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A. Wayne Wiens
A. Wayne Wiens, Emeritus Professor of Biology at Bethel College, passed away unexpectedly Feb. 6, 2014.
Born Oct. 31, 1936, he graduated from Hillsboro High School, completed a natural science major at Bethel College, a zoology masters at Kansas State University, and a Ph.D in biochemistry and cell biology at Northwestern University. A consummate teacher, Wayne began his career at the University of Kansas as a teaching assistant and retired from Bethel College in 2010.
He loved gardening, his pets, reading, sailing, travel, crafting wooden toys, and working with Habitat for Humanity. He especially enjoyed cutting hedge wood for the stove with his dear friend Charles Graber, and working on the MCC Meat Canning Project with friend and colleague Hugo Boschmann.
Wayne is survived by his wife Gail Lutsch of Newton, Kan.; daughter, Amy of Columbus, Ohio; son, Eric (Susan Neufeld) of El Cerrito, Calif.; brothers, Wendell Wiens of Newton, Kan., Paul Wiens (Dolores) of St. George, Utah; and many nieces and nephews.
A memorial service was at 1 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 16, in Krehbiel Auditorium, Fine Arts Center, Bethel College, with a gathering to follow in Krehbiel Science Center atrium.
In lieu of flowers, the family requests donations be sent to the A. Wayne Wiens Biology Scholarship Endowment Fund at Bethel College, Habitat for Humanity, or the MCC Meat Canning Project, care of Bethel College Mennonite Church.


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Pretty much. Especially with the heresy of modernism, they pretty much claim anything post-Pius XII is heretical.
Afraid of the Private forums? Why PMs?Glad you outted yourself as a popist. Don't you feel better now. Lying is a sin, no?
Judging is a sin. I wanted a PM because I had not intended to come back here for a while.
Judging is a sin.
Orthodoxy is an ethnic religion with no Christianity in it. The people are arrogant and very un-loving; especially the Greeks.
I for one can not fault them to much for such a view - the following Youtube video of a 2008 Roman Catholic Mass being a fine example of why I feel this way... http://youtube.com/watch?v=NSbiL3XduvY
I have never seen such arrogant and judgemental people in my life. Father Seraphim's words are much needed today. Orthodox people need to aquire "Orthodoxy of the heart." I call it "conversion of the heart." I believe most Orthodox today have never even had a conversion experience. They think they become holy by "association." I call this "Potluck Christianity." A person does not become Christian or holy just because they go to Church. Conversion is an internal thing.
A "Mass" (validity could be questioned) celebrated by a group of (likely excommunicated) heretics is not a representative example. Would you like EO to be represented by the screwiest nutter in Mount Athos?
Oh please - show me one example of a puppet (or other equally absurd) Divine Liturgy on Holy Mount Athos or elsewhere. Such tripe as the puppet Roman Catholic Mass and other joke 'celebrations' are more common than you folks are comfortable in admitting.
Sorry---they aren't, which is why they are popular on Youtube. Call to Action is an ageing heretical group that is irrelevant in the Church today. Before you jump onto my Church, take a good look at the deplorable state yours is in.
May I ask, in the Orthodox church, if someone was abusing the Liturgy to such an extent, what would happen to them? Andrea
The abuses are rare and are the work of the Freemasons.
Aren't these claims ludicrous as a Roman Catholic is distinguished by a belief that the Roman Pontiff is universal and supreme ruler of the church? So how can you create a sect holding Roman Catholic beliefs?
Well I don't know exactly what would happen, but I can assure you that with Orthodoxy there is hardly any room for change in liturgy.m When you talk about Conservative vs Liberal Catholic there can be vast differences in beliefs but with Orthodoxy a Conservative and Liberal parishioner are not as different in beliefs. I quite liberal but if I was in Catholicism I would be considered as conservative and traditional as they come.
^ Batty; absolutely Loony Tunes.
Right. A "Liberal Orthodox" would be a very conservative Roman Catholic and a Conservative Orthodox would be more like a Roman Catholic Monastic.
I used to think this but now see it as a myth. Just look at OC.net and you can find a good number of EO who if Catholic would be quite on the "progressive" side. EO is not immune from modernism.
Just look at OC.net and you can find a good number of EO who if Catholic would be quite on the "progressive" side.
But how about from the liturgical point of view? It seems to me that EO are quite traditional and conservative from the point of view of the Liturgy. Take a look at what has happened to the RC Mass since Vatican II. It has become quite modernised in many respects, and pretty much different from the way it was before Vatican II. For example, here is a Mass celebrated by a retired Catholic bishop, Bishop Remi Joseph De Roo:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NSbiL3XduvY
I have never understood why garbage like this happens.
A link to that freak show has already been posted on this thread. Second, it is not at all a representative example of the 2002 Missale Romanum. It may not even be valid---it goes without saying that it is gravely illicit, not to mention celebrated by likely excommunicated heretics.
But if a Mass by a Catholic bishop in good standing with the Catholic Church is not valid, then what does that say about the credibility of the Catholic Church?
If Francis Cardinal Arinze and Archbishop Francesco Monterisi are aware of it and they are not doing anything about it, then I would be worried.
And yet oddly enough I cannot find one example of an absurd travisty of the Divine Liturgy on Youtube, whereas it is littered with mangeled examples of the NO Roman Mass.Just a fluke I am sure... .
Well, I know next to nothing about the RCC, but as I watched this Liturgical Dance Mass linked above, it brought to mind the joyful feast of Simhat Torah (the joy of the Torah), when the usual decorum is waived in honor of the conclusion of the annual liturgical reading cycle, and people dance joyfully with the Torah scrolls. Anyhow, for some reason this movie seemed to me more godly than the one I watched yesterday with the fanatical American "5 Point Calvinists" spewing hatred and preaching the gospel of a cruel, hateful god.
Watching the clips from the liturgy and being at the liturgy are not exactly the same thing. If some people get something positive out of a more modern liturgy, then what gives people the right to go around saying that the liturgy may be invalid? The retired bishop is in good standing with the Catholic Church and I don't see how lubeltri can say that the Mass may not be valid, unless he knows something that the Catholic Church does not know.
How do you know they were not using invalid matter? And how about the intention of the bishop? The consecration was butchered. There are questions... For the sake of the communicants I certainly hope it was invalid.
The bishop is not in good standing with the Church...you don't need a decree to see that.
So you question the validity of Masses celebrated by Catholic bishops ?
What is the point? As long as a 5 piece Christian Rock Band doesn't perform at any Orthodox Divine Liturgy, there's really nothing for us to worry about? If Christian Rock Bands want to perform at RC services, let Pope Benedict XVI make that decision; after all, he claims infalliability.
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SOC 1104 Social Issues (3 credits)
Basic concepts and theories of society. Culture, social institutions, socialization, race relations, social class and gender relations as they relate to an understanding of modern society. Liberal Education Category 5
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SOC 2200 Social Movements and Change (3 credits)
A social history of social movements and change. Focuses on understanding and analyzing these dynamics as generational changes and as the emergence of broader social forces driving the major movements of the past fifty years. The shift from modernity to postmodernity sets the overall theoretical framework, with an emphasis on the dynamics of race, class, gender, environment, and culture. Liberal Education Goal Area 8.
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SOC 2210 American Culture: A Sociological Interpretation (3 credits)
This course traces the origins of American cultural patterns and institutions and examines contemporary elements of diversity and social change. Readings explore the mores associated with the American character, focusing on individualism while investigating how public and private life is framed. Unifying themes involve theoretical discussions regarding the degree to which the "decentered" experience of individuals in the United States today raises questions about the meaning of the very term "American culture." Liberal Education Categories 7 & 9
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SOC 2220 Sociology of Marriage and Family (3 credits)
A study of the various forms of family structure, including variations that occur by social class and ethnic status. Examination of the changing forms of American families throughout history and consideration of the issues and evidence surrounding the debate over the nature of the family. The topics of gender roles, romantic love, courtship, nonmarital life styles, divorce, remarriage, and stepfamilies will also be examined from the sociological frame of reference. Liberal Education Category 5
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SOC 2230 Ethnic And Minority Group Relations (3 credits)
Study of dominant-subordinate relations with emphasis on racial, cultural, and sexual domination. Examination of a variety of dominant-group tactics, including the causes and consequences of prejudice and discrimination. Prerequisite: SOC 1104 or consent of instructor. Liberal Education Categories 7 & 9
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SOC 2240 Men, Women, and Society: A Sociological Interpretation (3 credits)
Study of the construction of gender in society and the differential consequences of particular social arrangements on the lives of men and women. Examines gender, male and female sexuality, intimate relationships, gendered patterns of work and education, the gender of violence, and sociological theories of femininity and masculinity. Emphasizes changes in gendered social patterns in U.S. society in the 21st century and compares those changes to shifting patterns in other societies. Liberal Education Goal Areas 5 & 7.
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SOC 2925 People and the Environment: Sociology Perspective (3 credits)
This course is a section of the interdisciplinary environmental issues course, People and the Environment. The focus of this course is to understand that environmental problems are both problems for society and problems of society. Students explore how sociology and its unique viewpoint add much to understanding the environment/society nexus. Liberal Education Goal Area 10.
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SOC 3000 Qualitative Research Methods (3 credits)
Principles, techniques, and practices in the conduct of field research in natural social settings, focusing on participant observation, unstructured and semi-structured interviewing, use of informants, personal and public documents, content analysis, unobtrusive research techniques, interpreting narrative data, and preparation of a field research report (ethnography). Prerequisite: SOC 1104 or ANTH 1110. Also ANTH 3000.
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SOC 3001 Social Statistics (3 credits)
Introduces students to descriptive and inferential statistics and bivariate measures of association. Students learn to choose, calculate, and interpret statistics, and learn to use SPSS to help them analyze and interpret data. Prerequisites: MATH 1100 or MATH 1170 or consent of instructor.
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SOC 3002 Quantitative Research Methods (3 credits)
Examines the basic quantitative methods sociologists and other social scientists use to study diverse social processes and to improve our understanding of social issues. Students gain hands-on experiences developing a quantitative research project and work on various aspects of actual research projects. Prerequisite: SOC 3001 or consent of instructor.
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SOC 3010 Contemporary Sociological Theory (3 credits)
An overview of selected sociological theories and theorists considered against the background of the classical period of sociological theorizing in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Emphasis on comparative understanding of the major models of society - order, pluralism, conflict, etc. - that have dominated sociological thinking in the modern period. Prerequisites: SOC 1104 or consent of instructor.
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SOC 3020 Urban Sociology (3 credits)
Explores the social factors that impact the culture and politics of urban environments. Examines the history of cities and the social theories that are used to interpret urban development from modern to postmodern times. Emphasis on understanding urban enclaves, patterns of inequality, the meanings of place and space, and the impact of global economic and cultural forces on city life. Students compare and contrast current trends in U.S. development of place and community with those in other societies. Each term, students are required to travel to a U.S. metropolitan area where they engage in first-hand observations of a particular city through this sociospatial lens. Prerequisites: SOC 1104 and junior standing.
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SOC 3040 The United States and Globalization: A Sociological Perspective (3 credits)
A social history of the emergence of the United States as one of the major actors in what is referred to as "globalization." Focuses on understanding and analyzing the dynamics of political economic change and the emergence of broader social forces driving a series of globalization projects over the past fifty years. A third focus alludes to shifting sociological dynamics of globalization and the implications for race, class, gender, environment, and culture. Examines the "anti-globalization" forces through a social movement lens. Prerequisite: SOC 1104 or consent of instructor.
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SOC 3050 Environmental Sociology (3 credits)
Examines the relationship between society and the environment. Emphasis on political and economic institutions and the consumer lifestyle and values. Considers how the treadmill of production affects ecosystems and discusses possible solutions to environmental problems.
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SOC 3120 Organizations in Society (3 credits)
An analysis of complex organizations in societies. Examines the rise of bureaucracy in business and government, following through to contemporary times, and contemporary shifts in form from modern to postmodern. Emphasizes the tensions, contradictions, and paradoxes found in these organizational arrangements. Other topics may include the differential experiences of workers in complex organizations. Prerequisite: SOC 1104 or consent of instructor.
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SOC 3230 Social Psychology (3 credits)
An overview of theory and research in social psychology from a sociological viewpoint. Emphasizes the impact of social location on thought, behavior, and emotion. Explores patterns of interpersonal relationships and small group processes, and why humans establish certain "taken-for-granted" meaning systems and ways of being. Prerequisite: SOC 1104 or consent of instructor.
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SOC 4700 Career Preparation (3 credits)
Provides students with an opportunity to explore careers that require the substantive knowledge and skills developed through their course of study. Students identify their career interests, create resumes and cover letters, engage in mock interviews, and explore graduate school options. They are also asked to consider how they might use their sociology skills and knowledge in their future roles (as individual, employee, citizen). Prerequisites: Junior or senior standing and Sociology major.
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President Obama Addresses Nicki Minaj's Mitt Romney Lyric
Rapper Nicki Minaj sparked an unnecessary controversy over her Mitt Romney line, "I'm a Republican voting for Mitt Romney, you lazy b—-es is f—ing up the economy," on Lil Wayne's 'Mercy (Freestyle).' President Obama called in to Orlando station Power 95.3 on Monday (Sept. 10) to weigh in on Nicki's lyrics.
President Obama admitted that his daughters Malia and Sasha don't listen to the Harajuku Barbie often, but he does keep tabs on what they are playing on their music players.
"You know, I don't think they really listen to Nicki Minaj that much. But let's face it, they are now hipper than me," he said. "There's a certain point where your kids get old enough where they're just hipper than you are, and Michelle and I, for folks of 50 — or as she likes to point out close to 50, because she's not 50 yet — we try to keep up so we've got a nice hip-hop collection on our iPods."
When asked directly about Minaj's infamous Mitt Romney line, President Obama shrugged it off. "Yeah, I'm not sure what actually happened. I think she had a song on there, a little rap that said that," he said. "But she likes to play different characters. So I don't know what's going on there."
Minaj has yet to explain her point behind the lyrics but she did go on Twitter to thank POTUS for understanding her rhyme (and reason). She tweeted:
Ha! Thank you for understanding my creative humor & sarcasm Mr. President, the smart ones always do… *sends love & support* @barackobama
— Nicki Minaj (@NICKIMINAJ) September 10, 2012
Awesome! Now I can tell my grandchildren that the 1st black President of the United States took the time to address a Nicki Minaj question
— Nicki Minaj (@NICKIMINAJ) September 10, 2012
So maybe Nicki Minaj is not a Republican after all? (*Kanye Shrug*) Either way, don't forget to vote on Election Day, which is Nov. 6.
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"District B13" is another captivating fisticuffs production from the fertile mind of producer/writer Luc Besson ("Unleashed," "Kiss of the Dragon," "The Transporter"), who now seems determined to show the world that the French make the best action films around. And adding "District B13" to the list makes it incredibly difficult to disagree with him.
After supervising the international edit of the dazzling Tony Jaa actioner, "Ong-Bak," it seems Besson has found a taste for the high-flying, fat-free form of violent cinema where sheer athletic spectacle replaces screenwriting obesity. Sticking closely to the "no wire work" policy of "Ong-Bak," "District B13" introduces the world to Belle and his "Parkour" style of choreography, which uses freedom of movement to get from place to place as directly as possible. The opening 20 minutes of the film are basically a demonstration of the skill, featuring Belle smashing quietly through tiny windows, jumping fluidly from rooftop to rooftop, and generally running circles around the bad guys Road Runner-style. It's striking footage, and sends the film off on an exhilarating note.
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Unless of course the TV has a Kinect like interface.
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My name is Rowena and I am a foundation addict.
Which is why despite buying 5 foundation this month I just had to buy the new Shu Uemura offering, the Nobara Cream Cover Stick Foundation:
She Uemura base products I used and stopped using using many moons ago. Its nice stuff. Nice. Not as good as RMK. Better than a lot of other brands out there but not quite spectacular.
The old Nobara foundation I had came in the cheap plastic case and was a very thick, rich, creamy base with medium to high coverage. It was absolutely not for oily skin types – it had a greasy feel to it but I was a fan.
Well, Nobara is back but in stick form. I have a soft spot for stick foundations because they are just so easy – I have tried Bobbi Brown (I like), Laura Merciers (bit too dry), Shiseido (too much fragrance) and a few others.
I went to the counter near me in Selfridges and the SA's were a little on the plank side. Not particularly helpful. The guy who served smelt of fags and proceeded to tell me that everything was Limited Edition, once I said I liked LE stuff.
I also told him I have 95% of all the Shu Eyeliners and Eyeshadows but he kept picking out things for me, that were "new" when I knew very well that that they weren't….but I digress.
Testing the foundation on my hand (tsk!) he picked out shade 734 which is mighty dark in the tube. I am about a NC35 – this looks pretty dark to me, perhaps more suited to an Indian skintone:
Anyway, to stop the SA breathing on me I bought the damn foundation – it was a rather steep £30.Credit to Shu though – they have shades from a very light almost white colour to a fairly dark brown – a lot of Japanese brands just stick to lighter shades but I guess Shu is aware that if you are going international, you need a range of skintones.
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A new stick version of shu uemura's cult favorite, nobara cream foundation, formulated to give the instant high coverage of a concealer with the smooth glide of a foundation.
It is indeed a thick, creamy foundation. It is very much like the old version of Nobara, in that it is high coverage and rich but its less greasy too which is a good thing.
Its very very soft – no dragging or warming up needed which is great as I live in a cold climate!
I can see how this would work as a concealer stick too – like I said the coverage is medium to high and would work well on blemishes. A bit heavy all over – maybe, if you are used to say, tinted moisturiser. Otherwise just blend it out with your brush or sponge – it will look fine.
Colour is a tad warm but its ok. It will do.
I have ordered the mousse UV primer and the powder to go along with this and I'm going to see if the whole shebang creates a flawless, long lasting finish on me.
At the moment I am using samples from the Armani counter of Masterpiece Primer, Lasting Silk Foundation and Loose Powder and its a gorgeous combination. I want to know if Shu can match up!
I always knew I was going to buy this because I was a fan of the original Nobara but I wasn't really excited by it. £30 is also expensive, I think, for a stick foundation.
The packaging is plain, the product does exactly what it says. I don't feel like my skin is glowing though, and it definitely needs some powder to set it or its crisco-face all the way.
Its a good stick. I will keep it in my good-to-go make up bag, and whip it out for touch ups, but not as my every day fail proof base.


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Lafourche Parish spent more than $170,000 on a hearing in which a judge decided a Thibodaux man was not mentally competent to stand trial in the decapitation murder of his son, the parish district attorney said.
Lafourche Parish spent more than $170,000 on a hearing in which a judge decided a Thibodaux man was not mentally competent to stand trial in the decapitation murder of his son, the parish district attorney said.
The District Attorney's Office was billed this amount from a New York-based group of expert psychologists and psychiatrists, which includes the hours spent reviewing documents about the defendant Jeremiah Wright, examining him and sitting through the six-day hearing.
The panel charged $500 an hour, a rate the District Attorney's Office agreed upon beforehand. The rate is on par with other psychiatrists and psychologists, District Attorney Cam Morvant II said.
"I'm not going to cut corners considering what is at stake," Morvant said. "Money is important to me because, obviously, I'm dealing with the public's money. But I want to make sure I'm presenting an adequate case, and that becomes paramount to me."
The bill is not a surprising or unprecedented amount, the district attorney said.
In comparison, the 2009 trial for Amy Hebert, who was convicted of stabbing her two children to death two years earlier, cost about $300,000, he said.
"Mental health cases are some of the most expensive because of the experts required and the complexity of the issues," Morvant said.
The majority of the $172,652.71 that the group, called The Forensic Panel, billed Morvant's office consisted of the time spent on the case, he said. That can be broken down into two parts: time spent reviewing and preparing for Wright's case and time spent at the courthouse.
During the trial, witnesses, attorneys and Judge John LeBlanc repeatedly referred to the 5,000 pages of information they had to review about Wright. This included not only the case file about the decapitation of 7-year-old Jori Lirette in Wright's Thibodaux house but also Wright's past foster care and mental health reports, Morvant said.
Historically, mental health cases "are more costly than other types of cases because you're not just looking at a moment in time," Morvant said.
Even so, the Thibodaux Police report from Lirette's Aug. 14, 2011, killing is anything but brief. Earlier this month, Morvant stood in what has been dubbed the "Jeremiah Wright" room because of its filing cabinets and boxes of files on the case, One cardboard box contains the police report, which is 11 books of documents, each a few inches thick. Another cardboard box, also filled with books, consists of police photos.
Then, there's the time the one psychiatrist and one psychologist from The Forensic Panel spent at the Lafourche Parish Courthouse, Morvant said. Michael Welner, who heads the panel, and Manfred Greiffenstein spent most of the six-day hearing in the courthouse, and the District Attorney's Office paid for that time.
"That's beyond my control. ... That's on my mind. I know the meter, the clock, is ticking," Morvant said.
Every day, someone picked up Welner and Greiffenstein from a Thibodaux hotel about 7:30 a.m. They would eat lunch with the District Attorney's Office, have a working dinner at the office and talk about case till 9 p.m. or 10 p.m.
Ultimately, prosecutors chose not to put Welner on the stand during the hearing, which began in late January and stretched into February. Greiffenstein did testify. In his review of the hearing, LeBlanc dedicates eight paragraphs to what Greiffenstein said — more than he writes about some of the district attorney's witnesses, though less than what he writes about statements from Wright's doctors at the Jackson mental health facility.
Although there will likely be future competency hearings for Wright in the Lafourche Parish Courthouse, Morvant said costs may not surpass that of Amy Hebert's. Those of on The Forensic Panel have already formulated their opinions, and all future work will be review.
"When you look at that figure, it shocks you. ... But the bulk of the work has been done," Morvant said.
Greiffenstein, reached Monday, said he can't comment on his role in the case while it's still ongoing.
Overall, the costs of flights and hotel stays were a fraction of The Forensic Panel's bill, Morvant said.
During the hearing, Cecelia Bonin — one of Wright's defense attorneys — mentioned to LeBlanc that she was concerned her team was nearly over budget as the six-day hearing stretched into the weekend.
Bonin's team, The Capital Defense Project of Southeast Louisiana, which is state funded, could not be reached for comment about how much Wright's hearing cost on its end. However, the team also called two expert witnesses to the stand, one of whom is psychologist Richard Rogers. Rogers wrote two psychological tests that doctors administered to Wright. He often serves as an expert in court trials and in media interviews.
The Capital Defense Project also called a psychologist to the stand who formerly worked at the Jackson facility.
The remaining witnesses, called by the prosecution and defense, are employed by the Jackson facility, and the state Department of Health and Hospitals paid for their time, Morvant said. The District Attorney's Office paid for their lunches.
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The identity motivates our development; for it implies that Nhk(b) is a generalized binomial coefficient and therefore it is reasonable to suspect that Nhk(b) could be used to generate "generalized powers" [i.e., just as can be used to generate ordinary powers [i.e., ].
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Logical Approximation for Program AnalysisMy paper with Frank Pfenning, Logical Approximation for Program Analysis, has been accepted to HOSC. This paper extends of the work from the PEPM 2009 paper Linear logical approximations [ACM Link] - the acceptance is actually to a HOSC special issue on PEPM 2009. However, this paper also synthesizes a lot of stuff from our LICS 2009 paper Substructural Operational Semantics as Ordered Logic Programming. The point of this journal paper is to provide a story about allowing substructural operational semantics specifications of programming language, written in the style of the LICS 2009 paper/my thesis proposal, to be approximated. The approximation process lets us derive program analyses like control flow and alias analysis in the style of the PEPM 2009 paper.
Anyway: PDF, which I'm still polishing for final submission this weekend.
It occurs to me that I should write some more substructural operational semantics posts on this blog, seeing as that's my thesis topic and all.
Constructive Provability LogicSince Bernardo and I got the principles of constructive provability logic nailed down, we've done a little more exploring. The most important thing about this paper, relative to the technical report, is that it presents a less restricted version of constructive provability logic (the "de-tethered variant" CPL*); I think this less restricted version is going to be critical to understanding logic programming through the lens of constructive provability logic, which is my ultimate goal for the project. The second new thing about the paper is that we nailed down (with one perplexing exception) which of the "normal" axioms of intuitionistic modal logic do or don't hold.
What does this mean? Well, any classical logician will tell you that, in order to be a modal logic, you have to obey one axiom - the "K" axiom, □(A → B) → □A → □B - and one rule, which is that if you can prove A with no assumptions then you can also prove □A ("necessitation"). And any intuitionistic modal logic worth its salt is going to do the same, so far so good. However, intuitionstic modal logic also has a possibility modality ◇A. In classical logic saying something is possible is the same as saying that it's not necessarily false, so ◇A is defined as ¬□¬A. But in intuitionistic logic we tend to think of possibility as a genuinely different thing, and that's where stuff gets complicated. The two most important proof theories for intuitionistic modal logic are probably Alex Simpson's IK - which describes a whole bunch of intuitionistic modal logics - and Pfenning-Davies S4, which describes S4. Some of the axioms that Simpson claims are fundamental to intuitionistic modal logics, like (◇A → □B) → □(A → B), don't hold in Pfenning-Davies S4; it turns out that particular axiom doesn't hold in constructive provability logic, either.
As we discuss in the paper, it seems like the de-tethered variant, CPL*, lies between Pfenning-Davies S4 and Simpson-style S4 on the "which axioms hold" meter, whereas CPL (the tethered version of constructive provability logic from the tech report) may or may not have the same "normal" axioms as Pfenning-Davies; we are currently stuck on whether the ◇◇A → ◇A holds in CPL - it definitely holds in CPL*, Simpson-style S4, and Pfenning-Davies S4, but we are a bit perplexed by our inability to prove or disprove it in CPL.
Here's the PDF, and here's the bitbucket repository with all our Agda. As a side note, "oh, all these proofs are in Agda so we're not discussing them" makes the whole "omitted due to space" thing feel way, way less sketchy. This is just a submission at this point, so comments are especially welcome!


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WASHINGTON, Feb. 11 (UPI) -- U.S. Federal Reserve Vice Chairwoman Janet Yellen said it was too early to change monetary policy at the central bank, given the state of the labor market.
"My colleagues and I are acutely aware of how much workers have lost in the past five years," Yellen said in a speech prepared for an AFL-CIO conference Monday.
"With employment so far from its maximum level and with inflation currently running, and expected to continue to run, at or below the [central bank's] 2 percent longer-term objective, it is entirely appropriate for progress in attaining maximum employment to take center stage in determining the [monetary] policy stance," she said.
The Wall Street Journal reported Monday Yellen pointed to exogenous headwinds that are slowing the U.S. economy, including the sovereign debt crisis and economic slowdown in Europe.
She also said the 6.5 percent threshold the Fed recently said was a target unemployment rate that would signal time for a monetary policy change was a guideline, not a set trigger for change.
If the unemployment rate falls below 6.5 percent, "action is possible but not assured," MarketWatch reported she said.


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Sale, White Sox shut out Angels
Anaheim, CA – Chris Sale didn't flirt with a no-hitter this time, but again sailed along against the LA Angels of Anaheim.
Sale followed his one-hitter and first career shutout against the Angels last Sunday by blanking them for 7 2/3 innings in this one, and the Chicago White Sox picked up a 3-0 win in the second test of a four-game set.
"To come back against a lineup like that in a week proves how good he is," White Sox manager Robin Ventura said of Sale. "This is the best two games in a week he's pitched."
Sale (5-2) had his perfect game broken up by Mike Trout with one out in the seventh inning in his last outing. The southpaw, who extended his scoreless inning streak to 23, fanned 12 and surrendered just three hits and three walks to pick up the win.
"He has good movement and threw the ball hard. We didn't get many good looks tonight," Angels manager Mike Scioscia said of Sale.
Alex Rios and Adam Dunn smacked solo homers for Chicago, which has won a season-high four consecutive tilts.
Addison Reed fired a 1-2-3 ninth to notch his 14th save of the year.
C.J. Wilson (3-3), who matched zeroes with Sale for six innings before giving up three in the seventh Sunday, was again the hard-luck loser. He allowed two runs on six hits and two walks over seven frames for the Angels, who have dropped five of their last six games.
The White Sox pushed across a run in the first, seventh and ninth.
Rios extended his hitting streak to 12 games in the opening frame when he launched a two-out solo shot into the rock pile in left center.
Dayan Viciedo had a one-out single to center in the seventh, advanced to second on Jeff Keppinger's groundout and scored when Conor Gillaspie slapped a single to center.
Dunn scalded a one-out liner over the wall in left in the ninth to increase Chicago's margin to 3-0.
Trout reached third in the first, but the Angels only got a runner to second one other time in the contest.
Game Notes
Sale is 10-0 lifetime against the AL West ... Rios and Viciedo both had two hits ... Chicago was 1-for-4 with runners in scoring position, while the Angels were 0-for-3 with RISP.


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By Steven Mufson
Washington Post Staff Writer
Friday, October 30, 2009
Two months ago, Chevron released statements and videotapes provided by two men that it said cast doubt on the integrity of a court in Ecuador, where the company is fighting demands that it pay billions of dollars to fix damage done years ago by oil exploration in the Ecuadoran Amazon.
But on Thursday doubt was cast on the integrity of one of those men by Amazon Watch, a group associated with the plaintiffs in the case against Chevron. Citing public records, the group said that Wayne Hansen, described by Chevron as "an American businessman," was found guilty and served jail time in a 1986-87 drug case for conspiring to import 275,000 pounds of marijuana. In addition, the group said, Hansen had a series of legal scuffles in his hometown of Bakersfield, Calif. He lost civil lawsuits for an attack by his pit bulls on a neighbor and for damaging a neighbor's wall with a jackhammer, the Associated Press said.
The Post confirmed that Hansen was indicted in Texas in a 1986 drug case and that he lost a $5,000 small-claims-court dispute in 2007 (which he failed to pay), a $8,846 civil judgment in 1998, and a $2,527 judgment in 1992.
"The man they've portrayed as a Good Samaritan is actually a convicted drug trafficker who has led a life that has skirted the edge of the law for many years," said Steve Donziger, a New York lawyer representing people who live in the Amazon in the long-running legal battle. "Chevron either never disclosed this information about Hansen or never looked into who he was. Either of those revelations would be stunning for a large company trying to make the claims it has about this case."
Trevor Melby, a lawyer for Hansen, confirmed Hansen's legal history, but said, "I don't believe that it changes what was shown on the tapes. The tapes that were made really speak for themselves." He also asserted that Hansen worked for himself. "The previous question was whether he worked for Chevron or whether I did, and the answer to both questions is no," Melby said.
Chevron reiterated on Thursday that Hansen's background did not alter the evidence it said appeared in videotapes he made with a former Chevron contractor, Diego Borja. Hansen and Borja said that in order to obtain environmental remediation contracts, they were asked to pay a $3 million bribe to a person who identified himself as an official from Ecuador's ruling party. That person then arranged for the judge to attend what Chevron called an "inappropriate meeting" with Hansen and Borja.
Chevron asserts that the videotape of that meeting, made with spy cameras in a watch and a pen, shows that the judge led the two men to believe that he had already decided the case against Chevron. Separately, the person who said he was a party official said the judge would get $1 million of the bribe.
"Chevron does not believe it can get a fair trial in this case," said company spokesman Donald Campbell.
But Amazon Watch says it isn't clear from the videotape whether the judge understood the questions Hansen was asking or that anything he said suggested corruption in the case.
The judge, Juan Evangelista Nunez, said that the video was edited and misconstrued and that he agreed to meet Hansen and Borja as a favor to a friend to explain the lawsuit. But Nunez recused himself anyway.
Amazon Watch also said that there wasn't any evidence that Hansen had ever worked for any company involved in environmental remediation. It quoted news reports suggesting that the person who claimed to be an official of Ecuador's ruling party wasn't actually a party official.
Now Ecuadoran authorities are investigating what connections, if any, Hansen and Borja had with Chevron prior to making the videotapes. "Chevron has had no past association with Mr. Hansen," said Chevron's Campbell. He added that "Mr. Borja brought the videos to Chevron's attention."
Both men are in the United States. Chevron has said that it is currently providing financial assistance to Borja, who said in an affidavit that he moved to the United States with his family for fear for his safety if he remained in Ecuador. Thomas F. Cullen Jr., a senior partner at Jones Day and outside counsel for Chevron, said that Chevron offered to pay for a lawyer for Hansen but that Hansen had not taken them up on it.
The 15-year-old lawsuit involves damage allegedly left by Texaco, which sold its holdings to PetroEcuador and which was later acquired by Chevron. Chevron says that Texaco fulfilled its cleanup obligations specified in the agreement with PetroEcuador and that the state-owned firm is solely responsible for the rest.
Cullen rejected the notion that Chevron had recruited Hansen to make the videotapes. "I'm going to go out and recruit someone for this job and I'm going to go out and get that guy? It's baloney," Cullen said. "We didn't recruit Borja or Hansen. We didn't put any words in their mouths. We didn't give them a plan. We didn't tell them what to do or say."


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No estoy alegre, sino más bien triste.
I'm not happy, (I'm actually) somewhat sad.
The question was:
What's the difference between sino and más bien, and why are they used together?
Good question!
Let's answer it by taking out the pieces, studying them in isolation and putting them back together again. Starting with sino.
{Negative statement}, sino {alternative}
The first thing you need to know about sino is that it brings along a hint of formality–you probably wouldn't use it to pick a fight at a dive bar, but it would be very appropriate when trying to convince a police officer that you're not guilty:
Agente, le juro que no fui yo el que robó ese coche, sino mi primo.
Messenger Wristlets Leather Shoulder Bag Party Chain Women's Dinner Black Pattern Wallet Crocodile Clutch Agent, I swear (to you) that I wasn't the one who stole that car, (it was) my cousin.
Sino deserves to be part of your Spanish arsenal because it's perfect for one thing: providing an alternative to a negative statement.
In this example, the negative statement is no fui yo el que robó ese coche and the alternative is mi primo. SinoClutch Handbag Bag evening Evening Luxury Silver Wallet Ladies European Diamond Banquet Evening Fly53 Dinner bag Bag Color BLACK American And Bag FLY a677FBq makes that transition seamless by pointing the finger at your cousin and helping you stay out of jail.
The alternative to using Crocodile Clutch Leather Pattern Women's Wristlets Wallet Chain Bag Black Party Dinner Messenger Shoulder sino would be to start a new sentence and repeat the verb:
Agente, le juro que no fui yo el que robó ese coche. Fue mi primo.
Agent, I swear (to you) that I wasn't the one who stole that car. It was my cousin.
When do you use sino?
Anytime you have two opposing statements (one positive and one negative), and you want to sound smart, you can use sino:
Party Clutch Dinner Women's Pattern Leather Chain Wristlets Messenger Crocodile Bag Black Shoulder Wallet No me gustan los gansos. Me gustan los caballos.
I don't like (the) geese. I like (the) horses.
No me gustan los gansos, sino los caballos.
I don't like (the) geese, (I like) (the) horses
For sino to do its magic, something non-obvious needs to come after it, otherwise you'll look like one of those people who stick their pinky out when they're drinking tea:
Mi cuarto no está sucio, sino limpio.
My room is not dirty, (it is) clean. (Sounds kinda pedantic.)
Don't feel the need to put on your fancy sino gloves just to highlight that clean means the same as not dirty.
I can't think of any non-obvious opposing adjective to finish that example, so let's make it more interesting by using a conjugated verb:
Mi cuarto no está sucio, sino que está menos limpio que el tuyo.
My room is not dirty, (what happens is that) it's less clean than yours.
Wait a minute. What's that que doing after sino?
{Negative statement}, sino que {alternative with a conjugated verb}
When the alternative contains a conjugated verb, we need to use sino que instead of the plain sino:
—No quedó con nosotros, sino que se fue con su novia.
"He didn't meet up with us, (what happened was that) he went (out) with his girlfriend."
—Bueno, eso no lo decidió él, sino que lo decidió ella.
Crocodile Messenger Clutch Wallet Black Women's Dinner Leather Shoulder Chain Wristlets Bag Party Pattern "Well, he didn't decide that, (what happened was that) she decided it."
For our purposes, a conjugated verb is any verb that isn't an infinitive or a gerund. Grammar junkies call these nonfinite forms, but we can just call them to-verbs and -ing verbs:
—Lo siento por lo de ayer. No quería que te enfadaras, sino hablar contigo.
"I'm sorry about yesterday. I didn't want you to get mad, (what I wanted was) to talk to you."
—Tú dirás lo que quieras, pero no me llamaste para hablar, sino buscando pelea.
Bag Crocodile Leather Party Clutch Women's Dinner Wallet Wristlets Messenger Chain Shoulder Black Pattern "(You will say) what you want, but you didn't call me to talk, (you did it) looking (for a) fight."
The to-verb in the first sentence is hablar (to talk) and the -ing verb in the second one is buscando (looking). These are the only two verb forms that use sino–every other verb form uses sino que.
Got it.
What about más bien?
Más bien
Más bien, like sino, is also a bit of a fancy word choice, especially when used by itself. It has two subtly different meanings that serve to tone down what comes after them: somewhat and rather.
—Me siento más bien nervioso por este negocio.
I feel somewhat nervous because of this business.
—En tu lugar, yo pensaría más bien en las ganancias que nos esperan.
In your place, I would rather think about the profits that await us.
Since más bien is not often used by itself, let's focus on its meaning as a sino-sidekick.
{Negative statement}, sino más bien {alternative}
I think we're ready now. Let's decode the sentence that sparked this article:
No estoy alegre, sino más bien triste.
I'm not happy, (I'm actually) somewhat sad.
No estoy alegre is a negative statement, más bien triste is the toned-down alternative, and sino is the fancy glue that connects them by highlighting their differences.
In case you're curious, we can easily add a conjugated verb to the alternative:
No estoy alegre, sino que más bien me siento triste.
I'm not happy, (I actually) feel somewhat sad.
But anyway, enough sadness!
Since we've spent a bunch of time exploring the sino archipelago, we might as well visit some of its nearby islands before we sail back home.
Bonus 1: {Implicit negative statement} sino {alternative}
Up until now, we've dealt with explicit negative statements (no fui yo el que robó ese coche, no me gustan los gansos, no estoy alegre), but sometimes Spanish people get poetic and omit the negative thing. When the thing we negate is implicit, sino means except:
No quiero sino tu amor.
I don't want (anything), except your love.
The explicit version would be:
No quiero nada, sino tu amor.
I don't want (anything), (I want) your love.
Unless your day job is to write lyrics for Enrique Iglesias don't bother with the implicit sino. A much more common alternative is to just use excepto or otra cosa que:
No quiero otra cosa que tu amor.
Crocodile Wristlets Wallet Women's Black Dinner Shoulder Messenger Party Chain Leather Pattern Clutch Bag I don't want (any) other thing besides your love.
Bonus 2: {Negative statement with solo}, sino {additional members}
When the negative statement starts with no… solo, it indicates that a partial list is coming. In this situation, sino is used to introduce the missing list members:
Clara no es solo mi novia y mi amiga, sino también mi contable.
Clara is not only my girlfriend and my friend, (she is also) my accountant.
In these cases, sino is optionally followed by también or además (too, also, as well)
Bonus 3: pero
What's this island doing here?
Well, you might have noticed that I have stubbornly avoided translating sino as but. I've done this to minimize the chances that you'll confuse sino with pero, but in case you do, remember that but is only pero if you can replace it with although:
—Me apetecía verte hoy, pero hasta mañana no puedo.
"I felt like seeing you today, (but/although) until tomorrow, I can't."
—Pues yo no contaba con verte hoy, sino mañana, así que perfecto.
"(Well) I wasn't counting on seeing you today, (but/I was counting on seeing you) tomorrow, so that's perfect."
Bonus 4: si no
Last confusing island. What happens if there is a space between si and no?
Sino and si no mean completely different things, but it's such a common error (even among natives) that we can't wrap up this article before dealing with it:
No puedo terminar la tortilla si no me pasas los huevos.
I can't finish the Spanish tortilla if you don't pass me the eggs
Sin huevos no sería una tortilla, sino unas tristes patatas fritas.
Without eggs it wouldn't be a Spanish tortilla, (it would be) (a bunch of) sad fried potatoes.
Since you speak English, you actually have a leg up on the natives: if it makes sense to stick an if… not in place of si no leave a space; otherwise, use sino.
In case you're wondering, natives use a different trick: if it feels right to add a subject between si and no, leave a space; otherwise, don't.
That's enough exploring for one day. Time to sail back home.
Spanish takeaways
Black Wristlets Party Wallet Shoulder Chain Leather Clutch Bag Messenger Women's Crocodile Dinner Pattern Sino is a mildly formal but elegant way to provide a non-obvious alternative to a negative statement, without having to start a new sentence.
If the alternative contains a conjugated verb (any verb except a to-verb or a -ing verb), we use sino que instead of sino.
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Spanish words are easier to learn when you get a feel for their usage, rather than relying on direct translations from English (that's where most of the pero/sino and por/para confusion comes from).
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Bill has won two Eclipse Awards for turf writing, five Red Smith Awards for best Kentucky Derby stories, two David Woods Awards for best Preakness stories and the National Turf Writers' Association's Walter Haight Award and Pimlico's Old Hilltop Award for career contributions to racing. He was part of the Los Angeles Times team that won a Pulitzer Prize in 1995 for its coverage of the Northridge earthquake the year before.
Bill came to the Times from the Thoroughbred Racing Associations, where he was assistant to the executive vice president. Before that, he covered a variety of sports for newspapers in East St. Louis, Baltimore, Louisville, Pittsburgh and Chicago, including a stint as sports editor of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. He wrote Roberto!, a biography of the Hall of Fame baseball player Roberto Clemente, in 1972. His first job in racing was in the front office of the old Commodore Downs track in Erie, Pa.
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