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Overpopulation myths, pseudo-science and anti-humanism
Overpopulation myths, pseudo-science and anti-humanism
by Sheila Liaugminas | 7 May 2012
That's a lot to take on, especially about an establishment movement.
But I did a set of interviews with Dr. Robert Zubrin, author of Merchants of Despair on these topics right around Earth Day recently, and found he did just that, with thorough research and historic and scientific references. Which he pursues with passion not just to debunk myths, but to set the record straight on human flourishing and ethical ecology. It's stunning to learn the scope and depth and power of the misinformation.
Then, because of the Chen Guangcheng ordeal last week, I got human rights expert Steven Mosher on for a radio interview on the China one child policy and the back story behind it, because there are few experts in the world as knowledgable and experienced in documenting China's population control as Mosher is.
Congressman Chris Smith gave me an update with astonishing background to the Chen story and the human rights violations record of the Chinese government, based partially but largely on falsified Western studies warning that population control was an urgent necessity to save the planet and its resources from a doomsday crisis.
There's a crisis alright. But it's in the human toll of these persistent myths based on the enduring eugenics movement. How can these atrocities continue, with widespread approval or at least acceptance, explicit or implicit, by governments and international organizations?
Through political power, says Zubrin, and the cult of antihumanism.
There is a single ideological current running through a seemingly disparate collection of noxious modern political and scientific movements, ranging from militarism, imperialism, racism, xenophobia, and radical environmentalism, to socialism, Nazism, and totalitarian communism. This is the ideology of antihumanism: the belief that the human race is a horde of vermin whose unconstrained aspirations and appetites endanger the natural order, and that tyrannical measures are necessary to constrain humanity.
Which brings the China one-child policy and Chen Guangcheng into the picture, but more on that in a bit…
The founding prophet of modern antihumanism is Thomas Malthus (1766-1834), who offered a pseudoscientific basis for the idea that human reproduction always outruns available resources. Following this pessimistic and inaccurate assessment of the capacity of human ingenuity to develop new resources, Malthus advocated oppressive policies that led to the starvation of millions in India and Ireland.
Zubrin's book documents the horrors of how this played out in both lands, and it's appalling. And totally unnecessary. Which should have been made clear long ago.
While Malthus's argument that human population growth invariably leads to famine and poverty is plainly at odds with the historical evidence, which shows global living standards rising with population growth, it nonetheless persisted and even gained strength among intellectuals and political leaders in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Its most pernicious manifestation in recent decades has been the doctrine of population control, famously advocated by ecologist Paul Ehrlich, whose bestselling 1968 antihumanist tract The Population Bomb has served as the bible of neo-Malthusianism. In this book, Ehrlich warned of overpopulation and advocated that the American government adopt stringent population control measures, both domestically and for the Third World countries that received American foreign aid. (Ehrlich, it should be noted, is the mentor of and frequent collaborator with John Holdren, President Obama's science advisor.)
And so it continues.
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Overpopulation, anti-humanism, and Cheng Guangcheng
by Sheila Liaugminas | 7 May 2012
The Obama administration was involved at the highest levels of diplomacy with China last week to negotiate a deal over the fate of a human rights activist targeted by the Chinese government because he exposed so much abuse tied to China's population control policy. Big media did a good job driving that story and keeping Chen's fate a top and prominent focus.
Some of them noted this president's difficulties with human rights affairs around the world. But since this crisis was tied to China's one-child policy, their draconian population control response to a perceived global crisis, it presented a particularly gnarly problem for a president whose science adviser is a disciple of the population control guru Paul Ehrlich.
To pick up where the post below left off, on an excerpt from Merchants of Despair…
Until the mid-1960s, American population control programs, both at home and abroad, were largely funded and implemented by private organizations such as the Population Council and Planned Parenthood — groups with deep roots in the eugenics movement…
This situation changed radically in the mid-1960s, when the U.S. Congress, responding to the agitation of overpopulation ideologues, finally appropriated federal funds to underwrite first domestic and then foreign population control programs. Suddenly, instead of mere millions, there were hundreds of millions and eventually billions of dollars available to fund global campaigns of mass abortion and forced sterilization. The result would be human catastrophe on a worldwide scale.
Population Research Institute's president Steven Mosher told me that China boasted of addressing perceived overpopulation issues by aborting 400 million babies, which was so breathtaking I asked him to repeat that statement. He said forced abortion has been the policy in China since 1979, after the government there bought into the Club of Rome study 'Limits to Growth' purportedly showing that the world would run out of resources if we don't drastically reduce populations. Although, Mosher quickly added, the study was debunked within two years as a fraud. The voices discrediting the report somehow didn't reach China.
Fast forward to now, with what Mosher referred to as 'the most pro-abortion, population control administration in our history', and here we are.
In Merchants of Despair, Zubrin states:
The human race is not, as later Malthus admirers John Holdren (currently President Obama's science advisor) and Paul Ehrlich sneered in 1971, so many bacteria in a culture dish, doomed to quick extintion unless our appetites can be controlled by wise overlords wielding sterilants to curb our excessive multiplication.
To be precise, that quote from Global Ecology in 1971 was this:
When a population of organisms grows in a finite environment, sooner or later it will encounter a resource limit. This phenomenon, described by ecologists as reaching the "carrying capacity" of the environment, applies to bacteria on a culture dish, to fruit flies in a jar of agar, and to buffalo on a prairie. It must also apply to man on this finite planet.
To which Zubrin responds:
No: we are creative inventors, and the more of us there are, the better off we are. And the freer we are, the faster we can make the inventions that can advance our condition still further.
China never got that memo, and Congressman Chris Smith told me he pleaded with US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to assure Chen Guangcheng's safety and confront the Chinese government about their brutal policy that has particularly targeted baby girls, called the 'lost daughters of China' by human rights activists. "This is the true war on women," Smith told me, alluding to the politically strategic spin in news cycles lately between Democrats and Republicans. And people in high places have been "indifferent" to China's forced abortions, causing "tens of millions of aborted baby girls" and many years of women being "denied basic freedoms."
Congressman Smith was instrumental in Chen's eventual arrangements for release, tenuous as that remains. Now, he told me, the US and western media are obligated to follow up on Chen's safe travel with his family, as well as the internal business of securing safety for his extended family and human rights activists who helped him. The media have been nearly heroic exposing this cause, he said. The State Department has its own duty to protect…
and demonstrate to the world that the US stands firm for fundamental human rights and the rule of law.
The world has been watching this drama for the past week. The upside to the tense drama is that maybe now they'll focus more on the human rights cause at the center of Chen's activism.
Which PRI does constantly.
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Yoon Kye Sang is becoming a restaurant owner in a new reality show set to premiere this weekend.
In Olive's Yoon Kye Sang's One Table, Yoon Kye Sang will work to open and operate a one table restaurant.
In order to open his restaurant, Yoon Kye Sang, who previously only knew how to make kimchi jjigae will also be seen attempting to get a license in Korean cooking, receiving lessons from housewives and engaging in a series of missions to expand his culinary knowledge.
In between, members of the singer/actor's family as well as his friends will make an appearance to provide more insight into Yoon Kye Sang the person.
Regarding the show, the actor shared, "I previously had the opportunity to go to a one table restaurant. Seeing someone be so attentive in creating and serving the food, I was deeply impressed and moved. Through this program I hope to return those feelings to the many grateful people in my life."
The show's director, Shin Sang Ho, also added, "Yoon Kye Sang's One Table has no script. It's to that point that we will film and capture Yoon Kye Sang's true self and without any adornments."
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Pique: Jose causing dressing-room unrest
Gerard Pique claims that Jose Mourinho has given up trying to cause "tension" between the Barcelona and Real Madrid camps because he is busy stirring up trouble in his own dressing-room.
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While last Sunday's Clasico at Camp Nou was notably more friendly than some played in recent years, the current season has already seen Mourinho heavily criticise a number of his own players in public and surprisingly drop regular centre-back Sergio Ramos and playmaker Mesut Ozil in an apparent bid to motivate the two.
Pique told Catalunya Radio on Wednesday that it looked to him as if the Portuguese boss was deliberately looking to create a heated atmosphere among his own side.
"The tension that there was between us and Real Madrid last year has passed," Pique said. "Mourinho has realised that he should not look for something in Barcelona because he will find nothing. At the end he is looking for that [tension] at home."
Both Ramos and Ozil were back last weekend for the 2-2 draw in the Clasico, which maintained Barcelona's eight-point Primera Division lead. Pique warned that being behind in the table could lead to further internal issues at Real, as happened with Barca last year.
"When you are behind in the table, you do not feel so good," he said. "Last year [with Barca] is an example - it takes its toll. Madrid have their problems now, but I should not get into that."
The Spain international has not joined up with La Roja this week as he is currently recovering from the ankle injury that has seen him miss Barca's recent games, including the Clasico.
His central defensive partner, Carles Puyol, also sat out that match after dislocating his elbow a few days previously at Benfica in an incident Pique believes exemplifies the positive and negative elements of his friend's attitude.
"It makes you angry watching it," Pique said. "He never learns. He is not 24 years old any more. And in the 80th minute, 2-0 ahead, he jumps like that... But that is Puyi. If he did not do that he would not be Puyol."
With his first choices injured, Barca coach Tito Vilanova chose to play Adriano out of position at centre-half last weekend rather than risk young defenders Marc Bartra and Andreu Fontas. Pique compared Bartra's situation to his own spell in England between 2004 and 2008, when he struggled to break into the Manchester United first-team.
"[Bartra] is at the age where he should have already played, but centre-back is a difficult position," Pique said. "The same thing happened to me in Manchester. Bartra and Fontas are very good centre-halves. They play in the Barca style, bring the ball out well from the back, but they must have patience."
Pique, who should now be fit for his club's next game at Deportivo la Coruna on October 20, said his experience told him this season's title race was far from over despite Barca's lead.
"In my first year [back at Barcelona - 2008-09], we were 12 points ahead of Madrid," he said. "Then we had to go to the Bernabeu to win because if we lost Madrid would have been only one point behind. This Madrid are much better than that Madrid. La Liga is not won. That year we lost two games in a row, and six points were gone."
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Discussion in 'Texans Talk' started by ToRo_DomiNatioN, Mar 18, 2012.
Simple question who wins this battle, Duane Brown or Mario Williams?
he's gonna play that game mostly on the strong side against butler. book it.
When was the last time Duane Brown lost a battle?
Um, Duane Brown.
What does this question even mean? What's the context?
One snap until whistle is blown dead, winner takes all? Then either can come out of it on top.
Through the course of an entire game? I think Brown could hold his own, Mario will get by him a couple of times and get a sack or two, but not enough for us to seriously worry.
Mario's style doesn't include anything particularly troubling, in fact I think it's pretty good match up for Duane.
I think Duane Brown will prevent him from getting a sack. Mario's same old bull rush will not ower power Duane..
Bills have already said they're going to utilize Mario as a LE. That means he's going to be going up against Butler...and he's going to own that battle.
In a matchup between D. Brown and C. Norris, I'd still take D. Bown... So Williams doesn't stand a chance
T. Suggs is a much more polished pass rusher and mean D. Brown shut him down in both the games they played against each other. The week we play the Bills, if Mario is matched up against Duane, he might as well by a ticket and sit next to me in the stands, because you' ll be hearing his name about as often as mime.
And I thought it was just the funniest things reading through some of those comments on the Bills board...
Mario. Which one is better value? Duane.
When Butler started at LT in '10, I don;t remember him getting beaten by bull rushes. It was the speed guys with more than one move that gave him fits.
It's going to be amusing for all of us who didn't think MW was all that watch the rest slowly realize the same thing.
Not value wise, i meant as far as them lining up agaisnt each other. Who is more likely to dominate the other?
He answered your question, he said Mario.
Then, he added his opinion that Brown is a better value.
Exactly. That's how Wade would have played it, and that's how Dave Wannstedt will play it.
No worries!! By the time we face the Bills, Mario will be hampered by Plantar Fasciitis, a sports hernia, maybe pectoral issues.......... or Something! So no matter where Mario lines up, our tackles say:
"We got this!"
tell me about it..
I can't believe there's posters here who actually believe Mario would get the best of Duane Brown. Not only does Brown hold more value... He's also the better football player.
Mario Williams strictly beats people and gets his sacks with athleticism only (he's extremely lacking in the technique department). Guess what he won't be able to do with Duane Brown.. He won't be able to beat Brown with his athleticism. D. Brown is just as athletic as he is.
Mario Williams is a two trick pony... and one of those tricks isn't very effective either. He's either going to try to bullrush you or he's going to try to run around the edge (thus running himself out of the play more often than not).. he has no spin move, has no inside move, and he still can't use his hands for **** 7 years in. Mario has nothing that he can throw at Duane, that Duane wouldn't be able to handle...
Simply put, Mario doesn't have enough tools in his tool bag to beat Duane Brown and I'm really going to LMAO if Butler stone walls him as well.
Mario Williams' high water mark in sacks over the last three years (and BTW, if I haven't said it before - well I have, I like Mario) has been like 9 sacks. Not only is that not $96 - $50 gauranteed NOT worthy, but I'm pretty sure that he never lived up to his $54 mill realized with his Texans rookie contract, but given the other two choices that draft year, I'm okay with it...
The Texans were smart (Cap- hamstrung or not) were smart to not pursue the resigning of Mario...
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Edward's Move: A Case Study
After the announcement of Edward's departure from Gambit Gaming, speculation was rampant concerning his possible destination. Such a talent would be wasted if not picked up by a major team. Only two destinations would make sense.
First and foremost, let us eliminate all impossible scenarios.
The impracticalities
- New LCS teams: The rosters may be in flux but those teams need some level of stability. Any new arrival would seriously hinder their play. Some of those teams (MeetYourMakers, Alternate, Cloud 9) are stable rosters who have been through growing pains but chose to stick together, to great effect.
- Established LCS teams in Europe: No team has a glaring need for a new support player. Evil Geniuses have Krepo, one of the top-class supports in the world. Ninjas in Pyjamas, SK Gaming, and Fnatic do not need anyone in the support position; especially given how well their supports work with their teams. Gambit Gaming? He just left them.
- Established LCS teams in NA: Some roster shakeups recently occurred for CLG, nullifying their need for Edward there. Xpecial is a world-class support. Daydreamin and Bloodwater work extremely well with their teams, and changed the fortunes of Team Coast and Vulcun as soon as they were hired. Patoy is one of the most underrated supports, but he is definitely world-class. The only team that could need him is Curse Gaming.
- Challenger Circuit teams: The only amateur team that could have landed Edward's services would have been Heimerdinger's Colossi, but Mithy has been filling the support spot admirably. The chances of witnessing the duo-queue combo of Edward and Freeze in the European Challenger circuit were slim at best.
- Korea / SEA / China: The language barrier would have been extremely challenging, as very few players actually speak English in those regions. Whether Edward would have been interested in making his name in the Singaporean scene is left in the air, but the Singapore Sentinels are happy with their current roster.
Edward's possible destinations
- Russian teams: In light of the upcoming Moscow event and the possibility for one Russian team to go to Gamescom, Edward could have formed a squad or joined one that fits his skill. The challenge would have been whether he could make it to the World Championship. Joining a Russian team would have allowed him to continue studying and to take a break from the lengthy plane trip circus to which his former teammates at Gambit Gaming are still subjected.
- Team Curse: This is the only team in the NA LCS that is in desperate need of a support. Rhux might be one of the top players in the Northern American scene, but his performance during the playoffs did nothing to reassure his teammates. The addition of Edward would bring a proven support and playmaker to the squad. This would increase Curse's chances at landing a ticket to the Season 3 World Championship.
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Filling the need
Edward's release from Gambit Gaming was close to a miracle for Curse. Edward's predecessors are, respectively:
- Elementz, one of the best theorycrafters in the game. He critically lacked in both mechanics and champion pool, resorting to Sona most of the time.
- Rhux, a top-caliber NA player who is certainly not known for his support. His (relative) lack of offline tournament experience combined with his lack of experience in the support position contributed to his position as a band-aid solution.
They now have a world-class support with a knack for playmaking. In addition, Edward has one of the deepest champion pools in the world, and he shares Xpecial's ability to play other roles.
First case of a Europe-NA LCS transfer
This is not the first case of a region transfer, as Locodoco walked this road before Edward. However, it is unique because Edward has not had any previous interactions with the NA players, whereas Locodoco was present in the early Beta days during his studies in the United States. Edward is going to the USA solely for gaming. This may very well be a trendsetting move for individual players or even teams made of players from both regions.
The ever-aggressive Edward will provide a threat level of his own. Saintvicious can finally rely on another player on his team to spark the engine and get teamfights rolling. Nyjacky has always been amazing at facilitating teamfights. Voyboy is a world-class top-laner who provides a threat level of his own. Most importantly, Cop finally has a bodyguard in the botlane.
Curse now boasts a four-threat team that can set up Cop for pentakills – or at least set the team up for victory with key pick-ups and engagements here and there.
Edward's knowledge from his Gambit days will come in handy; this is a chance for Liquid to add more plays and nuances to the Curse playbook.
Edward has certainly improved from his GoSu Pepper days, but he still had frequent verbal dust-ups with his Gambit teammates during scrimmages. He has a strong personality, however, the presence of Saintvicious may ease any struggles they may face.
Cop is not known for being the most aggressive AD Carry in the Northern American scene. How well he will work with Edward remains to be seen, especially given his struggles with Genja's style.
While the Thresh King has a decent grasp of the English language, he lacks the verbal practice that he will need to seamlessly integrate into the roster. It will take time for him to get used to the American lifestyle, too.
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Lucasfilm and Cartoon Network have released the following video clip from the upcoming new episode of Star Wars: The Clone Wars, "Senate Murders."
"Senate Murders" premieres on Friday, March 19, 2010, at 9:00 PM (Eastern/Pacific). The full press release follows with full details and commentary from Catherine Taber, voice actor for Senator Padmé Amidala.
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When Senator Onaconda Farr dies under suspicious circumstances, Padmé Amidala sets out to find the person responsible – working independently of the efforts of the bureaucratic local inspector. Following a trail of clues, she delves into a dangerous world of backstabbing, lies and corruption. The tangled web of intrigue reaches to the highest levels of the Republic political hierarchy in "Senate Murders," an all-new episode of STAR WARS: THE CLONE WARS airing at 9:00 p.m. ET/PT Friday, March 19 on Cartoon Network.
"Many of Padmé's episodes center around politics, for obvious reasons, and they're sometimes a departure – to a degree – from the action-packed episodes," says Catherine Taber, the voice of Padmé in the series. "We try to create a feeling of tension and suspense, but Dave [Filoni] and the writers always include a touch of comedy, as well. It's an essential element of the classic detective genre that influenced 'Senate Murders,' but it's also such a key ingredient of classic Star Wars. One of the nice things about The Clone Wars is that we hearken back to all of the classic elements that made Star Wars so great, including the political intrigue," she continues. "Diplomacy – or the lack thereof – is essential to The Clone Wars, and part of the foundation for the Star Wars Saga. Good and bad, the motivations are so important; these are the reasons people fight. I love the great battle sequences and I love watching things blow up, but it's all so much better when we know about the quiet conflicts underneath."
Through rarely in the series' epic spaces battles or out on the front lines, Padmé's behind-the-scenes role often serves to shine a light upon the character motivations, revealing the driving forces – and devious machinations – which propel the war itself. Additionally, her own investigations, ambitions and efforts tend to uncover aspects of the conflict altogether unseen by the swashbuckling, headlining heroes.
"In her own way, Padmé brings so much to the larger story. Of course, she's the reason that Anakin eventually falls to the dark side, and she's the mother of Luke and Leia – but what I think is really interesting is that she's such an important foil to many of the characters. It is often through her that we see other central characters illuminated."
Attached is a new image from "Senate Murders," an all-new episode of STAR WARS: THE CLONE WARS.


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I had a tummy tuck in may of 2012 and had developed dog ears. I had them corrected last mont 5/13 and my sides overlap anything I wear. Now I have a flat stomache but new issues with these huge "love handles"?
Can Accumulation of Fluid Occur After Dog Ear Correction?
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Dog ears or love handles?
After surgery is is possible to have a collection of fluid under the wound and this can be blood or serum. It will possibly need to be drained by the surgeron who performrd yuor surgery.
Sometimes though the flattening in one area will excentuate the fullness in another and it is possile that the flat stomach has drawn yuor attention to the fat pad in the flank, know as the " love handles" and that the solution to the problem is liposuction of this area.
In either case it is subject to bring up with the surgeon and the answer should be clear
Jeremy Hunt
Odd to have fluid after this
It is always impossible to say without an exam or even a photo however this is a very odd situation and certainly not usual. I would suggest going in to see your doc about this to figure out what is going on. Best of luck!
Revision of dog ears after tummy tuck surgery
A hematoma or seroma can develop after dog ear excision. I would discuss options for waiting or liposuction for these areas of fullness. Raffy Karamanoukian, Los Angeles
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{mosimage}Episode #12,997----Paul continues to bait Craig, saying if Craig gives up WorldWide, he'll lead him to Johnny. Craig turns down Paul's offer, when Meg enters and pretends to be furious that Paul used Johnny to manipulate Craig. Craig takes satisfaction in the rift he sees between Paul and Meg. Later, knowing they must keep their relationship hidden, Paul and Meg make love.
Luke learns that Jade introduced Lily to the diet pills. Jade insists it's not her fault that Lily became addicted to diet pills, but Luke's disgusted with Jade when she refuses to take any responsibility for Lily's addiction.
Lucinda admits to Bob she's not okay. Bob reminds Lucinda that her priority should be her family, not her company. Lucinda warns Craig he can destroy her company, but not her. Holden calls and asks Lucinda to meet him at the farm.
Holden accuses Lily of lying about the diet pills he found in her purse. Faith eavesdrops as Holden tells Lily that she and Faith both have eating disorders that are destroying them. Lily and Holden continue to argue, until Faith interrupts promising to eat if they'll reconcile. Lily and Faith tearfully embrace as Lily admits she's the one with the problem. Lucinda is loving and supportive when she learns Lily has decided to enter rehab.
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After more than three hours of intense debate within the Common Council chambers, the Madison City Council voted 11-7 to eliminate the sunset provision on a controversial ordinance involving loitering and drug activity. The sunset provision required the ordinance to be renewed yearly by the council.
Faced with the issue titled "Loitering for Purposes of Illegal Drug Activity," community activists spoke out against the ordinance with no successful result.
What many believe to be a racist "tool" that profiles citizens of color, particularly African-American males, members of several community organizations showed their opposition toward the ordinance.
However, Ald. Santiago Rosas, District 17, the lone minority member of the council, voted to terminate the sunset — a provision that would continue debate on the issue — because he feels it will help to solve problems of drug trafficking and violence in the city.
"[The city council] has the tendency to talk about racial profiling and racist laws," Rosas said. "But one of the things that really disturbed me is that I have not seen anyone of my colleagues go out [in] our troubled or minority neighborhoods, as they call it, to at least find out how the people in the trenches are dealing with the drug activity."
Jarrell, who voted to keep the sunset provision, argued that continuing with the sunset provision would allow the issue's permanence to be resolved at a later date, Ald. Todd Jarrell, District 8, said he believed the continued discussion of the loitering ordinance will help the council understand the deeper social issues in the city.
"I think we use the loitering ordinance as an excuse," Jarrell said. "We need to talk about the deeper issues. I think if we keep the sunset it will help us to find out what we need to do to fix the problems."
Police Chief Richard Williams was questioned for over an hour by the council on the success of the ordinance and the motives behind it. In response, he answered with anecdotes on the reduction of the crime rates in targeted neighborhoods but offered no official statistics.
Rosas showed his support for the police department and all its efforts to combat crime in some of the city's most troubled neighborhoods.
"I think that the police department are doing the best as they can with whatever they have," Rosas said. "This is not a fool-proof measure, but it is a tool that we are working with. The police have also made it public that they will be providing us with reports on the progress and we can tweak it as we go along."
Ald. Mike Verveer, District 4, said he voted to continue with the sunset because of his belief that the ordinance may even be unconstitutional.
"The statistics show that, at a minimum, since the ordinance has been around, 80 percent of those arrested violating the ordinance were African American," Verveer said. "I find it ironic at tonight's same City council agenda we had an update as to the good work that our Race Relations Task Force is doing, and then later on in the meeting we give our stamp of approval to an ordinance that is clearly racist."
While the ordinance is now on the books as an official law, it is not etched in stone and could be overturned by the council in the future.
Earlier in the agenda, the council addressed whether landlords will have to give written reason as to why a potential tenant's application was turned down. The council voted to move further discussion and a vote on the issue to the March 5 meeting.


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Earlier this month, I went back to my home town of Edmonton, Alberta to "green" the Smiths. (That required flying. And yes, the David Suzuki Foundation calculates travel emissions and purchases only the highest quality carbon offsets.)
Who are the Smiths?
In October's Canadian Living magazine, readers made their pitches to win a lifestyle makeover by David Suzuki's Queen of Green (i.e. me). The selected entry was from Melanie Smith, a wife and mother of four kids under the age of seven. Her plea went something like this: "Since we're a big family, we live large: big house, big vehicles, big trips to the grocery store. We generally just use a lot of stuff. Our footprint is huge, and we need to change it."
Melanie said she was caught off guard when her five-year-old daughter, Lauren, saw a huge, billowing industrial smokestack and said "Mommy, is that a cloud machine?"
"I had a sinking feeling in the pit of my stomach that I had to explain that this was not a cloud machine, but tons of I didn't know what...chemicals, toxins, something more sinister?" said Melanie. "How do you explain that to a five-year-old?"
They had me at "cloud machine".
The Smiths live in St. Albert, a bedroom community of Edmonton. Day One of the eco makeover and I was on a mission: on a hunt for liquid castile soap.
I wanted to start the Smiths off with something simple — an easy, affordable and effective all-purpose cleaner they could make themselves (check out my favorite green cleaning recipes). Before I snooped through their home, I wanted to show up on their doorstep with all the supplies they'd need to start off on the right foot.
It's been over five years since I lived in the Edmonton area. Back then I had no clue about liquid castile soap. Today I can't imagine living without it. No time to look up the local health food store, I hit Save on Foods. I ran down the laundry aisle and grabbed a box of borax, but no liquid castile soap in sight. How was I going to make going green look easy if I couldn't even find this all-important ingredient?
I did what anyone passionate about green living would do. I gave Melanie my own, half-empty bottle of Dr. Bronner's orange liquid castile soap that I'd brought for the trip.
But before I left the store, I went straight to customer service where they gave me the 1-800 number to call to make product requests.
The Smiths are lovely. And they're already doing so much — like washing about 15 loads of laundry a week in cold water and choosing a home in a walkable neighbourhood.
Stay tuned to find out more about how the "greening" of the Smiths unfolds.
If you could give one piece of advice to the Smiths, what would it be?
Lindsay Coulter, Queen of Green


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Option Compare Statement
Declares the default comparison method to use when comparing string data.
If used, the Option Compare statement must appear in a file before any other source code statements.
The Option Compare statement specifies the string comparison method (Binary or Text) for a class, module or structure. If an Option Compare statement is not included, the default text comparison method is Binary.
In Microsoft Windows, sort order is determined by the code page. For more information, see Code Pages.
In the following example, characters in the English/European code page (ANSI 1252) are sorted using Option Compare Binary, which produces a typical binary sort order.
A < B < E < Z < a < b < e < z < À < Ê < Ø < à < ê < ø
When the same characters in the same code page are sorted using Option Compare Text, the following text sort order is produced.
(A=a) < (À = à) < (B=b) < (E=e) < (Ê = ê) < (Z=z) < (Ø = ø)
You can also set Option Compare in the Visual Studio integrated development environment (IDE) or on a command line.
To set Option Compare in the integrated development environment (IDE)
On the Tools menu, choose Options.
Open the Projects and Solutions node.
Choose VB Defaults.
Modify the Option Compare setting.
To set Option Compare on the command line
Include the /optioncompare compiler option in the vbc command.
The following example uses the Option Compare statement to set the binary comparison as the default string comparison method.
The following example uses the Option Compare statement to set the case-insensitive text sort order as the default string comparison method.
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InStr Function (Visual Basic)
InStrRev Function (Visual Basic)
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Split Function (Visual Basic)
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Option Explicit Statement (Visual Basic)
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Congress in Kerala is in all sorts of trouble. Group war is raging in the party and the CPM-led Left Democratic Front (LDF) is seeking the ouster of chief minister Oommen Chandy. The saving grace is that CPM itself is divided over bringing down the United Democratic Front (UDF) government thanks to the internecine rivalry between party secretary Pinarayi Vijayan and opposition leader V S Achuthanandan, who is now seen as the last communist in Asia, including China.
Consider the charges against Chandy. It has been alleged that Chandy is party to a series of frauds committed by a private company, Team Solar, which swindled people of money to the tune of Rs 10 crore (the official figure quoted by Chandy is Rs 1 crore). Serious among them is an accusation levelled by Sreedharan Nair, a provincial Congress leader and industrialist, who says he had received an assurance from Chandy that Team Solar is a venture that needs to be encouraged, which made him part with Rs 40 lakh to Saritha S Nair, a femme fatale associated with the solar firm.
Chandy says Sreedharan Nair had parted with his money a week before he met him last July. All Malayalis are now debating whether the femme fatale, Saritha S Nair, was with the Nair Who Had The Money, when he met the chief minister. Chandy, who streams visuals from the chief minister's office live (Is he the world's first politician to do so? Will have to check Limca Book of records) says visuals of his meeting with Nair are not available. And the incorruptible Chandy has now appointed a panel of Malayalam speaking Sherlock Holmes to retrieve the lost visuals, sift through them and spot whether there was a sexy Nair, apart from the Money Nair.
Rivalry among Congress A and I groups has ensured that details were leaked to the media about extensive telephone conversations that Saritha had with chief minister's office, his assistants and an entire spectrum of Congress leadership in the state, including home minister, members of Parliament and Kerala Pradesh Congress chief Ramesh Chennithala. And remember Kerala's chief minister did not have a cell phone in his name till now and has been making use of his flunkeys's phones to stay connected!
There is no denying that both Saritha and her partner, Biju Radhakrishnan, had a criminal past, before they hit upon the ruling Congress establishment with a seemingly credible and fashionable scheme of solar energy at homes and industrial units.
For all that, what Saritha and Biju did is quite fair in so far as they lobbied with the government and Congress, the principal component of the ruling UDF. A political establishment or the government cannot cut themselves off from lobbyists. When democracy is for the people, it is for lobbyists as well.
Now, for the record, lead actors in the solar drama, including Chandy's flunkey Tenny Joppen and a television actress who is a member of national film censor board, Shalu Menon, are in jail. There are allegations and whispers about Chandy's family members having close links with Team Solar batteries. It remains to be seen whether such charges will sustain the protests that LDF has planned for.
No doubt, everyone loves an environment-friendly scheme that promises to be a financial windfall. Especially if the promoters manage to get even a sitting high court judge to sing the praises of such a set-up. Kemal Pasha, a judge at the Kerala High Court, wrote a commendation letter extolling Team Solar, after the company installed solar panels at his residence. Does that absolve the individuals, who signed cheques to Saritha, of their follies? Is it legally tenable to bring the chief minister in the line of responsibility, if you had acted on your own volition?
There is absolutely no doubt that those who have committed a series of financial frauds need to be punished. If the chief minister and his family members have benefitted by their endorsements of such fraudulent scheme, they need to pay the price. For all that the police need to be 'independent' of political influence peddling so that an impartial investigation can be carried out and the money trail, if it is there, leading up to Chandy, his personal assistants and the chief minister's family, is established.
By the way, morality is a hazy business. You speak of it, when it suits you. Chandy, by not coming clean on his 'darshans' with his own party member and the leveller of charge, Sreedharan Nair, has frittered away that pretence, so has home minister Thiruvanchoor Radhakrishnan, who for a while thought he was Peter the rock, when faced with the charge of having graced the house warming ceremony of the serial actress. Stress, you say.
The point that needs to be stressed is that if you look across India's political landscape, these charges against Chandy and the Congress in Kerala are nothing but piffle. But Malayalis like to tilt at windmills such as corruption and sexual teases when they are sufficiently bored, looking at the foreign exchange ticker, with rupee plunging against dollar and dirham, and swig their rum. They are all waiting for the rupee to hit a century against dollar so that they can invest more in schemes that are 'environment' friendly.


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Woman finally jailed after falsely accusing five former boyfriends of rape
|Leanne Black
Before hooking up with a girl, you might want to check her track record of calling the cops on her former boyfriends.
A woman was finally jailed after having five of her former boyfriends arrested on false rape allegations.
Leanne Black, 32, of Wales, United kingdom, made a series of false accusations of rape against five men over a period of eight years.
Whenever one of her boyfriends wanted to break up with her or when they got into a fight, Black, called police and made false rape and sexual assault allegations, which lead to the men being arrested.
Over eight years, she had repeatedly called police on her boyfriends. In one case, the 32-year-old said that she had been drugged and raped by the man. In another incident, she told police that the boyfriend kidnapped and molested her.
Judge William Gaskell, of Cwmbran, South Wales, sentenced Black to two years in prison after hearing that the innocent men faced up to five years in prison if they would have been convicted of the serious allegations.
The judge condemned her actions, saying that genuine rape victims will be undermined by her lies.
The court heard that in the latest case, her boyfriend Kevin Crowley, was arrested on suspicion of rape. It all started after he called police to report that Black had assaulted him by throwing plates at him.
Prosecutor David Wooler said that when officers arrived at the scene of the domestic violence at the house where Black and her boyfriend shared, she turned the tables on him. Wooler said: "When questioned by police, she told them that her boyfriend had raped her while she slept in their apartment."
Newport Crown Court heard that in some cases, Black had made the allegation of rape, but the case never proceeded.
Black was arrested and finally admitted to her lies. She took a plea deal and she pleaded guilty to one count of obstruction of justice against Crowley.


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SANTA CRUZ -- Two long-serving Superior Court judges quietly announced their retirements Wednesday when they declined to file paperwork to defend their seats on the local bench.
Judges Robert Atack and Michael Barton will be replaced by newly elected judges by the end of the year, County Clerk Gail Pellerin confirmed Wednesday.
The deadline for incumbents to file for the June 8 election was 5 p.m. Wednesday. When Atack and Barton did not file, the window for other candidates to enter the race was extended to 5 p.m. Tuesday, Pellerin said.
Both judges were appointed by former Gov. George Deukmejian, Atack in 1987 and Barton in 1990.
Five attorneys have announced intentions to vie for the seats.
Santa Cruz civil attorney John Gallagher filed to run for Atack's seat. Rebecca Connolly, a Watsonville civil attorney, and Santa Cruz defense attorney Steve Wright both will aim for Barton's seat, according to election documents.
Two other candidates, James Sibley and Stuart Fishman, have filed to run but have yet to declare which seat they are seeking.
They have until Tuesday to decide. Neither could be reached to comment Wednesday evening.
Other attorneys can still enter the race, as long as they meet the requirements, which include being a registered California voter, a member of the state Bar for at least 10 years or a sitting judge for the previous 10 years, and file by Tuesday, according to Pellerin.
"Who knows what other candidates are lurking in the hallway?" she said.
Judge Timothy Volkmann, appointed by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger in 2008, will run to keep his seat. So far, he has no challengers.


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Beach Ball Classic Day 3
Sat, 29 Dec 2012 01:00:37 GMT —
After three days of competition at the Beach Ball Classic, a high school basketball tournament with a strong 16-team field, local teams have yet to win a game. The Myrtle Beach Seahawks dropped a 67-61 decision to Franklin (OH) in a consolation bracket game on Friday, at the Myrtle Beach Convention Center. Solomon Cooper scored 27 points to lead the Seahawks. Franklin's Luke Kennard had a game-high 33 points. Myrtle Beach, St. James and Socastee have all lost two games apiece at the 32nd annual Beach Ball Classic. In another consolation game, Orem (UT) defeated Christ Presbyterian (TN) 68-59.
Beach Ball Classic Day 3 Championship Bracket
Bishop O'Connell (VA) 41 Rufus King (WI) 36
Hudson Catholic (NJ) 50 Wheeler (GA) 42
Scott County (KY) 71 St. Rita (IL) 60
Whitney Young (IL) 76 Bishop Gorman (NV) 67
Pepsi Carolina Classic
Hemingway 70 Florence Christian 62
Lower Richland 74 Timmonsville 52
Mullins 62 South Florence 55 - Michael Ellis 22 pts. for South Florence, Jalek Felton 19 pts. for Mullins
Hartsville 83 Darlington 65 - Jalen Shaw 24 pts. for Hartsville
West Florence 59 Wilson 46
Championship Game: Hartsville vs West Florence on Saturday
Little Caesar's Invitational (Girls)
Timmonsville 48 South Florence 44
West Florence 55 Scotland County 54
Championship Game: Timmonsville vs West Florence on Saturday
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The Otways, Victoria (Australia)
I spent a day (from before dawn until dusk) exploring the Otway Ranges in Victoria over the weekend… WOW! Unbelievably beautiful. I can't believe I've lived in Melbourne for so long and never really been there. This is Hopetoun Falls… I gazed at it for about half an hour!
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Here's an article I wrote for YourTango.com:Are you in the early stages of dating a man and wondering if he is as serious about you as you are about him? Are you trying really hard not to ruffle his "commitment feathers" by asking him how he feels about you? Are you, instead, trying your best ... View Post
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Coffee solace for indignity
The story so far: ACT party donor and Auckland mother of two Danyel Southwark smacks her daughter at a mall - and is visited at her luxurious home by police ...
I said, "Can you imagine how it felt when two young police officers - one of them a Samoan! An actual Samoan in Parnell! - showed up on my doorstep and told me they're investigating a complaint that I've assaulted a child?"
ACT leader Jamie Whyte winced. I was talking too loudly. He sipped his flat white, and said in a soft voice, "How awful."
I said, "It was a nightmare. They took Olive aside and asked her questions and checked for injuries and God knows what else."
Jamie said, "What else?"
I said, "I don't know! I wasn't in the room! Aren't you listening?"
He said, "Please don't get angry. People are staring."
I said, "Let them stare. Let them look at the monster."
A woman sitting at a table by the window looked at me. I think it was Trelise Cooper.
Jamie said, "You're not a monster. I really appreciate the donations you and your husband have given to ACT."
I said to him, still glaring at Cooper, "Well, what are you going to do about it?"
He said, "I oppose anti-smacking legislation. It's a stupid law."
I said, "Of course it's a stupid law. Why shouldn't parents be allowed to beat their children? It's political correctness gone mad."
He said, "When you say 'beat', how hard did you ... you know, beat her?"
I looked down at the table, and stirred my coffee. I wanted to take the spoon and thrust it in his fat bald head. I think he read my mind. He said he had to rush for another appointment. I looked over at Cooper. The table was empty.
I was downtown this afternoon, walking along and thinking sadly about the missing Malaysian Airlines jet, when I saw an old friend from the Maxim Institute come out of St Patrick's Cathedral.
My husband Guy and I have known him for years, and come across him many times at conversation evenings held at the institute, which is unfairly described in liberal media as a conservative Right-wing think-tank. It's not a tank in the slightest.
"I didn't know you were ... you know," I said, nodding at the cathedral.
He said, "Are you?"
I said, "Was." I thought of the little white church with the blue roof in my home town Fairlie.
We chatted for a few minutes. When he left, I wondered whether I should go into the cathedral and pray for the passengers on flight MH370.
Some good news at last. Labour is down in the polls.
New Zealanders haven't forgotten the damage caused by those vandals. It's because of Clark that I had the police knock on the door last Friday.
They said they'd interviewed a witness and observed CCTV footage of what they called "the incident".
One of them looked hard at a pair of jandals on the floor in the hallway, and scribbled in his notebook. Did he think they were weapons? He asked if I needed support. He mentioned an anger management group.
He said he was going to put through a family violence report, and that he might recommend a follow-up visit, or refer it to Cyf. "Cyf," I repeated. "Cyf in my house. My home. Cyf." The word tasted bitter on my tongue.
Week nine of reading Eleanor Catton's novel The Luminaries. Last week, page 110; this week, page 112. Will it ever end?
I said, "Would you like a pastry? Cake?" Conservative Party leader Colin Craig said, "No, thanks. I'm on a diet."
He looked very gaunt. But it was exciting sitting with him at the cafe. It was like I was cheating on Whyte, like I was seeing another man.
I told him about the police. He was really outraged. He said, "You're a good parent, and it's a bad law. I want to get rid of it."
He lay his long hands on the table. I thought about touching them. I said, "I prayed this week."
He said, "We're not a Christian party. But that's good." I looked into his pretty green eyes.
Diary of a Housewife, the creation of Steve Braunias, features the satirical musings of two contrasting Kiwi women, Aucklander Danyel Southwark and Wellingtonian Harriet Wakefield. firstname.lastname@example.com; Twitter @SteveBraunias.
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Back to Work - Quinn Workers
Tuesday, 11 May 2010
With over 433,000 people or 13.4% of the population on the live register and an estimated 2,000 companies to fail this year (The Sun, April 6th), there has rarely been a worse time to be unemployed. With news of 900 redundancies filtering through in the news, we'll look at three typical professions in Quinn that may be considering redundancy. James Mailley from Monster.ie will discuss what their options may be.
James Mailley
James is the Managing Director of Monster Ireland. Based in Dublin, he is responsible for driving business growth in Ireland and ensuring that Monster.ie remains the industry's leading provider of online recruitment services and solutions. James is also responsible for sales strategy and implementation. James joined Monster.ie in 2003. Prior to this, he worked as a management consultant at TMP Worldwide and a recruitment consultant at Michael Page. James has a degree from Manchester Metropolitan University.
Aftershock: A week of programmes on RTÉ which focus on Ireland after the crash:
How people are coping, what lessons we need to learn and how we might get from here to recovery, May 9th - 16th 2010
RTÉ presents a week-long series of television programmes which capture where we've come from over the last 18 months, take stock of where we are now and try to identify ways out of the crisis. Across the week, a number of RTÉ television programmes will reflect the after-effects of the boom and bust: from the reality of unemployment and life in so-called "ghost towns" to positive stories of businesses and families who are thriving in spite of the recession. Other programmes will look at the bigger picture, ask where to from here and present challenging ideas as to how we as a nation can move on from the shock of economic collapse.
A series of documentaries specially-commissioned for the Aftershock season begins with Ghost Land, an observational documentary filmed in unfinished estates throughout Ireland which illustrates the reality of life for thousands of Irish home-owners in the aftermath of our building boom. In Aftershock: Where to Now?, four of Ireland's leading commentators will outline a range of radical ideas that they believe are fundamental to Ireland's reform. A special Aftershock edition of The Frontline straight afterwards will see their ideas put to the test by a live studio audience.
Life After Dell went into production when the first layoffs at Dell's Limerick plant were announced in January 2009. This observational documentary charts the journeys of four people through their first year after redundancy and will reflect the experiences of many all over the country. Prime Time has commissioned a special report which focuses on how Ireland compares with other nations also struggling to find a way through the crisis, while Capital D and Nationwide will each present special editions which focus on the business and organisations that are thriving in spite of the bust.
The week ends on a note of cautious optimism with Rising After Redundancy. Since last summer, RTÉ has been following six newly-unemployed people as they work with a career coach who specialises in helping unemployed people return to the workplace. Rising After Redundancy is a 6-part television series which charts their seven-month journey from despair and uncertainty to new direction and renewed hope.
Background (courtesy of www.rte.ie/news)
On the 30th April, it was announced that 900 jobs were to go at Quinn Insurance offices, with the jobs to go on a voluntary basis. It is expected the cuts will happen over a 12-15 month period.
The biggest job losses will be in the largest office, Blanchardstown, which currently has a staff of around 800. Around 301 jobs will go there - 65 in the first phase, which will take place over the next two to three months. The head office in Cavan will lose around 226 jobs out of 700, with 121 going in the first phase. In Enniskillen 179 jobs will go, with 87 going in the first phase.
Navan will be particularly badly hit, with around half the workforce going, 109 out of 220. 37 will go in the first phase. In Manchester, 48 out of the 100 jobs will go.
The redundancy terms to be offered to staff will include four weeks of pay per year of service on top of the usual statutory entitlements. The redundancies, which will be voluntary, will result in a saving of €30m per year for Quinn Insurance. Earlier, the Quinn Group said it had 'reluctantly' decided that it should sell its Quinn Insurance business.


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Move 1 (Step 1): Squats with Rotation
Why it's good: This workout is great for strengthening your booty and your core and getting your heart rate up! If you don't have a ball, you can use light two to three pound dumbbells, or omit working out your upper body altogether.
How to do it: Stand with your feet wider than your shoulders and slightly rotated. Squat as low as you can, while still feeling comfortable in your hips. Keeping most of your weight into your heels, stand up (exhale as you do) and rotate towards one side. Pretend you're trying to grow taller as you stand up straight and rotate again, lifting your back heel. Repeat by squatting back to the center and standing to rotate to the other side. Remember to always breathe deeply.
Move 2 (Step 1): Arm and Shoulder Workout
Why it's good: It keeps your shoulders toned. We love that swapping your band for dumbbells will challenge your muscles in a slightly different way. Added bonus? You'll need strong shoulders when baby comes.
How to do it: If you have a resistance band, place it around your back and under your armpits. Be sure you have a good amount of resistance with the band. Slowly reach your arms out and forward, then slowly bring them back. Repeat for 15 to 20 reps. You'll feel your chest and shoulders working. To take it up a notch, grab a light pair of dumbbells (one to three pounds or two soup cans from your cupboard!). With the same motion, face the palms of your hands facing the ceiling. Repeat 15 to 20 reps.
Move 3 (Step 1): Side Leg Lift
Why it's good: This exercise strengthens your midsection and outer thigh during your first and second trimester. Some moms-to-be can do it during the third trimester, too — just be sure it feels good on your midsection. If you start to feel pulling, skip it until after baby.
How to do it: Lie on your side. Be sure you keep your elbow under your shoulder while drawing your shoulder away from your ear. Lift your hips and hold off the ground while you slowly lift your top leg, doing three to five leg lifts. Then, lower your hips back down and repeat for another one to three sets.
Move 4 (Step 1): Butt Lift
Why it's good: Keep that booty firm with these butt lifts — they're great during your first and second trimester, but you may have to skip it during the third trimester, unless you still feel good on your back. Plus, as your pregnancy progresses, you may need to limit your range of motion.
How to do it: Lying flat on your back, press your butt as high as you can go while still feeling good. Once in the air, do 10 to 20 small pulses, squeezing your glutes. Repeat for another one to three sets.
Move 5 (Step 1): Tricep Extensions
Why it's good: It targets those problem flabby arm spots!
How to do it: You'll need a pair of 3- to 10-pound dumbbells. Stand with your feet hip width apart, bend slightly forward and lean your chest forward. Keeping your elbows fixed at your side, slowly extend your arms all the way straight. Squeeze your triceps and hold for three seconds. Repeat for 10 to 20 reps.
Move 6 (Step 1): Forward Rolls
Why it's good: This exercise will leave your back feeling great! Plus, it helps strengthen your deep core muscles, including your pelvic floor and transverse abdominals.
How to do it: Kneeling, keep the exercise ball and your hands very close to your body. Engage your pelvic floor (i.e. do a kegel) and give your baby a little hug before you start moving. As you start to move forward, bend your spine. Tuck your chin under first and think about trying to press your back towards the ceiling as best you can.
Once you're parallel to the floor, let your belly relax a little (this opportunity to stretch slowly feels great!).Then engage your deep core muscles and move back up until you're straight.


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I can sympathize with the housing issue. My gf and I are looking for a rental in the Eldorado school district (my son's a very active student there and it would kill him if we moved out of district and were denied a transfer).
We've found a few lovely homes for rent, but unless you apply for them within hours of posting, they are gone. I can't speak directly to your question about Jackson M.S., but we have had very good experiences at Eldorado High. I know that a little bit of the Jackson district feeds into Eldorado. The rest feeds into Manzano.
My youngest attends Cleveland Middle School (which feeds into Sandia and Del Norte), and we've had pretty good experiences there. I am convinced, though, that with APS you get out what you put in to your kiddo's education. Demand that they get involved in something, anything at the school. For my sons, it has been band and NM MESA.
Good luck with your search!


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When everyone hates your signature legislative achievement, what is your legacy exactly?
And that's before they even experienced it. Somewhere Bill Clinton is saying, "I told you so."
A record number of voters want the 2010 Affordable Care Act repealed entirely, while sizable majorities say they are worried about their health care under the new law and expect their medical costs will go up, according to a new Fox News poll.
The poll, released Wednesday, finds that 58 percent of voters favor repealing all (39 percent) or some (19 percent) of President Obama's signature legislative achievement. Another 19 percent would leave the law as is, while 17 percent would expand its coverage further…
A 62-percent majority of independents favors repealing at least some of the law.
When everyone hates your signature legislative achievement, what is your legacy exactly?
Nearly three times as many voters say the health care law makes them feel more worried (66 percent) rather than reassured (23 percent). And the anxiety is rising — the number feeling worried is up 15 percentage points since July 2012, soon after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled the law constitutional last year. Concern is widespread, as more than 60 percent in every age group feel worried about their health care in the future. It peaks at 70 percent among those ages 65 and over. Overall, 65 percent of voters think their health care costs will increase under the law. Few — eight percent — say their costs will go down, while 24 percent thinks costs will stay about the same.
But I'm sure that will go away once the death panels kick in.


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Thanks for checking out the Del Cerro web page. I am excited about all of the things that God is doing through our church. The purpose of this site is to allow you the opportunity to discover who we are at Del Cerro Baptist Church. I think you will like what you see. Please take your time and read all about our church and its ministries. If you are looking for a church home, we want you to know that Del Cerro is a warm, loving congregation that is committed to sharing the love of Christ both locally and globally. Our vision is to help you connect with God and others by; growing in Christ, serving our community, and sharing your faith. Thanks again for checking out our site. I hope you and your family will become a part of our family very soon.


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August 21, 2013
Residents and workers in De Pere and Ashwaubenon, Wisconsin, felt the effects of a quarry blast last Thursday morning, according to GreenBayPressGazette.com.
The blast, which took place August 15 at about 9:40 a.m., caused a loud booming sound and shook buildings in the two towns.
Brown County officials said the blast at Ebbens Quarry in Hobart had been scheduled. A dispatcher told GreenBayPressGazette.com that the quarry's owner had notified the county that the blast would occur on Thursday morning.
De Pere Police Chief Derek Beiderwieden said officers checked the western part of the city after receiving several calls about rumbling and vibrating buildings. Beiderwieden said the officers did not find any damage.
Nelson Ham, professor of geology and environmental science at St. Norbert College, said the area's location on top of Niagara Escarpment could have helped carry blast vibrations and sounds.
Ham said he was in his home when he heard a noise that sounded like it had come from upstairs.
"I clearly remember … a quick shaking of the house, and my first thought was that my daughter had jumped off her bed," Ham said. "My second thought was that it was a quarry blast."


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BORREGO SPRINGS - A head-on crash Saturday in Borrego Springs injured several people, at least one of them a child, authorities said. The crash on State Route 78 and Mile Marker 79 was reported at 5:11 p.m., according to the California Highway Patrol.
A pickup with an extended cab collided with a small sedan, the CHP said.
Another vehicle went off the road as its driver attempted to avoid the collision, the CHP said.
One of the crashed vehicles overturned, winding up in the middle of the road, the CHP said.
An airship was sent to the scene to transport injured parties, a Heartland fire dispatcher said.
The road was closed for a time, authorities said.


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I'm not sure why anyone would let tenants get behind in their payments, but we regularly get calls from students asking what they should do because it's the twenty first of the month and they still haven't received the payment that was due on the first. "Why haven't you done anything sooner?" I ask. "Well, they said they were going to pay."
What other creditor does that line work with? The mortgage company? The gas company? Cable? Where do people learn this tactic? Apparently, with landlords who let them slide rather than responding as soon as the payment is late.
We have a set policy and we stick to it. Payments are due on the first and late fees start after the fifth. Your tenant is IN BREACH OF CONTRACT after the first. To be clear, payments are late after the first but our state government allows tenants five additional days before late fees apply, so we wait until the sixth to respond to non-pays.
Because of this, some tenants don't believe that their rent is due until the fifth and wonder why we're upset when they want to pay after that. "I'm not even late, yet," is their rationale. However, according to the agreement the tenant signed, rent payment was due on the first, so it is very late on the fifth.
On the sixth, we can and do file for possession in our clerk of court office. Why? Because we don't want to get to the twentieth when they still haven't paid before starting action. By that time, they may decide to hang out and see how long it will take us to evict. Eventually, they could figure it's cheaper to move than to pay the, by then, two month's rent that is due. I don't want to give tenants that much time to build up debt or to plan alternatives.
It doesn't help the tenant at all to let them get further in debt. In fact, it's just enabling poor habits which won't help them anywhere in life. And, it definitely doesn't help you or get the mortgage paid which is, after all, the bottom line. If you can't pay the mortgage, you lose the house and they lose their place to live.
So, begin every tenant relationship the same way, letting them know the rules of conduct that are expected – beginning with, and especially, on-time payments. Let them know the consequences if payments are not on time – court proceedings and added fees on top of their regular payment. These are not fees you're adding, these are fees they're creating for themselves by not abiding by the terms of the contract. Your end of the bargain is to provide the housing they live in, which you've done. Their end of the bargain is to pay the agreed to amount on the first of the month. There is no confusion in that arrangement.
Beyond the court actions, we report to online rental screening services the non-payments and late payments, which will haunt the tenant for years to come.
No need to send repeated late notices. They know they're late. We send a "pay or quit" and let them know we have filed at the courthouse on the sixth of the month. They must now come in and pay their rent, late fees, and court filing fees, in order to stop the eviction process. If they don't want to move, doing this once or twice usually ends the bad habit. If they don't intend to pay, we have nipped it quickly and don't lose more than one month's rent.
Be sure to know the eviction laws in your state. In some states, the process is more difficult and time consuming. Typically, late is three, five, seven or ten days before you can start the legal eviction process. Whatever it is, you don't want to delay the process by taking your time getting the ball rolling. Make sure your tenants to know, without a doubt, what your actions will be if rent is not paid as agreed.
The most critical time to begin the habit of swift enforcement is the first few months of tenancy. Once they recognize you are not a slack landlord, you should have a smooth relationship and on-time payments.
If you have not dealt with tenants before, your first instinct will tell you to be understanding and work out a catch-up plan for them because, after all, there was a sickness/illness/death/flat tire/paycheck mishap, etc., and you understand how this can happen. Stop yourself. Take it from someone who's heard all the stories and has tried everything to be the "good guy" – it's a business.
Payment is due from the tenant just like mortgage payments are due from the landlord. I'm sorry about their life issues getting in the way of their paycheck, but you can't let their life issues get in the way of yours.
Be reasonable, be responsible. Naturally, if the resident has a good record but a problem arises, you should work with them. A good tenant is one you want to keep.
What's your experience with late payments?


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Brazil's Embraer passes another critical milestone in its meteoric development this month with EASA certification of the largest of its four-member family of E-Jets, the 108- to 118-seat Embraer 195. Although it marks the formal market introduction of the last airliner project on Embraer's research and development ledger, the approval by no means signals the end of the company's work in the commercial realm, or even on this series. In a sense, it represents a beginning, as Embraer can now turn its full attention to building production efficiency and, more importantly to its customers, adding facility and reliability to the airplanes themselves.
Scheduled for first delivery to the UK's own Flybe next month, the 195 looks and acts much like its smaller but better selling sibling, the Embraer 190. However, the latest airplane's extra two and a half rows of passenger seats and another 1,962 pounds of basic operating weight exact a 200-nm range penalty, a key consideration for some of Embraer's early customers. Consequently, sales figures have tilted lopsidedly in favor of the 190, which by early last month had drawn firm orders for 256 copies, compared with just 36 so far for the 195.
Teething Troubles Eased
If the disparity in sales seems like a disproportionate reflection of a 200-nm difference in range and a 636-foot increase in takeoff field length, it just so happened that the E-Jets' two biggest customers–JetBlue and Air Canada–needed every bit of the performance the new AR version of the 190 could muster. Conversely, Exeter-based Flybe needs all the seats it could squeeze into the E-Jet's double-bubble fuselage for the low-fare, low-yield model it has adopted with its existing fleet of Bombardier Q400 turboprops.
Now flying 15 BAE Systems 146/Avro regional jets and some 30 of the 52 Q400s it has on firm order, Flybe plans to completely decommission its fleet of British quadjets in favor of 14 of the Brazilian twins, each configured in a high-density, 118-seat layout. The $470 million contract calls for delivery of one airplane a month until November of next year and includes options for another 12 copies. BAE 146 replacement targets cover most of Flybe's international route map, which includes cities in Portugal, Spain, France, Switzerland and Austria.
Now that Embraer and Honeywell have eradicated many of the bugs that infected the Primus Epic II avionics system standard in all the E-Jets, Flybe expects to encounter less service-entry teething pain with the 195 than others suffered with their 170s and 190s. Complications involving the integration of the 170's avionics forced more than one certification delay. More recently, JetBlue announced that lower-than-planned utilization and completion rates of its new Embraer 190s contributed to its first quarterly loss in its history.
Although JetBlue pinned most of the blame for the fourth-quarter loss on higher fuel costs, the references to the 190's avionics problems drew an inordinate amount of attention, at least in the estimation of Embraer executive vice president Fred Curado. "If you really listen and read what they have said about the airplane, they never really blamed the aircraft for their losses," said Curado. "Every new aircraft, of course, has a learning curve. I don't think the 170/190 was particularly different or bad. Again, I think we had this little unfortunate coincidence. But, anyhow, what really matters is the operation is much, much better now."
JetBlue CEO David Neeleman substantiated Curado's claims when, by the time the company reported its first-quarter earnings, he said dispatch reliability had risen above 98 percent, which, he added "is getting closer to the dispatch reliability…on the [Airbus] A320." By early May the company was flying its first two Embraer 190s eight hours a day and reported that "they are doing a perfect job."
Certification Challenges
A highly sophisticated and integrated set of electronics, the Epic avionics suite has proved a "challenge" to certification authorities as well, said Curado, producing a higher than normal level of sensitivity to safety concerns. "It's important to understand that the most focus so far has been on certifying the software, which was something absolutely new to the certification authorities," he said. "So the concerns about integrity and safety were very, very high because the level of integration of this software is unprecedented…If there's any discrepancy, anything, the rule is just stop and then you have to reset the aircraft, causing a delay."
Embraer continuously loads new avionics software in the E-Jet fleet, the next upgrade destined for certification with the 195 this month. Recent follow-on certification items for the Embraer 170 have included Category IIIa autoland, which allows the 70-seat jet to approach and land in visibility as low as 600 feet RVR. The 170 and 190 have also received certification for dual head-up displays, while the 170, 175 and 190 have all won autoland approval.
Eventually, Embraer plans to have all its E-Jets certified to Category IIIb, which allows landing in visibility as low as 150 feet. By the end of the year, Embraer expects to gain approval for 75-minute extended twin-engine operations (ETOPS) in the 190, as well as approval for the steep approach into London City Airport for the 170.
Despite the cost, effort and irritation that often accompanies new technology, Embraer's goal to reach the mainline market segment demanded a bolder design approach than it took in the smaller regional jets with which it entered the market. "It's not just a question of being fancy, it's a question of future value of the assets," said Curado. "Clearly the financial community has a better appetite for the E-Jets than the CRJs, with all due respect to our friends in Canada."
The series' latest technological advance involves Embraer's new aircraft health analysis and diagnosis (AHeAD) system, an Internet-based monitoring program designed to use an airline's ACARS to transmit real-time systems data from airplanes in flight to prepare maintenance crews for any unscheduled repairs needed upon their arrival. Republic Airways and JetBlue have agreed to begin testing the new system this summer.
This month Embraer begins certification flight testing of Rockwell Collins' head-up guidance system (HGS) for the Embraer 190, allowing the airplanes to land in full Category III conditions. Embraer (Chalet C33) expects to gain full Cat III certification for Flybe's 195s some time next year.


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Visiting Assistant Professor Marcus Garley's new play, The House That Will Not Stand, will make its World Premiere at the Berkeley Repertory Theatre as part of their 2013-2014 season. Read the entire article on Playbill.com.
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Tony Taccone, artistic director of the Tony Award-winning Berkeley Repertory Theatre, has announced the lineup of works for the company's 2013-14 season, which will include the world premiere of Marcus Gardley's The House That Will Not Stand and the acclaimed drama Tribes, among others.
"This mix of shows looks at love and family through comic and tragic lenses, which reveal and revel in our historical moment," said Taccone in a statement. "The season blends seminal works from prominent artists – The Intelligent Homosexual's Guide to Capitalism and Socialism with a Key to the Scriptures by Tony Kushner, Dario Fo's Accidental Death of an Anarchist, and Tristan & Yseult from Emma Rice and Kneehigh – with compelling new plays from vital new voices, such as Nina Raine'sTribes and Marcus Gardley's The House That Will Not Stand. Add to that The Pianist of Willesden Lane in which Mona Golabek's musical talents take us to a place that transcends words, and we hope to bring our audience on another extraordinary journey."


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Facelift upper/lower eyelids / TT - what procedures should I combine? Which one should I do first? How much time between?
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Surgery of Face and Body
You can schedule either the face or the tummy tuck first, depending on your preference.
Look carefully at before and after photos. Surgical scars around the belly button are not acceptable. Pixie ears, distorted hairlines, hollowed-out, or over-filled faces are also signs to watch for. If you see before and after images like this from the plastic surgeon you are considering, keep looking.
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Combining procedures as part of a facelift is highly variable.
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Best to combine facelift and eyelids with tummy tuck as a separate procedure at a different time
From my point of view at makes no difference which you choose first. However I advise recommended patients choose the procedure which will give them the most satisfaction first and typically since the face and eyes are so visible that would be the first choice.
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Tummy tuck then facial procedures later
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