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"I don't know any polite way of putting this — but he's lying," said professor John Ellis, president of the National Association of Scholars' California division. Ellis was reacting to a critic's characterization of the NAS's damning report, "A Crisis of Competence: The Corrupting Effect of Political Activism in the University of California."
California taxpayers spend $2.8 billion to educate the more than 230,000 students at the 10 campuses that comprise the UC system. But the report says the UC system does not help students learn how to think, but rather teaches them what to think. And what they "learn" is that they are victims — whether of racism, sexism, classism or discrimination because of sexual orientation. Liberal profs, says the report, turn the UC campuses into "a sanctuary for a narrow ideological segment of the spectrum of social and political ideas."
Nationwide, left-wing professors vastly outnumber conservative professors in the humanities. It isn't even close.
The report cites several studies, including political scientist Stanley Rothman's 1999 study: "Whether the question was posed in terms of liberals versus conservatives or Democrats versus Republicans, the margins favored the former by nearly 5-to-1 in each case, and in some departments the results were overwhelming. For example, in English departments the margin was 88-to-3, and in politics 81-to-2."
A different 2007 study, says the report, found the 5-to-1 margin between liberal versus conservative professors had become 8-to-1. Almost 20 percent of professors in social sciences and 25 percent of sociology professors self-identifies as "Marxist."
And things are getting worse. Younger professors tend to be even more liberal than older ones. Among UC Berkeley's associate and assistant professors, according to one study, registered Democrats outnumber registered Republicans by 49-to-1 in all departments — including sciences. When Berkeley associates and assistants replace the older professors as they retire, the extreme 8-to-1 tilt in favor of liberal profession could reach 50-to-1.
UC Berkeley professor Robert Anderson, the critic whom Ellis accuses of "lying," called the report "short on facts, but long on innuendo and anecdotes." Is it? The 87-page report looked at course descriptions, books assigned, faculty's political party registration and self-identification of ideology, and student feedback.
Students are immersed in an education that emphasizes the wrongs done to minorities, women, gays and other groups. Gender, ethnic, religious and sexual orientation grievances are highlighted as representative of an imperial, racist, exploitative capitalist superpower that continues to engage in widespread racism, sexism, homophobia and worldwide domination.
"We wuz wronged" takes center stage over a basic understanding of economics, of the concept of federalism, and of the values that turned a struggling bunch of colonies into a political and economic superpower. Indeed, the very mission statements of many departments on UC campuses stress their commitment to activism for enacting social change, or to bring about social or racial or fill-in-the-blank justice.
Take the UC Berkeley history course that majors in that field must take, "The United States from Settlement to the Civil War." Its course description states its goals: "to understand how democratic political institutions emerged in the United States in this period in the context of an economy that depended on slave labor and violent land acquisition."
A conservative professor — if there were any — might offer an alternative version of American history: The British colonies defied the mightiest world power by demanding and then fighting for political and religious freedom. They conceived a radical document, the United States Constitution, born out of armed revolution, where for the first time in human history, the new, imperfect country said: "The people rule. Through our Constitution, which we have amended to ensure equal rights of blacks and women, we grant our government limited, non-intrusive powers. The rest is left to the people and to the states."
Why does this matter?
After all, students expect professors to give opinions. Surely students aren't potted plants, and can a) read about other points of view and b) freely disagree with professors without fear of classroom ridicule or lower exam grades.
But the report says many students complain that alternative viewpoints are discouraged, scorned or dismissed, sometimes derisively. Students' complaints to administrators are ignored.
What is the practical effect of this "corrupted" education?
Take today's debate over whom to "blame" for high gas prices. Without some understanding of supply and demand, voters buy into the patently ridiculous argument that the price of oil results from "manipulation" by oil executives or evil "oil speculators." Voters ignorant of Econ 101 support populist policies like the minimum wage, which actually hurts the job prospects of the poor — the people minimum wage proponents purport to help.
NAS's Ellis says the answer is for the UC system to first acknowledge the problem. Then the UC system should stop ignoring its own regents' "Policy on Course Content." It states: "(Regents) are responsible to see that the University remain aloof from politics and never function as an instrument for the advance of partisan interest. Misuse of the classroom by, for example, allowing it to be used for political indoctrination ... constitutes misuse of the University as an institution."
Class is now in session.
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In the presence of a presentation translator that translates from students to commands, however, both students and commands would be sensitive. When the student is highlighted, the middle pointer button might execute the command show-transcript for that student.

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Thanks for the report, FortuneQuacker. Can you elaborate a little on "PC is freezing up"? Just after one use? After several? Is freezing in which state? I'll check UPS too, but I am leaving for a conference abroad for almost a week, so I don't think I'll have any news soon.
When we start the PC app, you cannot click on anything, including the exit button. We get the interface but it does not seem to be hearing the mouse click events. So, you have to CTRL-ALT-DEL to get out of the program. So, for now we have removed it from our Plugins. This is on Rosalia server, where I am an admin and mostly deal with the server settings and config.
Seems the PC app is freezing up when you use it. You have to log off. Also, the UPS app is no longer binding with the bank. Must be the latest RWGUI. Just letting you know and thanks for all you do. Edit: After further testing. It seems the UPS app is working OK. I will get back to you when I know something more concrete. When I installed it, I deleted all of the data in the tables from a Single Player installation and then renamed the database. After install and testing, I noticed the app had created a new database, so I deleted the previous one and things seem to be working now.
@FortuneQuacker: looking again, the answer is rather easy: with the updates in RWGui, a new version is required! I made it some time ago but apparently I never uploaded it. I am checking if there is some specific reason for this and then I'll upload to the relevant forum page.
Thank you. I think interest will grow as more plugins are added. I have linked it to a button on my programmable left hand keypad. It makes it super easy to use. Thanks for all your hard work. I actually teach Java programming. But, have not had the time to delve into the RW API. Hope to do more this summer.
Hello Miwarre, I've recently installed your PluginCentral plugin on my test server "Aurumia". I have it also installed with Bank, GPS, PNB, RWGUI (Ofcourse), and UPS. When I run it the first time, it works and I can run other Plugs, but when I try to run it a second time, I get an error in my chat that directs me to you and says, "null" and in the server log I am getting a Java Null Pointer exception. As follows: API: UNREGISTER LISTENER Gui - no more listeners for event PlayerGuiInputEvent - no more listeners for event PlayerGuiElementClickEvent PLUGIN EXCEPTION (com.vms.PluginCentral, 0.1.0, Maurizio M. Gavioli aka Miwarre) ----> java.lang.NullPointerException at com.vistamaresoft.rwgui.GuiModalWindow.layout(GuiModalWindow.java:197) at com.vistamaresoft.rwgui.GuiModalWindow.show(GuiModalWindow.java:281) at com.vistamaresoft.plugincentral.PluginCentral.showMainGui(PluginCentral.java:108) at com.vistamaresoft.plugincentral.PluginCentral.onPlayerCommand(PluginCentral.java:94) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source) at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source) at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Unknown Source) at pluginapi.PluginEventHandler.triggerEvent(SourceFile:169) at D.b.a(SourceFile:190) at D.b.messageReceived(SourceFile:140) at de.jiw.network.kernel.KernelAdapter.dispatch(KernelAdapter.java:188) at de.jiw.network.message.RawPacket.run(RawPacket.java:54) at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(Unknown Source) at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(Unknown Source) at java.lang.Thread.run(Unknown Source)
hi mate just letting you know that i have got my money script 90% working now, now you can use chests to trade oO also each chest is now tied to the user who placed it, only that user can pick up or smash the chest no mater where in the world it is placed this means a user can place a chest in a unprotected area and full it with what ever and set there own price for each type of item in that chest, when another user comes and takes items from the chest they are charged if they don't have the credits then the transaction is canceled and they cant get the items, we have a default price set so if the player does not add a price then the default is used, also now players can be paid for all sorts of jobs the earning rates can be adjusted in game and with out the need to reboot the server, when i say 90% done i still have some things to sort out like ATM any player can set prices in chests if the price has not been set this means a player could goto your chest and change the default price of a item to the new price of 0 and then take that item for free lol so on updateprice i need to add a check to see if that user owns that chest if not then let the user know they don't own the chest not to hard to do also have other stuff to do oO, anyway next week the java API should be up and running so ill wait for that then redo the script in java. at some point it would be awesome to get you to take a look at the script. maybe some things are very ruff and could be improved and i dont want to post the script on the forum till its stable and finished.
i can give you our money script if you wish its not 100% finished thats why we did not post it but in saying that it does do alot right now it pays players credits for building and detects whats taken and put into chests in shop areas ive had a very busy year this year at work and have not had the time to finish it maybe you could rap your brain around it and see what you can do


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RALEIGH, N.C. – Soldiers who don't believe in God can go to war with "Atheist" stamped on their dog tags, but humanists and others with various secular beliefs are still officially invisible in the Army.
Maj. Ray Bradley is applying to be the first humanist recognized as a "distinctive faith group leader" by the Army. In the meantime, he can't be designated as a humanist on his official records or dog tags, although he can be classified as an atheist.
The distinction may not seem like a large one to those unfamiliar with humanism, but the Fort Bragg-based officer says it's the equivalent of being told that "Christian" is an acceptable designation, but not "Catholic."
"Humanism is a philosophy that guides a person," Bradley said. "It's more than just a stamp of what you're not."
Humanism's core beliefs range from the assertion that knowledge of the world is derived from observation and rational analysis to the conviction that working to help others also promotes individual happiness.
The issue is another sign of the growing willingness of military personnel at Fort Bragg and other military bases to publicly identify themselves as atheists, agnostics, humanists or otherwise without belief in a supernatural higher power and seek the same recognition granted to Christians, Jews and other believers.
"There are a lot more people with these beliefs than just Major Ray Bradley, but he's in a position where he can stand up and put in a request for this," said Jason Torpy, president of the Military Association of Atheists and Freethinkers and an Army veteran.
Bradley, a veteran of the war in Afghanistan who enlisted in 1986, is respectful and protective of the Army, and careful to say his views are his own. He said he has been a humanist since before he enlisted, when "No Religious Preference" was his only option. Now he feels getting his official records to match his convictions is an important symbolic point.
"There's no regulation that says I can't go downtown and get a set of tags made that say 'humanist,' but I won't do that because it won't be on my official record," he said. "To me, this is an individual right."
A petition campaign organized by Torpy's group wants "humanist" and "spiritual but not religious" added to the currently available religious designations.
Bradley said he applied for the change to his record after learning that "atheist" was now an officially recognized choice for soldiers. His request was ultimately rejected by the Army Chaplain Corps, he said, which didn't respond to a request for comment. Bradley believes some of the resistance comes from a lack of familiarity with humanism.
"I don't think the chaplaincy really understands the difference between atheism and humanism," he said.
Humanism goes beyond a simple statement of disbelief in the existence of a deity or deities, said Howard Katz, president of the Humanist Society, which is sponsoring Bradley's application to become a lay humanist leader at Bragg.
"Atheism means just that: you don't believe in God," Katz said. "You could have an axe murderer who's an atheist. Humanists have ethics and a philosophy."
They also have formal "life-cycle celebrations" for occasions like marriages, funerals, even what Katz calls "humanist bar mitzvahs." Founded in 1939 and chartered as a religious organization, the Humanist Society also certifies celebrants to perform the ceremonies, who then have the same legal authority as members of the clergy.
It shouldn't be a surprise that humanists and other non-theists in the military are becoming more vocal, because their civilian counterparts are doing the same thing, said Penny Edgell, a sociologist at the University of Minnesota who studies American religion.
"There are lots more organizations for atheists, agnostics and humanists now than there used to be," she said. "This is an emerging identity."
The organization of non-theists parallels the mobilization of conservative religious believers in American society, Edgell said. As one group asserts its identity, the other feels the need to respond.
"People are aware that if you're going to claim it, you have to claim it more strongly," she said. "There's kind of a cycle of mobilization."
The Army currently has no humanist chaplains or laypersons authorized to perform limited chaplain duties, a position roughly equivalent to a deacon or elder in a Christian church. A soldier at Fort Meade, Md., has also filed the paperwork seeking the designation, which is a more formal process in the Army and Navy than in the Air Force, where a humanist lay leader is stationed at MacDill Air Force Base, Fla., according to Torpy.
Bradley sees his role as essentially organizing the humanists at Fort Bragg and securing a regular meeting place, for listening to speakers or just gather to talk about their experiences.
"I don't want to make it sound too religious," he said with a laugh, after catching himself using the word "congregation."
"A minority is always much bigger than what's visible on the surface until they're accepted by society," he said. "Once people realize that their neighbors are part of this minority, and they're just regular people like anyone else, they become accepted."
That's important if non-theists continue to grow in the larger society, said David Segal, director of the Center for Research on Military Organization at the University of Maryland. Surveys vary, but between 15 and 20 percent of Americans now don't identify with any particular religion, although not all of those people are non-theists.
"There is that trend in society, and we strive to have our military as representative of our society as possible," he said. "That's part of the reason the right to serve became so important for blacks, and then women, and then gays. You've got that added dimension of military service being a hallmark of citizenship."
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The Economics of Adapting Fisheries to Climate Change
Climate change is becoming more evident and, as it increases, will alter the productivity of fisheries and the distribution of fish stocks. From an economic point of view, the changes will have impacts on fisheries and coastal communities in different ways. These expected changes require adaptable and flexible fisheries and aquaculture management policies and governance frameworks. However, the forms of future climate change and the extent of its impact remain uncertain. Fisheries policy makers therefore need to develop strategies and decision-making models in order to adapt to climate change under such uncertainty while taking into account social and economic consequences.
While most work on climate change in the fisheries sector has focused on fisheries science, this book highlights the economic and policy aspects of adapting fisheries to climate change. An outcome of the OECD Workshop on the Economics of Adapting Fisheries to Climate Change, held in June 2010, the book outlines the actions that fisheries policy makers must undertake in the face of climate change. These include: strengthening the global governance system; a broader use of rights-based management systems; ecosystem protection; industry transformation through the ending of environmental harmful subsidies and a focus on demand for sustainably caught seafood; and, in particular, using aquaculture as a key part of the response to climate change.
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Acer last month released the 8-inch Iconia W3 tablet, which happened to be the first "small tablet" to run Windows 8. Unfortunately, it's a pretty terrible tablet. It's heavy and cumbersome, looks and feels like it was designed for a child, and has a display that will bring tears -- sad tears -- to your eyes.
That would be worth discussing at length except that Acer apparently agrees, and is working on a revamped version of the tablet for release later this year. That makes a review of the hardware itself irrelevant.
The software, though, still matters. As the first small Widows 8 device, Acer's misfire helps answer the question: Does Microsoft's operating system hold up in this form factor?
Windows 8 is built around vector-based text and graphics -- which can shrink and enlarge on the fly without affecting their quality -- and responsive design, which basically allows the software to instantly reconfigure its layout based on a device's screen size, orientation and resolution. Everything fits without being too small, too large, or out of place.
This means that Microsoft (MSFT) and its development partners didn't have to do much to make Windows 8 functional on small tablets. With the Windows 8.1 release, though, it's apparent they put a fair amount of thought into tying up some loose ends.
One of Microsoft's explicit goals for Windows 8.1 on mobile devices is to keep users in its new "Modern" interface as much as possible. The desktop mode is designed for a keyboard and mouse; trying to use it with my finger almost provoked a nervous breakdown.
That makes the little fixes sprinkled throughout Modern meaningful. The Start screen and many of the apps have been tweaked to make more efficient use of the display space in portrait mode. Seven- to 8-inch tablets are the natural choice for those who want a reading device, and that means they're typically handled in portrait orientation.
The local file browser inside Microsoft's SkyDrive app is a nice Windows 8.1 addition regardless of device. But on the Iconia W3, its existence really makes sense. Being able to browse, manipulate and organize files without having to go into the traditional Windows Explorer makes a huge difference, especially when you're only using your finger. The same goes for settings. Windows 8.1 pulls more of the options away from the Control Panel and into the Modern menu, which keeps you better connected to touch controls.
Related story: Ouya is a charming but flawed $100 game console
Improvements to the keyboard have been made with the small screen in mind. Features like auto-suggest are long overdue. Microsoft also introduced a new, ingenious idea: flick upwards on the top row of keys to type numbers. The mechanics still need polishing, but the concept is sound.
Snap View, a feature not supported on displays smaller than 1366 x 768 in Windows 8, will now work on small displays on Windows 8.1. That means two apps can share the screen at the same time and allow a certain degree of multitasking. Having a Web browser open in one window and an app like Twitter open in another is especially useful. It's not as much of a necessity for smaller devices, but it works pretty well for those who want to use it.
That said, there's plenty of room for improvement, and Windows 8.1 needs to address a few small screen issues.
An 8-inch tablet is optimal for reading, but Windows 8.1's addition of baked-in, reading-centric features is scatterbrained at best. There's the Instapaper-esque Reading List app, which will take any link you send over and stash it away for later reading. Yet it doesn't reformat webpages and articles into a more-reading friendly format, and it doesn't allow for offline viewing, which strips away much of its utility.
There's also a separate Windows Reader app that only supports PDFs. No e-books. No HTML files. Just PDFs. Yes there are Kindle and Nook reader apps, but if Microsoft is serious about supporting smaller devices, offering better features for readers is crucial. Combining Reading List and Reader into a single app and expanding their overall functionality would make a huge difference.
Internet Explorer is also an area that needs work. Technically speaking, it's mostly fine. It renders pages as well and as quickly as any other browser. But its interface has always felt a little chaotic, and within the more claustrophobic confines of the 8-inch screen, that feeling is amplified. In Snap Mode, the browser is unable to detect webpages that employ a responsive design. Instead of reconfiguring the webpage as you allocate screen space to IE, it simply shrinks the standard page template, which doesn't make it all that usable as a secondary window.
And while it's understandable that Microsoft is letting users run the classic "desktop" mode, it's also so pointless that Microsoft might be better off only allowing access to it when the tablet is connected to an external monitor. It's not a huge issue, but people with unrealistic expectations are bound to be frustrated.
No one should go buy an Acer Iconia W3 -- not with better hardware promised in the near future. But the one valuable thing it did is prove that, conceptually speaking, Windows 8.1 will work almost as well on a 7- or 8-inch screen as it will on a 10- or 20-inch screen. If you don't like Windows 8 to begin with, using it on a smaller device won't provide any epiphanies. But for those already on board, it's worth investing in.
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FDA approves new cancer drug
SAN FRANCISCO — The Food and Drug Administration has approved a new drug for colorectal cancer developed by Bayer HealthCare.
Bayer and Onyx Pharmaceuticals announced the approval of Stivarga for colorectal cancer that has spread to other parts of the body, also known as metastatic CRC, specifically for those patients who have received treatment with currently available therapies.
Bayer developed the drug and will pay royalties to Onyx on future global net sales of the drug for cancer. The two companies will promote the drug together in the United States.
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Data acquisition platform gets rock solid, nears the speed of sound on the ground
Take measurements in rugged environments with the NI cDAQ-9188XT: National Instruments extends the NI CompactDAQ platform with a chassis that can withstand 50 g shock (breaking out of concrete with a sledgehammer) and 5 g of vibration (in a jet-powered attempt to set a new land speed record). The platform now supports the NI LabVIEW Electrical Power Suite.
While most data acquisition may not need to withstand a sledgehammer impact or jet-car vibrations, National Instruments (Nasdaq: NATI) announced on Aug. 7 a rugged product that can, the NI cDAQ-9188XT. This 8-slot NI CompactDAQ Ethernet chassis is designed for distributed or remote measurements in extreme environments. The cDAQ-9188XT can withstand temperatures from -40 C to 70 C, 50 g of shock and 5 g of vibration. It also is approved for hazardous location use with a Class 1 Div 2 rating. Engineers in the automotive, military and aerospace industries have used it to successfully acquire data and avoid costly repeat tests.
Punishing tests, pre-launch
"We're using the cDAQ-9188XT to track pressure, vibration, velocity and more in our jet-powered vehicle [see photo] as we try to break the world land speed record," said Steve Wallace, data acquisition scientist for the North American Eagle Project. "So far it's survived everything we've thrown at it and given us great results," Wallace said.
The modified Lockheed F-104A-10 Starfighter, shown at the NIWeek Worldwide Graphical System Design Conference, offers 13,000 lb of thrust and 771 mph top speed, covering a mile in 4.2 seconds. October is the next run. In 2014, the team will attempt to break the 763 mph record, but first they are measuring carefully to ensure the car remains intact and on the ground.
Breaking into new applications
In a stage demonstration on Aug. 6 at NIWeek, the NI cDAQ-9188XT survived positioned inside a hollow concrete block pulverized with a sledge hammer. Prior to the show, Doug Farrell, product marketing manager, industrial data acquisition for National Instruments, pounded on a solid concrete block more than a dozen times to expose the new rugged chassis (see photo), which he said seemed to serve as rebar inside the block.
"We maxed out the accelerometer at more than 50 g with that demo. We had to make the stage show (see photo) a little easier," though the forces were similar, Farrell told CFE Media. The new model increases the upper range of protection that the NI DAQ platform offers, increasing vibration from 0.3 g to 5 g, shock from 30 g to 50 g, and temperature range from -20 C to 55 C to -40 C to 70 C, Farrell said.
The chassis is the first in the NI CompactDAQ platform to offer an onboard watchdog with defined safe states to help protect tests and equipment, Farrell added.
The platform includes 10 chassis options, three buses and more than 50 modules with a wide range of connectivity and I/O options. The platform also has native integration with NI LabVIEW system design software, which provides signal processing libraries and user interface controls designed for data visualization.
"From single-signal benchtop measurements made in laboratories to distributed, rugged or stand¬alone measurements made in some of the most extreme conditions on earth, it's amazing how our customers' applications have evolved over the past 25 years," said Chad Chesney, director of data acquisition marketing at National Instruments. "By continuing to invest in NI CompactDAQ, we'll contribute to even more engineering accomplishments over the next quarter century."
NI added to NI CompactDAQ platform capabilities with support for the LabVIEW Electrical Power Suite. With this toolkit, NI CompactDAQ users can integrate power analysis functions, such as energy, frequency, voltage unbalance, and event detection, into monitoring systems.
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Alabama, United States
19th May 2010
Only a human values oriented approach in education can impart true intelligence. Today, every parent envisions that their child grow up to be a well educated and happy human being with good values. However, education often fails to fulfill its true goal -- happiness.
A child's smile, joy and friendliness are unmatched. However, observe the face of the same child by the time he or she passes out of school and university - does the child still retain that joy, that innocence that beauty endowed as an infant?Is there a way to retain the innocence of children once they grow older? If we can, then we would have attained something really marvelous, because innocence is beautiful.


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KemPharm Advances KP201 Clinical and Commercial Program with Completion of Tablet Registration Activities
Company Targets Second Quarter of 2014 to File NDA As Development Activities Accelerate
NORTH LIBERTY, Iowa, April 16, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- KemPharm, Inc., a clinical stage biopharmaceutical company focused on the discovery and development of new, safer therapies to treat pain, announced today that it has completed tablet manufacturing activities as part of the clinical and commercial development program for KP201. The manufactured tablets are a fixed-dose combination of KemPharm's proprietary, non-toxic ligand attached to hydrocodone and 325 mg of acetaminophen.
KP201 is KemPharm's lead clinical candidate in development for the treatment of acute moderate to moderately severe pain. KP201, which was recently designated by the USAN council as benzhydrocodone, offers unique physicochemical and pharmacological attributes that may deliver additional patient benefits, including reduced potential for abuse and reduction or elimination of opioid-induced constipation (OIC). KemPharm anticipates submitting a new drug application (NDA) for KP201 to the FDA in the second quarter of 2014.
Travis C. Mickle, Ph.D., president and CEO of KemPharm, commented, "Completing the tablet registration process for KP201 is an important event as it signifies that the drug is optimally designed for continued clinical and commercial advancement. As we continue toward an NDA filing in 2014, the next milestone for KP201 is the completion of several pivotal pharmacokinetic studies in this summer. Our expectation is this data will be the foundation of our submission to the FDA and will provide the basis upon which the safety, efficacy and abuse-deterrent properties of KP201 will be evaluated. KemPharm's goal is to develop KP201 as a first-in-class opioid-based drug that possesses the ability to reduce abuse potential and opioid-induced constipation."
About KemPharm
KemPharm is abiopharmaceutical company focused on the discovery and development of new chemical entities (NCEs) to treat serious medical conditions through its proprietary and broadly applicable Ligand Activated Therapy (LAT) approach. The company utilizes its LAT technology to generate improved prodrug versions of FDA approved drugs in the high needs areas of pain, ADHD and other CNS diseases. KemPharm's lead clinical candidate, KP201, is in development for the treatment of acute moderate to moderately severe pain with a new drug application (NDA) expected to be filed in the second quarter of 2014. Composed of hydrocodone chemically bound to a ligand, KP201 offers unique physicochemical and pharmacological attributes that may deliver additional patient benefits, including reduced potential for abuse and reduction or elimination of opioid-induced constipation (OIC). KemPharm's pipeline is also highlighted by KP511, its hydromorphone prodrug for pain, and KP415, a prodrug of methylphenidate for the treatment of ADHD. For more information on KemPharm, please visit the company's website at www.kempharm.com.
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You see, my house only have 2 sometimes 3 persons, so cooking for a small portion to me is quite difficult. And when I wanted to cook it, either I am not well (bad cough) or the other family member is on Chinese medicine for a month and so have to wait, and then another had sore throat, blah , blah, blah, and wait till the timing is right for me to cook this.
I am not good in cooking spicy dishes, and when I prepare the ingredients, blend to paste, fry, saute, add this, add that, and wondering in the end am I doing it right procedure. But of course, no worries, in the end, the taste do seem real good and delicious! How I wish the expertise to help to taste and comment for me...
Lisa. , actually I wanted to use fresh milk in this but do not know whether it feels right or not and in the end I still go ahead with the coconut milk ~ hee...hee....just trying to cut down my cholesterol level since doctor said it is high after my last check up.
So, herewith my post today is Ayam Masak Merah (Chicken In Spicy Tomato Sauce)
Ayam Masak Merah Recipe
Recipe from Lisa of From My Lemony Kitchen
Serve 8-10
(I cooked half portion of this recipe)
2 x 0.9-1kg chicken, cut into 8 pieces/chicken
20 dried chillies, soaked
2 red onion
5 cloves of garlic
40g ginger
25g galangal (lengkuas)
5 lemongrass
2-3 star anise
4 cloves
3 inch of cinnamon
3 cardamom
1 can of tomato soup
1 can (400ml) coconut milk
Salt to taste
Vegetable oil for deep frying plus ¼ cup extra
1 cup of peas, optional
Preparing Chicken.
Rub chicken with turmeric and salt. Set aside for 30 minutes. Heat up the oil in a wok and deep fry the chicken pieces until golden in colour. Set aside.
Roughly chopped red onion, ginger, galangal and lemongrass, then transfer to a blender or food processors. Add in chillies and garlic. Process into a paste.
Heat up the wok with ½ cup of oil. Sauté the spices : Cinnamon, star anise, cloves and cardamom until fragrant. Then add in the blended paste. Bring the heat up until the paste bubble then lower the heat. Simmer till the paste is thoroughly cooked, fragrant and the oil separates from the paste (pecah minyak).
Add in canned tomato soup, coconut milk and chicken pieces. Bring up the heat for a quick boil, then lower to a simmer and cook until the sauce thickened. Add peas and season with salt to taste.
Garnish with some spring onion before serving.
So, was it good? You bet, two thumbs up!! Taste much more better eating with your hands!
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USPS ends Saturday letter delivery. How much fuel will it save?
The post office will no longer deliver letters on Saturdays. The move comes as the United States Postal Service struggles with shrinking mail volume and rising operating costs.
So how much money can it expect to save by scrapping Saturday delivery? Overall, the Postal Service expects to save $2 billion a year out of an annual operating budget of more than $70 billion. A big part of that saving presumably is labor costs. Another savings is fuel.
The Postal Service owns and operates the world's largest civilian vehicle fleet with more than 213,000 cars, trucks, and vans that travel 1.2 billion miles each year. In fiscal year 2010, USPS vehicles consumed about 146 million gasoline gallon equivalents (GGE), or about 700 GGE if you include contract vehicles. The cost of fueling and maintaining USPS vehicles runs about $1 billion a year.
And those costs have been rising, despite USPS efforts to curb them.
"Most Americans can modify their driving habits when gasoline prices rise – change commuting modes, combine multiple errands into one trip and cut out non-essential driving," reads the USPS 2011 sustainability plan. "Not as easy to do for the Postal Service. We deliver six days per week, regardless of the price at the pump."
The Postal Service has tried to trim the financial and environmental drag of its fleet. It has experimented with the use of electric vehicles on and off since 1899, and now counts about 44,000 electric, compressed natural gas, liquid propane gas, and biodiesel vehicles among its fleet. That makes it the world's largest alternative fuel-enabled fleet of vehicles, according to the USPS.
Despite these efforts, postal vehicle petroleum fuel use increased by 8.3 percent or 11.7 million GGE, between fiscal year 2005 and fiscal year 2011. That's because the fleet must cover more ground each year as the United States continues to grow. The network expanded by 636,530 new delivery points in 2011.
While it has made significant progress on several energy-efficiency fronts, a January 2012 White House Office of Management and Budget report shows that the Postal Service is not on track to achieve a 20 percent reduction in petroleum use by fiscal year 2015 against 2005 levels.
That's why the end of Saturday letter delivery, scheduled for early August, is a start in cutting fuel consumption, but will hardly bring the budget back into balance. If the USPS had completely eliminated Saturday delivery, it could reduce its annual petroleum fuel use by 20 to 25 million GGE (about 3 percent of its total fuel use) and reduce its carbon footprint by about 315,000 to 500,000 metric tons of greenhouse gas equivalent per year, according to the USPS's 2011 sustainability plan.
As it is, the Postal Service will continue to deliver packages on Saturdays, so the savings will be less.
"In the discussions a few years ago, fuel cost savings were a part of the package, but that was eliminating Saturday delivery completely," Sue Brennan, a USPS spokeswoman, wrote in an e-mail. "We are not doing that now, so I'm not sure how much a role [fuel] plays."


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20th January 2021
Tesla has unveiled the latest addition to its suite of energy products – launching a standalone solar inverter that fills a key gap in its household solar, storage and electric vehicle offering.
Tesla quietly updated its website to include new details about its standalone inverter product – a device that converts the direct current (DC) power produced from rooftop solar panels and batteries into useful alternating current (AC) power, allowing solar energy to be used by household appliances or exported to the grid.
The addition of the standalone inverter to the Tesla product line up is a key step towards establishing a completely integrated solar energy, battery storage and EV charging solution from Tesla.
Tesla, which has offered solar panels as part of its energy products business since the acquisition of SolarCity in 2016, has had a slightly complicated relationship with inverters in the past.
The company's original Powerwall home battery offering required a separate inverter to be installed alongside it, while the Powerwall 2 heralded the arrival of the AC-coupled version of the battery that included an inverter, as well as a DC version that didn't. Not long after that, Tesla killed off the DC version entirely.
In the update this week, Tesla says the new inverter product "completes the Tesla home solar system" and reduces the need for third-party products to manage a household energy system.
Tesla says that the new standalone inverter system has drawn upon the integrated inverter technology developed for the Powerwall 2 battery and is able to achieve a 97.5% conversion efficiency.
Tesla also said that the new inverter would be compatible with both standard traditional solar panels, as well as Tesla's own solar roof technology, which integrates solar cells into roofing tiles.
According to specifications published by Tesla, the inverter will be offered in two sizes, with a 3.8kW and a 7.6kW capacity inverter being offered. The system will be built for both indoor and outdoor installation.
Models will include wi-fi, ethernet and cellular connectivity, allowing the system to interact with the Tesla app and to receive over-the-air software updates.
The inverter will measure at 660 mm in height and 411 mm in width, coming in at around one-third the size of the full Powerwall 2 system.
The inverter will also come with a 12.5 year warranty, which is at the higher end of warranties offered for inverters from other manufacturers.
It is not yet known if and when the inverter product will be available in Australia.


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You can't buy awards, but when it comes to the BAFTAs you can certainly sponsor them.
The British Academy of Film and Television is switching up its corporate partners for its annual film awards ceremony. That means it's out with telecom company Orange, and in with 4G mobile and broadband network EE.
The overhaul will require some rechristening of BAFTA's hardware. After 15 years with Orange in the title, the ceremony will now be known as the EE British Academy Film Awards. Moreover, its award for best newcomer will now be named the EE Rising Star Award.
The BAFTAs are the U.K. equivalent of the Oscars. EE is a sister company of Orange, so the shakeup is not seismic.
The EE British Academy Film Awards will be broadcast on the BBC on Feb. 10, 2013 and will be hosted by satirist Stephen Fry.


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While Apple itself has yet to reveal any Black Holiday 2016 specials, its retail partners have disclosed dozens of deals on iPhones, iPads, Apple Watches. Mac deals? Not so much.
Apple traditionally gives retailers little leeway on iPhone, iPad and Mac promotions, even around Black Friday, but retailers do find ways around these restrictions by bundling phones with gift cards and other goodies.
MORE: 50-plus eye-popping Black Friday tech deals
(Black Friday watchers such as BFads and Best Black Friday have been a big help in keeping tabs on deals.)
Here's a look at some of the Apple deals to be had this Nov. 25, Black Friday, and even earlier in many cases both online and in stores.
Apple iPhone deals
Target: iPhone 7 or 7 Plus
Put $0 down and sign up for a 24-month installment plan ($36 for 128GB Plus, $31 for 128GB iPhone 7) and you'll get a $250 Target gift card
Best Buy: iPhone 7
Best Buy will give you a $250 store gift card with any iPhone 7 purchase as long as you buy in to an installment plan with AT&T, Verizon or Sprint. Stores open at 5pm on Thanksgiving day, but sales are expected to start online earlier than that.
Verizon: Save $250 on iPad Pro if you buy an iPhone
The carrier will bring the price of an iPad Pro 9.7" model with 32GB of storage down to $480 if you buy an iPhone from Verizon. The big catch: 2-year activiation required for the iPad.
Walmart: iPhone 7 (or any other model available)
No money down for any Apple or Samsung smartphone on AT&T Next or Verizon Device Payment plans, plus you get a $250 Walmart gift card. Phone activations begin at 9pm on Thanksgiving night.
Apple iPad deals
Walmart: iPad mini 2 tablet
Walmart is making the price on this pretty mini, by cutting $70 off the usual $270 price for this 32GB model.
hhgregg: iPad Air 2 with WiFi
The retailer knocks $50 off this lightweight 32GB Apple tablet with a 9.7-inch Retina Display screen, for a final price of $350.
Target: Apple iPad Pro 9.7-inch tablet
Get the big Apple iPad with 128GB of storage for $450, which is about $150 off via this deal. Supports 802.11ac Wi-Fi and LTE cellular connectivity. Target is also cutting $125 off the iPad Air 2 and $70 off the iPad mini 2 tablet.
Best Buy: iPad Pro 9.7-inch tablet
Best Buy is cutting $125 from the prices of Apple's big tablets, which are regularly priced from $600 to $930 depending on storage.
Apple Mac deal (s)
Slim pickings here...
Best Buy: MacBook Air 13.3" laptop
This model of the Apple MacBook Air is powered with an Intel i5 processor, has 8GB of RAM and 128GB of flash storage. Best Buy is cutting $200 off the regular price to sell it for $800.
Apple Watch deals
Kohl's: Apple Watch Series 1 & 2
Apple and Kohl's have buddied up so that the retailer better known for its clothing sales will be adding Apple Watches to the accessories it sells. The Series 1 & 2 watches will sell for $269 and $369, respectively, which is no bargain, but Kohl's sweetens the deal for holiday shoppers by including $105 in Kohl's cash for Series 2 buyers and $75 in Kohl's cash for Series 1 buyers.
Target: Apple Watch Series 1
Target is lopping about $80 off the Series 1 model, which will then cost about $200. It's not offering any breaks on Series 2 as of now.
MORE: Best Apple Watch deals for Black Friday 2016
Apple iPod touch, Beats headphones, etc.
Toys R Us: Apple iPod Touch
There's a product you don't hear much about anymore, but some parents still like to ease their kids into smartphones with these Apple gadgets. Toys R Us is knocking $50 off the price of these devices, which range from $200 to $400 depending on storage.
Target: Apple TV
Target is shaving 25% off all Apple TV models, which regularly range in price from $70 to $200. This deal is available Nov. 23 and 24 (so early access Black Friday…) online or in-store (if you use Target's shopping app).
Target: Beats 2 wireless headphones
These high-end, comfortable headphones are being reduced in price from $300 to $120. Doctor Dre-approved.


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Parshat Netzavim
On the last day of his life, Moshe gathers together all the people, both young and old, lowly and exalted, men and women in a final initiation. The covenant includes not only those who are present, but even those generations yet unborn. Moshe admonishes the people again to be extremely vigilant against idol worship, because in spite of having witnessed the abominations of Egypt, there will always be the temptation to experiment with foreign philosophies as a pretext for immorality. Moshe describes the desolation of the Land of Israel which will be a result of the failure to heed G-d's mitzvos. Both their descendants and foreigners alike will remark on the singular desolation of the Land and its apparent inability to be sown or to produce crops. The conclusion will be apparent to all - the Jewish People have forsaken the One who protects them, in favor of idols which can do nothing. Moshe promises, however, that the people will eventually repent after both the blessings and the curses have been fulfilled. However assimilated they will have become among the nations, eventually G-d will bring them back to Eretz Yisrael. Moshe tells the people to remember that the Torah is not a remote impossibility; rather its fulfillment is within the grasp of every Jew. The Parsha concludes with a dramatic choice between life and death. Moshe exhorts the people to choose life.
Journey To Beyond
"…to love the L-rd, your G-d, to listed to His voice and to cleave to Him, for He is your life and the length of your days…"(30:20)
It seems that for once, curiosity has not "killed the cat".
In a mind-boggling feat of near-science-fiction, the United States has managed to send a remote exploration vehicle called "Curiosity" weighing nearly a tonne,the biggest capsule Nasa has ever used, bigger even than the Apollo Command Module, to explore the surface of our nearest planetary neighbor in space – the planet Mars.
Let's consider this journey: Eight and half months after leaving Earth, a distance of 250 million kilometers, it found its "entry keyhole" in the sky just a few kilometers across. Had it not done this, it would have had no chance of arriving at its target. The capsule entered the outer limits of Mars' atmosphere traveling at 20,000km/hr. All that speed had to be reduced to a mere stroll, for when the rover's wheels touch the ground a mere six-to-eight minutes later it was moving at no more than half a meter a second.
As the capsule raced downwards, it ejected ballast blocks to move its center of gravity and tilt its angle of approach. This gave the vehicle lift. And with the aid of thrusters and some dead-reckoning, the entry capsule flew a path through the upper atmosphere, the underside of the capsule heating up to over 2,000 degrees Celsius.
Then more ballast blocks were ejected to straighten the vehicle before, at 11km altitude and with the descent velocity now reduced to 1,400km/h, the capsule deployed a supersonic parachute. This immense canopy opened instantaneously and absorbed an impulse of almost 30 tonnes.
The parachute further slowed the fall to about 450km/h, and at that point, at an altitude of about 1.5km, we saw what flight system manager Mike Wallace called the "crazy" stuff.
A "sky crane" holding the rover dropped away from the parachute and using thruster rockets to further slow its descent, it headed down towards the surface of the planet.
At just 20m above the ground, the sky crane hovered and lowered the rover down to the surface on three nylon cords. The wheels made contact, the cords were cut, and the crane flew away to crash at a safe distance.
Quite a journey!
But this journey pales in comparison to another journey.
It says in the Book of Ecclesiastes, "…and the day of death is better than the day of birth. It's better to go to a house of mourning than to a wedding feast." (Kohelet 7:1-2)
The best advice comes from someone who is about to leave this world, someone who can look back over his life with the objectivity of someone who is leaving it.
And the best advice comes from the best teacher, and no teacher was better than Moshe Rabbeinu.
And what was Moshe's advice to his beloved people on the last day of his life as he looked back over his journey through this world?
"…to love the L-rd, your G-d, to listen to His voice and to cleave to Him, for He is your life and the length of your days…"
When we are born we face a journey that dwarfs the journey of "Curiosity." From the moment we leave the "launch pad" of birth, our days are filled with difficult and sometimes seemingly insurmountable obstacles. At every turn we can make mistakes, sometimes fatal for our spiritual well-being.
Only when we touch down on the surface of the World-to-Come can we finally relax. The whoop of exaltation in the control room of the JPL in Pasadena when Curiosity landed is nothing compared to the whoop of the soul when it finally touches down in the World-to-Come to be satiated with its just reward for having traversed a universe of trials and challenges.


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Schema-org, microformats and more science please
A normal conversation in the GovUK (or any office I frequent) today went*: "Can we get some microformats on that page?", I suggest as I spot a section of our site outputting a boat-load of addresses. "No problem - but what's this about schema-org?". "Yeah, yeah.. we can hedge our bets and throw their mark-up in there too, it's just some extra itemprops
. flippant scoff I'll send you a complete snippet example, because I'm just nice like that."
And that's what I did. And it looked like this:

Department for Transport

<p class="adr" itemprop="address" itemscope

Great Minster House
76 Marsham Street
London
SW1P 4DR

Telephone: 0300 330 3000

Website: <a href="http://www.dft.gov.uk" class="url"

Email: firstname.lastname@example.com

Holy massive-code-snippet batman. I was surprised by the size. I know, I can feel people digging up links already on attack and defence of "bloat" when using microformats alone, but seriously guys, IT'S HUGE. I felt guilty saying "this is what you've gotta add to get this mark-up to mean something". Here's a more broken down comparison:
Here's the address, raw, at just over a tweet's worth (167 chars):
Department for Transport
Great Minster House
76 Marsham Street
Telephone: 0300 330 3000
Website: http://www.dft.gov.uk
Email: firstname.lastname@example.com
Here's the address with the elements on it to get at the separate pieces of the address, bringing us up to 356:

Department for Transport

Great Minster House
76 Marsham Street
SW1P 4DR

Telephone: 0300 330 3000

Website: www.dft.gov.uk

Email: <a href="mailto:email@example.com"
Now let's throw some classes on to those and get a bit of meaning in there (I mean, you may want to style them up, get things on new lines etc etc. so using the microformat classes are handy for that alone.**). We've got a vCard, people! (565):

Department for Transport

Great Minster House
76 Marsham Street
London
SW1P 4DR

Telephone: 0300 330 3000

Website: <a href="http://www.dft.gov.uk"

Email: <a
And now let's make it schema-org friendly using microdata (863):

Department for Transport

<p class="adr" itemprop="address" itemscope

Great Minster House
76 Marsham Street
London
SW1P 4DR

Telephone: 0300 330 3000

Website: <a href="http://www.dft.gov.uk" class="url"

Email: email@example.com

And we're done. All I wanted to do was say "this, dear Computer, is an address". Just getting some frankly useless out-of-the-box HTML elements on the raw data more than doubles it's size (167 to 356), then we double it again to actually make it useful.
Now, I know size isn't everything, and this is a pedantic, slightly silly, and probably less than accurate example. We're not crazy obsessed with keeping our pages below a certain size anymore (Ah... I remember back when the BBC S&Gs insisted that every page had to be less than 200k down the wire including script and CSS AND images. Those were the days.), but it's not something to be sniffed at either. Particularly with mark-up. Increased size probably suggests increased complexity - more work for everyone, more chance of someone bungling the order or nesting, more simply "I can't be bothered". Colour me dubious. I just want to highlight how much we add on to HTML to make it actually do what we need.
and itemtype
, a brief diversion
I had one of those Am I crazy, but why are there two properties on these things? moments. When would you ever use one without the other? The spec says you can use itemscope
alone, but without itemtype
, it's a bit meaningless. I think I'd do away with itemscope
and have itemtype
only but with a value, either a URI or something meaningful to the internal vocabulary. itemscope
seems to exist solely to say "the things in side me are related", but by the very nature of it being the parent of those items, that's already implied, and with a class name of something meaningful (say, hcard), or just the itemtype
(with a useful value), explicit to data consumers.
This isn't sarcasm: I would gratefully receive an explanation as to why there are two attributes instead of one.
Back in the room: Is this seriously what we expect authors to do?
I think I'm still struggling to understand why microdata is a separate specification (or even exists if it's not being used as a mechanism to get stuff into HTML long-term). You can achieve exactly this richness with the current attributes supplied in HTML, and I don't even mean just the microformats class
way. The data-
attribute is pretty handy, though, and seems ripe for stuffing with machine data (why shouldn't it take a URI if you really need it?).
But I digress.
Microdata with schema-org is solving a problem we've already solved in microformats, but in an equally not-quite-there way (having to specify itemtype
with a URI more than once in a page for items that are the same, but not within the same parent, feels filthy, for example). They are just as bad as each other, in slightly varying ways. Useful for proving a point, allowing growth and putting out examples (not that all of these bonuses are currently being made the best of), but crappy if this is all we can muster for the long-term, high-volume, regularly published, data representation patterns in HTML. We're asking authors to jump through hoops still for things they shouldn't have to.
Microformats, schema-org, whatever... is this really our game plan now? Just keep throwing ever more bloat into already creaking elements when you just want to do something really common? What's the strategy for getting this stuff out of this mess and into the language?
You might be asking why bother aiming to get those stronger patterns into HTML, if this mechanism basically works for getting a machine to figure out what the hell you're trying to say, but you may as well be asking why you have any semantically meaningful elements in HTML at all if that's the case. HTML version 5 is redefining some elements to have better semantic meaning because HTML is the language of authors, and to authors and consumers meaning matters.
Without a plan for gathering evidence for popularly used patterns directly from microformats or microdata (and using them as formal methods of research, testing and development), or what people (actual, real developers - not just the big search engines) are doing in general, we'll end up with no progress or the wrong progress in HTML, and I believe that a formal process for how and when this happens should be made (i.e. definitions of what constitutes critical mass of common patterns, how the information should be gathered, how they will be proposed formally in the WG and promoted into the language proper, etc.).
I want evidence-based HTML that will evolve using clearly defined mechanisms.
*Conversation shortened and re-written with an artistic license and possibly some (many; "nice" may be a stretch) inaccuracies.
**Yes, I'm casually suggesting that microformats are "free" if all you want to do is get your stuff out there with the minimum you'll need to be machine-friendly and human-eyes-pretty.


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Of course we have all been changing, and aging, from the moment we were born. Physically, mentally, emotionally, spiritually. There are many myths about growing older. In this section of the website, we strive to debunk the misconceptions and speak candidly about the most common changes of our later years.
Age is fluid
Line up a group of people 65 and older and you will see remarkable variation. Have them stand in chronological order and you may be surprised that some in the higher years appear to have more vigor than some in the younger years. This is not for passing judgment. It's simply to acknowledge that we don't all age at the same rate.
Below is information about the normal process of physical aging. And—especially for those who are not yet experiencing them—insights concerning how those changes impact our lives on a daily basis and in the larger overview.


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The 2005 German film Sophie Scholl: The Final Days (Die letzten Tage) depicts the anti-Nazi heroine Sophie Magdalena Scholl (May 9, 1921February 22, 1943). Sophie and her brother, Hans, were leading members of a nonviolent resistance group called the White Rose. Five students in their early twenties formed the group in 1942 at the University of Munich. The White Rose soon became infamous for a leaflet campaign that called for the removal of Hitler from power and an end to the insanity of World War II. The group subsequently became famous as martyrs to freedom and as proof that tyranny cannot destroy mans passion for justice.
Sophie Scholl received wide acclaim in Europe, winning three German Film Awards or Lolasthe German equivalent of an Oscar. Julie Jentsch, who portrayed Sophie, was named Best Actress by the Berlin Film Festival, the German Film Awards, and the European Film Awards.
The movie was nominated for an Oscar in the Best Foreign Language Film category but lost to the South African film Tsotsi.
This brilliantly crafted film deserves every syllable of praise. It is confirmation that German filmmaking, which has arguably been in decline since the 1970s, is reestablishing its reputation for innovation and excellence.
The films execution merges with its theme. The lighting is flat and often harsh, with beams of light streaming from windows, lamps, and candles in order to beat back the darkness. On several occasions, the film pauses while Sophie gazes up at the radiant sky before returning to the grim atmosphere of Nazi rule. In that gray world, the eye is drawn immediately to the two opponents who will clash: to Nazism as represented in bright red banners that bear a swastika and to Sophie in a dull red sweater.
Settings are minimalistic and stark, with much of the action occurring in one room. Suspenseful music sometimes sounds like a beating heart, sometimes like a ticking clock. It is Sophies life that is ticking.
The movie opens in 1943 with a convivial scene where the 21-year-old Sophie, Hans, and two other young men are preparing the White Roses last leaflet: Number 6. Ignoring the danger, Sophie and Hans decide to distribute the leaflet at the University of Munich in broad daylight while the classes are in session and the corridors are empty. They want to ignite the campus with anti-war passion.
Nineteen forty-three was a watershed year for both the war and the German peoples attitude towards it. Pivot points in war usually result from unacceptably high casualty rates that, in turn, inspire disillusionment with government and doubt about whether the conflict can be won. Leaflet 6 declares 330,000 troops have been sent to a senseless death on the eastern front, especially at Stalingrad. (Eventually, 740,000 Axis soldiers will be killed or wounded, and 100,000 will be captured on the eastern front.) The leaflet asserts, Hitler cannot win the war. He can only prolong it.
The Nazis react with predictable brutality to those speaking truth to power. Rather than publicly admit to losing an entire army at Stalingrad, the regime viciously cracks down on dissidents who are accused of aiding the enemy by exposing the facts. As Sophies cellmate later states, Even the big shots are scared stiff. This is the juncture in Nazi history at which the minister for public enlightenment and propaganda, Joseph Goebbels, delivers his famous total war speech. Desperate to retain control in the wake of military defeat abroad and economic hardship at home, Goebbels declares,
Total war is the demand of the hour.... The homeland must stay pure and intact in its entirety. Nothing may disturb the picture.... Everyone must learn to pay heed to war morale, and pay attention to the just demands of working and fighting people. We are not spoilsports, but neither will we tolerate those who hinder our efforts.
In the film, this speech plays on a radio in the background as Sophie surrenders her possessions and undresses at the prison. Like truth, she is becoming a casualty of total war. The White Rose is targeted with special ferocity because anti-war sentiments are growing popular; the groups first four leaflets had been printed in the hundreds, the last two in the thousands.
Arrest and interrogation
Against this political backdrop, Sophie and Hans leave stacks of Leaflet Number 6 in the universitys empty corridors and corners. Soon the bell will ring and students will flood out of classrooms to find this call for resistance. At the last momentalmost as they are making a clear, clean exitSophie and Hans decide to distribute one last stack of leaflets on an upstairs floor. Time runs out. Sophie abandons a pile on a balustrade overlooking the buildings main gallery. Then on impulse, as she leaves to blend in with a crowd of students, she tips the leaflets over the balustrades edge so that they flutter down, filling the air of the gallery.
It is now too late for Sophie and Hans to escape. A janitor races after them. At first, he accuses only Hans but Sophie insists on taking responsibility for tipping the leaflets and, so, both of them are caught.
For the crime of distributing the leaflets, they will be charged with high treason, demoralizing the troops, and aiding the enemy. At first, however, their captors want information ... especially, they want the names of other White Rose members. Despite threats interspersed with promises of leniency, Sophie and Hans do not oblige.
The remainder and largest part of the movie deals with Sophies four days of imprisonment and interrogation in a Nazi prison, followed more briefly by her trial and execution. (Although Hans and Christoph Probst, a fellow member of the White Rose, undergo similar processes, their ordeals take place almost entirely off-screen.)
Sophie Scholl is one of those rare movies that maintain tension and suspense even though the outcome is known from the beginning shot. Part of the reason for this success is the realism of the drama, which benefits from the East German archival records on Sophie and her imprisonment that became accessible after the fall of the Berlin Wall.
By mixing dialogue from White Rose leaflets with information from the recovered archives, the scriptwriter, Fred Breinersdorfer, was able to reconstruct the final days with accuracy.
As a crime-fiction writer and a playwright, Breinersdorfer is particularly skillful in presenting the duel of wits that constitutes Sophies interrogation by Gestapo police official Robert Mohr. Although Sophie Scholl was not adapted from the theater, it resembles movies that begin as plays. For example, much of the drama takes place in one simple setting: Mohrs office in the prison. Most of the ideological conflict comes from lean and meaty dialogue between two people: Sophie and Mohr.
The banality of evil
The movies portrayal of evil is riveting. Evil is not too strong a word. Sophie is being processed through a system that wishes to kill her for speaking the truth and having the courage to say No. She advocates and employs only peaceful means. As Sophies execution nears, her dignity is so impressive that a female guard breaks prison rules to permit Sophie to meet one last time with the equally doomed Hans and Christoph. Yet this same guard is a willing cog in the machinery that is designed to destroy the young woman she admires.
The depiction of evil will surprise people who are used to Hollywood Nazis as jackbooted sadists who scream Raus! Raus! at the Jews they are herding into concentration camps. Sophies treatment is not brutal compared with what we have come to expect from Hollywood Nazis. She is locked into a grim prison but not into a concentration camp. She is interrogated but not tortured. Her family is arrested but they are also released.
The Hollywood characterization captures an aspect of the Nazi regime, to be certain, but it also loses the subtlety that allowed Nazism to become a part of everyday life in a modern, educated nation. It loses the sense of how evil can become commonplace and as routine as paperwork. Or how ordinary people can absolve themselves of all responsibility for facilitating evil.
This concept has been called the banality of evil. The phrase was popularized by the German-American political theorist Hannah Arendt in her 1963 book, Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil. Arendt attended the trial of Eichmann, who had been instrumental in administering the Nazi death camps as a high-level bureaucrat. She did not see a sadist monster on trial. Like his fellow Nazi, Heinrich Himmler, who went from being a chicken farmer to head the notoriously sadistic SS, Eichmann seemed to be an ordinary man who had a talent for carrying out orders. Arendt went on to describe how ordinary people can commit terrible acts simply because the acts are performed systematically and within a socially sanctioned context that does not demand or encourage personal accountability.
Thus, the seizure of Jewish property was not theft if the property was confiscated through forms that were properly stamped and filled out in triplicate at a government office. Those who processed the paperwork and inventoried the goods were doing nothing more than that: paperwork and inventory. They were divorced from personal responsibility. Thus, Sophies killing is not murder if she is executed after receiving a show trial for violating laws against expressing the wrong political opinions. No one involved in the process needs to feel like a murderer; each is only doing a job.
Any widespread government program rests on ordinary civil servants who staff the halls of bureaucracy and prisons, who type and file the paperwork. These are the people doing their jobs; they obey orders and follow the letter of the law without questioning its content. Indeed, the law assumes the role that conscience often plays. It tells them what is right and wrong to do, and they obey.
Some of the people who facilitate Sophies killing are anonymous, such as the interchangeable men who lead her down corridors to a jail cell or an interrogation room. These men give less than no thought to the content of their actions. As one guard herds Sophie and another political dissident into their cell, he chides them, Hurry, ladies. I want to hear the speech, which was blaring on the radio. If asked, he would probably have claimed to bear Sophie no ill will.
Others are small people who swell with self-importance that they borrow from their roles as enforcers of state policy. For example, the university janitor who sees the leaflets being pushed off the railing; he races after Hans and Sophie, yelling, Stop. Dont move! Stop at once! You are under arrest. Or the milquetoast prison clerk with a bad Hitler hairdo who processes Sophies prison paperwork with a snide remark and takes obvious pleasure in the round-up of young, promising students whom most people would consider their betters.
Still others are self-aware enough to realize, on some level, they are striking a deal with the devil; they are selling their souls for safety or a snippet of power.
The kangaroo Peoples Court
For example, her court-appointed defense attorney, identified only as Klein, is a bought-and-paid-for toady who asks no questions and provides no defense at her trial. At their first and brief meeting in her prison cell, Sophie asks him, What will happen to my family? When he dismisses the question out of hand, she objects, You are my lawyer! At this slight stab at the legitimacy of his position, Klein explodes into a furious personal attack on Sophie that ends with his gloating about the upcoming court verdict; it will put Sophie in her place. Klein has consciously chosen to hide behind amoral bureaucracy and will not countenance a moral mirror held to his face.
The judge who presides over Sophies trial is similar. Sophies cellmate tells her that Roland Freisler, president of the Peoples Court, is a former Soviet commissar who needs to rehabilitate himself on the home front. Desperate to prove his loyalty, Freisler rages at the three defendants with such fury that the prosecuting attorney seems redundant. And yet, Freisler is clearly afraid. He scans the audience to ascertain their reaction to his words. At one point, Hans replies to Freislers boast of not being afraid of the defendants by saying, If you and Hitler werent afraid of our opinion, we wouldnt be here.
By far the most interesting face of evil belongs to Herr Mohr, the police agent who interrogates Sophie and forms a personal connection with her, despite himself. His reluctant admiration for her clearly makes him uncomfortable, perhaps because he realizes fully the role he is playing in her destruction and takes some responsibility. Mohr is the most dangerous of the civil-service bureaucrats: intelligent, competent, and loyal to both the ideals and structure of the Nazi regime.
Part of his loyalty is self-interest. When Sophie defends the former democracy of Germany, he replies bitterly, I was only a tailor in that damn democracy! But self-interest cannot explain why Mohr is proud of his sons being sent to the eastern front. He has embraced the overall ideals of Nazism. He ably defends those ideals against uncomfortable facts that Sophie presents and against unpleasant duties such as sentencing her to death (de facto) by preparing her confession. After doing so, he walks to a sink and washes his hands in a gesture reminiscent of Pontius Pilate.
The essence of the ideological conflict between Sophie and Mohr, which is the essence of the films overall conflict, occurs in one passage of dialogue between them. Sophie is seated on one side of Mohrs desk across from him in the interrogation room:
Mohr: You may have used false slogans but you used peaceful means.
Sophie: So why do you want to punish us?
Mohr: Because it is the law. Without the law there is no order.
Sophie: The law you are referring to protected free speech before the Nazis came to power in 1933. Someone who speaks freely now is imprisoned or put to death. Is that order?
Mohr: What can we rely on if not the law? No matter who wrote it.
Sophie: Our conscience.
Mohr: Nonsense! [Grabbing two books, one in each hand, as though weighing them against each other.] Here is the law and here are the people. As a criminologist, it is my duty to find out if they coincide and, if not, to find the rotten spot.
Sophie: The law changes. Conscience doesnt.
Sophie Scholl is not merely a movie about moral courage. Its value in that respect should not be understated but, for me, the most fascinating aspect was the interaction between ideals and evil that occurs in subtle and varied ways throughout the film. Over and over, those who process Sophies murder are either morally deadthat is, they have become true bureaucrats who are just doing a jobor they are shaken by the simple truth and bravery of her being. Her existence is a reproach to the devastation they do under the guise of greater principles or expediency.
Like the shafts of light that pierce scenes of darkness, Sophies existence pierces through and makes them confront responsibility for their own actions.
No wonder she must die.
Sophies death is handled well and not exploited for effect. Her last words, at least in the movie, are The sun is still shining. Then there is the sound of a guillotine blades falling.
Christophs last words are It wasnt in vain.
The movie ends with text that reads, The 6th leaflet was taken to England via Scandinavia. In mid-1943, millions of copies were dropped by Allied planes over Germany. They now bore the title A German Leaflet Manifesto of the Students of Munich.
Two earlier films depicted the White Roses resistance: The Last Five Days (Fünf letzte Tage, 1982) and The White Rose (Die Weiße Rose, 1982). But it is the German director Marc Rothemund who brought Sophie Scholl into American awareness. He created a heart-stopping, heartbreaking movie that is inspirational without preaching. It creates fresh perspective on freedoms we take for granted, such as the ability to speak without being killed for doing so. It reminds us to jealously protect that freedom ... especially in times of war when speaking truth to power can easily and officially become aiding the enemy and treason.


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OK, soon there will be no more excuses. Classes and exams will be over, grades handed in. Summer break is a great time to explore the wonderful world of health data sets available to you for FREE (beat that price if you can!) from ICPSR, the Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research. Here are just a few of the data collections available in the area of the health sciences.
How could you use some of these data sets for your research? For projects for your classes?
Health and Medical Care Archive (HMCA) – preserves and disseminates data collected by research projects funded by The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the nation's largest philanthropy devoted exclusively to improving the health and health care of all Americans.
Integrated Fertility Survey Series (IFSS) – offers data and tools for examining issues related to families and fertility in the United States spanning five decades. IFSS encompasses the Growth of American Families (GAF), National Fertility Surveys (NFS), and National Surveys of Family Growth (NSFG), as well as a single dataset of harmonized variables across all ten surveys. Analytic tools make it possible to quickly and easily explore the data and obtain information about changes in behaviors and attitudes across time.
National Addiction & HIV Data Archive Program – NAHDAP acquires, preserves and disseminates data relevant to drug addiction and HIV research. By preserving and making available an easily accessible library of electronic data on drug addiction and HIV infection in the United States, NAHDAP offers scholars the opportunity to conduct secondary analysis on major issues of social and behavioral sciences and public policy.
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Telestream, the leading provider of video transcoding and digital media software solutions, today announced that leading private equity investment firm Thoma Bravo has entered into a definitive agreement to purchase Telestream. The transaction will facilitate further growth of Telestream's core businesses in addition to providing additional capital for further market expansion and acquisition.
For more than 13 years, Telestream has been at the forefront of innovation, pioneering file-based video encoding and transcoding solutions for media and entertainment companies, enterprises, and consumers. According to 2011 reports by business research firms Frost & Sullivan and In-Stat, the worldwide multiformat transcoders market is poised for strong growth.
Telestream has been profitable since 2001 and has self-financed three acquisitions: compression specialist Popwire in 2006; live webcasting and screencasting provider Vara Software in 2008; and Anystream, a leading provider of automated multi-platform media publishing solutions in 2010. At the close of 2011, Telestream brings 13 straight years of record sales growth.
The transaction is expected to close in early January 2012. Terms of the deal were not disclosed as both companies are privately held. Telestream will continue to operate as an independent entity with existing management teams continuing their current roles. Headquarters will remain in Nevada City, CA, with offices in Virginia, Sweden and Germany.
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The only properties exempt from the stormwater fee are those that have less than 1 square foot of impervious surface area. All properties with impervious surface will be billed.
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State and federal governments have passed new regulations that require Clemmons to take steps to reduce polluted stormwater runoff. This is an unfunded mandate and adequate funding for the stormwater program is required by the state. The fee will also enable the Village to address some of the Village's stormwater quantity problems. The stormwater fee will be charged to all properties with impervious surfaces and is a reliable and equitable source of funding for the program.
Stormwater runoff is the rain or melted snow that runs off all natural and developed surfaces. Streets, rooftops, driveways, parking lots, sidewalks and other developed surfaces do not permit the land to absorb stormwater and so runoff is increased dramatically from these areas. Stormwater collects pollutants from these hard surfaces and carries them to our streams, lakes and the Yadkin River, impacting the quality of these bodies of water and even our drinking water.
Any surface that does not readily absorb water and impedes the natural infiltration of water into the soil. Common examples include roofs, driveways, parking areas, sidewalks, patios, tennis courts, concrete or asphalt streets, crushed stone and gravel surfaces.
The stormwater fee is based on an Equivalent Residential Unit. An ERU was determined by taking a sampling of residential properties, impervious area on each was measured and a typical impervious area was calculated. 1 ERU = 3,952 square feet.
Single family residential homes are now based on a tiered billing system:
Billable Equivalent Residential Unit (ERU) fees are $90 per ERU. All nonresidential properties, which includes, but not limited to Multi-Family, Commercial, Government, Non-Profit, Industrial etc. are billed a flat rate of $90 per ERU of impervious area on their property. One ERU is equal to 3952 sq. ft. So, for example if a Nonresidential site has 1- 3952 sq. ft., they will be billed one (1) ERU. If a non-residential site has 3,953 or greater sq. ft., of impervious area, they will be billed the appropriate ERU's associated with the impervious area on the property. These fees are billed on the annual County Property Tax Assessment.
All properties within the village that have impervious surfaces contribute to stormwater runoff and therefore should pay their share of the costs of the program.
Two or more dwellings on one parcel is considered multi-family residential and total impervious area will be measured and the number of ERUs calculated.
No, the stormwater fee is a utility like your gas, electric, or water/sewer utility.
A property owner who believes there is an error in the impervious surface area calculations may appeal to the manager by way of a sealed survey from a NC licensed surveyor showing all impervious areas on the property.
The billing cycle is on an annual basis and included with the Forsyth County property tax bill as a separate fee. The bill will be sent out in August. Fees are due September 1 and past due January 5, the same as property taxes. Stormwater fees are payable to the Forsyth County Tax Collector and not collected by the Village of Clemmons or its personnel.
The Forsyth County Tax Collector has the authority to charge delinquent fees and interest to the bill. The collection procedures include garnishment of wages.
Typically, mortgage companies will pay from the mortgagee's escrow account all fees and taxes that are charged to a property. It would be appropriate for each property owner to compare their copy of the tax bill to the annual statement provided by the mortgage company to ensure that all fees (including stormwater fees) and taxes are properly paid.


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Marc-André Hamelin's performance of the Busoni Piano Concerto for Hyperion is one of the finest ever recorded of that mammoth work, and now he has produced what is arguably the most important collection of the solo piano music since Geoffrey Douglas Madge's epic six-disc survey for Philips in 1987.
While Madge covered the whole of Busoni's composing career, Hamelin concentrates mainly on the 'late' music, though starting earlier with the 1906-7 Elegies. All the most significant works are here, except for the Fantasia contrappuntistica and with only the 'Giga' from An die Jugend. Hamelin includes some rarities Madge omitted, notably Busoni's first foray into 'Red Indian' music, the spellbinding Indianisches Erntelied (not published till 2001). There's also the 1916 Canonic Variations and Fugue (Busoni's highly characteristic realisation of nine of the canons from Bach's Musical Offering) and several short, brilliant pieces from the posthumously published Klavierübung, including his last work, the 'Trills Study'.
As to the performances, they are all you could hope from a player of such quality, laced with repertoire he might have been born to interpret. This is playing of a very high order, such as—despite the now numerous competing versions of the Elegies, Sonatinas and Toccata—one seldom hears. Hamelin is well-nigh ideal in sensitivity of phrasing, clarity of tone and delineation of voices, not to mention subtlety of pedalling (listen to the final piece 'With the use of the Third Pedal' from the Short Pieces for the Cultivation of Polyphonic Playing).
He reminds you that you are listening to one of history's greatest piano composers, a philosopher of the piano to whose ear and mind the whole of European concert music seems to have been continually present. A fabulous set, almost beyond praise.


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