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Maison Martin Margiela Spring 2013
If the truth be told, there is something absolutely fascinating about how Maison Martin Margiela continues to thrive against all the odds. You wouldn't have bet a cloven-hoof bootie that this would be the house that would survive without its enigmatic namesake designer, even if he was publicly invisible, in a very visible way. Yet here's the thing—it does, and how. Maison Martin Margiela has flourished, reigniting the interest in everything that the innovative Belgian stood for the strongest since he himself left the building. It helps, of course, that the house showed a stellar artisanal collection during July's haute couture, which brilliantly captured the wit and imagination of Margiela of old. And now there is this coming spring's considered and chic way with the manipulation of planes and volumes of fabric, treated in the most minimalistic of ways. There was an airy inflating of looks to create a new sense of elegance (a swoon-worthy black satin tee over a diaphonous black gazar ball skirt) or cutting them close to the body, adding a restrained and taut notion of sexiness (witness the many gray dresses and skirts that posited the idea of the new longer line that finishes around the lower calf). Both silhouettes were the result of the house's once arresting forays into cartoon-like oversizing and constraint taken to fetish-like levels.
Perhaps that's why Maison Martin Margiela can hold its head high. Its current anonymous team-driven approach has identified, and then stayed true to the codes of the house that he set over two decades. It's a classicist's portrayal of Margiela, to be sure, but one that feels authentic and genuine, and which has of late produced great-looking and thoroughly wearable clothes. This, of course, has become the central thread of next spring after so many seasons of so many designers giving us things that were stylized, theatrical, and—oh go on, then, I'll say it—impossible to be seen in unless you were one of those types courting the cameras outside the shows. It made fashion an epic and thrilling spectacle, but rather left behind the majority (i.e., everyone, basically) who simply wanted something new and exciting to wear. You'll find quite a lot here in Maison Martin Margiela's spring that would make a difference to your closet in meaningful ways, starting with the many wonderful pants, tailored wide and flat or soft and fluid, and lengthening the legs in miraculous ways. Then there were a couple of effortlessly chic pieces to wear over them, namely a long black coat with cap sleeves and a shorter alternative in gray, both scissored at the front to let them curve open. (Actually, more of these variations on the jacket would have been fantastic.) But it was those trousers as they morphed into the evening looks that emerged as the stars, turning into strapless jumpsuits, as a partner to a trouser leg turned into a bustier, or as a means to wear a flowing, sheer floor-length dress—a look that's practical, elegant, and a little twisted. In other words, totally Margiela.


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Harlequins lock George Robson insists his side are readying a big response after seeing their six-game winning streak ended – with Worcester Warriors about to bear the brunt at 'Fortress Stoop', writes Sam Wakefield.
Quins fell to only their third defeat of the season as they went down 21-18 to a Stephen Donald inspired Bath, which made it just two wins in their last five Aviva Premiership games.
Their last run of patchy form, which saw consecutive defeats to Saracens and Exeter Chiefs, was followed by two impressive Heineken Cup wins, including a 40-13 thumping of Biarritz, and their recent streak.
But with Worcester set to travel to a rocking Twickenham Stoop tonight, where Quins have lost just once all season, Robson has called on his side to make a big impression on a team high in confidence after their 12-3 win over Saracens.
"We are pretty cool with what went wrong against Bath and we have been really looking forward to the chance to set it right," he said.
"What is good about us is that when we lose we tend to learn very quickly and if someone gets the better of us we make it right – so I am expecting a big reaction from the boys.
"Worcester aren't the side they used to be where they weren't able to get results away from home – they have been playing some good rugby.
"But it'll be good getting them at the Stoop, 'Fortress Stoop' we're calling it now and on a Friday night we're looking forward to it.
"We've got some lads coming in to bolster the front row and with the conditions as they are I don't think they'll be looking forward to facing us."
Quins' defeat to Bath was also the second game on the trot where the Aviva Premiership champions failed to register a try to add to their 26 from the opening eight games.
But despite terrible conditions making ball carrying more and more difficult as it gets wetter, Robson, pictured right, claims a lack of tries is not a concern and backed his side to keep faith with their playing style and return to winning ways.
"We're not worried. Our attacking stats have been pretty good in other areas and it is just one of those things, obviously the conditions do make it harder," he added.
"We still want to play the way we have done as it has worked for us and we find it is a good way to play – we will still be looking to score tries and do as well as we can.
"It is the same as it ever is. The forwards win the game and the backs decide by how many."
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Ensuring upgrade compatibility across LiveCycle versions is of prime importance for Adobe and our customers relish that. This means if a feature works in a certain way in a release it will continue to do so.
One can configure Mobile Form to get the behavior of a feature in older versions. You can browse through http://localhost:8080/lc/system/console/configMgr and search for "LC Forms Configuration". On clicking, it should expand like the following:
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MORE than 100 women attended the launch of a new community group that aims to bring women of all backgrounds together.
The Aashiyana group held its launch event at Pikes Lane Community Club and offered women the chance to take part in taster sessions of activities including Zumba, yoga, henna art, massage and cake decorating.
The new group, which is run by volunteers, aims to offer women from diverse communities opportunities they may not normally have available to them.
Guests on the day included Cllr Rosa Kay, who tried her hand at a number of the activities on offer, including Zumba.
Anisa Vasanwala, chairman of the new group, said: "We felt the event was really well organised and we had an excellent turnout. A lot of heart and soul has already gone into this project.
"We are looking to do many things with the group in the future, including health projects and a play group."
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Why the Supreme Court May Rule Against the Voting Rights Act
On Wednesday, the Supreme Court will hear arguments challenging Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act. Here's why it matters.
This post is being kept up-to-date. It was first published on Dec. 10, 2012.
June 25, 2013: The Supreme Court ruled Section 4 of the Voting Rights Act, which determines which states must seek preclearance, was unconstitutional.
On Wednesday, the Supreme Court will hear arguments in Shelby County v. Holder, a case challenging the constitutionality of a key part of the Voting Rights Act of 1965. The cornerstone provision is known as Section 5, which requires some states and localities to get federal clearance before making any changes to their voting laws.
What is the Voting Rights Act? And why does it matter? Here's a quick guide to what could be, as the influential SCOTUSBlog put it, "one of the most significant rulings of the current term."
What's Section 5 again?
As we've explained before, Section 5 requires nine mostly Southern states — Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, South Carolina, Alaska, Virginia, Texas and Arizona — and areas of seven others to preclear any change to a voting law or procedure with the federal government.
This review is conducted by the Civil Rights Division of the Department of Justice or a panel of federal judges on the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. If a voting change hasn't been submitted for review, the change can be legally unenforceable.
Section 5, which was enacted by the original Voting Rights Act, was meant to address the systemic disenfranchisement of African Americans by state lawmakers in the South since the end of Reconstruction.
Under the provision, covered jurisdictions must prove that any proposed voting change doesn't have a discriminatory purpose or effect or would diminish minorities' ability to elect a favored candidate.
How were these states identified?
When the Voting Rights Act originally passed, the rubric to identify the original bad actors looked at racist voting practices like literacy tests and Census data indicating whether less than 50 percent of eligible voters voted in the November 1964 presidential election.
When Congress reauthorized the Voting Rights Act in 1970 for another five years, it mandated oversight of other states and municipalities with low voter turnout.
By 1975, when Congress extended the act for another seven years, the law was broadened to include discriminatory voting practices against language minorities. For example, states were flagged for offering ballots only in English where language minorities made up more than 5 percent of the voting-age population. (That's how Alaska, Arizona and Texas got federal oversight. It's also the reason why parts of Florida, Michigan, New York and South Dakota are included.)
In both 1982 and 2006, Congress extended Section 5 for another 25 years — without making any significant updates to the coverage triggers, or "formula" as it's called (In 1982, Congress also established standards to allow covered jurisdictions demonstrating good behavior to "bail out" from under federal supervision).
Right now, Section 5 isn't scheduled to expire until 2031 — which brings us to the current debate over its fairness and constitutionality in present-day circumstances.
How useful has Section 5 been?
Nearly everyone agrees that Section 5 once played a critical function to rein in recalcitrant state legislators determined to suppress the African American, and later on language-minority, vote.
It is its present application that's now in dispute.
"America is no longer a land where whites hold the levers of power and minority representation depends on extraordinary federal intervention," argues an amicus brief filed by the Cato Institute in the Shelby County case.
The kinds of voting law changes covered jurisdictions must submit for preclearance — back then, and still today — span large-scale changes like redistricting and voter ID laws to small things like changing a polling place or precinct, as this chart shows.
One way to look at the effectiveness of Section 5 is through the number of times the DOJ has requested more information from a jurisdiction that has submitted a voting change followed by a subsequent withdrawal of that proposal.
In a 2007 paper, Nathaniel Persily, a Columbia University professor of law and political science, concluded that since 1982, the DOJ requested more information from states or local governments 800 times, followed by the withdrawal of proposals in 205 of those instances.
"This represents a tiny fraction" of overall requests since 1982, Persily observes, "but it gives a sense of how many dogs did not bark as a result of the threat of a denial of preclearance."
Just this past year, the provision was the reason federal judges blocked voter ID laws in both Texas and South Carolina, voided new district maps in Texas and prevented early voting reduction of hours in parts of Florida, citing a potential adverse effect on minority voters.
In the past year, the Justice Department objected to a total 16 proposed changes under Section 5, according to a DOJ official.
Does this tell us that Section 5 remains a viable tool concerning these specific jurisdictions? It depends how you look at it.
"There's no question Section 5 covered the most egregious bad actors and the world looks different now," said Heather Gerken, a professor at Yale Law School who specializes in election law. "But the question is, why does the world look different? And in some ways we can't know because of the prophylactic rule."
So who's challenging Section 5?
Shelby County, Ala. In 2008, the city of Calera — located within Shelby County — redrew one of its electoral maps, bringing in hundreds of white voters and significantly decreasing the number of black voters, from 70.9 percent to 29.5 percent.
Since any change that would discriminate against minority voters violates the Voting Rights Act, the Justice Department stepped in and vetoed the proposed map. (The only black representative of the city council also lost his seat that election.)
The Justice Department also said the city relied on unreliable demographic data to justify the new map.
On April 27, 2010, Shelby County filed a lawsuit against the Justice Department in U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, asking the court to declare Section 5 unconstitutional on its face – meaning, broadly applied, as opposed to just in the county's case alone.
As Reuters details, the case caught the attention of Edward Blum, a conservative advocate who persuaded Shelby County to file a suit, in turn connecting the county with lawyers who could handle an appeal all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court. Blum is also behind the recent Supreme Court challenge to affirmative action in public universities, Fisher v. University of Texas.
After a lower federal court ruled against Shelby County, and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit upheld the decision on appeal, Shelby County did just that.
In July 2012, it appealed to the Supreme Court, arguing that Congress, in 2006, lacked sufficient evidence showing that "covered jurisdictions have a latent desire to discriminate that does not exist elsewhere in the country" when it reauthorized the Voting Rights Act.
Lawyers argue that Section 5 should be struck down because it relies on an outdated formula that unfairly singles out certain states, creates a burdensome requirement to clear every proposed voting law change and that the federal government has demonstrated a "needlessly aggressive exercise of preclearance authority."
Didn't the Supreme Court come close to striking down Section 5 before?
Yes. In a 2009 case called Northwest Austin Municipal Utility District No. 1 in Texas v. Holder, or NAMUDNO for short, the Court didn't address the constitutionality of Section 5 — but it did suggest how it might rule in the future.
"The evil that (Section 5) is meant to address may no longer be concentrated in the jurisdictions singled out for preclearance," Chief Justice John Roberts wrote in the majority 8-1 opinion. "The statute's coverage formula is based on data that is now more than 35 years old, and there is considerable evidence that it fails to account for current political conditions."
The 2009 decision also relaxed those "bailout" standards we've mentioned before.
Under this separate provision of the Voting Rights Act, states and localities can be "bailed out" from Section 5 coverage if they can show that in the last 10 years, they've maintained a clean record — in other words, that they've instituted no discriminatory voting practices or been issued any adverse judgments alleging voter discrimination.
But Blum, for one, says the bailout requirements are still very difficult to meet. "A city may draw an objection from the DOJ which makes the entire state ineligible to seek bailout for 10 years," he said.
So exactly how easy is it to bail out from Section 5?
Since 1967, several dozen localities have successfully come out from under Section 5 coverage. In the three years since NAMUDNO alone, more jurisdictions have requested and received bailout than between the years 1984 and 2009 — largely because the Supreme Court relaxed a standard.
Thus, any change since 2009 "has been for the better — i.e., consistent with the presumed goal of the Court in Namudno to enable jurisdictions to bail out from coverage," Gerry Hebert, an attorney who has handled a number of these bailout petitions, told ProPublica. "To the extent Section 5 is a burdensome intrusion and an infringement on states' rights, bailout not only lessens that burden but it can eliminate it altogether."
Some have accused the DOJ of deliberately relaxing its rate of bailout acceptance.
The state of New Hampshire, where 10 townships fall under the coverage formula, filed a bailout petition in November, becoming the first stand-alone state to do so. A decision is expected sometime next month.
How likely is it that the Supreme Court will strike down Section 5?
Many saw in the Court's 2009 decision an underlying message to Congress to act to amend the Voting Rights Act. Of course, that didn't happen.
Also, some wonder about a current coverage formula that doesn't include states like Ohio and the whole of Florida, places which came under fire this year for scaling back on early voting.
"If you don't have Ohio and Florida, it might suggest that the coverage formula is a little out of whack," said Rick Hasen, professor of law and political science at UC Irvine School of Law. "The way the Supreme Court federalism cases stack up, and the way the conservative justices view these cases, I'm predicting the Court will strike it down."
Gerken, the Yale Law professor, also speculates on why the Court's four liberal justices joined the 8-1 opinion in 2009 that so clearly expressed doubts about the law's constitutionality.
"Maybe they did it because they wanted Congress to do something, or maybe it was a deal to postpone the demise of the Voting Rights Act," she said. "If it was a deal, it seems likely the deal will not last beyond that one case."
What happens if the Supreme Court strikes down Section 5?
Some say it won't matter all that much, because under a separate part of the Voting Rights Act known as Section 2, parties can always bring a lawsuit challenging a discriminatory voting law or practice.
But under that provision, the burden falls on the plaintiff, rather than on the state or municipality, to show that a proposed change is discriminatory. This means litigation comes at a cost — the smaller the change, the less likely litigation may be pursued.
In his 2007 paper, Persily noted that lawmakers recognized the need to update Section 5 coverage criteria to include "the newest generation of voting rights violators," but that politics provided an impossible roadblock. When Congress last reauthorized the Voting Rights Act in 2006, it rejected multiple amendments to change and expand the law.
In the event the Supreme Court strikes down Section 5 next year, some question Congress' ability to go back to the drawing board.
"Assuming they strike it down, they'll obviously provide parameters that Congress could meet if it wanted to pass it again," Gerken said. "Whether this Congress is remotely capable of doing that is another question."
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I am of the mind that this is a positive step. State Rights come to mind. There is also other things to consider. Both party's are culpable in influencing gerrymandering of voting districts for gain, notice I said both party's. The other day I caught a debate and a black woman made the argument that the VoterID controversy placed a stigma on African Americans in essences leaving folks to believe that African American's were to stupid to take the steps to obtain, signup, in advance to vote as "white" people do. I think there is a point to her assertions. I think on a fundamental level the smug liberal with his ducks in a row believe it to be their patronizing duty to take care. I strongly believe that the African American is well suited to take care of themselves in this regard. Remember it is in the self-interest of those who have derived power and money to keep the negative alive.
Here is what they left out…. This tells the story, why Bush was so bad at the end of his term. Some people aren't aware of all of this. Don't just skim over this, please read it slowly and let it sink in. If in doubt, check it out. The day the democrats took over was not January 22nd 2009, it was actually January 3, 2007… the day the Democrats took over the House of Representatives and the Senate, at the very start of ......the 110th Congress. The Democrat Party controlled a majority in both chambers for the first time since the end of the 103rd Congress in 1995. For those who are listening to the liberals propagating the fallacy that everything is "Bush's Fault", think about this: January 3rd, 2007 was the day the Democrats took over the Senate and the Congress. At the time: The DOW Jones closed at 12,621.77 The GDP for the previous quarter was 3.5% The Unemployment rate was 4.6% George Bush's Economic policies SET A RECORD of 52 STRAIGHT MONTHS of JOB GROWTH Remember the day… January 3rd, 2007 was the day that Barney Frank took over the House Financial Services Committee and Chris Dodd took over the Senate Banking Committee. The economic meltdown that happened 15 months later was in what part of the economy? BANKING AND FINANCIAL SERVICES! Unemployment… to this CRISIS by (among MANY other things) dumping 5-6 TRILLION Dollars of toxic loans on the economy from YOUR Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac FIASCOES! Bush asked Congress 17 TIMES to stop Fannie & Freddie - starting in 2001 because it was financially risky for the US economy. And who took the THIRD highest pay-off from Fannie Mae AND Freddie Mac? OBAMA And who fought against reform of Fannie and Freddie? OBAMA and the Democrat Congress So when someone tries to blame Bush.. REMEMBER JANUARY 3rd, 2007…. THE DAY THE DEMOCRATS TOOK OVER!" Budgets do not come from the White House. They come from Congress, and the party that controlled Congress since January 2007 is the Democrat Party. Furthermore, the Democrats controlled the budget process for 2008 & 2009 as well as 2010 & 2011. In that first year, they had to contend with George Bush, which caused them to compromise on spending, when Bush somewhat belatedly got tough on spending increases. For 2009 though, Nancy Pelosi & Harry Reid bypassed George Bush entirely, passing continuing resolutions to keep government running until Barack Obama could take office. At that time, they passed a massive omnibus spending bill to complete the 2009 budgets. And where was Barack Obama during this time? He was a member of that very Congress that passed all of these massive spending bills, and he signed the omnibus bill as President to complete 2009. If the Democrats inherited any deficit, it was the 2007 deficit, the last of the Republican budgets. That deficit was the lowest in five years, and the fourth straight decline in deficit spending. After that, Democrats in Congress took control of spending, and that includes Barack Obama, who voted for the budgets. If Obama inherited anything, he inherited it from himself. In a nutshell, what Obama is saying is "I inherited a deficit that I voted for and then I voted to expand that deficit four-fold since January 20th."
"America is no longer a land where whites hold the levers of power and minority representation depends on extraordinary federal intervention," argues an amicus brief [14] filed by the Cato Institute in the Shelby County case.
Hmmmmm so affirmative action can also go… Make it so…
#1 Highest percent of workers in low pay jobs=44%
#2-Least tax on corporations as % of gdp
#3-Least tax (fed-state-local)on citizens as % of gdp=30%
#4 on Inequality from bottom 5 in 1980
What happened who is to blame?
David Jay Johnson reported on MSNBC that the average income of the bottom 90% has fallen back to the 1966 level in inflation adjusted dollars. The Minimum wage has declined the same.
A privatized system to redistribute upwards the top incomes zoom while middle class is stagnated in income and wealth.
It is outrageous not to tax those who have made ultra millions. Top 2% own 50% all financial wealth and get 30% all individual income. They includes incomes of 4000 Million 3000 Million, etc. One family own as as must wealth as bottom 90% of families.
10% own 73% net wealth—83% financial wealth and get 50 individual income.
Reagan began flush up with 60 tax cut for top. Bush increased it with huge tax cut for top.
Republicans are party of Spend but borrow let kids pay tomorrow. Democrats are the party of spend but get revenue(tax) to pay your way.
Observers from other nations were astonished when they saw that american voters were not required to show some kind of identification in order to vote. As any child could see, it's an invitation to fraud. If the portion of section 5 prohibiting states from asking for some reasonable standard of identification is struck it will be a good thing.
They just had 141% turnout in St. Lucie Florida in the last election. Not having to show some proof of who you are helps enable such outright fraud.
Century Foundation had a great study. The corp. income tax is projected at just 1.5% of GDP this year. In 1952. the corporate income tax accounted for about one third of government revenues. Corporate America has devised complex tax avoidance schemes. Today Corporate supplies just less than 9% of today's federal revenues.
Between 2008 and 2011 many multinationals paid no corporate tax on profit in billions.
In 2011. the effective tax paid was 12.1% a 40 year low.
America needs Tax Reform. Quick.
Someone please help me understand…
1. Only citizens can vote
2. Immigrants who become citizens must demonstrate proficiency in English.
3. What purpose, therefore, is served by burdening the taxpayer with the exhorbitant costs of multi-language balllots, voter guides, etc?
Kirk, you took a foreign language in high school, yes? That's proficiency.
Would you claim that you could understand a ten page referendum on an issue you haven't really investigated prior to getting into the voting booth if it was only written in Spanish/French/German/whatever?
That's why.
You spend the money so that you get an informed vote, rather than, say, all the Koreans in town being convinced by an influential community member to not bother reading it, just vote "No." You spend so much money so that the translations are unbiased.
James, the amount of non-ID fraud is inconsequential compared to the fraud that can happen in counting, especially where ballots aren't on stored paper. I'd be much more worried that votes are counted at all than a few Russians sneaking into Alaskan polling places.
Likewise with carving a district custom made to destroy an opponent's voter base, which is actually on topic.
On the topic of redistricting, it's sad that we need Section 5, not because of continuing racism (which seems to be on the rise everywhere), but that this is a manual process that humans direct.
Districts really should be mathematical. Every ten years, we hold a census, which tells us the things that redistricting is supposed to take into account (population density, race, religion, income, and so forth). The voting records exist per polling place to guess how neighborhoods vote. We have simple algorithms to collect contiguous groups of similar elements. We have simple algorithms to prevent biasing a sample in collection (n-dominance/k-percent, for example).
I don't have the time to try it, but it should be pretty simple to give a precise measurement as to the prejudice or imbalance of a district. Check the shape and demographic breakdown of the district against the same for the district and its neighbors, and you'll see how well or badly it represents the region at a glance.
That should be how we take care of this, nation-wide, rather than allowing everybody to do what they want, except for some regions we declare inherently racist.
President Obama is proposing to spend 8000B over ten years om all security
800 bases worldwide. Who can attack us? No one..Only "a "Terrorist can.
Why waste so much when Infrastructure is crumbling everywhere.
When Health Care cost is so severe.
When Education is too expensive.
If Section 5 is struck down, the Justice Department would have more resources to devote to Section 2 cases.
Consider that over 99% of voting changes submitted to the Justice Department for Section 5 pre-clearance are for routine changes (moving a polling place next door) that are uncontroversial. Yet Justice Department lawyers need to review every one.
Without this burden, the Justice Department can better aid those in all 50 states with their Section 2 cases.
Hedge Fund Manager Paulson made $3700 Million in 2007 and $5000 Million in 2010.
He had bet om Mortgage Defaults. AIG covered some of his large bets. They lost. We bailed them out
of gambling losses. His Tax Rate 15%. Union workers pay 28% Tax Rate.
Wall Street is involved in high speed gambling. The type that almost put us in a Great Depression.
When will Congress show courage and tax such gambling activities. UK has taxed them for decades with no ill effect. We need the revenue. Better to do that than cut entitlements. A few rich are involved versus 50 million. Will we ever learn?
As a disabled person I find discrimination in voting even though so called " accessible" voting machines are available. How? Staff usually isn't properly trained on the equipment and though I am blind I can hear the terror in their voices when i ask to use these accessible machines. So, if this small bit of discrimination exists for me in almost every election then how much more does it exist for those who are minorities? So called voter i.d. laws, the scaling down of early voting hours and the blantent expressions of republican Secretary's of State how a state was supposed to be delivered to the Republican candidate because of their obvvious attempts to curb minority's in the last election is more than enough evidence for me and should be for the Supreme Court as well to continue the voting right's Act as is for many years to come. it was only because of an super extraordinary turnout by minorities and supporters in general of the President and Progressive candidates that the President was able to win a second term and gains made in both the House and Senate by Progressive's and Democrats. I find it simply amazing that we are having to deal with these issues of discrimination in 2012 and have come to believe that it will be long after my lifetime before we, as a country get past looking at a person's skin color, disability, ethintincity, etc in judgeing whether they are equal to ourselves. Sad to know just how much we haven't accomplished in the last 50 or so years. Still, I must give credit and voice to the gains we have made and can only hope that those gains accelerate in both scope and volumne in the years ahead.
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(According to the latest research into the U.S. Army, "...the levels of sexual assaults, domestic violence, alcohol dependence and suicide have risen considerably among members of the Army. It has been determined that on average, one soldier a day commits suicide. The American Army has suffered worse losses in this way than it has in Afghanistan.")
That is a shame, isn't it? With their belief in the Trinity and everything. Fine young men. They look and see that belief in the Trinity is completely illogical. The Prophet Jesus (pbuh) is obviously not Allah. How can a human being be Allah? He eats and has physical needs. The Prophet Jesus (pbuh) sleeps. The Gospel speaks of his being woken out of sleep. But people say he is Allah. Does Allah need to sleep? May Allah forbid! If you impose this belief on people, then of course you will make them ill.
What must a Muslim do? If he has one eye, he must give thanks. If he has lost both eyes, he can still breathe and eat and use his hands. He must give thanks for that. If he has lost one of his arms, he still has the other one, and must give thanks for that. If he has lost both his arms, he still has both his legs. He must give thanks for that. He must know how to give thanks for what he has.And it is no bad thing for sickness and troubles and problems to come. If he still continues to a believer despite them, then he has been purified, insha'Allah. For example, if he prays with one arm, he will earn 500 times the merit that we do, insha'Allah.
The Illuminati are a secret state within a state. But Allah also rules every secret society including the Illuminati. It is impossible to hold a meeting at which Hazrat Hidhir is not present. From what I have seen, the Illuminati have offered the world to the dajjal. They have organized the dajjal. The dajjal needs a community, a community of followers. There are about 300 of them, as there are with the Mahdi. They also appear with 313 people.
It is true that "They want to build a world based on a single state and a single religion." That will be built. As a single religion and single society. But who will do it? The Mahdi. What is the one faith? Islam. And there will be one Ummah in the world. The Mahdi will do what the Illuminati are aiming to do, but they act in the negative sense, and the Mahdi in the positive sense. Let me say this: All the Illuminati follow the Mahdi. They are the Mahdi's followers now. They have abandoned the way of the dajjal. They cannot do it. Hazrat Hidhir is among them. And they have joined the Mahdi. After this, they will serve the system of the Mahdi.
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text: A spirit of friendly but fierce competition courses through progressive hip-hop's upper echelon, pushing the genre's pioneers to new heights of creativity, ambition, and experimentation. Blackalicious' Blazing Arrow set a gold standard for major-label adventurousness earlier this year, but labelmates Common and The Roots aren't ready to concede the fight for hip-hop's innovation crown. Like many of his contemporaries, Common enlisted the hit-making expertise of The Neptunes for Electric Circus' first single, "Come Close," a disarmingly tender love song that functions as a sequel of sorts to "The Light," the breakthrough single from his superb last album, Like Water For Chocolate. Even if it didn't feature Mary J. Blige's empathetic vocals, "Come Close" would still be a safe choice for a first single, but like The Roots' slinky "Break You Off," the song is a deceptively accessible Trojan horse for an album bursting with sonic, lyrical, and conceptual creativity. A more representative sample of Electric Circus' fearless abandon lies in the deranged bit of rap boogie-woogie "I Got A Right Ta," another Neptunes-produced track, which single-handedly proves that Chad Hugo and Pharrell Williams are not only rap's biggest hit-makers, but also two of its weirdest superstars. Part swaggering B-boy, part worldly Renaissance man, Common lets his freak flag fly on Electric Circus, which looks far beyond its core genre for inspiration. "New Wave" suggests Stereolab discovering hip-hop, while "Star *69 (PS With Love)" recalls The Artist Once Again Known As Prince at his lovesexiest. A trippy jam that runs more than eight minutes and ends with a burst of sonic dissonance, "Jimi Was A Rock Star" catches Common in a psychedelic mood, as does "Aquarius." Like The Roots' new Phrenology, Electric Circus possesses many of the weaknesses associated with ambition: a bloated running time, the faint aroma of pretension, an obligatory spoken-word piece, and songs that outlast their welcome. But minor growing pains are a small price to pay for such dramatic growth. Common made his name chronicling hip-hop's past on "I Used To Love H.E.R.," and with Electric Circus, he stakes his claim on the genre's future. Common is just one of the many rap legends name-checked on Phrenology's "WAOK (AY) Roll Call," but like Chicago's finest, The Roots explores rap's future rather than reveling in its past. The album combines a deep reverence for rap's visceral power with a desire to move the genre beyond its primordial synthesis of beats and rhymes. A mesmerizing mixture of buttery smoothness and bracing grit, Black Thought's voice remains one of popular music's most distinctive and powerful instruments, but Phrenology is equally noteworthy for its production. Hip-hop's funkiest, funniest drummer, ?uestlove continues to use the studio as a weapon in The Roots' well-stocked arsenal, as on "The Seed (2.0)," a transcendent ode to creation that rocks much harder than the tinny, lo-fi version found on Cody ChestnuTT's The Headphone Masterpiece. Phrenology benefits tremendously from its perfectionist attention to detail, which extends beyond production and musicianship to include its elaborate packaging and witty, info-laden liner notes. Phrenology doesn't need the hardcore punk rave-up "!!!!!!!" or the sound collage at the end of "Water," but the group's willingness to take chances pays huge dividends elsewhere, like the thumping, disco-friendly bonus track and the aforementioned "The Seed (2.0)." A worthy follow-up to Things Fall Apart, Phrenology proves yet again that The Roots exceeds the sum of its outstanding parts.


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Professor Page teaches in the Department of Biology and the Cell Biology and Biochemistry Program
Teaching Interests
I am lucky enough to teach what I love which includes both cellular and systemic physiology, more specifically, mammalian physiology. Currently my courses include:
- Introduction to Molecules and Cells (BIO 205)
- Neuroscience 100
- Neurophysiology (BIO 324)
- Independent Research (BIO 399)
- Perspectives on Health and Healing (CAPSTONE)
- Physiological Mechanisms (BIO 322)
Our studies are designed to investigate the effects of dexamethasone on gene expression of key hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis negative- feedback regulation. Dexamethasone is a synthetic steroid analog of corticosterone, the major glucocorticoid secreted from the rat adrenal, and we found that prenatal exposure to this steroid results in HPA axis hyperactivity and increased levels of circulating CORT in the experimental animals. These studies are particularly pertinent for biomedical databases since dexamethasone is used clinically as a therapeutic to avert preterm delivery and to promote lung development in the fetus. It is important to investigate the long term effects of drugs that are used clinically, especially if the therapeutics are used during pregnancy. In addition, we are studying the effects of dexamethasone because it is a corticosterone analog and high levels of this hormone mimic the conditions of maternal stress. We are investigating how this physiological state in the mother would affect postnatal development in the offspring. We are especially interested in potential changes in gene expression that may underpin behavioral abnormalities.
We have already found that corticosteroid receptor expression in the brain changes in the DEX-exposed offspring. This change is particularly important since the ratio of corticosteroid receptor I (MR) and corticosteroid receptor II (GR) governs the "pulse" of hippocampal signaling to the hypothalamus. It has been hypothesized that a disturbance in this ratio may result in abnormal adrenal output of "stress" hormones such as cortisol (human) or corticosterone (rat) and that this disturbance may also alter serotonergic function since high levels of CORT affect serotonin function adversely. High circulating levels of CORT have been associated with reduced serotonergic transmission which may underpin affective disorders in humans such as anxiety and depression.
- Creight Center Grant, awarded by Drexel University College of Medicine, 2007
- Research Fellowship, awarded by the Population Council Center for Biomedical Research at Rockefeller University, 2000
- Senior Research Fellowship Award, National Institute of Health, 1999
- Research Grant, POWRE, National Science Foundation, 1998
- Research Planning Grant, awarded by National Science Foundation, 1996
- Presidential Award for Excellence in Teaching, Bucknell University
- National Research Service Award, National Institute of Health
Selected Publications
*denotes Bucknell student author
Page K.C., Malik R.E.* and E.K. Anday. 2008. High fat intake during early development alters expression of leptin and insulin signaling components in hypothalamus of adult male rats. Under Review. American Journal of Physiology.
Shoener J.A.* and K.C. Page, 2006. Prenatal exposure to dexamethasone permanently alters hippocampal drive on hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis activity. American Journal of Physiology, 290:R1355-R1373.
Page K.C. 2004. "Quest for a Future Perfect," eds. D. Rothenberg and W. Pryor, Writing the Future: Evolution and Progress, (Cambridge, MA; The MIT Press), 193-200.
Page K.C., Sottas C.E. and M.P. Hardy 2001. Prenatal exposure to dexamethasone alters Leydig Cell steroidogenic capacity in immature and adult rats. Journal of Andrology 22:973-980.
Wang G.M., Page K.C. and M.P. Hardy 2000. Leydig Cell Steroidogenesis. In What's It All About: Androgens. American Society of Andrology. Boston, pp. 51-81.
Page K.C. 1999. Maternal exposure to dexamethasone markedly reduces testosterone synthesis in immature rat offspring. In: Cosmi E.V. ed. New Technologies in reproductive medicine, neonatology, and gynecology. Bologna, Italy: Monduzzi Editore, pp. 489-494
Page K.C., Heitzman D.A. *, and M.I. Chernin. 1996. Stimulation of c-jun and c-myb in Rat Sertoli cells following exposure to retinoids. Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications, 222:595-600
Page K.C., Makris J.M. *, and M.I. Chernin. 1995. Effects of retinoids on the protooncogene, c-myb, in rat Sertoli cells. Recent Progress in Hormone Research. 50:465-469.
Page K.C., Mason P.B. *, Lindstrom L., Swan J.S., and S.E. Nyquist. 1992. Dolichol and N-linked oligosaccharide synthesis in the rat testis: Interaction between Sertoli and spermatogenic cells, evidence for paracrine effects. Biochemistry and Cell Biology,70:496-503.
Page K.C., Killian G.J., and S.E. Nyquist. 1990. Sertoli Cell Glycosylation Patterns as Affected by Culture Age and Extracellular Matrix. Biology of Reproduction, 43:659-664.


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Celebrating Isabel Uriarte, A Fair Trade Hero
Guest Post from Sasha Schmitz, Public Relations & Communications Intern
Today's post comes to us from Sasha Schmitz, Public Relations and Communications Intern at Fair Trade USA. Read on to hear about how one women serves as an inspiration for us here at Fair Trade USA and beyond.
Mother's Day is a time to cherish the amazing women and mothers in our lives. Here at Fair Trade USA we are paying tribute to all the women who help make fair trade possible; the exceptional women who are not only a mother or a grandmother, but also an inspiration to farmers worldwide. Isabel Uriarte for example, is a hero for the women (and men) of her CECANOR cooperative in the rolling hills of Northeastern Peru and as the leader of Café Femenino, a female coffee growing group. We were lucky enough to speak with her about her role in CECANOR and the women's programs she has pioneered.
For more than twenty years, Isabel has been working with farmers and rural communities by helping them strengthen their organizations, combat debt and poverty and empower the amazing women farmers of Peru. Today, women coffee producers make up 30 percent of the world's 25 million coffee growers. And yet they often have no rights, make little or no income, experience terrible domestic and workplace abuse, and are forced further into poverty. Isabel Uriarte has been a beacon of hope for rural farmers, changing this troubling reality for many women in Peru.
Isabel is a founder and one of the 1,458 members of the CECANOR cooperative. After earning the Fair Trade certification, the cooperative gained access to international markets, better prices and wages and the protections of Fair Trade standards. By selling directly to markets, Isabel and other farmers make more income which keeps them from falling into a cycle of poverty and debt. Not only has the cooperative focused heavily on community development and environmental sustainability, they are the first group to participate in the Café Femenino program. Café Femenino programs empower the women coffee farmers of the community, letting them grow and sell their coffee separately from men. Not only is this a first, Isabel also says the coffee grown by women tastes better!
Isabel with the women of Café Femenino – the all womens coffee growing group.
"Now this program is enabling us to look holistically at the coffee farming family's problems and we are approaching the issues of food security, health, education and women's empowerment." - Isabel
Through Isabel's leadership, CECANOR has developed wonderful assistance programs. Health, education and tech assistance projects all benefit the female farmers and their families through introducing new farming techniques, providing health screenings, sex-education campaigns in rural schools, and improving the productivity of credit programs.
Isabel teaches the women and their families about proper nutrition, food and health safety.
Isabel is an inspiration to Latin American farmers and us at Fair Trade USA. She was part of the first organization to export organic certified coffee in the Peruvian Northeast and in 2000 she sought Fair Trade certification for CECANOR. Since then producers have never received a price below $100-$137 per 100 lbs. "We are making a difference," she says.
So, as you think about how you will celebrate your mom in the next few weeks, take a moment and let yourself be inspired by Isabel, a woman we here at Fair Trade USA tip our hats to. She is an amazing lady, empowering us and women worldwide.


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Company's bamboo flooring, panels and worktops are certified under USDA's BioPreferred program.
BAINBRIDGE ISLAND, Wash.—Teragren, a manufacturer of bamboo flooring, panels, veneer and worktops, has earned the USDA Certified Biobased Product Label for its complete line of bamboo building products.
The USDA Certified Biobased Product Label verifies that the products' amount of renewable biobased ingredients meets or exceeds prescribed USDA levels. Biobased products are goods composed in whole or in significant part of agricultural, forestry or marine materials.
The purpose of the USDA BioPreferred® program is to promote the increased purchase and use of biobased products. The increased purchase of biobased products is expected to reduce petroleum consumption, increase the use of renewable resources, better manage the carbon cycle, and may contribute to reducing adverse environmental and health impacts.
"We are very excited that our products have tested at such a high biobased content, and are looking forward to proudly displaying the USDA BioPreferred label on all of our products going forward" says Teragren President Mike Boshart. The label is estimated to be on certified Teragren products and available to consumers by early 2013.
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All biobased claims are verified by independent labs and monitored by the USDA.
The BioPreferred program includes a preferred procurement program for federal agencies and their contractors, who are required to give preferential consideration to USDA biobased designated product categories when making purchases. As a part of this process of designating product categories for the federal procurement preference, USDA establishes the minimum biobased content for the category. Information on the technical, health, and environmental characteristics of these products are also considered. Additionally, Presidential Executive Order 13514, Federal Leadership in Environmental, Energy, and Economic Performance, mandates the purchasing of biobased products.


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Bingo Card 3Logic puzzles require you to think. You will have to be logical in your reasoning.
You are given a stack of bingo cards. Your task is to find a specific card. Given the following clues, what is the number arrangement of that card?
Columns, left to right, are: B (contains numbers 1 through 15), I (contains numbers 16 through 30), N (contains numbers 31 through 45), G (contains numbers 46 through 60), O (contains numbers 61 through 75). Rows, top to bottom, are: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5. An example of coordinate nomenclature: B1 identifies column B row 1. N3 is a free space (contains no number). No number appears more than once.
1) For each column, the numbers are in either ascending order or descending order.
2) Row 1: the numbers are prime.
3) Row 5: the numbers are composite.
4) Column I: the numbers are spaced at equal intervals.
5) Column O: the numbers are spaced at different intervals.
6) The sum of the numbers in Row 1 equals the sum of the numbers in Row 5.
7) The product of B4 and O5 equals the product of B5 and O4.
8) The product of I2 and G2 equals the product of I3 and G3.
9) N4 is midway between B4 and G4.
10) Each column has one multiple of 6.
11) There is only one square number on the card.
Answer11 17 41 59 61
12 18 36 57 63
13 19 -- 54 66
14 20 33 52 70
15 21 32 46 75
1) Per clue 2, eliminate non-prime numbers from Row 1.
2) Per clue 3, eliminate non-composite numbers from Row 5.
3) Per clue 1, eliminate numbers that do not fit any possible (ascending or descending) sequence from Rows 2 through 4.
4) Per clue 4, determine the possible sequences for Column I. In conjunction with clue 8, eliminate numbers from Columns I and G.
5) Per clue 10, I2 must be 18 or 24, and G3 must be 48 or 54. Eliminate additional numbers from Column G.
6) Per clue 7, determine what combinations of numbers work. Eliminate those that to not work from B4, B5, O4, and O5.
7) Per clue 5, in order to have four different intervals, the spread from top to bottom must be at least 10. Eliminate from O1: 67 and 71. Eliminate from O5: 64 and 70. In conjunction with clue 7, only one combination of numbers works: O4 must be 70, O5 must be 75, B4 must be 14, and B5 must be 15. This leaves O1 as 61.
8) Per clue 10, 66 must be in either O2 or O3. 66 can not be in O2, because that would create an interval of 5 (which already exists between O4 and O5) between O1 and O2. O3 must be 66. O2 must be either 63 or 64.
9) Per clue 9, N4 must be 33 and G4 must be 52. This leaves G1 as 59, G2 as 57, and G3 as 54.
10) Per clues 4 and 8, Column I can be determined. I1 must be 17, I2 must be 18, I3 must be 19, I4 must be 20, and I5 must be 21.
11) Per clue 6, Column N must be in descending order. N5 must be 32.
12) Per clue 6, the only combination of numbers that works produces a sum of 189. B1 must be 11, N1 must be 41, G5 must be 46.
13) Per clue 1, B2 must be 12 and B3 must be 13.
14) Per clue 10, N2 must be 36. Per clue 11, O2 must be 63.
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A low pressure system moving through the Great Lakes will produce a cold front Friday that extends down the Mississippi River Valley.
This system will continue pulling in moisture from the Gulf of Mexico, which will allow for widespread scattered showers to develop across the Midwest and Great Lakes. Periods of heavy showers may develop along the front as it stretches down the Mississippi River Valley. This will bring more flooding problems to the Eastern Valleys. Evacuations will persist throughout the eastern Tennessee, as well as western Alabama and Missouri. As the system obtains additional energy from the Gulf of Mexico, these warm and humid conditions will produce showers and thunderstorms over the Southeastern states. There is a slight chance that these storms will turn severe.
In the Northeast, a slow-moving low pressure system will linger over the extreme Northeast. Expect a few light rain showers to persist in Maine, northern Vermont, and New Hampshire.
Out West, a ridge of high pressure remains the dominating weather feature for the Southwest. A trough of low pressure moves into the Pacific Northwest, kicking up a few scattered showers. However, warm and dry conditions in the Southwest will create favorable conditions for rapid fire spread. Winds up to 20 and 30 mph are likely across southern Colorado, New Mexico, and western Texas.
Temperatures in the Lower 48 states Thursday ranged from a morning low of 10 degrees at Big Piney, Wyo., to a high of 99 degrees at Palm Springs, Calif.


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April 11, 2014
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This Week's New Pitching Lines, 4/11
As was immediately identified by everybody with a Play Index subscription and/or common sense, Danny Salazar's 3.2/6/5/5/2/10 pitching line yesterday was a unique pitching line. Shoot, the bookends alone are brand new; all the hits, runs, and walks are irrelevant, as there has never been a 3.2 inning, 10-K start before. To this, the esteemed Zachary Levine suggested that
But with due respect to Zachary, I would argue that Salazar's pitching line—while interesting, and deserving of attention throughout the baseball world—is the opposite of what this series lusts after. It's a freak-show start, and baseball has tons of freak shows, the sort that Jayson Stark and YCPB and High Heat Stats and others chronicle so wonderfully. What's most interesting to this series is the way that even the banal can slip past baseball's century of monkeys and typewriters. The way that Salazar's teammate, Zach McAllister, could so quietly make his own kind of history with a simple little 7.2/5/0/0/0/7 line this week. Randall Delgado's 3.1/6/3/3/3/0 yesterday has been done eight times, because everything in baseball has been done eight times, yet somehow nobody has ever produced a 7.2/5/0/0/0/7. And nobody cares. Anyway, you've now seen two of this week's brand new pitching lines. The others:
The best new line of the week: Stephen Strasburg's 6.2/3/1/1/1/12
In this start, Strasburg was pulled after 98 pitches, with two outs in the seventh and the tying run on first. Managers hate to pull a starter mid-inning when he's doing well. Consider:
That managers have historically let the Strasburg-type finish this inning doesn't necessarily make it right, and it's sort of interesting and exciting that Matt Williams brought in Jerry Blevins. Williams has professed an openness to statistical best practices, and this move suggests he's not going to fall victim to a common managerial mistake: Trusting his famous-name starter instead of his not-famous reliever even late in the game, when the reliever is almost certainly a better option than a tiring starter going a third or fourth time through the order. Jerry Blevins came in for Strasburg and retired all three lefties lined up. It did come at some expense—a double-switch required—and, of course, one might wonder whether it communicates anything to Strasburg, and whether that matters:
So Williams' move was not obviously right (or wrong). But for a manager who promises to try new things, it's encouraging that he tried something that is literally brand new.
*Gerrit Cole very nearly matched this line yesterday, but for an unearned run that turned his line into a new-line masterpiece: 6/5/4/3/2/10. It took 100 years for baseball to produce the perfect odometer reading.
The worst new line of the week: Hyun-Jin Ryu's 2/8/8/6/3/2
The most surprisingly new line of the week: Masahiro Tanaka's 7/7/3/3/1/10
7/7/3/3/1/10! I feel so alive! I feel so alive for the very first time. And I think I can fly.
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1942-1945 — Japan
23 May 1942-26 Sep 1945 Held at Fukuoka POW Camp #1 - Kashii (Pine Tree Camp) Kyushu Island 33-130.
Departed from the US in March 1941 by ship from San Francisco. Captured by the Japanese at Wake Island in December 1941.
He returned to the US by plane arriving at Hamilton Field, CA on 8 Oct 1945 according to the Overseas Manifest.
Warren received a subpoena from the President of the United States as a witness for the defense on 1 Oct 1948. His deposition was taken for use before a Military Commission of the US. This information comes from a Fold3 image #27422033 (a declassified WWII military document).
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It looks as if Apple is not only giving iOS devices the royal treatment today by officially launching iOS 6 to the public, but they are also giving this royal treatment to the Mac, as Apple appears to have launched their public release of OS X Mountain Lion 10.8.2 today soon after iOS 6 went public.
OS X Mountain Lion 10.8.2 brings the much sought-after Facebook integration to Mac OS X. Along with Twitter integration, Facebook integration allows users to post to Facebook from Notification Center, share photos, and posts statuses right from the operating system itself without having to be on the actual Facebook Web site to interact with Facebook friends. Facebook is also integrated with Game Center and the Contacts stored on your computer just like in iOS 6.
Some other great highlights of OS X Mountain Lion 10.8.2 include:
- FaceTime and iMessages sent to your iPhone's phone number now get sent to your Mac too
- The late 2010 model of the MacBook Air gets support for the Power Nap feature
- The new Siri Dictation feature supports multiple new launguages
- The integrated dictionary in OS X now supports the French language
- The ability to discard changes in an original document when choosing "Save As"
- Any unsent e-mail drafts will open automatically with the Mail application when you open it
- Twitter notifications now appear from anyone and everyone
- Safari can now launch previously opened Web pages
OS X Mountain Lion is available from menu > Software Update, or you can launch the Mac App Store to check for updates. The download size varies depending on the computer and download speeds will vary depending on your Internet connection. The update is free for anyone that purchased OS X Mountain Lion already. You will need to restart your computer after installing the update.
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text: NEW YORK ( TheStreet) -- Based on the Twitter response to @TheStreet and @rocco_thestreet, a considerable number of people misunderstood Wednesday's Facebook and Twitter Should Merge article.I'm used to being misunderstood. However, I could have been more clear. The two companies should merge. Not the two platforms. In fact, Twitter and Facebook, as we know them, would not change at all. Both would continue on their current trajectories, run by the same upper-level management. Name Dick Costolo and Mark Zuckerberg co-CEOs of the combined company and division CEO or president at Twitter and Facebook, respectively. Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg assumes the same role at both segments. Yes, this is a crazy idea, but it's a damn good one as well. It's only crazy because it takes you out of your comfort zone and toys with dozens of egos inside the two companies. While that's enough reason for why it probably won't happen, it's no excuse. No two companies complement one another better. A merger is not about messing with either platform. Beyond some smart cross-promotion, nothing should change. It's all about creating efficiencies (I hate that word!) in sales and marketing. This is hardly a foreign concept. Think of Twitter as the alternative radio station that plays Mumford and Sons, Muse and The Lumineers. Facebook plays classic rock like Springsteen and Pearl Jam (yeah, that's classic rock now!). Each "station" has different core and secondary audiences. There's some overlap. User behavior and engagement between the two social networks is distinct enough in many important areas. Most importantly, Twitter and Facebook serve different purposes. Zuckerberg has tried to explain this to us, and to General Motors ( GM). Facebook builds brands. GM should not expect the platform to drive direct sales of motor vehicles. You don't post an ad on Facebook or even promote a Tweet that says, 50% off a Chevy Volt and expect the prospects to come in out of the rain. As it dives deeper into e-commerce, Facebook generates impulse buys and, if successful, the type of online shopping you do at Amazon.com ( AMZN).


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As he emerged from a ruck in the dying minutes of the first half of the Wallabies' 2009 match against Wales, David Pocock found that his thumb was bent at an unnatural 90-degree angle. The pain was excruciating, but play was continuing. The star Australian rugby union flanker grasped the crooked thumb, gave it a swift yank and - with a crunch and a pop - the rogue digit shifted back into place. He played on, much to the chagrin of the team doctor, who later told Pocock to leave all future surgery to him. X-rays revealed the thumb was broken in several places, but Pocock was sanguine. ''There was a game of rugby to play,'' he says.
A busted thumb is a small distraction, easily overcome by someone with Pocock's intensity of purpose. Pocock's diligence is legendary and his single-mindedness has led coaches to caution him against training too much. It's a diligence Pocock knows he has to watch, because its flip side is anxiety and obsessiveness. When he was a teenager he suffered an eating disorder, which began as an adherence to a strict protein diet but became a fanatical need to minimise body fat and grew to dominate his teenage life.
''I was crazy,'' he recounts. ''I remember the couple of times we ate out as a family during that time, just bursting into tears that I couldn't find something on the menu that I thought was low in fat or healthy enough.'' Did he realise that it was not normal for a teenage boy to be so worried about ingesting fat? ''Yeah ... but I just rationalised it as, 'I don't want to be normal.' "
Normal, Pocock is not: the 24-year-old is an abnormally gifted athlete, one of rugby union's best defensive openside flankers, whose brilliant anticipation allows him to perfectly time his movements at the breakdown to snatch the ball. He was the Wallabies' 79th Test captain at age 23.
He also had a vastly different upbringing to his contemporaries, growing up on a farm in troubled Zimbabwe before the land redistribution policies of ZANU-PF, Zimbabwe's ruling party since the country's independence in 1980, forced his parents to seek refuge for their young family in Australia in 2002.
He is a committed Christian, but dislikes organised religion. He is a vocal supporter of gay marriage, and he and his partner, Emma, whom he refers to as his wife, have agreed not to legally formalise their vows until same-sex marriage is introduced. (In 2010 they held a private Christian ceremony to formalise their commitment. They consider themselves married.)
When injured, Pocock reads books - a mix of literary fiction, memoir and social theory. His heroes are Mahatma Gandhi, Nelson Mandela and radical Christian feminist Dorothy Day.
Instead of seeking lucrative sponsorship deals to supplement his income, Pocock is embarrassed by them. He tapes over the logos on his boots because he feels uncomfortable promoting brands that exploit child labour to produce their sportswear. Together with his friend Luke O'Keefe, Pocock has established Eightytwenty Vision, a community-development charity in Zimbabwe, and they are developing a prototype for an ethically made rugby boot to fund it.
While many sportsmen his age use their Twitter accounts to lambast enemies or to post pictures of themselves flexing biceps and making gangster signs, Pocock tweets pictures of his oil paintings and home-grown vegetables. He also enjoys the odd ''crafternoon'' spent screen printing T-shirts (although he draws the line at scrap-booking).
Having now signed with the ACT Brumbies after seven years with Perth's Western Force, Pocock and Emma recently moved to Canberra. He suggests I meet them at one of the few places in the city, a cafe in Manuka, that serves free-trade coffee. It's spring and, posted to his Instagram account, are snaps from a weekend the couple spent at the Floriade flower festival.
Pocock has intense blue eyes, strawberry-blond hair, a light beard and a square, superhero jaw. He stands 183 centimetres tall and weighs 102 kilograms, which is not unusual for a rugby player, but seems too big for the everyday world. His body is a mix of muscles and angles and he is oversized in an almost cartoonish way.
Every time he shifts position or leans forward to rest his elbows, the table rattles. Economy-class seats are a problem, particularly when wedged between fellow rugby players. He complains in his memoir, Openside, that when browsing op shops, it is impossible to find vintage shorts that fit him.
Pocock drinks soy-milk coffee and orders the ''Hulk'' breakfast, without beans. He speaks quietly and with a shyness that can almost seem diffident, but he smiles often and it floods his face when he does. He has slight cauliflower ears and a scar on his right eyebrow, but is otherwise unmarked from years of professional rugby, despite being laid up with a knee injury when I meet him. Instead of a wedding ring, he has a tattoo on the inside of his ring finger. His hands are as big as hams.
Emma, also 24, a master's student, is exquisitely pretty and make-up free. She is possibly the only footy ''WAG'' to chat freely about what she calls the patriarchal structures of the rugby world and to drop the term ''heteronormative'' into conversation. She's not a natural rugby fan and often gently mocks the sport. The first time she saw him play, she devised a system to make the game more entertaining, which included the incorporation of dance moves into the line-out. ''There is obviously a lot of stuff in the press about ... a kind of patriarchy, a misogyny that exists within our male sporting codes,'' Emma says. "Nothing I'd seen had really challenged those stereotypes until I met Dave.''
Pocock's mother, Jane, describes Emma as ''a gift''. ''He can be quite serious,'' she says. ''He can take life quite seriously and by nature he is reserved. Em just makes him laugh and she lets him have fun.'' The pair met when they were both 20, not long after Pocock had moved to Perth from Brisbane to play for the Western Force.
He was signed to the team as a 17-year-old ''apprentice'', but he was so good that the coach at the time, John Mitchell, fielded him for some matches, even though it was against Australian Rugby Union rules at the time for under-18s to play. ''At the first training, he blew everyone's imagination,'' Mitchell recalls. ''He's always had that frame you see now. He is probably one of the most professional athletes I've come across. I think it's a lot from his self-discipline and his faith.''
But it was a faith Pocock was questioning at the time. He had been raised in a Christian household, but when he left home in Brisbane at 17 and crossed the Nullarbor for his first professional rugby gig, the resulting independence set him on a path of self-discovery. ''I had to figure out what I actually wanted out of life," he says. "When I arrived in Perth, I questioned everything and had a really good think about everything'.'
The party scene wasn't doing much for him, so Pocock began to read. He read the writings of Dorothy Day, texts about radical Christianity such as Lee Camp's Mere Discipleship, and The Politics of Jesus by John Howard Yoder. He began to attend a Tuesday-night conversation group with like-minded friends, and he questioned the nature of church-based religion.
"The church has done a great disservice to Jesus, the human,'' Pocock says. ''My approach to the Bible has changed so much ... it's a very old book written by people with an agenda being passed down. It was based on the old Jewish way of thinking, which was very patriarchal. And as for the New Testament, how much of it is what people wanted Jesus to be like and how much of it is what he was actually like? I think that's an area that gets abused a lot.''
In 2008 he met Emma at a prayer vigil for the homeless outside Parliament House in Perth, but they spent a year book-swapping, emailing and going on ''friend dates'' before they became a couple. Pocock, taciturn, methodical and also fairly shy, was not about to rush into anything.
His close friend Luke O'Keefe, who is married, remembers Pocock asking him ''broad questions'' about love and commitment before he proposed to Emma. ''One time we were fishing in Albany, and he asked me when did I know I loved my wife,'' O'Keefe says. ''That's what Dave does; he makes decisions after he's pursued knowledge. They're measured decisions.''
Perhaps the only decision Pocock never made consciously was the one to become a professional rugby union player. It was something he wanted for as long as he could remember. His father and both his grandfathers were rugby union men, and Pocock started playing when he was in year 3 at the Midlands Christian College in Gweru, Zimbabwe. Pocock would sleep with his football instead of a teddy, and when his father came home from a long day's farm work, Pocock and his two younger brothers, Mike, now 23, and Steve, 20, would beg him to practise with them. ''Just 100 kicks!'' they would cry.
Pocock's father, Andy, who ran cattle and grew vegetables and export flowers on their 2800-hectare farm, was also a teacher at the local school. ''I clearly remember him passionately explaining ... [to] the foreman and other workers back on the farm in Zimbabwe about doing half jobs,'' Pocock recounts. ''Half jobs were unacceptable.''
When, in 2000, the Zimbabwean government began its land-redistribution program, farmers in the area began receiving notices to vacate their properties. The Pococks were told initially that their farm was safe. Soon, though, there were riots in Gweru over food shortages, and Pocock remembers entering his parents' bedroom one night and seeing a map of Australia spread across their bed. The Pococks applied for visas to emigrate to Australia, but the process was slow.
While they were waiting, the political situation worsened. They were given a ''Section 8'' notice, which meant they had 90 days to vacate their farm. Inventories of all farm equipment, vehicles and farming implements were taken, including greenhouse lights for the export flowers worth about $200,000. All of it was to be given over to the ''landless people of Zimbabwe''. (In fact, the whole lot ended up in the possession of the local provincial governor. When David returned to the property in 2009 with his friend O'Keefe, it was disused and rundown.)
Increasingly, workers on the Pocock farm were harassed and beaten if they didn't attend rallies supporting ZANU-PF. A neighbouring white farmer was strangled with barbed wire and his farmhouse burned. A close farmer friend of the family and his son were ambushed by armed men. The father was killed, but the son survived, despite taking nine bullets. By this time, David was 12. ''That was probably the most rattling experience as a kid,'' he recalls.
David's youngest brother, Steve, began to suffer from serious anxiety problems and the family moved from their farm into Gweru, but soon that became unsafe, too. They left for South Africa, where they lived for eight months in Pocock's grandfather's holiday home at Port Alfred, in Eastern Cape province. Finally, the Australian residency visa came through in 2002 and the family moved to Brisbane.
All three boys enrolled in Anglican Church Grammar School, ''Churchie'', but the adjustment wasn't easy. It was about this time that Pocock developed his obsessive eating habits, something his mother, Jane, attributes to a need for control after living through such a tumultuous period.
''He settled in the quickest [of the brothers] and he did it through his focus and drive to perform, which was not entirely healthy,'' she says.
Steve fared worse: he developed post-traumatic stress disorder, stopped going to school and spent about a year as an outpatient of a children's hospital. ''His life was a panic attack,'' Pocock says. David responded to these stresses the only way he knew how - he played rugby.
It is morning training for the Brumbies, on a belting spring day in Canberra. The players tumble around the sun-drenched training ground, piling on top of each other like puppies. A sea of discarded sneakers lies next to the field. There is a lot of bottom-slapping and spitting.
Pocock is injured, having done his knee playing for Australia against the New Zealand All Blacks in August. The question is whether he will be fit for the Wallabies' European tour (he is later declared fit and chosen for the side) and, as such, his knee's progress is closely watched and charted.
Pocock is cloistered in the gym with the other injured players, who actually work harder in rehab than they do in regular training, particularly Pocock. No half jobs. Loud gangster rap blares as Pocock pedals away seriously on an exercise bike.
I am given a tour of the Brumbies' new in-house eating facility. They are the first Australian rugby team to have their own chef on the premises. ''It's a matter of getting a lot of food into them,'' is how chef Brian Gibson describes his job.
Every table has a collection of vitamin supplements and protein powder at its centre, next to the salt and pepper grinders. As well, there is a huge tub of something called ''Re-Activate Hardcore'', a caffeine-based performance supplement, which, if you take too much of it, makes your skin feel like spiders are crawling on it, or so I'm told.
Eventually, the non-injured players are corralled by the forwards coach Laurie Fisher, a Willie Nelson doppelgänger in a Brumbies cap, and known as a scrum sensei. Fisher is a master of the breakdown and Pocock is a master at stealing balls from the breakdown. ''He is one of the world's best in his position,'' Fisher tells me.
Pocock says he was attracted to the culture of the ACT Brumbies and the prospect of improving his attack and linking games, all things Fisher wants to work on with him. He is vague about his reasons for leaving the Western Force, but part of the appeal of the Brumbies must be that it is a better-performing team. Despite being such a gifted player, Pocock has never been on a team that has won a professional tournament.
According to his mother, Jane, even as a schoolboy player David was difficult to endure in the car on the way home after a loss. ''He hates losing,'' she says.
In late 2008, after he had been playing for the Western Force for two years, Pocock made his Wallabies debut in Hong Kong against the All Blacks, then went on the Wallabies European tour that same year. But it was 2009 when he consolidated his place in the team, playing in 13 of the 14 Wallabies Tests that year and sharing the No. 7 jersey with his Wallabies hero, George Smith, a player he had grown up venerating.
In 2010 he won the John Eales Medal -Australian rugby's highest honour. Then, in 2011, he competed in his first Rugby World Cup, playing the game of his life in the quarter-final against South Africa, won 11-9 by Australia.
Pocock describes in his memoir how nervous he was before the match. ''In the afternoon I sat on my bed and thought how I got here - my love of the game, which had started in Zimbabwe, and then training so hard to realise my goals,'' he recalls. "Getting up at 5.30am to go to the gym or do fitness or hill runs in our cul-de-sac before school; getting up early on holidays to get my training done ... I had made it to this point, but there was no more to do. The game was there to be won.''
That game was indeed won, in no small part because of the amazing pilfering skills of the man in the No. 7 jersey. But the tournament was then lost - Australia crashed in the semi-final to the All Blacks by 20-6 - and Wallabies fans and rugby's administration descended into blame and recriminations, often centred around coach Robbie Deans. The sometimes Wallabies five-eighth Quade Cooper, a Churchie school-mate of Pocock's, controversially criticised Deans and described the Wallabies as a ''toxic environment''.
"The Australian Rugby Union are obviously working through some things with Quade," Pocock says, "but from my point of view those things need to be brought up with coaches and senior players before they are made public."
It is discretion such as this, combined with his leadership skills and athleticism, that marked him as captain material early on in his playing career.
In dealing with his eating anxieties, Pocock became interested in the views of Swiss psychiatrist Carl Jung, in particular his ideas about "inner community" and the "shadow self", and integrating the opposites within the self.
"I was intrigued by Jung,'' Pocock says. ''It made so much sense ... reading about the shadow self and the ego and the way they interact."
He thought a lot about his own "shadow self" - the negative aspects of his personality he carried around in his subconscious.
''I was trying to come to terms with my motives for being the best,'' he explains. ''Is it just because I want people's approval or want people to like me, and I want to be famous, for want of a better word? Or was it because I enjoy challenging myself and it was something I love doing?
"I realised those things are in everyone. It's a little bit of both.''
Lead-in photograph by Richard Whitfield/Headpress
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While temperatures remain chilly in much of the country, things are heating up with the Sanctuary on Camelback Mountain events. The award-winning resort is beckoning guests to shake the late-winter blues with a mix of creative cocktail classes and live music that mark the return of two popular, high-demand programs, Mixology 101 and Sundays in Paradise. The resort has also unveiled a revamped menu for the daily premium happy hour in Paradise Valley, The Pour.
On Saturday afternoons at 1 p.m., Sanctuary's expert mixologists will host Mixology 101 at jade bar, teaching participants to craft a selection of cocktails inspired by a different spirit each week. At $30 per person, theMixology 101 schedule is limited to 10 people per class and includes:
February 16: Operation Gin – From Jenever to Tanqueray 10
February 23: Whiskey Run – Scotches, Irish and Bourbons
March 2: Brandy Concoctions – Cognacs and the classics
March 9: Vodka Experiment – Infusions and other elixirs
March 16: Hollywood Cocktails – From Marilyn to Sinatra
March 23: Tequila Time – Agave treats from Mexico
March 30: Tiki Hour – Rum from around the world
Sundays in Paradise gives visitors the opportunity to enjoy Paradise Valley's lush scenery and the live tunes of musicians like Andre Delano and Khani Cole from 2 p.m. to 6 p.m. for a cover charge of $5 ($15 for a special engagement on March 10). Gourmet Picnic Packages are also available for $55 ($65 on March 10), including admission for two, a bottle of wine, choice of appetizer, and preferred lawn seating with a blanket for the afternoon. This season's artist line-up includes:
February 17: Andre Delano
February 24: Walt Richardson
March 3: Sugahbeat
March 10: Matt Rogers
March 17: Khani Cole
March 24: Mel Bridges
Also, check in for Sanctuary's popular daily happy hour, The Pour, serving up a brand-new menu featuring wines and spirits, cool cocktails, and savory small plates by celebrity chef Beau MacMillan. Everything is $6! The Pour is held daily from 4 p.m. to 6 p.m. at Sanctuary's jade bar and 10 p.m. to midnight at edge bar.
For more information, please call (480) 607-2300 or visit sanctuaryaz.com.


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Per serving - 80 calories, 0 gram fat (0% calories from fat), 0 gram protein, 23 gram carbohydrate, 0 gram fiber, 0 milligram cholesterol, 0 milligram sodium