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March 2005
The design of existing mobile phone technology has emphasised the primacy of person-to-person communication for voice, SMS and image-based communication. It may be contrasted with place-to-place communication, the key property of fixed line telephony. However, other forms of communication may mix these two approaches: these include place-to-person or person-to-place for example. These patterns may afford different values to users. This reports a field study of a prototype person-to-place SMS communications device, 'TxtBoard'. This is a small, fixed display appliance for home settings. It displays text messages sent to it from any standard mobile phone. The study highlights how the person-to-place character of the device, combined with the 'public' or situated characteristics of its placement within home settings in particular, create new opportunities for use of SMS.
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Nov. 14, 2011
Head Coach Nick Saban
Opening statement:
"After watching the Mississippi State film, and then having watched all of their film up to that game, there's something about that team. They play tough on defense. They're very competitive. They really play hard. It seems like every game that people beat them, you beat them, but you don't ever look good doing it. Nobody else looked very good doing it either. The fact of the matter is that the players competed very well in the game, played hard. They played extremely well on defense. They didn't get started very well offensively, especially in the first half, but responded much better in the second half. Obviously there are some things that we need to clean up and correct, and we'll continue to try to do that."
"You guys got the players of the week. Trent (Richardson) had a great game. Eddie (Lacy) did a good job coming off the bench, was a great change of pace and made some big runs. Kevin Norwood did a good job in the game. Chance Warmack did a good job up front. Mark Barron and Dont'a (Hightower) were very, very good. I understand Dont'a (Hightower) got recognized by the league. (Marquis) Maze, Kelly Johnson, (DeQuan) Menzie and (Will) Lowery did a good job on special teams.""I know that people will talk about special teams. Our special teams did one bad thing in the game. We didn't cover one kickoff correctly. The rest of what the special teams did was okay. There is a difference between special teams and specialist. A lot of people think that if your specialists don't perform well, that means your special teams were bad, and that's not necessarily right. It means what it means. It's very easy to define that and we need to improve. When we try these long field goals, we are not going to make those at the same percentage we should be making some of the other ones. We need to continue to work on that as well."
"From an injury standpoint, Barrett Jones will still be day-to-day. Vinnie (Sunseri) will be fine and be able to practice some today. Jesse Williams will be day-to-day. (Darius) Hanks will be day-to-day. We've got some other guys that are beat up that may not be able to practice. We'll just see how they respond through the course of the week and make a decision later on as to whether we will play them in this game or not."
"This is senior day for our senior players. I'm always happy to see the seniors get recognized for the contribution that they have made to the program as well as the university and how they have represented the university, but especially this group, who has won 45 games in their career here in the last four years. I think it puts them up there with just about everyone in everything. We're happy that they get a chance to be recognized and everybody realizes what their accomplishments have been since they've been here."
"Georgia Southern does what they do extremely well. They kind of run flex-bone offense, I don't know the appropriate name. It's sort of a Georgia Tech style kind of offense—option offense that is very similar to the wishbone, but it doesn't line up like the wishbone. They do it extremely well. They are one of the best running teams in the country. They have about as many rushing yards as anybody in their division or our division. Their quarterback does a really good job for them. He is really experienced. They can pop some big play passes on you because of the way you have to play defense to defend them. Their defense is one of the best in their divisions in terms of the way they execute. They've done a really good job on their special teams."
"This is a team that's 9-1 for a reason. I think Appalachian State is the only team that beat them. Teams like this beat Division I teams all the time. Appalachian State beat Michigan a couple of years ago. We need to have the proper respect for who we're playing and how they do what they do. We also need to understand that it's not about them; it's really about us and what our goals are in what we're doing. It really doesn't matter who we're playing against. If you put it in baseball terms, you're in the seventh or eighth inning and you're up to the plate and the game's tied and you have a guy on base. It really doesn't matter who is pitching. It's all about you doing the best you can as a hitter. That's kind of where we are as a team right now. We've got to focus on being led by the goals and things that this team has an opportunity to accomplish and technically do a good job of getting our players ready to play in this game."
On running back Eddie Lacy's recovery from injury:
"He was actually able to practice a little more last week than he has previously. That's why we have not played him as much in the games – to just spot play him, and hope that he is going to get seven, eight, 10, 12 carries at the most, and only play so many plays. So that we don't take one step forward and two steps back, in terms of him continuing to improve. And that's frustrating for him, because he's a competitor and he wants to play in the games and actually played a little more in this game, but he was able to practice a little more last week. Hopefully, that won't set him back. Usually we don't have him do much on Monday. Sometimes not on Tuesday, and then practice on Wednesday and Thursday. That's what we've been trying to do. Sort of give him a couple of days to recover. He's responded to that, and actually gotten better as we go."
On center William Vlachos' value to the team:
"William has played a lot of good football here for us and played in a lot of games. He has had a lot of success. He is certainly a leader, in terms of not only the nature of his position, and making line calls and helping other guys play better, but in his ability to execute at a pretty high level of consistency. We certainly appreciate all that he has done. We certainly don't take him for granted. I think sometimes people take the offensive line for granted. They don't get to score touchdowns, and they don't usually get their names in headlines and all that kind of stuff. But the work that he has done here and the help that he has given other players and his leadership has been something that you probably really can't totally quantify. It's been pretty spectacular to be honest with you."
On the last time he faced a primarily triple-option football team:
"It has been a long time. We played Army when they used to run the wishbone when I was at Michigan State as a defensive coordinator in the '80s. We played Navy when I was a head coach at Toledo – that might be the last time. But we did a lot of research, and a lot of work and a lot of study on these guys in the offseason, because we knew they were going to be one of the most different teams that we played. Actually it will be challenging for the players, probably, to do something different, to be honest with you. I know it's challenging to me as a coach to try to figure out, take some of the principles of things that you've done long ago and I'll try to have to reinvent the wheel. They give you a lot of formation multiples, which makes it a little harder to adjust. They do a really good job of executing what they do. It takes a lot of discipline on defense for everybody to do what they're supposed to do."
On what the preparation will be like for defensive signal callers:
"I think it is for everybody. I don't think you can play – you don't really end up playing conventional type coverages. They're not conventional plays that you're going to see. In terms of, when I say 'conventional,' I don't mean that in a disrespectful way. I guess 'conventional' is all that you're used to. So it's going to be a lot of preparation for the entire defense. How you play the blocks. Who takes what on the option up front, how the linebackers in the front fits together, but then how the secondary rotates, and where the run-force comes from, and the discipline you got to have on the edges when they get the ball outside and pitch the ball. They make some big plays sometimes handing the ball off to the fullback, but they make a lot of big plays on the perimeter pitching the ball where somebody breaks down and run out of guys."
On the team getting stronger as the game progresses:
"Maybe I shouldn't say this, but you know we kind of get everybody's best game. So they usually start out playing about as well as they've played for a while, and you have to kind of work your way through that a little bit. Keep your poise, and just keep on keeping on. I don't think it's all just about how we do it. I think that it's with those guys, this is like the – they even say it; 'we have Alabama signs up all year long. This is a game we point to. This is kind of like a national championship game for us.' I don't mean that in a disrespectful way, but they're out there ready to play. It's our responsibility to get ready to play ourselves. I think that there were a significant number of players that were ready to play. But there were a few who were not quite ready enough, and sort of had to play their way into the kind of intensity that was passed around out there. So we did get better as the game wore on."
On the strengths and weaknesses of the passing game:
"I think that we have made a lot of progress. And I would have said in the last couple of games, the last two games, I think maybe we would look at it and say we could have done better. We probably need to improve it. We made a lot of explosive plays in the last two games, which is pretty significant. But I also think the consistency in what we're doing needs to improve, and I'm not talking about just the quarterback. That's talking about the guys running the routes and the guys that are blocking up front. We dropped a couple of balls in the last game, and we had a couple of guys open that we didn't quite get the ball to. So all those things sort of add up to the overall efficiency of how you throw the ball. We have done a pretty good job on third down all year long. Probably didn't do as well this last time around, and we need to continue to improve on that."
On the scout team this week, and who has stood out this year:
"We have scout team players of the week every week, and we've had quite a few guys contribute to that, and I think they all do a really good job. So I'm not just going to single out a guy or two. But every week we go through the personnel that we have, and we put the guys in the positions to emulate the other guys. If we're playing Florida, we have somebody that is really fast be [Chris] Rainey and [Jeff] Demps. We even moved Jabriel Washington over there and put a shirt on him, and he's really a defensive back, and he was one of those guys so we really got the feeling of the speed. With these guys they play two wide receivers quite a bit of the time, and then they really have three backs. One of them is a fullback, and two of them are, I guess they refer to them as A-Backs. That's what we kind of refer to them as. Those guys are sort of blocking and over the top pitch guys, and we will take guys on our team that can do that kind of stuff, and take an option quarterback, probably use Blake Sims some, to do some of the things, he does that really well. Because he did it in high school, not this offense, but option type stuff."
On the BCS standings and Alabama's chances at getting back into the title hunt:
"I don't really care about that. I mean, I've been sitting in that room for two days watching film, trying to get enough guys on a pitch guy. You figure it out and come tell me what it is because I don't know, and don't really care. All I know is that we just need to take care of what we control, and what we control is how we play. My contribution to that is how we get the team ready to play. So I couldn't care less about that because I don't understand it to start with."
On the offensive formations he claimed he had not seen in 40 years of coaching:
"Well, that was a little bit of an overstatement. I have seen that stuff before, but we just weren't ready for it in this game. We do know how to adjust to it. Basically it was all the formations where they took the lineman and moved them out to be receivers. I have seen that before, and we have a whole set of adjustments that we go through. We just haven't gone through them for a while and hadn't gone through them for this game and had to go through them during the game, and at halftime. It has been a long time since I've seen that stuff."
On if the team responded right to the unusual formations:
"When they first did it, the first time they did it, they put a drive together on us. That's the drive they went down and missed a field goal, I think. But that's the first time they did it in the first half. When players see things that they're not sure about, sometimes it can affect them. Now our guys respond to all that stuff a lot better this year than they did a year ago, because they got a little more knowledge and experience, and they don't panic too much. We played through it, adjusted to it and got it all fixed, and they did it differently in the second half. They did it on the punt team, and we weren't really quite ready for that either, so we called time out."
On offensive lineman Alfred McCullough and his versatility:
"I think one of the things you appreciate about a guy like Alfred McCullough, who is a senior, who does have some leadership qualities, and guys who do end up as seniors in backup roles, they can take one of two roads. They can become guys who get disgruntled, don't really put the team first, kind of get the 'poor me's' about their circumstances and don't really work to improve so that someday when they get an opportunity, they'll be ready to do it. Well Alfred took the other road. He worked hard all the time. He made a contribution every way that he could. He was always excited about whenever he could play. He affected some of the other guys and tried to help some of the other guys who were playing ahead of him. So in the last, however many games he started, he's really started at guard, he's started at tackle and he's played a lot down the stretch here. He's been able to play well for us, and played well against Mississippi State at tackle, which is the first game he's played at tackle this year, but I think that's because he managed it, and handled his circumstance and situation like 'I'm going to work toward accomplishing the goals that I have, so that if I get an opportunity I am going to be ready for it and take advantage of it."
#99 Josh Chapman, Defensive Line
On playing against the triple option:
"Watching the film it looks difficult to play against but it's about guys going out there and doing their jobs."
On what it changes with him being in the middle:
"With these types of teams you're going to get a lot of cut blocks and a lot of different blocking. You just have to watch film and go out there and do your job."
On going up against a smaller line:
"I've been against small linemen from high school up. Those are the guys who you think you overpower but they stay on you like gnats. It's hard to get off of them because they are quick and fast off the ball."
On stepping in for injuries:
"One thing we have on our defensive line is a great rotation. All of our guys can come in and play. You won't even see a change."
On what the offensive line will be missing with William Vlachos next season:
"He's a great leader. The guy is a hard worker and he gets everyone around him going. That's what they are going to miss. He keeps everybody synced on. He's a great guy and we are really close. He knows the game of football. The guy loves studying film. He's a tough player and a competitor. He makes it fun by getting after you. He doesn't show pain if he's hurt and he just keeps going. It's going to be weird not going against each other next year. We've been doing that since seventh grade. We've known each other for a long time."
On playing your last game at Bryant-Denny:
"It hit me yesterday knowing that after all my years here, it's my last game here this Saturday. A lot of guys who have left here say there's nothing like playing at Bryant-Denny. It's a great stadium and we have a lot of fans that love you. I'm going to miss it."
On how DeQuan Menzie has stepped up and bounced back after his injury:
"He's a great player and athlete. I just see him out there and he's always banged up but that's football. He plays well with injuries. He's a fighter. Just seeing how he performs out there shows that he's one of the best in the league. He's good at what he does."
On Lacy after his foot injury:
"He's just been doing day-by-day things. He's one of those guys who, yeah he's hurt, but he knows the game by getting mental reps. You see what the running backs in front of you are doing."
On his signing class:
"We've been here since the program was built up. Coach Saban's first year was our first year. Now it's our last year here. We are just going to remember how we went from there to here."
#37 Robert Lester, Defensive Back
On Georgia Southern's different offense:
"Just like any other game plan that the coaches install, we're going to trust it 100 percent and trust that the coaches are going to put us right where we need to be and teach us the technique that we need to be able to defend us."
On playing something new or something he's comfortable with:
"A lot of people would say they would rather play something that they are comfortable with but I enjoy playing things different because you never know when you might see it again. Being able to see it now and getting a chance to defend it will help us be prepared for it later."
On communication with coach Smart at Mississippi State on the odd formation:
"There wasn't much communication because the guys had no idea what to do. I think me and Mark (Barron) being safeties, if we don't know what to do the last option is to stay deep and don't let them get behind us. That's what we did. When we see things like that we can't panic. That's the first thing about being on defense is that you can't panic when you see something new. We had to adjust and play what we saw and that's what we did."
On Courtney Upshaw jumping off sides and how that actually helped them regroup:
"Whenever teams do something like that, that's so awkward. You never know what can happen when those type of plays are out there. It did give us a chance to regroup."
On the challenge for the defense facing the triple option:
"I'm excited about going against a new type of offense. The only thing we can is trust that our coaches are going to put us in the right position to make plays and trust the game plan. We will do whatever we need to do to be able to play against this offense."
#4, Marquis Maze, Wide Receiver
On his ankle:
"It's fine. It was just a slight sprain but its 100 percent now."
On confidence in the offense going forward even with injuries:
"I think we have very capable back-ups. Those guys did a wonderful job Saturday. You really can't ask for much more, there's always room for improvement."
On DeQuan Menzie:
"He's strong and fast. He's one of the best corners we have. Hands down I think he should go first round. He's been the same guy as last year just faster."
On what makes the slip screen play work:
"The protection, the throw, the timing and the guys making key blocks on the outside."
On what he looks for once he has the ball in his hands:
"Once I get the ball I'm trying to find a seam. Most of the time the seam is between the tackle and the inside receiver. Sometimes teams read the play and you have to bounce it outside."
On coming to Alabama in 2007:
"At the time, I was thinking that Coach Saban came from the NFL so he knows what it takes to get where I want to go. I felt like he would make me a better man and a better person on and off the field, which he has."
On the passing game living up to his hopes this year:
"It has. We might not have a lot of numbers with touchdowns and all that, but we are helping the team win and we make progress every game."
#24 DeQuan Menzie, Defensive Back
On how you react to the play Mississippi State ran where everybody except the center spread out to the sidelines:
"I was really confused looking at the sideline and Coach Smart couldn't give me the call. We were just looking crazy on the field. But we executed well though."
On how his senior season has went
"This season is great for me really. I get to play with no injuries. Last year I had a lot of nagging injuries and I really couldn't do anything. But this year I was really confident I could do what I could do."
On what the injuries were last year:
"Achilles ruptured and pulled hamstring - just nagging stuff."
On if you have ever played a triple option team:
"In high school. It was very difficult. You've got to look at the right stuff and if you don't then it's going to be really bad."
On being recognized by Alabama's coaches on his play last weekend:
"It means a lot to me. Whenever coaches have something good to say about their players it's really good to hear about."
On comparing personalities with Dre Kirkpatrick:
"I'm really quite. Dre is really outspoken."
On if it's hard being a quiet cornerback since it's seen as being more of a trash-talking position:
"Not really. You've just got to be yourself. That's all you've got to do."
On who the best wide receiver is he's had to cover in a game this year:
"I'd have to say Rueben Randle (LSU). He's the best receiver I've played against."
On how frustrating last year was:
"Very frustrating – especially since we lost three games. Everybody was thinking we were going to go back to the SEC Championship and BCS Championship. But obviously we didn't. For me personally it was a disappointment. I was just coming in thinking we were going to come in and get rings but we didn't."

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Hoist Another Pint With The US Trailer For Edgar Wright's THE WORLD'S END
The end of the world is coming and if Edgar Wright, Simon Pegg, Nick Frost et al have any say in the matter we'll all be too drunk to notice. Yup, the third collaboration from the team behind Shaun Of The Dead and Hot Fuzz is on the way and on the heels of the recent UK trailer there is now also a new - and very much different - US trailer to entice you.
Martin Freeman, Paddy Considine, Eddie Marsan, Rosamund Pike and Mark Heap also star. Check the new trailer below.Twenty years after attempting an epic pub crawl, five childhood friends reunite when one of them becomes hellbent on trying the drinking marathon again. They are convinced to stage an encore by mate Gary King, a 40-year-old man trapped at the cigarette end of his teens, who drags his reluctant pals to their hometown and once again attempts to reach the fabled pub - The World's End. As they attempt to reconcile the past and present, they realize the real struggle is for the future, not just theirs but humankind's. Reaching The World's End is the least of their worries.
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Gaining ground
Culture | INTERVIEW: Why do some cultures produce much more human achievement than others produce? An agnostic and libertarian scholar set out to answer that question-and found that Christianity underlies much of history's creative greatness. For Charles Murray, it isn't the first time that research has guided him to a controversial destination
This is the fourth in an occasional series of e-mail interviews with writers, scholars, and others who help form the culture in which we live. WORLD hopes that readers, by listening to influential people who do not necessarily share a Christian worldview, will be better equipped for discussion and evangelism, and will be challenged to sharpen their own understanding. (Previous interviewees: Paul Theroux, Brian Jacques, Anne Lamott.)
AT A TIME WHEN MANY IN academia settle for readily controllable mini-projects, Charles Murray continues to try to nail jellyfish to walls. After authoring provocative books such as Losing Ground (about poverty-fighting) and co-authoring The Bell Curve, which controversially looked at intellectual differences among groups, the American Enterprise Institute scholar spent five years boldly going where almost no one would venture: In his new book, Human Accomplishment, he tries to quantify individual genius in the arts and sciences throughout almost all of the past 3,000 years.
Mr. Murray tries to figure out why outstanding accomplishment is not evenly distributed among various cultures. Here are his two general conclusions: "A major stream of human accomplishment is fostered by a culture in which the most talented people believe that life has a purpose and that the function of life is to fulfill that purpose.... A major stream of human accomplishment is fostered by a culture that encourages the belief that individuals can act efficaciously as individuals."
Mr. Murray argues in Human Accomplishment that Eastern religions, Islam, and early Christianity didn't combine purpose and individuality in a way that pushed creative accomplishment. Not until Aquinas in the 13th century and then the Protestant Reformation did a worldview that emphasized the role of human intelligence come to the forefront. The Murray thesis that Christianity underlies much of human accomplishment instead of stifling it is about as politically incorrect as anything is these days.
But there's more: Mr. Murray says it is harder for an agnostic or an atheist than a Christian to find purpose, because "devotion to a human cause, whether social justice, the environment, the search for truth, or an abstract humanism, is by its nature less compelling than devotion to God. Here, Christianity has its most potent advantage. The incentives of forgiveness of sin and eternal life are just about as powerful as incentives get. The nonbeliever has to make do with comparatively tepid alternatives." Sounds like Mr. Murray is a Christian, yes? No. He calls himself an agnostic, even though he agrees that if there is not a grand purpose knit into creation by God, all the other things to which we devote our lives are just ways of passing time and trying to find significance.
WORLD: Your ideas have been controversial for a long time, but some of the reaction seems out of proportion to what you've written. Why does your work arouse such ire?
CM: In the case of Losing Ground, I think much of the fury was provoked by the tone of the book. It was obvious (I think) that I cared as much about the plight of the poor as any liberal, and was presenting myself as their advocate. This broke the rule that liberals are supposed to be the compassionate people and conservatives are supposed to be people worried about welfare cheats. How dare I be both a conservative (libertarian, actually, but the left seldom recognizes the difference) and worried about poor people? Parenthetically, the Reagan administration wasn't comfortable with Losing Ground's position either-President Reagan (whom I greatly admire, by the way) was in fact against the welfare cheats, not against the welfare system per se.
Since Losing Ground, I seem to have become a be_te noire of the left for reasons I don't entirely understand. My writing is not at all strident, I assume the good faith of people who disagree with me until proven otherwise, and my conclusions are laced with all sorts of caveats and acknowledgments of complexity. I just seem to get under the skin of people on the left. I don't try; it just works out that way.
WORLD: How did the negative reaction that followed publication of The Bell Curve affect your life? How about your family? Prior to writing The Bell Curve, if you could have foreseen the reaction to it, would you have chosen another topic? Would you have changed anything you wrote?
CM: I was pretty depressed for several months after the book came out. Part of it was caused directly by the reaction to the book, but that interacted with my grief about the death of my co-author, Dick Herrnstein, to whom I had become very close. I kept thinking how much different it would have been if he had still been alive. The reaction to the book would have been the same, but I could have called him on the phone and said, "Did you see what that idiotic so-and-so wrote?" My family was magnificent-especially my wife. She is a completely nonconfrontational person and hates the kind of nastiness that the book aroused, but she was a tiger. I cannot adequately express how much her support meant.
As for choosing another topic or changing anything we wrote: Hell, no.
WORLD: In the 1988 article "What's So Bad About Being Poor?" you conduct a 'thought experiment' about raising your children in an impoverished Thai village. You note that you would like the local priest to teach your children Buddhism. But in your most recent book, Human Accomplishment, you note that Buddhism is weak in giving people a purpose because it teaches nonattachment and that it contributes to the cultural decline of the last century. Have your ideas about the benefits of Buddhist training changed?
CM: Not at all. Buddhism's virtues include creating a wonderful social milieu, which is what I loved about Thailand. If you want to find authentic kindness and generosity widely practiced, you cannot do better than to live in a devoutly Buddhist culture. The point I made in Human Accomplishment is that Buddhism is not good for generating a single-minded, intense focus on achieving great things in this life, and that gets in the way of scientific and artistic accomplishment.
WORLD: Critics of Human Accomplishment are uncomfortable with the idea that you can rank works of art and music by merit. They also cringe at the notion that the West has brought forth the greatest cultural works. Could you explain briefly what drew you to this project and what surprised you about your findings?
CM: I'm fascinated by greatness and by the odd ways in which it emerges in some eras and places and does not emerge in others. The books dealing with such topics have been unsatisfying to me-either they string together mini-biographies of great creators and scientists, or they focus on psychological findings about the creative personality that (to me, anyway) are too abstract to be very interesting. I wanted to read a book that would let me look at the panorama of human accomplishment across time and across cultures. It was literally a case of deciding that if I wanted to read such a book, I'd have to write it.
I was surprised by the degree of concentration of accomplishment in Europe from 1400 to 1950 (the cutoff date for my data). My impressionistic sense before beginning work had been that much more had been done prior to 1400, and in the other great civilizations, than proved to be the case. This is not to say that the great civilizations of Greece, China, India, and the Arab world did not do great things, but that the ocean of accomplishment in Europe from 1400 to 1950 is truly staggering. I was also surprised to find how important religion was in the story of human accomplishment.
WORLD: You've written: "A major stream of human accomplishment is fostered by a culture in which the most talented people believe that life has purpose and that the function of life is to fulfill that purpose." As an agnostic, what is your purpose in life? What did/do you teach your children about their life purpose? Did you raise them with a specific religion?
CM: I was raised as a Christian (Presbyterian) and have never abandoned-or tried to abandon-the legacy of that upbringing. So I have a strong sense of being obliged to live the best possible human life, with "best" defined in ethical terms that are coordinated with Christian teaching. My two older children were raised in a Buddhist tradition (their mother is Thai), and my two younger children are both members of a nearby Quaker meeting, as is my wife. I attend, but am not formally a member.
WORLD: Following Aristotle you profess that "each person should be treated as an end and not a means." Why? Do you think a universal standard of good behavior (such as treating people as ends rather than means) exists? Do universal standards of beauty and excellence exist? If so, where did they originate?
CM: I believe that objective standards of beauty and excellence exist for Homo sapiens. An alien species on another planet could have similarly objective standards for its nature, and still not respond to Beethoven's "Ninth Symphony" as Homo sapiens does. Sticking with the music example, I believe that human beings find certain harmonies aesthetically pleasing for reasons that are ultimately hard-wired in our makeup. Similar comments could be made about aesthetic responses to art and literature. Where that makeup came from is, of course, the ultimate question-and one for which I do not have an answer.
WORLD: Many conservatives have believed that Christianity is socially useful in providing order, purpose, and beauty to life. You seem to be in that camp-but something that is useful is not necessarily true. If Christianity isn't true and God didn't create the world, how do you explain how we got here and where we're headed?
CM: I reject the assumption that religion has produced great accomplishment just by deluding people into certain beliefs and thereby serving a socially useful purpose. As I say in the book, Johann Sebastian Bach does not need to justify his beliefs to us; it is up to us to take his view of the cosmos seriously. Taking them seriously does not mean that one then automatically decides he was right in his view of the cosmos.
WORLD: Looking back over your life, are there things you wish you'd done more of? Less of? Things that were a waste of time?
CM: As I reached the age of 60 some months ago, a fairly momentous dividing line, I was struck by how extraordinarily lucky-blessed?-I have been. I have made mistakes, some of them serious, but by and large I have come much closer than I could have hoped to living the kind of life that is best suited to me.
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text: The Commitments adapted into musical 23 Apr 2013 Classic comedy The Commitments is being adapted into a West End musical. Share Share Share Story by UTV Staff, Belfast The announcement comes more than 20 years after Irish writer Roddy Doyle was first approached about bringing his creation to the stage.The 1991 film, which was directed by Alan Parker, tells the story of a group of misfits who start an unlikely soul band in Dublin Speaking about the film's success, Doyle said: "The Commitments was something of a monster, particularly in Ireland... it was an immediate, huge success and at the time I think it was the most successful film ever released in Ireland."There was immediate interest then in doing a musical. But I don't think I had ever been to a musical and the ones I'd seen on television had never really grabbed my attention much."He added: "In the house I live in at the moment if The Sound Of Music comes on all the males, including the dog, stand up and walk out while the females stay and cry. It's the same if any of those musicals come on."The musical is due to open in October and will feature songs such as Mustang Sally.Commenting on whether any of the original cast will appear in the stage version, Doyle said they were "too old.""We're all mortal and I met a lot of them quite recently. Most of them accept that we're lacking in hair!" © UTV Share Share Share


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Reserves, Overnight Reserves, and Textbooks
Reserves, Overnight Reserves, and Textbooks
Reserves are materials and resources that professors have identified to use for a class. They can either be print, electronic or audiovisual. Most print reserve material checks out hourly rounded to the nearest 2-hours. Multimedia Library material generally checks out for 3-hours rounded to the nearest hour. Electronic Reserves is available anytime through our Scotty Catalog.
- You can check out items overnight if you come near closing time. Check here for times
- You can reserve an item for overnight check-out. You can also place a hold on an item if it is checked out. Just come to the front desk where the item is on reserve with your campus ID.
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LinkedIn is No Longer Just Your Resume, It's Now Your Portfolio Too
Don't just say it, display it.
That's the motto of LinkedIn's latest feature, which allows users to visually enhance their resumés with the addition of portfolios. In fact, LinkedIn's online resumé has become so comprehensive, the social media company now calls it your "professional story."
SEE ALSO: Throw Out Your Resume
"For the first time, you will now have the ability to showcase your unique professional story using rich, visual content on your LinkedIn profile," writes LinkedIn's Udi Milo. "This means you can illustrate your greatest achievements in the form of stunning images, compelling videos, innovative presentations and more."
"From the analyst who makes annual predictions on tech trends to the 3D animator who is looking to fund a new short film, the opportunities are limitless for how professionals can now use the LinkedIn profile to help showcase these unique stories in a visual way," he continued.
RELATED: LinkedIn a Favourite Tool of Recruiters
To begin sharing your achievements and creations on your profile, select "edit" on your LinkedIn profile then follow the prompts in your "Summary," "Experience" and "Education" sections. Other members can also "like" or comment on what you've posted, LinkedIn says.
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I was banned today for a post I made on Tuesday questioning the quality of a story saying the "home game" against Nebraska was Jess G's last home game. I wasn't over the top just commented on how sad things are over there right how. I have been a long time poster and could easily get bent out of shape about it-but with CF being the best source of Cy info the last 6-9 mos I can't complain to much.
As far as depth goes though, the combination of White, Woodbury, Olaseni, Basabe, and Uthoff is much better than Niang, Ejim, Edozie, Gibson. Not because of the top 2, but because of the next 2 or 3. -DeanVogs
With how much Deace claims that Clark makes fun of him and claims he doesn't have ISU's best interests in mind, I wonder if he thought you may have been one of his SN's trying to make jabs at him...
"Seven minutes to glory."
BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO. How dare he ban you. He needs your money or he would not have come back to take over.
Let Prohm's Posse Ride: Hallice, Brady, Stu, Lard, Naz, Deonte, Monte, Matt, Simeon, Jordan, and Babb.
I had well over a thousand posts really should have been considered "safe" regardless that is pretty sad when the only way to deal with someone disagreeing with you is to ban them. Steve is a much brighter guy than eliminating everyone who disagrees with him-I thought.
I don't know how much longer that site will last...with that said, you're always welcome to express your opinions over here jmb!
I was banned from there before they switched over to the new message boards... He then started posting all the stories on the message board and STILL charging me... So I canceled my subscription and they kept billing me... Fun stuff
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Go onto the Members List and look up a user called Hapimeses. Under his profile, go to statistics, then go to search all of his threads. He did a nice little tutorial that, I believe, was for GIMP. Check it out.
Ok so Im trying to make a mountain for a map for another website I play on (its call Conquer Club, and online risk site) and try as I might I cant make a decent looking one!
Before Ive made a decent looking mountain in GIMP using only an airbrush, but that was months ago and my memory tends to forget things like that....
ANYWAYS, I decided to try making one using bump map, but try as I might I cant figure out how! Ive looked at a couple of tutorials here, but they lose me after step 2..... meaning the author starts using big complicated words and tools and such that I cant figure out how to use or where they are at. (oh btw, the one Im referring to right there is the only one for GIMP on page 2... for making mountains )
So yea anyways just wondering if anybody could help....
Go onto the Members List and look up a user called Hapimeses. Under his profile, go to statistics, then go to search all of his threads. He did a nice little tutorial that, I believe, was for GIMP. Check it out.
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It would be helpful to know exactly what kind of style and scale you need. Can you point us to or post an image that shows what you are trying to accomplish?
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Ill post a picture of the map that Im working on (its kinda a different style than the ones Ive seen so far here, mine is for conquer club (another website i play on) so that is why)
also, its the mountain next to the dessert (dessert, desert, i dont know if which one to use, so i might have used the wrong one lol)
ignore the legend if you like, its semi-instructions for how to do certain aspects of the map once its finished on and is made live for play on conquer club (which is a online Risk game basically)
oh, and that was the last picture that I uploaded of it. The latest looks a tad bit better for the castles, borders, and what-not
(oh and if u cant see the mountain for some reason, its right where the horrible snow cap is (all that white) in the brown land region)
edit: oh and btw, I had already looked at the tutorial by h....... oh well i cant remember the rest of the dudes user... anyways its a great tutorial but it wont work for this map
bryguy, if you take a look at the "Playing with Mountains" thread started about 2 months ago, let me know if any of those suit your fancy. The post Tim (thecartographist, but not his real name....) mentioned is for ISO mountains and is an excellent tutorial done in Photoshop (but the techniques are basic enough to translate) if you prefer that style.
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Explanation of Layer Masks in GIMP
How to create ISO Mountains in GIMP/PS using the Smudge tool
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If you're using Photoshop, then just render up some clouds, do 2 difference clouds, run a lighting effects (use a spotlight and play with the sliders until happy) then just crop out a mountain you're happy with. Of course Terragen 1 and Bryce 5 (both free) can make more photo-realistic mountains but I'm not proficient with them to any great degree, I just try to make PS do what all of those other things do as well as I can.


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Indias foreign trade sector is in for tough times, indicates the Economic Survey that has cited the global slowdown in 2008 as a crucial hindrance for exporters and importers in the coming months. Referring to the downward revision of the US growth to just about 1.5%, and that of the advanced economies overall to 1.8%, the survey says, this (slowdown) will impact the demand for Indias exports and the value of imports.
It says, The outlook for exports in 2008-09 may not be as bright as in the past few years, and adds, the direct impact of the global growth slowdown is on the demand for imports.
The survey has also said that the Indias slower economic growth in 2007-08, as against the previous two fiscals, might have a temporary dampening effect on capital inflows. In April-December 2007, the exports grew by 21.6% to $111 billion. However, in rupee terms, the growth was just 7.7%. Due to the global slowdown, it is unlikely to reach the $160 billion target for 2007-08.
Rupee has appreciated by over 13% against the US dollar in 12 months to December 2007, affecting the export sectors competitiveness.
Rajiv Kumar, director and chief executive, ICRIER, said, The cost of sterilisation (RBI's intervention to ease the impact of rupee appreciation), which stands at Rs 8,200 crore, can be enhanced if needed to prevent rising of the rupee at any point of time. This will give a clear signal to the exporters that their profitability will be maintained.
Exporters are factoring in fewer shipments to the US and the EU. The share of the US, which is among the India's largest trading partners, declined by 2.5% points to 9.8% in 2006-07, while that of the UK and Belgium declined by 1.9% and 2% respectively, the survey said. However, India's exports to China, in US dollar terms, grew by 22.7% in 2006-07.
Ajay Sahai, DG, FIEO, said, We need make our presence in African countries and other emerging market economies where there are opportunities for real growth. He added that since these are new markets, the government should give specific sops to encourage Indian SMEs.
The survey indicated that Africa would be the only region where growth will not slow down.
The maximum impact of rupee appreciation has been felt by sectors like textiles and handicrafts with low import intensity. The survey has called for some fundamental policy changes.


text: Poaching is steadily becoming a serious challenge to the Mole Game Reserve, near Damango in the Northern Region. The biggest reserve in the country that covers an area of about 4,577km2, suffers from poaching during certain periods resulting in the killing of some antelopes and elephants. The antelopes, with four different species, are easily hunted during the rainy season when vegetative cover gives poachers some security while the elephants with a population of about 800 are also hunted when their tasks are in high demand. Mr Oliver Chelewura, Tourism Officer of the Game Reserve, speaking to the Ghana News Agency on Wednesday, said poaching for elephants became rampant when the Chinese were building the Tamale Stadium and offered high prices for the elephant tasks. "And now with the Bui Dam, which the Chinese are working on not far from here,poaching has increased again and we have to be vigilant," he added. Mr Chelewura said in a recent incident, game wardens were involved in a shoot out with poachers when one of the poachers was killed and those arrested mentioned the Chinese as the buyers of the tasks. The Game Reserve, established in 1971, is home to over 94 different mammals, 33 species of reptiles, over 300 species of birds, four species of monkeys and 700 species of plants, he said. Mr Samuel Amponsah Mensah, Information Officer, said 12 of the most common of the animals, the warthog, commonly known as the bush pig, had been sent to the Accra Zoo for an experiment to see if it could be domesticated."Its meat is less fatty and more tasty and healthier than the domestic pig," he added.He appealed to the government to consider tarring the road that led to the game reserve and also expand its accommodation. The accommodation was built in the 1970s for 60 guests but now gets many more visitors who were sometimes forced to stay in neighbouring Communities of Larbanga and Damango. The Reserve, with a nice water fall and caves, gets over 1,600 tourists in a year.Mr Hakeem Ismael, Upper East Regional Director of the Tourist Board, appealed to the general public to send their children to the various places of interest in the country. He said it was not enough for children to read books for information about their country when they could learn at first and by visiting various parts of the country. Mr Ismael said of the over 1,600 visitors that the Game Reserve received annually, about 70 to 80 per cent were foreigners, 15 per cent Ghanaian students and only five percent domestic tourists. The Game Reserve is an important site for nature conservation and visitors can enjoy a close and personal encounter with the wild by going on guided foot safaris or in vehicles round an access route of 120km.The best time for visits is in the dry season, from November to May when the vegetative cover is less thick and animals can easily be seen near water bodies and dug-outs.GNA/DS


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IRVING, Texas Iowa State strong safety David Sims was named the Big 12 Conference Defensive Newcomer of the Year and Cyclone linebacker Jesse Smith earned first-team honors on the 2009 All-Big 12 Conference football team, as selected by the league's coaches Tuesday. Four other Cyclone players earned honorable mention All-Big 12 recognition.
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As the weather gets warmer and the cold grey days float behind us our skin calls out to be bright. Lipstick can give a whole new cheery side to your face and give off a vibrancy that is captivating.
Red lipstick is the most go to colour when deciding on options – it's classic and it's fun, but it can sometimes overwhelm someone's face if you choose the wrong shade. We took 3 girls up to our studio with different skin tones; a golden girl, a porcelain girl and girl with lovely dark olive skin to see what colour shade of red best suited them.
Golden Tones
If you have a beautiful golden skin tone; a subtle orange red will best suit your complexion like Mac Mattene Lipstick in You Say Tomato . To prep her lips we used a Lip Scrub by Fresh and then softened the lips with a healing ointment from Eucerin. If you have thin lips it's best to tap the top of the lipstick with your finger and then press the middle of your lips and work outwards – this will make you lips look fuller
Porcelain Tones
If you have that beautiful milky skin tone we found that a red colour with a slight tinge of pink looks most pretty. We prep the lips same as above then smeared on Dragon Girl Matt Crayon from Nars. If you have fuller sweetheart lips then it best to go ahead and fill the whole lips in straight from the crayon – it will give them a nice pulp.
Tip: if you want to matt out any lip colour you can press a sheer powder on top lightly, it takes any shine you don't want and gives the lip colour a longer staying power.
Olive Skin
If you have an olive skin tone you already have a lot of great colour in your skin and a nice pigment in your lips. We think a tinted lip balm from the berry colour family looks great like Fresh Sugar Plum Lip Balm or you can choose your favorite lip colour and mix it in with your lip balm for a subtle shade. It will give the colour in your skin a little something extra special.
Tip: to find your natural lip colour bite your lips gently and the colour will rush to the front.
Here's the product we used on the 3 girls, do you have a favorite shade of red?
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Image of The Day: The Cutest Hello Kitty Bento Boxes
Posted By Ethel Navales On September 26, 2013 @ 10:13 pm In Food & Travel,Trends | Comments Disabled
September has been quite the month for Hello Kitty fans. First, Sanrio brought fruit-flavored Hello Kitty beer [1] to China. Then the Hello Kitty jet [2]made its first flight to the U.S.
In honor of Hello Kitty's rather eventful month, we decided we ought to show some fan-made Hello Kitty love. So what impressed us?
Hello Kitty bento boxes!
Common in Japanese cuisine, bento is a single-portion meal that is usually placed in a box container. Traditionally, a lot of time and effort is put into the arrangement and preparation of bento boxes. Clearly, these Hello Kitty bento boxes are no exception.
These impressive bento boxes are quickly going viral on various social media sites and for good reason. Check them out for yourself:
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VFX: The Avengers' NYC : Creating the virtual New York City during the alien attack of the last third posed the biggest challenge to the VFX team. ILM couldn't shoot principal photography there but sent four teams of photographers shooting spherical overlaps at all the appropriate locations, especially the Park Avenue Viaduct. They shot on the ground every 100 feet and up every 120 feet with a man in a lift moving down Park Avenue. They made close to 2,000 spheres and stitched together 275,000 high-res photographs like a Google street view.
Unlike the Oscar race for best animated feature, there's already a clear front-runner for VFX: "The Avengers," with its dazzling work from Industrial Light & Magic (especially the Hulk). Of course, there's still quite a heated race ahead when Peter Jackson's "The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey" hits ...Read More »


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Brady Heslip decommited from Boston College a catholic school and just commited to Baylor.
Nobody but HB knows for sure. You pretty much know nothing....like Knownothing would like to say.
thanks for the useful information today
Hooray for Metaphors!
And your so full of good info today.
Do you really think everyone that goes to Baylor is baptist?
No it's a joke people.
Isnt everyone that goes to Notre Dame catholic?
Salute to Dan McCarney
I'd bet most of notre dames football team isn't very churchy
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I heard that BYU made his final 3.
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I'd bet most of notre dames football team isn't very churchy
Most definitely not.
911 caller: Golden Tate 'drunk and being ********'
Drunk and singing Taylor Swift, no doubt.
Isn't everyone that goes to Iowa a devil worshiper?
Actually I think the only school would be BYU. They actually make you live like a mormon. Hot just convert for the football or basketball team.
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The title of a CBS special report Wednesday night posed the question that haunts us all after 9/11: "Five Years Later: Are We Safer?" Given the show's brevity--an hour minus commercials--and the complexity of the subject, CBS's treatment was predictably shallow. After host Katie Couric asked President Bush a few questions of the "your critics say . . . how do you respond?" sort, and we toured the federal antiterrorism command center, there was little time left for an in-depth examination of anything.As if on cue, ex-ABC newsman Ted Koppel has decided to remember 9/11 with a Discovery channel special on Sunday called "The Price of Security," a look at "the tension" between security and Americans' civil liberties since 2001.
Then again, CBS, like other networks, has had five years to illuminate suggestions to make Americans safer, and it has barely skimmed the surface in all that time. According to a new study by the Media Research Center (MRC), in fact, TV coverage of the domestic War on Terror has focused most intently not on the threat to our lives but on alleged threats to civil liberties.
The latter demands discussion in an era when potentially intrusive law-enforcement tools are indispensable weapons against an unconventional enemy. Yet when the MRC reviewed all CBS, ABC and NBC evening news segments about three major aspects of the war — a total of 496 reports since 9/11 — it found almost no debate or context. Judging by most of the segments, the Patriot Act, the U.S. prison at Guantanamo Bay and NSA surveillance are legal atrocities with little or no security value.
Koppel was promoting the show on NBC's Today this morning, where he told Matt Lauer that he preferred that Americans debate the question of civil liberties now, rather than after another attack occurs.
Lauerasked: "You are talking about this delicate balance between securing this nation and, and protecting our individual liberties. And, and you say this is a discussion and a debate we have to have right now because it will be impossible to have after another attack."
Koppel replied: "You can already see, Matt, what is happening right now. I mean, the President, very skillfully and he is talking with you a little bit later today, he's talked to a number of our colleagues. The President realizes that as we come up to the fifth anniversary here, this is the time to push as hard as you can with the memory of 9/11 very fresh. Imagine what would happen if, God forbid, there were another terrorist attack. Any discussion of liberties then would be out the window."
The implication is that citizens would be more amenable to tilting in favor of civil liberties if they weren't distracted by all the death and destruction. That matches the prevailing media spin we've found over the past five years.Certainly many conservatives (mostly libertarians who worry about things like the government infringing on their Second Amendment rights) have doubts about current policies like the Patriot Act, and the debate about civil liberties belongs in the post-9/11 media mix. But the public demands security too, and the media's coverage to date suggests that we have more to fear from an aggressive U.S. government than terrorists who've successfully hit our homeland once before.
When the networks gloss over the real need for homeland security, they risk looking out of touch with a public that understands what really threatens their civil liberties.


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Images: Airmen create lasting impression [Image 5 of 5]
Photo by Staff Sgt. Stephenie Wade
Senior Airman Brittney Snyder, 455th Air Expeditionary Wing personnel support, Senior Airman Alyona Blizard, 455th Expeditionary Communications Squadron communications focal point technician and Airman 1st Class Eli Hixson, 455th Expeditionary Aerial Port Squadron air transportation passenger service agent, painted their interpretation of unity, respect, trust, strength and the will to protect on a wall leaving a visual legacy for those who follow in their footsteps to see here on Camp Cunningham Aug. 30, 2013.
This work, Airmen create lasting impression [Image 1 of 5], by SSgt Stephenie Wade, identified by DVIDS, is free of known copyright restrictions under U.S. copyright law.
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In the January/February issue, Q&Q looks ahead at the spring season's new books. FICTION Two prolific American literary novelists are set to publish new titles this spring. Nobel Prize and Pulitzer Prize winner Toni Morrison ... Read More »
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|T cell receptors are structures capable of initiating signaling in the absence of large conformational rearrangements.
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|Native and non-native ligands of the T cell receptor (TCR), including antibodies, have been proposed to induce signaling in T cells via intra- or intersubunit conformational rearrangements within the extracellular regions of TCR complexes. We have investigated whether any signatures can be found for such postulated structural changes during TCR triggering induced by antibodies, using crystallographic and mutagenesis-based approaches. The crystal structure of murine CD3 complexed with the mitogenic anti-CD3 antibody 2C11 enabled the first direct structural comparisons of antibody-liganded and unliganded forms of CD3 from a single species, which revealed that antibody binding does not induce any substantial rearrangements within CD3. Saturation mutagenesis of surface-exposed CD3 residues, coupled with assays of antibody-induced signaling by the mutated complexes, suggests a new configuration for the complex within which CD3 is highly exposed and reveals that no large new CD3 interfaces are required to form during antibody-induced signaling. The TCR complex therefore appears to be a structure that is capable of initiating intracellular signaling in T cells without substantial structural rearrangements within or between the component subunits. Our findings raise the possibility that signaling by native ligands might also be initiated in the absence of large structural rearrangements in the receptor.
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The Shiffman Medical Library has arranged a free trial of Lexi-Comp Online, a comprehensive resource of drug information, for health sciences students and faculty. The institution-wide trial will run through September 30, 2008.
Lexi-Comp provides access to pharmacological information, drug interactions, formulary services, information on natural products, poisoning and toxicology, nuclear, biological and chemical agent exposures, infectious diseases, lab tests, diagnostic procedures and more. You can search or browse databases to obtain clinical decision support information at the point of care. Lexi-Comp content can also be downloaded to your PDA.
Help us evaluate this new resource by filling out the form below. We'd like to have your comments by September 30, 2008.
Connect to the Lexi-Comp Online at: http://proxy.lib.wayne.edu/login?url=http://online.lexi.com/
Click here to view a brochure [PDF,615 KB] on how to search and navigate through Lexi-Comp Online.
Sandra Martin
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A bill signed into law by Ohio Gov. John Kasich won't have a major economic development effect - but it symbolizes the ridiculous attitude toward business that too often rules government.
Senate Bill 73, signed into law by Kasich last week, rescinds a law that had been on the books for many years. It required manufacturers of non-beverage food items who use beer, wine or liquor in their products to buy the liquids at retail prices. Now, companies that, for example, make bourbon-flavored barbecue sauce will be able to save a few bucks by purchasing liquor at wholesale prices.
No, it SB 73 probably won't create any new jobs. It won't save any. It certainly won't add millions of dollars to any company's bottom line. But it does eliminate an absurd law - one of many - that make it more expensive and difficult to do business in Ohio.
If SB 73 is only the first in a series of initiatives by Kasich and the General Assembly, it could have a substantial effect on Ohio's economy.
Kasich says it is a first step in what he is referring to as his Common Sense Initiative.
The campaign will target state laws, rules and regulations that may be counterproductive rather than helpful to Buckeye State residents. For example, Kasich wants to look at a law requiring 15 percent of state spending on goods and services to to go minority-owned businesses. We suspect that costs the state a lot of money.
Also on the governor's agenda are highway weight limits on cargo-carrying trucks. Kasich believes that if the limits can be increased without risking damage to highways, such action could benefit Ohio businesses.
Obviously, special interests, some politicians and bureaucrats who enforce unnecessary rules won't like Kasich's initiative. Thoughtful Ohioans should be delighted with it, however. Let's hope last week's small start is pursued to the point it has a substantial effect in helping Ohio's economy.


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