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Interesting game. Charleston is hanging right in there.
38-35 UNC with 15 to play.
Kansas Must Be Destroyed
Sic Semper Jayhawks
now down 5
CoC is for real.
Let Prohm's Posse Ride: Hallice, Brady, Stu, Lard, Naz, Deonte, Monte, Matt, Simeon, Jordan, and Babb.
At carolinablue.com, they seem convinced that Harrison is a step or so slow defensively. In this game, it seems like they have a point.
They're also convinced that he'll get there, so they haven't lost all balance to call him a bust.
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CoC is for real.
Got to love Bobby Cremins.
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didnt CoC beat a major program last year? or am I thinking of something else..
I love watching UNC struggle. HB was so big on this "national championship" crap, he could've coasted to the title with Duke!
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didnt CoC beat a major program last year? or am I thinking of something else..
Ya #9 UNC
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didnt CoC beat a major program last year? or am I thinking of something else..
Matter of fact, they beat UNC last year.
UNC didnt look good at all. I dont think they are tournament lock team this year once again.
They are far from a tourny lock. There point guard Drew is terrible. I would rather have Diante than Drew. Barnes is a step slow on offensive and defensive side of the ball. I really don't think he will be starting by the end of the year. They don't have any team chemistry and they don't play hard at all. I watched the Vandy vs. UNC game from start to finish. The only time Vandy looked in trouble is when UNC came out after half time and started to pressure the ball. It worked for a minute. Then Vandy adjusted and UNC quit trying hard to stop it because of frustration.
Barnes won't make 1st team all ACC let alone first team all american.
Nobody but HB knows for sure. You pretty much know nothing....like Knownothing would like to say.
UNC had a recruit make an over the top announcement that backfired amongst his supporters. So did the Miami Heat. Both teams are lacking chemistry. I'm guessing people will start realizing that you don't give out championships before the season starts.
HB would be playing better on this ISU team.
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When Polish chemist Wojciech Inglot worked on creating a "breathable" nail polish for consumers who were becoming increasingly health-conscious, he had no idea of the changes he was about to bring about in the Muslim world.
Inadvertently, the scientist, who until his death last month was based in a town where "not a single Muslim lives", solved a beauty problem for many Muslim women: He created the world's first halal nail polish.
And, if you're wondering how a nail polish can be halal, the word has a far wider meaning than just food. In Arabic halal means "permissible" or "lawful", referring to things that Muslims are allowed to do as per Islamic law, the opposite – the banned things – being known as haram.
Despite once reading up on whether or not it was halal to pluck the eyebrows, I've never given much thought to the beauty dilemmas of Muslim women. I see the UAE national ladies, of course, in the beauty salons, and I breathe in the wafts of scent that follow them through the malls – they always look so polished, so well groomed and so elegant that I've never noticed whether or not they're wearing nail polish.
But apparently the observant Muslim woman is not allowed to wear traditional nail polish. While the problem is too modern to have been mentioned in the Qur'an, some Islamic scholars have declared nail polish to be haram because it prevents water from touching the nail surface during wudu, the pre-prayer washing ceremony, meaning that wudu is not properly carried out.
Wojciech Inglot had no idea of the reception his product would receive in the Arab world. While one Muslim writer described her feelings on the topic as an "oil tanker-sized source of joy", many women are still doubtful about the product's claims.
But, when an Islamic scholar in the States performed his own permeability tests and declared the Inglot "O2M" polish to be halal, Inglot achieved something that multinationals the world over have been striving for: Access to the buying power of the 1.6 billion Muslims in the world – described by Marketing Week as "a growing, influential and extremely loyal group".
Cosmetics are one of the few areas in which Muslims require specialist products or processes – they must be free from alcohol, fragrance and animal ingredients. Other areas include food, which has to be prepared in the halal way; clothing, which must be modest – note the growing popularity of the burqini; and banking, since paying and receiving interest is haram. We've also seen, in recent years, an increase in halal holidays, which aim to take a share of the £7.7 billion that Gulf holidaymakers are said to spend annually on leisure travel.
The Muslim market is both massive and lucrative for companies that pitch their products right. Although Inglot passed away at the end of February, he knew what a huge market he'd entered with the O2M nail polish. I like to think he died with a smile on his face.
Annabel Kantaria is a journalist who moved to Dubai long before most people knew where it was. She doesn't ride a camel to work; has never seen a gold-plated golf buggy and only rarely has pink champagne for breakfast. Follow her on Twitter: @BellaKay


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Carbon is an essential part of many man-made or synthetic substances that we use in the modern world, such as plastics, all synthetic fabrics many medicines, lubricant and many other chemicals.
Although carbon is an essential part of nearly all living things it also causes some concern, contained in carbon is a substance called CFC's which have been responsible for destroying part of the worlds protective ozone layer. Other compounds such as pesticide DDT can be life threatening to humans and animals if exposed to large doses.
Originally, scientists used the term organic compounds for materials that could only be obtained from living or dead organisms. Now carbon is what is used to define organic and in-organic chemistry. Today chemists consider nearly any compound that contains carbon to be organic, whether they obtain it from organisms or synthesize it in a laboratory or in factories. Compounds that do not contain carbon are called inorganic compounds
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I am very happy that I was able to contribute to the team and give the solution that the judges were looking for. The whole team was very focused on today's collaboration challenge and we all had fun on the ferry sharing ideas on how to do things in SQL Server. I am enjoying every minute of the show and learning SQL Server tips from Buck and Dandy. Tim DiMarco also gave us some useful tips when it comes to presenting in front of many people. Stacy, Mike, and Chris had some very good ideas to solve the challenge and they could have easily won the challenge and although I won the individual challenge I know that we did it as a team and in my mind we all won today.


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from the LTTE, a senior Army official told the Daily News.
"At least 15 to 20 Tiger cadres were killed in these confrontations,"
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Troops for the first time advanced further North of
Thiriketheeshwaran and took a nearly 800 metre stretch under their
control during a two-day battle on Saturday and Sunday.
In Uyilankulam sector troops captured a stretch of more than one
kilometre close to the Uyilankulam tank bund area.
Meanwhile, Military Spokesman Brigadier Udaya Nanayakkara said Air
Force fighter jets carried out an air strike targeting a Tiger base used
by area leader yesterday morning on information provided by ground
The LTTE base is located some five kilometres north of Giant Tank, in
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LTTE leader.
We are yet to receive confirmation about the damages caused to the
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Many senior level cadres are now leading the ground cadres with a
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Heavy fighting also erupted in the Vavuniya front in Mullikulam,
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Manchester United do not have enough world-class players to win the Champions League, manager David Moyes said as he effectively wrote off his own team's chances in Europe's elite club competition. "To win the Champions League, you need five or six world-class players," Moyes told British newspapers in comments published on Sunday. "Look at Bayern Munich, they have it. Look at Barcelona, who had it in the past and Real Madrid, who have maybe got it now. That's the level you have to be at to win it. We've not got that yet but what we have got is experience."
Alkmaar fire coach
AZ Alkmaar fired coach Gertjan Verbeek on Sunday in a surprise move that came a day after they beat Dutch league leaders PSV Eindhoven to move to within two points of the top of the standings. "On the basis of a lack of chemistry between the squad and the coach and a lack of confidence, the club's directors do not see any possibility for further co-operation," the club said in a statement.
Pogba earns winner for Juventus
Juventus earned a narrow 1-0 win in a heated derby match at city rival Torino on Sunday, to move provisionally joint top of the table with Napoli. Paul Pogba scored a contentious 54th-minute winner, heading in the rebound after Carlos Tevez's header came off the crossbar. There were fierce protests from Torino, however, as Tevez appeared to be offside.
Mumbai FC draw again
Mumbai FC held Dempo SC 1-1 in a Round-2 encounter of I-League on Sunday. Trailing by a first-half goal scored by Jeje Lalpekhlua (45' + 3'), Mumbai FC found their savior in defender Anwar Ali (86thminute) to snare a point. Mumbai FC went into the game making one change opting for defender Valeriano Rebello in place of striker Jayesh Rane.
Taheer scores seven for Goa
Abu Taheer scored seven goals in a span of just under 20 minutes to help Infant Jesus Academy, Goa hammer Govt Secondary School, Lakshwadeep 10-0 and enter the quarterfinals of boy's u-14 category of the 54th Subroto Cup football tournament. Goa had taken the lead in the very first minute through Abhijeet and Taheer killed the contest by the 20th minute, scoring seven more goals (4, 5, 6, 10, 11, 13, 18). Meanwhile, North-eastern English School, Khabesoi, Manipur and Greenwood School, Kohima, Nagaland also advanced to the last eight stages with easy wins.
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I saw a link on Facebook the other day that made me laugh: "Reading can reduce insomnia".
A man on a gravel road in Lebanon woke up early, fired up the riding lawn mower and set to work cutting his lawn. He's mowed this lawn for 30- …
I saw a link on Facebook the other day that made me laugh: "Reading can reduce insomnia."
I'm loving me some boiled peanuts.
Before I begin this week's column on the praying faith, I want to take time to thank the staff at The Berkeley Independent for allowing me to write this column every week. As a former journalism major, the love of writing has always been close to my heart, therefore, I am very appreciative to be able to share with you my thoughts on …
I'm working on a theory: People have always been crazy, we just haven't known about it. With today's 24-hour news cycle, every nutty thing we do is public knowledge. (I've always liked this saying: "Live as if every single thing you do will someday be known. Because it will be.")
I have embraced Tweet-dom of late.
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This is not your typical front page news story, above the fold, which is where I wish this could go.
Last month, an appellate court in New Jersey decreed that a man who was burned while praying over his fajitas could not sue the Applebee's that served him the piping-hot platter.
It's back to school time again. Some people are excited, some are nervous and some just wish they didn't have to go back. School is a lot of fun for some people. Others just endure it. But however you feel about school, it is one of the best experiences you can have.
The world is a little dimmer now.
Good health is a wonderful thing to have. To be able to do the things you want to do without the undue restraints of physical limitations brought on by ill health is a priceless gift.
There are two kinds of people: Those who hate snakes, and those who don't.
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If you have been following the local and national news this week, you have seen South Carolina being focused on for several reasons. In addition to the funerals of the Emanuel AME Church members, charges brought on Dylann Roof, and plane crashes in Berkeley County, the South Carolina Senate and House addressed the budget vetoes and the Confederate …
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On Zero Tolerance
During an October 22, 1994, ceremony celebrating the authorization of the Gun Free Schools Act, president Clinton stated, "Zero tolerance is a common-sense policy. Why does anybody need a gun in school?" (Cooper, 1994, p. 30). A year later, Clinton again used the same phrase that four years later would become the source of a volatile controversy: "I'm very pleased to announce that our message of zero tolerance has been made a reality around the country" (Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States, 1996, p. 1686). In 2001, three books examined the topic of zero tolerance, but all reached conclusions far different from Clinton's glowing assessment.
The books reviewed herein consider zero tolerance from multiple perspectives, including the legal framework, social and political motivations, the policy's implementation, and results and implications of zero tolerance. The stories, analyses, literature reviews, and philosophical arguments contained within these books build a case against zero tolerance and argue for a moratorium on its use. While some present compelling evidence and reasoned arguments for looking critically at the use of zero tolerance, others simply offer ideologically or politically laden criticisms, mildly interesting stories, or impassioned but intellectually weak calls for action.
The term "zero tolerance" refers to policies that prescribe severe punishment for certain offences, no matter how minor, in an effort to treat all wrongdoers equally and to send a message of intolerance for rule breaking. The phrase first enjoyed widespread national attention during the Reagan administration, which used it to refer to the Custom Agency's stance toward illegal drugs (Henault, 2001).
The Customs Agency halted its zero tolerance policy in 1990; however, just as those zero tolerance policies waned, schools phased them in, primarily targeted toward weapons-related violence. In 1994, the aforementioned Gun Free Schools Act created a national mandate for these policies (Henault, 2001; Zirkel, 1999). Their central feature is the automatic suspension and expulsion of any student who carries a dangerous or deadly weapon to school, which was originally defined as a firearm but expanded in most cases to include knives, explosives, etc.
Shortly after national adoption of weapons-related zero tolerance, school districts began extending the policy's purview to other undesirable behavior, such as drugs, violence, threats, classroom disruptions, hate speech, and fighting (Advancement Project & Civil Rights Project, 2000). Most policies, including the Gun Free Schools Act, granted school leaders discretion in applying suspensions and expulsions, but few appeared willing to use it, preferring to maintain a "tough" stance and "send a message" to would-be violators (McAndrews, 2002).
By the mid-to-late-1990s, incidents began to surface about over-zealous applications of zero tolerance, such as a Colorado fifth-grade honor roll student's expulsion for accidentally bringing a paring knife to school (Romano, 1998). Moreover, newspaper stories reported on "skyrocketing" expulsion numbers due to zero tolerance (Cummins, 1998, p. 27A), and researchers began questioning the policy's implementation and results, particularly related to minority students (Skiba & Peterson, 1999).
These issues, and a few others, came to a head in October 1999, when the Decatur, IL school board expelled six African American high school students who participated in a fistfight at a football game. With charges of racism in the air, the incident, and the issue of zero tolerance, grew into a national story when Rev. Jesse Jackson entered the fray on the students' behalf.
This episode galvanized zero tolerance opponents. Soon after Decatur, The Advancement Project and the Civil Rights Project at Harvard hosted a national summit on zero tolerance, eventually releasing a widely cited report (Advancement Project & Civil Rights Project, 2000), parts of which reappeared in the Ayers, Dohrn, and Ayers book reviewed here. The United States Commission on Civil Rights held hearings on zero tolerance, at which Skiba and Noam met and from which they eventually conceived their book in this review. Finally, all three books under review cite the Decatur story, and the Ayers, Dohrn, and Ayers book features a chapter length discussion of the events.
Although all three books share some common messages and one over-arching theme, they approach the topic from diverse perspectives, use different methods, and attempt to appeal to distinct audiences. As such, style, tone, and organization differ markedly. And while each book draws a series of recommendations, those, too, vary.
On the continuum from scholarly to popular, Skiba and Noam's edited volume aims toward the scholarly. In building a case against zero tolerance, the approach is more akin to rational decision-making. Descriptive statistics are utilized throughout; relevant empirical findings are discussed; appropriately placed anecdotes illustrate main findings; and all of it is well documented. The final three chapters consider alternative approaches to school safety by discussing programs in detail.
Ayers, Dohrn, and Ayers's edited work leans more toward the popular. In fact, the editors call it a "handbook for citizens," direct readers to a website, and frequently spur readers to activism. As such, the book begins with a Foreword by prominent activist and zero tolerance opponent Jesse Jackson. After the Foreword and Introduction, the text begins with a series of "narratives" in which authors share the stories of those involved with zero tolerance. The next six chapters discuss the social context around zero tolerance, followed by three chapters of research findings, three chapters of recommendations, and a final chapter of reflections.
Casella'sbook points at the middle of the continuum—the informed or educated but not scholarly reader. His narrative approach weaves in his own ethnographic findings from two schools and a prison with tidbits from relevant literature and his own conclusions. Although not as "structured" as Skiba and Noam, Casella's style and organization befits his intended audience, and he also thoroughly documents his sources.
The meta-theme across all these books is that from conception to implementation to evaluation, zero tolerance is bad. In fact, Michelle Fine and Kersha Smith (in Ayers, Dohrn, & Ayers) warn, "Our youth are under attack" (p. 263). Each book follows a similar pattern of building a case against zero tolerance and suggesting alternatives for addressing violence, drugs, weapons, and various other blights on schools.
The common message receiving the most attention is race. As Ayers et al. write, "After all, when everyone keeps insisting 'this is not about race,' race is the thing it is most assuredly about" (p. xv). Later in the book they assert zero tolerance is a tool to restrict education to the "deserving" and call it "today's fundamental civil rights issue" (p. 87).
Other discussions address the disproportionate rates at which minority students are suspended and expelled under zero tolerance, particularly after controlling for representation within the school population. For example, Browne, Losen, and Wald (in Skiba & Noam) write, "In 1998-99, African American students accounted for 33 percent of all those suspended and 31 percent of all those expelled, yet made up only 17% of all students" (p. 74).
Skiba (in Ayers et al.) reports similar findings but also asks potentially sensitive yet nonetheless important questions, such as: "Are black students more likely to misbehave?" (p. 181); and "Does minority disproportionality represent racial discrimination?" (p. 177). By asking such questions, Skiba demonstrates critical thinking that separates good research from assumption-laden activism. This is not to say that Skiba shies away from activism—simply read his unequivocal statements about zero tolerance in Phi Delta Kappan (1999) and the New York Times (2000). However, he at least appears willing to test the glaring assumption evident in other authors in these works, specifically: Because school officials are racists, they suspend or expel minority students at greater rates.
The second most common message is that zero tolerance simply does not work. For example, Noguera (in Ayers et al.) writes, "…there is little if any evidence that the kinds of punishments most frequently utilized by schools have the effect of deterring or modifying behavior…" (p. 211). Two groups of authors, Skiba and Knesting, and Morrison, Anthony, Storino, Cheng, Furlong, and Morrison (in Skiba & Noam), likewise conclude that disorder and violence in schools appear largely unaffected, and, in fact, some state and local data suggest zero tolerance has caused a dramatic increase in the use of suspensions and expulsions in some school districts. Casella criticizes zero tolerance and related measures, such as security technology, as ineffective and short-sighted.
Yet, data from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) and other research appears to indicate otherwise. Reports on the Safe and Gun Free Schools Act indicate a nation-wide decreasing trend in weapon-related expulsions (Gray & Sinclair, 2000; 2002; 2003; 1999; Sinclair, Hamilton, Gutmann, Daft, & Bolcik, 1998). Additionally, Barton, Coley, and Wenglinsky (1998) found that schools with less strict discipline policies experienced higher levels of serious offences.
The third common message is the irreparable damage done to students who are suspended or expelled under zero tolerance. Morrison et al. (in Skiba & Noam) assert policies that rely solely on suspending and expelling students do not remedy student misbehavior. Instead, they are believed to exacerbate student misconduct, contribute to academic failure and higher drop-out rates, and leave students vulnerable to anti-social, high risk, and delinquent situations. As Casella describes it, "Zero tolerance…assures the creation of criminals" (p. 66).
This occurs because separating students from the educational environment likely removes them from one of the only potentially positive factors in their lives. As Casella and the narratives at the beginning of Ayers et al. describe, students who receive suspension or expulsion most often hail from unstable, violent, and/or low SES environments. Thus, denying an education regularly perpetuates the cycle of violence, poverty, or at-risk behavior.
This closely relates to the fourth common message and arguably one of the most important: the causes of behaviors that trigger zero tolerance. All too often, leaders pursue policies without systemically considering variables that contribute to the issue in question. The result frequently is failure in solving the root problem and creation of new problems (Gillon, 2000; Tenner, 1996).
Casellabelieves finding the "singular cause of violence is a farce" (p. 62) and instead works from the thesis "that complex and intricate relationships among parts of an organism cannot be explored out of the context of their whole" (p. 11). Likewise, Noguera (in Ayers et al.) asserts: "…responses to violence that do not take into account the ways in which it is rationalized, legitimated, and sanctioned within schools, communities, and society are unlikely to succeed in reducing or eliminating it" (p. 216).
In seeking more comprehensive answers, the six chapters in Ayers et al. on "social contexts," identify a list of causes, including poverty, racism, inadequate education, unequal opportunities, access to guns, childhood abuse and neglect, and familial mental health problems. Casella's list shares some common causes, such as poverty, and he adds a few that are thoughtful (nihilism, despair, alienation), typical (media violence, modeling by adults), and even unconventional (JROTC military training).
Of course, creating such lists is nothing profound, and none of the authors systematicly attempt to examine the interactions of any of these variables. Casella comes closest, by drawing some qualitative conclusions, but it is hardly the stuff upon which to write policy, even though plenty of policy has been based on less.
What Noguera and Casella imply, but never explicitly state, is the rather simple (read cliché-ish) but nonetheless true reality: There is no silver bullet. No amount of regression, HLM, structural equation modleing, or various other analyses will neatly tie all of the social and political variables into a bow. However, acknowledging the complex genesis of violence greatly surpasses the myopic view prevalent in America's legislative chambers, media outlets, and living rooms.
Finally, allowing for the Hydra-like roots to weapons, violence, and other undesirable behavior in schools, all three books consider diverse alternatives to zero tolerance. Some advocate specific programs. Gagne and Lenoe (in Skiba & Noam) discuss the "Resolving Conflict Creatively Program (RCCP)," "Project ACHIEVE," "Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports (PBIS)," "Positive Adolescent Choices Training (PACT)," "First Step to Success," and the "Functional Behavioral Assessment (FBA)." As the director, coordinator, and associate program director respectively, Noam, Warner, and Van Dyken (in Skiba & Noam) outline their RALLY program for violence prevention.
Others discuss less programmatic approaches to school violence. Sandler (in Ayers et al.) and Osher, Sandler, and Nelson (in Skiba & Noam) advocate structural, environmental, social, and procedural changes, such as instilling caring, peaceful communities, grounding the school in the students' culture (such as Afro-centrism), or promoting critical thinking about behavior. Additionally, Noguera (in Ayers et al.) advocates the creation of greater social capital to increase school safety.
Casellais less specific. He asserts: "Schools have to be worth a student's time" (p. 182), and calls for interventions that addresses "economic disparities, prejudice, inequitable school structures and organizational features [like tracking], unjust hierarchies, and the culture we create at large" (p. 183).
The common threads running through all approaches are disagreement with a "one-size-fits-all" policy and the necessity of prevention over reaction. Any logical reader could hardly disagree, but patently dismissing zero tolerance, which several authors advocate, would deny school officials a useful tool in school safety.
Namely, zero tolerance serves an operational purpose by temporarily separating a dangerous or potentially dangerous student from the rest of the school population (Ewing, 2000). When a student carries a truly dangerous weapon to school, removal of the offender from the school setting is necessary for the physical protection of other students. School leaders should assess the student's needs and disposition, the reasons for the infraction, and requisite sanctions, if any are required, but only after concern for the safety of all students and staff is addressed. Thus, those who seek the policy's elimination would do no favors to schools and those who populate them.
For academicians, particularly of the quantitative bent, it is likely that none of these books will prove satisfying. To begin, for all their criticisms about the "lack of data" or "lack of evidence" surrounding zero tolerance, all three books largely suffer from the same shortcoming. Despite Jesse Jackson's claim (in Ayers et al.) that "[t]he authors unequivocally demonstrate that 'get tough' policies do not work" (p. ix), no one presents compelling evidence to that affect.
Moreover, the "evidence" presented on the deleterious effects of zero tolerance is overwhelmingly anecdotal. No quantitative data beyond descriptive or secondary, and precious little good qualitative data, is presented to convince a critical reader that America is "eating her young," "attacking our youth," or perpetrating any other equally widespread scandalous injustice.
The strongest argument along these lines remains the disproportionate discipline of minority students, a phenomenon present prior to the advent of zero tolerance, but only Skiba's chapter in Ayers et al. proves compelling. Further research is required before we should accept Sandler's claim (in Ayers et al.) of "institutional racism" (p. 222). Indeed, Skiba (in Ayers et al.) concludes, "Taking such data seriously does not demand that we vilify teachers as conscious racists for the overreferral of black students" (p. 184).
Of course, two of the books (Ayers et al. and Casella) are not necessarily written for academic readers, and their style, in addition to content, clearly indicates that. For example, bold, evaluative, and/or unsupported statements are evident throughout, including:
It is likely that the zero tolerance summit by the Advancement Project and the Civil Rights Project, the report released after the conference, and these three books were designed, in part, to foment public sentiment against zero tolerance. Indeed, after describing zero tolerance as "the triumph of a narrow, authoritarian view of children and youth," Ayers et al. charge, "We can do better. We can resist" (p. 164).
Of course, widespread resistance never materialized. Instead, zero tolerance policies enjoyed unprecedented public support throughout the 1990s and into the new century. In 1997, 93% of a Gallup sample supported weapons-related zero tolerance policies for schools (Gallup/Phi Delta Kappa, 1997). Even during the Decatur, IL imbroglio, public support for zero tolerance never dropped below 50% (Fox News/Opinion Dynamics, 1999), and in 2001 an Associated Press (2001) poll found the number was still as high as 83%.
Such strong support by no means demonstrates the policy's fecundity or equity. Indeed, as Schiraldi and Ziedenberg (in Ayers et al.) opine, it could more reflect the media's skewed coverage of idiosyncratic events of school violence. However, until public sentiment changes or until solid research clearly demonstrates either the ineffectiveness of zero tolerance and/or its unjust, ruinous consequences, support will likely remain strong. These books ask some important questions and introduce notable issues surrounding zero tolerance, but none prove particularly compelling either as research or as activism.
Advancement Project, & Civil Rights Project. (2000). Opportunities suspended: The devastating consequences of zero tolerance and school discipline. Retrieved December 19, 2003, from www.civilrightsproject.harvard.edu/research/discipline/call_opport.ph p
Associated Press. (2001). Poll, July 27-July 31. Retrieved January 8, 2004, from www.ropercenter.uconn.edu
Barton, P., Coley, R., & Wenglinsky, H. (1998). Order in the classroom: Violence, discipline, and student achievement. Princeton, NJ: Educational Testing Service.
Congressional Record. (1994). Gun-Free Schools Act of 1994. Washington, DC: Office of the Federal Register.
Cooper, K. J. (1994, October 23). Clinton toughens ban on guns at schools. Chicago Sun-Times, p. 30.
Cummins, C. (1998, June 14). Zero-tolerance actions may still spur outrage. Rocky Mountain News, p. 27A.
Ewing, C. P. (2000). Sensible zero tolerance protects kids. Retrieved December 19, 2003, from http://www.edletter.org/past/issues/2000- jf/zero.shtml
Fox News/Opinion Dynamics. (1999). Poll, November 17-November 18. Retrieved January 8, 2004, from www.ropercenter.uconn.edu
Gallup/Phi Delta Kappa. (1997). Poll of public attitudes toward the public schools. Retrieved January 8, 2004, from www.ropercenter.uconn.edu
Gillon, S. M. (2000). That's not we meant to do. New York: Norton.
Gray, K., & Sinclair, B. (2000). Report on state implementation of the Gun-Free Schools Act-school year 1998-99. Rockville, MD: Westat.
Gray, K., & Sinclair, B. (2002). Report on state/territory implementation of the Gun-Free Schools Act-school year 1999-2000. Rockville, MD: Westat.
Gray, K., & Sinclair, B. (2003). Report on the implementation of the Gun-Free Schools Act in the states and outlying areas-school year 2000-2001. Rockville, MD: Westat.
Henault, C. (2001). Zero tolerance in schools. Journal of Law and Education, 30(3), 547-553.
Kohl, H. (1995, May 9). Guns in schools: Congress can't just turn its back. Washington Post, p. 19.
McAndrews, T. (2002). Zero tolerance policies (pp. 5). Eugene, OR: ERIC.
Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States. (1996). Bill Clinton. Washington, DC: Office of the Federal Register.
Romano, M. (1998, May 9). State no. 1 in expulsions. Rocky Mountain News, p. 5A.
Sinclair, B. (1999). Report on state implementation of the Gun-Free Schools Act-school year 1997-98. Rockville, MD: Westat.
Sinclair, B., Hamilton, J., Gutmann, B., Daft, J., & Bolcik, D. (1998). Report on state implementation of the Gun-Free Schools Act-school year 1996-97. Rockville, MD: Westat.
Skiba, R. (2000, January 14). No to zero tolerance. New York Times, p. 27.
Skiba, R. J., & Peterson, R. (1999, January). The dark side of zero tolerance. Phi Delta Kappan, 80, 372.
Tenner, E. (1996). Why things bite back. New York: Knopf.
Zirkel, P. A. (1999). Zero tolerance expulsions. NASSP Bulletin, 83(605), 101-105.
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — Eileen Brennan, who played the drill sergeant in "Private Benjamin," has died at 80.
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The developer community is charged and motivated and have excellent ideas. I think they need alot more financial and logistical support than we as government are able to give them. We can create self employment and innovation among our more intelligent and hard working youth. At the same time, many of the problems on ICT that require and ICT intervention can benefit from the Tandaa generation's energy.
The Tandaa generation is highly exposed to what is possible technologically. They may be short of corporate experience. We the corporate generation have a responsibility to give them whatever support we can in terms of exposure, encouragement, and financial support. in 2001 I had the privelage of presenting at a UN panel in geneva on technology http://www.intracen.org/DocMan/PRSR1537.htm. I spoke about the need for development of innovation capital. I spoke about the generation that 'got it". That did not always dish out 'push-back' when presented with ideas technological. My view back then and my view now.. that I have this unique responsibility , is that the tandaa generation, is what will deliver alot of the goodies we are looking for as a country. They can create, they are intellectually curious, they are driven, very exposed thanks to technologically delivered media, they are non-tribal, they are good thinkers, they like to be independant. Technology provides them with the tools. What they now need is capital.
The owners of capital on the other hand are content, technologically challenged, very socially comfortable, very politically inclined, would love to participate in this game but dont know how to, tend to have no respect for intellectual capital, etc etc.
What we need is to have a bridge developed between Tandaa and the "Zaks". I need ideas to figure this out. How dyou get a chap who can afford to loose 20,000 USD to give it to a Tandaa who can change the world with it.
The ICT Board will be organizing/or supporting a session to discuss how Tandaa's can develop business and marketing skills. More from me later…..


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All about Async/Await, System.Threading.Tasks, System.Collections.Concurrent, System.Linq, and more…
With TPL, there are several ways to create and start a new task. One way is to use the constructor for task followed by a call to the Start method, e.g. new Task(...).Start();and the other is by using the StartNew method of TaskFactory, e.g. Task.Factory.StartNew(...);This begs the question... when and why would you use one approach versus the other?
In general, I always recommend using Task.Factory.StartNew unless the particular situation provides a compelling reason to use the constructor followed by Start. There are a few reasons I recommend this. For one, it's generally more efficient. For example, we take a lot of care within TPL to make sure that when accessing tasks from multiple threads concurrently, the "right" thing happens. A Task is only ever executed once, and that means we need to ensure that multiple calls to a task's Start method from multiple threads concurrently will only result in the task being scheduled once. This requires synchronization, and synchronization has a cost. If you construct a task using the task's constructor, you then pay this synchronization cost when calling the Start method, because we need to protect against the chance that another thread is concurrently calling Start. However, if you use Task.Factory.StartNew, we know that the task will have already been scheduled by the time we hand the task reference back to your code, which means it's no longer possible for threads to race to call Start, because every call to Start will fail. As such, for StartNew we can avoid that additional synchronization cost and take a faster path for scheduling the task.
There are, however, some cases where creating a new task and then starting it is beneficial or even required (if there weren't, we wouldn't have provided the Start method). One example is if you derive from Task. This is an advanced case and there's typically little need to derive from Task, but nevertheless, if you do derive from it the only way to schedule your custom task is to call the Start method, since in .NET 4 the Task.Factory.StartNew will always return the concrete Task or Task<TResult> types. Another even more advanced use case is in dealing with certain race conditions. Consider the need for a task's body to have access to its own reference, such as if the task wanted to schedule a continuation off of itself. You might try to accomplish that with code like: Task t = null; t = Task.Factory.StartNew(() => { ... t.ContinueWith(...); });This code, however, is buggy. There is a chance that the ThreadPool will pick up the scheduled task and execute it before the Task reference returned from StartNew is stored into t. If that happens, the body of the task will see Task t as being null. One way to fix this is to separate the creation and scheduling of the task, e.g. Task t = null; t = new Task(() => { ... t.ContinueWith(...); }); t.Start();Now, we know that t will in fact be properly initialized by the time the task body runs, because we're not scheduling it until after it's been set appropriately.In short, there are certainly cases where taking the "new Task(...).Start()" approach is warranted. But unless you find yourself in one of those cases, prefer TaskFactory.StartNew.
I was wondering if it is possible to introduce a race condition if you call ContinueWith on the task returned from StartNew? Or another way of putting it: can you call ContinueWith on a task that has already completed?
Suppose I have the following:
Task t = Task.Factory.StartNew(() => ...);
It's possible that by the time I arrive at the ContinueWith call, task t has already completed. Is this a problem?
Hi Ronald-
It's certainly possible by the time you arrive at t.ContinueWith that t has completed, but that's ok. The Task class handles this internally... if the task has already completed when you call ContinueWith, the continuation will be scheduled immediately.
Perfect timing Toub! I was just writing a sample where I needed to use your "advanced" usage of a closure to get the instance of the very thing I needed inside a delegate.
Also, I was wondering about the t.ContinueWith thing too.
I'm baffled by the .StartNew() Implementation; assuming I'm doing something wrong, but really not sure what. I'm finding that .Startnew() doesn't actually start anything. The following code doesn't cause ANY tasks to run for me:
Task<Domain> domainCreationTask = Task<Domain>.Factory.StartNew(() => ImportDomain(domainConstructor, domainAttributes, importDate));
However, if I add a call to .Result, then the task runs and I get the expected output:
Domain d = domainCreationTask.Result;
Of course, I've just negated the PTL by causing my main thread to block awaiting the result.
Any suggestions on what I might be doing wrong? I then tried replacing the access to the Result property with a call to Start(), and found that 1000 calls resulted in only one task being dispatched, presumably because it looked the same--even though one of the parameters (domainAttributes) contains a different value each time this code is hit.
Hi iissystems-
When you call StartNew to create domainCreationTask, what is the type of the instance returned from calling TaskScheduler.Current? It sounds like you're calling it from within another task that's scheduled to the UI thread. Unless you specify another scheduler, StartNew schedules tasks to TaskScheduler.Current, which will be the scheduler for whatever task you're currently running within.
I've been working through the examples in the Visual C# 2010 Step By Step in Chapter 27, introducing the TPL. The code uses Task.Factory.StartNew() in the following manner:
Task first = Task.Factory.StartNew( () => generateGraphData(data, 0, pixelWidth / 8) );
Task second = Task.Factory.StartNew(() => generateGraphData(data, pixelWidth / 8, pixelWidth / 4));
Task third = Task.Factory.StartNew(() => generateGraphData(data, pixelWidth / 4, pixelWidth * 3/ 8));
Task fourth = Task.Factory.StartNew(() => generateGraphData(data, pixelWidth * 3 / 8, pixelWidth / 2));
Task.WaitAll(first, second, third, fourth);
This seem to work just fine, but thinking a bit different, I tried:
Task[] tasks = new Task[4];
for (int idx = 0; idx < 4; idx++)
tasks[idx] = Task.Factory.StartNew
() => generateGraphData(data, pixelWidth * idx / 8, pixelWidth * (idx + 1) / 8)
Task.WaitAll(tasks[0], tasks[1], tasks[2], tasks[3]);
The above does not behave predictably. If I put a Debug.Write in the generateGraphData function, it occasionally has duplicate values for the second and third parameter. Sometimes it has 2 sets of values, but never produces the full result. I ensure that my approach was good, I tried the following which seems to work fine (substituting a hard coded value for "idx"):
tasks[0] = Task.Factory.StartNew(() => generateGraphData(data, pixelWidth * 0 / 8, pixelWidth * (0 + 1) / 8));
tasks[1] = Task.Factory.StartNew(() => generateGraphData(data, pixelWidth * 1 / 8, pixelWidth * (1 + 1) / 8));
tasks[2] = Task.Factory.StartNew(() => generateGraphData(data, pixelWidth * 2 / 8, pixelWidth * (2 + 1) / 8));
tasks[3] = Task.Factory.StartNew(() => generateGraphData(data, pixelWidth * 3 / 8, pixelWidth * (3 + 1) / 8));
Task.WaitAll(tasks[0], tasks[1], tasks[2], tasks[3]);
This also seems to work fine, as does the first listing. I am a bit new to C#, but are there some limitations on index variables used in this way? (I know that Parallel class attempts to do partitioning automatically, but wanted to see if I can get mine to work.)
Thanks for any suggestions.
Hi Robert-
The problem has to do with C# closure capture rules around your for loop iteration variable idx. That variable is being shared across all of the lambdas you're creating, so when your for loop iterates, you're actually updating the shared idx value you passed to all of your lambdas. See blogs.msdn.com/.../closing-over-the-loop-variable-considered-harmful.aspx for more info.
I hope that helps.
If I am correct, this looping variables in lambda problem is fixed in upcoming version of C#.
Ajay, it's addressed for 'foreach', but not for 'for'. See the updated on Eric Lippert's blog at blogs.msdn.com/.../closing-over-the-loop-variable-considered-harmful.aspx.
Thanks for the article Stephen, but I am wondering if you could please explain how this:
Task t = null;
t = Task.Factory.StartNew(() =>
is different from this (and why you would want to do it the previous way):
.StartNew(() =>
Z, as outlined in the post, the former code snippet is actually buggy, in that the task could execute and try to process "t.ContinueWith" before 't' has actually been assigned to, resulting in a NullReferenceException. That said, this kind of pattern can arise when dealing with recursion, where the async operation needs to do some processing before deciding what the continuation should be (or whether there even needs to be a continuation); it's relatively rare and quite advanced.
How about Task.Run() as compared to TaskFactory.StartNew()
@Satyabrat Singh: See this post: blogs.msdn.com/.../10229468.aspx
Does the following code suffer from the same problem?
var t = Task.Factory.StartNew(() =>
@ByteEater: What is it you're trying to do? Did you mean to return the result of the ContinueWith? If so, it's the same situation: StartNew returns a Task<T>, the T in your case is a Task, so StartNew returns a Task<Task>.


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With the fall signing day behind us, we take a look at the players who will join the Utes for the 2015 campaign. Today's spotlight is Wade Gulden, who is from Redding, Calif., and attends Shasta High School.
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Scholar-Athlete all four years of high school
Batted .427 as junior, earning first team All-Section honors, first team All-League honors, and Sac River League Honorable Mention honors
Batted .348 as a sophomore and earned first-team SRL honors
Played varsity basketball and baseball since sophomore year
Led basketball in scoring the past two seasons, all SRL and Record Searchlight pick both years
Gulden on why he chose Utah:
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NASHVILLE, Tn. (AP) -- The fans have given Taylor Swift another trophy.
The pop sensation won the fan-voted video of the year award at the CMT Music Awards for "Mine" on Wednesday night. Swift couldn't make it to Bridgestone Arena to accept the belt buckle given to winners. But cameras cut to her tour stop in Wisconsin for a live acceptance speech.
She had opened the show with a pre-recorded faux movie trailer recreation of "Thelma & Louise" with Shania Twain.
Blake Shelton was the night's only multiple winner, taking male video of the year for "Who Are You When I'm Not Looking" and best Web video for "Kiss My Country Ass."


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Graduate Catalog | 2005-2007
College of Engineering
Master of Science in Engineering
The engineering management program is offered by the College of Engineering and administered by the Center for Lifelong Engineering Education. The mission of the program is to contribute significantly to engineers' managerial leadership abilities within their technological organizations by allowing students an opportunity to pursue higher education that is innovative and intellectually inspiring. The program fulfills this mission by offering courses that teach engineers how to lead and how to manage projects, processes, personnel, products, and services in real-world situations.
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The curriculum is designed to help students become better engineering leaders who can manage personnel, projects, products, and services. The program's special scheduling option allows the working professional to earn an advanced degree while maintaining his or her career.
The interdisciplinary engineering management faculty includes members of several departments of the College of Engineering, the McCombs School of Business and the School of Law. The current research of this faculty includes such topics as engineering economics; decision and risk analysis; economic management and marketing; management of people and organizations; and the legal issues that affect technology, such as product liability and patent law.
The following faculty members served on the Graduate Studies Committee in the spring semester 2004-2005.
This two-year program provides graduate education for the working professional who is employed in or planning to move into the field of engineering management. Classes meet all day one Friday and Saturday a month, with an orientation session at the beginning of the program. The program requires a serious commitment on the part of the student and the student's employer. The coursework is rigorous and demanding and can provide an excellent educational experience.
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The student must also complete the project course, Engineering Management 397P; six semester hours in the seminar course, Engineering Management 397K; and the master's report, Engineering Management 398R.
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ATLANTA (AP) -- Georgia's unemployment rate has declined to 7.3 percent.
State labor officials say this marks the seventh consecutive month that Georgia's jobless rate has declined.
The new seasonally adjusted unemployment rate for January, the latest month figures are available, was released early Thursday morning. It is down from 7.4 percent in December and 8.6 percent in January a year ago.
State Labor Commissioner Mark Butler says the rate fell because nearly 16,000 more Georgians were employed. Also, the number of new layoffs for January fell to the lowest level in eight years.
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Compelling and contemporary US thriller about a troubled and unorthodox CIA agent, starring Claire Danes, Mandy Patinkin and Rupert Friend
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The second season of the tense US thriller finds former CIA agent Carrie Mathison on the slow path to recovery and freshman Congressman Nicholas Brody serving his first term in office.
Episode 1 - The Smile
Months after Carrie's expulsion from the CIA and the dramatic events that prompted her to undergo electro-convulsive therapy, the former CIA officer is on the slow path to recovery
Episode 2 - Beirut Is Back
Carrie goes against the advice of her family, and gets involved in an operation aiming to neutralise the threat posed by Abu Nazir. Brody's handler presses the Congressman into service.
Episode 3 - State of Independence
Carrie convinces herself that a triumphant return to the CIA may be on the cards. Brody finds out that the Gettysburg bomb-maker is on a terrorist watch list.
Episode 4 - New Car Smell
Estes is stunned by information Saul gives him in a secret debrief. He authorises a covert operation to pursue intelligence recovered in Beirut, but only once his own trusted operative is in charge.
Episode 5 - Q&A
Brody finds himself a prisoner again, this time in the US. Carrie has to play second fiddle after her rash judgement call at the hotel, while Estes is busy ensuring that Jessica stays off their trail.
Episode 6 - A Gettysburg Address
Dana visits the hospital and is shocked by what she sees there. Faber gets tangled up with the CIA when he asks too many questions about his old friend Tom Walker.
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Reeling from the ambush, Carrie and the team struggle to regain control of their operation, while Brody and his family attend a fundraiser at a Virginia horse farm
Episode 8 - I'll Fly Away
The lies that are tangling his relationships with Carrie, Roya and Jessica leave Brody heading for a serious meltdown as he struggles to keep his complicated alliances separate
Episode 9 - Two Hats
In an effort to clarify his priorities, Brody makes a key phone call before things can spiral further out of control
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When Saul catches up with an old friend, he discovers evidence of covert activities by Estes. But it's Carrie, seemingly at the top of her game, who turns out to be more in the dark than anyone else.
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Becoming exhausted, Carrie continues to hunt for Nazir, her suspicion turning towards the CIA itself. Roya reveals her true colours under interrogation, and Saul finds himself fighting for his career.
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Semiconductor market poised for rebound, say research firms
The worldwide semiconductor market appears to be poised for a turnaround, according to recent figures released by Gartner and IHS.
Gartner found that quarterly revenue figures of semiconductor equipment manufacturers are beginning to improve. The "book-to-bill ratio indicates that spending for equipment will pick up later in the year," commented Bob Johnson, research vice president at Gartner.
"Looking beyond 2013, we expect that the current economic malaise will have worked its way through the industry and spending will follow a generally increasing pattern in all sectors throughout the rest of the forecast period," Johnson added.
Gartner forecasts that semiconductor capital spending will increase 14.2 percent next year and 10.1 percent in 2015. This compares with two consecutive years of revenue declines in 2012 and 2013.
According to IHS stats, the inventory of semiconductor manufacturers fell in the first quarter, suggesting that excess stockpiles are being cleared in response to a resurgence in demand for electronics by the second half of this year.
Semiconductor inventory declined to $37.6 billion in the first quarter, down 4.6 percent from $38.4 billion in the fourth quarter, IHS found.
"While overall chip revenue declined in the first quarter, falling inventories among chip suppliers--combined with expanding stockpiles at distributors, contract manufacturers and original equipment manufacturers--indicate that consumer demand for electronics rose during the period. This contributed to a decline in chip inventories. At the same time, semiconductor companies maintained tight control over their manufacturing capacity, contributing to the decline in inventory," said Sharon Stiefel, analyst for semiconductor market intelligence at IHS.
Both Gartner and IHS are predicting growth in the semiconductor market to return in the second half of this year and into 2014.
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A Long Strange Month
What's it like to be a member of Psychedelic Pop cult heroes The Flaming Lips? November's Lips' headlines offered a fittingly bizarre glimpse. The band saw its Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots album turned into a stage musical, released a full remake of King Crimson's debut album and headed up a War of the Worlds-like "radio drama" broadcast (in conjunction with McSweeney's) called "Wayne Coyne's Human Head-Shaped Tumor." Frontman Coyne also found time to shut down an entire terminal of the Oklahoma City airport after a grenade was found in his luggage (the "gift" was eventually determined to be deactivated). An inconvenienced traveler suggested payback in the form of an acid trip with Coyne and Yoko Ono. Coyne told Pitchfork he was down for the trip. Hopefully a grenade-free one this time. (If you'd like your very own replica of the grenade, click here.)
Party Poopers
When excitable rocker Andrew W.K.
wrote online that he was asked by
the State Department to go to the Middle East as part of a cultural
exchange program — to be what he called the "Cultural Ambassador of
Partying" — it seemed too weird to be true. That didn't stop numerous
websites (including Pitchfork and The Huffington Post) from running with
stories about W.K.'s deployment based solely on that one post. Other
outlets decided to verify W.K.'s claims; the DCist blog was told by
officials that, while W.K. was invited to visit an embassy in
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"wild oeuvre." W.K. tweeted his disappointment that the trip was
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The Not-Particularly-Friendly Skies
Pop megastar Rihanna doesn't need a costly publicity stunt to sell albums, but Def Jam still arranged an outlandish one recently. The ambitious "777 Tour" took the singer to seven countries for seven concerts in seven days on a 777 jet. The label invited 150 entertainment reporters to tag along, promising face time with the largely press-shy singer, but reports from the trip were more "nightmare travelogue" than "exclusive superstar profile," as the press corps became increasingly frustrated with the total lack of access to the star. So if you make the press hate you, does it hurt sales? No. The album, ironically titled Unapologetic,
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Developers may support projects that have long-term economic value instead of propping up all projects to please banks
Srinivasan Nandakumar
The governments ambitious $1 trillion target for infrastructure investment in the 12th Five-Year Plan has many interesting dimensions to it. While clearly the quantum of investment envisaged is huge, it would also appear essential given the countrys massive shortage of adequate and quality infrastructurebe it in transportation or energy or different components of urban infrastructure.
From an economic strategy perspective also, channelling investments into the sector holds immense potential to galvanise the present phase of sluggish growth. However, the push for investments into infrastructure projects comes at a time the sector itself is in the throes of acute stress.
Anecdotal evidence suggests that bank funding for new projects has practically dried up or, at the very least, considerably slowed down. There has been a virtual pendulum swing--from an environment of extreme eagerness to fund to a near-complete freeze.
Equity marketsboth public and privatealso seem to have lost interest in the sector. The current stressresulting in some payment defaults and forced restructuring of loanshas been brought about not only by external factors (e.g., delays in land acquisition and environmental permits) but also by an inadequate appreciation of the risks inherent in funding infrastructure projects, coupled with sub-optimal financial structures (e.g., inadequate provision for contingencies, absence of or inadequate reserve accounts, etc.).
India Ratings continues to have a negative outlook for infrastructure projects as a whole in India. The agency expects a further intensification in many previously identified macroeconomic challenges, including equity capital constraints, high interest rates, slowing GDP growth and currency depreciation, and sector-specific stresses, including fuel (coal and natural gas) shortages, weak off-takers (power distribution utilities in many states), execution delays for power and prospects of slowing traffic growth for transportation.
Project sponsors inclination to extend non-contractual support to projects funded on a non-recourse basis has somewhat cushioned the extent of stress. However, given their stretched balance sheets, sponsors will struggle to raise funds for a growing number of construction projects and support under-performing assets, largely because stock markets remain weak and volatile. This may force developers to selectively support projects that have long-term economic value in contrast to their earlier strategy of attempting to preserve vital bank relationships by propping up all projects. Such a scenario could trigger more project loan defaults or necessitate debt restructuring programmes.
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Governors in Aspen: What's Working at the State Level?
A conversation featuring Governor Chris Christie of New Jersey, Governor Bobby Jindal of Louisiana, Governor Mike Pence of Indiana, and Governor Scott Walker of Wisconsin.
This year's panel of governors will discuss important social issues affecting their communities, much like last year's discussion on gun control in America.
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A church that pickets funerals to protest what it calls American immorality members tried picketing the service this Saturday for Elizabeth Edwards, who died of breast cancer on Tuesday. But instead a remarkable event occurred on the rainy street in front of Elizabeth Edwards' funeral services, orchestrated by the Facebook group, called "Protect Elizabeth Edwards' funeral from Westboro clan." An estimated 300 people answered the call to provide a "human buffer" of love to counter the hate of Fred Phelps' Westboro group. Hundreds of people wearing pink ribbons and carrying signs with messages of hope and love quietly overwhelmed the five Westboro picketers, holding such despicable signs, as "God hates fag enablers." Read the rest of this entry »
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Nerves work as the message delivery system from the brain to the rest of the body. When a nerve is damaged by injury or trauma, the results can range from loss of sensation to loss of movement. For men and women with nerve injuries, a combination of hand therapy and surgery can help reduce symptoms and normal movement again.
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Nerves are a made of a bundled group of fibers encased in a protective sheath, just like an electrical wire. When the brain needs a muscle to move, it sends the message along a nerve. Sensations like pressure, pain or temperature changes are also transmitted along nerves. The information sent back and forth via the spinal cord helps the brain regulate and control all the parts of the body in response to the environment.
Injury or trauma can damage a nerve enough that the messages become scrambled, transmitting feelings of random numbness and tingling, or sensations of constant pain. In other cases, messages can no longer be sent at all. Without enough information, the brain has problems regulating the rest of the body. This can cause problems with physical movement and sensation.
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The treatment approach for a nerve injury depends on how the nerve is affected. For example, if the inner part of the nerve is damaged but the protective covering remains intact, only part of the nerve dies. The nerve ending closest to the brain remains alive, and regrowth occurs on its own. Although hand therapy or wearing a splint may still be recommended, surgery is not often needed in these cases.
If the nerve and the protective sheath are both damaged, surgery is necessary for recovery. During the procedure, the sheath is repaired to encourage the nerve's natural regrowth within. If the nerve has been completely severed enough to leave a gap between nerve endings, a nerve graft may be used. Without surgery, the nerve fibers can form a painful scar called a neuroma while trying to heal on their own.
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After surgery, nerve growth begins within just a few weeks. Nerves grow at an approximate rate of one inch per month. As the nerve regrows, it's common to notice a "pins and needles" sensation in the affected extremities. This is considered a good sign of progress and recovery, even if it feels a little uncomfortable at first.
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A new permanent facility in Sault Ste. Marie is designed to strengthen U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's efforts in northern Michigan.
The 10,000-square-foot ICE office that opened Friday includes Enforcement Removal Operations and Homeland Security Investigations, and officials say it should help improve border security. The agency says it includes an evidence-processing room, a short-term holding facility and new office space.
ICE is an investigative arm of the Department of Homeland Security.
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General Motors chief Rick Wagoner says the company is on track to cut 25,000 manufacturing jobs by 2008.
The automaker announced the goal earlier this year.
The company says it wants its plants operating at 100 percent capacity by that time.
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You congratulate him on what - taking everything out of context or claiming that one side of a religious dispute is allowed to troll while another is not allowed to speak, at all?
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