nope, no way.
> Apparently mine has been sitting on the shelf for 6 years.
> I hope it doesn't do that again - I'm not used to Cisco stuff being
> flakey. So far my cheap Linksys APs haven't given me any grief. ;)
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This week I couldn't follow along with the HCB because I had already made the cake so I chose to do the chocolate feather bed instead!
It was so delicious! I have gotten so OCD about the eggs in the g?noise that I actually went to the grocery store in the middle of baking because I was 9 out of 112 grams short. In the end it was totally worth it because the cake was wonderful. It was definitely a crowd pleaser and i'll be keeping the recipe for later use!
Check out my blog for the process http://thesugarwaltz.blogspot.com/


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Detoxifying Juice
- 1 carrot
- 1 orange (without peel)
- 3 small or 2 big green apples
- 1/2 a medium-sized beetroot
- 1/4 slice of lemon with peel
- 1-inch ginger (I prefer to use young ginger)
Cut up the produce to sizes that fit your juicer chute, and juice.
I use my Alpha Juicer to make this juice. The auger/gear is white so to prevent pigmentation stain, I suggest putting in the carrot and beetroot during the first half of juicing, alternating with the oranges in order to get the most juice out of it. After the carrot, beetroot and oranges, put in the ginger and lemon (with peel) followed by the green apples to "self-clean" the white auger.
See more tips for optimizing your gear juicer here.
The result:
Makes about 750 ml worth of delicious juice. This combination is so refreshing. Love it!
As carrot and green apples also make up the main ingredients of this recipe, the juice is very cleansing, has some laxative effect which encourages bowel movements.
Beetroot has too many healing virtues to mention here. For a beginner, start with only half a medium-sized beetroot once a week, slowly increasing the amount. Not to be taken more than twice a week.
This juice is potent and detoxifying, so it may cause dizziness to some people. When this happens, drink LOTS of water.
Juicer used to make this juice: Alpha Juicer (available in Malaysia).
USA equivalent: Omega J8003/J8005 or improved models: J8004/J8006.


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This article was published 30/8/2013 (1426 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current.
Tackling MS
Two high school football teams will get the thrill of playing in Investors Group Field for the first time -- and the fight against multiple sclerosis is the beneficiary. Playing for a Purpose, organized by former Winnipeg Blue Bomber Kelly Butler, will see Vincent Massey and Dakota kick off their regular season on Sept. 6 at 7 p.m. Tickets cost $10 on game day in support of multiple sclerosis. Contact email@example.com for more information.
Pet project
A fundraising barbecue and adoption drive is being held by Winnipeg Pet Rescue on Sept. 6. The event is being held at the Walmart at 1665 Kenaston Blvd., from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. For more information contact Debbie at 204-889-8467.
Daffodils come early
Daffodils will be popping up a couple of seasons early for a good cause on Sept. 27. It's the Canadian Cancer Society's annual Daffodil Gala on Sept. 27, and it is celebrating the society's 75-year-long fight against cancer. The gala is at the Winnipeg Convention Centre and features a champagne reception, gourmet dinner, martini bar, fundraising auctions and dancing with Ron Paley and his Orchestra. Individual tickets cost $185 with tax receipts issued for the charitable portion, or $225 for a patron or $2,500 for a corporate table of 10. For more information or to order tickets, call 204-774-7483 or go to www.gala.ccsmanitobaevents.com.
Charity art sale
The gavel will begin dropping on the Jubilee Fund charity art and collectibles auction Sept. 23. The auction, formerly known as the Jubilee Fund art and antique auction, is being held at Canad Inns Polo Park and features live and silent auctions and draw baskets. A list of donated art for the auction is expected to be at www.jubileefund.ca.
Bannock and a movie
Several short films and music videos will be shown on the exterior of Neechi Commons on Sept. 28. The aboriginal co-op will host Bannock and the Big Screen along with the Winnipeg Film Group at 865 Main St., starting at 8 p.m. The films, created by First Nations and M©tis filmmakers for Nuit Blanche Winnipeg include Two Scoops by Jackie Traverse, Wab Kinew's Good Boy, and I'm M©tis by Christian Goulet. Bannock and refreshments will be available.
Book of Life
The Jewish Foundation of Manitoba will be honouring several charitable members of the community on Sept. 17. The annual Endowment Book of Life donor-recognition evening will see several community members sign promises to include the foundation in their wills. The event, being held at Congregation Etz Chayim at 123 Matheson Ave., also features humour, nostalgia and music from Allan Blye, Norman Mittelmann, and Aubrey Tadman. Tickets cost $25 and include cocktail sandwiches and light desert. For more information or tickets, call 204-477-7520 or email email@example.com.


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February 18, 2014
Zhiguo He, associate professor of finance, and Brent Neiman, associate professor of economics, have been named 2014 Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellows.
Awarded to promising early-career scientists in science, mathematics, economics, and computer science, the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation presents two-year fellowships of $50,000 to support original research and broad-based education related to science, technology, and economic performance.
Zhiguo He is mainly interested in how agency frictions affect the fuctioning of financial markets, with a special focus on contract theory. He has been working on the burgeoning field of macro finance which introduces financial intermediation into the macroeconomic workhorse models.
He's recent research on rollover risk studies the debt maturity structure and its implications on the recent financial crisis.
"The 2007-08 financial crisis has taught us a lot about how to think about the world, and I am trying to bringing these forces into our understanding of economic mechanisms," He said.
Neiman's research focuses on international macroeconomics, a field he was drawn to after a stint working at the White House Council of Economic Advisers in 2003-04.
"That was a year where there was a lot of interest in economic relations between the U.S. and China," he said, adding that his tenure there as the staff economist for international finance opened him up to macroeconomics beyond the U.S. borders.
Neiman said he focused on four research papers in his application to Sloan — "Currency Unions, Product Introductions, and the Real Exchange Rate"; "The Global Decline of the Labor Share"; "Trade Adjustment and Productivity in Large Crises"; and "Trade and the Global Recession" — all of which are either in revision stages for or already accepted for publication in the American Economic Review or the Quarterly Journal of Economics.
The Sloan Foundation founded the Fellowship program in 1955 and awards 126 grants annually. Sloan Fellows are nominated by a department head or senior researcher, and must provide a curriculum vitae, two representative articles, a one-page research summary, and three letters from other researchers.
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The Solution: Tame the Paper Beast
"Tax returns should be kept forever," says Martin Pospeshil, co-owner of Klutter.org, in Buffalo Grove, Illinois. "Backup material, like receipts and statements, can be purged after seven years." Another way to cut through clutter: "Scan items you want to keep but don't need to look at often," says Eileen Roth, who owns Everything in Its Place, in Scottsdale, Arizona, and save the info on your hard drive. The NeatReceipts Scanalizer ($210, amazon.com) is a great option. For more toss-it tips, see 5 Steps to Simpler Record-Keeping.


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The Sandlot's "Scotty Smalls," also known as actor Tom Guiry, has been arrested for an alleged drunken airport incident in which police say he headbutted a cop.
TMZ got the details on Guiry's arrest, replete with a mugshot in which "Smalls" looks scarily different from his Sandlot days.
According to the site, the Sandlot actor was reportedly told he was too intoxicated to fly… and got a bit mouthy.
Guiry is said to have been angered by the suggestion, and allegedly did not take kindly to being asked to sleep it off:
"The story is crazy. We're told Guiry was at Bush Intercontinental Airport in Houston over the weekend when a United Airlines employee concluded he was too drunk to fly… Law enforcement sources tell us, the employee contacted an airport cop, who approached Guiry and gave him two options: a public intoxication arrest, or the drunk tank."
It was then, TMZ claims, Guiry scuffled with the cop and headbutted an officer before he was arrested.
The Sandlot's Smalls was then reportedly booked and charged with felony assault on a cop, and posted $5,000 bail.
Earlier this year, the actor gave an interview to HuffPo, in which he says he gets recognized as "Smalls" a few times a day at work.
He explained:
"I work in a hospital as a patient transporter to make ends meet for my three kids. I think about four or five times a day, I have someone say that to me. Where I work is the town I grew up in, I'm more recognized here than in other places. But, a lot of my friends call me Smalls, I go by it. I've come to kind of embrace it. If you can't beat 'em, just join 'em, you know?"
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Oshkosh 2013 Gets Stung By Jerry Yagen's Mosquito?
(click pic to enlarge) Jerry Yagen's Mosquito recently restored by Avspecs in New Zealand
AVweb had a story yesterday about how the EAA was going to stand firm on their policy of not paying appearance fees to have specific aircraft attend the annual convention and fly-in in Oshkosh, Wisconsin. This has become an issue because it appears that Jerry Yagen, the owner of the Mosquito recently (and impeccably) restored by Avspecs LTD in new Zealand, has said he won't bring the Mosquito (and his new-manufacture Me 262) without being paid to do so. Hmm, really? Normally I'd just hear this news and then let my opinion rattle around inside my head, but as a guy who has covered this Mosquito extensively in the last several months here on AirPigz, I decided I have something to say.
I'll start with the EAA. I have had my issues with the Experimental Aircraft Association over the years, (don't get me started, some of these issues are big ones to me) but in the end, I don't know of any other organization that has done so much for the true love of flying. I first joined in 1970 when I was 9 years old... I started scratch building an airplane on my own when I was a junior in high school and I've been to well over 30 Oshkosh events over the last 40+ years. The EAA and Oshkosh are good great for aviation, so I'm going to have to side with them in this issue with the Mosquito.
I'm going to assume that the AVweb story is accurate, and as such, I have a hard time wrapping my I-bust-my-butt-for-30grand-a-year head around the idea that Jerry Yagen (who has more cash wrapped up in the Merlins on that Mosquito than I have spent in my entire 51 years on Earth) can't see fit to spend just a little cash to do what warbird owners have been doing for years and years... pay to bring their airplane to Oshkosh so us meager little commoners could admire them. Please don't misunderstand, this isn't class envy on my part... I have no problem cheering the fact that Mr. Yagen has had the opportunity to generate the kind of wealth that allows him to own an incredibly large collection of extremely expensive and rare aircraft, but to demand to be paid to show one or two airplanes at the world's greatest aviation event is just a bit stinky to me.
I'll add that I have been also working my butt off the last four years in my spare time with AirPigz.com in an effort to bring the beauty and fascination of aviation to a younger generation. I understand the value of investing time and money in things that can have a positive impact on others. And, while it takes very little money to run this website, it does take a massive amount of time and energy on my part... and as many of you know, I still haven't figured out a way to generate any real income off the 25,000 plus people (and growing) that visit this website every month. It seems that if I was to use Jerry Yagen's approach, I'd just tell y'all pay up or I'm done. Well that's not how I operate. (and yes, it's very true that I did just over a week ago ask for some financial support for the my 1,000-hours-a-year work here on AirPigz. I raised $170, which brought the total income for the website in 2012 up to about $600)
My opinion on the Mosquito issue is in no way an attack on Jerry Yagen, but it is request for him to take another look at the principles (and financial realities) involved here and reconsider the value of spending the loose change it would take to put Avspecs' beautiful work on display at Oshkosh 2013 for the aviation world at large to enjoy and appreciate.


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By Donna Leinwand, USA TODAY
In the days after Seung Hui Cho shot and killed 32 classmates and staff at Virginia Tech, Alberta Darling, a state senator in Wisconsin, wondered whether her own state's laws would have averted such a tragedy.
Records of Cho's involuntary commitment to outpatient treatment never made it from the state to a federal database that would have alerted a firearms dealer to halt his gun purchase.
Darling says she found a similar disconnect in Wisconsin: The courts did not send records to the national gun-check database.
"It was very disconcerting to me that we had a gap in our law," says Darling, who has proposed legislation to fix the problem. "We have to protect our society from people who are not capable of having a gun. It's shocking to think we could have the same thing happen in Wisconsin."
Federally licensed gun dealers must consult the FBI's National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS) before selling a gun. The database includes felons, fugitives and people found by a court to be mentally ill. Much of the information in NICS comes from state court systems, but federal law cannot order states to submit records.
The FBI hopes a new federal law will prod states to participate. The law, which President Bush signed Jan. 8, will offer grants to help states set up systems to submit names of their mentally ill residents to the federal database. States that don't may lose federal crime-fighting money.
"It's a carrot-and-stick approach," says Rep. Carolyn McCarthy, D-N.Y. "We want to bring those numbers up. I think it's going to make a big difference."
ACROSS THE USA: States bolster FBI gun database
Passing a law
In its eight years of operation, the NICS has processed more than 75 million background checks, former assistant attorney general Rachel Brand told Congress in May. The background checks have denied guns to about 1.1 million people, she said.
Of the 32 states that contribute records to the mental health component, seven have each submitted just one, and 16 have each contributed fewer than 50, according to the FBI. Gun control groups such as the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence say the database should have at least 2 million records.
McCarthy sponsored federal legislation in 2002 after a priest and his parishioner in her district were killed by a mentally ill person who bought a gun legally. At that time, most states did not submit records to the national database. Some lacked the money and staff to compile and transmit the records. Others were hampered by privacy laws or decentralized systems that kept records local, she says.
McCarthy's bill gained momentum after Virginia Tech. "It's a shame that tragedy has to bring this information to light," she says. "No state wants to go through what Virginia went through."
The National Rifle Association ultimately supported the law. "We placed a very clear marker from the very beginning: If this legislation became a vehicle for gun control, we would oppose it and actively work to kill it," says the NRA's Andrew Arulanandam.
The law includes provisions sought by the NRA, such as requiring the government to remove all expired and incorrect records and establishing a process to restore gun rights, he says. "We never opposed the premise of keeping firearms out of the hands of criminals and dangerous people," he says.
Some states began considering new laws before the federal mandate.
Florida began submitting its records a year ago after a change in state law. It has sent 9,674 records, says Kristen Perezluha, spokeswoman for the Florida Department of Law Enforcement.
A new law took effect in Arkansas in July, after the state worked with an FBI liaison to set up a system.
Obstacles to disclosure
Other states, including Wisconsin, have run into resistance from gun rights advocates and associations representing the mentally ill. They say the laws invade privacy and take gun rights away from people who are not violent.
Psychiatrists and advocates for the mentally ill fear that people will avoid treatment if they think they will be listed in a government database, says Paul Appelbaum, who chairs the council on psychiatry and law at the American Psychiatric Association.
The law also singles out the mentally ill for special treatment even though people with serious mental disorders are responsible for only a tiny percentage of violence committed in the country, he says.
"After Virginia Tech, it became easy to focus on a stigmatized group, a group without political power, to pretend we were doing something about reducing violence," Appelbaum says.
The FBI responds that access to the database is limited and gun dealers are told only whether they should proceed with the sale or deny it.
"States have an opportunity here," says Paul Helmke, president of the Brady Campaign. "Governors need to say here's who's in charge and get these records to the national database."
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LARAMIE, Wyo. - The Mountain West Conference announced on Tuesday a new divisional format for its 12-team football league, and a scheduling format for men's and women's basketball.
In football, the Mountain West will include two six-team divisions, the Mountain Division and the West Division. The Wyoming Cowboy Football team will be in the Mountain Division with: Air Force, Boise State, Colorado State, New Mexico and Utah State. The West Division will include: Fresno State, Hawai'i, Nevada, San Diego State, San Jose State and UNLV.
Scheduling for conference football games will include eight games each season. Each team will play all five of its divisional opponents each season and will play three crossover games against teams from the other division. The details of the conference football scheduling will be determined at a later time utilizing computer-scheduling models.
The conference also announced the first Mountain West Conference Championship Game would be played on Saturday, Dec. 7, 2013. The game will be hosted at the campus site of the team ranked highest in the BCS ranking.
Scheduling for men's and women's basketball will include an 18-game conference schedule. There will be no divisions in men's and women's basketball. The 18-game Mountain West schedule will feature home-and-home series versus eight conference opponents and a single-game, home or away, versus the other two remaining MW basketball opponents. The details of that scheduling will, like the football schedule, utilize computer-scheduling models.
"It was important for us as conference members to make some decisions as quickly as possible following last week's announcement by the Mountain West of a 12-team football league and an 11-team conference in our other sports," said University of Wyoming Athletics Director Tom Burman. "We are proud to be members of the Mountain West, and we believe it provides the student-athletes and coaches in our sport programs with an outstanding place to compete.
"In terms of football, we couldn't be more pleased with the makeup of the Mountain Division. It allows us to continue our long-standing rivalries with Air Force, Colorado State and New Mexico. It also gives us the opportunity to maintain our series versus an outstanding program in Boise State, and it brings back to Wyoming Football another long-time rival in Utah State. We also like the ability to play three football games each season against teams from the West Division of the Mountain West.
"Adding a football championship game to our conference provides an excellent opportunity for us to showcase to the nation the quality football that is played in the Mountain West.
"Men's and women's basketball scheduling will continue to offer our fans the chance to see some of the best college basketball in the country. We will play home-and-home series against eight conference opponents each year, and will play a single game against each of the two remaining teams."


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The year-end board meeting of the Cameron Park Community Services District was relatively short and sweet with El Dorado County District 2 Supervisor Ray Nutting swearing in new board members Sean Tucker and Vicky Neibauer.
Recognition was given to outgoing board member Alan Clarke who was presented with thanks and a plaque for his 10 years of service with the district. In his remarks to the board and the audience, Clarke congratulated the new board members and said it had been a pleasure to serve on the board, although he said he will not miss the late night meetings. He noted how proud he was of the role he played in the building of the community center and said it wasn't just for the current residents but for future generations of those living in Cameron Park.
Elected to serve as the new president of the board was Greg Stanton. Sean Tucker was elected vice president.
The board also voted to turn over the management of three community events to an event planning firm called EZEvents. Darlene Lyons, president of the company, discussed putting on three events for the district, including a country fair in which they would run the event but split the profits with the district. She estimated the net profits from the event would be $20,000. A second proposed event was a country music festival. EZEvents said they would rent Christa McAuliffe Park but would not share any profits with the district. Instead they proposed using local nonprofits to assist with the event so as to raise money for local charities. The third event they discussed was managing the Grillin' and Chillin' BBQ competition in which the profits would be split with the district.
The question arose whether or not the Summer Spectacular event should also be managed by the firm. However General Manager Mary Cahill recommended keeping it in-house since it had run so smoothly last year.
After a discussion, the board voted to have Cahill work with EZEvents to develop the necessary contracts for the three events but required that the contracts come back to the board before final approval.
The board also learned that a long-standing dispute appeared to have been resolved between the district and a group of quilters using the community center. Cahill reported that group members agreed to sign a waiver of liability at each meeting they attended. However, during the public comment portion of the meeting, resident Bill Carey charged that the group was told if they didn't sign the waivers, the group could be evicted in 60 days.
On another issue, Richard Kirlin, the resident who came to the October board meeting to fight to keep his backyard chickens, asked for more time to amend the CC&Rs, saying that, according to county rules for R-1 areas, poultry were not prohibited. Last month the board voted to move legally against Kirlin and his chickens since he failed to appear with the signatures of at least 100 residents who supported changing the rules.
However, Kirlin said he was never notified that the item would be on the agenda even though in October the board had asked him to come to the November meeting with the signatures of 100 supporters. He then went on to accuse resident Gerald Lillpop of being both the person who made the original complaint to the district as well as one of those voting against him as a member of the CC&R Committee.
Lillpop countered Kirlin by claiming that chickens were not legal in R-1 areas and he wasn't required to recuse himself from voting just because he had made the complaint. To resolve the issue, Kirlin was referred to work out the issue with General Manager Mary Cahill and Lyle Eickert, the CC&R Compliance Officer.
In other board actions, board member Shiva Frentzen recommended putting together an ad hoc group to look at annexing other areas into the district to provide additional property tax revenue.


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Thanks to the new listener who took the time to email me to ask what I said about reality a couple of weeks ago. The comment landed right after "National Anthem" by The Gaslight Anthem (who I really like, by the way). What I said was that it's good to be disillusioned because that means that illusions have been challenged and destroyed so that we can deal with reality. The catch is that we like our illusions sometimes. I like thinking that I could have played Major League Baseball if I'd really wanted to, but since I didn't really try very hard we'll never know. It's an illusion every bit as real as others that we get addicted to: "I know he loves me deep down," "I could date the thong-of-the-day if she lived close to me," "I'm the smartest person in the room," "Everything happens for a reason," "It won't happen to me" (note that this last one could either be something you want or not!), or "You can be anything you want to be."
Actually, you can't be anything you want to be and you should be glad of it, too. Can you imagine having that many choices to deal with? If we didn't suck at some things, then it'd be so much harder to find the things that we're actually great at. Besides that, the truth is that I neither play guitar well enough to hang with Metallica, nor did I ever hit well enough to stand out on my high school baseball team. Knowing the truth about ourselves gives us something real to stand on and base our decisions on, instead of the fairy tales that are tempting to want but hardly real. That doesn't mean that our illusions are bad or unnecessary, just that we are always better off telling ourselves the truth or at least asking what's real. I guess it's best to know the truth--demand that your doctor tell you what's really wrong with you so you can get about the business of healing; demand your friends to tell you what you're really good at so you can decide if you have enough passion for those skills to invest significant time. If we're dealing the with truth about ourselves, then at least can know how hard we have to work to overcome our challenges instead of fantasizing that it's not all that hard to just do something (or worse, just waiting for someone else to hand us opportunities, resources, or answers to our problems). If you know the truth about yourself or some part of yourself, pretending it isn't real won't make it go away; it just means you're ignorning it, which is when you really get in trouble.


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Washington (AFP) Feb 3, 2013
Taiwan's President Ma Ying-jeou startled friends and rivals by making his closest advisor "ambassador" to the United States on a mission to prove that the island is still a key ally.
King Pu-Tsung, was considered the power behind the Taiwanese throne as the president's election strategist and former head of the ruling Kuomintang party. But he has never been a diplomat, and the appointment surprised the United States and China -- the rival powers who underpin Taiwan's security and economy.
In an interview with AFP, King highlighted the importance of the "strategic ambiguity" that the island of 23 million people maintains with its neighbor, on one side, and protector, on the other.
That ambiguity does not help counter US observers who say Taiwan has become a "strategic liability" because of the harm that US arms sales to Taiwan -- about $180 billion since 2008 -- do to relations with China.
"We have our own pragmatic approach to survive," said the envoy who cannot call himself ambassador, as the United States broke formal ties with Taiwan in 1979 when it recognized China.
"We need strong support from the United States, but we also have to deal cautiously with mainland China because now they they are the number one partner of Taiwan," he added.
"It is a very strategic ambiguity that we have. It is the best shield we have."
King said Taiwan-US relations were "damaged" under previous president Chen Shui-bian, and his job is to lead "low profile," "pragmatic" attempts to lift Washington's confidence.
His links to President Ma are important. "What I say can probably represent what he is thinking in the future," he said.
President Ma wants advanced US weaponry. Despite the improved atmosphere, China has not renounced its threat to use force if Taiwan moves too far away from the ambiguous truce that has lasted since the communist-nationalist split in 1949.
"We still need to have a very strong defense capability to protect Taiwan," said the envoy, who has his eyes on American F-22 or F35 fighter jets and submarines. Such a sale would infuriate Beijing.
"Even if it is just a symbolic gesture, it is very important to us. It shows strong US support to Taiwan," said King.
Talks on a Trade and Investment Agreement, which could lead to a full free trade deal, are to resume in March. Taiwan lifted a six-year-old ban on imports of some US beef to tempt the US administration back into talks.
Weapons and trade are all part of what King calls the "paradoxical" relations between the United States and the island.
US-Taiwan relations are "the best they have been in the past 30 years," King, who took up his post in December, insisted.
However the United States encourages Taiwan to have good relations with China. "But like a lot of people in the think tanks, they are worrying that probably Taiwan is leaning toward mainland China too much."
King said the message he gets is: "'You have cordial relations, beneficial relations with mainland China, but don't go too far'."
According to Richard Bush, a former head of the US mission in Taiwan and now director of the Brookings Institution's Center for Northeast Asian Policy Studies, some US "observers believe that Taiwan has become a strategic liability" so the United States should stop arming Taiwan.
The doubters include Zbigniew Brzezinski, national security adviser under President Jimmy Carter, and Bill Owens, a retired admiral who was a vice chairman of the US chiefs of staff.
"They echo Chinese diplomats who argue that our arms sales are the major obstacle to good US-China relations," Bush said in a policy paper for Brookings released last month.
Bush added however that new Taiwan-China improvements will probably only be "modest" and could stall.
George Tsai, political science professor at Chinese Culture University in Taipei, said King's close links to the president made him the perfect candidate to help disperse US concerns.
"Washington has sent messages to Taipei that it wants to the keep the status quo across the Taiwan Strait," said Tsai.
"Washington has revealed its concerns on some issues like the proposed culture agreements and confidence building measures, which it believes does not serve US interests," Tsai said.
King said a US rethink was "wishful thinking" and there was nothing ambiguous in President Ma's comment that he would "rather die" than give up Taiwan's sovereignty.
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Turtle Beach Ear Force XL1 (Black)
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Ear Force XL1 by Turtle Beach
The Turtle Beach XL1 XBOX 360 headset is the perfect entry-level headset for gamers looking for immersive game sound and crystal-clear communication at a great value. With premium 50mm speakers and oversized circumaural ear cups, the Turtle Beach XL1 delivers superior audio quality and extreme comfort.
The Turtle Beach XL1 also features an in-line amplifier, providing quick access to independent game and chat volume controls as well as a built-in bass boost feature that adds depth and realism to the game audio.
If you're serious about gaming, then get serious about the sound. Step up to the Turtle Beach XL1 and experience game audio like never before.
- Wired XL1 Gaming Headset (Black)
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- Turtle Beach Sticker
- User's Guide
- Warranty Information
Headset Features:
- Amplified Audio Stereo Gaming Headset Designed for Use with Xbox 360
- Immerse Yourself In Premium Grade Quality and Experience Never Before Heard Details
- Bass Boost
- Experience Lifelike detail for the First Time with Powerfully Tuned 50mm Drivers Adding Depth and Realism
- Microphone Monitoring
- You can Hear Every Bit of Detail within Conversations, an even Your Own Voice
- In-Line Amplifier
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- Manufacturer Product Series: Ear Force XL1
- Turtle Beach Part Number: TBS-2149-01 (TBS-2149)
- Primary Color Tone: Black
- Secondary Color Accent: Green
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Headphones / Microphone Specifications:
- Speaker
- Type: Dynamic, Full Range
- Size: 50mm (Diameter)
- Magnet: Neodymium
- Frequency Response: 20 Hz - 20,000 Hz
- Sound Pressure Level: Less Than 120 dB SPL @ 1 kHz
- Microphone
- Technology: Condenser
- Design: Boom
- Frequency Response: 50 Hz - 15,000 Hz
- Cable Length: 16 Feet (4.87 Meters)
- Weight: 6.4 Ounces (181 Grams)
In-line Amplifier Specifications:
- Headphone Amplifier
- Stereo DC-coupled
- 35 mW / ch
- Total Harmonic Distortion (THD): Less Than 1%
- Frequency Response: DC - 30,000 Hz
- Mic mute switch
- Maximum Analog Input Level with Volume Control on Maximum Setting: 2 Vpp (700 mV rms)
- Fixed Bass Boost: +9 dB @ 150 Hz
- Input Jack: 2.5mm XBOX 360 Controller
- USB Connector for Power: 5 VDC @ <60 mA Max
- Dimensions: .5" H x 2.3" W x 1.1" D (1.3 cm H x 5.8 cm W x 2.7 centimeters D)
System Requirements
- Xbox 360 console with AV cable to support analog audio output
- HDMI Configuration- HDMI audio adapter cable (dongle)
- Standard Def- Advanced SCART AV cable
- Available USB port
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Sound Signature
Headphone Design
This is the design of the earpieces on the headphones. Some headphones go inside the ear, while others rest on the outside of the ear. This helps you know exactly what type of headphones you will be receiving.
In-Ear: The ear buds go into the ear. Most often, the right and left ear buds are two separate pieces.
Enclosed-Ear: Usually are found on the larger headphones. They rest on top of the ear and have padding for comfort, as well as enclosing the ear to the speaker. This type of headphone helps to filter out surrounding noise.
On-Ear: This type of headphone involves the speaker sitting gently on the ear without going in the ear or sealing it off.
Headphone type refers to the construction of the headphones.
Around the Ear means that the headphones wrap around the ear to provide a secure fit. This is most often seen in active and sports headphones.
Around the Neck means that the headphones wrap around the neck. This is also seen in active and sports headphones.
Earbuds means that the right and left sides of the headphones are separated and will fit securely into the ear. These are small, compact, and user friendly.
Over the Head headphones mean that the right and left speakers are connected with a support that goes over the head and rests on top. This is the typical headphone type.
This is the application that the headphones are designed for. Each application has unique features that make it perfect for particular uses.
DJ: These headphones are durable, loud, and will often allow for one ear listening.
Gaming Delivers explosive sound and allows you to communicate with others.
Home Hi-Fi: These audiophile headphones are engineered to produce high fidelity and accurate audio.
Home/Office: These headphones are designed to produce rich, brilliant sounds that the artists would appreciate.
Sports: Designed for active use. These headphones are made to stay in (or on) the ear during workouts.
Kids: Feature noise limiting technology so that your little ones don't damage their ears listening to music too loud.
On-the-Go: On-the-go headphones are lightweight and often fold up for easy storage and portability.
Student: Compact and rugged enough to survive life in a backpack; inexpensive enough to not hurt the wallet of a student.
Studio: Reproduce music perfectly without any coloration. Look here for reference quality studio monitoring headphones.
Traveler/Airplane: These headphones are compact, lightweight, and have a portable design.
The basic design of the headphones. There are 3 different types:
Open: Have ports that allow air through the back of the diaphragms, enabling the headphones to sound like the music is coming from an outside source.
Closed: Completely sealed and have no air passing through the diaphragms. Sounds like you are in a closed off room.
Semi-open: Have slots or ports in the back of the cup and are partially open. This allows for a mixed sound between an open and closed headphone.
General Features
Corded means that the headphones use a cord to transfer the audio signal.
Bluetooth means that the audio signal is transmitted from your device to the headphones via a Bluetooth connection.
Corded or Bluetooth means that the headphones can be used as corded headphones or as Bluetooth headphones. They have an input in one or both earcups for use as a corded headphone while they also have a built-in battery for use as Bluetooth wireless headphones.
Wireless means that the audio signal is transmitted wirelessly to the headphones.
The Jack Angle refers to the angle of the input jack on the headphone cable.
Straight Jack: Straight plug with no angle.
Angled Jack: Angled plug, usually a 90 degree angle.
Swivel Jack: A swivel jack is able to swivel between a straight plug and an angled plug.
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Audio Features
The physical design of the driver in the headphones.
Balanced Armature:
A balanced armature driver uses a coil wrapped around an armature which is held in between two magnets until it is stimulated by an electrical current. When stimulated, this armature is magnetized which causes it to rotate one way or the other around a pivot point which moves the diaphragm to create sound. Balanced armature driver headphones are generally earbuds and can have multiple drivers in each earbud.
Dynamic drivers are the most common driver type. They feature a permanent magnet, usually neodymium, a voice coil and a conical diaphragm to drive your music. A dynamic headphone driver looks pretty much identical to any typical home theater speaker.
Electrostatic drivers are made up of an extremely thin membrane, usually a coated PET film, stretched between two metal plates. An electrical signal is applied to the metal plates to create an electrical field which, depending on its polarity, draws the speaker diaphragm toward one of the plates which forces air through the perforations in the diaphragm which generates the sound wave.
Planar Magnetic:
A planar magnetic driver is made up of a large membrane suspended between two sets of oppositely aligned magnets. An electric charge is applied to the membrane to induce movement and produce sound waves.
Efficiency (1w/1m) is not an accurate indicator of a subwoofer's output capability and should not be used as a comparison to other speakers or subwoofers to determine which one is "louder".
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