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WASHINGTON (AP) — Locked in a deepening struggle with President Barack Obama, the Republican-controlled House approved legislation early Sunday imposing a one-year delay in key parts of the nation's......
former name of the deal was Hillary Care ?
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You are nothing but a LIGHTBULB salesman.BWAAAA HAHAHAHA!!!!!
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Cluelass, I met Chuck Norris once, does that make me a Karate Expert?
I shock Arnold Shwartzeneger's hand when he was campaigning for Gov in CA the first time.
Does that make me an expert on Hollywood Stars??
I have dealt with Medicare with my elderly father, does THAT make me a provider expert?
Like Obama, the bar is pretty low to be an Expert in Whee-ling I guess.
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Bloviator you are getting delirious dude.
"Not local" eh? So if I own a house and pay taxes in the area that doesn't count that I have watched the Friendly City of my youth become effing mini-me Detroit?
Nice job, "Locals", you should take the Death Panel option and STFU.
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@Clue - Don't waste your time with duhRAT or Troll. They are not local posters. They are doing their min wage jobs working for some 1percent Millionaire Repug Doofus's political action committee. They just doing their 'job'...that being to propagandize the mindless ravings of fux nooz and such. They don't even live here.
Someday in the mid-future when the revolution comes a new 'order' will round up these slugs just as was done after the Civil War with Southern traitors. Picture them eventually having rehabilitation and honest jobs as 'male prostitutes in Harlem'
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No. When Clueless gets rowdy, the chief gives him a stack of expired forms and a set of crayons and tells him to "help with the paperwork." It keeps him out of trouble for a while...
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Do EMT's and paramedics also process insurance claims in 26003?
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OHHHHHhhhhhh... You should have told us your WIFE worked at a hospital. That certainly makes you an expert in the health insurance business. Because I'm sure after work you spend hours swapping stories on the intricacies of Medicare Part C and the finer points of taking a groin pulse...
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Maybe just maybe I have a mother or a wife that is a hospital CEO,CNO,CFO, Physician or Nurse Practitioner. Maybe just maybe I have worked and still work in a Hospital Emergency Department. A few of the things I listed are true and not just maybes. Matters not, anyway you slice it, I am WAY MORE EXPERIENCED ON THIS SUBJECT THAN A LIGHT BULB SALESMAN!
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like you said wraith, "goberment is afraid we won't miss them." They will miss me a lot sooner than I will miss them! I'm trying to figure out what they do that I will miss....They will miss my money on day one! LOL
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House Republican leaders on Sunday chided Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and others in the Democrat-led chamber for not hustling back to Capitol Hill to negotiate, after the lower chamber early Sunday morning passed its proposal, which includes a one-year delay on ObamaCare.
"O Senate, where art thou," said Tennessee Rep. Marsha Blackburn, riffing on the movie "O Brother, Where Art Thou."
The delay plan is in the form of an amendment to a temporary spending bill passed Friday by the Senate.
And Dopie Opie was out playing GOLF.
So tell us, dummorats, just how big a crisis is this???/
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Hillary "Butcher of Benghzi" Clinton told us how she routinely landed under sniper fire. So she certainly deserves that Government check.
Maybe she could invest that Senate retirement pay and Secrebarely of State retirement pay in her area of expertise - cattle futures - and donate those hard-earned capital gains to fund the Government...
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Yes, dying, that's what they'll tell us. LOL
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troll, An those sacrificing "federal" employees will tell us that they are protecting the homeland, keeping air travel safe, keeping your food inspected, etc! Everyone has a story to tell! Shut it all down and the peeps will see the results.
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Clueless, as one receiving Government retiree medical benefits do you have to worry about finding medical insurance? Do you plan on signing up for Obamacare? Being a Government dependent makes you an expert on private health insurance? Seriously? LOL
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Clueless, as a Government paramedic, how many Medicaid bills did you personally have to process? How many health insurance claims did you have to personally handle?
You think being a small town paramedic makes you an expert on the health insurance industry? Seriously? LOL
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dyingov "troll, Should they also pay those hard working federal employees for all that sacrifice and service?"
When ordered into the line of fire, military personnel salute smartly, pack quickly, and leave their families to fight for us; they can't quit and they can't say no. When the fighting starts those federal civilians remain in their safe rear-echelon positions, and can choose to resign and go home if things get too hot for them. The level of sacrifice and service isn't the same.
When the paychecks stop for those federal employees, they get to stay home and take second jobs if necessary to pay the bills. When the paychecks stop for military personnel they continue to report to duty, and many continue to face enemy fire, while their families struggle with the mortgage and utility bills at home. The level of service and sacrifice isn't the same.
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The Social Democrat Party loves to trumpet "successful" programs like Social Security and Medicare. Yet, they fail to tell you the reality. That reality is that these two programs are $75 TRILLION in the hole.
This means that we would have to deposit-today-$75 trillion in a bank account-just to pay current promised benefits. This assumes that we have the $75 trillion and that we close the program to new beneficiaries today.
Is that a success? Maybe in the Social Democrat Party world!
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Pizzant EMT works in the Health Care field as a provider??? So what insurance plan does the EMTs accept before giving treatment!!!!
Yeah, drug dealers are undocumented Pharmacists too, Dr. Clue!
If your **** were are big as your ego, Guinness would be coming to 26003!
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So who knows MORE, some Paramedic who works in the healthcare field in Wheeling WV that see the health care system from both inside as a provider and out side as a consumer? Or "some pizzant" SEMI EMPLOYED LIGHT BULB SALESMAN with a penchant for QUOTING COMIC BOOKS as factual sources for the purpose of debate?
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ABC NEWS: Likelihood of a shutdown" 99.9%.
In the words of Hillary "Butcher of Benghazi" Clinton, WHAT DOES IT MATTER?
The big FEAR of government is nobody will notice the difference!
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troll, Should they also pay those hard working federal employees for all that sacrifice and service? The only way to get the peeps pis sed about a shut down is ALL service at the federal level is stopped!
The very concern you have is the problem with our political system, someone is always wanting an exception! No exceptions will get the attention of the peeps a lot sooner........
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I remember in the past 30 years we PAID our volunteer military salaries as a small token of gratitude for their sacrifice and service.
When Democrit Senators and a Democrit President prove, by refusing to pass a debt ceiling bill PASSED by the House, that they are willing to allow the families of American servicemen and women now engaged in combat overseas to default on mortgage payments and to struggle to pay food and utility bills, just to hold the Democrit Party line on funding of an entitlement bill that they themselves have ALREADY delayed, that's more than despicable. That's unpatriotic, Democrits. That's treasonous, Democrits.
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troll, I recall that for the past 30 years we have had a "volunteer" military! LOL
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What You Can Do to Help Ensure The Care You Receive During Labor and Birth Will be Best For You and Your Baby
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I've got a 5'6" son who is looking for his first BMX race bike. He's not a novice rider, but he is a beginner when it comes to BMX racing. We are considering the DK 2011 Sentry or the Intense 2010 Race Pro Bike.
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We were quite understandably horrified when we came across this photo of Serena "ReRe" Williams at a press conference for the Porsche Tennis Grand Prix this week. The normally stylish ReRe looked like she's had many a sleepless night recently...or someone stole her mirror. We even noticed some other fashion faux pas from her look this week...at least she's consistent, we suppose.
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Duquette on Bundy: "He had a muscle strain in his right forearm, and we're hopeful that he'll just rehab and be ready for the springtime."
Baltimore Sun "Orioles top pitching prospect Dylan Bundy is slated to pitch in Arizona Fall League games as soon as next week, marking his first game innings in more than five months since being shelved with a right shoulder injury back in May. Bundy is currently throwing bullpens at the Orioles' spring..." October 21
Dylan bundy has been shut down, likely for the year. Buck wouldn't elaborate on shoulder troubles w Bundy but said no surgery.
Hardball Talk "Orioles pitching prospect Dylan Bundy's comeback from Tommy John elbow surgery has been put on hold due to shoulder soreness. Bundy was scratched from his scheduled start at Double-A, but Roch Kubatko of MASNSports.com reports that an examination "went well" and the Orioles are "hopeful it's..." May 26
Bundy said he was excited to get out there. 15 pitches. Will go 2-3 more as advance to half mound. March 30 is target for first bullpen
The Orioles say there is no chance they'd trade Dylan Bundy now because they know they'd be selling low following his surgery.
CBS Sports "The Orioles hoped that Dylan Bundy would pitch for them in the big leagues this season. Now there's a real chance he won't even make it there next season. Bundy is visiting Dr. James Andrews on Wednesday, and the expectation is that he will need Tommy John surgery, according to sources...." June 26
CSN Baltimore "Dylan Bundy, the Orioles prized pitching prospect, will undergo Tommy John surgery on his right elbow on Thursday. The news, first reported by The Baltimore Sun, was confirmed by an industry source. Bundy felt tightness when throwing from 120 feet in Sarasota, Fla. on Monday and he came to..." June 26
MLB.com "Top pitching prospect Dylan Bundy, who felt some discomfort when throwing off flat ground on Monday, saw team orthopedist Dr. John Wilckens on Tuesday and is headed to Florida to be re-examined by Dr. James Andrews. Manager Buck Showalter didn't divulge Wilcken's diagnosis, saying only that the..." June 26
Dylan Bundy started his throwing program today in Sarasota. 25 throws from 60 feet. No problems. #Orioles
Bundy cleared to resume throwing progression by Dr. Andrews, which will start June 10 #orioles
Baltimore Sun "Orioles top pitching prospect Dylan Bundy underwent an injection of platelet-rich plasma in his sore right forearm/elbow area Monday in Florida and will not do baseball activities for at least six weeks while he rests and rehabs. "It's good news that they're recommending rest and therapy and..." May 03
Dr. Andrews recommended and administered a PRP(platelet rich plasma) injection to Dylan Bundy & prescribed rest for six weeks #orioles
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Baltimore Sun "Orioles top prospect Dylan Bundy, shelved since March with right arm tightness, was scheduled to see renowned orthopedic surgeon Dr. James Andrews on Tuesday in Gulf Breeze, Fla., to get a second opinion on what's causing his ongoing discomfort. "We hope to find out that [Andrews] feels the..." April 24
Bundy to see Dr James Andrews for a second opinion. Didn't feel right throwing off flat ground yesterday.
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CSN Baltimore "The Orioles have temporarily shut 20-year-old right-hander Dylan Bundy down with tightness in his right elbow. "Dylan Bundy has mild tightness in [his] right elbow which he is resting until it's resolved which we expect will be in a couple [of] days at which point he will resume throwing," Dan..." April 01
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Février 2010
La biodiversité, c'est maintenant ou jamais.
Nos aliments viennent des supermarchés, notre eau coule du robinet et nos médicaments nous sont fournis par les pharmacies. Il suffit en général d'appuyer sur un bouton pour obtenir du chaud ou du froid, de tirer la chasse d'eau pour que nos excréments commencent à se décomposer et d'appuyer sur une télécommande pour trouver notre bonheur culturel ou spirituel. … | English
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Supporting Drought Policies in Europe: Biodiversity and Good Water Quality
Drought experts met in Brussels on 22 – 24 February to attend the Xerochore Final Conference on Supporting Drought Policies in Europe. Xerochore is an EU funded research project designed to assess research needs and policy choices on drought for the EU. The conference brought together planners, water resource experts, environment specialists, climatologists, and economists to discuss the challenges of drought identification and characterisation, the environmental and socio-economic impacts of drought, and management choices and policy options for drought based on EU Member State and overseas experience. …
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Protected Areas Retreat 16-17 February 2009
Following the external review of the IUCN Programme on Protected Areas (PPA) in 2009, 30 participants met together in Rolle, Switzerland, to provide input into the IUCN's management response that will shape the future of the PPA. …
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MRC/IUCN Regional Workshop on Mekong Wetlands, Biodiversity, and Livelihoods
On 25-26 January over 40 wetlands specialists met in Ho Chi Minh City in a workshop organised by Mekong River Commission (MRC) and International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) in order to share recent experience, knowledge gained and lessons learned from ongoing work on wetlands in the Mekong Basin, and to identify priority areas for future work.
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Call for Papers - Policy Matters: Issue 18
Call for Papers - POLICY MATTERS: ISSUE 18 "Rights-based Approaches to Conservation: Ensuring the Local Integrity of Environmental Law and Policy" Guest Editors: Kabir Bavikatte, Harry Jonas, and Holly Shrumm (Natural Justice: Lawyers for Communities and the Environment) …
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Million-dollar boost to the people and biodiversity of West Africa
An IUCN initiative that works to improve the livelihoods of people in West Africa has received a major boost in the form of a CHF 1.9 million grant from Switzerland's State Secretariat for Economic Affairs (SECO). …
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Coastal Conservation offers survival for the poor
A young British Conservationist has won an international award for helping to create a new model of community-run Marine Protected Areas, which both saves marine diversity and helps to feed marine dependent communities. …
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Upcoming Earthwatch lectures
IUCN Member Earthwatch to host two lectures in London as part of an ongoing series of educational events. …
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Call for Papers - Policy Matters: Issue 17
Call for papers - POLICY MATTERS: ISSUE 17 "Macroeconomic Policies for Sustainable Development" Guest Editor: Alejandro Nadal (Co-Chair, TEMTI; Full Professor, Center for Economic Studies, El Colegio de México). …
24 Feb 2010 | News story
Mangroves to the rescue
Coastal ecosystems in the Pacific region are under severe threat. Increasing population, coastal development, squatter settlements and increasing demand for resources are having a serious impact. Climate change will only make things worse for these vulnerable coastal areas, and urgent action is needed to address the ongoing threats. …
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A man who says he's run for congressional office covering 29 of our state's 100 counties has thrown his hat in the ring for state auditor.
Greg Dority is currently the chair of the Beaufort County Republican Party. He says he's built up quite a name for himself, running for congress twice in the 1st district in 2002 and 2004, for lieutenant governor in 2008 and for 12th district congressman in 2010, among other races. Dority says last week, state GOP Chairman Robin Hayes called him and encouraged him to get into the state auditor's race because having a strong conservative in the east that everyone recognizes will help Pat McCrory get elected governor.
"Senator Helms told me a long time ago no republican can win a statewide race in North Carolina without carrying the conservatives in the east, and we feel with an eastern conservative on the ticket, we can help drive the vote better for Pat," said Dority, (R) State Auditor Candidate.
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So what are you in for? a fellow inmate asked. Brian Armstrong didn't even know. Just that he had been hauled into a squad car by Seattle...
So what are you in for? a fellow inmate asked.
Brian Armstrong didn't even know. Just that he had been hauled into a squad car by Seattle police and tossed into the King County Jail one recent Saturday night. On Wednesday, Armstrong stood in his best dress shirt as he was formally charged with unlawfully selling alcohol to a minor, a state law that carries a maximum penalty of a year in jail and a $5,000 fine.
"It was completely surreal," Armstrong told me afterward from his job at the J&M Café in Pioneer Square. "This is going to cost me thousands of dollars. This is complete overkill."
Armstrong, 35, was one of 15 bartenders and bouncers arrested and jailed overnight in a Seattle police sting that has drawn ire for its zealousness, and for its distinct stench of political preening.
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To be fair, the sting (conducted over two weeks in August) showed there are flaws in the system: Undercover minors were allowed in and served liquor at 14 of 15 nightclubs. Bar employees also allowed a gun into two clubs, although one case is being reconsidered.
I have some problems with the Chicken Little-like reaction to underage people using fake ID to get into nightclubs. Is this a crisis gripping the city, worth 900 police hours and $52,000 of taxpayer money?
Worse was the heavy-handed way the sting was conducted. I wondered if, in the days since, City Attorney Tom Carr has started feeling like a Marshal Dillon wannabe — especially when folks like Armstrong are getting rounded up.
"No! No! Are you kidding?" Carr bellowed into the phone the other day. "There's been no blowback; there's been spin. Why aren't the hard questions being asked of the spinners, like why did 14 of the 15 bars allow minors in? If you can't defend your actions, attack the prosecutors, right?"
(For the record, Carr didn't take his first legal drink until he was 19; I asked.)
Who is really on the attack here? Usually, when a minor is served alcohol, the offending bartender is served a summons much like a speeding ticket.
"My client is not a menace to society," said Armstrong's lawyer, Kirk C. Davis.
Armstrong has made that clear. A few days ago, he testified before the Seattle City Council on his arrest while his daughter, Lilliana, peeked out from a carrier on his back. He has two other kids, a wife who works days and a house in Lynnwood. (They couldn't afford to buy in Seattle.) Now he faces legal bills, fines and possible jail time for something that he says was not his fault.
"It's the front of the house," Armstrong said. "We expect that everyone else is doing their job so we can do ours. If people are in the bar, they should be of age."
Carr would have none of it: "Have you ever met anybody who was charged with anything who didn't say the police should spend their time doing something else?
"Lots of people that we have prosecuted are really good people," Carr said, citing Seattle Metropolitan Urban League President James Kelly and state Supreme Court Justice Bobbe Bridge.
And I'll bet they did the frog-march through the streets, right? Didn't think so.
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School starts next month, and the Cleveland Schools still haven't agreed on wages, benefits and staffing with the Cleveland Teachers Union. Both parties agreed to negotiate privately, but the district says the union has broken that promise. Ideastream's Michelle Kanu has the story.
On Friday, the Cleveland Schools filed an unfair labor practice charge with the State Employment Relations Board against the Cleveland Teachers Union. The charge alleges that the union failed to respond to its proposals during their negotiation process and that the union violated their mutual agreement to keep all bargaining private by allowing teachers to speak with the media.
Meanwhile, contract negotiations appear to have stalled. At issue are 40-50 million dollars in concessions the union says the district has asked for, and whether the district will recall any of the 643 teacher who were laid off this spring.
Roseann Canfora, a spokesperson for the Cleveland Schools, says the district won't discuss concessions or recalls until the negotiations are over.
Canfora: "The district has a policy to respect the collective bargaining process and will not comment about any negotiations with the Cleveland Teachers Union in public."
Union president David Quolke wouldn't comment on the process, but Megan Scully, a teacher at Warner Girls Leadership Academy, says union members just want to know what to expect this fall.
Scully: "We're very concerned that schools going to start—we start in about two and a half weeks, and we really want to make sure that we have the right teachers in the right places for the students."


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In Japanese, 'Shamo', translates as 'fighter' and these birds have been controversially used in cock-fighting for centuries in Japan, where the sport is legal.
There are many different subspecies of the O Shamo chicken, but they can commonly be distinguished by their upright body posture, strong plumage and jutted shoulders.
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As mentioned above, these birds have been used for fighting for centuries, so they can be extremely aggressive if provoked. Generally, however, they will be well-mannered and tame if they are treated with the appropriate care.
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O Shamo chickens will generally be more than happy with general chicken feed. Despite their exotic origins, these birds have a similar appetite to other chickens.
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As with the majority of chicken breeds, provided you offer a spacious coop, adequate shelter, a decent food and water supply and a secure environment, O Shamo chickens are fairly self-sufficient and require little maintenance.


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Two former employees of Mercedes-Benz Manhattan say they were subjected to racism at the factory-owned dealership then fired for complaining to superiors about it.
A lawsuit filed in federal court in New York charges that Burnell Guyton, 54, and Andre Grammer, 44, both black, found racist graffiti on several occasions in a bathroom stall used by employees.
The graffiti consisted of swastikas, a drawing of a stick figure hanging from a noose with Guyton's name below it, graphic sexual drawings and racially derogatory statements etched into the stall, according to the lawsuit.
"We were fired because we were standing up for our rights," Grammer said in an interview.
The dealership denies the charges.
In an e-mailed statement, dealership management wrote that the allegations are baseless, which will be proved in court. "We pride ourselves in providing an inclusive and supportive environment at Mercedes-Benz Manhattan," the statement said. "This lawsuit was originated by an employee who was terminated for cause and another one who voluntarily resigned without cause or provocation."
In an interview, Guyton said he has worked in the auto industry for nearly 30 years and had owned three dealerships before joining Mercedes-Benz.
Mercedes-Benz Manhattan is the only store owned and operated by Mercedes-Benz USA. In August 2008, the dealership hired Guyton as the fixed operations director. He managed about 150 employees, he says.
"When I first got there, I heard rumors of what certain people might say about an African-American running fixed operations. But it was just hearsay," Guyton says. "Around the second year, when the writing started to show up, then it really hit home when you can read it on the wall."
Guyton and Grammer complained to superiors about the graffiti, the lawsuit says. The store painted over the graffiti, but the etchings were still visible and the dealership did not replace the stall, the lawsuit says. "When you figure you're at a company that sells a luxury product, you'd think the personnel would mirror what the brand stands for," Grammer says. "I was very shocked."
The two were ostracized after they complained, the lawsuit says.
In April 2011, Grammer, a service consultant, offered his resignation to Guyton, who tried to get him to stay, saying he'd address the discrimination, the lawsuit says. But Guyton was fired the same day even though his department had had two of its most profitable years under his leadership, the lawsuit says.
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Inquiry is the essence of science, design is the essence of engineering, and in their pure forms, these activities are utterly different. Scientific inquiry draws observations from the world to reshape the mind; engineering design projects ideas from the mind to reshape the world. One is an eye, the other a hand, afferent and efferent flows of information.
This fundamental anti-parallelism can engender pervasive differences in perception and response, in problem definitions and solutions, and in how institutions are organized. The reasons for the differences are strong. Scientists without direction explore and make unexpected discoveries; engineers without direction flounder and fail to produce expected results. Applying a disciplined, engineering approach to scientific discovery can be stultifying, while applying a scientific approach to the bits and pieces of a system engineering problem can produce fascinating results, year after year, each gift-wrapped in an exciting press release — yet no working product.
Coordination of eyes and hands can be very useful, of course. I find technical progress to be most interesting in areas where scientists are pressing the limits of technology, and where engineers are pressing the limits of knowledge. The results are engineering-intensive science and science-intensive engineering. Some of the most impressive engineering in the world is done by scientists — high-energy particle physicists — who build awesome machines like the Large Hadron Collider. The space scientists who build instruments destined to orbit Saturn, or to fall forever into interstellar space, are of the same breed.
Inquiry and design are seldom separate, so how can it be meaningful to call some activities "science", and others "engineering"? I think it's best to look beyond the mixture of inquiry and design in a project, and to consider instead its purpose. If the intended result is knowledge — a better model of what exists in the world and how it works — I think of it as science. If the intended result is a new product, process, or design methodology, I think of it as engineering.
An ambitious project is like a layer cake of science and engineering. What matters most is which layer is on top, because it is the top-level goal that sets the objectives and that determines what kind of organization is necessary to reach them. Is the purpose primarily to explore an area, or is it to build something?
In nanotechnology the cake looks more marbled than layered, and mostly for good reason, but there is something missing. Unlike high-energy particle physics or space science, nanotechnology springs from fields (surface science, materials science, chemistry, biology) that have no tradition of developing conceptual designs for complex systems, debating the knowns, unknowns, costs, benefits, alternative objectives, alternative solutions, and so forth, to eventually converge on objectives that coordinate the work of hundreds or thousands for a decade or more.
Without a tradition of this sort, large opportunities can go unrecognized — and in part because they are large. This will change, but I doubt that the change will be led from within.
In future posts, I'll say more about under-appreciated aspects of the relationship between science and engineering. Some aspects are abstract, at a more-or-less epistemological level; others are closely related yet very practical, addressing problems of effective communication and planning in corporate R&D labs, where project cost, risk, and delivery time are stake.
See also:
- How to Learn About Everything
- How to Understand Everything (and Why)
- A Map of Science
- The Antiparallel Structures of Science and Engineering
- A Telescope Aimed at the Future
- Exploratory Engineering:
Applying the predictive power of science
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Pet Friendly , Private Swimming Pool , Near Beach , Disability Access , Private Sauna , Near Marina
PISA VACATION GUEST HOUSE RENTAL DESCRIPTION Just a stroll away from the famous Piazza dei Miracoli and San Rossore Nature Park, the 'residence' is immersed in tranquility and the greenery of the Mediterranean vegetation. The houses, each an autonomous villa, spacious, full of light and provided with every comfort, are arranged around a courtyard with a large and luxuriant garden.
The circle is completed by a splendid swimming pool at the guests disposal and a large multipurpose building, containing the reception, the lounge bar, the multipurpose room for conferences and congresses, the Beauty and Wellness Center with sauna, Turkish bath, aromatic showers, massage rooms and, on the first floor, a spacious room for ceremonies and banquets, that looks onto a large panoramic terrace. All rooms are air-conditioned. The complex is also provided with ample parking.
In Residence San Rossore you will stay in detached houses that are spacious, full of light, with all the home comforts, located in a beautiful area close to the Pisa Tower and the nature park of San Rossore. The large pool, garden, Customer Center, lounge bar and Beauty Center and parking area are available to the customers to make their stays at Residence San Rossore unforgettable.
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A Beauty and Wellness Center is available for the customers. It is equipped with a Turkish bath, sauna, and tropical showers, relax rooms with herb teas, massage and beauty treatments. It is connected to the swimming pool by its own passage. Exclusive and personalized offers for the wellness center treatments are available to the customers.
The Restaurant at Residence San Rossore offers its guests the possibility to dine in a quiet and ambient atmosphere.Tradition and innovation cohabit in looking for a new and old flavors. All accompanied with the important wines of our wine cellar.
Conference Center
The Customer Center offers several rooms for conferences: a hall for 100 seats equipped with the latest instrumentation for projection and internet connection, lighting and sound systems, with the opportunity to have a technician available; two board rooms; a reception room with phone, fax, internet connection and photocopy machine.
Banqueting Hall
This spacious hall, in the Customer Center, can be used for wedding receptions, company dinners or any other events that requires space in an exclusive and elegant location. The banqueting hall looks onto balcony with a beautiful view, where memorable events can take place. The swimming pool area can be used for serving aperitifs, cocktails and events.
Swimming Pool and Solarium
The swimming pool in the residence owes its beauty to the mosaic tiles. Its rectangular and semicircular shape copies the architecture of the residence complex and includes the central garden. In the semicircular pool it is possible to sit in the water, enjoying the freshness at the water's edge and the heat of the sun. An area of Florence terracotta tiles is all around the swimming pool. This area is used during the day with umbrellas and deckchairs and in the evening becomes a meeting point for listening music, drinking aperitifs, cocktails or eating ice-cream. The swimming pool is equipped with changing and shower rooms in the typical style of sea-cabins. The entrance and use of the swimming pool is free and always available to the customers.
Lounge Bar
In the Customer Centre, on the ground floor, the customers will find the lounge bar where they can taste excellent coffee, a good glass of wine or aperitif and have breakfast. The bar is spacious and comfortable and it looks onto the garden through a large window. The customers can also enjoy reading book and magazines, available from the staff or just relax listening to music.
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- Sleeps: 26
- Bedrooms: 13
- Baths: 13
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- Homosexuals can't change, according to recent statements made by the American Psychiatric and Psychological Associations (WORLD, Aug. 26). Some doctors disagree. One of those is Warren Throckmorton, past president of the American Mental Health Counselors Association and currently director of college counseling and associate professor of psychology at Grove City College. At the annual American Psychological Association (APA) meeting last month, Dr. Throckmorton presented a review of nine "ex-gay studies" demonstrating that change in sexual orientation is possible. "The health professions largely ignore research demonstrating change from gay to straight," he said, but he expressed hope that the scheduling of the review "may demonstrate a shift in APA's willingness to explore all sides on this matter."
- Retired railroad engineer Arthur Willhite has discovered a new kind of transportation system. Since 1994 he and his wife, Mary, have transported nearly 8 million pounds of donated food-valued at approximately $7 million-to local church food pantries and senior citizen centers in Columbus, Ohio. Dedicating 60 hours a week to the effort, the couple used their own money to purchase an old delivery truck. They created a makeshift food warehouse out of seven trailers.


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By Rob Knies
July 18, 2011 9:31 AM PT
Two years ago, during a cyberinfrastructure meeting convened by the U.S. National Science Foundation, principal investigators from across the country found their scientific concerns begin to converge.
"All around the table," recalls Roger Barga, an architect in Microsoft Research's eXtreme Computing Group (XCG), "people were saying, 'I need the means to analyze data,' or 'I need a library of analytics that scale out over large data.'"
Barga and his colleagues took note, and in Redmond, Wash., on July 18, the opening day of the 12th annual Microsoft Research Faculty Summit, they provided their response to the scientists' plea: a platform code-named "Daytona," designed to expand the tool set for scientists who require large-scale data computation.
"'Daytona' gives scientists more ways to use the cloud without being tied to one computer or needing detailed knowledge of cloud programming—ultimately letting scientists be scientists," says Dan Reed, corporate vice president of the Technology Policy Group at Microsoft. "We're very excited to empower the research community with this enhanced tool kit that will, hopefully, lead to greater scientific insights as a result of large-scale data-analytics capabilities."
That offering is capturing plenty of attention during the Faculty Summit, a three-day event at the Microsoft Conference Center in which more than 300 leading computer scientists, academics, educators, and governmental officials consult with Microsoft researchers on challenges and trends in computing. The theme of this year's event is Future World, and, accordingly, attendees will explore new advances in natural user interfaces, cloud computing, and machine learning that reflect Microsoft Research's significant collaboration with computer scientists and academic researchers to advance the state of the art in computing.
"Daytona," Barga explains, represents the next step in that long-term commitment.
"'Daytona' has a very simple, easy-to-use programming interface for developers to write machine-learning and data-analytics algorithms," he says. "They don't have to know too much about distributed computing or how they're going to spread the computation out, and they don't need to know the specifics of Windows Azure."
From the outset of the project, Barga and his XCG colleagues had one goal in mind: to make it easier for scientists and researchers to explore today's burgeoning data sets effectively.
"Increasingly," he says, "we have seen in our cloud-engagement program scientists and researchers wrestling with large data collections. They want to extract insight from these collections, and they know which algorithms to use. But they need them to scale out the algorithm to process data volumes that they've never tackled before: terabytes of data, not just megabytes or gigabytes.
"These are the people we see using 'Daytona' to run algorithms over large-scale data collections to extract insights: find patterns, find clusters, find outliers, and build training models so they can classify incoming data based on the data they've captured and classified to date."
Not only are new releases of "Daytona" scheduled monthly, to incorporate the latest advances and feedback from the scientific and research communities, but it also is being distributed for free.
"We wanted something that we could freely distribute as soon as possible," Barga explains. "We now have something that accumulates all the knowledge our team has gathered on how to work with Azure, build applications on Azure, and scale out data on Azure. What we're releasing now has been rigorously tested and well documented. We have code samples and programming guides—a full kit. People can now build on top of that."
Barga says success for "Daytona" will be measured in a couple of ways.
"One," he says, "is that groups both inside Microsoft and outside Microsoft are installing it on Azure and they're building libraries on top of it that they're basing their research on. Two, that we're getting active feedback from the community on how to enhance it.
"We'll be getting suggestions from the community on how to make it better, and we can respond to that, in addition to putting our own ideas in. If we have an active dialogue, what more could you ask?"


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Eli Manning stood on the New York Giants' sideline in disbelief when it looked as if the Dallas Cowboys had scored a go-ahead touchdown...
ARLINGTON, Texas — Eli Manning stood on the New York Giants' sideline in disbelief when it looked as if the Dallas Cowboys had scored a go-ahead touchdown with 10 seconds left.
What was encouraging is what he didn't see: a replay on the giant videoboard that hangs above the field at Cowboys Stadium, where the Giants still have never lost following a wild 29-24 victory Sunday.
Officials reviewed and overturned Dez Bryant's apparent 37-yard touchdown catch, ruling his hand hit out of bounds, and the Cowboys couldn't get into the end zone after the overturned reception.
"I couldn't quite believe they were able to hit a touchdown in that situation. I kind of kept looking for the replay," Manning said. "You know the game was not going to be over until that clock hit zero."
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This was the 20th time in Manning's career that the Giants rallied in the fourth quarter to win. And this comeback came after New York blew an early 23-0 lead.
"It speaks about our resiliency. We know how to win these games," receiver Victor Cruz said. "We've been in a bunch of them."
The Giants are 4-0 in Arlington since Jerry Jones' football palace opened in 2009 with a New York victory.
Eagles reach season low
PHILADELPHIA — The boos started as early as the first quarter, and there were not many Eagles fans remaining by the fourth quarter. The end of coach Andy Reid's tenure never seemed closer than it did when the Eagles' season hit its lowest note yet in a 30-17 loss to the Atlanta Falcons at Lincoln Financial Field.
"That was an embarrassing performance," Reid said.
His statement would resonate more if it were the first time he said it, but he expressed a similar sentiment after the last loss. The Eagles are 3-4 after dropping three consecutive games, and they appear to be regressing. Multiple players in the locker room echoed Reid's label of "embarrassing," but saying it is not the same as fixing it.
"I don't think we showed enough pride today," running back LeSean McCoy said. "I don't think we showed enough heart."
It was the first loss after a bye week in Reid's 14 years as coach. This may have been his final time coaching the Eagles after a bye week, too, because Reid's job is in peril if the season continues on this course.
Quarterback Michael Vick's job might be in more immediate danger, and Vick even acknowledged after the game that Reid is "thinking about making a change at the quarterback position" to rookie Nick Foles.
• The New England Patriots amassed 473 total yards in a 45-7 victory over St. Louis in the NFL's game in London. The Patriots have posted at least 350 total yards in 17 consecutive games, surpassing the Rams (1999-2000) for the longest such streak in NFL history.


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|Dry weather brings possibilities of pasture, grass fires
|Written by Wauneta Breeze
|Monday, 08 July 2013 17:01
A soapweed suffers from the intense heat and dry weather. (Christi Christner | The Wauneta Breeze)
By Christi Christner
The Wauneta Breeze
The United States have been in the worst drought since the 1930s which was the Dustbowl era.
With so much dry weather and not a sufficient amount of rain, there is a higher risk of fires.
Last year, around this time, the local fire departments were in and out with many calls for pasture and grass fires.
Many of the fires last year were caused by lightning or other natural causes because it was so dry.
With all of the dry grass and wind the local areas have been receiving lately a fire could spread very easily.
In Colorado, there has been an ongoing fight between firefighters and the raging flames.
The fire in Colorado was started by lightning and has burned 13,521 acres since June 19t
The Wauneta Fire Department asks all people to just be careful when using things that could potentially be flammable.
If using machinery or torches or even cigarettes, be cautious. "Things are more likely to light up now because of the lack of moisture" Bob Going, fire chief of Wauneta, says.
There have been a few rains that have kept things in the local areas green but grasses and pastures keep drying out from the lack of moisture.
The fourth of July is coming soon. When asked if people should be concerned about fireworks mixing with the dry weather Goings says, "Anything can happen. People just need to remember to use their heads and stay safe."
There is not a ban on fireworks this year, but it could be a concern. Just remember to stay safe and pick spots that don't have dead grass or trees around them when setting off fireworks.


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Tom White: Fiscal cliff: It really is class warfare
"Fiscal Cliff."
Sounds bad. Very bad.
Apparently, if Congress can't reach some sort of grand bargain, at the end of the year across-the-board spending cuts and tax increases will go into effect that will end the World as we know it. All the result of the Tea Party debt ceiling debacle in summer 2011. To fix this, the President and many Democrats want higher taxes on the wealthy while the Republicans want to cut "entitlements," by which they mean Social Security and Medicare.
Here's the take away: this very much is Class Warfare. There's no use pretending otherwise. So you might want to decide which side you're on. And to do that, I offer up five easy fixes to the fiscal cliff and the national debt/deficit in general. See where you come down:
I say there is no way you can make that kind of money without help. Government help: Good roads, bridges, schools, ports, government contracts, subsidies, cheap oil supported by our military.... See?
Notice a trend here? I say the financial sector needs to pay more. Banking and finance used to be boring and worked nicely for most people because the dollar was the only currency left standing after Word War II. Now the financial sector has simply lost its collective mind and the country has had to rescue it over and over.
We cannot go on like this. When median income (half of national households above, and half below) is stagnant or declining, eventually the nation as a whole can no longer afford to buy any of the stuff it produces (whether in manufacturing or services). No more demand. John Maynard Keynes identified this phenomenon as the cause of the Depression. Henry Ford got it, too.
Generate a little more revenue with these suggestions -- which have been kicked around for years -- and the government can actually afford to spend on things like roads, bridges, schools and, yes, health care. And everybody will be better for it. Not just Wall Street, and not just the John Galts among us.
Cliff averted.
None of this will happen, of course. Most folks in Congress are millionaires and they don't like any of this. Hence the filibuster. And the finance industry has pretty much a stranglehold on both houses. "The banks own the place," Illinois Sen. Dick Durbin famously quipped in 2009.
But at least you can decide which side you're on. For the last 30 years the Republican Party has had one message: less regulation and lower taxes, especially for the wealthy.
We've seen how that turned out. Look around.
Journalist Timothy Noah's 2012 book, The Great Divergence, pretty much kicks the stuffing out of "trickle-down" economics and shows that stagnation in the U.S. median income has many causes, including deliberate policy favoring the wealthy: banking de-regulation, weakened domestic labor laws, off-shoring manufacturing and tax policy.
To get in the weeds a little, Noah shows that the effective tax rate for the top 0.01 percent has gone down about one quarter since the 1970s, while the pre-tax income for this same sector grew by 217 percent.
Similar data about income inequality from the 1970s forward are now sprouting up everywhere. There seems to have been a trend after World War II where productivity and median income rose together, all the way to the OPEC embargo of the '70s. Since then there has been a split, and median income has stagnated despite productivity gains (most prominently in the service sector.)
Noah ends his book with the thought that this split is actually the root cause of the unusual distrust and rancor between parties and populace we see today:
To Republicans, the enemy is the cultural elite; to Democrats, it's the economic elite. In a less income-divergent society, elites would still be resented. But I doubt that opposing them would be an organizing principle of politics to the same extent that it is today.
I like this idea. Nonetheless, I say this fiscal cliff business should inform your opinion about which side you're on. You should choose.
White is a Charleston lawyer and former Gazette reporter.


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It was the Twilight saga that proved the spending power of teenage girls at the multiplex, but Bella Swan was no match for "The Hunger Games"' action heroine Katniss Evergreen. Kicking off the franchise with a $686 million worldwide gross, Jennifer Lawrence announced her star potential and claim to the title of "the next Julia Roberts", which were later cemented by her acclaimed turn in "Silver Linings Playbook".
I is for Interview Bias
Helen Hunt may have suffered from the double standard on "The Sessions" but she wasn't going to stand for it during a actress roundtable for the Hollywood Reporter with two male moderators. Mid-interview, she called them out for their clearly sexist line of questioning - which incorporated nudity, facing your fears and the paparazzi - comparing it to Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign, when "they were asking Obama about foreign policy and they were asking her, "How do you stay healthy on the road?". When her fellow actresses agreed, the interviewers quickly changed their tune.
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J is for Jennifer Lee
Jennifer Lee is not the first female director of a Disney film (step forward Jun Falkenstein, who helmed "The Tigger Movie" aged 29) but in a year when Brenda Chapman's saga with "Brave" drew some rather mixed publicity to the issue, it was cheering to see Lee - a co-writer on this year's hit "Wreck It Ralph" - announced as co-director of Disney's forthcoming "Frozen".
K is for Kristen Stewart
Twenty two-year old Stewart confirmed all the media's worst practices earlier this year when her personal life saw her subjected to attention and abuse no man would have to face in her position. So let's focus on the positives, namely her box office prowess - with starring roles in "Snow White and the Huntsman" and "Breaking Dawn", her films grossed nearly $1.2 billion in total, with even the terminally insipid Bella demonstrating some heroics in the last chapter of the Twilight saga.
"The Queen of Versailles" was one of the year's biggest documentary hits, chronicling the hubris of property magnate David Siegel's attempt to build the largest private home in America. Director Lauren Greenfield won Sundance's documentary directing award, which coupled with Ava DuVernay's win made it a good year for female directors at the festival. Next year looks to be even better, with eight women among the sixteen directors in the Dramatic Competition.
M is for Marion Cotillard
Cotillard has used her 2007 Oscar win as a springboard for Hollywood success like no other recent victor, but it was a French language performance in Jacques Audiard's "Rust and Bone" that won her a raft of critical praise this year. A likely second Oscar nomination could make history, with her becoming the first ever actor to win for more than one foreign-language performance.
N is for Nicole Kidman
All the headlines surrounding Kidman's turn in Lee Daniels' "The Paperboy" were over a somewhat attention-grabbing act performed on Zac Efron, but Kidman could be in line for a golden shower of her own if her recent awards momentum is anything to go by - her no-holds-barred performance has been recognised against the odds with Screen Actors Guild and Golden Globe nominations.


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▪ The Alamance-Burlington School System will have to find a makeup day for its makeup day scheduled for today. Icy conditions and power outages closed schools Friday and, while forecasts called for a warm day today, worries about power shut them down today as well. The new make-up day is March 22.
▪ The SAT exams scheduled to be administered this morning at Elon University have been canceled.
▪ The model train show and sale in Mebane scheduled for today is postponed until next Saturday, organizer Kenneth Wilkinson said. The time and location will be the same, Wilkinson said, just a week later. The show will be from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. at 209 W. Jackson St. Admission is $5, and children under 12 get in free.
▪ The wheelchair basketball tournament Rollin Hoops, scheduled for 10 a.m. Saturday at the Graham Recreation Center, is postponed. Organizer Scott Reavis of the Alamance County Mayors Committee for Persons With Disabilities said the event will be rescheduled but no date has been decided.
▪ With nice weather predicted this weekend, the City of Burlington says, people may want to use parks that wont be safe to open. A complete list of what will be closed and what will open, depending on power, as it currently stands is available here: http://burlingtonnc.gov/CivicAlerts.aspx?AID=972
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Last week, I blogged about the tragic suicides at Guantanamo and their strange timing with the release of Michael Winterbottom and Mat Whitecross's "The Road to Guantanamo." On Alternet today, I offer a review of the film and describe how it "shows just how easy it is for innocent young people to be swept up in the United States' indiscriminate 'war on terror' and suffer the kinds of indignities that could lead someone to take his own life."
The film opens not a moment too soon in some 15 theaters across the country on Friday. See the roll out schedule and venues list here. If all the Abu Ghraib pictures, the war documentaries and the subtle, fact-based effective artistry of the Guantamano movie doesn't finally wake up Americans to the rampant torture and abuses of power committed by the Bush Regime, I just don't know if anything will.


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Is Jesse a "bad boy name"?, a visitor to our message boards asked.
She wanted to know because she loved the name Jesse but was afraid that any boy named Jesse would be stereotyped as wild, naughty, rebellious — a bad kid.
That question summoned up an issue that simmers beneath many discussions on names: What's the image that name conveys, and do we want to take that on for our child?
To put it more plainly, do some names carry stereotypes, positive or negative, that go beyond our individual expectations and experiences? Are you guilty of stereotyping people based on their names, and what names carry the strongest stereotypes for you?
To commemorate this week's International Women's Day (we're only a day late), we thought that this time we'd look not at creative artists or political figures, but at accomplished female scientists and mathematicians. These range in time from the 4th century BC to the recent past, all of them women who had to overcome the cultural biases against females in their fields–all inspirational namesakes. Brainy names for brainy babies!
And in the usual nameberry fashion, we're not aiming to be comprehensive, but focusing as much on noteworthy names as on notable achievements. So apologies to the many Marys, andMaries who don't appear below..
ADA Lovelace, aka AUGUSTA Ada Byron – daughter of the poet, a mathematician who contributed to research that led to the modern computer.
ALESSANDRA Giliani –14th century Italian anatomist, reputedly the first person to use the injection of colored fluids to trace blood vessels.
AMALIE Emmy Noether – (known as EMMY) – did work relating to the general theory of relativity and ring theory.
ARTEMISIA, Queen of Caria (c. 300 BC), a botanist and medical researcher; the plant genis Artemisia is named for her.
CECILIA Payne-Gaposchkin– as a graduate student in 1925, she established one of the fundamental theories of astrophysics, that stars were made up of hydrogen and helium.
DOROTHEA Klumpke was an internationally known astronomer who studied meteorites and broke several gender barriers.
ELENA LUCREZIA Cornaro Piscopia –a 17th century Venetian mathematician, the first woman to earn a PhD.
ELSA Beata Bunge – Well known early Swedish botanist who wrote on the nature of vine grapes.
ÉMILIE du Châtenet – Translated Newton's Principia into French and deduced the conservation of energy.
GERTY Theresa Cori (shown) was awarded a 1947 Nobel Laureate for her medical research, which she shared with her husband.


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Luzerne County court officials seek volunteers to launch 'Veterans Court'
Luzerne County court officials are looking for a few good men and women.
The county is poised to launch a "Veterans Court" program and needs a group of volunteers who served in the military to act as mentors for defendants.
Veterans Court will specifically handle criminal cases involving military veterans and will streamline their treatment plans, said Luzerne County Judge Joseph Sklarosky Jr., who has been selected to head the court.
Sklarosky said details about eligibility and the legal model the court will follow are still being finalized. He said the court will be similar to the county's treatment court, which aims to treat an offender's drug problems and erases a defendant's criminal case if they complete the intensive program.
A key difference, Sklarosky said, is the veteran mentor.
"Veterans share a special bond. There's a certain level of respect," Sklarosky said. "Based on what we've been able to learn, it's a support role. It's an advice role. Someone to call with questions. It may entail something as simple as giving a ride."
Fifteen counties in Pennsylvania have a Veterans Court, including Lackawanna County.
According to the state court, Veterans Courts are designed to assist veterans charged with nonviolent crimes who are struggling with addiction, mental illness, or other disorders.
Sklarosky said Luzerne County officials have met with officials in Lackawanna County and will soon be meeting with Montgomery County officials about the program.
Veteran defendants will be required to follow through with all recommendations by the court, much like participant of drug court, the judge said.
Sklarosky said he'll be able to mandate veterans to seek services at the Veterans Administration, such as drug and alcohol treatment and job assistance.
"There's certainly a recognition of their service to the county, but I certainly wouldn't consider it a break," Sklarosky said. "Obviously, for a veteran defendant to participate, they have to buy into the program."
Anyone interested in becoming a veteran mentor is asked to call Sklarosky's chambers at 570-825-1803.
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Weekend earnings of $22,632 shot the documentary "Deep Water" to the front of the iWBOT, as well as the top, per-screen, documentary debut for IFC Films since their 2006 release "Wordplay." Large crowds at New York's IFC Film Center pushed director Joe Swanberg's youth romance "Hannah Takes the Stairs," an IFC First Take release, to the number six ranking on the iWBOT, which lists films by per-screen average. Close behind "Deep Water" was City Lights Pictures' Brazilian documentary "Manda Bala," which earned $8,140 in its second weekend at New York's Angelica Film Center. Both "Deep Water" and "Hannah Takes the Stairs" out-performed THINK Film's "The Hottest State," filmmaker/actor Ethan Hawke's drama about young love in New York, which earned a moderate $8,545 at three locations, failing to crack the iWBOT Top Ten. Holdover "2 Days in Paris," a reissue of "Metropolis" at San Francisco's Castro Theatre and the Weinstein Company comedy "Dedication" rounded out the iWBOT Top Five.
The iWBOT is based on per-theater averages reported by Rentrak Theatrical, the complete indieWIRE BOT weekly chart is available at indieWIRE.com.
"Deep Water," co-directors Louise Osmond and Jerry Rothwell's account of amateur yachtsman Donald Crowhurst's attempt to win a 1969 around-the-world boat race, earned $22,632 from the Nuart Theatre in Los Angeles and New York's Angelika Film Center. With a per-screen average of $11,316, "Deep Water" topped the iWBOT and was IFC Films' top documentary debut since last summer's Wordplay."
"I think Deep Water tells a very intriguing story which hit a chord with moviegoers this weekend," said Mark Boxer, VP Sales and Distribution for IFC. "The incredible, true story has received wonderful reviews and we are thrilled about the opening weekend numbers." While "Deep Water" failed to equal the per-screen debuts of recent political docs "No End In Sight," "Sicko" and "The 11th Hour," it did match the opening of another real-life, human drama, director Seth Gordon's tale of dueling arcade players, "The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters." "Deep Water" expands to the top twenty markets throughout September.
IFC First Take's youth romance "Hannah Takes the Stairs," earned $5,901 at New York's IFC Film Center, good enough for the number six spot on the iWBOT. Director Joe Swanberg's intimate film, part of the IFC Center's "The New Talkies: Generation DIY" series and the breakout feature of the much-talked-about "mumblecore" film movement, has earned $10,173 since its Aug. 22 opening. A hit at SXSW and other festivals, IFC slowly expands "Hannah" to other markets including Boston on Sept. 7.
The critical support for this emerging group of filmmakers has been tremendous," Boxer said. "The IFC Center has been the perfect venue for the opening and we will expand the film to open in Los Angeles, Boston and others throughout September. The online grassroots marketing and the efforts of the filmmakers have bolstered the opening five day gross to over 10k."
City Lights Pictures' "Manda Bala" (translated from the Portuguese to "Send A Bullet") dropped a modest 40% in per-screen average to $8,140. With $29,330 in cumulative box office from its exclusive run at New York's Angelica, filmmaker Jason Kohn's debut film about crime and political corruption in present-day Brazil retained the number two spot on the iWBOT for the second week in a row.
Returning to the iWBOT Top Five was the complete version of Fritz Lang's 1927 epic fantasy "Metropolis," released in a new 35mm print from Kino International. Playing exclusively at The Castro in San Francisco, "Metropolis" earned $6,039, approximately 15% less than its late July run at New York's Film Forum.
Weinstein's romantic comedy "Dedication," from actor-turned director Justin Theroux, opened more modestly with a per-screen average of $5,958. "Right at Your Door," Roadside Attractions' 2006 Sundance thriller about a nuclear explosion in Los Angeles, fared disastrously, reaching a $1,623 per-screen average from twenty locations, failing to crack the iWBOT Top 25.
Despite the promotional involvement of producer/narrator Leonardo DiCaprio and extreme, cross-country weather conditions that highlighted its global-warming message, "The 11th Hour," a cinematic call to arms for mankind to stop destroying the environment, plummeted 70% in per-screen average to $3,486 from twenty locations. In its sophomore week, "11th Hour" dropped to the 13th spot on the iWBOT after debuting as the per-screen leader. With cumulative box office at $150,000, the chance for co-directors Nadia Connors and Leila Connors Petersen's environmental documentary to match the $24 million domestic take of the similarly themed 2006 film "An Inconvenient Truth" nosedived. "The 11th Hour" expands to seventy locations Friday.
Picturehouse's video game documentary "The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters," leapfrogged "11th Hour" with a per-screen average of $5,388, good enough for the number eight spot on the iWBOT. "King of Kong" also surpassed "11th Hour" in cumulative box office despite six fewer locations, with $155,146 in total box office after two weeks. "King of Kong" expands to four additional markets Friday.
The strongest holdover was French actress-turned-filmmaker Julie Delpy's relationship comedy "2 Days in Paris," dropping just 30% for a $6,174 per-screen average from 75 locations. The sexy couples comedy from Samuel Goldwyn Films (in partnership with Red Envelope) surpassed the $1 million mark in cumulative box office; catching up to another Paris-set comedy, IFC Film's "My Best Friend." "2 Days in Paris" expands to 100 locations Friday.
"Chalk," a documentary-like comedy about schoolteachers from Someday Soon Productions, returned to the iWBOT Top Ten. "Chalk" earned $5,700 from an exclusive run at the Sundance Cinemas in Madison, Wis. Its cumulative box office has grown to $208,302. Another successful holdover was Cinema Guild's "Primo Levi's Journey," which increased its audience by 13% despite dropping from five to four showings per day at New York's Quad Cinema. "Primo Levi," a documentary which retraces the scholar's 1946 trip home to Italy after being liberated from Auschwitz, earned $3,566, good enough for the 11th spot on the iWBOT. 'Primo Levi" holds at the Quad and opens in Los Angeles in October.
The champ of wide, specialty releases remained Miramax's "Becoming Jane," a period romance featuring Anne Hathaway as a young Jane Austen. In its fourth week of release, "Jane" achieved a $1,580 per-screen average from 1,210 screens, 75% higher than the summer's other specialty powerhouse, Michael Moore's healthcare documentary "Sicko." With a cumulative take of $12,991,000, "Jane" has become Miramax's top-earning 2007 release.
Picturehouse's coming-of-age comedy "Rocket Science" held steady in its third week; dropping just 30% in per-screen average to $1,998 from 59 locations. Ranked twenty-two on the iWBOT, "Rocket Science" has earned $389,261 in total box office. "Rocket Science" expands to seven additional markets Friday.
New specialty entries for the last weekend of summer include Newmarket's "The Nines," veteran screenwriter John August's debut as a filmmaker; THINK Film's drama "Self-Medicated," about a 17-year-old drug addict sent to an extreme rehab facility; Emerging Pictures' Indian coming-of-age drama "Vanaja" and the grass-roots, three-city release of "A Man Named Pearl," a festival favorite about a self-taught topiary artist.
Steve Ramos is a Cincinnati based writer.
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nextMEDIA just announced the nominees for this year's Digi Awards and it's the who's who of Canada's digital media landscape. Here are the nominees from four of the whopping 31 categories.
Canada's Top Digital Companies
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Canada's Most Promising New Digital Companies
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Best in Location-Based Services
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- 19-2 by The IvI* studio
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Best in Mobile Gaming
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- Burn the Rope by Big Blue Bubble
- Kingdoms at War by A Thinking Ape
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The American Indian Family Center is governed by a 7 member Board of Directors that
reflect and promote the core values of our mission statement.
Interim Chair
Donald Eubanks (seated 2013)
Elona Street- Stewart (seated 1997)
Janet Guthrie (seated 2013)
Jack Mills (seated 2012)
Carlos Alvarado (seated 2013)
Noah Gagner (seated 2014)
Michelle Bellanger (seated 2014)Maggie Lorenz (seated 2015)
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Wanda Weyeaus (seated 1997, Director Emeritus 2014)
The Board of Directors met in October 2009 to approve the first phase of a new strategic plan for the American Indian Family Center.
This new direction identifies a new vision, mission statement, philosophy and strategic goals. We are extremely pleased to move forward under this refined direction and to expand our capacity and services to include more American Indian communities and community members. Over the next three to five years, the AIFC will begin expansion to serve the American Indian communities that reside in counties adjacent to Ramsey County including Dakota, Washington and parts of Anoka counties. The refined direction will also have our services expanding to include our elders! The largest part of this new direction includes the development of a capital campaign plan. In sync, the plan for a new building and expansion of capacity and services will help us realize our new vision to help American Indian families thrive!
The Executive Summary of the Strategic Plan is available upon request at the American Indian Family Center.