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Iain Banks
Iain Menzies Banks (February 16, 1954 – June 9, 2013), officially Iain Banks, was a Scottish writer. As Iain M. Banks he wrote science fiction; as Iain Banks he wrote literary fiction.
Culture series[edit]
Consider Phlebas (1987)[edit]
- All page numbers from the trade paperback edition published by Orbit Books
- Something in your voice tells me we approach the question of remuneration.
- Chapter 2 "The Hand of God 137" (p. 20).
- Empathize with stupidity and you're halfway to thinking like an idiot.
- Chapter 2 "The Hand of God 137" (p. 27).
- That was how divorced from the human scale modern warfare had become. You could smash and destroy from unthinkable distances, obliterate planets from beyond their own system and provoke stars into novae from light-years off...and still have no good idea why you were really fighting.
- Chapter 2 "The Hand of God 137" (p. 32).
- Pity they didn't devote a little more ingenuity to staying alive rather than conducting mass slaughter as efficiently as possible.
- Chapter 4 "Temple of Light" (p. 96).
- The underlying point held; experience as well as common sense indicated that the most reliable method of avoiding self-extinction was not to equip oneself with the means to accomplish it in the first place.
- Chapter 4 "Temple of Light" (p. 96).
- "Don't you have a religion?" Dorolow asked Horza.
"Yes," he replied, not taking his eyes away from the screen on the wall above the end of the main mess-room table. "My survival."
- Chapter 5 "Megaship" (p. 102).
- "The war won't end," Aviger said. "It'll just die away...I don't think the Culture will give in like everybody thinks it will. I think they'll keep fighting because they believe in it. The Idirans won't give in, either; they'll keep fighting to the last, and they and the Culture will just keep going at each other all the time, all over the galaxy eventually, and their weapons and bombs and rays and things will just keep getting better and better, and in the end the whole galaxy will become a battleground until they've blown up all the stars and planets and Orbitals and everything else big enough to stand on, and then they'll destroy all of each other's big ships and then the little ships, too, until everybody'll be living in single units blowing each other up with weapons that could destroy a planet...and that's how it'll end; probably they'll invent guns or drones that are even smaller, and there'll only be a few smaller and smaller machines fighting over whatever's left of the galaxy, and there'll be nobody left to know how it all started in the first place."
- Chapter 11 "The Command System: Stations" (pp. 380-381).
- "One can read too much into one's own circumstances. I am reminded of one race who set themselves against us—oh, long ago now, before I was even thought of. Their conceit was that the galaxy belonged to them, and they justified this heresy by a blasphemous belief concerning design. They were aquatic, their brain and major organs housed in a large central pod from which several large arms or tentacles protruded. These tentacles were thick at the body, thin at the tips and lined with suckers. Their water god was supposed to have made the galaxy in their image.
"You see? They thought that because they bore a rough physical resemblance to the great lens that is the home of all of us—even taking the analogy as far as comparing their tentacle suckers to globular clusters—it therefore belonged to them. For all the idiocy of this heathen belief, they had prospered and were powerful: quite respectable adversaries, in fact."
"Hmm," Aviger said. Without looking up, he asked, "What were they called?"
"Hmm," Xoxarle rumbled. "Their name..." The Idiran pondered. "...I believe they were called the...the Fanch."
"Never heard of them," Aviger said.
"No, you wouldn't have," Xoxarle purred. "We annihilated them."
- Chapter 13 "The Command System: Terminus" (pp. 445-446).
The Player of Games (1988)[edit]
- All page numbers from the trade paperback edition published by Orbit Books
- "So it's false."
"What isn't?"
"Intellectual achievement. The exercise of skill. Human feeling."
- Chapter 1 "Culture Plate" (p. 5).
- All reality is a game. Physics at its most fundamental, the very fabric of our universe, results directly from the interaction of certain fairly simple rules, and chance; the same description may be applied to the best, most elegant and both intellectually and aesthetically satisfying games. By being unknowable, by resulting from events which, at the sub-atomic level, cannot be fully predicted, the future remains malleable, and retains the possibility of change, the hope of coming to prevail; victory, to use an unfashionable word. In this, the future is a game; time is one of its rules.
- Chapter 1 (p. 48).
- Empires are synonymous with centralized—if occasionally schismatized—hierarchical power structures in which influence is restricted to an economically privileged class retaining its advantages through—usually—a judicious use of oppression and skilled manipulation of both the society's information dissemination systems and its lesser—as a rule nominally independent—power systems. In short, it's all about dominance.
- Chapter 1 (p. 91).
- It looks perverted and wasteful to us, but then one thing that empires are not about is the efficient use of resources and the spread of happiness; both are typically accomplished despite the economic short-circuiting—corruption and favoritism, mostly—endemic to the system.
- Chapter 1 (p. 91).
- A guilty system recognizes no innocents. As with any power apparatus which thinks everybody's either for it or against it, we're against it. You would be too, if you thought about it. The very way you think places you among its enemies. This might not be your fault, because every society imposes some of its values on those raised within it, but the point is that some societies try to maximize that effect, and some try to minimize it. You come from one of the latter and you're being asked to explain yourself to one of the former. Prevarication will be more difficult than you imagine; neutrality is probably impossible. You cannot choose not to have the politics you do; they are not some separate set of entities somehow detachable from the rest of your being; they are a function of your existence. I know that and they know that; you had better accept it.
- Chapter 2 "Imperium" (p. 215).
- "Is all this serious?" Gurgeh said, turning, amused, from the screen to the drone.
"Deadly serious," Flere-Imsaho told him.
Gurgeh laughed and shook his head. He thought the common people must be remarkably stupid if they believed all this nonsense.
- Chapter 2 (p. 225).
- "You like music, Mr. Gurgeh?" Hamin asked, leaning over to the man.
Gurgeh nodded. "Well, a little does no harm."
- Chapter 2 (p. 277).
- "One of the advantages of having laws is the pleasure one may take in breaking them. We here are not children, Mr. Gurgeh." Hamin waved the pipestem round the tables of people. "Rules and laws exist only because we take pleasure in doing what they forbid, but as long as most of the people obey such proscriptions most of the time, they have done their job; blind obedience would imply we are—ha!"—Hamin chuckled and pointed at the drone with the pipe—"no more than robots!"
- Chapter 2 (p. 279).
- The news team, and Hamin, seemed well pleased. "You should have been an actor, Jernau Gurgeh," Hamin told him.
Gurgeh assumed this was intended as a compliment.
- Chapter 3 "Machina Ex Machina" (p. 306).
- "I'm very sorry," the drone said, without a trace of contrition.
- Chapter 3 (p. 308).
- He looked up from it at the stars again, and the view was warped and distorted by something in his eyes, which at first he thought was rain.
- Chapter 4 "The Passed Pawn" (p. 390).
Use of Weapons (1990)[edit]
- All page numbers from the trade paperback edition published by Orbit Books
- Note: there are two alternating sets of chapter numbering in this book. The first is indicated by English words, and counts up from One to Fourteen. The second is indicated by Roman numerals, and counts down from XIII to I.
- The sky was aquamarine, stroked with clouds. She could smell the grass and taste the scent of small, crushed flowers. She looked back up over her forehead at the gray-black wall towering behind her, and wondered if the castle had ever been attacked on days like this. Did the sky seem so limitless, the waters of the straits so fresh and clean, the flowers so bright and fragrant, when men fought and screamed, hacked and staggered and fell and watched their blood mat the grass?
Mists and dusk, rain and lowering cloud seemed the better background; clothes to cover the shame of battle.
- Chapter Two (pp. 50-51).
- He knew in his heart that there was a relief in not being listened to, sometimes. Power meant responsibility. Advice unacted upon almost always might have been right, and in the working out of whatever plan was followed, there was anyway always blood; better it was on their hands. The good soldier did as he was told, and if he had any sense at all volunteered for nothing, especially promotion.
- Chapter XII (p. 65).
- Sex was an infringement, an attack, an invasion; there was no other way he could see it; every act, however magical and intensely enjoyed, and however willingly conducted, seemed to carry a harmonic of rapacity. He took her, and however much she gained in provoked pleasure and in his own increasing love, she was still the one that suffered the act, had it played out upon her and inside her. He was aware of the absurdity of trying too hard to develop the comparison between sex and war; he had been laughed out of several embarrassing situations trying to do so ("Zakalwe," she would say when he tried to explain some of this, and she would put her cool slim fingers behind his neck and stare out from the rambunctious black tangle of her hair. "You have serious problems." She would smile), But the feelings, the acts, the structure of the two were to him so close, so self-evidently akin, that such a reaction only forced him deeper into his confusion.
- Chapter IX (pp. 144-145).
- "I'm from out of town," he said breezily. This was true. He'd never been within a hundred light-years of the place.
- Chapter IX (p. 147).
- "I think I know the real reason."
"Which is?"
"Alcohol in the dust clouds. Goddamn stuff is everywhere. Any lousy species ever invents the telescope and the spectroscope and starts looking in between the stars, what do they find?" He knocked the glass on the table. "Loads of stuff, but much of it alcohol." He drank from the glass. "Humanoids are the galaxy's way of trying to get rid of all that alcohol."
- Chapter IX (p. 148).
- He would give up then, and console himself with something she'd said: that you could not love what you fully understood. Love, she maintained, was a process, not a state. Held still, it withered. He wasn't too sure about all that; he seemed to have found a calm clear serenity in himself he hadn't even known was there, thanks to her.
- Chapter IX (p. 149).
- What they had talked themselves into, they could be silent out of.
- Chapter IX (p. 157).
- "Let's waste a little time, hmm?"
"A nice euphemism, sir," she mused distantly.
He smiled. "Come and help me think of better ones."
She smiled and they both looked at each other.
There was a long pause.
- Chapter IX (p. 157).
- "Well," he sighed to no one in particular, and looked up into yet another alien sky. "Here we are again."
- Chapter Six (p. 178).
- Such a stupid act. Sometimes heroics revolted him; they seemed like an insult to the soldier who weighed the risks of the situation and made calm, cunning decisions based on experience and imagination, the sort of unshowy soldiering that didn't win medals but wars.
- Chapter VIII (p. 183).
- The youth was a cretin, and didn't even realize that he was.
He could think of no more disastrous combination.
- Chapter V (p. 303).
- There are no gods, we are told, so I must make my own salvation.
- Chapter V (p. 303).
- What is all your studying worth, all your learning, all your knowledge, if it doesn't lead to wisdom? And what's wisdom but knowing what is right, and what is the right thing to do?
- Chapter Ten (p. 316).
- "You're a wicked man."
"Thank you. It's taken years of diligent practice."
- Chapter Eleven (p. 355).
- "These people have successfully incorporated a belief in your martial prowess into their religion; how can you deny them?"
"Believe me, it would be easy."
- Chapter Twelve (p. 390).
- He suspected the troops felt closer to somebody who spoke a different language but asked them questions than they did to somebody who shared their language and only ever used it to give orders.
- Chapter Twelve (p. 394).
- He shrugged. "Whatever."
"Aw, Darac, come on; argue, dammit."
"I don't believe in argument," he said, looking out into the darkness (and saw a towering ship, a capital ship, ringed with its layers and levels of armament and armor, dark against the dusk light, but not dead).
"You don't?" Erens said, genuinely surprised. "Shit, and I thought I was the cynical one."
"It's not cynicism," he said flatly. "I just think people overvalue argument because they like to hear themselves talk."
"Oh well, thank you."
"It's comforting, I suppose." He watched the stars wheel, like absurdly slow shells seen at night: rising, peaking, falling...(And reminded himself that the stars too would explode, perhaps, one day.) "Most people are not prepared to have their minds changed," he said. "And I think they know in their hearts that other people are just the same, and one of the reasons people become angry when they argue is that they realize just that, as they trot out their excuses."
"Excuses, eh? Well, if this ain't cynicism, what is?" Erens snorted.
"Yes, excuses," he said, with what Erens thought might just have been a trace of bitterness. "I strongly suspect the things people believe in are usually just what they instinctively feel is right; the excuses, the justifications, the things you're supposed to argue about, come later. They're the least important part of the belief. That's why you can destroy them, win an argument, prove the other person wrong, and still they believe what they did in the first place." He looked at Erens. "You've attacked the wrong thing."
- Chapter II (p. 417).
- In all the human societies we have ever reviewed, in every age and every state, there has seldom if ever been a shortage of eager young males prepared to kill and die to preserve the security, comfort and prejudices of their elders, and what you call heroism is just an expression of this fact; there is never a scarcity of idiots.
- Chapter Thirteen (p. 434).
- He had to give orders that meant men died, and sometimes sacrifice hundreds, thousands of them, knowingly sending them to their near-certain deaths, just to secure some important position or goal, or protect some vital position. And always, whether they liked it or not, the civilians suffered too; the very people they both claimed to be fighting for made up perhaps the bulk of the casualties in their bloody struggle.
He had tried to stop it, tried to bargain, from the beginning, but neither side wanted peace on anything except its own terms, and he had no real political power, and so had had to fight.
- Chapter I (p. 443).
- More than anything else now, though, he wanted to save Darckense. He had seen too many dead, dry eyes, too much air-blackened blood, too much fly-blown flesh, to be able to relate such ghastly truths to the nebulous ideas of honor and tradition that people claimed they were fighting for. Only the well-being of one loved person seemed really worth fighting for now; it was all that seemed real, all that could save his sanity.
- Chapter I (p. 444).
Excession (1996)[edit]
- All page numbers from the hardcover edition published by Bantam Books
- Tishlin's dubious look indicated he wasn't totally convinced this phrase contributed enormously to the information-carrying capacity of the language.
- Chapter 2 "Not Invented Here" section II (p. 58).
- The combination of modern ordnance and outdated tactics had, as usual, created enormous casualties on both sides.
- Chapter 3 "Uninvited Guests" section I (p. 66).
- She took a deep breath. Suddenly, she felt quite entirely sober. "Is this as important as I think it is?"
"Almost certainly much more so."
"Oh," she said, "fuck."
- Chapter 3 "Uninvited Guests" section IV (p. 98).
- Here, in the bare dark face of night
A calm unhurried eye draws sight
—We see in what we think we fear
The cloudings of our thought made clear
- Chapter 3 "Uninvited Guests" section IV (p. 104).
- It was like living half your life in a tiny, stuffy, warm gray box, and being moderately happy in there because you knew no better...and then discovering a little hole in one corner of the box, a tiny opening which you could get a finger into, and tease and pull at, so that eventually you created a tear, which led to a greater tear, which led to the box falling apart around you...so that you stepped out of the tiny box's confines into startlingly cool, clear fresh air and found yourself on top of a mountain, surrounded by deep valleys, sighing forests, soaring peaks, glittering lakes, sparkling snowfields and a stunning, breathtakingly blue sky. And that, of course, wasn't even the start of the real story, that was more like the breath that is drawn in before the first syllable of the first word of the first paragraph of the first chapter of the first book of the first volume of the story.
- Chapter 4 "Dependency Principle" section III (p. 120).
- It was just like some ancient electricity-powered computer; it didn't matter how fast, error-free, and tireless it was, it didn't matter how great a labor-saving boon it was, it didn't matter what it could do or how many different ways it could amaze; if you pulled its plug out, or just hit the off button, all it became was a lump of matter; all its programs became just settings, dead instructions, and all its computations vanished as quickly as they'd moved.
It was, also, like the dependency of the human-basic brain on the human-basic body; no matter how intelligent, perceptive and gifted you were, no matter how entirely you lived for the ascetic rewards of the intellect and eschewed the material world and the ignobility of the flesh, if your heart just gave out...
That was the Dependency Principle; that you could never forget where your off switches were located, even if it was somewhere tiresome.
- Chapter 4 "Dependency Principle" section III (p. 122).
- He wanted to be who he was, not the person he would become if he lost the one trait that distinguished him from everybody else, no matter how perverse that decision seemed to others.
- Chapter 4 "Dependency Principle" section V (p. 129).
- The double-sun system was relatively poor in comets; there were only a hundred billion of them.
- Chapter 5 "Kiss the Blade" section I (p. 133).
- I am not being obtuse.
You are being paranoid.
- Chapter 5 "Kiss the Blade" section II (p. 136).
- There came a point when if a conspiracy was that powerful and subtle it became pointless to worry about it.
- Chapter 5 "Kiss the Blade" section III (p. 149).
- He was tall and very dark-skinned and he had fabulously blond hair and a voice that could raise bumps on your skin at a hundred meters, or, better still, millimeters.
- Chapter 5 "Kiss the Blade" section IV (p. 151).
- Even the pain of what had felt on occasion like an irretrievably broken heart had consistently proved less lasting than she'd initially imagined and expected; the revelation that a boy's taste was so grotesquely deficient he could prefer somebody else to her always reduced both the intensity and the duration of the anguish her heart demanded be endured to mark such a loss of regard.
- Chapter 6 "Pittance" section III (p. 180).
- Look at these humans! How could such glacial slowness even be called life? An age could pass, virtual empires rise and fall in the time they took to open their mouths to utter some new inanity!
- Chapter 7 "Tier" section II (p. 212).
- If you have any helpful suggestions I'd be pleased to hear them. If all you can do is make snide insinuations then it would probably benefit all concerned if you bestowed the fruits of your prodigious wit on someone with the spare time to give them the consideration they doubtless deserve.
- Chapter 7 "Tier" section III (p. 219).
- Death, he remembered somebody saying once, was a kind of victory. To have lived a long good life, a life of prodigious pleasure and minimal misery, and then to die; that was to have won. To attempt to hang on forever risked ending up in some as-yet-unglimpsed horror future. What if you lived forever and all that had gone before, however terrible things had sometimes appeared to be in the past, however badly people had behaved to each other throughout history, was nothing compared to what was yet to come? Suppose in the great book of days that told the story of everything, all the gone, done past was merely a bright, happy introduction compared to the main body of the work, an unending tale of unbearable pain scraped in blood on a parchment of living skin?
Better to die than risk that.
Live well and then die, so that the you that is you now can never be again, and only tricks can re-create something that might think it is you, but is not.
- Chapter 8 "Killing Time" section V (pp. 259-260).
- That's the trouble with people like them, I suppose; whenever you think you're detecting the first signs of them starting to behave responsibly, it's just them being even more devious and underhand than usual.
- Chapter 8 "Killing Time" section V (p. 261).
- I am, as I have always been, of the opinion that while the niceties of normal moral constraints should be our guides, they must not be our masters.
- Chapter 8 "Killing Time" section VII (p. 269).
- Maybe it wasn't anything remotely to do with religion, mysticism or metaphilosophy after all; maybe it was more banal; maybe it was just...accounting.
- Chapter 11 "Regarding Gravious" section VI (p. 364).
- Any such inklings were like a few scattered grains of truth dissolved in an ocean of nonsense, and were anyway generally inextricably bound up with patently paranoid ravings which served only to devalue the small amounts of sense and pertinence with which they were associated.
- Chapter 11 "Regarding Gravious" section VI (p. 365).
- She supposed she ought to feel impressed that Genar-Hofoen was sticking to his principles in the face of imminent death—and she did feel a little admiration—but mostly she just thought he was being stupid.
- Chapter 11 "Regarding Gravious" section VII (p. 369).
- How depressing, the Sleeper Service thought. That it should all come down to this; the person with the biggest stick prevails.
- Chapter 11 "Regarding Gravious" section X (p. 372).
Look to Windward (2000)[edit]
- "What, now?" "Soon equates to good, later to worse, Uagen Zlepe, scholar. Therefore, immediacy."
- Look to Windward ISBN 978-0743421928 page 213.
- Never forget I am not this silver body, Mahrai. I am not an animal brain, I am not even some attempt to produce an AI through software running on a computer. I am a Culture Mind. We are close to gods, and on the far side. We are quicker; we live faster and more completely than you do, with so many more senses, such a greater store of memories and at such a fine level of detail. We die more slowly, and we die more completely, too.
- Look to Windward
Non-Culture Novels[edit]
Against a Dark Background (1993)[edit]
- Sorrow be damned and all your plans. Fuck the faithful, fuck the committed, the dedicated, the true believers; fuck all the sure and certain people prepared to maim and kill whoever got in their way; fuck every cause that ended in murder and a child screaming.
- Against a Dark Background ISBN 1-85723-179-1 (UK) ISBN 0-553-29225-0 (US).
Transition (2009)[edit]
- Libertarianism. A simple-minded right-wing ideology ideally suited to those unable or unwilling to see past their own sociopathic self-regard.
- Transition ISBN 0-316-73107-2 p. 86.
- If you are going to write what a friend of a friend once called 'Made up space shit', then if it's going to have any ring of truth that means sometimes some of the horrible characters get to live, and for there to be any sense of jeopardy, especially in future novels, the good people have to die. Sometimes.
- I won't miss waiting for the next financial disaster because we haven't dealt with the underlying causes of the last one. Nor will I be disappointed not to experience the results of the proto-fascism that's rearing its grisly head right now. It's the utter idiocy, the sheer wrong-headedness of the response that beggars belief. I mean, your society's broken, so who should we blame? Should we blame the rich, powerful people who caused it? No let's blame the people with no power and no money and these immigrants who don't even have the vote, yeah it must be their fucking fault.
- 'Destroying the whole universe' – an always tempting scenario when you realise in SF you can do anything – just seems too easy.


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What's in a name? A lot, says Gosford mayor Lawrie McKinna, who has kicked off a campaign to change the name of a prominent harbour area on the New South Wales central coast called Brisbane Water to save tourists confusing it with the Queensland capital.
The move might not be a bad idea given the significance of placenames in the increasingly important business of city branding, according to destination-marketing expert Pierre Benckendorff.
Dr Benckendorff, a senior lecturer in the University of Queensland's school of tourism, said cities and celebrities were similar in the sense that a good name was an important first step along the road to fame and fortune.
"The difference is you can't trademark a city name in the same way you can for other products," he said.
"Yet increasingly, when big cities are trying to build a brand around their name and the brand has a personality attached to it, they're going to be unhappy if someone tries to muscle in on their turf."
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Unfortunately for Gosford, Queensland's Brisbane has the bigger, better brand, Dr Benckendorff said, meaning a name change was probably a good idea if the coastal town was serious about boosting local tourism and industry.
And that's exactly what Cr McKinna hopes to achieve. The land surrounding Brisbane Water is earmarked for a major redevelopment, The Landing, which forms part of a larger Gosford revitalisation project.
"This landmark development will showcase Gosford to national and international visitors, developers and potential investors," Cr McKinna said.
"The current name of the body of water directly adjacent to The Landing and surrounding areas does not uniquely identify our region and confuses many visitors due to its perceived association with the City of Brisbane in Queensland."
However, a rebrand isn't a simple endeavour – in addition to myriad changes to signage, business names and administrative paraphernalia, two schools and a national park are named after Brisbane Water.
As such, Cr McKinna said the council's discussions with the Geographical Names Board – a state-based agency that controls placenames in New South Wales – would form part of a broader consultation with the community.
"At this stage, council is just investigating the feasibility of a name change and will be seeking input when we know what our options are," he said.
Brisbane Water shares a name with the City of Brisbane as both places pay tribute to Scotsman Sir Thomas Brisbane, who was governor of NSW from 1821 to 1825.

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SCOTUS's Warrantless Wiretapping Punt is a Win for America's Ruling Parties
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SCOTUS, presidential nominees appear united: sometimes due process is just not convenient
In a ruling that has a deep impact on domestic surveillance in the short term, the
Supreme Court of the United States
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to review a controversial
U.S. federal circuit appeals court decision
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I. President, Romney Unanimous in Support for Warrantless Wiretaps
Removing immunity would essentially leave telecoms unlikely to comply with warrantless requests, as they could be penalized in court by citizen lawsuits for following warrantelss data demands. The basis of U.S. criminal law for centuries has been cornered on obtaining warrants to investigate persons of interest. But over the past several decades, both parties have increasingly argued that
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Both Democratic President Barack Obama and Republican challenger Mitt Romney support throwing out due process (warrants) in cases where national security is viewed to be at risk -- a policy first put in place by Republican President George W. Bush (with bipartisan support from America's two ruling parties) in the wake of the 9/11 terrorist attacks.
President Obama and his predecessor President Bush agree on many things, including that the federal government should be granted unregulated spying on its citizens.
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Mr. Romney expressed a viewpoint narrowly in line with President Obama's plugging warrantless wiretaps in a recent interview (see below), stating, "If it means we have to go into a mosque to wiretap or a church, then that's exactly where we are gonna go, because we are going to do whatever it takes to protect the American people. And I hear from time to time people say, 'Hey, wait a sec, we have civil liberties to worry about', but don't forget... the most important civil liberty I expect from my government is my right to be kept alive."
In a statement on the SCOTUS ruling, President Obama marched in lock-step with his political rival, with his press office
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That silent nod to the prevailing sentiment on The Hill is
a win for America's two ruling parties
, who are unanimous in their belief that the right to "be kept alive" (by the government) mandates spying on citizens without due process now and then.
II. Opponents Continue to Fight on
Of course civil liberties advocacies like the
Electronic Frontier Foundation
(EFF), and a handful of politicians like
Rep. Ron Paul
(R-Texas) disagree.
He argues that the American political system has been hijacked by zealots,
, "The PATRIOT Act was written many, many years before 9/11, [the attacks simply provided] an opportunity for some people to do what they wanted to do..."
"Democracy isn't all that healthy in this country because if you're in a third party... you don't get in the debates... And if you ever come to the conclusion -- heaven forbid -- that the two parties aren't all that different, then what is left really?"
Ron Paul is one of the few politicians to support keeping due process, even in the face of the nebulous "terrorist" threat. [Image Source: NBC]
EFF Senior Staff Attorney Kurt Opsahl concurs, adding:
By passing the retroactive immunity for the telecoms' complicity in the warrantless wiretapping program, Congress abdicated its duty to the American people. It is disappointing that... [the courts] endorsed the rights of telecommunications companies over those over their customers.
But in the current political climate voices like the EFF and Rep. Paul's are mere whispers in a sea of shouts of support. Without saying a word, the punt by America's most powerful federal court in effect adds one of the loudest voices yet in support of warrantless wiretaps, although it leaves the door open for later revision, should America's political climate drastically change.
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I read Gordon Sinclair Jr.'s column Firefighters, real estate board pay for poll (Aug. 21) with some bemusement. Sinclair mentions that a group called Manitoba Forward also partially funded the poll, quoting an unnamed web source who describes Manitoba Forward as "rogue Tories."
The headline on Sinclair's article misstates the sources of support; Manitoba Forward is the lead sponsor of the poll, having contributed contributed $4,000 toward the poll.
Contrary to what Sinclair reports, we are not a bunch of "rogue Tories"; rather, as our website says, we are an unaligned group of citizens who are deeply concerned about Manitoba's direction. We draw our support from most of the political spectrum.
Our chairman, Graham Lane, is the former chairman of the Public Utilities Board; until recently, he contributed weekly Free Press columns on matters of provincial concern. He is a member of no political party.
So why is a group that is primarily concerned about provincial politics funding a poll about Winnipeg's mayoralty race? The answer is in Aldo Santin's article Moody's lowers city's financial outlook to negative (Aug. 21), in which he describes how the financial status of the city and province are intertwined.
Roger Kingsley
Manitoba Forward, Winnipeg
Shift priorities, open inquiry
The Aug. 21 Free Press Think Tank page was rightly devoted to the untimely deaths of two aboriginal Winnipeggers, and the related concerns and hopes for our city and our country.
Meanwhile, the news section led off with our federal government once again harassing aboriginal organizations with unproven allegations (Vegas trip, payouts questioned, Aug. 21).
How much of our tax money has gone to pay for these audits? When will the federal government shift its priorities to working with and for indigenous people?
Responding to the ever-growing calls for a national inquiry into missing and murdered aboriginal women would be a step in that direction.
Justin Jaron Lewis
Why is it that as soon as the aboriginal leaders are accused of misspending, it hits the papers?
Compared to what our governments waste, $261,587 is a drop in the bucket. And while I don't condone either, it seems one side of the story has plenty of rug to sweep it all under.
Diana Frantz
Pressure Putin, or else
It seems that after the downing of the Malaysian plane over eastern Ukraine, the West and the European Union are ready to abandon Ukraine (Ukrainian love story comes to an end, Aug. 20).
Even if there are no concrete guarantees for strict intervention to defend Ukraine's territorial integrity, there is a definite moral obligation to stand up for Ukraine.
To date, this has consisted mostly of strongly worded statements, but little in the form of action. There have been a few token sanctions, but nothing of any significance or serious actions have yet to be imposed.
Is the West willing to abandon Ukraine to Russian President Vladmir Putin, just as it abandoned Czechoslovakia to Adolf Hitler in 1938 and 1939?
Why are we tolerating this aggression? Putin's Russia has been building up its troops along Ukraine's border, and staging provocations intended to create justification for the invasion. If we tolerate this, the consequences may prove to be catastrophic.
Peter Manastyrsky
The Winnipeg Free Press is to be commended for printing articles by conscientious individuals such as Oksana Bashuk Hepburn (Ukrainian love story coems to an end, Aug. 20) and at the same time letters to the editor by ill-informed people such as Sig Laser, whose ignorance is well-illustrated in both paragraphs of his letter (No unity on Ukraine tragedy, letters, Aug. 21).
If the world had reacted earlier to the aggression of individuals such as Adolf Hitler and Josef Stalin, there would be less need for a human rights museum to recall our shortcomings. Putin is an egomaniac, and must be stopped as soon as possible. Who could believe Putin is a humanitarian providing aid to eastern Ukraine while his Russian rebels shoot at aid trucks from Kyiv headed to that region?
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I wouldn't get too excited about this until the owners react officially … and I doubt very much that they're going to be dancing over the NHLPA's proposal today.
Is it a big step toward an agreement? By comparison to the previous 65 days or so, yes, it is. Is it everything the owners want or need to get a deal done? No, it isn't.
How the owners respond will tell how significant this proposal really is.
And remember this, if the owners dismiss this proposal out of hand, it will be as grim and gloomy a point in the lockout as we have seen.
As I've said all along, that's when a deal will get done. When gloom and doom and the point of no return are upon us. That's when negotiating will really begin in earnest … and if it doesn't then, then there won't be a season.
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SAINT LEO, Fla. – The Saint Leo men's swim team came in at No. 11 on the latest Avidasports Performance Rankings list for NCAA Division II institutions.
The Avidasports Performance index is a ranking of average percentile for each team's individual swims compared to collegeswimming.com's database of best times achieved by collegiate swimmers over the past three years. Teams must have a minimum of eighteen individual swims to qualify for each week's rankings.
"It's nice to see some objective results as to where we sit in the national scene at this point in the season," said head coach Paul Mangen. "It's a good way to show our improvement this season, and for the athletes to gauge what they need to work on to make sure we continue to accomplish our goals."
So far this season, 12 individual results rank in the Top-25 within NCAA Division II. The 400-Free Relay team of Michael Cozzi, Chris Canene, Tim olson, and Gabe Keown currently ranks fourth, while the 200-Medley Relay team of Antonio Roki, Canene, Keown, and Olson comes in at 15th.
Individually, Gabe Keown ranks 17th in the 50-Free and fourth in the 100-Free. Tim Olson is currently 23rd in the 100-Free, 23rd in the 100-Fly, and 25th in the 200-Fly. Michael Cozzi comes in at No. 17 with his 200-Free time, while Chris Canene ranks 16th and 18th in the 100-Breast and 200-Breast events, respectively. Rounding out the list, Derek Maddigan ranks 21st and Carl Roycroft comes in at No. 25 in the 200-Breaststroke.
"Coming off of a fun win against a team like Tampa, we look to continue to drop the times at the SCAD Invitational this weekend," coach Mangen concluded. "After the SCAD Invite, we'll hopefully have some great momentum built up going into our holiday training, part of which will take place in Key West. We're looking to make a lot of improvements and keep the energy and excitement going throughout the break."
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Jasmine GardnerClass: Junior
Position: F/C
Height: 6-2
Previous School: Mitchell HS
Hometown: Memphis, Tenn.
2011-12 (So.)
• More than doubled her scoring average from her freshman season and lifted her field goal percentage to 51.0
• Blocked a career-high three shots at Virginia (Dec. 7)
• Set a new career high with 19 points versus Glenville State on Dec. 10, while also pulling down nine rebounds
• Followed up that performance with a 14-point, 6-rebound effort five days later, against Virginia Union
• Scored all 11 of her points during the first half of a Jan. 14 road win at Coastal Carolina
• Equaled her season high with nine rebounds during a regular season-ending win over Radford (March 2), all of which came before halftime
• Contributed four points and four rebounds during nine key minutes in the second half of the Big South Championship final victory over High Point (March 11)
2010-11 (Fr.)
• Averaged 6.0 rpg during a three-game span between Nov. 16 and 22
• The stretch ended with a six-rebound, season-high two-block performance at eventual national champion Texas A&M
• Notched her first career double-double against Glenville State (Nov. 30), consisting of 10 points and a team-high 13 rebounds
• Earned her first career start at North Carolina Central on Dec. 18
• Collected six rebounds during a conference win at UNC Asheville (Jan. 9)
• Became the first Lady Flame to wear the No. 24 uniform since Liberty and Big South Hall of Famer Elena Kisseleva graduated in 2000
• Graduated from Mitchell High School
• Helped her team win three district championships and two city titles in Memphis
• Averaged a double-double as both a junior (10 ppg, 12 rpg) and senior (15 ppg, 15 rpg)
• Named regional MVP as a junior
• Included on the "Best of the Preps" listing during each of her final two seasons
• Earned a spot on the Distinguished Honor Roll throughout her high school career
• Daughter of James and Brenda Gardner
• Sister of James Gardner III (40), Kevin Benton (28) and Kimberly Gardner (22)
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Attitudes towards teaching evolution in Turkeyby Zehra Sayers and Zuhal Özcan
The theory of evolution occupies a central place in modern biology, but a very different place in the public sphere. It is vilified by politically and religiously conservative organizations, and is widely misinterpreted by the public. Here we describe some subtle (or not-so-subtle!) changes that have been shaping evolution instruction in Turkish secondary school education.
In Turkey, where the structure and content of primary and secondary education is developed and regulated by the National Education Ministry (NEM), coverage of evolution in curricula is influenced strongly by national political trends.1 In early years of the Turkish Republic (up to about 1945), evolution was introduced in history textbooks as a well established scientific truth in the context of history of humanity. Later, as populist religious rhetoric in the political scene became stronger, evolution was relegated to science and biology curricula and at the same time instruction became unsystematic and superficial; textbooks' treatment of evolution became ambiguous and less assertive. After the 1980 military coup, NEM's stand against teaching evolution culminated in the inclusion in biology textbooks of creationism as an alternative theory for origin of life on earth. Since 2001, evolution's textbook presence has further diminished.1,2 Currently, only those students who choose a science-oriented track have any exposure to evolution, and this is in the second term of the 12th (final) year, when they spend most of their time not at the school but preparing elsewhere for the central university entrance exam. It is interesting to note that religion instruction, introduced in the 1980s and expanded in the later years, is now compulsory for all students between 5th and 12th grades.
In the 1983 edition of a standard high school textbook, evolution merits its own chapter. In the 2011 edition, by contrast, evolution is part of a chapter called "The beginning of life and evolution" in which creationism is also discussed. Another interesting difference between the two books relates to the meaning of "scientific theory"; the recent version treats the concept as an open-ended, indefinite opinion rather than a fact, reducing it to an unclear hypothesis. It is not only high school education that is affected. There are no universities in Turkey offering undergraduate or graduate degrees in evolutionary biology or in related fields, and even courses in the area are hard to come by.
A recent study of 75 students training to be biology teachers illustrates evolution's problems in Turkey: 44% considered the idea to be speculative and 68% thought that it was not based on scientific evidence. When probed deeper it became clear that those who had inadequate or inconsistent conceptions about the nature of science were likely to reject evolution.3 Another survey, of 1098 freshman and senior undergraduate students enrolled in biology, biology education and elementary science education programs in 11 public universities in Turkey, yielded similar results. 20.7% rejected and 27.8% accepted the theory of evolution, with 51.4% being undecided, presumably because of their lack of exposure to these ideas.2
There is plenty more to ensure that the picture is truly bleak: the circulation of glossy anti-evolution books in the country and abroad (e.g., Atlas of Creation4), the organization of anti-evolutionary symposia (under the auspices of the Turkish Higher Educational Council),5 and the banning of student-organized discussion panels on evolution in some universities.6 Finally, on a personal note, during 2009-2010 we participated in "Power of Thinking: Teacher Training Support Program for a Youth that Questions and Queries", a collaboration between the NGO "Education Reform Initiative" and NEM.7 We prepared material on evolution and genetics. The NEM group asked us to remove this section because evolution was not proven and it conflicted with genetics. When we refused this request, produced counter arguments, and met with the officials, it became clear that none of the members of the NEM group accepted the theory of evolution. These people, all science graduates, are responsible for the content of secondary school text books. Only after agreeing to take out a figure alluding to human evolution, were we able to retain the section in the teaching material. We conclude that official anti-evolutionary influences dominate the Turkish secondary education system.
The only positive aspect of this anti-evolutionary atmosphere in Turkey is the development of efforts to counter its influence. Some academics, including, just to name a few, A. Kence and A. Birand of Middle East Technical University, N. Dalfes and A. Erzan of Istanbul Technical University and E. D. Ozsoy of Hacettepe University, are vociferous proponents of evolution at the undergraduate and graduate levels. Among voluntary organizations that promote evolution are the award-winning "Evrimcaliskanlari" (Hard-workers for evolution), who are translating the University of California, Berkeley's "Understanding Evolution" website into Turkish8 and also organize conferences/workshops.9 "Universite Konseyleri Dernegi" (Association of University Councils) have been organizing evolution-themed symposia since 2006.10 However, even with these voluntary efforts, it is difficult to refrain from pessimism about Turkey's scientific future: Turkey is raising a generation of biologists/scientists whose grasp of scientific thinking is flawed and whose ability to participate in modern biology is correspondingly compromised.
The authors are at the Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences of Sabancı University in Istanbul. They would like to thank M. Somel, Z. Durmuş and N. Somel for providing material for this article and A. Berry for critical reading of the text.
- Öztürkler, R. N. (2005) "Türkiye'de Biyolojik Evrim Eğitiminin Sosyolojik Bir Değerlendirmesi" Master Thesis, Ankara University, Institute of Education Sciences.
- Peker, D. Cömert, G. G. and Kence, A. (2010) Three Decades of Anti-evolution Campaign and its Results: Turkish Undergraduates' Acceptance and Understanding of the Biological Evolution Theory. Science and Education 19:739-755.
- İrez, S. and Özyeral-Bakanay, C. D. (2011) "An Assessment into Pre-service Biology Teachers' Approaches to the Theory of Evolution and Nature of Science. Eğitim ve Bilim. 35(162):39-55.
- Yahya, H.(2007) "Atlas of Creation" Global Publishing.
- http://www.turkiyeogrencikonseyi.org/Haber/78/1-uluslararasi-evrim-sorgulaniyor-kongresi.aspx#.
- http://www.universitekongresi.com/suleyman-demirel-universitesi-yonetimi-evrimi-anlamak-etkinligini-yasakladi/.
- http://erg.sabanciuniv.edu/en/powerofthinkingproject.
- www.universitekonseyleri.org/evrimcaliskanlari http://www.evrimianlamak.org/e/Ana_Sayfa
- http://evrimsempozyumu.org/.
- http://matematikselevrim.org/english-info/
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Heat stress results in decreased milk production, reproductive performance, and immune function in both milking and dry dairy cows.
Both environmental temperature and humidity impact the amount of heat stress that dairy cows undergo. Recent research has shown that milking dairy cows start to decrease milk production when the temperature-humidity index (THI) exceeds 68 (i.e., temperature of 72°F with 45% relative humidity, or 80°F with no humidity) and not 72 as shown in previous research with lower-producing dairy cows.
The detrimental effects on the estrus expression, conception rates, and early embryo survivability occur before declines in milk production are observed and may occur at a temperature-humidity index as low as 55 to 60. Generally, the maximum declines in milk production as a result of heat stress are not seen until 36 to 48 hours after the initial heat stress event. Older dairy cows seem to be more severely affected compared to younger cows, and not all cows respond to heat stress in a similar manner.
Dry cows also are negatively affected by heat stress. Heat-stressed dry cows produce 1,000 to 2,000 pounds less milk during the next lactation. In addition, fetal growth is reduced because of reduced blood flow to the uterus, resulting in a decreased supply of nutrients for the rapidly developing fetus. These effects result in smaller calves being born to dams subjected to heat stress during late pregnancy.
Thus, proper management practices, facilities, and, to a lesser extent, nutrition are needed to mitigate the effects of heat stress not only in milking dairy cows but just as importantly in dry cows.
Read more in "Dairy Feeding and Management Considerations during Heat Stress" by Donna Amaral-Phillips, extension dairy specialist with the University of Kentucky.


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Bored with Siri and so over Temple Run? Perhaps the time has come to turn your ordinary iPhone from cell phone to smell phone with a scented case. Forget cute chevron patterns or expensive designers. Think Jelly Belly, chocolate, and strawberry crème.
Mashable put together a sweet gallery filled with six scented case and skin sellers. As if the idea wasn't wacky enough, the flavors themselves are pretty out there, too (or perhaps you were on the look-out for a cover that smells like fresh-baked bread).
We're certainly curious about these fragrant accessories for many reasons. Should you avoid late night calls with the coffee aroma? Would that telemarketer sound more like a sweetie with a Dylan's Candy Bar Case? Could the black licorice cover polarize friendships? But most of all, do the phones actually smell good?
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One run all Masterson needs to deny Yankees
Kipnis' first-inning home run the difference as Tribe remains hot
CLEVELAND -- On his way out of the postgame news conference that followed the first game of Monday's doubleheader, Indians manager Terry Francona patted Justin Masterson on the back and said, "Just tell them you did good."
Such remarks probably would have sufficed, as the right-hander had just wrapped up a shutout of the New York Yankees and all. Backed by his exquisite effort, the Tribe took the first game of a traditional twin bill, 1-0. Second baseman Jason Kipnis supplied all the required offense with a home run in the first inning.
"Masty went out and did exactly what you want your ace to do," Francona said. "From the very first pitch of the game, he had power, he had breaking ball, he attacked hitters.
"There was no wiggle room because we had one run, and he made it stand."
Masterson (6-2) limited New York to just four hits, three of which were infield singles. Of course, injuries have sidelined some of New York's heaviest hitters, and Vernon Wells was held out of the starting lineup before making the final out as a pinch-hitter, but Masterson will take the win all the same. He struck out nine batters while walking three and throwing one wild pitch.
Masterson graciously elaborated on the performance that guided Cleveland to its 13th win in the past 15 games. But not without a few jokes, of course.
Did Masterson hear the crowd cheer when he came back out for the ninth? "I had earplugs in." What makes Francona such a great manager to play for? "He has glasses."
All levity aside, Masterson talked at length about the win and his performance, which was bolstered by a slider that became more effective as the game went on.
"We tried to stay on top of our game most of the day," Masterson said. "[Catcher Carlos] Santana was back there, putting down good fingers. I didn't have to really shake him at all. We were on the same page.
"I think what helped is we were kind of able to mix it on both sides of the plate, among the other pitches, working the sinker and the four-seamer, just trying to keep guys off balance. And for the most part, we were able to hit our spots. Even when they were for balls, they were decently for a purpose. So it was fun."
The only jam Masterson had to deal with came early. In the second inning, singles by Chris Nelson and Chris Stewart and a walk to Corban Joseph loaded the bases. The righty made it out unscathed by striking out Alberto Gonzalez on a 2-2 sinker.
Shortstop Asdrubal Cabrera prevented a run from scoring by diving to keep Stewart's hit in the infield.
That play, and Kipnis' homer, went a long way in supporting Masterson, who lowered his ERA to 3.14.
"Staying out there is one thing -- we know he'll do that," Francona said. "But to pitch the way he pitched -- so effectively -- that was really impressive."
Monday's victory marked the third shutout of Masterson's career and his second of the season. The right-hander is the first Indians pitcher to record multiple 1-0 shutouts in the same season since 1989.
The Tribe's offense -- which had averaged 6.43 runs per game over the previous 14 contests -- was largely subdued by Yankees right-hander David Phelps. The only production came in the form of Kipnis' homer, the second baseman's fifth of the year and his third in the past eight games.
Early in Kipnis' at-bat, Michael Bourn was caught stealing for the first time this season.
Phelps left the game with two outs in the seventh inning after allowing a double to Drew Stubbs and issuing a walk to Bourn. Reliever Boone Logan struck out Kipnis to strand both runners, however.
Phelps (1-2) struck out seven and walked five, also allowing four hits.
"I want to be on my game every game," Phelps said. "Our lineup has been scoring runs for us. It hasn't been a problem for us. We have a great group of guys in there, guys that have done it and have had great careers and are still having great careers.
"We just ran into a guy who was really on his game, and you have to tip your cap to him."
That guy was Masterson. He not only earned the win, he also spared a bullpen that threw 10 1/3 innings of high-intensity baseball this past weekend in Detroit.
"Any starter wants to finish the game," Masterson said. "Tito and I talked about it, and I said, 'Hey, I'll give you everything I've got out there.' We were able to make it happen."
Mark Emery is an associate reporter for MLB.com. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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Six Students, One Summer and a Resurrected Log Cabin
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April 1, 2011
On a foggy spring morning in 2009, Dartmouth College junior Greg Sokol and a few friends got up before classes and paddled canoes down the Connecticut River in New Hampshire to check on a log cabin not far from campus. It was owned by the school's Ledyard Canoe Club, of which Sokol was a member. Recent rain had swollen the river, and the current was running fast. Sokol led, angling his canoe away from the mouth of Mink Brook and into a tiny cove along Gilman Island's steep northeast shore. He picked his way up the bank and glimpsed the cabin's chimney—too much chimney, actually. Sokol scrambled to the top. In front of him lay the charred remains of Titcomb Cabin. Police would later determine that a fire the night before had probably been set by high school partyers, then blazed out of control.
Like nearly 60 years' worth of students before him, Sokol knew Titcomb well. At Dartmouth, an outdoor spirit is practically grafted onto collegians' DNA. Students maintain cabins and trails throughout the southern White Mountains. This cabin, named for Jack Titcomb, a Dartmouth alumnus who had died fighting in World War II, was Sokol's outdoor base camp. He had forged friendships around its fireplace, slept on its porch and swum in its shadow beneath the moon. Now it was gone.
Oh, well. Sokol was an engineering student. He'd never really constructed anything, but he knew his way around a CAD program. And he had a bunch of smart friends. By the time Sokol had paddled back to campus, he'd made up his mind: The cabin would be rebuilt, and he would spearhead the effort.


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CLEVELAND (AP) -- President Barack Obama and Republican challenger Mitt Romney were deadlocked with 49 percent each in a new Ohio poll published Sunday in the swing state.
The poll published by Ohio's biggest newspapers was conducted among 1,015 likely voters who were reached by land line telephones and cellphones between Oct. 18 and Oct. 23. Some were called before the final presidential debate Oct. 22.
The Ohio Newspaper Poll had a margin of error of plus or minus 3.1 percentage points.
The importance of Ohio to both campaigns has been highlighted by almost non-stop tag-team stumping by Obama and Vice President Joe Biden and Romney and his GOP running mate Paul Ryan.
All four have campaigned in Ohio since last week's final debate and Romney joined Ryan on Sunday for the second day of a cross-state bus swing.
Obama plans to return to Ohio on Monday with an appearance in Democratic stronghold Youngstown with former President Bill Clinton.
"Absent any more twists and turns, a remarkable presidential campaign may end with the campaign that executes the best ground game, narrowly delivering Ohio for the next president of the United States," said Eric Rademacher, co-director of the University of Cincinnati's Institute for Policy Research.
The latest polling (bit.ly/Skidpk) showed Romney tightening or closing the lead that Obama had coming out of the Democratic convention. In the previous Ohio Newspaper Poll, released Sept. 23, Obama had a 5-point lead.
A majority in the new Ohio Newspaper Poll, 62 percent, said that the debates would not make a difference in their vote, while 23 percent said the presidential debates would make them more likely to vote for Romney.
Nearly one-fifth of respondents indicated they had already voted.
Other Ohio Newspaper Poll findings:
-- Fifty percent of voters said Obama would do the best job handling foreign policy, compared with 46 percent for Romney.
-- Fifty-one percent said Romney would do the best job handling the economy, compared with 45 percent for Obama.


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Using a pedometer or step counter is an easy way to track your
activity. It allows you to count your steps instead of measuring the number of
minutes you walk. A pedometer allows you to add up all the steps you take
throughout the day and to find creative ways to add more to burn more calories.
It can also motivate you. A quick check may show that you need more steps for
the day. It can also push you to set new goals to take more steps.
There are two main types of pedometers:
The simplest ones just count your
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can buy them at most sporting goods stores or on the Internet. Look for one
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Make sure that it is comfortable if placed next to your skin.
When you are ready to start, read the instructions for setting your
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Other Works ConsultedTyo BM, et al. (2011). Effects of body mass index and step rate on pedometer error in a free-living environment. Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise, 43(2): 350–356.
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Chicago's Boulevard System Could be Recognized as "Historic Place"
The city's landmarks commission will vote this week to decide if eight major Chicago parks–and the 26-mile boulevard system that connects them–deserves a spot on the National Register of Historic Places… If ultimately approved by the National Park Service, the designation would recognize the importance of the city's park and boulevard system and open the door to the possibility of state and federal historic tax credits to assist the rehab of pre-World War II buildings along the thoroughfare.
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16 U.S. Code § 1386 - Stock assessments
§ 1386.
Stock assessments
(a) In generalNot later than August 1, 1994, the Secretary shall, in consultation with the appropriate regional scientific review group established under subsection (d), prepare a draft stock assessment for each marine mammal stock which occurs in waters under the jurisdiction of the United States. Each draft stock assessment, based on the best scientific information available, shall—
describe the geographic range of the affected stock, including any seasonal or temporal variation in such range;
provide for such stock the minimum population estimate, current and maximum net productivity rates, and current population trend, including a description of the information upon which these are based;
estimate the annual human-caused mortality and serious injury of the stock by source and, for a strategic stock, other factors that may be causing a decline or impeding recovery of the stock, including effects on marine mammal habitat and prey;
(4) describe commercial fisheries that interact with the stock, including—
the estimated level of incidental mortality and serious injury of the stock by each such fishery on an annual basis;
(5) categorize the status of the stock as one that either—
has a level of human-caused mortality and serious injury that is not likely to cause the stock to be reduced below its optimum sustainable population; or
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The Secretary shall publish in the Federal Register a notice of the availability of a draft stock assessment or any revision thereof and provide an opportunity for public review and comment during a period of 90 days. Such notice shall include a summary of the assessment and a list of the sources of information or published reports upon which the assessment is based.
Subsequent to the notice of availability required under paragraph (1), if requested by a person to which section 1371(b) of this title applies, the Secretary shall conduct a proceeding on the record prior to publishing a final stock assessment or any revision thereof for any stock subject to taking under section 1371(b) of this title.
(3) After consideration of the best scientific information available, the advice of the appropriate regional scientific review group established under subsection (d), and the comments of the general public, the Secretary shall publish in the Federal Register a notice of availability and a summary of the final stock assessment or any revision thereof, not later than 90 days after—
(c) Review and revision
(1) The Secretary shall review stock assessments in accordance with this subsection—
(d) Regional scientific review groups
(1) Not later than 60 days after April 30, 1994, the Secretary of Commerce shall, in consultation with the Secretary of the Interior (with respect to marine mammals under that Secretary's jurisdiction), the Marine Mammal Commission, the Governors of affected adjacent coastal States, regional fishery and wildlife management authorities, Alaska Native organizations and Indian tribes, and environmental and fishery groups, establish three independent regional scientific review groups representing Alaska, the Pacific Coast (including Hawaii), and the Atlantic Coast (including the Gulf of Mexico), consisting of individuals with expertise in marine mammal biology and ecology, population dynamics and modeling, commercial fishing technology and practices, and stocks taken under section 1371(b) of this title. The Secretary of Commerce shall, to the maximum extent practicable, attempt to achieve a balanced representation of viewpoints among the individuals on each regional scientific review group. The regional scientific review groups shall advise the Secretary on—
uncertainties and research needed regarding stock separation, abundance, or trends, and factors affecting the distribution, size, or productivity of the stock;
uncertainties and research needed regarding the species, number, ages, gender, and reproductive status of marine mammals;
research needed to identify modifications in fishing gear and practices likely to reduce the incidental mortality and serious injury of marine mammals in commercial fishing operations;
the actual, expected, or potential impacts of habitat destruction, including marine pollution and natural environmental change, on specific marine mammal species or stocks, and for strategic stocks, appropriate conservation or management measures to alleviate any such impacts; and
The scientific review groups established under this subsection shall not be subject to the Federal Advisory Committee Act (5 App. U.S.C.).
Members of the scientific review groups shall serve without compensation, but may be reimbursed by the Secretary, upon request, for reasonable travel costs and expenses incurred in performing their obligations.
(e) Effect on section 1371(b) of this title
This section shall not affect or otherwise modify the provisions of section 1371(b) of this title.
(Pub. L. 92–522, title I, § 117, as added Pub. L. 103–238, § 10, Apr. 30, 1994, 108 Stat. 543.)
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The Federal Advisory Committee Act, referred to in subsec. (d)(2), is Pub. L. 92–463, Oct. 6, 1972, 86 Stat. 770, as amended, which is set out in the Appendix to Title 5, Government Organization and Employees.
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Ancestry has uploaded a new addition to it's Occupations Collection, this time it is the turn of civil and mechanical engineers. The records include complete work records recording apprenticeships served, places worked, promotions, salaries and retirement details. Included is a dataset of photographs of civil engineers.
The three sections of the dataset are made up of
Mechanical Engineers 1870 – 1930
Civil Engineers 1820 – 1930
Civil Engineers Photographs 1829 – 1923
The Victorian era saw some great engineering projects such as railways, the underground, bridges and sewers, many of the people involved with these works are included in this dataset.
The original records are held by the Institution of Mechanical Engineers and the Institution of Civil Engineers.


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Bottle Opener Fridge Magnet
Magnetically sticks to the front of your fridge (we're talking a strong magnet here folks) opens any bottle with ease. Stainless steel - so as not to clash with any brew or bottle or fridge. It's a time saver, it's ergonomic and, well, your friends will think you're super cool.