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TOKYO – Japan's trade deficit surged to a monthly record of 2.8 trillion yen ($27.4 billion) in January as imports jumped 25 per cent, underscoring the challenge the country faces in restoring export-driven growth.
A weakening in the Japanese yen over the past year has failed to boost exports as much as hoped while imports of oil and gas, food and other products have surged. Consumers and businesses are thought to be stepping up purchases ahead of an April 1 sales tax hike.
The Finance Ministry reported Thursday that exports rose 9.5 per cent from a year earlier to 5.25 trillion yen ($51.5 billion) while imports were 8.04 trillion yen ($78.8 billion).
The previous record monthly deficit was 1.63 trillion yen, in January 2013.
Exports have suffered, meanwhile, as global growth has remained sluggish, but should pick up as the recovery gains momentum, Marcel Thieliant of Capital Economics said in a commentary.
"But the monthly numbers may well look worse before they get better," he said.
Japan's deficit with China also surged, to a record 1.04 trillion yen ($10.2 billion), as imports jumped 34 per cent while exports climbed 13 per cent.
Imports have been rising relative to exports as Japanese manufacturers increasingly shift production overseas, to be closer to customers in fast-growing developing nations and to reduce their own costs, resulting in trade deficits with many neighbouring countries.
Exports to the U.S. climbed 22 per cent, to 1.02 trillion yen ($10 billion) while imports rose 26 per cent to 656.4 billion yen ($6.4 billion), leaving Japan with a surplus of 367.2 billion yen ($3.6 billion).
Japan's large and growing reliance on imports of crude oil and gas, especially after its nuclear plants were closed following the March 2011 disaster in Fukushima, has vastly increased its import bill.
Energy imports have not risen significantly in volume terms over the past year, though they have surged in dollar value due to the weakness of the Japanese yen resulting from a flood of stimulus meant to jolt the economy out of its deflationary doldrums.
The volume of Japan's crude oil imports from the Middle East was up 5 per cent in January from a year earlier, but their cost soared 28 per cent. Food import costs rose 14 per cent.
Exports of electrical machinery, semiconductors and vehicles contributed to the nearly 10 per cent increase in exports. But exports of cars fell 1.4 per cent in volume terms, despite rising 13 per cent in value.


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I see this "the song has some contradicts". The title is lullaby, but it can be happy theme or sad in same time. Depends on you what you want.
Ideas for example;
- calm Space with Planet Earth or something - spots or hype (autumn, colors)
Main file in mp3 320kbs.

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We are facing a planetary crisis that is unparalleled in human history. There is overwhelming scientific evidence that we are at a tipping point. Species extinction is accelerating, global warming is melting the polar icecaps at a rate that exceeds all scientific predictions, and our air, water, and soil is rapidly becoming a toxic soup that is ending up in our own bodies. We have only a few years to reorient ourselves and avert a disaster from which there may be no return.
Decades of materialistic philosophy have served to void the cosmos of any sacred dimension resulting in an economic ideology that turns the natural world into a "resource" for human consumption. "What your people call natural resources, our people call kin", a local indigenous chief told me at a recent workshop. The theological models we have employed in the church have lacked the power to counter that assumption that human beings alone are centers of meaning in an otherwise dead universe.
The good news is that there is an emerging groundswell of people who are awakening to a universe that is alive, purposeful, and unfolding in trajectory toward increased complexity, consciousness, and compassion. It is dawning on many of us that after 13.7 billion years, we are the presence of the evolutionary process that has become self-aware – and that while the beauty of the cosmos consists of its splendid diversity, there is no disconnection anywhere in the universe. We are concentrated amalgams of every organism, every biological process, and every cultural worldview that has preceded us. We are biologically and spiritually kin with all in the Kin-dom of God. To be an ecological Christian in the 21st is to center oneself in this kinship as spiritual practice.
A deep theology of radical interconnectedness can help Christians to address our ecological crisis. When science is stripped of its materialistic bias, this is the universe it is revealing. Either God or Spirit is intimately involved in an evolving and profoundly coherent cosmos, (in which everything is everywhere), or God will cease to be relevant in the 21st century. Mystics in every religious tradition have intuited what Isaiah realized in his famous vision – that "the whole earth is filled with the glory of God". We need an ecological theology that helps us to recover the spirituality of awe implicit in Isaiah's vision. Awakening to the sacred dimension of creation breaks the spell of consumerism and provides us with the inner resources and collective will to imagine and enact an alternative way of living upon the planet – one that is fit for our children's children.


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Tips To Help You Plan A Fulfilling Cruise
Tips To Help You Plan A Fulfilling Cruise
Cruises are some of the most exciting vacations you can choose to enjoy. They offer unbeatable value because you do not have to think about constant transportation needs from place to place and neither do you have to pay costly airfares to your destination. The cruises give you the chance to enjoy refreshing sea air helping you relax and simply enjoy the warm ocean breezes whenever. With so many ports scattered around the world, you can place a cruise travel to visit areas that you have always wanted to visit.
If you love water and water activities, then cruises will prove to be most rewarding to you. But then to enjoy the most pleasant experience you still need to plan properly for your cruise. When everything is in order from the initial stages, then you are bound to enjoy a fulfilling vacation on a ship.
1. Know the number of people cruising with you
If it is just a few of you, then planning should be easy, but you will need a lot more planning and coordination when you plan to travel with more family members and friends. If you are bringing children along, then you need to make sure that the cruise package has plenty of activities for them too. You can plan for a private kind of cruises or you can choose to pay for cruises that accommodate lots of other people headed the same direction you are. The important thing is to choose what works for you and the people you are tagging along.
2. Choose the best cruise length
Cruise packages differ in length and the vacation time you have available should help you select the length that is most suitable. A cruise can be only a few days or you can choose one that goes for a week and more. A weekend cruise can be a great choice for those with little time to spare. With so many destinations and packages, you should be able to plan a cruise length that you can afford and enjoy to the fullest.
3. Pick the best stateroom
People have different preferences when it comes to cruises and your stateroom choices should be guided by your vacation preferences. For instance, if what you dream of is lounging in a private balcony as you enjoy the gracious tropical views, then a balcony stateroom is the ideal selection. Couples can cruise in a suite or a penthouse to get the most from the cruise vacation. If you are a little pressed on a budget, then you can always settle for an inside stateroom. Some cruise packages can offer you additions such as 24 hour butler for your luxury experience.
4. Consider onboard activities
Even when you are going on a romantic cruise vacation, you will definitely need activities to fill your time on board. Find out what activities you will find on-board and how exciting they will make your cruise. Spa services, wine tasting, bingo, culinary demonstrations, live entertainments and others are some of the most popular on most cruises.


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By Jason Alderman
Help Your Mom Get Organized for Mother's Day
Mother's Day is May 11. If you're wracking your brain for ways to show your mom appreciation for all the sacrifices she made while raising you, here's a thought: Why not offer to spend some time helping to sort through her financial, legal and medical paperwork to make sure everything is in order?
Some of the areas you might want to organize include:
- Retirement income sources. Gather these documents so your mom will have a better idea how much income she'll have available throughout retirement:
- Register your mom at mySocialSecurity (www.socialsecurity.gov/myaccount) to gain access to personalized estimates of retirement, disability and survivors benefits, lifetime earnings records and estimated Social Security and Medicare taxes paid.
- You'll also need your dad's statement to determine any potential spousal or survivor benefits for which she might be eligible, so sign him up as well.
- Annual statements for pension, IRA, 401(k) or other retirement savings plans for which she's eligible. (Check your dad's statements too in case she's eligible for spousal death benefits.)
- Bank statements for checking, savings, money market and CD accounts.
- Company stock and bond certificates, and statements for other investment accounts.
Outstanding debts. Also gather monthly statements and outstanding balances owed for major expenses including: home mortgage or other property loans, home equity loan or line of credit, car loan or lease, credit cards, medical bills and personal loans.
Other important documents. Your mom should have documents instructing how she'd like her affairs to be handled, both while she's living and after death. Look for:
- Medical, homeowner/renter, auto, life, disability and long-term care insurance policies.
- A will (and possibly a trust) outlining how she wants her estate managed after death.
- Durable power of attorney and health care proxy specifying who will make her financial and medical decisions if she becomes incapacitated.
- Also, a living will tells doctors which medical treatments and life-support procedures she does or doesn't want performed.
- Birth certificate, marriage license, Social Security card, funeral plans, safe deposit box information, etc.
- Contact information for professional service providers (doctors, pharmacy, lawyer, financial advisor, bank, insurance companies, etc.) Also give these providers your own contact information in case of emergencies.
Review these documents regularly and make updates whenever her situation changes. For example, make sure that designated beneficiaries for your mom's will, life insurance and retirement plans accurately reflect her current wishes.
If you need help guiding financial discussions, Social Security has created a special website for women (www.ssa.gov/women) that provides information on retirement, disability and other issues – in English and Spanish. They also have a Retirement Estimator (www.ssa.gov/estimator) that enters her earnings information from their records to estimate her projected Social Security benefits under different scenarios (age at retirement, future earnings projections, etc.)
Another good resource is the Women's Saving Initiative, a program jointly developed by Heinz Family Philanthropies, the Women's Institute for a Secure Retirement (WISER) and Visa Inc. This program features a free book called "What Women Need to Know About Retirement," which you can download as a PDF or audio file at www.practicalmoneyskills.com/resources.
If you need professional help, consult a licensed financial planner who can design a personalized retirement strategy. If you don't know one, try the Financial Planning Association (www.plannersearch.org).


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Big Pote Watercolor Music
Regular price $ 34.00
Your Big Pote is the perfect size for a one inch binder, laptop, tablet, or folder full of music. It attaches to your gig bag with hooks and snaps and is easily removable to switch to another gig bag.
The Big Pote also comes with an attachable over-the-shoulder strap so you can use your Big Pote as a tote when you are on the go.
Designed from high quality canvas and fully lined for durability.
A different Big Tote for each band or instructor helps keep music organized and easily accessible. Instead of emptying your pockets for every change of venue, just switch your Potes!


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Quality teddy bear puppies for sale in Wisconsin!
Welcome to Wisconsinpuppies.net!
Wisconsinpuppies.net is the best place for the people of Wisconsin, Minnesota, Illinois, Iowa and everywhere else, to find the perfect happy, healthy, quality Teddy Bear puppy for sale. A teddy bear puppy is usually a cross between a Shih Tzu and a Bichon. They can also be called Shichon or Zuchon puppies.We also have Mini and Teacup Teddy bear puppies! Every Teddy Bear puppy we sell will be vet checked, vaccinated and comes with a 1 year genetic guarantee! We also have Morkie and Maltipoo puppies available. We handle all the marketing including handling calls, taking pictures, and caring for puppies for a group of small breeders and sellers. Every puppy marketed on this site is guaranteed by us.
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Rarely has the White House briefing room so resembled the main ballroom at a meeting of the Conservative Political Action Conference.
After news broke of a sweeping Justice Department subpoena of The Associated Press telephone records, White House press secretary Jay Carney didn't so much have to deal with querulous reporters pressing him on all fronts. He had to deal with citizens bristling with anger over perceived encroachments on their rights by an overweening government.
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The Association Between Forms of Aggression, Leadership, and Social Status Among Urban Youth." J Youth Adolesc. 2013;42(2):263-74."
Coaching Teachers to Detect, Prevent, and Respond to Bullying Using Mixed Reality Simulation: an Efficacy Study in Middle Schools." International Journal of Bullying Prevention. 2018;1(1)."
Free2B: Bridging the gap between theory, practice." Injury Prevention. 2016;22(Suppl 2)."
The Free2B Multi-Media Bullying Prevention Experience: An Exemplar of Scientific Edutainment." Frontiers in Psychiatry. 2020;11(679)."
Friend to Friend: A Randomized Trial for Urban African-American Relationally Aggressive Girls." Psychology of Violence. 2015;5(4):433-443."
Health-related Risks for Involvement in Bullying among Middle and High School Youth." Journal of Child and Family Studies. 2019;28(9)."
Peer Sympathy for Bullied Youth: Individual and Classroom Considerations." School Psychology Review. 2019;43(3):193-206."
The Preventing Relational Aggression in Schools Everyday Program: A Preliminary Evaluation of Acceptability and Impact." School Psych Rev. 2010;39(4):569-587."
Social cognitions, distress, and leadership self-efficacy: Associations with aggression for high-risk minority youth." Dev. Psychopathol.. 2014;26(3):759-72."
Ten-Year Trends in Bullying and Related Attitudes Among 4th- to 12th-Graders." Pediatrics. 2017;139(6)."


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JOHANNESBURG—After Mr. Gay Ethiopia entered the Mr. Gay World contest, his father cut off all communications. Mr. Gay Zimbabwe withdrew, fearing the publicity was making life difficult for his mother.
But Mr. Gay Namibia's family accompanied him to the airport for a warm send-off when he left for the competition, which culminated for him and 21 other men late Sunday in the finals at a Johannesburg casino.
"Bring the trophy home," Namibia's Wendelinus Hamutenya said his mother told him.
In the end, New Zealand's Andreas Derleth, a 32-year-old manager for a chain of stationery stores, was named Mr. Gay World. A disappointed Hamutenya said he would nonetheless return to Namibia to fight "for gay rights and human rights."
Hamutenya said his experience shows that Africans and Africa can change. On the continent, gay rights activists have been vilified, threatened and killed. Laws in dozens of African countries ban homosexual acts. Prominent African politicians ridicule gays and minor politicians grab headlines by proposing even tougher anti-gay laws.
"I hope and I believe that Namibia will be the second country in Africa to recognize the rights" of gays, Hamutenya said in an interview.
The first country is South Africa, also the first African country to host Mr. Gay World, which debuted in 2009 in Canada. The bill of rights adopted after apartheid ended in South Africa in 1994 explicitly bans discrimination on grounds of sexual orientation. Same-sex couples can marry and adopt children in South Africa.
Teboha Maitse, acting chairman of South Africa's Commission for Gender Equality, said she fought white racist rule alongside openly gay comrades, and that experience made her and others aware of the need to enact legal protections for gays. But she said when she travels farther north, "people say, 'You South Africans, you don't behave like Africans.'"
Maitse, whose government-appointed commission regularly speaks out in support of gay and lesbian rights, acknowledged in an interview that even in South Africa gays, lesbians and others who don't fit a traditional definition of the sexual norm do face discrimination and worse.
Of particular concern in recent years have been attacks on lesbians sometimes called "corrective rapes." Maitse said gay men often suffer in silence, sometimes committing suicide to escape taunts. She said poor, black gays and lesbians are particularly vulnerable because the communities in which they live are conservative.
South Africa's Mr. Gay World contestant, Lance Weyer, is white. Weyer, a psychologist who recently won office on a city council in southeastern South Africa, said gays like him have the education and money to fight back when their rights are violated. That makes it all the more important, he said, for successful gays and lesbians to speak out, both to be role models for others and to shake up conservative attitudes


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By Kim Jovinelli Internship, Independence National Historical Park Archeology Lab
MA Candidate in Museum Communication University of the Arts, Philadelphia 2013 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Archaeology has always been a large influence on my life. From a young age, I had been exposed to such historical wonders, they almost didn't seem real. I remember thinking, "How did [insert artifact name] get here?"
and "What makes it so important that it gets to sit behind glass for everyone to see?"
It didn't hurt either that my father, Anthony, exposed me to movies portraying a Fedora clad, whip brandishing Archaeologist pretty early (though I realize now that Archaeologists don't traipse the globe hunting down the bad guys and finding the [insert precious lost treasure here]). I was fortunate in that my parents both saw Archaeology was my passion and they nurtured that drive throughout my life. Which lead me to where I am now. Currently, I Intern in the Archaeology Lab at Independence National Historic Park in Philadelphia(Pennsylvania, USA) as part of my curriculum for an Masters of Art Degree in Museum Communication, in the hopes of working with archaeological or historical collections in the future. A typical week includes some usual archaeological lab work (labeling artifacts, mending artifacts, cleaning artifacts, etc), but then there are those days where I get to play with wonderful bits and pieces of the past. Under the supervision and guidance of Deborah Miller, Collections Manager (Independence Park Archeology Lab), I have been in the beginning stages of repacking and cataloging the labs collection of wood items gathered from the site where the National Constitution Center currently stands. To some, this may seem like a daunting task, but I find it fascinating. Yes, there are those random planks or small flakes of wooden items of unknown makeup. But once in a while, there are those items that are so fascinating they require a long look and some deep thought. I like to solve puzzles by nature, so pondering the origin and use of these items is of great interest and keeps my mind working.
Along with the above mentioned project, I am also working to scan and digitize photographic slides taken when the original dig took place from 2000-2003. As someone who would like to work with collections in the future and also someone who sees a more digital future brewing, a skill even as basic as being able to convert slides to digital format and organize them in a cohesive manner is of great use. I am also in the process of pulling and packaging the labs bone (fauna) collection to be sent out for This comprises my typical week. To say it is what I had hoped it would be is an understatement. It is what I can see myself continuing with in the future. My experience at Independence National Historic Park will follow me wherever I may roam, and I like that.
Ceramic and wood artifacts in the Independence National Historical Park Archeology Lab.


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Between 9.00am-3.00pm Monday to Saturday
Fly Only is a one stop shop for everything needed to enjoy game fishing. Kit yourself out with the latest fishing tackle, equipment and clothing. We are one of Yorkshire's and the North/North West premier fly fishing and fly-tying stores with many years' experience and knowledge in all areas of fly-fishing and fly-tying. We take great pride in offering the best, the most comprehensive and newest range of tackle for the modern fly angler. Whatever you are fishing for trout, sea-trout, salmon, pike or exotic saltwater species, we have the knowledge to advise you on the best tackle available.
We offer a personalised friendly atmosphere backed up with outstanding, good old fashioned customer service. We supply a great number of well-known quality products from respected brands such as: C&F Design, Costa Del Mar, Fishpond, Eumer, Sage, Greys, , Loop, Hardy, Lamson, Loon, Peak Vices, Phoenix Silk Fly Lines, Redington, Rio Fly Lines, Simms, Frodin, Vision, Sharpes Nets, Wychwood, Scierra, Anvil and many more. Our Fly Only store also features its own carefully managed onsite casting pools where customers can try out the latest range of products before they buy. We have covered all aspects of fly fishing and fly-tying and our knowledgeable and friendly staff can help you with all your fly fishing and fly tying products. Whether you are a newcomer to the sport or planning the next trip of a lifetime, we have the tackle, clothing and fly tying kit to suit everyone. You are guaranteed the finest customer service and product knowledge at Fly Only.
Our opening hours are 8.30am to 4.00pm Monday to Friday and 9.00am to 3.00pm Saturday.
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The UPD78930x Group is supported only for the customers who have already adopted any of the products. For new adoption, please consider other products such as RL78/L13 Group.
Key Features:
- Operating voltage: VDD = 1.8 to 5.5 V
- Max. frequency: 5 MHz
- ROM capacities: 8 KB to 16 KB mask ROM and 16 KB flash memory
- RAM capacities: 512 bytes
- 20-pin plastic SSOP package
- Main system clock: Ceramic/crystal oscillation
- Minimum instruction execution time can be changed from high-speed (0.4 µs: @ 5.0 MHz operation with main system clock) to ultra-low-speed (122 µs: @ 32.768 kHz operation with subsystem clock)
- I/O ports: 23
- Serial interface: 2 channels
- Switchable between 3-wire serial I/O mode and UART mode: 1 channel
- 3-wire serial I/O mode: 1 channel
- Timer: 5 channels
- 16-bit timer: 1 channel
- 8-bit timer/event counter: 2 channels
- Watch timer: 1 channel
- Watchdog timer: 1 channel
- LCD controller/driver Segment signals: 24, common signals: 4
- Vectored interrupt sources: 15
- Operating ambient temperature: TA = -40 to +85°C
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Perry says Texas abortion bill constitutional
Gov. Rick Perry says the abortion bill awaiting his signature to become Texas law is constitutional and will withstand court challenges by those who oppose it.
Perry told reporters Saturday, hours after the bill passed, that "we wouldn't have passed it if we didn't think it was constitutional."
He said he had no timetable for signing the bill, but a spokesman for the Republican governor said it could be signed midweek.
Perry said some say the measure goes too far "but most Texans don't."
Democrats promised a legal challenge.
The law will ban abortions after 20 weeks, require doctors who perform abortions to have admitting privileges at a nearby hospital and require all abortions to be done in surgical centers.


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Focus Moment
Focus Moments are short video segments highlighting Gwinnett County Public Schools news and events, reflecting GCPS' ongoing commitment to academic excellence. Watch informative feature stories and learn why GCPS continues to be the school system of choice.
Central Gwinnett High School's Student Judiciary Selected Episode
Central Gwinnett High School students who commit minor infractions find themselves facing a jury of their peers.
Produced November 2015
- Berkmar High School Academies
- Twin Rivers eCLASS Visit
- Central Gwinnett High School's Student Judiciary
- Teacher of the Year 2016
- Community Based Mentoring Program Kickoff 2015
- G-DART at Graves Elementary School
- Lanier Cluster Wins Innovation & Transformation Award
- Marching Band Exhibition 2015
- Lanier Middle School Garden Ribbon Cutting
- Dacula Cluster Honored with Innovation and Transformation Award
- Junior Achievement Discovery Center Ribbon Cutting
- Atlanta Families' Awards
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Scalia was responding to a question about the court's 1944 decision in Korematsu v. United States, which upheld the convictions of Gordon Hirabayashi and Fred Korematsu for violating an order to report to an internment camp.What's more notable than that it could happen again is to have such a clear statement that "of course, Korematsu was wrong." The law school dean, Avi Soifer, made that observation at the time.
"Well, of course, Korematsu was wrong. And I think we have repudiated in a later case. But you are kidding yourself if you think the same thing will not happen again," Scalia told students and faculty during a lunchtime question-and-answer session.
Scalia cited a Latin expression meaning "In times of war, the laws fall silent."
"That's what was going on — the panic about the war and the invasion of the Pacific and whatnot. That's what happens. It was wrong, but I would not be surprised to see it happen again, in time of war. It's no justification but it is the reality," he said.
Soifer then pushed toward a recognition that the courts should maintain their supervision of the political processes even in wartime. Scalia's remarks, as reported, don't go so far as to say that he as a judge would be able or willing to do anything about the rights violation that is, now, after the war, so clear. In fact, Scalia seems to be conceding that if it we ever were, once again, in a situation where the President did see fit to do something that drastic, the courts would not help.


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Lindsay Lohan accepts plea deal, avoids jail
Lindsay Lohan accepted a plea deal on Monday in a misdemeanor car crash case that includes 90 days in a rehabilitation facility.
The actress, who has struggled for years with legal problems, pleaded no contest to reckless driving, lying to police and obstructing officers who were investigating the accident involving the actress in June.
A judge said Lohan will be sentenced to 90 days in rehab, 30 days of community labor and 18 months of psychological therapy.
Before the "Mean Girls" actress left the courtroom, Superior Judge Superior Court Judge James R. Dabney offered her a suggestion.
"Don't drive," he said.
Lohan was on probation when her sports car crashed on Pacific Coast Highway while on her way to a film shoot.
The 26-year-old actress has been repeatedly sentenced to jail since 2007 when she was twice arrested for driving under the influence.
A hearing had been set to begin at 8:30 a.m., and Lohan arrived after 9 a.m. Lohan entered the courtroom looking slightly frazzled in a cream-colored ensemble. On her way inside, Lohan was hit with glitter by someone outside court. Once inside, she was seated next to a bailiff.
Her lawyers and a prosecutor met with the judge in chambers for more than two hours before Lohan entered the plea.
Attorney Mark Jay Heller, who represents Lohan, left the chambers several times to confer with her in a courtroom hallway.
Lohan previously pleaded not guilty.
She could face up to 245 days in jail if a judge determines she violated her probation in a 2011 theft case.
Lohan reportedly missed her original Sunday night flight from New York to Los Angeles, instead traveling on a private plane provided by a Los Angeles-based energy drink company for which she has made promotional appearances.
"Thanks Mr. Pink for the private jet see you all in a few hours in LA," she tweeted early Monday.
Lohan has resolved her numerous court problems without ever going to trial. Instead she has faced judges who have sentenced her to rehab and counseling, which even her current attorney acknowledges have not completely helped the troubled actress.
Lohan entered Monday's hearing with a lawyer whose competence has been questioned by a judge, and another set of attorneys waiting in the wings to take over.
The former Disney star has been under some form of probation since 2007, and her court troubles have stifled a once-promising career.
Lohan's return to acting last year in the Lifetime movie "Liz & Dick" was widely panned by critics and viewers. Her upcoming film by Bret Easton Ellis, called "The Canyons," co-starring porn star James Deen, is yet to be released. She will also make a guest appearance on Charlie Sheen's "Anger Management."


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A Special Guest Post on Cultural Appropriation By Handy Hunter
Cultural Appropriation in Romance
Earlier in this year of 2009, there was a Great Cultural Appropriation Debate, dubbed racefail09, that centred mainly around the SF/F genres. If you clicked on that link, it leads to a set of many, many, many links about race, racism, cultural appropriation and white privilege. (If you've never heard of these terms before – or your knee jerk reaction is to say "I don't have white privilege!" – this is a good place to start reading.)
Romance suffers from the same problem SF/F does. It's very, very white. It would also seem that readers are far more okay with reading about vampires and werewolves and demons and angels than characters of colour. That is not okay. Think about what this means for a second. And imagine, if you will, being erased in stories or always in the background, a victim, evil, maybe the best friend or sidekick. . .but never the hero of your own story. This is what appropriation does to people of colour. It is not diversity to have white people running around in foreign lands without much thought to the people who are native to those lands. I can't say I find it romantic when they're in the middle of colonizing another country either; I'm not sure how I'm supposed to root for our heroes when they're killing or enslaving other people, or condoning/profiting from it, even if they aren't actively participating (this is an issue even when white characters don't visit foreign lands, but it's a bit harder to ignore, I think, when they're in the middle of taking over another country).
Is it possible to write white people in foreign lands without it being appropriative? I don't think I've seen this done in a historical. I hesitate to say never (it's not like I've read every book in the romance genre), but at the same time, there's also the issue of creating yet another story about white people. Even if this story were remarkably absent of exoticism and respectful of the other culture, it still features white people, which means the characters of colour are in the background somewhere; this is a problem in contemporary (and fantasy) settings, as well. The stories of white people are being privileged over the stories of people of colour. If you truly mean to be diverse, write and read about people of colour. Make them the main characters of your stories. Even – or especially – in a historical romance.
I admit to reading less and less romance novels as I've grown more aware of these issues. I've also fallen out of the fandom quite a bit because there seems to be an overwhelming pressure to keep things "nice" and "polite"; I can understand the need for civil discourse, but not when tone is used as a silencing tactic so these things don't get discussed. So I read other genres, like YA, which is still mainly white, but seems to be a bit more open to diversity. There's this YA book I read the other day, Justina Chen Headley's Girl Overboard, that I fell in love with. It's everything I mean and want to see in a book when I say there ought to be people of colour in the leading roles.
Girl Overboard is about a Chinese-American teenage girl, Syrah Cheng, whose story is one of growing up, finding herself, dealing with her parents, making friends, thinking about boys, thinking about her future… And snowboarding and drawing manga. I like to think some of Syrah's emotions and experiences are universal enough that white people would be willing to read about them and perhaps even see themselves in this character; after all, it's what many people of colour often (have to) do. I appreciate that this isn't a book about race or racism; they are mentioned, but are not the main focus of the story (there's a place for those books too, but not what I always want to read). For the most part, being Chinese simply is. And it's integrated with the American culture of the Pacific Northwest because Syrah is a first generation citizen living in Seattle. This book stands out to me not only as a fabulous story, but also as a story about people of colour by a person of colour. [/plugging]
One way to combat appropriation is to let and encourage people (writers) of colour tell their own stories. I don't see a reason why this couldn't apply to romance as well. It already exists, though I've only read it in a contemporary setting with Marjorie Liu's books (her supernatural people don't bother me because she has actual characters of colour in her books. I mean, I like the X-Men. I see value in metaphors, but the metaphor of alienation, being different, being treated as sub-human, etc, only goes so far when there aren't any characters of colour in your stories, which ends up perpetuating the problems the metaphors are attempting to address.)
As a romance reader, I've grown increasingly wary of books set in "exotic" locations. I never know, if I read that story, if it's going to offend or hurt me in some way. It's easier, for me, to suspend disbelief – pretend it's a kind of fantasy or alternate history – if the story is about rich, upper-class white people doing rich, upper-class white people things. Although this is not to say it's a good thing to have "wallpaper history" as the setting, or that writers should aim for such a low standard or write alternate histories in which people of colour are erased. I am saying, when writing people of colour or another person's culture, take the time to know what you're writing about. If I never see another non-white person described as "exotic" or with "almond shaped eyes", it won't be soon enough. If nothing else, I think these are very lazy terms to use to describe someone who isn't white — it's an extremely vague description and rather insulting to be lumped together in one or two tired phrases, like all people of colour (POC) look alike (and, for some reason, we always get compared to food. What's up with that?). I would like to think it's possible for historical romances about characters of colour, set somewhere that isn't England or America, and that's respectful of the culture to exist. And that white people could write these stories alongside writers of colour telling their own stories. I'm just not sure that I've seen it, or, actually, looked for it.
I'm not saying writing is easy to do. I'm not saying writers will get writing other people and their culture(s) right all the time. And it's hard, as a reader, to come across beloved books or authors and find out their writing contains racist or white privileged ideas. I'm not saying you will cure racism. I'm not saying I want authors to defend their work; I'd like them not to continue to further get stuff wrong, though. I'm not even saying you'll be praised for your efforts (especially if you get stuff wrong — your intentions are only as good as the outcome). I am saying you should try, regardless. And I think supporting or reading books by and about people of colour is one way to do this; as is being more aware of when cultural appropriation, racism and white privilege are occurring in your fiction and perhaps even talking and educating others about it.
Janine adds: Handy Hunter, our guest blogger, has requested that we add this video of a speech given by Nigerian author Chimamanda Adichie, titled "The Danger of a Single Story," to the bottom of this opinion piece. You won't regret watching it. It's truly excellent!


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The legal and online arenas have been abuzz the recently in response to the Ninth Circuit's issued en banc opinion in U.S v. Nosal, 2012 WL 1176119 (9th Cir. April 10, 2012), addressing the reach and scope of the oft-litigated and controversial, Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA), codified at 18 U.S.C. § 1030.
The crux of the broader interest in the case has been recent applications of the CFAA criminalizing violations of website terms of use and employer restrictions on employee computer uses, stemming in particular from what the statute's term "exceeds authorized access" does and does not mean.
What's the bottomline? What do you need to know about the case's holding to apply to and recognize in your employee policies, website terms, etc.?
First, the case does not hold in my opinion, as one learned colleague has opined, that "employees are [now] free to steal from [] company computers." Far from it. After all, as the Court noted Nosal was indicted on "twenty counts, including trade secret theft, [the ever popular count of] mail fraud, [and] conspiracy," which charges remain pending, in addition to the now dismissed criminal violations of the CFAA.
It's simply not accurate to state the floodgates have opened wide for employees to run riot without penalty through every database, spreadsheet and confidential piece of information their employer has on hand.
Second, the majority's clear opinion, penned by one of the Ninth's most colorful judges, Alex Kozinski, applies the rule of lenity to decide between the two possible readings of the applicable language, resulting in a a bright-line boundary – at least for those in the Ninth Circuit – that the CFAA does "not extend to violations of [website and company policy] use restrictions" and that the CFAA's "exceeds authorized access" requirement is limited to "violations of restrictions on access to information, and not restrictions on its use."
What's peaked further attention is that the Ninth Circuit's en banc opinion re-affirms the district court's dismissal of the CFAA counts, replacing the previous Ninth Circuit panel's 2-1 opinion filed nearly a year ago, which reversed the district court's dismissal of the CFAA counts, and sets up a clear circuit split of those Courts of Appeal to have opined on the issues with the Ninth on one side and the Fifth, Seventh and Eleventh Circuits on the other side, priming the pump for potential resolution by the Supreme Court.
Until then, however, the takeaways are:
- It should not be assumed that violations of employee handbooks, confidentiality agreements and data access restrictions as to "use" of a computer system will rise to the level of a federal crime;
- Many other federal and state civil – and criminal – statutes provide adequate remedies in the event employees or others misappropriate company materials;
- The CFAA is not a rubber hammer, stretching to fit the head of every nail that a plaintiff or prosecutor wants to hammer; and
- Finally, while companies and their attorneys, certainly in Circuits outside of the Ninth will continue to press and make claims that violations of ToU's and company policies run criminally afoul of the CFAA, they make, in my sole individual opinion expressly not reflective nor representative of the opinions of either my firm or our clients, such claims are typically contrary to the law as generally understood by the populace at large. At such, I believe they do needless violence to the fraying social contract we all abide by, as well as, the increasingly tenuous legal fiction that all of us are charged with constructive knowledge of all laws.
For those needing to "get in, get out and get on" the above capsule should be enough. But for Nosal and CFAA aficionados and fans, of which I'm one, more detailed information and a collection of Nosal-related links discussing the Ninth's en banc opinion are available below.
It's a fair bet that you probably go to more interesting parties than I do, but when I'm "putting on the Ritz" I at least like to have the fact of any case I'll be animatedly discussing nailed down and readily at hand. It's a strange point of pride. So here's a basic summary of the facts of the Nosal case for your next garden party.
David Nosal was an employee with an executive search firm called Korn/Ferry until he resigned in October 2004. As part of his separation agreement, he apparently agreed to serve as an independent contractor for the company and not work for a competing firm for one year in exchange for two lump-sum payments and 12 monthly payments of $25,000 during that same period.
Not a bad gig, and simple enough, right? Well, human nature being what is it Nosal couldn't leave well enough alone and confine himself to sipping sweet adult beverages with little umbrellas in them by the pool for the next year. Instead, during the first few months of the following year he contacted three former coworkers at Korn/Ferry in the hopes of convincing them to join him in starting a competing firm.
His machinations worked, but before leaving the company, the internal trio downloaded a large amount of "highly confidential and proprietary" data from Korn/Ferry's computers, including source lists, client data, and contact information.
Fast forward to June 26, 2008 when the four men were indicted by the federal government on 20 various counts, including criminal violations of the CFAA, with the government alleging that they had exceeded their authorized access to Korn/Ferry's computers, "knowingly and with intent to defraud."
Nosal moved for dismissal on the grounds that the CFAA was intended to address computer hackers and "does not cover employees who misappropriate information or who violate contractual confidentiality agreements."
Of particular note is the fact that Nosal argued that he had not violated Section 1030(a)(4) of the CFAA, which applies to anyone who "knowingly and with intent to defraud, accesses a protected computer without authorization, or exceeds authorized access, and by means of such conduct furthers the intended fraud and obtains anything of value, unless the object of the fraud and the thing obtained consists only of the use of the computer and the value of such use is not more than $5,000 in any 1-year period." (18 USC § 1030 (a)(4)).
It was under this provision that the more serious criminal charges against the four were based– hence the strenuous challenges and appeals since. Nosal argued in response that because they had accessed the information while working for Korn/Ferry they had actual and express authorization to "access" the information. Hence the CFAA's provisions didn't apply regardless of whatever misuse may have followed.
On these grounds, Nosal et al. filed a motion to dismiss. The district court initially rejected the argument but nonetheless dismissed the five charges based on Section (a)(4). The government up'd the ante when it filed an interlocutory appeal to the Ninth Circuit on the basis that Nosal's downloading of Korn/Ferry's data was a violation of Nosal's applicable workplace computer policies and thus constituted "unauthorized access" under the CFAA.
The Ninth Circuit panel last year centered its 2-1 decision largely on whether or not Nosal and his accomplices had exceeded their authorization to use Korn/Ferry's computers, as neither party disputed that they were authorized to use the computers to some extent.
The court therefore relied heavily on earlier Circuit decisions in LVRC Holdings v. Brekka, 518 F.3d 1127 (9th Cir 2009), in which an employee had transferred work documents from his employer's computers to his personal email account and found himself sued by his employer under the CFAA for his efforts.
The court's ruling in that case strongly emphasized the difference in Section (a)(4) between "without authorization" and "exceeding authorized access", because if there were no distinction between the two, there would be no need for the latter concept; after all, if both situations were treated in the same way, then there would be no need for two different phrases, and given that a cardinal rule of judicial statutory interpretation is that no language in a statute is superfluous the two clauses must address different situations.
In light of the previous Brekka holding case, the prior Ninth Circuit panel in US v. Nosal held that an employee does "exceeding authorized access" when they use a computer in any way that violates an employer's access restrictions, including any policies governing how information on the computer may be used.
The panel elaborated on the distinctions stating "...an individual who is authorized to use a computer for certain purposes but goes beyond those limitations is considered by the CFAA as someone who has 'exceed[ed] authorized access.' On the other hand, a person who uses a computer 'without authorization' has no rights, limited or otherwise, to access the computer in question." United States v. Nosal, 642 F.3d 781 (9th Cir. 2011).
To put the original panel's holding in stark terms, they held, essentially, that it doesn't technically matter if an employee has broken any existing laws - if the employee used the computer for anything the employer prohibited them from it constituted a violation of the CFAA. The recent en banc opinion by Chief Judge Kozinski makes much of this, providing example after example of potentially probable but unexpected scenarios that, in Judge Konzinski's words "will earn you a handsome orange jumpsuit."
The En Banc Opinion
The en banc ruling, of course, as highlighted in brief interprets the CFAA as not reaching violations of terms of use or company computer usage policies as criminal infractions. The concise 22-page opinion is a quick and enlightening read, and I urge you to do so, but in the interest of completeness I should recognize the points raised in dissent by Judge Silverman, joined by Judge Tallman. Essentially the dissent poo-poo's the majorities parade of horribles, painting the majorities concerns as so many stuffed straw men, and curtly dismissing the majority's view as:
"This case has nothing to do with playing sudoku, checking email, fibbing on dating sites, or any of the other activities that the majority rightly values. It has everything to do with stealing an employer's valuable information to set up a competing business with the purloined data, siphoned away from the victim, knowing such access and use were prohibited in the defendants' employment contracts."
Perhaps. But the majority's scenarios are all too familiar to virtually every employee that has killed time on his company company with non-company functions. Where the dissent goes somewhat astray, in my opinion, is in stating that "[t]he majority also takes a plainly written statute and parses it in a hyper-complicated way that distorts the obvious intent of Congress."
An objective review of CFAA caselaw clearly shows that the statute is far from "plainly written" given scattered judicial interpretations to date. Admirably in a day and age when mens rea is increasingly and disturbingly falling by the wayside in many criminal statutory applications the dissent notes that the CFAA contains a specific mens rea, and that other Circuits have interpreted the CFAA more expansively than the majority.
Finally, the dissent notes that an as-applied challenge would still be available to the targets of the parade of horribles.
As my name isn't proceeded by the appellation Judge or Justice, my opinions are just that… opinion with no binding or authoritative effect. Still, the majority's cabining of the CFAA – in the absence of Congressional action – has found favor with many across the blogosphere and netverse.
Want more? Here's a good collection of links on the case and recent commentary:
The district court ruling: http://scholar.google.com/scholar_case?case=17426102904279126314&q=us+v+nosal&hl=en&as_sdt=2,7&as_vis=1
Original 9th Circuit ruling: http://www.ca9.uscourts.gov/datastore/opinions/2011/04/28/10-10038.pdf ; and Judge Trott's dissent: http://scholar.google.com/scholar_case?case=3965762782958557205&q=us+v+nosal&hl=en&as_sdt=2,7&as_vis=1
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40 percent Ohio school grads not college-ready
Forty percent of Ohio high school graduates weren't ready for college-level math or English when entering the state's public colleges or universities in 2012, according to new state data.
The percentage shown in the Ohio Board of Regents data indicates that more than 20,000 Ohioans paid college tuition to learn what they should have learned in high school, with the remediation rate only improving slightly from 41 percent in 2011, the Dayton Daily News reported recently.
The new data did not measure students entering private or out-of-state schools. But nationally, an estimated $3 billion is spent a year by students and states on remedial education "with little success to show for it," according to the nonprofit Complete College America organization.
The Ohio numbers also show that even local school districts rated "excellent" or better by the state have double-digit remediation rates.
"To reduce these numbers, it's not like there's one silver bullet," said Tom Lasley, executive director of Learn To Earn Dayton.
Local districts are continuing to look for ways to cut their remediation rates, according to education officials.
The Dayton City Schools district increased its graduation rate 10 points over the last three years to nearly 70 percent in the 2011-2012 school year, but that didn't improve the remediation rate, Superintendent Lori Ward said. Seventy-five percent of the district's graduates entered remedial math or English in 2012.
Lasley said one problem is the move from the 20th century model of a high school graduation culture to a college and career readiness model this century.
Lasley said some people argue that not every student needs to go to college, but he says that's not the point.
"This is about every kid graduating with sufficient skills to be able to have a living wage job and have the skills to be able to migrate from job to job," he said.
David Estrop, superintendent of Springfield City Schools in southwestern Ohio, said combined efforts helped improve that district's remediation rate to 66 percent from 70 percent in 2011. Those efforts included a Learning Café offering remedial education, extra classes and the opportunity for students and adults to meet college representatives. The district also assesses students' goals and whether they are ready for college, meeting with them individually on their progress.
Colleges also are likely to focus on developmental education under new completion plans required by June 30 and a new formula basing their funding on whether students complete classes and graduate.
"Rethinking remediation is probably going to be on almost everybody's plan," said Stephanie Davidson, vice chancellor at the Ohio Board of Regents.
She says that whether or not a student starts in developmental or remedial classes does have an impact on whether they complete college.
"Frankly, what we've done in the past with these students hasn't worked very well," she said.


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Can "The Birthday Party" be celebrated in a wide-open space? It depends, surely, on the intent of the event. As the history of the 20th century teaches us, and as the Nobel laureate Harold Pinter understood at a very early age, unwanted, destructive guests aren't averse to showing up in clearings, ready to ship off, drag out, cart away the inconvenient. Nowhere is ever really safe, even from one's own paranoia.
That said, the 27-year-old Pinter set his first full-length drama in a seedy seaside boarding house in England (Blackpool, maybe, or Brighton, or Torquay). That's a specific, confining locale; the kind of place where, if you spend too much time, the walls start closing in on you and you feel like you might disappear inside the flock wallpaper. No bad thing, that, if you're stuck inside a Pinter play.
In his new production of "The Birthday Party" for the Steppenwolf Theatre Company, Austin Pendleton decides to keep the table where Meg (Moira Harris, in her first Steppenwolf appearance in 15 years) and Petey (John Mahoney) sit to eat breakfast and chatter about their boarder, Stanley (Ian Barford) — a fellow who has secluded himself to try escape a variety of neuroses and omnipresent childhood guilt. But when Goldberg (Francis Guinan) and McCann (Marc Grapey), mysterious operatives with the kind of hidden motives common to so much of Pinter's subsequent work, show up to mess with Stanley, and to be messed with by Stanley's strange insides, you don't see Stanley pressed up against the walls, laying out his guts. There are no walls. You look through Goldberg and McCann at your fellow audience members. The action takes place on a long platform in the center of the room (designed by Walt Spangler, with costumes by Rachel Anne Healy and lights by Keith Parham). There are few sharp cues. You hear people coming around from behind the audience risers long before they arrive.
"The Birthday Party" is no piece of kitchen-sink realism (although the script does make reference to a kitchen hatch in the rear). And one surely can see the temptation of putting the late Pinter on that kind of pedestal: Most critics may have missed the merits of this admittedly opaque play in 1958, but time has proven its brilliance. Still, when you've got one half of the audience in focus-diverting full view of the other half, you risk the situation that presented itself on Saturday night. For the entire third act, I was staring at a woman fast asleep. That was an extreme example, but I wouldn't mention it if not for the broader indication that the audience as a whole was engaged only intermittently. The show was not making enough of a case for the play. That was a consequence, I think, of two fundamental problems with this production. One is the lack of a clearly rooted set of circumstances so that we know who these people are, where we are, and have a sense of the rules under attack. The other is a debilitating lack of menace, which brings with it a debilitating lack of dramatic tension.
Or, to put all this another way, the stakes are too low. And with Pinter, the stakes are a darn big part of the whole cricket match. Without some kind of normal referent in the play, any deviation from that normalcy (or what passes for normalcy in our absurd lives) just doesn't have the same impact. There's just no baseline here. The play seems to float and, well, play, but Pinter needs some sharp corners.
Pendleton, it would seem, has approached the work with the kind of freeing, self-effacing fluidity that makes him such a distinguished director of the works of Anton Chekhov (the best living American director thereof, for my money). But with Chekhov (and with the play "Time Stands Still" last season) Pendleton has been able to apply his gifts to the depiction of individualized psychological trauma and of the humor behind collective human behavior, especially as it relates to social ritual. That's a big part of "The Birthday Party," and those are the parts that work in this production, sometimes quite deliciously. But in Pinter, people are always coming to get you, if you don't get yourself first. It's that palpable fear of the external that's missing here, along with a sense of what is about to be lost.
Pendleton has cast some formidable actors in this production, all of whom bring the play to life as they take the spotlight. Barford has a couple of quite dazzling about-faces. Guinan has moments when he finds just the right mix of geniality and malevolence. Grapey gets the humor in the piece while still maintaining complexity. And, in the first act, Harris offers a really fascinating and twisted character, even if you struggle in the end to fit her into the full puzzle. Sophia Sinise, who plays the much-desired Lulu and whom Healy clearly enjoyed costuming, adds a certain eclectic poise.
But in a production crying out for more of a point of view, it's only the superb Mahoney, a natural absurdist actor, who really seems to capture the pain of these characters and their inability to control so many of their circumstances. There are two great scenes here. One is at the start of the play, when Mahoney's Petey and Harris's Meg find intimacy amidst the mundane, and when you can clearly see how Mahoney's deckchair attendant has found solace in the nurturing of another, and the fear that comes therewith. The other is at the end, when Petey says to Stan, "Don't let them tell you what to do," just as they are taking Stan away. You can see Mahoney's eyes glisten with the knowledge that, so often, they do tell the one you love what to do, and it's not always a good thing.
Through April 28 at Steppenwolf Theatre Company, 1650 N. Halsted St.; running time: 2 hours, 20 minutes; tickets: $20-$78 at 312-335-1650 or steppenwolf.org


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Kim Kardashian's new baby girl is gonna have a HUGE HEAD ... just like her superstar dad Kanye West ... so says Kim K's BFF Jonathan Cheban.
Jonathan -- who pops in and out of various Kardashian reality shows -- was out in LA last night just hours after Kim K gave birth and our photog asked the question on everyone's mind ... will baby Kimye end up with a giant Kanye-sized melon?
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Bishop Lori: 'Place of God and the Place of Organized Religion ... Has Begun to Erode'
U.S. bishops' Ad Hoc Committee for Religious Liberty will meet for the first time Nov. 13.
Bishop William Lori of Bridgeport, Conn., says that the U.S. bishops' new Ad Hoc Committee for Religious Liberty will officially meet for the first time this Sunday, Nov. 13.
He also revealed that the committee, which is "just getting organized," will likely consist of "about 10 bishops" as well as "a number of very qualified lay consultors."
"What is our goal? It is first of all to lift up the whole area of religious freedom, beginning with the teaching of the Church in Dignitatis Humanae, the Second Vatican Council's declaration on religious freedom," Bishop Lori told CNA on Nov. 8.
He also sees the committee's task as "recouping, if you will, the vision of our Founding Fathers of the United States."
The new religious-liberty committee was created to address "growing concerns over the erosion of freedom of religion in America."
The bishops on the committee will be supported by a lawyer who specializes in the area of religious freedom and a lobbyist who will handle both religious liberty and marriage issues.
Bishop Lori explained that his committee will begin its work by addressing the "erosion of our religious liberties in the United States," particularly those where religious freedom is "deemed a second-class right, subordinate to so-called 'rights' of abortion and same-sex 'marriage,' which are nowhere mentioned in the Constitution or the Bill of Rights."
He feels that in defending life and marriage the Church is increasingly "being painted as a discriminatory institution and is therefore being made to suffer."
That punishment is being meted out by the state, he explained, pointing to the Church being denied contracts to help the poor, being driven out of foster care and adoption, and being required to cover sterilization and contraception in its health-care services.
He also highlighted a threat to the "ministerial exception" in the Hosanna Tabor v. EEOC case currently before the U.S. Supreme Court. Bishop Lori noted that the exception which allows churches to choose their own ministers is a "long-recognized principle in constitutional law."
All these threats are "serious issues and unprecedented" in U.S. history, he said.
Besides focusing on specific threats, Bishop Lori said the committee will also aim to foster deeper change at the cultural level.
"The place of God and the place of organized religion and of believers has begun to erode in our culture, and that is now being reflected in law," he said.
"Law reflects culture and culture reflects law, and, so, one of the things we must do is to re-evangelize the culture in this particular area."


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KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- An Olathe man says the health care law saved his life. Once Mike O'Dell was able to get health insurance on January 1, he was able to go on the transplant waiting list, and he now has a new heart.
On Thursday, O'Dell hugged his three children as he saw them for the first time since receiving the new heart last week at Saint Luke's Hospital.
Back in December, O'Dell, age 41, didn't think it could happen.
"I thought I'd deteriorate and eventually I'd pass away. It's just been -- it's been tough," said O'Dell.
He couldn't afford a transplant. He qualified for Kansas Medicaid coverage for those with high medical expenses, but he couldn't meet the spenddown requirements to have continuous coverage.
"While we could have done the transplant even without charging him, the medication he would never be able to afford," said Dr. Andrew Kao, his heart specialist.
Anti-rejection medicine costs $4,000 a month and must be taken daily to keep the new heart.
"I didn't want them giving me somebody else's gift and I couldn't afford to have it," said O'Dell.
He couldn't get private health insurance because of his pre-existing heart condition. But as of January 1, with the health care law, insurers can no longer deny coverage. O'Dell and his wife were able to get coverage through the health insurance marketplace for $190 a month. That allowed him to go on the transplant waiting list.
"He wouldn't be here with me or my children if it weren't for the Obamacare," said O'Dell's wife, Kate.
And his doctors say he clearly wouldn't have lived long if he hadn't received the gift of a stranger's heart last week.
"Kinda like winning the lottery," said O'Dell.
He could go home from the hospital early next week.
An infection struck O'Dell's heart three years ago. He said before that, he was perfectly healthy and didn't think he needed health insurance. He says now, he knows differently.


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Educators win a key round
By Alain Jehlen
Educators and students demonstrate at the South Carolina tent city.
Photo: Joanie Lawson
In a victory for kids, the South Carolina Supreme Court has ordered Gov. Mark Sanford to file the papers needed to receive over $700 million in federal economic Recovery Act funds for the state's schools and colleges.
The court order, which he obeyed, means thousands of teachers and support professionals will stay at their posts helping children get an education, according to Sheila Gallagher, president of The South Carolina Education Association.
Even with the federal funds, Gallagher said probably more than 1,000 educators will be out of work because of plummeting revenues.
The SCEA had fought Sanford's decision to reject the federal help with e-mails, a rally, a tent city reminiscent of the Hoovervilles of the Great Depression, and legal arguments for the court.
Across the country, many NEA state affiliates are working to get the federal recovery funds used as they are intended, to save jobs and keep education on an even keel in the face of sharply shrinking state and local tax revenues. In some states, they are working hand in glove with political leaders, but in others, they're in a fight.
In Alaska, Gov. Sarah Palin has said she wants to turn down 31 percent of the funds for her state, mostly for education. NEA-Alaska is leading a coalition effort to make her change her mind.
In Hawaii, the State Teachers Association ran radio spots as part of their fight with the governor to get Recovery Act funds spent on education.
In South Carolina, The SCEA President Gallagher notes that Gov. Sanford has a long history of not supporting public schools. But on the side of the kids, there is a broad range of powerful groups including The SCEA and the Republican-controlled state legislature.
This is the state with the "Corridor of Shame"—a string of low-income, mostly minority school districts with horrendous school conditions that were highlighted in a video documentary and a photography exhibit.
When the President's economic stimulus package was still working its way through Congress, 14-year-old Ty'sheoma Bethea, a student in one of those districts, wrote a letter urging Congress to pass the bill and get some help to her hard-hit school. President Obama invited her to his speech to Congress last February, sharing her story with the nation in his effort to get the funds flowing to where they're needed.
After many marches, letters, phone calls, votes, and finally a court ruling, Ty'sheoma's school may finally get its share.
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- 5 matzos, broken into 2-inch pieces
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President Obama's Fiscal Year 2010 budget proposes that the current Federal Perkins Loan Program be dramatically changed so that its benefits can be shared by more students attending more schools.
This proposal would restructure and expand the Federal Perkins Loan Program to ensure that all colleges and universities can take part in the program. The revamped Perkins program would provide $6 billion in loans every year, a significant increase from the current $1 billion in funding. As now structured, the formula for distributing Perkins loans is weighted by a decades-old formula that favors particular schools while actual funds available to students is contingent upon the collection activity of those schools. Under the President's proposal colleges and universities participating would increase from 1,800 to 4,400. Funds would be distributed to reward schools that provide more need-based aid to students and that maintain reasonable student costs relative to other schools in their sector. To relieve schools (especially those coming into the program) of the burden of making, servicing, and collecting on the new Perkins Loans, the Department, using its existing systems, including the Common Origination and Disbursement (COD) System, would be responsible for these activities.
Under the proposal, while the interest rate on the new Perkins loans would remain at 5%, the loans would be "unsubsidized". Most of the terms and conditions of the new Perkins loans would be similar to those that apply to Stafford Loans made under the Direct Loan Program.
Has the FY 2010 Budget been approved?
No. On February 26, President Obama submitted the Administration's proposed budget for FY 2010 to the Congress, which must act on the President's proposals.
When will Perkins Loans made under the current law end and new Perkins Loans be available?
The budget proposal states that new Perkins Program would be effective for all loans disbursed on or after July 1, 2010. Thus, the latest a Perkins Loan could be disbursed under the existing program would be June 30, 2010.
Why didn't the Administration just propose higher loan limits in the other federal student loan programs?
Restructuring and expanding the Perkins loan program allows campus financial aid administrators to target help where it is needed most. The budget's approach gives schools the discretion to target loan funds to address the problem of students who need to rely on additional borrowing. In addition, while the proposal would provide for more than $6 billion in new Perkins Loan funds each year, to provide loan limit increases for all Stafford borrowers would be cost prohibitive.
Won't ending in-school interest subsidies for these new Perkins loans hurt students?
Congress could decide to maintain the current in-school subsidy but doing so would require a much smaller program because of the cost to the government. The Administration supports using limited resources to serve more students rather than target more generous benefits to a limited population.
How will the program ensure loans are made available to the students who really need them?
Much like the current program, the proposal gives schools discretion to allocate Perkins loans awards. The Administration believes schools are in the best position to assess the needs of individual students.
Will schools currently in the Perkins Loan Program lose funding under the proposed program?
No. The dramatically increased amount of funding available - from approximately $1 billion to $6 billion - should mean that no schools would lose its ability to provide Perkins loan funds to its students. In fact, depending upon a number of factors, many of these schools will find that they will have more Perkins Loan funds for students.
How will the amount of new Perkins loan funds available to each college be determined?
The expected $6 billion in Federal Perkins Loans funds would be allocated annually to schools under a method, as yet to be determined and in consultation with Congress and higher education finance experts. The formula could reward schools that have kept their tuition and fees low and/or that provide need-based grant assistance to their students. It could also reward those schools that have, as compared to their peer institutions, high graduation and retention rates.


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As I took my 3-mile walk last night, the sirens I heard as I neared Snelling Avenue brought my thoughts to Colorado Springs and the raging wildfires that have claimed one life and more than 300 homes.
My youngest brother Pat lives there with his wife Kara and four daughters, the youngest of whom is recovering from open heart surgery. As I turned around on Snelling to walk back home, I said a prayer for them. This morning, I followed up with a phone call to Pat, who assured me everything was OK for him, Kara and the girls.
That was nice to hear. I was able to respond with some good news of my own: I won two first-place awards at the annual Catholic Press Association convention, which took place last week in Indianapolis. The highlight is the awards banquet on Friday night. This is only the third time in 16 years I have made it to the convention, so it was nice to be able to make it this year.
Believe it or not, both of my firsts were in writing categories – best feature story and best sports story. The feature was about the Gross family and the loss of Michael and Anne's teenage daughter, Teresa, to suicide. The other was a sports story about former NFL (and Vikings) quarterback Brooks Bollinger, who took over as head football coach at Hill-Murray High School in Maplewood.
I know it may come as a surprise to some folks that I won two writing awards, but I actually have been a writer longer than I have been a photographer. I will continue doing both in my new role as senior content specialist in the archdiocese communications department, which officially begins next week. I enjoy my role of telling stories with words and pictures, and I'm very thankful that it will continue. May God continue to bless my work – and keep my brother and his family safe in Colorado Springs!


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I recently was in a thread on bungie.net when the validity of a touchpad as a drawing implement came up.
After I finished, I remembered the good denizens here and decided to post the results. Enjoy.
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ORLY?Posted by: spartain ken 15
Congrats everyone. :p
I wish I only had one of those art drawing tablets.
Pro Tip: A touchpad is NOT a good tool for paint.
The video was compressed, so here is the finished picture. I didn't spend much time on it, so it doesn't look all that good, but it shows that a touch pad can be used to render images (that aren't stick figures).
Seriously, I've drawn pictures with ketchup, pepper, and napkins in a restaurant while waiting for my food.


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Then you need more experience with C++, clearly. C++ isn't a "shallow" C. It supports much more high-level and less mind-boggling ways to do things.
And don't talk about overhead in containers. Did you try them? Sometimes, they are even better than your "homebrew" solution.
In fact, C++ will get a number of more features in the coming standard that can make it faster than C in some circumstances.
Furthermore, your insistence of "C" makes you a bad modern programmer, since the point of C++ is to use pre-defined, existing solutions to quickly achieve your goal with less time spent debugging and thinking. And it's also safer.
Furthermore, since the book is supposed to teach C++, it's a bad book, because it does not teach C++, it teaches "C+".