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About my recently published textbook:
Contemporary Bioethics: A Reader with Cases, by Jessica Pierce and George Randels (Oxford University Press).
This bioethics text is the first to cover the emerging area of environmental bioethics. Chapter 8 is entirely devoted to environmental bioethics. It includes an introduction to the issues, a selection of readings representing a range of perspectives, and a set of case studies that guide the reader into further exploration of the moral issues.
Contemporary Bioethics does much more, as well. It captures the spirit of bioethics as a rich, exciting, and continually evolving field. The text spans the breadth of this broad discipline, covering all the main topic areas of bioethics, including abortion, reproductive ethics, end of life care, research ethics, the doctor-patient relationship, and allocation of resources. It also pushes into new territory not traditionally covered in introductory texts: environmental sustainability and climate change, terrorism, neuroethics, immigration, genetic manipulations, and interconnections between first and third world health.
See my most recent essays on environmental bioethics:
Environmental Bioethics—A Manifesto
The Ethics of Sustainable Healthcare Reform
(co-authored with Dan Bednarz).
Podcast "The Ethics of Environmentally Responsible Health Care. A Conversation with Jessica Pierce, PhD." Listen here
What is Environmental Bioethics?
Bioethics is a branch of normative ethics that addresses questions raised by the application of the biological sciences to human life. Environmental bioethics is a sub-field of bioethics that focuses on the complex interactions between humans, health, healthcare, and the natural environment. The normative vision guiding environmental bioethics is this: biology, and especially medical science, can be used to promote and sustain health and well-being for all people, coupled with broad respect for human rights and ecological viability.
The word "bioethics" suggests an ethics concerned with bios, or life. And this, indeed, is what American biochemist Van Rensselaer Potter had in mind when he coined the term. He conceived of ethics as a dialogue between medical science and values, the ultimate purpose of which is to protect and nurture life on earth. Bioethics, in Potter's formulation, is a "bridge." It is a bridge not only between a scientific orientation and a values orientation, but it is also a bridge to the future. Our survival depends on being able to bring values and science together, allowing values to shape the scientific enterprise in ways both sustainable and humane.
For most of its life as an academic field, bioethics has veered away from this broad Potterian vision. It has instead remained focused on the narrower enterprise of medicine, without explicitly placing this enterprise within its larger context of planetary health. It is a truism, of course, that there can be no enduring health without a healthy home planet. But this necessary natural substrate of human health has been largely invisible and taken for granted, both by health professionals and by bioethicists.
Times have been changing, though, and bioethics is finally making what might be called "the environmental turn." Environmental decline, or "change" if you prefer the more neutral description, is now impinging on everything we do, personally and professionally. Although environmental problems were certainly real and pressing at the birth of bioethics, they have lately begun to shape consciousness and conversation in more central ways. For example, thirty years ago, few people worried about global warming, and many were downright skeptical. Now, climate change is a reality, not a prediction. Its effects on human health are real and documented, and it shapes many of our individual and collective decisions. It is also beginning, in small ways, to shape the conversation about health, medicine, and medical ethics.
Scholars and activists are trying to return bioethics to its environmental roots, and by doing so maintain its relevance in the 21st century by bringing the field into connection again with the big question of human survival. I call this new, ecologically perceptive vision "environmental bioethics." Ethicists and health professionals are exploring what an environmentally sustainable health care system might look like, how doctors might take environmental values seriously within their practice, how climate change might shape the conversation about health care priorities, what concepts from ecosystem science are applicable to the conversation about human health, and whether the moral vocabulary developed within the field of environmental ethics might have something to offer bioethics.
Some of my older work in environmental bioethics can be found here:
The Ethics of Environmentally Responsible Health Care, with Andrew Jameton (Oxford University Press, 2001).
This book is the first and most comprehensive statement of environmental bioethics. We illustrate how environmental decline relates to human health and to healthcare practices in the United States and other industrialized countries. We also outline trends affecting health and focus on the connections between ways of practicing medicine and the environmental problems that damage ecosystems and make people sick.
REVIEWS of The Ethics of Environmentally Responsible Health Care
"The first sentence of this book reads, "The foundation of human health rests on healthy, stable ecosystems." One rarely encounters this view expressed in medical literature, yet it lies at the heart of creating a sustainable modern healthcare system.
By far the majority of analyses of the American healthcare focus narrowly on reform –slight to dramatic- through rebalancing the (allegedly) three core issues of the 1) cost, 2) coverage and 3) quality of care. Pierce and Jameton locate medicine in the context of ecological sustainability, which correctly subsumes –not negates- these three issues.
As is often the case when great social change is occurring, few scholars see it coming and also offer a cogent outline of the ethical challenges posed by such momentous upheavals. Pierce and Jameton's is one of those books. For example, typically "medical ethics" is devoted to issues stemming from the (allegedly) sacrosanct value of what's best for the patient. Questions about humanity's organic connection to and responsibility to the natural environment are not asked or are given short shrift. These authors show how the earth is not a passive, inert and inexhaustible repository of goodies for medicine to dip into at will at no cost or consequence.
This book articulates an alternative discourse integral to the viability of healthcare in the 21st century, as its chapter titles evidence: 1) The Challenge of Environmental Responsibility; 2) Linking Health and Environmental Change; 3) Population and Consumption; 4) Environmental Aspects of Healthcare; 5) The Green Health Center; 6) At the Bedside; 7) Global Bioethics and Justice; and 8) New Ways of Thinking About Bioethics."
—Dan Bednarz
"The answer to the ethical question "How should we live?" depends in part on what we know. Years ago, Aldo Leopold called for a "land ethic" as a consequence of understanding the interdependence of individuals in a larger ecological system. Here Jessica Pierce and Andrew Jameton examine new ways of thinking about bioethics, with a sense of urgency because of current ecologic realities. They ask for reexamination of the health care system in light of what we know–about not just human biology but also the biosphere.
Brief, well-referenced summaries of the links among health, environmental change, population, and consumption lay the groundwork. People profoundly stress the integrity of soil, water, air, climate, and biodiversity, causing widespread misery. Up to one-third of the global burden of disease is related to environmental factors. Unsustainable natural resource consumption and health care patterns dramatically favor wealthier individuals and countries.
Pierce and Jameton take direction from Herschel Elliott's idea that "an acceptable system of ethics is contingent on its ability to preserve the ecosystems that sustain it." Bioethics, therefore, has a responsibility to life-supporting systems, not just to patient rights or human rights. Good public health is essential to bioethics, in that poor public health and expensive reactions to environmentally related disease add stress to the environment. The authors remind us that poverty is a predictor of poor public health; but once some minimum standard of wealth is achieved, public health does not improve commensurate with spending. The authors then turn to the health care system.
Resource extraction, materials manufacture, and disposal are responsible for most human impacts on the natural world. The scale of health care activities and related material flows contribute substantially to environmental degradation. High-tech equipment, pharmaceuticals, transportation, and water and electricity consumption in health care have major environmental impacts. Despite the commitment of cultural institutions of wealthier countries to growth, material throughput must be drastically scaled back to achieve sustainability. The health care system must do its share, particularly in the United States, where we generate 40% of all global health care expenditures.
Marginal improvements in materials policies may help, but a fundamental reexamination of the scope of clinical services is also required–inevitably leading to concerns about "rationing." But rationing, the authors say, should be thought of not as "less than optimal" care but rather as "sustainable optimal care" if the health care system is going to meet its ecologic responsibilities.
What might that look like? The authors describe the thought experiment of a working group that designed a "green" health clinic, from its guiding ethical principles to its physical structure and menu of clinical services. The dilemmas they faced show just how difficult it will be to get off the treadmill of growth and reliance on curative medicine without a fundamental cultural shift. Economic feasibility must be conditioned by moral feasibility–a daunting prospect, but perhaps achievable.
Bioethics has become largely limited to the narrower field of medical ethics, usually focusing on the rights and responsibilities of individuals. Autonomy, not community and relationship, has taken over discourse in bioethics. Pierce and Jameton argue that philosophies are available to save bioethics, but only by rethinking the roles and meaning of beneficence, biocentrism, ecocentrism, autonomy, coercion, justice, and modesty. Choice can be an expression of respect for one's duties rather than desire, though it may include setting limits on oneself.
This book explores areas of discomfort. To some it may seem unrealistic. However, it calls moral concerns into health care decision making in fundamentally new ways. Who or what is "the patient"? What considerations should enter this relationship? In a world of limits, what is the morally best world? It is a call to link the biologic sciences, public health, and ecologic sciences with ethics. Aldo Leopold thought, "We can be ethical only in relation to something that we can see, feel, understand, love, or otherwise have faith in." This suggests a way forward and, at the same time, the enormity of the cultural challenge."
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WBU theatre students to trick or treat for FISH
PLAINVIEW – Theatre students at Wayland Baptist University are hoping to scare up some donations for a local charity this Halloween.
On Sunday evening, Oct. 30, student members of Alpha Psi Omega theatre honor society will be canvassing neighborhoods in Plainview in costume, gathering nonperishable food items to be donated to Faith in Sharing House.
The theatre has chosen to support FISH over the years, accepting canned foods for discounts to theatre productions in previous years and having door-to-door collections in the spring semester. The trick-or-treating event started two years ago and is now an annual tradition for the theatre group.
"I take my kids along too, and I love what it speaks to their lives," said APO President Jennifer Riley, who helped start the event. "I know people talk about Halloween not being a Christian holiday but we are taking it back. We can do something good by doing this."
The group has grown over the past years, and Riley estimates about 25 students will be involved in this year's collection effort.


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What an incredible accomplishment – Princeton University Press Story/Time author Bill T. Jones is to be honored with a 2013 National Medal of Arts for his "contributions as a dancer and choreographer" and for his "provocative performances that blend an eclectic mix of modern and traditional dance" which "challenge us to confront tough subjects and inspire us to greater heights."
The National Medal of Arts is "the highest award given to artists and arts patrons by the federal government. It is awarded by the President of the United States to individuals or groups who are deserving of special recognition by reason of their outstanding contributions to the excellence, growth, support, and availability of the arts in the United States."
President Barack Obama will present the National Medals of Arts in conjunction with the National Humanities Medals on Monday, July 28, 2014, at 3:00 p.m. ET, in an East Room ceremony at the White House. You can watch the event live, here.
This is a truly momentous day for Mr. Jones, and we at the Princeton University Press are thrilled to have the privilege of publishing his book.
Bill T. Jones is the author of:
|Story/Time: The Life of an Idea by Bill T. Jones
Hardcover | September 2014 | $24.95 / £16.95 | ISBN: 9780691162706 | 104 pp. | 10 x 7 1/2 |eBook | ISBN: 9781400851881 | Reviews Table of Contents Preface[PDF]


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Recently I read the autobiography of Frederick Douglass, a former slave who escaped to freedom and fought for the abolition of slavery in the United States. Why I hadn't I read this amazing book before???? Why wasn't this assigned reading in my U.S. history class in high school???? AMAZING, AMAZING, AMAZING book! I encourage you to read it! How did I end up reading it? It was because of my job as a private tutor. One of my tutoring students had to read it for his U.S. history class, along with Mark Twain's Pudd'nhead Wilson (which I will post about another day).
Here are some fantastic resources for your own study of Frederick Douglass....
Download the writings fo Frederick Douglass for FREE at Project Gutenberg HERE. Most are available as HTML, epub, or Kindle versions, as well as a few other digital types.
An in depth (28 page) study guide from Penguin Books, under their Signet Classics imprint: HERE.
A briefer (8 pages) study guide HERE.
Take a virtual tour HERE of the Frederick Douglass National Historic Site, just outside of Washington, D.C. There are two associated lesson plans at the website:
* Frederick Douglass's Hat (goes beyond just his hat!) HERE.
* Forward March: Continuing Frederick Douglass' Footsteps HERE.
Huffington Post article about "What Every American Should Know about Frederick Douglass, Abolitionist Prophet" - HERE.
Hear (and watch) actor Danny Glover reading Frederick Douglass's "The Meaning of July Fourth for the Negro" at Zinn History Project HERE.
Frederick Douglass - An American Life (Part 1 of 4)
Frederick Douglass - An American Life (Part 2 of 4)
Frederick Douglass - An American Life (Part 3 of 4)
Frederick Dougalss - An American Life (Part 4 of 4)


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FORT JACKSON, SC -- The Army's Comprehensive Soldier Fitness Program, designed to help troops fight the mental stress associated with combat, will be added to basic training programs beginning Oct. 1, Army Chief of Staff Gen. George Casey told reporters at Fort Jackson, SC, last week.
The program will be covered in the first week of basic training and be continued throughout all levels of training for officers and enlisted personnel, he said.
"We were heavily weighted on providing assistance and treatment after we identified the problem, and we were a little light on the preventive side," Casey said in a press conference. "Because the treadmill that we've been on as an Army for the last eight years and likely will be on for some years to come is such, if we don't give soldiers these skills, we're just going to have increasing challenges."
There were a record number of soldier suicides in 2008, which pushed the rate of military suicides past the civilian one for the first time since the Army began keeping records.
"A year or so ago when we began thinking about this, we saw the suicide rates climbing, and I remember the futility of sitting there and talking about, what could we have done differently, why didn't we see this?" Casey said. "I thought we need to focus more on giving soldiers the tools that they need and never got."
One training portion of the program will bring sergeants to the University of Pennsylvania to study with the staff of the Positive Psychology Center. Fifty noncommissioned officers will begin with a week of training at the center, with 300 more scheduled to arrive in November and December.
The initiative at the University of Pennsylvania will cost $100 million over three years. The program will include periodic assessments of soldiers' mental fitness in four areas: emotional, social, family and spiritual.
Brig. Gen. Rhonda Cornum, a doctor with a Ph.D. in nutrition and biochemistry, will direct the initiative. The Army, she said, historically has done a better job teaching physical fitness and technical skills than teaching soldiers how to address emotions.
At Fort Jackson, Casey said drill sergeants probably will teach the Comprehensive Soldier Fitness Program in basic training.
"This is something drill sergeants are going to have in their kit bag and when they finish shooting on the range and they're sitting around under a tree waiting for the truck to come, they can work on some of these skill sets," Casey said.


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NASA's Hubble Rules Out One Alternative to Dark Energy
Astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have ruled out an alternate theory on the nature of dark energy after recalculating the expansion rate of the universe to unprecedented accuracy. The universe appears to be expanding at an ever-increasing rate, and one explanation is that the universe is filled with a dark energy that works in the opposite way of gravity. One alternative to that hypothesis is that an enormous bubble of relatively empty space eight billion light-years across surrounds our galactic neighborhood. If we lived near the center of this void, observations of galaxies being pushed away from each other at accelerating speeds would be an illusion. This hypothesis has been invalidated because astronomers have refined their current understanding of the universe's present expansion rate to an uncertainty of just 3.3 percent. The new measurement reduces the error margin by 30 percent over Hubble's previous best measurement in 2009. The results are reported in the April 1 issue of The Astrophysical Journal.
Amongst the myriad stars in spiral galaxy NGC 5584, imaged in visible light with Hubble's Wide Field Camera 3 between January and April 2010, are pulsating stars called Cepheid variables and one recent Type Ia supernova, a special class of exploding stars. Astronomers used Cepheid variables and Type Ia supernovae as reliable distance markers to measure the universe's expansion rate. NGC 5584 lies 72 million light-years away in the constellation Virgo and was one of the eight galaxies astronomers studied to measure the universe's expansion rate. In those galaxies, astronomers analyzed more than 600 Cepheid variables, including 250 in NGC 5584. Cepheid variables pulsate at a rate matched closely by their intrinsic brightness, making them ideal for measuring distances to relatively nearby galaxies. Type Ia supernovae flare with the same brightness and are brilliant enough to be seen from relatively longer distances. Astronomers search for Type Ia supernovae in nearby galaxies containing Cepheid variables so they can compare true brightness of both types of stars. That brightness information is used to calibrate the measurement of Type Ia supernova in far-flung galaxies and calculate their distance from Earth. Once astronomers know accurate distances to galaxies near and far, they can determine the universe's expansion rate.
Hubble's View of NGC 5584
It looks like dark energy may be here to stay. In refining the expansion rate of the universe to unprecedented accuracy, astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have also ruled out an alternative to this mysterious, invisible source of repulsive gravity, which makes the universe appear to expand ever faster.
If dark energy seems like a mind-boggling concept, then the competing model that astronomers have eliminated is equally as fantastic. The alternative hypothesis proposed that an enormous bubble of relatively empty space eight billion light-years across surrounds our galactic neighborhood. If we lived in the center of this void, then observations of galaxies being pushed away from each other at accelerating speeds would be just an illusion.
The simplest form of this hypothesis has now been kicked out because astronomers have placed even tighter constraints on the universe's present expansion rate. The Hubble observations, conducted by the SHOES (Supernova H0 for the Equation of State) team and led by Adam Riess of the Space Telescope Science Institute and Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Md., helped refine the universe's current expansion rate to an uncertainty of just 3.3 percent. The new measurement reduces the error margin by 30 percent over the previous best Hubble measurement made in 2009.
The value for the expansion rate is 73.8 kilometers per second per megaparsec. It means that for every additional million parsecs (3.26 million light-years) a galaxy is from Earth, the galaxy appears to be traveling 73.8 kilometers per second faster away from us.
Every decrease in uncertainty of the universe's expansion rate helps solidify our understanding of its cosmic ingredients. Knowing the precise value of the universe's expansion rate further restricts the range of dark energy's strength and also helps astronomers tighten up a number of other cosmic properties, including the universe's shape and its roster of neutrinos, ghostly particles that filled the early universe.
"We are using the new camera on Hubble like a policeman's radar gun to catch the universe speeding," Riess said. "It looks like it's dark energy that's pressing on the gas pedal."
Riess' results appear in the April 1 issue of The Astrophysical Journal.
Bursting the bubble
Dark energy is one of the greatest cosmological mysteries in modern physics. Even Albert Einstein conceived of a repulsive force, called the cosmological constant, which would counter gravity and keep the universe stable. He abandoned the idea when astronomer Edwin Hubble discovered in 1929 that the universe is expanding. Observational evidence for dark energy didn't come along until 1998, when two teams of researchers (one, in a study led by Riess) discovered it.
The idea of dark energy was so far-fetched, many scientists began contemplating other strange interpretations, including the cosmic bubble theory. In this theory, the lower-density bubble would expand faster than the more massive universe around it. To an observer inside the bubble, it would appear that a dark-energy-like force was pushing the entire universe apart. The bubble hypothesis requires that the universe's expansion rate be much slower than astronomers have calculated, about 60 to 65 kilometers per second per megaparsec. By reducing the uncertainty of the Hubble constant's value to 3.3 percent, Riess reports that his team has eliminated beyond all reasonable doubt the possibility of that lower number.
"The hardest part of the bubble theory to accept was that it required us to live very near the center of such an empty region of space," explained Lucas Macri, of Texas A&M University in College Station, a key collaborator of Riess'. "This has about a one in a million chance of occurring. But since we know that something weird is making the universe accelerate, it's better to let the data be our guide."
Using stars as "cosmic yardsticks"
Measuring the universe's expansion rate is a tricky business. Riess' team first had to determine accurate distances to galaxies both near and far from Earth. The team compared those distances with the rate of their apparent recessional speeds caused by the expansion of space. They then used those two values to calculate the Hubble constant. Since astronomers cannot physically measure the distances to galaxies, the researchers had to find stars or other objects that serve as reliable cosmic yardsticks to galaxies. These are objects whose intrinsic brightness is known. Their distances, therefore, can be inferred by comparing their true brightness with their apparent brightness as seen from Earth.
Among the most reliable of these cosmic yardsticks for relatively shorter distances are Cepheid variables, pulsating stars that dim and fade at rates that correspond to their intrinsic luminosity. But Cepheids are too dim to be found in very distant galaxies. For longer distances, Riess' team chose a special class of exploding stars called Type Ia supernovae. These stellar explosions all flare with similar luminosity and are brilliant enough to be seen far across the universe.
Riess narrowed the Hubble constant's error margin by using a number of refinements to streamline and strengthen the construction of the cosmic "distance ladder" to faraway space. His team searched for nearby galaxies that contained both Cepheid stars and a recent Type Ia supernova, a very rare occurrence. By comparing the apparent brightness of both types of stars, the astronomers could then accurately measure their intrinsic brightness and therefore calculate distances to Type Ia supernovae in far-flung galaxies.
They used the sharpness of the new Wide Field Camera 3 (WFC3) to study stars in visible and near-infrared light, studying over 600 Cepheid variables, more than half of them for the first time. The team also measured more galaxies containing Cepheids and Type Ia supernovae than Riess' previous Hubble study. Many of the Cepheids were spied in infrared light, which cuts through the dust enveloping them, yielding a more accurate measure of their true distance.
By using just one instrument, WFC3, to bridge the rungs in the distance ladder, Riess' team eliminated the systematic errors that are almost unavoidably introduced by comparing measurements from different telescopes. Using one instrument to measure the Hubble constant is like measuring a hallway with a tape measure instead of by laying a ruler from end to end. By avoiding the need to pick up the ruler and lay it back down, you can prevent mistakes. "The camera on Hubble, WFC3, is the best ever flown on Hubble for making these measurements, improving the precision of prior measurements in a small fraction of the time it previously took," Riess said.
The astronomer hopes that Hubble will continue to be used in this way to reduce the uncertainty in the Hubble constant even more, and thus refine the measured properties of dark energy. He suggests the present uncertainty could be cut in two before Hubble gives way to improvements out of Hubble's reach but within the scope of the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), an infrared observatory scheduled to launch later this decade.
Chasing a runaway universe
Riess has been pursuing dark energy for 13 years. He co-discovered the existence of dark energy by finding that distant Type Ia supernovae were dimmer than expected, which meant they were farther away than anticipated. The only way for that to happen, Riess realized, was if the expansion of the universe had sped up some time in the past.
Until that discovery, astronomers had generally believed that the cosmic expansion was gradually slowing down, due to the gravitational tugs that individual galaxies exert on one another. But the results implied that some mysterious force was acting against the pull of gravity, shoving galaxies away from each other at ever-increasing speeds.
Riess decided that one of the best ways to tighten the constraints on dark energy is to determine an accurate value for the Hubble constant, which he has been doing with the Hubble Space Telescope. That measurement, combined with others from NASA's Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP), traces the universe's behavior from nearly the dawn of time to the present age. (WMAP showed the universe as it appeared shortly after the Big Bang, before stars and galaxies formed.)
Riess is just one of many astronomers who, over the past 80 years, have been measuring and re-measuring the Hubble constant. The Hubble telescope has played a major role in helping astronomers precisely measure the universe's expansion. Before Hubble was launched in 1990, the estimates for the Hubble constant varied by a factor of two. In 1999, the Hubble Space Telescope Key Project on the Extragalactic Distance Scale refined the value of the Hubble constant to an error of about 10 percent.
Donna Weaver
Space Telescope Science Institute, Baltimore, Md.
Adam Riess
Space Telescope Science Institute, Baltimore, Md.


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Last night as I was loading up a few apps on my phone I hit an anomaly: I was asked to buy Amazing Weather HD. Why is that odd? Well, Amazing Weather (along with Weather Flow) is one of my top apps and I bought it the day it came out, months ago.
As it turns out, it appears that this is becoming a widespread problem with the Windows Phone Store, a return of a similar glitch that hit Windows Phone 8 users last fall. That issue was much more frustrating though as it hit a lot of apps, depending on your purchase history.
Today, we've come across at least three apps that are having problems with this: Amazing Weather HD, Cowlick! and Mehdoh. Indeed Mehdoh has been temporarily hidden due to that problem (and another when attempting to download the app,failure to install). Liquid Daffodil, the developers behind Cowlick! recently tweeted that users should contact @winphonesupport if they are being asked to re-buy their app.
We're not sure how many Accounts are affected nor how many apps, but it seems to be an unintended consequence of some of the backend changes Microsoft has been making to their services. For instance, we had sporadic reports of SkyDrive login issues yesterday.
For now, we of course recommend that you don't buy the app again and instead hold off until things get sorted by Microsoft. Also, you can spare any developers your wrath, as it's not their fault—they're not trying to double dip.
Have you had to re-purchase an app? If so, which one(s)? Let us know in comments.


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U.S. Equal Employment
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WASHINGTON – In order to gather information on the practice of using credit histories as employment screening devices, t he U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) will hold a public meeting to explore the extent of this practice, its efficacy, and its potential impact on different populations. The meeting will be held on Wednesday, Oct. 20 at 9:30 a.m. (Eastern Time), at agency headquarters, 131 M Street, N.E. The Commission is scheduled to hear from the following invited panelists:
Panel 1: The Fair Credit Reporting Act: Employer and Employee Rights and Responsibilities
Panel 2: Stakeholder Perspectives I
Panel 3: Stakeholder Perspectives II
Panel 4: Review of Scientific Research: Are Credit Scores a Valid Predictor of Job Performance?
In accordance with the Sunshine Act, the meeting is open for public observation of the Commission's deliberations. Seating is limited and it is suggested that visitors arrive 30 minutes before the meeting in order to be processed through security and escorted to the meeting room.
The Commission agenda is subject to revision. Additional information about the hearing, when available, will be posted at http://www.eeoc.gov/eeoc/meetings/index.cfm.
The EEOC enforces federal laws prohibiting employment discrimination. Further information about the EEOC is available on its web site at www.eeoc.gov.


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Sage, mystic and philosopherSwami Omkarananda Saraswati,a direct disciple of the late Swami Sivananda of Rishikesh
Not yet settled in a permanent home, the soul takes temporary shelter in a body. Tirukural, Verse 340
The answers are already within each of us. Good luck matching them with the corresponding questions. Swami Beyondananda
They had no idea who I was other than some weird blond person. We just began to communicate and laugh. Despite the poverty, they're very happy people. I found myself laughing all through India. American actress and staunch Indophile Goldie Hawn on her first trip to India. She daily worships Lord Ganesha.
Yikes! 18-year-old Jyothi Palani upon hearing this complex quote from S. Radhakrishnan: "Any event has an endless past and an endless future, it is never-ending and nowhere-ending. This tantalizing endlessness which marks it as unreal invites the soul to press on to the absolute."
Some pundits in India are like dogs sitting in the grass. They do not eat grass themselves, but won't let hungry cows eat it either. Russian Swami Sadashivacharya complaining about those who don't adhere to the spiritual knowledge they have learned, but still refuse to allow those who are not of their stratum to partake of it.
The only thing I will eat with eyes is a potato. Chelsea Clinton, daughter of the US President, upon entering Stanford University. She recently became a vegetarian.
King Akbar asked Birbal, his Hindu minister, where he gained his vast wisdom. Birbal instantly replied, "From the fools. I observed the actions which rendered one a fool and gave them up. So I got wiser and wiser. There is no dearth of fools and mad men in this world to be my teachers."
Many people in the West are not aware how Hinduism has gradually slipped right into our own culture through the New Age. From a Christian guidebook on how to 'pray for Hindus.'
What do you call a sadhu who can't sew? A "mend-he-cant"
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According to a new york Times report, scientists recently discovered that the sacred lotus (Nelumbo nucifera) is a heat-producing plant with the remarkable ability to hold its temperature between 85-96 degrees Fahrenheit. Forty lotus flowers generate as much heat as a 40-watt bulb, while 70 can produce as much heat as a person at rest. Scientists are still baffled as to how the lotus manages this.
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Inside the Last-Minute Scramble to Save Community
Jul 7, 2014 1:01 PM EDT
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WRTG 10600 - Academic Writing I 3A HU LA
This introductory, freshman-level course teaches students how to read perceptively and write coherently in college courses. Students learn to comprehend, critique, and respond to college readings by writing analytical essays ranging from single-source papers to evaluations of the claims and evidence in a number of readings. Typical assignments include single-source critiques and multiple-source syntheses. The course emphasizes thoughtful and responsible use of sources. May satisfy departmental and school requirements for a level-1 writing course. Prerequisites: Open only to freshmen and sophomores. 3 credits. (F-S,Y)
WRTG 11100 - Academic Writing II 3A HU LA
Refines and advances writing and reasoning abilities taught in Academic Writing I. Focus is on complex synthesis of material from diverse sources to analyze and evaluate significant issues. Students study library research methods and complete an independent research project. May satisfy departmental and school requirements for a second level-1 writing course. Available only to freshmen, sophomores, and transfer students. Prerequisites: Any level-1 composition course from WRTG 10600 through WRTG 16500. 3 credits. (F-S,Y)
WRTG 16500 - Introduction to the Essay 3A HU LA
Introduces the principal concepts of writing through a study of the genre of the essay. In addition to achieving the broad goals of Academic Writing I and II, this course includes how to conduct research and use sources thoughtfully and responsibly, and asks students to examine the intentions, strategies, and styles of selected essayists from Montaigne to the present. May satisfy departmental and school requirements for a level-1 writing course. Prerequisites: Non-writing majors by placement only. 3 credits. (F-S,Y)
WRTG 17500 - Introduction to Creative Writing 3A FA LA
Elements and techniques of writing fiction and poetry introduced through instruction, analysis of models, experimentation, and practice. Fiction-writing techniques include developing character and plot, using dialogue, creating scenes, learning narrative structure, and acquiring narrative voice. Poetry-writing techniques include traditional poetic forms, poetic imagery, and descriptive and figurative language. Not open to students who have previously received credit for WRTG 23600 or WRTG 23800. Prerequisites: Any level-1 composition course from WRTG 10600 through WRTG 16500. 3 credits. (F-S,Y)
WRTG 20100 - Argument 3A HU LA
Prepares students to write convincing arguments by learning logical strategies for presenting and defending ideas. Introduces a variety of forms that arguments can take, emphasizing the traditional essay. Particularly recommended for students who wish to strengthen their ability to present their point of view persuasively, intelligently, and ethically. Prerequisites: Any level-1 composition course from WRTG 10600 through WRTG 16500; sophomore standing or above. 3 credits. (F-S,Y)
WRTG 20500 - Personal Essay 3A HU LA
Writing essays based on analysis of students' experiences, ideas, and feelings. Emphasis is placed on narrative, descriptive, and organizational techniques, as well as development of style. Readings are intended to deepen students' understanding of their own lives and provide models for creative interpretations of their own experience. Prerequisites: Any level-1 composition course from WRTG 10600 through WRTG 16500. 3 credits. (F-S,Y)
WRTG 21100 - Writing for the Workplace HU LA
Basic on-the-job writing necessary to join, manage, and promote any organization, whether profit or nonprofit. Focus is primarily on short forms: résumés, memos, business letters, summaries, brochures, newsletters, press releases, informal proposals, and reports. Course also explores how various social, economic, and ethical issues affect workplace writing. Prerequisites: Sophomore standing; any level-1 composition course from WRTG 10600 through WRTG 16500. 3 credits. (F-S, Y)
WRTG 21300 - Technical Writing HU LA
Fundamentals for communicating technical information to general and specialized audiences. Class emphasizes the foundations of technical writing, their formats and applications, context-specific writing strategies, basic visual design, and ethics. Some reading in and discussion of the history of technology and its influence on human society and culture. Prerequisites: Sophomore standing; any level-1 composition course from WRTG 10600 through WRTG 16500. 3 credits. (F,E)
WRTG 22500 - Grammar and Usage HU LA
Intensive study of the patterns of English grammar and their influence on sentence structure, punctuation, and usage. Daily exercises in contemporary usage and writing assignments prepare students for refining their own academic prose and for editing the work of others. Prerequisites: Sophomore standing; any level-1 composition course from WRTG 10600 through WRTG 16500. 3 credits. (F-S,Y)
WRTG 23600 - Fiction Writing I: Short Story 3A FA LA
Workshop in writing fiction, emphasizing plot, characterization, dialogue, description, narration, mood, tone, and viewpoint. Analysis of both professional and student writing. A final portfolio of revised work is required. Prerequisites: Sophomore standing; WRTG 17500 or WRTG 20500. 3 credits. (F-S,Y)
WRTG 23800 - Poetry Writing I 3A FA LA
Workshop in writing poetry, in which students develop poetic strategies and practice a range of poetic forms and modes. Analysis of published models (both historical and contemporary) and student writing. A final portfolio of revised work is required. Prerequisites: Sophomore standing; WRTG 17500 or WRTG 20500. 3 credits. (F-S,Y)
WRTG 30100 - Autobiography 3A FA LA
Advanced course in writing autobiography. Encourages students to recognize developmental patterns in their own lives and understand the social and political context of their experience. Emphasis is placed on the thematic, structural, and stylistic problems of extended narrative. Autobiographical readings are used to model the genre and address relevant issues, such as the selectivity of memory, the public presentation of the private self, and the literary value of daily life. Prerequisites: Junior standing; WRTG 20500 or WRTG 23600. 3 credits. (F or S,Y)
WRTG 30500 - Writing Science Fiction and Fantasy FA LA
Advanced creative writing course in science fiction and fantasy that emphasizes the importance of character and thematic development. Assignments also focus on the selection of subject, setting, and narrative techniques. Readings in contemporary science fiction and fantasy serve as models for approaches to these two genres. Prerequisites: Junior standing; WRTG 20500 or WRTG 23600. 3 credits. (S,Y)
WRTG 31000 - Women and Writing 3A FA LA
Creative writing for students interested in exploring female experience through different literary forms. The first half of the course is nonfiction prose (journals, essays); in the second half, students choose to do fiction, poetry, or dramatic writing. Readings by contemporary female writers. Prerequisites: WRTG 20500, WRTG 23600, WRTG 23800, or junior standing. 3 credits. (F or S,Y)
WRTG 31100 - Writing for the Professions HU LA
Advanced, thematically centered workplace writing focusing on more complex forms: policy statements, position papers, dossiers, legal documentation, and long reports. Course themes vary and encourage dialogue on major issues among different professions in business, government, law, and medicine. All sections are grounded in argument, ethics, and the humanities. Class readings may include casebooks, theoretical essays, or historical documents. Prerequisites: Junior standing. Any one of the following: WRTG 20100, WRTG 21100, or WRTG 21300; or any level-1 composition course from WRTG 10600 through WRTG 16500 and three courses at level 2 or above in the social sciences or majors within the Schools of Business, Communications, and Health Sciences and Human Performance, as well as the Division of International and Interdisciplinary Studies. 3 credits. (S, O)
WRTG 31400 - Science Writing 3A HU LA
Advanced expository course on journalistic and literary scientific writing. Students learn to communicate scientific facts and theories to professional and sophisticated lay readers through description, analogy, narrative, and argument. Some discussion of the technical and scholarly conventions of formal scientific writing. Class readings include major humanistic essays from the history of science and articles and features from contemporary popular and scientific publications. Prerequisites: Junior standing; any one of the following: WRTG 20100 or WRTG 21300 and two courses in the natural sciences; or any level-1 composition course from WRTG 10600 through WRTG 16500 and three courses (at least one above level 1) in the health and natural sciences. 3 credits. (S, E)
WRTG 31700 - Proposal and Grant Writing NLA
Advanced workplace writing concentrating on proposals and grants. Students address problems in the local community while studying the interplay among business, education, government, and nonprofits. Attentive to civic responsibility in the marketplace, this course teaches research and assessment, project management, editing, and document design. Group work emphasizes social networks and service learning. Prerequisites: Junior standing and one of the following: WRTG 20100, WRTG 21100, or WRTG 21300. 3 credits. (F-S, Y)
WRTG 31800 - Writing from Cultural Experience 3A HU LA
Advanced essay course in which students explore the significance of their own ethnic and cultural identity, background, and experience. Writing assignments encourage students to employ a variety of essay styles and structures -- from personal to public and from narrative to analytical. Appropriate for any students who recognize their life experience as distinct by virtue of their nationality, race, religion, region, gender, sexual preference, or culture. Prerequisites: Junior standing; WRTG 20100 or WRTG 20500. 3 credits. (S,Y)
WRTG 31900 - Writing as a Naturalist 3A HU LA
Advanced expository essay course focusing on human interactions with the rest of the natural world. Readings are selected from the writing of naturalists, environmentalists, scientists, legislators, artists, poets, and philosophers. Writing assignments include field observation, description, analysis, and argument. Prerequisites: Junior standing; WRTG 20100, WRTG2 0500, or any level-1 composition course from WRTG 10600 through WRTG 16500 and two courses in environmental studies above level 1. 3 credits. (F,Y)
WRTG 32000 - Public Essay 3A HU LA
A public essay is a vehicle for making sense of the world, for offering commentary about it that deepens the reader's understanding and awareness of our condition. This advanced expository course provides students the occasion to write reflective literary essays on topics of public interest and significance. Students bring their own values, perspectives, insights, and voice to bear on matters of community concern. Prerequisites: Junior standing; WRTG 20100 or WRTG 20500. 3 credits. (F-S,Y)
WRTG 32500 - Writing Children's LiteratureFA LA
Creating literature for children and young adults. In addition to studying stylistic approaches and techniques, the course addresses issues such as appropriate subject matter, writing for specific age groups, and the writer's moral responsibility. Reading assignments include classic and contemporary works, fairy tales and myths, and critical and historical essays. Prerequisites: Junior standing; WRTG 20500; WRTG 23600. 3 credits. (F,Y)
WRTG 33000 - Style and Syntax HU LA
Advanced expository course applying grammatical knowledge to the study of prose style. Close analysis of sentence structures and rhetorical devices used by exemplary writers, along with exercises and practice in revision of students' own prose. Prerequisites: WRTG 22500; junior standing. 3 credits. (IRR)
WRTG 33100 - Feature Writing HU LA
Advanced expository course in developing the skills necessary to write informative, accurate, and interesting feature articles suitable for publication in daily or weekly newspapers. Students learn interviewing and reporting skills, as well as feature genres, style, and structure. Prerequisites: Junior standing; WRTG 20100 or WRTG 20500. 3 credits. (F or S,Y)
WRTG 33400 - Humorous Writing FA LA
Writing humorously in the comedic or satiric mode. Introduces a variety of humorous forms, such as monologue, parody, caricature, and irony. Readings from past and present works contribute to a study of the historical, philosophical, psychological, and cultural dimensions of humor. Major emphasis is placed on creative writing. Prerequisites: Junior standing; WRTG 20500 or WRTG 23600. 3 credits. (F or S,Y)
WRTG 33600 - Fiction Writing II FA LA
An advanced workshop for students with a serious commitment to writing fiction. Builds on the work begun in WRTG 23600. Students may write short stories or longer fictional pieces. Prerequisites: Junior standing; WRTG 23600. 3 credits. (F-S,Y)
WRTG 33800 - Poetry Writing II FA LA
An advanced workshop for students with a serious commitment to the art of writing poetry. Students build on the study begun in WRTG 23800, striving for a greater understanding of issues and techniques in poetry. Prerequisites: Junior standing; WRTG 23800. (F or S,Y)
WRTG 34000 - Magazine Writing HU LA
Experience in researching, writing, and marketing magazine articles, with an emphasis on features. Students study the various types of articles and analyze magazines for their content, audience, and editorial policy and slant, using this understanding to write for particular magazines of their choice. Students learn reporting and research techniques, as well as how to query editors. Prerequisites: Junior standing or above; WRTG 20100 or WRTG 20500; JOUR 11100 or WRTG 33100. 3 credits. (F,Y)
WRTG 34200 - Writing about Sports HU LA
Advanced expository course in writing essays about sports for a variety of audiences, and developing and articulating standards for that writing. Readings selected from past masters and contemporary practitioners to provide a context for class discussion and for descriptive, analytical, and argumentative writing. Emphasizes establishing an authentic voice. Prerequisites: Junior standing. 3 credits. (S,Y)
WRTG 34500 - Writing as a Critic HU LA
Advanced expository course on the essentials of writing arts reviews and criticism for newspapers, magazines, and trade journals, both print and online. Subjects for review include film, theater, music, dance, performance media, literature, painting, printmaking, sculpture, photography, television, radio, videos, games, and digital media. Also addresses the social and aesthetic functions of arts criticism, the development of criteria for judgment, and the role and responsibility of the critic. Reading assignments include critical models as well as essays on the theory and practice of criticism. Prerequisites: Junior standing; WRTG 20100 or WRTG 20500; any two courses beyond level 1 in art, art history, literature, theater, music, dance, photography, television-radio, video, or film. 3 credits. (S,Y)
WRTG 35000 - Selected Topics in
Expository Writing HU
WRTG 35200 - Selected Topics in Expository Writing HU LA
Advanced expository writing course, offered at irregular intervals on topics chosen by faculty members. May be repeated for credit when topics vary. For writing minors, the course may be an elective or fulfill a level-3 minor requirement. Prerequisites: Junior standing; one writing course at level 2 or above (specified by name and number at time of offering). 3 credits. (IRR)
WRTG 35400 - Selected Topics in
Creative Writing FA
WRTG 35600 - Selected Topics in Creative Writing FA LA
Advanced creative writing course, offered at irregular intervals on topics chosen by faculty members. May be repeated for credit when topics vary. For writing minors, the course may be an elective or fulfill a level-3 minor requirement. Prerequisites: Junior standing; WRTG 20500 or one creative writing course at level 2 or above (specified by name and number at time of offering). 3 credits. (IRR)
WRTG 36000 - Composition Theory HU LA
Introduction to research and scholarship currently shaping the theory and practice of composition studies. Covers major philosophies of composing and studies in language and learning that inform writing pedagogy. Investigates how social and political dimensions of literacy affect language use and learning, as well as how new technologies shape writing and teaching practice. Prerequisites: Junior standing; WRTG 20100; WRTG 20500. 3 credits. (F or S,Y)
WRTG 36500 - Poetics HU LA
Introduction to Western theories of creative writing as a means of investigating the relationships between writer, text, and world. Addresses cultural/political, psychological, philosophical, and aesthetic concerns. Students analyze their own creative work and process in the context of these theories. Prerequisites: Junior standing; WRTG 23600 or WRTG 23800; any other writing course above level 1. 3 credits. (F-S,Y)
WRTG 38000 - Writers' Workshop LA
An advanced writing workshop offered each semester to coincide with the Department of Writing Distinguished Visiting Writers series. Requires 15 contact hours in meetings, conferences, and classes with both the visiting writer and the writing faculty coordinator. Students produce a 15-page revised manuscript of new work in the relevant genre over the course of the semester. May be repeated up to three times for credit. Prerequisites: Junior standing; permission of instructor. 1 credit. (F-S,Y)
WRTG 41000 - Senior Project LA
Advanced independent project designed by writing majors no later than their second junior semester and relating to their particular concentration or area of interest. The project, is usually undertaken in the second semester of the student's senior year. Work in the final portfolio is evaluated by the faculty mentor. Students are encouraged but not required to give a public presentation or reading of their work during their senior year. Prerequisites: Senior standing; WRTG 32000, WRTG 33600, or WRTG 33800; WRTG 36000 or WRTG 36500; permission of writing faculty. Open to majors only. 3 credits. (F-S,Y)
WRTG 41500 - Senior Seminar LA
Small group setting for intensive study of selected advanced topics not provided elsewhere in the curriculum. Seminar topics vary each semester. May be repeated for credit when topics vary. Prerequisites: Senior standing; two writing courses beyond level 1, at least one of which must be at level 3; permission of instructor; additional specific prerequisites to be determined by the subject of the seminar. 3 credits. (F-S,Y)
WRTG 42000 - Apprenticeship NLA
Service as a teacher's apprentice in
a 100-level writing course, correcting and commenting on
student papers, tutoring, leading class exercises or discussions, and participating in conferences. To be eligible, students must have completed two writing courses above level 1, with at least one B and one A- as final grades; should have successfully completed the course to which they are apprenticing; and should have a desire to work with students enrolled in
Academic Writing I or II, Personal Essay, or Argument. Prerequisites: Senior standing and permission of instructor. 3 credits. (F-S,Y)
WRTG 43600 - Writing the Short Novel FA LA
This advanced fiction-writing seminar offers students the opportunity to develop a short novel. The course extends previously learned narrative elements, such as characterization, plot, setting, point of view, tone, and voice, and applies them to a broader, more complex literary canvas. Students will create narratives that allow for multiple characters who interact within an expanded social context or that permit the extended exploration of a single character in considered detail. Prerequisites: Junior standing; WRTG 17500 or its equivalent; WRTG 20500; WRTG 23600; WRTG 30500, WRTG 32500, WRTG 33400, or WRTG 33600; one literature course in the Departments of English or Modern Languages and Literatures. 3 credits. (F,Y)
WRTG 45000 - Internship: WritingNLA
Work and study project designed by the student, in consultation with a faculty sponsor and a practicing professional. The proposal includes learning objectives, a detailed work plan, and a description of the student's plans for reports to the faculty sponsor. Prerequisites: Junior standing; three writing courses above level 1. Offered on demand only. Variable credit 1-6 credits; may be repeated up to 12 credits. (F-S,Y)
WRTG 49800 - Independent Study:
Exposition HU
WRTG 49801 - Independent Study (Exposition) HU
Student-initiated expository writing project focusing on a specialized area. For the qualified, advanced student, by agreement with a faculty member. Approval of the writing department chair must be obtained one semester in advance of the proposed project. Prerequisites: Senior standing; three writing courses above level 1; additional prerequisites depending on topic. 1-3 credits. (F-S,Y)
WRTG 49900 - Independent Study: Creative Writing FA LA
Student-initiated creative writing project focusing on a specialized area. For the qualified, advanced student, by agreement with a faculty member. Offered on demand only. Approval of the writing department chair must be obtained one semester in advance of the proposed project. Prerequisites: Senior standing; three writing courses above level 1; additional prerequisites depending on topic. 1-3 credits. (F-S,Y)


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Adult/Older Adult System of Care
If you have a Behavioral Health emergency,
please call 9-1-1.
For service referrals or to call the crisis line
dial 1-888-724-7240, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
Click here to apply for Student Loan Reimbursements under the California Mental Health Loan Assumption Program.
The San Diego County Adult/Older Adult System of Care offers a wide variety of treatment, rehabilitation and recovery services to help people who are experiencing persistent and severe mental illness or an addiction health crisis. All services provided are oriented to meet the unique linguistic and cultural needs of the persons served.
The system strives to ensure that the County residents have access to quality services as guided by our mission, principles and goals.
Services listed are County-operated behavioral health services. Select Network of Care on the list below to visit our interactive behavioral health website.
Adult Emergency and Crisis Services
List of All Regional County Clinics - 05-16-19
Central Regional Clinics - Urgent Walk-In Services - 05-21-19
East Regional Clinics - Urgent Walk-In Services - 05-16-19
North Central Clinics - Urgent Walk-In Services - 05-16-19
North Coastal Clinics - Urgent Walk-In Services - 05-16-19
North Inland Clinics - Urgent Walk-In Services - 05-16-19
South Regional Clinics - Urgent Walk-In Services - 05-16-19
Community Events and Announcements
Guide to Medi-Cal Mental Health Services
Mental Health Clubhouses in San Diego County 10-28-16
Adult/Older Adult System of Care
The Adult/Older Adult System of Care is responsible for oversight, planning and program development for the public adult system of care for San Diego County.
The public system is responsible for providing the services for County residents who are experiencing a health crisis or who have, as a primary diagnosis, persistent, severe mental illness or addiction illness. Services are provided directly through County-operated facilities, as well as through contracts with community providers and individual fee-for-service providers. Administrative functions include Quality Improvement, grievance and complaint procedures, billing and claiming procedures, direction and coordination of medical record services, and contract administration.
San Diego County Behavioral Health Plan Emergency Response Plan (ERP) Form
The Emergency Response Form will help emergency services personnel correctly assess and respond to urgent situations involving a clients with behavioral health illnesses.
To download the form, click on the link below:
Emergency Response Plan (ERP) Form
For administrative information or to provide feedback about this page, phone BHS Administration at 619-563-2700.
The material provided on this page is for reference only. If you need support or are actively seeking services, please call the ACL at 1 (888) 724-7240 and an experienced counselor will provide you with a referral to meet your needs and help determine eligibility.


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ESPN analyst Jon Gruden has publicly proclaimed his intention to stay in the television booth.
But he's telling teams who are about to have head coaching vacancies something different.
According to Mike Freeman of CBSSports.com, Gruden's representatives have told teams he will be willing to interview for their jobs once the season ended, even as soon as today.
Of course, Gruden's representatives seem to love nothing better than seeing their guy's name in the papers (see the never-made-sense rumors regarding the University of Tennessee job).
Freeman mentioned openings in San Diego and Philadelphia in particular.
Speculation linking Gruden with jobs is nothing new, but now that there are some official openings, there might be some fire to go with the perpetual smoke.


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Connectivity and driver assistance in the BMW 4 Series Coupé.
When driving the BMW 4 Series Coupé, you receive support from a wide range of innovative technologies that significantly increase your comfort. Enjoy a modern style of mobility that offers you the maximum level of networked communication, information and entertainment at all times – while setting new standards as well.
BMW Connected is a personal mobility assistant which facilitates everyday mobility and aids drivers in reaching their destinations relaxed and on time. Mobility-relevant information such as recommendations for optimal departure times are available remotely via iPhone® or Apple Watch and can be seamlessly transferred into the car.
Preparation for Apple CarPlay®* supports the convenient and wireless use of a selected iPhone® functions in the vehicle. This allows smartphone content, along with functions such as music, iMessages/text messages, telephony, Siri, navigation and selected third-party apps to be displayed and operated via the vehicle's user interface and via Voice control.
* Optionally available
The Navigation system Professional, including hands-free facility, USB interface, 0.0" LCD colour display and Radio BMW Professional with a DVD player, comes with a three-dimensional map display and 20 GB of memory. The system is operated intuitively via the iDrive Touch Controller. Map updates are available for three years without license fees*.
* The update refers exclusively to the map data for Germany.
The full-colour BMW Head-Up Display* projects information relevant to the journey directly into the driver's field of vision, thereby allowing them to fully concentrate on driving. The display includes information such as the current speed, navigation directions, Speed Limit Info incl. no-overtaking indicator, along with telephone and entertainment lists.
* Optionally available
The Multifunctional instrument display* with Black Panel technology and a screen diagonal of 5.7" provides a highly impressive visualisation of the driving experience. Three different modes and their specific displays – each of which have their own colour scheme and graphic style – can be displayed in the instrument cluster: ECO PRO, COMFORT and SPORT.
* Optionally available
BMW ConnectedDrive stands for the intelligent interaction between vehicle, driver and outside world. Enjoy more comfort, more entertainment and the reassuring feeling of safety on all routes. Or to put it simply: more driving pleasure.
Fuel consumption and CO2 emissions.
BMW 440i Coupé:
Fuel consumption in l/100 km (combined): 7.7–7.4
CO2 emissions in g/km (combined): 179–172
Consumption data is determined in accordance to the ECE driving cycle and depend on the wheel and tyre sizes selected. The models illustrated include optional equipment.
Further information about the official fuel consumption and the official specific CO2 emissions for new passenger automobiles can be found in the 'New Passenger Vehicle Fuel Consumption and CO2 Emission Guidelines', which are available free of charge at all sales outlets, from DAT Deutsche Automobil Treuhand GmbH, Hellmuth-Hirth-Str. 1, 73760 Ostfildern, Germany, and under http://www.dat.de/en/offers/publications/guideline-for-fuel-consumption.html.
The figures do not refer to an individual vehicle and do not constitute part of the offering; they are intended solely as a basis for comparison of the different vehicle types. CO2 emissions occurring during the production and provision of the fuel or other energy sources are disregarded when determining the CO2 emissions in accordance with Directive 1999/94/EC.
*Some images are for advertisement. The appearance and equipment may differ from the actual vehicle. Please contact your nearest BMW authorized dealer for more information.


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Here's a Link to My IR Galleries
Wednesday, July 30, 2008
Featured IR Photographer Showcase - Michael Moody
Hello loyal IR Buzz readers. Don't you think it's about time to offer up a new Featured Photographer? Well I do, and I apologize for taking so long to publish a new Feature. Personal circumstance has consumed my free time lately, and I have been neglecting putting anything new up on the Buzz as far as Features go. Don't worry, nothing bad has occurred in my life, I've just been "busy around the house" constructing a yard storage shed. It's been a satisfying process, as well as having called upon my creativity with sticks of wood. It's about finished, and with our daytime temperatures of 105+F lately, it's getting too hot to be outside working anyway.
I've been receiving a renewed interest from you, my readers, to have a Feature published about your work. For this I am most grateful. Please do not be shy about submitting your IR work and asking for a Feature. This is really a large part of what the Buzz is all about. The world should be seeing the good things you are doing.
I received a very nice email inquiry from Mr. Michael Moody, which I just immediately had to say to myself, 'this stunning work must be presented to the Buzz readers'. Michael says, " I've lived in Portland, Oregon for the last 21 years. Each year from April through October, I love photographing the landscapes around the Pacific Northwest. But November begins the rainy season here, so that's when I like to travel to other photographic locations. I particularly like the desert southwest of the USA for photography in the fall, and I've been all over S.E. Asia. I am planning to visit Indonesia this fall, my first trip overseas since I began using converted DSLRs for infrared. "
Bio: D. Michael Moody: I became interested in photography as a high school student, bored in study hall. The chemistry teacher asked if I would like to see him working in the darkroom, since I was obviously not much interested in studying. From the first instant I saw a B+W print image slowly appear in the developer tray I knew I wanted to make my own photographs. My first photo gig was student photographer for the high school yearbook. I went on to get a degree in Photojournalism, and eventually made my way from news photography into medical photography, where I've been for the past 27 years. As a medical photographer, many of my assignments are to document processes and procedures in a very straightforward and dry style with no room for artistic expression. So when work is over, I like to get more creative in my photography and that's where Infrared comes in. I started using Kodak's HIE in the late 1970s, later trying the EIR when I had a few extra bucks to spend. I went through a period of about 10 years shooting Konica IR B+W on a Mamiya RB67. That was a big rig to take backpacking!
With the advent of digital IR, I started out putting a Hoya R72 filter on my Canon G3 and Nikon d70. While encouraged by the results, it wasn't until I had Lifepixel convert my d70 to full time IR that I became totally addicted. I now shoot with a Lifepixel 665 Nikon d80 and a MyInfrared.com 400 Nikon d80. Here are a few of my favorite images. I hope you enjoy them.
Here's a Link to My IR Galleries
Copyright Statement: All images and materials displayed and showcased here, are copyrighted and are the exclusive property of the artist. Images and material may not be reproduced or used in any way without the written consent of the artist.
Be sure to comment freely to Michael's stunning false color and B&W IR work!
-=- Jerry -=-
Posted by Infrared Photography Buzz at 8:59 PM
8 comments:
- Bruce said...
Michael, your IR work is always inspiring to me. Thanks.
- July 31, 2008 at 1:43 PM
Stunning IR photos !!
- August 1, 2008 at 3:05 AM
- Danielle said...
Hello fellow Portland OR IR photographer! *waves*
- August 3, 2008 at 1:12 PM
Nice work, I especially enjoyed looking at your galleries.
I too have a converted near IR D70 and recommend it to anyone as an easy and not very expensive way to go.
- August 5, 2008 at 7:55 AM
- Kort said...
Awsome work Michael.
I love your use of intene color.
You been able to shoot in some might nice locations.
- August 5, 2008 at 12:48 PM
Magnificent IR Photos.
Enjoyed your galleries.
- August 6, 2008 at 9:25 AM
- Victoria said...
It was one of the photos shown above that inpsired me to give IR a try.
- August 24, 2008 at 6:53 PM
wow You are great !
xo xo,
- August 30, 2008 at 6:13 AM
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Absolut Vodka 1.00L
What does true taste of vodka taste like?
Absolut Vodka is made exclusively from natural ingredients, and unlike other vodkas, it doesn?t contain any added sugar. In fact Absolut is as pure as vodka can be. Still, that purity has a certain taste: Rich, full-bodied and complex, yet smooth and mellow with a distinct character of grain, followed by a hint of dried fruit.
Why change what‰ۡó»_‰ۡó»_ÌÇ_s perfect?
In 1879, Lars Olsson Smith introduced the continuous distillation with which he made Absolut Rent Brannvin (Absolute Pure Vodka). Instead of the usual three or four times, the vodka was distilled an infinite number of times. 100 years later, it was reintroduced as Absolut. Just as then, Absolut is produced in ?hus, L.O. Smith?s birth town. Also the place where the wheat used for making the vodka is grown. And since the way Absolut is made won?t change, neither will the true taste of vodka.
Keeping natural ingredients natural
The main ingredients in Absolut Vodka are water and winter wheat. The water comes from a deep well in ?hus where it?s protected from impurities. Winter wheat differs from other crops: it?s sown in fall, and harvested the next one. Days in between it grows under the Swedish snow developing its hard grain. Also, the use of fertilizers is minimized.


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Shield Earrings
CC Skye
CC Skye
- Earrings measures approx 2.5" in length and 2" in width
- Revolve Style No. CCSK-WL4
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"Bugs on Wheels" is the ever-so-popular outreach program that sweeps Erin and me away from the office on many days. Our very first program was on Feb. 13, 2006 and needless to say, it was a HIT! If you have ever wondered what goes on at a "Bugs on Wheels," wonder no more because you are about to go on a trip with us right now.
On a typical morning, Erin and I get to the office around 7:00 or 7:30. We have to take care of our other jobs before we can hit the road. Erin sorts through the insect zoo while I release butterflies.
Next, we have to get all the critters ready to go. All of the bugs that we take with us live in the containment room, so we do not have to take any away from the beautiful displays in the entomology hall. Everyone gets loaded up in their critter carriers and we stack them all in a large Rubbermaid container with wheels.
Then we are out to my car and on the road. We have traveled as far away as Crosby and as close as just around the corner. Set up is really easy, so we typically get to a school 10-15 minutes early. Normally, we have to sign in at the front office where we almost always get bombarded with students and teachers asking "What is that??" We prefer to set up in a classroom away from others, but there have been times when we had to fight the noisy crowds in a library or a cafeteria.
Typically we do 30 minute presentations, especially if the students are younger than 3rd grade. The older kids tend to sit still longer, allowing us to gab away for 45 minutes to an hour. Once the kids enter the class, the first challenge is to sit them all in nice straight rows. This part is hard for kids of all ages because they are distracted by the bugs of course!
Erin and I take turns introducing ourselves to each class. We tell them that we are from the Houston Museum of Natural Science and that we work in the Cockrell Butterfly Center. We used to ask if anyone has been to HMNS, but we stopped doing that because every kid wants to tell a story of their visit here.
We always like to ask the kids questions about insects before we begin; stuff like: How many legs? (6) How many body parts? (3: head, thorax, abdomen) What do they use to smell? (antennae) What kind of skeleton do they have? (exoskeleton) Do they have wings? (some do)
After this introduction, Erin and I turn almost invisible because the bugs totally steal the show!
First, we talk about all of the insects: hissing cockroaches, 3 walking sticks, deer – horned stag beetle, and the giant long – legged katydid. I have to say the most impressive is the katydid which the kids really love. We bring up important facts about each bug and ask lots of questions to the audience. Things like camouflage, mimicry, environment, adaptations, and diet are among some of the things we like to talk about.
Next, we discuss arachnids and compare and contrast them with insects. The two arachnids we show the kids are the whiptail scorpion, aka vinegaroon, and Rosie, our rose-hair tarantula. This section gives us the opportunity to clear up some misconceptions about tarantulas. Most people think they are soooooo venomous and cannot believe we actually hold one.
Lastly, we pull out the giant African millipede and have them guess what it is. Every now and then we will get a correct guess, but the majority of the guesses are: caterpillar, snake, worm, snail, rollie pollie, and centipede. We actually have a preserved centipede that we can compare the millipede to and show the differences.
The best part about our presentation is that every kid, if they want to, can touch all of the bugs with the exception of the vinegaroon and the stag beetle, who don't like to be touched.
Once we are all finished, we open the floor up to questions and eventually move on to the next group! Some days we do six, 30-minute presentations and others we do three, 1-hour presentations.
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For us, this program is very rewarding. One of the best things is when a kid says "YUCK" when they first see the bug, but after we persuade them to touch it they think it's cute. Also, helping kids understand that bugs aren't so bad and many of the big and scary ones are just trying to protect themselves from predators and that they don't really want to hurt us.
The most priceless moment is the initial excitement they get when they first see each bug – and the escalated joy when they find out they can actually touch the bug!
For all you parents and teachers out there, I have great news! Our Bugs on Wheels program has expanded to three different and unique programs.
The program I just explained is now considered "Amazing Arthropods." One of our new programs, "Butterflies and Moths," introduces the amazing cycle of metamorphosis and shows how butterflies and moths differ from each other and from other insects. The other program, "Plants and Pollination," uses a giant flower model, puppets, a bee hive, and real fruits and vegetables to demonstrate the importance of pollination to the plant kingdom and especially to the foods we eat.
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Facebook reported Q4 2012 revenue of $1.59 billion today, well above Wall Street analysts' expectations of $1.53 billion.
Why did the experts get it wrong?
It's a legitimate question because, with some simple back-of-the-envelope math and a couple of phone calls, Business Insider predicted Facebook revenue would come in well above $1.53 billion before the earnings were released.
The answer seems to be twofold:
1. Analysts may have under-counted the seasonality of advertising expenditure. In general, advertisers spend more in Q4 than any other quarter because of the shopping and holiday season. As Facebook is now so big that it's a rough proxy for the ad business as a whole, it benefits from this trend. All the major advertisers we talked to were bullish on Facebook adspend in Q4. We noted that the Q4 bump did not appear to be built in thoroughly to the average estimate of $1.53 billion, as published on Yahoo weeks ago.
2. There was an accounting quirk in Facebook's Q4 numbers, giving it a revenue boost: Facebook said today, "As planned, in the fourth quarter of 2012 the company recognized revenue from four months of Payments transactions for accounting reasons detailed in our Form 10-Q filed on October 24, 2012. Adjusting for the $66 million of revenue in the extra month of December, Payments and other fees revenue would have been essentially flat year-over-year."
In the event, Q4 payments were $256 million and ad revenue was $1.33 billion.
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I received the most touching gift from a fellow gardener this weekend, and it wasn�t a plant. Well, OK, it was a plant, but along with the blue-eyed grass came a huge 1958 edition of �The Art of French Cooking.�
I received the most touching gift from a fellow gardener this weekend, and it wasn�t a plant. Well, OK, it was a plant, but along with the blue-eyed grass came a huge 1958 edition of �The Art of French Cooking.�
Now, this is not Julia Child�s meticulous breakdown of classic French cuisine for American housewives. Oh no, my friend, Mary, gave me the real thing � recipes lifted verbatim from the masters of French cooking, with directions for squab and bombes, calves� heads and tripe, jellied sole and saddle of veal.
Of course, she was grinning when she handed it to my husband. The book, you see, is in pristine condition, almost as perfect as when Mary�s husband handed it to his new bride years ago, expecting her to present guests with amazing feasts. However, with a brood of children and a huge yard just clamoring for thousands of hours of labor, Mary�s interests turned elsewhere.
As entertainment, this volume is priceless, especially since it has dozens of cool photos, including a roasted split squab that is decorated to look like a frog crouching on the platter. Funny stuff.
The touching thing is that Mary and her husband have wisely but reluctantly decided it�s time to down-size from their family home and garden and move to a retirement community. Every lifelong gardener has to be pried from their land, and Mary is no exception.
The silver lining is that her new home has a community garden. And even more silvery � most of the residents are more interested in bridge and field trips than toiling away in the dirt. So Mary can dig in, plan, scheme, exchange seeds and plants and bring a little of her home with her when she moves. It�s what every gardener wants.
And, I did find a simple recipe in the dessert section of Mary�s tome for almond crescents. You make your own almond paste instead of relying on the canned stuff. I think I�ll whip her up a batch as a going-away, thank-you present, and maybe I can talk her into taking some of our extra obedient plant off my hands �
Croissants aux Amandes
NOTE: I�ve updated the directions a bit to make things easier
1 cup whole, raw almonds
1 cup powdered sugar
1 Tbs. apricot jam
2 egg whites
1 tsp. vanilla
� cup flour
2 additional egg whites, slightly beaten
1 cup slivered almonds (the flat slivers)
Preheat oven to 325 degrees. Line a baking sheet with parchment paper or a silicone baking mat.
Put the almonds in a food processer and pulse until they form a fine paste. Scrape into the bowl of a stand mixer. On low speed, gradually add the sugar, then the apricot jam, and then the egg whites and vanilla. Divide the paste into pieces the size of a walnut and roll each one in the flour. On a sheet of waxed paper, use your palms to roll each ball into a finger-sized cylinder. Brush with the beaten egg whites and roll in the slivered almonds. Place on the baking sheet and shape into a crescent. Bake for 10-12 minutes until cookies just begin to brown. Remove them from the sheet immediately to a cooling rack.


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Release Date: 1982 |
Album Rating: 4.5This is a personal favourite of mine, even though many will probably disagree. It's the album that
introduced me to the band, but also the one that has proved to stand the test of time, in all honesty.
Digging: Skaldic Curse - Devourer
Really love how they came back and made Go Away White, sadly the band is a mood specific listen for me.
Album Rating: 4.5Yeah, same here-they were just so different to anyone else by the sounds of it.
Album Rating: 2.0One of the greatest bands in terms of gothic post-punk
Album Rating: 4.5I agree with you there. I plan to do some reviews of The mission, Killing Joke and maybe the cult in the near future, as I have albums by those bands:P
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NCIS Double Team in "Red: Part One" Episode 18 of Season 4
Pictured (L-R): Roy (John Corbett), Miguel Ferrer (NCIS Assistant Director Owen Granger), Linda Hunt (Henrietta "Hetty" Lange), Daniela Ruah (Special Agent Kensi Blye), Paris (Kim Raver) and Chris O'Donnell (Special Agent G. Callen). When a murder weapon in Idaho matches the one used in a national security case in L.A., Callen and Sam fly to the crime scene to join NCIS: Red, a mobile team of agents who live and work together as they solve crimes in various locations, on NCIS: LOS ANGELES, Tuesday, March 19 (9:00-10:00 PM, ET/PT) on the CBS Television Network. Guest stars include Kim Raver ("Grey's Anatomy") as NCIS Special Agent Paris Summerskill, John Corbett ("Sex and the City") as Roy Haines and Scott Grimes ("ER") as NCIS Special Agent Dave Flynn. Photo: Cliff Lipson/CBS ©2013 CBS Broadcasting, Inc. All Rights Reserved.


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At a meeting kindly sponsored by the Commercial Bank Of Dubai, both features are on the turf and have attracted the maximum field of 12.
He saddles Viscount Nelson who is penalised for his course and distance victory in the Group 2 Al Fahidi Fort and therefore has to give weight to his 11 rivals but his jockey, Kevin Shea is hopeful.
Shea said: "Obviously he has to try and give weight to 11 good rivals but we were delighted with his win in the Al Fahidi Fort as we thought he would need the run after a troubled preparation. It is a good race as you would expect but I am very hopeful of a big run."
Godolphin trainer Saeed bin Suroor saddles Sandagiyr, who won the 1600m Group 3 Firebreak Stakes earlier this month on his debut for the yard under Frankie Dettori, who maintains the partnership.
That was on the all-weather surface but he was a Listed race winner on turf in his native France and his handler said: "Reverting to grass will not be a problem and he has been in good form since his win. This is probably a stronger race but he should run well."
Singapore are well represented with both Dark Matter who, as the only three-year-old in the race receives weight from his rivals, and local debutant Gingerbread Man. Ted Durcan rides Dark Matter who won his first two Carnival starts, once on turf, once on the all-weather and both over 1400m, before defeat in the UAE 2000 Guineas over Thursday's trip.
Durcan explained: "He was a bit disappointing last time in the Guineas but we are well drawn and the return to turf is certainly not a negative. He has had three weeks between races and is in good form at home so, hopefully, will run well in a good race."
Singapore–based New Zealander Opie Bosson takes the ride of Gingerbread Man.
Dettori was spoilt for choice in the Nad Al Sheba Trophy with the Godolphin trainers responsible for five of the 12 runners. The Italian has elected to ride Fox Hunt whom he partnered to a handicap course and distance victory four weeks ago from Averroes who is again in opposition.
Dettori's mount is trained by Mahmoud Al Zarooni as is Opinion Poll, runner-up in this race last year behind stable companion Claremont, and Rostrum.
Al Zarooni said: "We have three nice runners but Fox Hunt won well first time and has the advantage of race fitness over Opinion Poll who is a real favourite in the yard as he always runs a good race."
Bin Suroor trains Modun who will be having only his second Godolphin outing having been purchased out of the UK-based Sir Michael Stoute's yard. The trainer said: "He has been working nicely and is a horse we are really looking forward to running this season. He will improve for the outing but should go well."
Saudi Arabia's Mashoor, British-trained Glen's Diamond, French raider Kasbah Bliss and De Kock's Irish Flame are others to consider in a wide open contest in which Jakkalberry, trained by English based Italian Marco Botti will be a big threat if staying a trip he has yet to tackle.


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Looks like Abercrombie & Fitch is turning a new leaf.
The mall retailer, which made headlines earlier this year when the brand's CEO was under fire for declaring their core customers should be the attractive 'cool kids', thus, alienating a pretty sizable demographic of shoppers, has just announced that they will be launching a plus-size line in the coming months.
Given the controversy earlier this year, it's pretty shocking, to say the least, and we're guessing that this decision was made more in desperation than anything else.
NEWS: Lululemon founder says yoga pants "don't work" on all women's bodies
It's no secret that Abercrombie & Fitch has fallen off the grid in terms of hot shopping spots these days, especially when brands like Forever 21, American Eagle and ASOS have all expanded their lines to accommodate a range of body shapes.
Not only do these savvy merchants churn out trendier options, but they also come at an affordable price, inspiring shoppers to embrace their personal style and mix and match to find styles that speak to their individual tastes.
After all, we have to admit—Abercrombie's distressed low-rise jeans, shrunken polos and fitted hoodies emblazoned with their logos aren't exactly on our wish lists anymore.
You snooze, you lose, right?
NEWS: Lululemon shuns plus-size customers, plus other fashion scandals
And finally in light of this news, we think it'll be fascinating to see what exactly the brand produces for those larger than a size 10; and we're even more intrigued how shoppers will respond to the collection.
Plus-size denim mini skirts? Plaid button down shirts? Flimsy cotton camisoles?
This will be interesting, indeed!
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2nd Test will not be shifted from Hyderabad: BCCI
New Delhi: The BCCI today made it clear that the second cricket Test between India and Australia will go ahead as per schedule in Hyderabad since the state government has assured of safety and security of the players.
The city of Hyderabad was rocked by two terror blasts yesterday, killing 14 people and injuring many.
The visiting Australian players and officials had expressed concerns but BCCI today assured them all safety measures would be in place.
Senior BCCI official Rajeev Shukla said they saw no reason to shift the Hyderabad Test, scheduled to begin from March 2, from the city.
"After BCCI President spoke to me, I spoke to Union Home Secretary, who was in Hyderabad and had discussion with the Chief Minister and officials of state government. After that he apprised me that adequate security will be provided to the players as well as the spectators. So Test match should not be shifted out of Hyderabad," Shukla told reporters outside the Parliament House.
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Shukla, who is also IPL Chairman, said BCCI President N Srinivasan will speak to Cricket Australia Chairman to assure him of the security of the players.
"I have conveyed to BCCI President, who in turn is going to speak to Chairman of Cricket Australia to convey that when government is giving guarantee of safety and security of the players and the spectators, I think we should not change the venue," Shukla said.
The first Test match has started in Chennai today.


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