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Nunavut and the New
Western Territory
PART 1: General
1.1 This Agreement ("the Accord") is the Nunavut Political Accord referred to in Article 4 of the final agreement.
PART 2: Nunavut Act
2.1 The legislation proposed to establish Nunavut (the "Nunavut Act") shall be similar to the present Northwest Territories Act with such modernization and clarification as may be appropriate.
2.2 The Nunavut Act shall provide that those territorial laws made under the Northwest Temtories Act that are in force immediately prior to the coming into force and effect of the provisions of the Nunavut Act creating the Nunavut Territory will continue to apply to Nunavut, except to the extent that they are inconsistent with the Nunavut Act, or until such laws are revoked or amended by the Nunavut Legislative Assembly.
2.3 Canada shall consult with the TFN and the GNWT on all matters to be provided for in the Nunavut Act prior to recommending the said legislation to Parliament.
PART 3: Recommendation and Timing of Nunavut Act
3.1 The Nunavut Act shall be recommended to Parliament, as a government measure, on the date on which legislation to ratify the final agreement is tabled in Parliament. unless TFN aorees to another date.
3.2 Canada shall seek Royal Assent for the Nunavut Act coincidental to seeking Royal Assent for the legislation to ratify the final agreement unless TFN agrees otherwise.
3.3 All sections of the Nunavut Act shall come into force and effect no later than April 1, 1999. It is anticipated that appropriate sections of the Nunavut Act will be brought into force prior to April 1, 1999 where those sections support the transition process for the creation of Nunavut.
PART 4: Powers of the Nunavut Legislative Assembly and Government
4.1 The types of powers of the Nunavut Legislative Assembly and Nunavut government shall be generally consistent with those in the present Northwest Territories.
4.2 The Nunavut government shall have sufficient authonty to fulfil its lawful obligations under the final agreement.
4.3 The Nunavut Act shall include provisions regarding the authority to transfer administration and control over public lands to the Nunavut government.
PART 5: Boundaries of the Nunavut Territory
5.1 The Nunavut Territory shall comprise that area which fomms that part of the Northwest Territories, pursuant to the Northwest Territories Act, situated east of the line described in Annex A attached hereto.
PART 6: Transition Process
6.1 The Nunavut Act shall provide for a Nunavut Implementation Commission (NIC) in accordance with this Accord.
6.2 The Nunavut Implementation Commission (NIC) shall be established as soon as practicable after the Nunavut Act receives Royal Assent and in any event no later than six months beyond that date, and shall temminate no later than three months following the coming into force and effect of the provisions of the Nunavut Act creating the Nunavut Territory.
6.3 The NIC shall comprise nine Commissioners appointed by the Governor in Council, three of whom shall be chosen from a list of names submitted by the GNWT and three of whom shall be chosen from a list of names submitted by the TFN. Not less than six of the Commissioners shall be ordinarilv resident in the Nunavut Settlement Area.
6.4 In addition to the nine Commissioners, a Chief Commissioner, who shall be acceptable to the parties hereto, shall be appointed by the Governor in Council.
6.5 An Executive Director shall be hired by the Commission, and shall manage the Commission's staff and budget. The Executive Director shall report to the Chief Commissioner, and shall act as Secretary to the Commission .
6.6 The NIC shall provide advice to the parties hereto on the creation of Nunavut.
6.6.1 Consistent with its general mandate, the NIC shall provide advice on:
(i) a timetable for the assumption of service delivery responsibilities from the GNWT, federal government or other authority, by the government of Nunavut;
(ii) the process for the first election of the government of Nunavut and for the detemmination of electoral districts for Nunavut;
(iii) the design of and funding for training plans;
(iv) the process for the identification of a capital city of Nunavut;
(v) the principles andcriteriaforanequitable divisionofassets and liabilities between the GNWT and the government of Nunavut;
(vi)capital infrastructure needs of Nunavut resulting from division and the creation of a new territory, and scheduling for construction;
(vii) the appropriate administrative design for the first government of Nunavut which may include personnel to administer the functions described in 7.1 with due regard for efficiencies and effectiveness; and
(viii) such other matters consistent with the Commission's mandate as may be referred to it.
The determination of the administrative design of the first Nunavut government organization is separate from the determination of ongoing federal financing arrangements for the two territories.
The responsibility for accepting and implementing the recommendations of the NIC will depend on the jurisdiction to which recommendations individually apply.
6.6.2 The NIC shall:
(i) propose an annual budget for its own operations;
(ii) hire or engage appropriate NIC support staff;
(iii) recommend arrangements for the continuing provision of programs and services where the assumption by the government of Nunavut of service delivery responsibilities is to be phased;
(iv) establish public infommation programs, which may include public meet ings, to keep residents of Nunavut apprised of the Commission's work; and
(v) undertake such other tasks within its mandate as mav be reauired.
6.7 The Commission shall prepare an annual report, and a copy of the annual report shall be tabled by the Minister of Indian Affairs and Northem Development in Parliament, and immediately thereafter provided to the government Leader for tabling in the Legislative Assembly. A copy shall also be provided to the TFN.
Part 7: Administrative Capacity of the Nunavut Government
The arrangements made regarding the administrative design of the first Nunavut government (as recommended by the NIC pursuant to 6.6.1 (vii)) shall provide the Nunavut Government with the administrative capacity to:
(i) establish and maintain a Legislative Assembly and Executive Council;
(ii) manage the financial affairs of Nunavut;
(iii) secure independent legal advice for the government;
(iv) undertake personnel recruitment, administration and training for and of government employees;
(v) maintain certain aspects of public works and government services; and
(vi) support municipal affairs; and
(vii) provide adult education programming as part of a comprehensive human resource development plan
7.2 It is anticipated that other areas of administrative responsibility at present administered by the GNWT which are not part of the core administrative capacity of the Nunavut government, referred to in 7.1, shall be discharged through intergovernmental agreements or contracts with appropriate governments, public institutions or non-governmental bodies.
7.3 In discharging its duties with regard to the design and implementation of the structures of the first Nunavut government (see 6.6.1 (vii) and 6.6.2 (iii)) the NIC shall work toward the following goals; (i)an equitable distribution of government activities among Nunavut communities;
(ii) appropriate utilization of infommation management systems and support- ing technology to support a decentralized and efficient government delivery system; and
(iii)employment of local residents in new government positions through strong emphasis on training and work support programs.
PART 8: Financing the Nunavut Territory
8.1 Prior to the coming into force of the provisions of the Nunavut Act creating the Nunavut Territory, Canada, following consultation with the other parties hereto, shall establish the financial arrangements for the Government of Nunavut. Recognizing the desirability of formula based hnancing, such financial arrangements may be analogous to those which currently exist for the GNWT with such modifications as may be necessary.
8.2 Prior to the coming into force and effect of the provisions of the Nunavut Act creating the Nunavut Territory, Canada, following consultation with the GNWT, shall establish formula based financial arrangements for the GNWT for the period following such coming into force and effect of the provisions of the Nunavut Act. Such financial arrangements shall be analogous to those which currently exist with the GNWT with such modifications as may be necessary.
8.3 Prior to the coming into force and effect of the prov isions of the Nunavut Act creating the Nunavut Tenritory a process shall be established by the parties to consult on the matters referred to in 8.1 and 8.2 herein and to clarify, as necessary, the financial arrangements referred to in 8.1 and 8.2.
8.4 In establishing the financial arrangements referred to in 8.1 and following consultation with the other parties hereto, Canada shall determine and fund reasonable incremental costs arising from the creation and operation of the Government of Nunavut.
8.5 The financial arrangements referred to in 8.1 and 8.2 shall support the need for financial stability for the territories and provide both territorial governments the opportunity to continue to provide public services for residents. recognizing the existing scope and quality of such services.
8.6 The GNWT wil I continue to prov ide an equitable allocation of its capital, maintenance, and operating expenditures in the Nunavut area and the western part of the Northwest Territories until the coming into force and effect of the provisions of the Nunavut Act creating the Nunavut Territory.
PART 9: Training and Human Resources Planning
9.1 The parties recognize the central importance of training in enabling Nunavut residents to access jobs resulting from division of the Northwest Territories, and that investing in people is of greater value than investing in infractructure.
9.2 Training plans shall be incorporated into all planning, design and implementation activities of the NIC as reflected in the general mandate provided through 6.6.1. Planning shall identify existing training programs and associated funding programs, as well as new program requirements. Planning efforts shall consider all aspects of training activities including skills surveys, pre-employment education, skills upgrading, co-operative education and on-the job training opportunities .
9.3 The parties shall begin preparation of a preliminary human resources plan within six weeks of the signing of this Accord.
9.4 Coordination may occur between the training effort for implementation of the final agreement and that to establish Nunavut.
PART 10: Other
10.1 This Accord may be amended with the consent of the parties.
10.2 This Accord shall be revised by the parties in the event of any amendments to Article 4 of the final agreement in order to reflect that amendment
10.3 Where there is any inconsistency or conflict between the provisions of this Accord and the final agreement, the final agreement shall prevail to the extent of the inconsistency or conflict.
10.4 This Accord shall come into effect upon signing by the parties, and, subject to 10.6, shall continue in effect until three months after the date of the coming into force and effect of the provisions of the Nunavut Act creating the Nunavut Territory.
10.5 This Accord is subject to the appropriation of funds by Parliament.
10.6 In the event that the final agreement is not ratified by the Inuit in the ratification vote. this Accord shall have no force and effect.
10.7 Any reference in this Accord to the GNWT in relation to that period after the coming into force and effect of the provisions of the Nunavut Act creating the Nunavut Territory shall be construed as a reference to the government responsible for the western part of the Northwest Tenritories.


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Monteith, who is from Canada, had struggled with substance abuse since his early teens, and had completed a drug rehab program in April. Since then he was widely photographed with his girlfriend, actress Lea Michele, at public events and on vacation in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico. He died in Vancouver.
The circumstances surrounding his death are seen by some addiction experts as evidence that he needed follow-up care and monitoring.
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(To Be Continued Tomorrow)
sition in the church itself awaited him if he could earn it.
The modern Jew has no such prospect anywhere, even if he so wished it. The assault on his personality is complete and the rising tide of hatred finds him efficiently caught in a cul-de-sac.
The final effect of anti-Semitism in the Jewish character finds itself in Jewish driving force and intellectualism. This latter is again largely the product of several thousand years of hardship and conditioning.
Thus Jew-hatred finds its pap in the preponderance of Jews in mercantile fields and the professions, a condition which it contributed to itself.
It would be extremely shortsighted to regard this new variant in anti-Semitism as having any actual validity other than being a mere expression of anti-Semitic directionalism.
Enisconalians in the United States and the Germans in prewar Russia also occupied for example, positions far out of proportion to their numbers without bringing down on their heads a storm of this kind.
Our whole position in the west has largely reversed itself. Where the church was our original enemy, it is now by necessity largely our friend. The same theories which potentially are most dangerous to us are also the disintegrating forces of the Christian church.
A new pagan doctrine is being promulgated based on a postulate of racial purity and superiority. It combines eugenics and racial ego together with a totalitarian theory. If it is successful, the Jew in the western countries, at least, will simply be sponged off completely.
That it is an attractive doctrine to those exposed to it can only be denied by the stupid. That it has been gaining strength rapidly and could under some circumstances become a dangerous epidemic is also plainly evident to thoughtful men.
Even the downfall of Hitler will not necessarily abrogate it. This virus is far too deeply entrenched.
Despite the self-satisfied vaporings of our leaders, the Jew will shortly face a battle of life and death. Obliteration stares him in the face, possibly in as short a space as another generation.
In our own country the young Jew faces the following unenviable condition:
He is socially little more than an outcast since every social activity in American life is at pains to exclude him.
He faces numerus clausus at the colleges and seats of learning.
He is excluded from employment in the major utilities and corporations everywhere.
He is not only excluded from whole industries, but a movement is quietly under way to restrict him drastically in the professions.
More than a hundred "patriotic" societies are engaged in spreading anti-Semitic propaganda from one corner of the land to the other.
The net aimed at excluding the Jew from every important aspect of life is drawing tighter and tighter.
Men who would have looked ridiculous in the statement a few years ago openly discuss the possibility of pogroms, as our "friend" former Ambassador Gerard did a few days ago.
In contrast is offered the success of a few Jews who have achieved distinguished position in politics. If precedent gives an answer it lies in Germany, where prior to Hitler a few Jews also occupied high positions in political life. This condition can, therefore, be accepted as being in itself deceptive and not a true indicant of the course events are taking.
More dangerous than any part of this condition is the cowardly, demoralized state of the Jew himself in his inner life. He has no rallying point whatsoever in either spirit or action. He is hence brittle when of all times he requires resiliency most; and when he is crushed he will be hopelessly shattered, unless a new understanding and spiritual outlook quickly take hold of him.
(To Be Continued Tomorrow)


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Lauren Graham is a rising second year master's of environmental management student at Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies in New Haven, Connecticut, USA. She started at Yale focusing on transboundary water conflict resolution, but has developed an interest in environmental issues at the intersection of climate change, public health and humanitarian response. Lauren is interested in two major aspects of climate risk: (1) the ways that climate change will affect water quality, quantity and access, particularly in developing countries, and (2) how climate data can be conveyed for effectively to be used for better decision-making in the humanitarian community. Lauren hopes that her work on Humans vs. Mosquitoes, a climate change and health game about dengue fever, will provide an innovative tool for the humanitarian community to teach people about the link between climate and infectious diseases.
She recently wrote about her experiences as a guest blogger on AlertNet:
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I watch as Kenyan youth representing Red Cross student clubs of Mombasa chant in unison against the dreaded mosquito. I am here working with the Kenya Red Cross Society (KRCS) to pilot a game I co-created called Humans vs. Mosquitoes that can help in the fight against malaria."
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Somehow, Michigan became do-or-die for Mitt Romney. The guy isn't much of a closer, is he? There's a story in the USA Today sports section saying that most baseball closers can't keep their job for more than a year or two. Just too hard. Maybe closing is a lost art. Even Lincoln had trouble closing after Gettysburg/Vicksburg. I smell a baseball/politics/Civil War trend story.
I'm in Michigan for a few days, seeing the sights. It's cold and wet without the decency to be actually snowing. I think I'm going later to the Henry Ford Museum and then around the Detroit area, maybe to Mitt Romney's old stomping ground (though it's hard to picture Mitt stomping, exactly. Skipping, maybe?).
I brought my passport in case I need to slip into Canada again. It's becoming habit-forming. Can you go to Canada twice within a week with a straight face?
I talked to Charley Ballard yesterday. He's a prominent economist at Michigan State, and he said Michigan lost 860,000 jobs between the employment peak in 2000 and the bottom of the recession in 2009. That's an astonishing number of job losses for a single state. The economy is improving a bit lately, but still, this is a state where people remember the boom times of the 50s and 60s, when Flint was a wealthy city, when American cars ruled the world and no one had yet heard of an imported Toyota Corolla. The other countries that made cars — Germany, Korea, Japan — were still clearing the rubble from the war.
The Democratic candidate has won Michigan the last five elections. But even if it's not a classic swing state, it's still in play. The Republicans swept in 2010. The congressional delegation and the state legislature are in GOP control. A Republican is governor of the state. So it's not exactly a slam dunk for Obama. It's hard to know how Romney's status as a native son would play into the contest (if he's the nominee). He was part of the elite here, back in the day. And he and Santorum have both opposed the auto bailout. Ballard says that if the auto companies had gone bankrupt they'd have taken down the entire supply chain, which would have roiled the other auto manufacturers as well, with job losses that might have risen into the millions.
More later from the road....


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Home & Garden: DIY Corned Beef (or Venison)
by Georgeanne Davis
Wednesday, March 15, 2017 5:06 PM
Even though corned beef is as traditional on March 17 in New England as green beer, corned beef and cabbage is not a tradition in Ireland. Canned corned beef was a World War II staple among civilians and the troops in Europe and the U.K., because fresh meats were hard to come by. But bacon and cabbage with potatoes is more typical in Ireland, where the bacon is not at all like American bacon; it is usually cured or brined pork loin, similar to what we'd call Canadian bacon. The tradition of corned beef on St. Patrick's Day began on Manhattan's Lower East Side where many Jewish immigrants were butchers, but pork wasn't kosher. The cured meat of choice was beef brisket, so Irish immigrants followed the Jewish and switched to corned beef. Thus the fusion of Irish-Jewish-American corned beef dinner was born.
This year we'd planned on making our own corned venison, eschewing the tough, overly preserved offerings found elsewhere. While we never got around to it, we did read up on corning, which seemed slightly exotic, and found it to be largely the same as brining or sweet pickling, just another way of preserving meats in the time before widespread refrigeration, along with smoking, canning and dry-curing. With venison, as with beef, the corning renders a tougher cut of meat more tender and the spices added to the brine give it a memorable flavor.
It's not that difficult to corn your own beef or venison, and it's one way of guaranteeing that your meat will be organic, if that's important to you. A five-pound beef brisket or sirloin tip venison roast, both are treated the same. In a large pot place a half-gallon of water (preferably spring or distilled), 1 cup sea salt,
cup brown sugar, five tablespoons pickling spice, one large head of garlic, chopped, three bay leaves, crumbled, a knob of fresh ginger, peeled and sliced, and three teaspoons of Instacure, which is a nitrite used for curing meats. If you prefer not to use the Instacure, you can use celery juice powder, a natural form of nitrite instead, adding it to the brine later.
In an eight-quart pot mix the water with salt, sugar and spices and bring to a boil. Turn off the heat and add two more quarts of water to cool. Add the celery juice powder now if you're using it, and let the brine finish cooling in the refrigerator. After it's cool, place the meat in the cooled liquid and weigh it down with a plate so it remains covered by the liquid. Cover container and place in the refrigerator for 5 to 7 days, turning every day or so.
To cook your corned beef, remove it from the brine and rinse under cool water. Place in a pot just large enough to hold it and cover with water or a good beer and one of the ginger beers. Bring to a boil over high heat, then turn heat down until it is lightly simmering. Cover and let cook until you can easily insert a fork into the meat, about three hours, adding water if needed to cover the meat. When meat is done, remove it from the pot and place it, wrapped in foil, in a roasting pan in the oven. Then add your chosen vegetables — cabbage, carrots, onions, parsnips, turnips — to the remaining liquid and cook until tender.
We never seem to have a lot of corned beef left over, but should you find you have a couple of cups, make the perfect breakfast hash.
Breakfast Hash
2 cups corned beef
2 cups cooked, leftover potatoes
1 medium onion, chopped
1 large garlic clove, chopped
3 eggs
2 teaspoons bacon fat, butter, or cooking oil
cup broth from corned beef and cabbage or water
Chop the meat and potatoes into 1⁄
-inch cubes.In a large bowl, beat one of the eggs with a fork, then add corned beef, potatoes, onions, garlic, broth or water and mix lightly. Preheat a heavy frying pan to high and coat with the desired fat. Add the hash mix and pat it down with a spatula into a large patty. Cook until set. With the spatula, flip the mixture over. Crack the remaining eggs and lay them on top of the hash. Turn down heat, cover, and cook until the whites have set but the yolks are still wobbly.
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Governor Urges Congress to Act on on Climate Change
Testified Today in Washington, D.C.
Governor Janet Napolitano asked Congress to act quickly to pass climate change
legislation before the end of this year; she also discussed the efforts of Arizona and other states to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and combat global warming. The Governor made the remarks during a testimony today before the House Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming.
"Scientific evidence makes clear that global warming is real and that human activities are
contributing significantly to the buildup of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere that is warming
our planet," the Governor said in her testimony. "In the absence of meaningful federal action, it is up to the states to show leadership on this critical issue. And that is exactly what we have done."
She urged Congress to complement actions states have already taken on climate change.
"There is a tremendous opportunity for Congress to help the nation achieve energy independence and reduce these harmful emissions," Napolitano continued. "Congress must reach out to states and not preempt our leadership. Federal legislation should build upon the efforts of the states and provide flexibility for states to take more aggressive action on global warming."
Napolitano's efforts on climate change and protecting the environment include:
Creating the Arizona Climate Change Advisory Group (CCAG) and adopting the Group's
comprehensive set of 49 recommendations for reducing Arizona's greenhouse gas
emissions such as
o Setting a statewide goal to reduce Arizona's GHG emissions to 2000 levels by
2020 and to 50 percent below 2000 levels by 2040
o Directing the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality to adopt the California
greenhouse gas vehicle emissions standards
Reducing state government water consumption by 17 percent compared to 2004 water use
rates and increasing energy efficiency by 4.6 percent since 2002
Strengthening Arizona's water statute by giving cities, towns and counties additional
authority over new developments in the absence of a 100-year water supply
Improving the health of Arizona's forests and bolstering the sustainable use of forest
resources by being the first state to adopt a comprehensive, 20-year strategy that addresses
forest health comprehensively at the state level
Signing the strongest air quality bill in state history to reduce particulate emissions
Working with other states to create The Climate Registry, a multi-state, multi-national
effort to track greenhouse gas emissions and reductions
o Arizona was the very first state to join The Climate Registry
Partnering with several other Western states to establish the Western Climate Initiative
(WCI), which is creating a Western regional cap-and-trade program for greenhouse gas
o Six U.S. states (Arizona, California, New Mexico, Oregon, Utah and Washington)
and two Canadian provinces (British Columbia and Manitoba) are participating as
full partners in the initiative, with numerous other states and provinces taking part
as observers to the effort
Joining governors of the WCI states and seven eastern states to urge six big automakers to withdraw their legal challenges to the California clean vehicle standards.
"Arizonans and Americans are can do' people. Once we establish a goal and timeline, we will put
our brain and muscle power to work to accomplish it," Governor Napolitano concluded. "We need Congress's help to increase energy independence and slow global warming by the establishment of firm standards and realistic deadlines. These are critical elements in solving these problems."
New York Governor Elliot Spitzer also testified before the special committee. A copy of Governor
Napolitano's testimony before the committee is attached.
Source: http://azgovernor.gov/dms/upload/NR_111407_Climate%20Change%20Testimony.pdf


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FA party flops
MOHAMED AL FAYED may have turned up nearly an hour late to the FA's launch of their 150th birthday celebrations on Wednesday, but at least the Fulham chairman bothered to turn up.
Invites sent to all 92 clubs received a meagre response given the calibre of some of the guests who did contribute.
Sir Bobby Charlton turned up on the condition he could leave in time to get back to watch Manchester United's FA Cup replay against West Ham, but the heroes of 1966 and English football's finest hour look set to be largely overlooked in the year-long celebrations.
The FA are keen to concentrate more on the work they are doing at grass-roots level than merely focusing on the England team.


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This proposal aims to explore the way the French Grandes Ecoles try to diversify their selection process. First we analyse the French system of higher education, based on a very strong and early selection of the best academic students after baccalaureat. This system can be qualified as a very closed one. Then we will show how this closed system moved to a more and more open selection of applicants. We can distinguish three levels of diversification: national level initially restricted to the same field, afterwards the access for students of other disciplines has been enlarged, but still limited to national level and now an international level, due to the Bologna process. This trend corresponds to the globalization of higher education market and to the need for French Business schools that want to take part in this movement to be visible internationally. In a second part, we would like to deal with the very important issue of social diversity. We will take the examples of French Business Schools in order to examine the measures in place designed to provide more or less social diversity
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International Journal of Diversity in Organizations, Communities and Nations, Volume 10, Issue 1, pp.383-396. Article: Print (Spiral Bound). Article: Electronic (PDF File; 891.553KB).
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FAITH FILE: This Agnostic Proved The Impossible. Or Did He?
"What causes the universe to pop out of nothing? No cause is needed …"
Obama Cites God To Make The Case For Immigration
'In the eyes of God'
Fancypants $63,550-Per-Year College Offers Course Called 'Is God A WHITE SUPREMACIST?'
Does coursework involve the Nation of Islam? You betcha!
God Supposedly Told Duterte To Stop Swearing Or Die In A Fiery Plane Crash
But it's probably still OK to curse the US
On God's Creation And The Tautology Of Being
No matter what they do, none of the philosophers who pretend to give an exposition of human understanding have ever found a starting place for thought that escapes the primacy of being itself.
Lonely, 'Invisible' Atheists Lament Lack Of Political Power As They Stare Into Cosmic Abyss
'We can be insulted and we can be ignored'
Can Americans Return To The Politics Of God-Endowed Right?
The Constitution they devised was predicated on the understanding that God's justice
Council On American-Islamic Relations: Relax, Christians, You Worship Allah
Also, ISIS, Ben Carson and Donald Trump exhibit similar 'forms of religious and political extremism'
What If Clock Kid's Teacher Had Forced Him To Renounce God Or Get An F?
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Miranda Hart to stand in for Chis Evans on Radio 2's breakfast show
Miranda Hart will be stepping in for
Chris Evans as host of BBC Radio 2's breakfast show next month alongside presenter Jon Holmes.
The award-winning stand-up will host the popular radio show while Evans is away for a week.
The pair, who will hit the airwaves on Monday October 3, have previously hosted one-off bank holiday shows for the station while Hart has also starred in the Radio 2 sketch 'Miranda Hart's Joke Shop'.
The comedy odd-ball – who stars in her own BBC popular show 'Miranda' – said: 'There aren't many people I am happy to spend the breakfast hours with, but I can't think of anyone nicer than the Radio 2 massive and my colleague Jon Holmes and his ridiculous bed head.'
And according to Holmes the feelings are mutual.
He said: 'I'm looking forward to waking up between Miranda on one side and the entire nation on the other. That promises to be quite some party the night before.'
Richard Madeley will also step in as a guest host during Evans's absence.
The third series of Miranda is due to start being filmed next year.


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Renaissance Zoning possibly coming to Flint area
Sun, 10 Feb 2013 00:25:36 GMT —
Renaissance zoning is receiving unanimous support form area municipalities as flint township leads the charge to market their area as a booming business hub.
"When you are the forerunners in something like this you're creating the paperwork and the applications and all those things,â?? said Flint Township Economic Enhancement Director Tracey Tucker.
The application is considered by the next Michigan Development Corporation who provides development tools and incentives to assist businesses.
"Then it moves from us to the state of Michigan who will grant them or deny them," said Tucker.
In hope to restore areas once powered by gm. Still, residents remember their past and question the effect of new zoning.
"Among the residents of flint there is a natural sense of skepticism because of everything that has happened,â?? said Flint Township resident Mark McCormick.
Flint township officials are hoping the tax break benefit of renaissance zoning will encourage new businesses as long as they use multiple modes of transportation they are eligible.
"You are looking for types of businesses that are creating a product they can ship elsewhere," said Tucker.
If the state approves the zoning new businesses could get up to a 100 percent tax break, taking away from overall city revenues and Flint Township is prepared for that.
"Itâ??s revenue that's not being generated now but it brings in jobs, and when you bring in those jobs it supports the community in several different ways,â?? said Tucker.
A community where some are ready for an economic upswing.
"Do I think it could happen? Absolutely I do,â?? said McCormick.
In order for places like FedEx and Kogel Meats that are already in potential new zones to reap the tax benefits they have to be adding onto what they already have. On Tuesday the next Michigan Development Corporation is meeting to consider the 12 applications sent in from different counties.


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La Jolla lifeguard tower rife with cost overruns
Baby bird, seal-pupping, and bad waste pump blamed for budget surprises
Matt Potter 4 p.m., Sept. 21
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"Before I got this job, I never knew how to read a map," Esteban said as we set out. "In Guam, where I'm from, you take a left at the broken-down car or the leaning palm tree. Now, my map book is the thing I read the most."
The first home we visited was a 9000-square-foot mansion in Rancho Pacifica. It looked more like a hotel than a private residence. After calling the owner up on an intercom, Esteban pointed out a few black pellets on the ground to his left. "That's bat guano," he said, matter-of-factly. I said I couldn't imagine a bat finding purchase anywhere on the mansion's exterior wall. "You have to understand that these are very small bats," Esteban explained. "They can hang from just about anywhere."
In the first attic we tried, Esteban found mouse droppings, which he described as "20 times smaller than rat droppings," but no sign of rats. No footprints in the attic dust, no chewing on the ducts, no grease marks, and no droppings 20 times the size of the mouse droppings around us. Outside, near one of three large air conditioners, Esteban spotted a dead field mouse. "Air-conditioning lines are highways to the attic," he said. Walking around the house, he showed me a few other ways in which mice might have entered the house -- pieces of chewed insulation, open ducts -- and then, at a pile of woodchips, paused.
"There," he said, "do you see that? Beside the insulation."
It took me three or four seconds to see a bit of pinkish cottony insulation among the woodchips. It didn't look especially remarkable, but Esteban kept pointing with his flashlight.
"You see it?" he asked. "A tail!"
It took me a few more seconds to realize, but yes, the tail of a dead mouse was wedged between the baseboard and the house's overhanging outer wall. I felt stupid -- the thing had been less than four feet away from my nose -- but the more Esteban pointed, the more I saw, and the more I saw, the more I wondered at how much I'd missed in the first place.
The mansion had hundreds of entrance points: little holes, big holes, uncovered cracks, unfinished fissures, jogs between points in the foundation. The owner might as well have put out a welcome mat for animals seeking rent-free residence. Esteban wrote up an estimate of what it would cost to plug up all the holes and presented it, and off we went. We hadn't found evidence of roof rats, but in Esteban's estimation, cases of roof-rat infestation in San Diego have doubled in just the past couple of years. He believes the population spike to be a direct result of the recent construction boom: Not only do these 21st-century rats have more houses to choose from, but the new residences are being built quickly, with more than a few corners cut. "Rats don't need to live in houses," Esteban told me. "There are plenty of sources of available food and water outside. But then you get a house like this last one -- and that was probably a $3 million home -- and see holes and cracks and points of entry all over the place. Why wouldn't rats live there?"
Our next stop was a much smaller house, in Clairemont. Hydrex had sealed the place years before, and there were no signs of further infestation. The traps Hydrex technicians had set in the attic sat in wait for unsuspecting rodents. A few years had gone by, but the peanut butter in them looked soft and tasty. Esteban explained that he uses peanut butter because it sticks on the trap, won't go bad, lasts a long time before biodegrading, and -- most importantly -- rats like it. (Cheese, I was surprised to learn, isn't at all effective; when Esteban sees cheese in traps, he knows they've been set by an amateur.)
Next, Esteban told me that it's a good idea to screw the traps into studs in the attic, to prevent caught, still-living rats from taking off with the unsecured traps, dying in some dark corner, and stinking up the entire house. "A dead rat'll give off a heavy stench for three to four weeks before it decomposes," Esteban said.
Hydrex's technicians like to set six traps per attic access, all around the opening. In other words, more than enough. Otherwise, a few rats get caught, and other, sealed-in rats start eating the trapped ones. "We've seen lots of evidence of cannibalism in rats," Esteban told me. "I guess once you seal them in, they can get pretty desperate."
Standard tools for a pest control technician include a drill, mirrors, a box of spring-loaded rat traps, a flashlight, gloves, sheet-metal screws, a staple gun, ladders, wire-cutters, quarter-inch hardware cloth, fix-all plaster, cement, mortar mix, and concrete patch. In preparing and sealing an attic, it's important to set the traps last, to avoid the risk of setting them off yourself after having set them for the rats. As Esteban showed me the successfully sealed attic, he wondered why the owner of the house had called Hydrex. But it turned out that her troubles involved rats outside the house.
The owner described rats scampering around the patio, crawling over each other, and dying in the swimming pool. "Some nights, it's quite a show," she deadpanned. But there was nothing Hydrex could do. "We can't seal your whole back yard," Esteban told her. "They'll still find ways to get in." Then pointed out the possible entry points: holes under fences, spaces between slats, thick bushes, power poles, and lines. In a crunch, the rats could simply climb over the fences themselves. The owner -- a dog-lover -- was left with the option of securing a rat-killing cat.
A week later, I accompanied Esteban and Zaludek to Oceanside. Our destination, they assured me, was a house that really did have a rat problem. Before the real work began, they showed me more telltale signs of a serious rat infestation. Rats blacken the places where they walk; the Oceanside home was covered with their grease stains. Next, they had me poke my head up into the attic and take a deep breath. The smell of rat musk isn't a horrible one, and it occurred to me that its purpose is to attract other rats. But the smell is unmistakable, earthy, and 100 percent animal.


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I go to my local janitorial supply and buy 'Bath Blaster' to remove hard water and other bathroom tile stains. Works like a charm without having to gear up for caustic chemicals. You might want to try it on your tile. They also sell a product to coat the tile to keep hard water stains from sticking to the tile.
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Thanks for the heads up on Bath Blaster Victoria, I will definitely have to check that out! I also really like the sound of that other product that keeps hard water stains from sticking – totally gonna check that out too!
Bravo! Great job. I bow to you on that grout job!
Hee! Thanks Vickie, I tried my best to do a good job for Mom ! 🙂
I'm also impressed with the grouting around the base of the new toilet! You guys work like pros. Great job.
Well thank you SO much Pat M! For some reason I have this fetish about that empty gap between the toilet and the floor, I ALWAYS grout that area because I just can't stand that gap! 🙂
Your instincts are right on, Sara. In my experience, the pros really do always caulk the base of the toilet–and your neat, thin line of caulk is perfect!
You're a reno goddess, Sara. I wouldn't do caulking if you paid me. Or scraping out old caulking. It sucks!
Awwwwwww, thanks SO much Eartha! Though I do completely agree with you, caulking completely sucks – both the scraping it and the re-doing it. ugh. 🙂
Nice job, Sara! I am going to have to look for that cleaner – my grout is stained, as the previous owners of this house felt it was a good idea to paint!! over the tile in the bathroom. I scraped all of the paint off, but my grout's still stained in some areas. I'll have to give it a try!
Nooooooooo, they painted over the tile?!?!? ugghhhh! I give you props for scraping all that paint off, I'm sure that was a real blast for you to do. 🙂 There are some other cleaners at Home Depot and Lowe's, Zep was one of them – and Victoria mentioned Bath Blaster in the comments above, you may want to give those a try too?
We live in a rental with grout that looks about like that. We have tried cleaning with everything we could think of. I will have to try that stuff you used. The lovely blue tiles are the only thing I love about our ,so teeny you can sit on the toilet and rest your head on the sink, bathroom!
Amy M – Thanks for the comment! Let me know if the grout cleaner works out for you, there were other ones mentioned above, in the comments, if mine doesn't work! Here's to 'pretty white grout' coming your way! 🙂
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CLEARWATER — The president of Gulf Coast Jewish Family Services, a nonprofit social welfare agency, is on paid leave following troubling findings about the organization's performance of a state contract.
Gulf Coast has roughly 800 employees working in 32 counties across Florida, including the bay area. It reported revenue of nearly $33 million in 2007, the last year for which federal records are available.
At issue is a contract the nonprofit has with the state to place mentally and physically disabled people in jobs. It's a contract Gulf Coast may lose.
"We are making a decision now whether to continue working with them," said Gordon Lightfoot, contracts administrator of the Department of Education program. "That has yet to be resolved."
In late March or early April, Lightfoot said, Gulf Coast president Michael Bernstein visited his office.
Lightfoot said Bernstein told the state an internal review had found irregularities in Gulf Coast's handling of the contract, and that a few of the nonprofit's employees had been fired.
The state then launched a review of Gulf Coast's performance of the contract from January 2008 through early June.
The state looked at Gulf Coast's operations in three geographic regions. One includes Pinellas, Hillsborough, Pasco, Hernando, Manatee and Sarasota counties; the two others are in South Florida.
The state found that Gulf Coast had invoiced the state for having gotten jobs for clients, but produced inadequate evidence that the placements had actually occurred.
Also, it was found that Gulf Coast placed some clients in jobs that the state had determined would not be appropriate for them.
Gulf Coast was ordered to repay $132,000 to the state, which it did in mid September.
Lightfoot said most of the problems had occurred in South Florida and that Gulf Coast wants to end its contract with the state there while continuing to provide the placement service in the bay area.
Gulf Coast, which has its main office on Icot Boulevard, referred questions to Lisa Brock, who has a public relations firm in Tampa.
Brock said that the nonprofit's board of directors had placed Bernstein on paid leave pending a thorough internal review. According to available records, Bernstein was given salary and benefits of nearly $267,000 in 2007.
Also, she said, the organization's chief financial officer, Diana Robertson, has resigned.
Brock said the $132,000 that Gulf Coast paid to the state was a modest portion of a contract that had been worth $1.2 million to the nonprofit.
In the 31 years that Gulf Coast has provided services to some of the state's neediest populations, Brock said, there has never been any indication of wrongdoing, nor would the organization's leaders tolerate scandal.
"Trust me," Brock said, "if there is any impropriety going on the board wants to know about it and they will take care of it."
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Four injured Fort Bragg soldiers released; nine remain hospitalized
Posted September 24, 2011
Fort Bragg, N.C. — Four of the 13 soldiers admitted to the Womack Army Medical Center Friday at Fort Bragg were released Saturday after suffering injuries during a training session. One soldier remains in serious condition.
In all, 43 soldiers suffered heat-related injuries Friday morning during a training exercise at Fort Bragg, authorities said.
The soldiers were among 56 taking part in a 12-mile "ruck march" at about 6 a.m. to earn their Expert Field Medical Badge, Fort Bragg spokeswoman Jackie Thomas said. The soldiers, who were from various units, were walking with backpacks, helmets and weapons as if they were in combat, she said.
Eighteen soldiers were taken to Womack Army Medical Center for treatment, and 13 were admitted, she said. One was in critical condition in the intensive care unit. His condition was upgraded to serious, but stable, on Saturday afternoon.
The other 25 soldiers were treated in the field and released, she said.
The Expert Field Medical Badge qualification involves a series of hands-on tests over two weeks, Thomas said. The tests cover communications, emergency medical treatment, evacuation of the sick and wounded, day and night land navigation courses, CPR and weapons qualification.


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There's a huge challenge that comes from building a grand house," says William W. Stubbs, leading a guest up the flagstone drive of a house whose interiors he designed for clients in a suburb of San Antonio. "You need space to allow it to flow organically, to keep it from being just a big box. We were so lucky to have it here."
Lucky, indeed. Stubbs and his clients—whose relationship goes back seven houses and 30 years—had been looking for the perfect site in the San Antonio area, where the clients' grandchildren lived. They couldn't find it. Then one day their realtor called and informed them that two adjacent houses in the highly desirable Alamo Heights neighborhood had gone on the market within a single 24-hour period: a freak real estate occurrence that the clients couldn't help but see as a kind of omen.
"They snapped them both up that very same day," says Stubbs. The houses, which dated from the 1950s, were summarily taken down, and work began in earnest on Stubbs's design for a sprawling residence that would look, in his words, "like it had evolved over the years. We wanted to build a house that had the character of this locale," by which he means Alamo Heights, the leafy and bucolic municipality just a few miles north of downtown San Antonio. "The topography of the lot was very helpful in that regard; it sort of ambles down the hill, and so the house was able to take on the look of something that had been added on to over the years."
"He told me: I want to build a 100-year-old house.' No one had ever said that to me," says Stubbs. "It kicked my mind into gear."
Stubbs set about creating something that could never—by anyone, under any circumstances—be confused with a "big box." To achieve the effect of a house that had been built in different stages, he broke the front façade up into distinct components: two large flanks of yellow-ocher, frescoed stucco, situated at slightly different angles and connected by a limestone loggia. Between the disaggregated architecture, the weathered roof tiles (imported from France and admired by Stubbs for their rusticity), the seven campanile-like chimneys and a garden courtyard so spacious it resembles a town square, the house seems more like a compact Mediterranean village than a single-family residence.
In his effort to give the surroundings the desired sense of history, Stubbs went out of his way to use as many reclaimed items as he could find. Salvage never looked so stunning. Above the commanding floating staircase in the entrance hall, an elegant stained-glass panel, a survivor of the great Galveston flood of 1900, hangs between a pair of bronze sconces that used to greet visitors to a New York bank back in the Gilded Age. Across from the stairwell is the living room, where the sense of European refinement fostered by a mix of antiques—including a Biedermeier console, a George III ebony chair and a Queen Anne table—is tempered by the presence of reclaimed-wood ceiling beams that wouldn't seem out of place in a Mexican hacienda.
A walk down the grand, groin-vaulted hallway leads past the dining room, where guests can soak up the warmth from an 18th-century limestone fireplace, or marvel at the 18th-century Flemish tapestry, while sitting in hand-tooled-leather chairs that once graced the dining room of a Hollywood mansion. Stubbs bought them in Beverly Hills and likes to ponder which stars and starlets might have occupied them at dinner parties in days gone by. In fact, he says, his design for the house was greatly inspired by images of Hollywood grandeur, and he's quick to cite a link between the Spanish Colonial Revival that defined 1920s and 1930s Los Angeles style and the Mediterranean and Mexican influences that predominate in San Antonio and that are on full display here.
Guest rooms on the second floor include one that the clients have named the Stafford Room, in honor of the London hotel they count among their favorites and that served as a design template. Of the first-floor master suite Stubbs says, "It's always important to me to set the master bedroom apart from the rest of a house—to make sure it has different colors and textures, and even acoustics. I want it to sound different, more hushed, in order to emphasize the fact that it's a place of respite." In this instance, he employed a limited palette that never strayed far from peaceful ivories but combined layers of subtle pattern—on the wallcovering, the bedding and the carpet—to give the room a quiet vibrancy.
Both the husband and wife, who remain active in philanthropic pursuits even in their retirement, get their own studies, but only one of those studies—his—features a bookcase concealing a secret passageway. Stubbs notes that the clients love to surprise dinner guests during preprandial tours of the house by taking them into the study, opening the creaking portal and guiding them down to the grotto-like wine cellar and intimately scaled dining area, where a cocktail and first course are often served. The walls are made from rubble that came from the renovation sites of local missions, meaning that some of the material dates back to the early 18th century.
When his clients were discussing their hopes and wishes with him, the husband made a casual comment that profoundly affected the way Stubbs would approach the project. "He told me: I want to build a 100-year-old house.' No one had ever said that to me," says the designer. "It really kicked my mind into gear. I had to ask myself: What does that mean? Well, it means thicker walls, of course; it means that the quality of everything you use has to be the absolute best so that it can be passed down to another generation. Everything you put into the house must have real, lasting value." And, he adds with a satisfied smile, "this house is going to age very well."


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I think any name that starts with Mc anything is kind of chavvy. I think all the names you mention are very pretty, but I associate them with people who are simpler and less educated just because of knowing people with those names that are way less than ivy league educated. So am I, but do I want my name to indicate that?
It's not always the case, but as a general rule. I can like the sound of a name all day but when it comes to naming somebody I don't want them being disadvantages by a negative association. Sadly, classism and racism are things my children will have to deal with since I haven't got millions and don't run a large business so they never have to go into the big bad world.
September 8th, 2013 12:23 PM #14
My middle name is McKenzie (it's my grandma's maiden name) and I love it. My little sister's name is Makenna (we pronounce it 'muh-kenna') and that's my preferred spelling. I only ever call her Kenny, though. I can say first hand that Makenna is a great name for a little girl, with nicknames like Kenna, Kenny, Ken, and Kennalee.
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Two car bombs exploded in the southern city of Daraa, killing at last least 20 government soldiers. British Prime Minister Cameron proposed arming the Syrian rebels. Jordan has stepped up its support of the rebels.
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Economic Contribution Of Copyright-Based Industries And Impact On Employment And Performance Indicators In Knowledge-Based Society Developing In Romania
The economic dimension of copyright-based industries sector in Romania is becoming of higher interest, on the one hand, for policy-makers taking into consideration its increasing contribution to GDP, employment, foreign trade and investment and, on the other hand, as a multidimensional vector for social inclusion, increasing self-confidence, supporting better education in a globalised and multicultural world.The opening of the Romanian economy and society has contributed to higher employment in the creative activities. The new jobs - "high-knowledge jobs" in creative activities or in "non-creative industries" – have several features that could support higher performance. We underline the size and features of employment in the copyright-based industry sector and in core activities in Romania and some performance of labour force. On one hand, press freedom, the increase in the role of civil society, the elimination of censorship represented positive influence factors for new jobs creation in the cultural industries. In this way, the copyright-based industries have become a factor of tension reduction and increased flexibility on the labour market. On the other hand, there are big differences regarding the value of the operational profit per employee and its evolution in time among the core component industries. The analysis of the core copyright industries with respect to the size and evolution of the operational profit per employee, both in the overall sector and the component industries, led us to an interesting and useful classification of the core industries which could be helpful for better decision-making and copyright industries policies.
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Perilous Passage, beyond the character relationships, is about the normal two-dimensional limits of reason-rhyme-narrative-thought, or rather it is about taking those linear limits and twisting them until they snap and shatter; before reconnecting in novel appreciation – appreciation of Gysin, Burroughs and Wilson's friendships therein. If, as a reader, you wish to be challenged, not in the sense of War and Peace but in the sense of a psychedelic experience perhaps, then Perilous Passage is indeed an excellent read. It shifts the priorities of how your thoughts are constructed in reading and becomes a novel break in consciousness itself. Overall, a fascinating and engaging read. (Link to Full Review)
—PSYPRESSUK, January 30, 2012
greggw –
…Wilson's writing is shot through with passages of yearning and beauty in which he breaks through into a new domain: the description of states of altered consciousness which are sometimes thought to be beyond words. Wilson derides language only to catch it by its tail and set it on a fresh course.
—Ian MacFadyen, The London Magazine, Dec/Jan 2006
Perilous Passage
By Terry Wilson
Introduction by Ian McFadyen
Perilous Passage is an account of Terry Wilson's lifetime apprenticeship under the master shamanic practitioner, Brion Gysin, the hidden master of the avant-garde, of whom William Burroughs said, "He is the only man I respect." The book focuses on events as they developed just prior to and after Gysin's death in 1986 and details the extreme psychic "Third Mind" effects known as The Process. Perilous Passage is a cautionary tale about the uses and abuses of power, a paranoid espionage thriller that includes transcribed audio hallucinations, notes, cut-ups, interview format, and collaged material. Like Gysin and Burroughs, Wilson treats language itself as a parasitic invader which must be resisted, broken up and reassembled. This book is about how the magic was passed on and is being carried into the future.
Ian MacFadyen's in-depth essay on Perilous Passage


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Marvin Lewis sat down for his annual pre-draft press conference Tuesday looking forward to this weekend's festivities. In a shocking turn of events, he did not allow exactly who the Bengals would select at No. 24 or if they plan on trading out of the spot.
He did, however, discuss the state of his roster, his boss' enjoyment of mock drafts, his love for first-round corners and dissatisfaction with the draft's movement to May.
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Here's a collection of the more interesting topics he touched on during the 20-minute session.
Lewis on how the draft being pushed back hurts the rookies:
"It takes away an opportunity for the rookies because now once they can actually come here for our offseason program they begin after the draft this week. As far as teaching goes it's a great progression to have an opportunity for them to come and spend time at a rookie camp, have an opportunity to go home for a bit and absorb what they got exposed to and then come back with the other players and to have the second time around. To me that's a much better teaching progression so then they get it again a third time when we go to training camp so they can get things locked down. We are kind of skipping a step of that now because there is no reason to bring those guys in next week and then overwork them the next weekend because they are going to be the first guys that have all the soft tissue injuries. So we are going to skip that step in the process here."
Lewis on what he will do to overcome the missed first step:
"We are going to spend a little time with them after the fact. Either before or after next week we are going to begin to spend some time, we are going to carve out some extra time with them, their position coaches."
Lewis on the length of the draft at three days:
"It's not really stressful because it's like watching paint dry. You have far too much time. You are going to do the evaluation and you want the evaluation to always work through the same profile of our criteria, basically personality, ability and future and how he fits. As long as we stay to that you are pretty good with it. We do have to wait our turn and then pick the next player. In that process it gets a little long, drawn out. The NFL is what it is because of television. Certainly, this is a made for TV event."
Lewis on what the Bengals profile of player is:
"We want a guy that, No. 1, we can count on. That's the hardest part of the evaluation is having a guy we can count on. That means having the ability to stay here, to be proficient here and having the personality to be able to do it. That is where you got to spend the time, whether it is personality, past, future and then ability."
Lewis on why he likes first-round cornerbacks so much:
"Quarterback and cornerback are the toughest positions to play in the league, and if you're not good enough there, everyone else suffers. And there's no way to mask it. It takes certain rare ability to play those two spots. To play cornerback on defense, to run with a guy that can be bigger than you, can be faster than you, knows where he's going and you've got to run with him and you've got to defend him and you can't touch him. Other than that, it's an easy job. When everybody sees that guy catch a ball on you, everyone looks at you even though somebody else probably didn't do their job as well as they needed to as well. But everybody looks at you. That's a tough position. I've been fortunate in the league to be around a bunch of good corners, and most of them came in the first round. I feel pretty good about that."
Lewis on if safety is joining corner along those lines:
I've been that way philosophically for a while. It's to my upbringing and so forth in the NFL, where we've had safeties that way that could do that. We've been that way since I've been here, and the trend will continue that way because the trend in college football is that way. So these guys are becoming more of big corners with the style of coverage, the style of offense and the things that people are playing. The game is evolving that way a little bit more.
Lewis on if he pays attention to all the mock drafts out there:
"My boss, Mike Brown, he has a mock draft about every hour. He plays the devil's advocate constantly. And I think it's a good thing. If this guy is not available, if these players are all gone and we're looking at this pool of players, which player do you prefer and why. And I think that's the scenario you've got to go through. So it's important for he and I to be always on the same page that way and I feel like we are and he knows how I feel so ultimately when he turns in the pick based the guys that are left, and we've discussed it, we'll discuss it again in the room and we'll discuss it again later today, tomorrow, what's tomorrow? Wednesday? Thursday. So we've got a few more times to discuss it. But he knows how I feel and whatever pick we turn it, we'll make him the best player he can be."
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text: A Friday 16 October 2009 18:05:05 Sturla Molden escrigué: > Francesc Alted skrev: > > The response is clear: avoid memcpy() if you can. It is true that > > memcpy() performance has improved quite a lot in latest gcc (it has been > > quite good in Win versions since many years ago), but working with data > > in-place (i.e. avoiding a memory copy) is always faster (and most > > specially for large arrays that don't fit in cache processors). > > > > My own experiments says that, with an Intel Core2 processor the typical > > speed- ups for avoiding memcpy() are 2x. > > If the underlying array is strided, I have seen the opposite as well. > "Copy-in copy-out" is a common optimization used by Fortran compilers > when working with strided arrays. The catch is that the work array has > to fit in cache for this to make any sence. Anyhow, you cannot use > memcpy for this kind of optimization - it assumes both buffers are > contiguous. But working with arrays directly instead of copies is not > always the faster option. Mmh, don't know about Fortran (too many years without programming it), but in C it seems evident that performing a memcpy() is always slower, at least with modern CPUs (like the Intel Core2 that I'm using now): In [43]: import numpy as np In [44]: import numexpr as ne In [45]: r = np.zeros(1e6, 'i1,i4,f8') In [46]: f1, f2 = r['f1'], r['f2'] In [47]: f1.flags.aligned, f2.flags.aligned Out[47]: (False, False) In [48]: timeit f1*f2 # NumPy do copies before carrying out operations 100 loops, best of 3: 14.6 ms per loop In [49]: timeit ne.evaluate('f1*f2') # numexpr uses plain unaligned access 100 loops, best of 3: 5.77 ms per loop # 2.5x faster than numpy Using strides, the result is similar: In [50]: f1, f2 = r['f1'][::2], r['f2'][::2] # check with strides In [51]: f1.flags.aligned, f2.flags.aligned Out[51]: (False, False) In [52]: timeit f1*f2 100 loops, best of 3: 7.52 ms per loop In [53]: timeit ne.evaluate('f1*f2') 100 loops, best of 3: 3.96 ms per loop # 1.9x faster than numpy And, when using large strides so that the resulting arrays fit in cache: In [54]: f1, f2 = r['f1'][::10], r['f2'][::10] # big stride (fits in cache) In [55]: timeit f1*f2 100 loops, best of 3: 3.51 ms per loop In [56]: timeit ne.evaluate('f1*f2') 100 loops, best of 3: 2.61 ms per loop # 34% faster than numpy Which, although not much, still gives an advantage to the direct approach. So, at least in C, operating with unaligned data on (modern) AMD/Intel processors seems to be fastest (at least in this quick-and-dirty benchmark). In fact, performance is very close to contiguous and aligned data: In [58]: f1, f2 = r['f1'].copy(), r['f2'].copy() # aligned and contiguous In [59]: timeit f1*f2 100 loops, best of 3: 5.2 ms per loop In [60]: timeit ne.evaluate('f1*f2') 100 loops, best of 3: 4.74 ms per loop so 5.77 ms (unaligned data, In [49]) is not very far from 4.74 ms (aligned data, In [60]) and close to 'optimal' numpy performance (5.2 ms, In [59]). And, as I said before, the plans of AMD/Intel are to reduce this gap still further. For unaligned arrays that fits in cache the results are even more dramatic: In [61]: r = np.zeros(1e5, 'i1,i4,f8') In [62]: f1, f2 = r['f1'], r['f2'] In [63]: timeit f1*f2 1000 loops, best of 3: 1.37 ms per loop In [64]: timeit ne.evaluate('f1*f2') 1000 loops, best of 3: 293 µs per loop # 4.7x speedup but not sure why... Cheers, -- Francesc Alted


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Discussion in 'Android Devices' started by Guspeed, May 1, 2012.
Lol! no problem bro... you still got my number man? Just got my service back on today...
Got you Bro!!!
Here are the skins for that... keyboard, yeah, the one that you "already" have installed in your phone, the same keyboard that Bloodawn removed from CTMod.
Here is how to install the skins:
Backup before anything.
All you have to do is look in your phone directories for the keyboard apk open the apk as a zip (on your pc) and drag and drop the png's from the zip to (assets/keyboards)
Then push it back to its previous location (/data/app or /system/app).
And you're all set.
Again, this won't work with other keyboards, only with the one that Bloodawn removed from his rom. Got it
skins are up...
Thx bro
Update for Carbon Lite.
Xperia Launcher was updated in CTMod 3.6, but never updated in Carbon Lite.
So, for you Guys and Gals who are still rocking the Awesome Carbon Lite, please update!!!
Hellz ya.... I luvs da carbon lite
What's Guys,
Well... CarbonLite 2.0 is back!!!
Me still lubs it long time
Sweet. Thanks Bro.
Sup guys, just finished updating CarbonLite 3.75 (see OP)
Nice to see you're still lurking about
Always, my old friend!!!
Friend of mine gave me his ZTE Warp and now I'm on that neighborhood, but always comeback and visit my prevail fellows.
Hey Gus that was pretty quick! Good to see you around and thanks
It's hard to forget my roots and my good old friends.
And you're very welcome!!!
I'll try to update other themes, but dnk when
Sounds great, I'm running it right now! Working good and smooth!
Good to hear from you Gus!
My first friend in this forum, What's going on Kieth???
This is great!!!
In doing great Gus. It's really good to hear from you and see you're still around. How are you liking the Warp?
How can I forget man!!!
Love my Warp, still in development, we don't have a recovery yet but lots of guys are working on that, for now I'm rooted and running an oc kernel from "downthemachine". I'm very happy with my (ICS) new beast.
Great theme. Thank you.
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Company destroys instead of repairs Durham woman's computer
Posted February 21, 2012
Updated February 27, 2012
Durham, N.C. — Imagine having your computer destroyed after you sent it in to be fixed. That's what happened to Durham's Kay Campbell. She contacted 5 On Your Side when she had trouble getting her HP computer replaced.
Campbell's family gave her the computer for Christmas in 2010 so that she could Skype with her grandchildren. Two of them, 7-month-old Will and 3-year-old Mackenzie, live in Illinois. Campbell says Mackenzie really puts on a show when they chat online. "She reads books. She sings songs to us. She dances."
But all that stopped five months after Campbell got the computer. She says it stopped working. "We couldn't see the screen," said Campbell. "The screen was blank." Campbell could hear things, but couldn't see anything!
It was still under warranty, so she called HP, and the company agreed to fix it. Campbell just had to mail it in. She waited to do that because she was in the process of moving and didn't want to create confusion. She mailed it last October. When she hadn't heard anything by December, she followed up with a phone call. Campbell was shocked to learn what happened. "He was like, 'No, actually your computer has been destroyed,'" said Campbell.
Company destroys instead of repairs Durham woman's computer
HP says it fixed the computer, but since her current address didn't match the one in HP's records and they didn't have her new phone number, the computer company wasn't sure where to send it, so they destroyed the computer.
"This is ridiculous," said Campbell. "We had an address. We expected you to mail it back. You didn't. You didn't contact us."
Campbell said she made several calls about getting it replaced. She estimates she spent 30 hours on the phone with HP. She said the customer service representative told her, "Well, the higher-ups haven't decided" if it qualifies for a replacement. Campbell said she waited two weeks for word from the managers. When nothing happened, she called 5 On Your Side.
We contacted HP. "Then you guys called, and all of a sudden the higher-ups agreed to give us a computer," said Kay. The new computer arrived, and Kay is thrilled to be back online with her sweet little grandchildren.


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CHICO -- At age 7, Prem Chand had a deep acquaintance with farm equipment, helping on his family's pumpkin farm near the Sutter Buttes, and later melon- and walnuts-filled land in the Hamilton City area.
It was the hard work in those early days that anchored the drive that Chand now has, and what he appreciates in his company's employees, including the new ones in Chico.
Chand's company, Milestone, opened an office on Rio Lindo Avenue in July.
"We struggled" on the farm, but that formed the foundation for a strong work ethic and drive, Chand told this newspaper during an August visit to the Chico office.
As president and founder of Milestone, Chand's company overcomes computer configuration problems for large business clients throughout the world.
The company opened what it calls a resolution center in Chico to solve clients' technology issues over the phone.
As the youngest of eight children, Chand admitted farming was hard work and not something he wanted for the rest of his life. While his elementary and high school years occurred in Biggs, he followed the path to the Bay Area, as did many of his sisters and brothers.
Chand calls his farm days "like getting a mini-MBA" considering the work and logistics of harvesting, handling and selling farm produce, not to mention managing 20 to 30 workers.
Later he ran a bread delivery route for Togo's sandwiches, traveling from San Jose to the Sacramento area. He gained an understanding of finance from an accelerated course at Condie College in San Jose.
In 1987, he ended up with an accounting job for a transportation company, later getting positions as controller, partner and chief financial officer in the firm.
His company would often be hired when technology companies or others were relocating, but it was more than physical relocating. It was the behemoth task of getting the computer systems running where he found the niche.
"It wasn't plug in and play as it is today."
Milestone was founded in 1997, with four employees and was profitable the first year, says the Milestone website.
Then he bid and landed a contract with a "huge company," which not only was a coup for the small company but showed great confidence in Milestone's ability.
Because of that project — with Blue Shield — others followed and "clients started to roll in." Another boost to his business was the Y2K fear, when companies didn't know what their 1900s-based computers would do as 2000 rolled in.
The relocation part of the business dwindled as companies sought Milestone's technology expertise.
Now with more than 800 employees around the world, Milestone works with giant clients such as Facebook, eBay and Cisco. Generally, the Milestone employee or team is based at the client company to deliver the quickest service.
Saying he didn't want to send jobs offshore, Chand decided to shrink Milestone's resolution center in Fremont and open one in Chico. He said he hoped to find employees more loyal to the company, rather than always searching for a different or higher-paying job.
His roots in this area helped, along with an unidentified contact at Facebook who lives in Chico.
In looking for its new office, Milestone examined about 10 communities throughout the country, weighing technology talent and wages, and finally deciding on Chico.
Chand did say applicants gathered by Chico State University and local businesses were excellent.
Ten have been hired in an initial round, and eventually 15 to 20 people will be based here, Chand said.
Employees go through about two weeks of training at the Fremont headquarters.
Chand talks about his vision for Milestone, for the next three years, including becoming the "company of choice" when it comes to clients selecting a company for technology issues or employees seeking the cutting-edge firm.
Chand said he'd like employees to realize their passion for their jobs is rooted in the value of their service to clients. Expanding on that, he said solving the client's computer-related problem could mean a multi-million contract is saved. That could add more satisfaction to job.
It also means, he said, that potential clients realize the service they'll be getting is extraordinary.
He also wants Milestone to understand its employees' career paths, wages and challenges. A "vice president of people" has been hired to help with the process.
"Even if someone leaves, I want them to say it's a great company to work for. We need to take care of people."
That kind of enthusiasm shows in the company's financial results. Without releasing revenue figures, Chand said since 2006, Milestone's revenue has grown 30 percent each year.
Looking to the future, Chand said he'd like to double the company's growth between now and 2015, and is working with a business coach to that end.
In 2000, Milestone earned the first of several fast growth awards from media companies after increasing revenue by 927 percent, says its website.
In 2009, Milestone was named to the Inc. 5000's fastest growing private companies list.
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