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Here are some terms that you might encounter when hearing or reading about the endangered species program. Some definitions are linked to more information.
Action area means all areas to be affected directly or indirectly by the Federal action and not merely the immediate area involved in the action.
Applicant refers to any person, as defined in section 3(13) of the Act, who requires formal approval or authorization from a Federal agency as a prerequisite to conducting the action.
Biodiversity - The variety of life and its processes, including the variety of living organisms, the genetic differences among them, and the communities and ecosystems in which they occur.
Biological assessment - A document prepared for the Section 7 process to determine whether a proposed major construction activity under the authority of a Federal action agency is likely to adversely affect listed species, proposed species, or designated critical habitat.
Biological opinion - A document that is the product of formal consultation, stating the opinion of the Service on whether or not a Federal action is likely to jeopardize the continued existence of listed species or result in the destruction or adverse modification of critical habitat.
Candidate species - Plants and animals that have been studied and the Service has concluded that they should be proposed for addition to the Federal endangered and threatened species list. These species have formerly been referred to as category 1 candidate species. From the February 28, 1996 Federal Register, page 7597: "those species for which the Service has on file sufficient information on biological vulnerability and threat(s) to support issuance of a proposed rule to list but issuance of the proposed rule is precluded."
Category 1 candidate species - A term no longer in use, having been replaced by the term "candidate species" which uses the same definition.
Category 2 candidate species - A term no longer in use. Previously referred to species for which the Service had some indication that listing as threatened or endangered might be warranted, but there were insufficient data available to justify a proposal to list them.
Category 3 candidate species - A term no longer in use. Previously referred to species which once were category 1 or 2 candidate species, but for which subsequent data indicated that listing as threatened or endangered was not appropriate.
CITES - The 1973 Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora, restricting international commerce between participating nations for plant and animal species believed to be harmed by trade.
Common name - The nonscientific name of an animal or plant most widely used and accepted by the scientific community.
Conference - The consultation process required for Federal actions that are likely to jeopardize the continued existence of a species proposed for listing or result in the destruction of adverse modification of proposed critical habitat.
Conserve - Carrying out actions to improve the health of a species so it no longer needs to be listed as threatened or endangered.
Conservation - From section 3(3) of the Federal Endangered Species Act: "The terms "conserve," "conserving," and "conservation" mean to use and the use of all methods and procedures which are necessary to bring any endangered species or threatened species to the point at which the measures provided under this Act are no longer necessary. Such methods and procedures include, but are not limited to, all activities associated with scientific resources management such as research, census, law enforcement, habitat acquisition and maintenance, propagation, live trapping, and transportation, and, in the extraordinary case where population pressures within a given ecosystem cannot be otherwise relieved, may include regulated taking."
Consultation - All Federal agencies must consult with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (or National Marine Fisheries Service) when any activity permitted, funded, or conducted by that agency may affect a listed species or designated critical habitat, or is likely to jeopardize proposed species or adversely modify proposed critical habitat. There are two stages of consultation: informal and formal.
Critical habitat - Specific geographic areas, whether occupied by listed species or not, that are determined to be essential for the conservation and management of listed species, and that have been formally described in the Federal Register.
Delist - The process of removing an animal or plant from the list of Endangered and Threatened Wildlife and Plants.
Designated non-Federal representative refers to a person designated by the Federal agency as its representative to conduct informal consultation and/or to prepare any biological assessment.
Distinct population segment - If it satisfies the criteria specified in the February 7, 1996, Federal Register, pages 4722-4725, a portion of a vertebrate (i.e., animals with a backbone) species or subspecies can be listed. The criteria require it to be readily separable from the rest of its species and to be biologically and ecologically significant. Such a portion of a species or subspecies is called a distinct population segment.
Ecosystem - Dynamic and interrelating complex of plant and animal communities and their associated nonliving (e.g. physical and chemical) environment.
Ecosystem Approach - Protecting or restoring the function, structure, and species composition of an ecosystem, recognizing that all components are interrelated.
Endangered - The classification provided to an animal or plant in danger of extinction within the foreseeable future throughout all or a significant portion of its range.
Endangered Species Act of 1973, as amended - Federal legislation intended to provide a means whereby the ecosystems upon which endangered and threatened species depend may be conserved, and provide programs for the conservation of those species, thus preventing extinction of native plants and animals.
Endangered species permit - A document issued by the Service under authority of Section 10 allowing an action otherwise prohibited under Section 9 of the Endangered Species Act.
Endemic species - A species native and confined to a certain region; having comparatively restricted distribution.
Extinct species - A species no longer in existence.
Extirpated species - A species no longer surviving in regions that were once part of their range.
Federal action agency - Any department or agency of the United States proposing to authorize, fund, or carry out an action under existing authorities.
Formal consultation - The consultation process conducted when a Federal agency determines its action may affect a listed species or its critical habitat, and is used to determine whether the proposed action may jeopardize the continued existence of listed species or adversely modify critical habitat. This determination is stated in the Service's biological opinion.
Habitat - The location where a particular taxon of plant or animal lives and its surroundings (both living and nonliving) and includes the presence of a group of particular environmental conditions surrounding an organism including air, water, soil, mineral elements, moisture, temperature, and topography.
Habitat Conservation Plan (HCP) - A plan which outlines ways of maintaining, enhancing, and protecting a given habitat type needed to protect species. The plan usually includes measures to minimize impacts, and might include provisions for permanently protecting land, restoring habitat, and relocating plants or animals to another area. An HCP is required before an incidental take permit may be issued.
Harm - An act which actually kills or injures wildlife. Such acts may include significant habitat modification or degradation when it actually kills or injures wildlife by significantly impairing essential behavioral patterns including breeding, feeding, or sheltering.
Historic range - Those geographic areas the species was known or believed to occupy in the past.
Implementation schedule - An outline of actions, with responsible parties, estimated costs and timeframes, for meeting the recovery objectives described in the species recovery plan.
Incidental take - Take that results from, but is not the purpose of, carrying out an otherwise lawful activity.
Incidental take permit - A permit issued under Section 10 of the Federal Endangered Species Act to private parties undertaking otherwise lawful projects that might result in the take of an endangered or threatened species. Application for an incidental take permit is subject to certain requirements, including preparation by the permit applicant of a conservation plan, generally known as a "Habitat Conservation Plan" or "HCP."
Incidental take statement - A term referring to that part of a biological opinion that exempts incidental take of a listed species from the Section 9 prohibitions.
Informal consultation - Informal consultation precedes formal consultation and includes any form of communication between the Federal action agency, applicant, or designated non Federal representative and the Service to determine if listed species may occur in the action area and what the effects of the action may be to such species. This phase is often used to develop project modifications or alternatives to avoid adverse effects to listed species, which would then preclude the need for formal consultation.
Jeopardy biological opinion - A Service Section 7 biological opinion that determines that a Federal action is likely to jeopardize the continued existence of listed species or result in the destruction or adverse modification of critical habitat.
Lead region - The Fish and Wildlife Service Region that is responsible for coordinating all actions taken to study, propose, list, conserve, and delist a species.
Lead office - The field office that has been given the responsibility for coordinating all or most actions taken to study, propose, list, conserve, and delist a species within the boundaries of Region 3. If Region 3 is the lead region for a particular species, the lead office has these responsibilities over the entire range of that species.
Listed species - A species, subspecies, or distinct vertebrate population segment that has been added to the Federal lists of Endangered and Threatened Wildlife and Plants as they appear in sections 17.11 and 17.12 of Title 50 of the Code of Federal Regulations (50 CFR 17.11 and 17.12).
Listing - The formal process through which the Service adds species to the Federal List of Endangered and Threatened Wildlife and Plants.
Listing priority - A number from 1 to 12 indicating the relative urgency for listing plants or animals as threatened or endangered. The criteria used to assign this number reflect the magnitude and immediacy of threat to the species, as well as the relative distinctiveness or isolation of the genetic material they possess. This latter criterion is applied by giving a higher priority number to species which are the only remaining species in their genus, and a lower priority number to subspecies and varieties. These listing priorities are described in detail in the Federal Register on September 21, 1983, as pages 43098-43105.
No jeopardy biological opinion - A Service Section 7 biological opinion that determines that a Federal action is not likely to jeopardize the existence of a listed species or result in the destruction or adverse modification of critical habitat.
Participation plan - A plan describing the means to carry out one or more tasks outlined in the Implementation Schedule of a species recovery plan, minimizing the socioeconomic impacts of that action.
Petition (Listing) - A formal request, with the support of adequate biological data, suggesting that a species, with the support of adequate biological data, be listed, reclassified, or delisted, or that critical habitat be revised for a listed species. See also Region 3 Guidance for Potential Petitioners
Propose - The formal process of publishing a proposed Federal regulation in the Federal Register and establishing a comment period for public input into the decision-making process. Plants and animals must be proposed for listing as threatened or endangered species, and the resulting public comments must be analyzed, before the Service can make a final decision.
Proposed species - Any species of fish, wildlife, or plant that is proposed in the Federal Register to be listed under Section 4 of the Endangered Species Act.
Range - The geographic area a species is known or believed to occupy.
Reauthorization - A term referring to periodic action taken by Congress to reauthorize the Endangered Species Act. By reauthorizing an act, Congress extends it and may also amend it.
Reclassify - The process of changing a species' official threatened or endangered classification.
Recovery - The process by which the decline of an endangered or threatened species is arrested or reversed, or threats to its survival neutralized so that its long-term survival in nature can be ensured.
Recovery outline - The first Service recovery document provided for a listed species. While very brief, the document serves to direct recovery efforts pending the completion of the species' recovery plan.
Recovery permit - Permits issued under Section 10(a)(1)(A) of the Federal Endangered Species Act for scientific research and other activities benefitting the recovery of Federally listed species.
Recovery plan - A document drafted by the Service or other knowledgeable individual or group, that serves as a guide for activities to be undertaken by Federal, State, or private entities in helping to recover and conserve endangered or threatened species.
Recovery priority - A number, ranging from a high of 1C to a low of 18, whereby priorities to listed species and recovery tasks are assigned. The criteria on which the recovery priority number is based are degree of threat, recovery potential, taxonomic distinctiveness, and presence of an actual or imminent conflict between the species and development activities.
Region 3 - The geographic unit of the Service that is composed of Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Ohio, and Wisconsin.
Scientific name - A formal, Latinized name applied to a taxonomic group of animals or plants. A species' scientific name is a two-part combination consisting of the name of the genus, followed by a species name. For example, the scientific name of gray bat is Myotis grisescens. If a species has been further divided into subspecies, a third part is added to the scientific name. The Ozark big-eared bat is Plecotus townsendii ingens. "Ingens" distinguishes the Ozark subspecies from other subspecies of the big-eared bat.
Scientific take permit - A type of recovery permit authorized under Section 10 allowing for research pertaining to species recovery such as taking blood samples from a peregrine falcon for genetic analysis, or conducting surveys of freshwater mussel beds to determine species status and distribution.
Section 4 - The section of the Endangered Species Act that deals with listing and recovery of species, and designation of critical habitat.
Section 4(d) rule - A special regulation developed by the Service under authority of Section 4(d) modifying the normal protective regulations for a particular threatened species when it is determined that such a rule is necessary and advisable to provide for the conservation of that species.
Section 6 - The section of the Endangered Species Act that authorizes the Service to provide financial assistance to States through cooperative agreements supporting the conservation of endangered and threatened species.
Section 7 - The section of the Endangered Species Act that requires all Federal agencies, in "consultation" with the Service, to insure that their actions are not likely to jeopardize the continued existence of listed species or result in destruction or adverse modification of critical habitat.
Section 9 - The section of the Endangered Species Act that deals with prohibited actions, including the import and export, take, possession of illegally taken species, transport, or sale of endangered or threatened species.
Section 10 - The section of the Endangered Species Act that lays out the guidelines under which a permit may be issued to authorize activities prohibited by Section 9, such as take of endangered or threatened species.
Species - From Section 3(15) of the Federal Endangered Species Act: "The term 'species' includes any subspecies of fish or wildlife or plants, and any distinct population segment of any species of vertebrate fish or wildlife which interbreeds when mature." A population of individuals that are more or less alike, and that are able to breed and produce fertile offspring under natural conditions.
Species of Concern - "Species of concern" is an informal term that refers to those species which Region 3 believes might be in need of concentrated conservation actions. Such conservation actions vary depending on the health of the populations and degree and types of threats. At one extreme, there may only need to be periodic monitoring of populations and threats to the species and its habitat. At the other extreme, a species may need to be listed as a Federal threatened or endangered species. Species of concern receive no legal protection and the use of the term does not necessarily mean that the species will eventually be proposed for listing as a threatened or endangered species.
Take - From Section 3(18) of the Federal Endangered Species Act: "The term 'take' means to harass, harm, pursue, hunt, shoot, wound, kill, trap, capture, or collect, or to attempt to engage in any such conduct."
Threatened - The term "threatened species" means any species which is likely to become an endangered species within the foreseeable future throughout all or a significant portion of its range - - as defined in the Endangered Species Act.
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Site-Based Expenditures
Average FY 2019 expenditures per student at each school in the district
The Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) requires that all districts report their per-pupil spending at every school, beginning with School Year 18-19. Districts are required to report the actual dollars spent, including school-level costs (like school staff) and district-wide costs (like transportation and central office staff) allocated to each individual school. Additionally, they must show the source of funds for the expenditures (federally-funded vs. state/locally-funded).
Districts prepare these school-by-school spending numbers using Reporting Guidance published by ISBE. The expenditures are reported as per-pupil amounts: they show the average amount of money spent on each student in the school. The enrollment used for per-pupil calculations is student FTE, meaning that students attending only part of each day are counted as proportional students in the count. The expenditures used for per-pupil calculations includes almost all the different expenditures made at the school and district level. Only certain expenditures like capital outlay (facilities, property, and major equipment purchases) and debt service are excluded from the total expenditures reported, as explained in Reporting Guidance. The expenditure information is not pulled from a district's Annual Financial Report (AFR) but rather through a separate data collection specifically for site-based expenditure reporting. The AFR information is from a different year than site-based expenditure reporting and is collected for a different purpose, so AFR data may not be the same as the school-by-school spending data. For further information on how this reporting is calculated, please see the "Resources" tab of this explanation.
This school finance data set is best suited for comparisons within a district rather than across different districts. There are many reasons why a district may spend different amounts of money on different schools. This reporting is a starting point for understanding and exploring where dollars go within a district. The data may empower districts and communities to examine and improve equity of opportunity between individual schools. The data may also enable a better understanding of the relationship between student outcomes and financial resources. Finally, the data can encourage districts, schools, and the state to identify best practices and opportunities to promote innovation.
Because districts understand their own resource policies and practices best, they are best positioned to develop, interpret, and communicate their data. Therefore, ISBE encourages Report Card users to send their questions and thoughts on school finance data directly to their district. General questions on the Report Card itself can be directed to email@example.com, and general questions on the site-based expenditure reporting requirement can be directed to firstname.lastname@example.com.
The Every Students Succeeds Act (ESSA) contains a requirement for districts to report school-level expenditure data, beginning with School Year 18-19 data. All districts and communities in Illinois and across the country now have unprecedented access to understand how financial resources are allocated across schools, allowing for deeper exploration of important topics such as resource equity and connections between spending and academic outcomes. Illinois is uniquely positioned to take advantage of this reporting because it aligns with other efforts within funding and school support systems in the state in pursuit of equity and fiscal and academic solvency – that is, balancing a system's finances and its student needs so that the whole system can effectively support students through strategic resource allocation.
An advisory group made up of education leaders across the state, including many district superintendents and business officials, guided the Illinois approach to this reporting requirement. As the advisory group developed its approach, it kept in mind that districts have the best understanding of their resourcing policies and practices and are therefore best positioned to develop, interpret, and communicate their data.
As a result, questions regarding any district's data shown in this reporting should be addressed to the district directly. Questions regarding the Report Card itself can be directed to ISBE at email@example.com. Questions regarding the site-based expenditure reporting requirement at large can be directed to ISBE at email@example.com. This reporting initiative can and will evolve over years, as the state, districts, and communities evaluate the value of this reporting.

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The thing about the bully pulpit is that Presidents can make the most fantastic claims and it takes days to sort the reality from the myths. So as a public service, let's try to navigate the, er, remarkable Medicare discussion that President Obama delivered on Wednesday. It isn't easy.
Mr. Obama began by depicting a crisis in the entitlement state, noting that "our health-care system is placing an unsustainable burden on taxpayers," especially Medicare. Unless we find a way to cauterize this fiscal hemorrhage, "we will eventually be spending more on Medicare than every other government program combined. Put simply, our health-care program is our deficit problem. Nothing else even comes close."
On this score he's right. Medicare's unfunded liability—the gap between revenues and promised benefits—is currently some $37 trillion over the next 75 years. Yet the President uses this insolvency as an argument to justify the creation of another health-care entitlement, this time for most everyone under age 65. It's like a variation on the old Marx Brothers routine: "The soup is terrible and the portions are too small."
As astonishing, Mr. Obama claimed he can finance universal health care without adding "one dime to the deficit, now or in the future, period," in large part by pumping money out of Medicare. The $880 billion Senate plan he all but blessed this week would cut Medicare by as much as $500 billion, mainly by cutting what Mr. Obama called "waste and abuse." Perhaps this is related to the "waste and abuse" that Congresses of both parties have targeted dozens of times without ever cutting it.
Apparently this time Mr. Obama means it, though he said this doesn't mean seniors should listen to "demagoguery and distortion" about Medicare cuts. That's because Medicare is a "sacred trust," and the President swore to "ensure that you—America's seniors—get the benefits you've been promised."
So no cuts, for anyone—except, that is, for the 24% of senior beneficiaries who are enrolled in the Medicare Advantage program, which Democrats want to slash by $177 billion or more because it is run by private companies. Mr. Obama called that money "unwarranted subsidies in Medicare that go to insurance companies—subsidies that do everything to pad their profits but don't improve the care of seniors."
In fact, Advantage does provide better care, which is one reason that enrollment has doubled since 2003. It's true that the program could be better designed, with more competitive bidding and quality bonuses. But Advantage's private insurers today provide the kind of care that Mr. Obama said he would mandate that private insurers provide for the nonelderly—"to cover, with no extra charge, routine checkups and preventative care."
Advantage plans have excelled at filling in the gaps of the a la carte medicine of traditional Medicare, contracting with doctors and hospitals to coordinate care and improve quality and covering items such as vision, hearing and management of chronic illness. If seniors in Advantage lose this coverage because of the 14% or 15% budget cut that Mr. Obama favors, well, that's "waste and abuse."
Mr. Obama did also promise to create "an independent commission of doctors and medical experts charged with identifying more waste in the years ahead." That kind of board is precisely what has many of the elderly worried about government rationing of treatment: As ever-more health costs are financed by taxpayers, something will eventually have to give on care the way it has in every other state-run system.
But Mr. Obama told seniors not to pay attention to "those scary stories about how your benefits will be cut, especially since some of the folks who are spreading these tall tales have fought against Medicare in the past and just this year supported a budget that would essentially have turned Medicare into a privatized voucher program."
This is a partisan swipe at one of the best GOP ideas to rationalize the federal budget, despite Mr. Obama's accusations that his opponents want to do "nothing." This reform would get Medicare out of the business of spending one out of five U.S. health dollars, and instead give the money directly to seniors to buy insurance to encourage them to be more conscious of cost and value within a limited budget. Democrats would rather have seniors dance to decisions made by his unelected "commission of doctors and medical experts."
Mr. Obama also called for "civility" in debate even as he calls the arguments of his critics "lies." So in the spirit of civility, we won't accuse the President of lying about Medicare. We'll just say his claims bear little relation to anything true.


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Gears of War has been around for a while now—seven years, with Judgment being the fourth game in the series—and it seems the franchise is not ready to slow down just yet. Most reviewers agree that the gameplay is exhilarating, the story is tight, and the war-torn world is prettier than ever.
So what was it that critics loved best about this adrenaline-fueled Locust-maiming rampage of epic proportions? Here's what they had to say.
Giant Bomb
Despite my feelings that Baird is the most extraneous character in the Gears universe and a general feeling after Gears 3 that I was probably done with this franchise, Judgment is still a good time. It doesn't let its story get in the way of its action, and the declassified modifiers had me playing Gears in ways that I normally wouldn't, making for a more interesting challenge than the typical difficulty settings offer. But the lack of maps just sucks every last bit of life out of the multiplayer, regardless of its new modes.
Gears games always look good, but even by the series' own standards Judgment is an especially good-looking bit of work, although the 'destroyed beauty' aesthetic feels somewhat overdone now. The characters look more human too. They're still hulking colossi (it wouldn't be Gears if the characters weren't on the juice), but they don't look quite so much like they were fashioned in clay by a drunk that's watched too much WWE this time around.
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Judgment's campaign offers a dutiful tour through the formerly beautiful, now ruined city: you take cover to fend off waves of the Horde, defend escorts (like a robot drone), pick off snipers wielding OneShot rifles, and essentially go through the paces of what you expect from a Gears of War game—without that extra burst of creativity, surprises, and multiple routes that made Gears of War 3's campaign stand out. Judgment offers a linear, largely boss-less, by-the-numbers journey that, while fun, is surprising in how unsurprising it is.
Speaking of difficulty, this game is a heck-of-a lot harder, faster, and more intense than previous Gears games, even on Normal and Hardcore difficulties. The amount of enemies may incite small panic attacks, especially in co-op on hardcore or above, where every death resets you to a checkpoint. It's gratifying when surpassed, but teasingly brutal otherwise. The fact that enemy types and layouts change every time a checkpoint is restarted means you can't simply learn the patterns to get a jump on the locations after a couple of restarts. The game's AI will catch you off-guard in a heartbeat, but the satisfaction that comes from conquering this dynamic is all the more elating.
This focus on leveling and winning things leads to Judgment's campaign having a lot more of an "arcade" feel than prior installments. Missions are very short, lasting a few minutes at most, which leads to the already basic story feeling segmented. However, the trade-off is a faster, more chaotic, more varied solo and cooperative experience which, coupled with the declassified extras, leads to an altogether different type of Gears that players are used to. Whether fighting in a room covered in thick dust and full of sword-wielding Therons, or defending a position with sentry bots and turrets, Judgment constantly switches things up on the player, and the bite-sized nature of individual missions leads to a feeling of greater replayability.
The success of Judgment's story comes down to the clever use of familiar storytelling techniques. It begins at the end, with Kilo Squad under arrest and facing a military tribunal for an unspecified crime. Discovering the how and why they arrived here is exciting because you're involved in every moment leading up to the arrest. Cutscenes are mercifully few and far between, leaving us to dig into the details during playable flashback sequences. This is where Gears of War bottles lightning again.
Ultimately, the guns are still meaty, the roadie run still feels exhilarating, the speed and force with which your body hits cover is still satisfying, the locales are still great ruin porn. It's an evocative game, a remarkably carnal experience for a video game in which nothing sexual actually happens. Thought of in that context, though, Judgment reminds me that the worst thing a lover can do is become too familiar.


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A work stoppage in sports, obviously, affects more than the players and owners. It takes a ton of people to make hockey go, from referees and broadcasters to concessionaires and janitors. And it's always the little guys who are first to go when the money stops rolling in.
Some teams, like Washington, Pittsburgh, and Minnesota, have announced there will be no layoffs. Other teams can't afford to be so generous. Ottawa and Florida began cost-cutting measures today, announcing layoffs and shortened work weeks for the employees who remain. The Senators let go "more than 10" of their 170 full-time workers, and while the Panthers didn't publicly announce details, the Miami Herald's George Richards reports six employees were cut. But that's not the worst part (OK, it is the worst part, but play along):
Stanley, seen above in happier times, may have trouble finding work. His degree from the "Panther Preparatory School of South Florida" is more useless than a B.A. in philosophy in these tough economic times, and the sad fact is there's not much out there for a giant anthropomorphic cat on skates, who doesn't have retail experience or opposable thumbs.
Also, that's a real human being inside there, and now he's lost his income. This lockout sucks.


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1917-1940, undated
Mikell, William E., 1894-
Extent: 1 linear foot
This collection features a series of materials partially documenting the career of lawyer and legal scholar William E. Mikell. Most notably featured in this collection are various drafts of the criminal codes Mikell was heavily involved in planning and drafting during his career. As well are included a large variety of personal notes and writings of Mikell's which touch upon the large number of criminal law and code topics he worked with throughout his life. Speeches given by and about Mikell are included in their original forms, as well as person memorabilia including Mikell's 1890 Master's degree from The Citadel. The collection is rounded out with a brief set of personal photographs and miscellaneous correspondence from Mikell's career.


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Blending or bundling?
Google may paint this kerfuffle as Foundem struggling to come to terms with its algorithms, but Google whitelisted Foundem back into AdWords in 2007, and on December 1, after our original story ran, restored the site to its unpaid results. The EU complaint is not an effort to somehow change Google's algorithms or expose them. It asks that Google opens up about how it handles penalties and introduce some fair play to Universal Search.
On the penalty front, Foundem is asking that Google come clean on the existence of search penalties, the criteria for applying the penalties, and the rationale behind them. Plus, it wants a formal appeals process. "They need to be much more transparent and effective with appeals so that no other company takes three and half years to get fixed," Shivaun Raff says.
Separately, the Raffs have called for a complete overhaul of Universal Search. "Google should not discriminate - at all - not even in favor of Google's own services," she continues, accusing Google of using completely different algorithms to rank results for its own services. The complaint also argues that when Google inserts its own services, it should clearly label them - just as it labels advertising on its search engine.
As the Raffs point out in their FCC filing, Google has said that Universal Search is a way of "blending" its own services into web results. But the filing also points out that others have called it "bundling". The onus is now on the European Commission to decide whether it should launch a formal probe that will settle these semantic differences.
Shivaun Raff is confident that a probe will indeed be launched. That's her opinion, incidentally, not Microsoft's. She is clearly someone who can speak for herself - and does. Google doesn't seem to realize this. But that's part of the problem. Human interaction is not its strong suit. ®


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The high court upheld the national security certificate against Harkat, opening the door Wednesday to the next step in removing him from Canada.
Harkat, 45, has expressed fears he could be tortured if returned to his native Algeria, given the high-profile accusations against him, raising questions about how, when or even if he will be deported.
But he is beginning to run out of options in the long-running bid to clear his name.
The Supreme Court also rejected Harkat's constitutional challenge of the security certificate regime, unanimously ruling that the process — while not perfect — is consistent with the Charter of Rights and Freedoms.
"It's difficult to put it in words," Harkat's lawyer, Norm Boxall, said Wednesday after reading the decision. "I can't think of another word to say, other than it was devastating."
Added Harkat's wife, Sophie, as she and her husband were getting into a car to leave: "We will fight them all the way."
The former pizza delivery man was taken into custody in Ottawa in December 2002 on suspicion of being an al-Qaida sleeper agent. He denies any involvement with terrorism.
The federal government is trying to deport the Algerian refugee on a security certificate — a seldom-used tool in immigration law for removing non-citizens suspected of extremism or espionage.
Harkat's lawyers argued the process was unfair because the person named in a certificate doesn't see the full case against them.
In its ruling, the Supreme Court said the security certificate regime does not violate the person's right to know and challenge the allegations they face. However, the high court provided detailed guidance on applying the process to ensure it is fair.
Federal Court Justice Simon Noel ruled in 2010 that there were grounds to believe Harkat is a security threat who maintained ties to Osama bin Laden's terror network after coming to Canada.
On Wednesday, the Supreme Court concluded Harkat "benefited from a fair process" when Noel reviewed his case, meaning the certificate against him stands.
Last year, federal border agents removed an electronic tracking bracelet from Harkat's ankle. He was also given more freedom to travel, but was prohibited from leaving the country and told to check in with authorities regularly.
Public Safety Minister Steven Blaney applauded the Supreme Court ruling. But it was not immediately clear whether Canada would begin assessing the risk of returning Harkat to Algeria, or if it might seek a third country willing to accept him.
Because Harkat is a refugee, the federal border agency cannot deport him unless the immigration minister issues a "danger opinion" declaring him a danger to the Canadian public or Canada's security.
In addition, the agency noted Wednesday, anyone to be removed from Canada "is entitled to due process before the law and all removal orders are subject to judicial scrutiny."
Boxall said he hopes Harkat will never be deported, citing the peril that may await him in Algeria and arguing that Canadians have nothing to fear.
"Any risk here, even on the findings of the court, are minimal," Boxall said. "I mean, it's hard to identify what risk he presents."
Two other men — Mahmoud Jaballah and Mohamed Mahjoub, both originally from Egypt — could face removal from Canada in certificate cases.
The Canadian Council for Refugees, the Ottawa-based International Civil Liberties Monitoring Group and Amnesty International Canada expressed disappointment with the ruling.
Alex Neve, secretary general of Amnesty Canada, said he was "surprised and troubled" the Supreme Court did not ground its decision in the international human rights standards that Canada is obliged to uphold.
There have been numerous legal twists and turns in the path-breaking case.
In 2007, the Supreme Court struck down the security certificate regime, declaring it unconstitutional.
The federal government issued a revised certificate in Harkat's case in 2008 after the secretive process was overhauled to bring it in line with constitutional guarantees.
In revamping the security certificate system, the government introduced special advocates — lawyers with access to secret material who serve as watchdogs and test federal evidence against the person singled out in the certificate.
In April 2012, the Federal Court of Appeal ruled that summaries of some 1990s conversations be excluded from evidence against Harkat because the Canadian Security Intelligence Service destroyed the original recordings.
In its ruling, the Supreme Court unanimously disagreed, saying disclosure of the summaries in abridged form to Harkat and in their entirety to his special advocates "was sufficient to prevent significant prejudice to Mr. Harkat's ability to know and meet the case against him."
The appeal court also said in 2012 that human sources recruited by CSIS did not have the sort of blanket protection that shields the identities of police informants, even from the judge. In the case of CSIS, this is instead decided on a case-by-case basis.
The Supreme Court agreed Wednesday that there should be no overarching privilege for CSIS sources, saying the security certificate generally ensures that their identities remain "within the confines of the closed circle" formed by the reviewing judge, the security-cleared special advocates and federal lawyers.
Two judges — Rosalie Abella and Thomas Cromwell — dissented on the issue, saying CSIS informants are entitled to an assurance that the promise of confidentiality will be protected. "This can only be guaranteed by a class privilege, as is done in criminal law cases."
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Not many people can combine a dream vacation with their place of work.
But not many people "work" by drawing pictures in the sand on the beach.
Andres Amador
San Franciscan Amador, 42, is an "
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He uses rope and a rake to create large geometric drawings on beaches.
His work can span an entire beach -- often covering 9,300 square meters (100,000 square feet) in area -- and usually takes little longer than two hours to create.
That's useful, for his canvas is ephemeral, often subject to rogue waves, high tides (he always sculpts during low tide) and dogs.
None of that fazes the former computer technician, who has so far drawn hundreds of short-lived artworks on around 30 beaches in the United States, Mexico and the Channel Islands.
He's been commissioned to create backdrops for marriage proposals, memorial ceremonies, commercial artwork for a car company and offers workshops for people who want to learn how to create their own beach art.
"Ultimately, when it is finished, I let it go," he says. "For me the energy and draw is around the act of creation."
Inspired by crop circles
Amador was drawn to ancient geometric art after studying crop circle reconstructions.
Then, one cloudless day 10 years ago on Kalalau Beach on the Hawaiian island of Kaua'i, Amador was showing a friend the geometric art he'd been studying using a stick in the sand.
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"[I drew] one circle and [explained to my friend] the meaning it has had for people; two overlapping circles and the line between their centers; three overlapping circles which form a triangle," Amador tells CNN.
Former computer technician Andres Amador now builds natural homes and creates artwork on beaches.
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"I suddenly realized that all of the crop circle reconstructions I had been studying start in this exact way, which establish reference points for everything that follows.
"It felt like a bolt from the heavens, in which I had a vision that I could do enormous designs on the sand."
In 2004, Amador drew his first piece on Ocean Beach in San Francisco, a wide beach near Amador's home.
His work grew from there.
Dogs not the artist's ally
Amador keeps a log of ideas on flash cards and picks one before heading to the beach.
He's created hundreds of beach murals on just 30 or so beaches.
Not every beach provides the right conditions.
READ: 22 can't-miss U.S. beaches
"The needs I have in a beach have been such that there are few that are available to me," says Amador.
"I need a large beach that is relatively flat. Then I need a high high tide followed by a low, low tide. These occur several times of the month.
"At these times the canvas I have to work with is maximized. Other considerations are the scenery of the beach and the quality of the sand -- some dries faster than others.
"I also appreciate beaches without a lot of traffic, particularly dogs -- they're the worst for creating scars in the sand."
Amador hopes to inspire people to "follow what brings you joy."
"I did this art for many years without pay simply because it was so enlivening to do so," says Amador. "If I can inspire others, I hope that I can offer the message that the path is more important than the destination -- that the journey should be the focus.
"When one is experiencing joy, then the world also receives that joy. And the world can always use more joy."
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Whenever Morrison and Newman hook up on a football field, it's a big deal.
The same is true when their graduates butt heads, as they will on Saturday as part of the Alumni Football USA series. Game time is 5 p.m. at Roscoe Eades Stadium in Sterling.
The Mustangs' preparation began in late April, and they've been practicing twice a week, usually on Wednesdays and Sundays, ever since. Last Saturday, they practiced at Ashford University in Clinton, on a turf field to replicate what they will play on against Newman.
Today, they'll have a walk-through scrimmage against current Morrison players.
On Saturday, a two-part fundraiser is planned at Hilltop Lanes. Two hogs will be roasted, with meals available from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m., then again from 7:30 p.m. until the food lasts, with proceeds benefiting Morrison football at all levels.
Those attending the early session will send the players on their way at 1:30 p.m. – and they'll be traveling in style, courtesy of a charter bus.
In the players' minds, they've done everything necessary to get ready for this game.
"It's Newman, so we don't want to look dumb," Greg Pruis, 38 said, "and we really want to win this game."
Tim Stout, who has served as the Morrison varsity line coach and fresh-soph defensive coordinator for the past 17 years, somewhat reluctantly is coaching a lot of his former players. He noted he cherishes his time away from coaching, as football is basically a year-round commitment when weightroom and summer camps are factored in.
He simply couldn't turn down this group when asked to help.
"I came down to a practice, and they were asking a lot of questions and were a little lost," Stout said. "I figured, ah, what the heck."
The Morrison roster will have about 36 players on it, and something in the Mustangs' favor is it tends to be on the young side. It has players from the 2010 and 2012 state championship teams who are not currently playing college football, as well as a strong contingent of players who were on stout squads just before that.
"We finally get to put together our own all-star team, so to speak," Stout said. "There's a lot of all-state, all-conference kids – quite a few of them are walking around with championship rings on their finger."
Stout indicated the Mustangs will be running their traditional offensive and defensive schemes, with a few wrinkles thrown in to perhaps throw off the Comets, as well as to hopefully put on a good show.
"They've seemed to adapt to it pretty well," Stout said.
One of the non X's and O's topics that has been discussed in the Morrison camp has been the levels of success team members have enjoyed, or perhaps not enjoyed, against Newman.
"It's fun watching all the different cultures come through here," said 20-year-old Matt McDonnell. "You hear one group say they beat Newman every time, and the next group says they never beat them. From my era, we split with them quite a bit.
"It's just fun to suit up again so people can get their first win, or maybe get another one, or maybe it'll be the first time they lost to them. Who knows?"
Note: Since 1996, Morrison has gone 6-14 against Newman, but the Mustangs have taken 2 of the 3 playoff battles. They were a 15-12 decision in 2011 and a 14-3 contest in 2006.


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- Teach your child his/her phone number, address, and any important information on how to contact you in an emergency.
- Teach your child to never leave or get into a car with a stranger under any circumstance. Teach them to report any such instances immediately.
- If someone else is to pick up your child, use a secret code that you have prearranged between your child and the adult. Make sure the school knows that someone else will pick up your child.
- Teach your child who the police are & how they can help them.
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Thich Nhat Hanh is a Vietnamese Buddhist monk known for his peace activism and writing. Born in 1926, he entered the monastery when he was 16. He graduated from the Bao Quoc Buddhist Academy in Central Vietnam and was ordained a monk in 1949.
Nhat Hanh became the editor in chief of Vietnamese Buddhism in 1956 before going to the United States in 1960. There, he studied comparative religion at Princeton University, going on to lecture in Buddhism at Columbia University. Upon returning to Vietnam in 1963, he taught Buddhist psychology and literature at the Van Hanh Buddhist University.
During the Vietnam War, Nhat Hanh became an outspoken activist for peace, working around the world as part of the Buddhist Peace Delegation. He also published a 1967 book about his native country, Vietnam: Lotus in a sea of fire. Fragrant Palm Leaves, a volume of his journals from 1962 to 1966, was published in 1999. At the war's end in 1973, he was denied permission to return to Vietnam, and would only be allowed to visit in 2005.
Nhat Hahn has written over 100 books, including poetry, stories, and Buddhist guides. Many of his books focus on mindfulness, including The Miracle of Mindfulness, published in 1991, Touching Peace: Practicing the Art of Mindful Living, from 1992, and Savor: Mindful Eating, Mindful Live, published in 2010. His 2001 book, A Pebble in Your Pocket, is a collection of stories for children and adults.
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1. Oh, what did the pioneer children hear
At early morn on the desert air?
The sounds of companies wakening,
The Nauvoo Bell calling Saints to prayer.
2. Oh, how did the pioneer children help
When wagons camped in the noontide shade?
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And watched the little ones as they played.
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Carson City Sheriff's Office to receive 2014 Harley-Davidson FLH Touring Police motorcycle
Sgt. Mike Cullen and Deputy Joey Trotter have recently returned to the Carson City Sheriff's Office after attending motorcycle maneuverability and precision riding skills training and competition in Milwaukee, Wisc.
More than 130 officers from departments throughout the country competed against each other for a chance to win one of two 2014 Harley-Davidson FLH Touring Police motorcycles valued at $25,000 each, which would be given to the officer's department.
One motorcycle would be given away after elimination of riders during the competition. Only the top 10 riders would get a chance to win one of the motorcycles. The other would be given away in a drawing at the end of the event.
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"(I was) So surprised and happy I could not contain myself," he said.
Cullen returned with a fifth place overall team plaque. Cullen was teamed up with three other riders: Paul Pisani (Toronto Police Service, Canada), Dennis Bedingfield (Harris County Sheriff's Office, Texas), and Steven Aguiar (Toronto Police, Canada).
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ATV: A new generation space vehicle
ESA's Automated Transfer Vehicle (ATV) relies on the most complex software ever conceived in Europe – more than a million lines of code - with multiple levels of redundancy. At a mass of nearly 20 tonnes, the vehicle is the heaviest and largest ever built in Europe and to be launched by an Ariane 5.
The 48 cubic metre pressurised cargo module gives the ATV a capacity three times greater than existing space freighters. Its racks can be packed with more than 1300 kg of food, clothes, and equipment.
Reservoirs can carry several hundred litres of drinking water and gases. Other tanks are loaded with important quantities of propellants. Astronauts will unload the cargo at their leisure, and use it as a storage area. Unwanted items and refuse placed inside will burn up when the vessel re-enters the Earth's atmosphere at the end of its mission.
Other ATVs will follow. The five scheduled between now and 2015, will be crucial elements of the ISS, particularly after the last Shuttle flight in 2010. And future versions of the spacecraft are already on the drawing boards.
The ATV Programme represents an investment of some 1.3 billion Euros since 1995, to the benefit of European industry. Under the direction of ESA and prime contractor EADS Astrium, engineers throughout the continent have contributed to this new generation spacecraft.
Major sub-contractors include Thales Alenia Space (Italy), Astrium (Germany and France), Oerlikon Space (Switzerland), Dutch Space (The Netherlands), with Russian partners providing the advanced docking mechanism.


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The European Broadcasting Union believes the auction of spare radio spectrum will reduce original TV programming, and damage society as a whole, without even providing the expected boost to rural broadband.
The report (pdf) argues that digital terrestrial TV should receive special treatment as broadcasters can't make money from the frequencies as easily as, say, mobile phone operators, but that the €19bn they invest in original programming each year is of value to society as a whole, and won't be sustainable if they're required to compete in an open market.
We've heard this argument before: London's theatre crowd lobbied to get some spectrum reserved for PMSE (Programme Making & Special Events) use on the grounds of their contribution to society, though all they eventually managed was a stay of execution. The report points out that the loss of PMSE will be another blow to broadcasters wanting to make TV programmes as "...the limited economic viability of PMSE services means that any exposure to market forces for spectrum allocation may make such services unviable for users such as TV production companies and theatres."
If broadcasters are required to spend their money on spectrum then there'll be less original programming, leading to a less well-educated population and the general collapse of society as we know it.
"...television services are possibly the most important instrument for delivering public service through the promotion of cultural understanding." explains the report "By contrast, alternative uses of UHF spectrum, such as mobile telephony, are likely to make little impact in this area."
Mobile operators can realise the value of their spectrum directly, by charging punters to use it, while "TVs and radios will never be able to compete with mobile operators; they cannot offer billions like mobile operators can", Philip Laven, adviser on spectrum policy issues for EBU, told the Policy Tracker web site.
The argument that releasing all this spectrum will create a new broadband infrastructure is also attacked in the report, which calls this the "Mobile Myth" and explains that operators already have unused spectrum, and are about to get another chunk at 2.6GHz which will have much greater capacity than down in the UHF spectrum where broadcast TV lurks.
Wireless broadband is more restricted by roll-out plans than any shortage of spectrum, deploying broadband at UHF frequencies (the 400 - 800 MHz band) would be cheap as fewer base stations would be required, but the report agues that at such low frequencies it would be impossible to provide true broadband speeds (defined as >2Mb/sec) to more than few customers.
The EU has a plan to divide up the digital dividend into terrestrial TV, mobile TV and other services, which would reserve some bandwidth for terrestrial but would also see a chunk of spectrum allocated to mobile TV that no-one seems to be interested in watching.
Ofcom, meanwhile, would like to see the whole electromagnetic spectrum opened up to the highest bidder, on the basis that he who is prepared to pay most will make most efficient use of the bandwidth. But when the value is to society as a whole, rather than just money, then the calculation gets more complicated.


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History of the April Fool's Day Jokes
Posted: Sun Apr 11, 2010 6:44 pm
Title: History of the April Fool's Day Jokes
Short Title: Records of April 1st
Original Author: Qu Hui
Keywords: history, sosz, forum, scholars, april fool's, jokes
Description: A sepeate volume of the History of the Scholars of Shen Zhou detailing the traditional April Fool's Day Joke, year by year.
2003: James creates a fake webpage intended to be the April Fool's Day Joke called "Kong Ming New Archived," credited to Timmy, whose father bought KMA from James. However, the prank is not well received, and within five hours Timmy receives eight death-threats and James receives countless frantic e-mails from visitors. The prank is promptly taken down and archived.
2004: James creates a front page for Pikachu's Archives as the April Fool's Day Joke. The response is much better than the previous year. The popularity of the prank spawns the Pikachu smiley now used on the forum.
2005: James fully converts the front page of Kongming's Archives into Zhongmou's Archives, a site with a more Wu focus, as the April Fool's Day Joke. Kong Wen "resigns" as an administrator of the board due to the change. Fear is instilled into the hearts of every non-Wu-ist, while the Wu-ists rejoice.
2006: A group of texts that present an alternate historical view of certain personages from the Three Kingdoms era are "discovered." One of these texts, a biography of Xiahou Mao, is posted on KMA with promises of more to come. As a result, Xiahou Mao experiences a brief surge in popularity.
2007: A.K.A. The Great Rebellion. The Honorable Lady Wu and Kong Wen ban James in honor of the spirit of the Ides of March, and then take over the forum. They are met by Sun Gongli, Ezekiel, Baiko Arashi (who goes down in history as annoying his way into the previous drafts) and others who oppose this, and the forum breaks down into a very 'civil' civil war. At the climax of the Joke, James feigns that he is abandoning KMA as well, and Kong Wen announces his intention to take it over. The next day, James returns and does the big reveal. For a dramatized account of the events, see "A Record of the Rebellion Against James the Benevolent."
2008: James creates a quiz page where everyone who visits has one chance to win Golden Apples. However, upon moving to the next page, they discover that Yuan Shu has taken their Golden Apples. Everybody but Yuan Shu is unsatisfied by this outcome and Yuan Shu gets a tummy ache from eating all of those Apples.
2009: Keeping with the interest generated by his Destiny of an Emperor mods, James "announces" his most ambitious Destiny of an Emperor mod yet, Destiny of a Pikachu. There is great merriment, along with some genuine interest.


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Bathroom Update – Peonies and SparkleMay 29, 2014
I'm not a fan of my bathroom. I'd love to rip the whole thing out and start from scratch, but unless I win the lottery that's unfortunately not a project I'll get to tackle any time soon. I made some changes way back in 2011 (which tackled the ugly blue plastic shelving), and I've recently made a couple of other small changes.
The shower curtain rings I had were simple chrome spheres. They were nice enough, but after a few years the humidity was making them discolour a bit. After a bit of searching I replaced them with something with a little sparkle.I, like a lot of other people, am quite fond of Peonies. Last year I was lucky enough to win a beautiful 'Stop and Smell the Peonies' print by Stephanie Sterjovski and Anna Agiropolous (of Anna with Love) through Tim at Design Maze. Being the queen or procrastination and indecisiveness it took me a while to decide where to put it, but now that it has finally found a home I couldn't be happier. Every morning when I'm getting ready for the day it's a pretty reminder to find time to enjoy and appreciate the small things that make me happy.
They're small changes, but I think they've both dramatically improved my space.


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A call calls a callable object (e.g., a function) with a possibly empty series of arguments:
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A trailing comma may be present after an argument list but does not affect the semantics.
The primary must evaluate to a callable object (user-defined
functions, built-in functions, methods of built-in objects, class
objects, methods of class instances, and certain class instances
themselves are callable; extensions may define additional callable
object types). All argument expressions are evaluated before the call
is attempted. Please refer to section
If keyword arguments are present, they are first converted to
positional arguments, as follows. First, a list of unfilled slots is
created for the formal parameters. If there are N positional
arguments, they are placed in the first N slots. Next, for each
keyword argument, the identifier is used to determine the
corresponding slot (if the identifier is the same as the first formal
parameter name, the first slot is used, and so on). If the slot is
already filled, a TypeError exception is raised.
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arguments have been processed, the slots that are still unfilled are
filled with the corresponding default value from the function
definition. (Default values are calculated, once, when the function
is defined; thus, a mutable object such as a list or dictionary used
as default value will be shared by all calls that don't specify an
argument value for the corresponding slot; this should usually be
avoided.) If there are any unfilled slots for which no default value
is specified, a TypeError exception is raised. Otherwise,
the list of filled slots is used as the argument list for the call.
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Philosophy Dialogue Series considers 'Freedom, Technological Change'
By Paige Wilkerson
University News Service
March 14, 2012
The Texas State University-San Marcos Department of Philosophy presents a series of themed dialogue events taking place from March 26-30. Unless noted otherwise, all dialogue events are held in the Dialogue Room 132 at the Psychology Building. All dialogues are free and open to the public.
The discussion topic for Week 6 of the Philosophy Dialogue Series is Freedom, Responsibility and Technological Change.
March 26
The Challenge of Technological Determinism
11 a.m., Craig Hanks, philosophy
March 27
Neuroscience and Personal Responsibility
12:30 p.m., Ty Lasater, Tommy Newman and Marie Pierre, philosophy students
March 28
Science, Technology and Ethics
11 a.m., Vincent Luizzi, philosophy
March 28
Panel Discussion: Freedom, Responsibility and Technological Change
12:30 p.m., Vivek Sharma, LEEP AP (moderator), construction science and management and the department of engineering technology
March 28
Microcosm vs. Macrocosm: Mayan and Hindu Calendar: Predictions for 2012
2 p.m., Linda Mackey, religion and philosophy
March 29
AI, Genetic Engineering and the Blurring of Personhood
12:30 p.m., Luke Davis and Lauren Redding, philosophy students
March 30
Sustainability Dialogues
10 a.m.-12:30 p.m., Ronald Hagelman, geography
March 30
Talk of the Times
1 p.m., led by Phi Sigma Tau
Sponsors of the Philosophy Dialogue Series include: the American Democracy Project, the College of Liberal Arts, Common Experience, the Gina Weatherhead Dialogue Fund, the New York Times, the National Endowment for the Humanities, Phi Sigma Tau, University Seminar, the University Honors Program, the Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs and the Vice President for Student Affairs.
For more information about this topic, please contact Beverly Pairett in the Department of Philosophy at (512) 245-2285 or email firstname.lastname@example.com. A complete schedule of discussion topics and presentations can be found at www.txstate.edu/philosophy/dialogue-series/Dialogue-Schedule.html.


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Knight scores 30; Pistons beat Cavs 104-97
Brandon Knight scored a career-high 30 points and the Detroit Pistons defeated the Cleveland Cavaliers for the second time in six days with a 104-97 win on Saturday night.
The Pistons, who won for just the second time in 12 road games this season, took control with a run that began late in the third quarter and carried into the fourth period.
Tayshaun Prince scored 14 points while Jason Maxiell added 11 for the Pistons, who defeated the Cavaliers 89-79 on Monday in Auburn Hills, Mich.
Jeremy Pargo scored 24 points for Cleveland, which has lost five straight, nine of 10 and 15 of 17.
Cavaliers center Anderson Varejao, who scored 16 points and had 13 rebounds, went to the locker room late in the second quarter with a bruised left elbow. X-rays were negative and he returned to begin the third quarter with the elbow wrapped.
Knight scored 23 points in the second half, including 13 in the fourth quarter.
Cleveland again played without leading scorers Kyrie Irving (broken left index finger) and Dion Waiters (sprained left ankle).
Coach Byron Scott said there's a chance one or both could return for Tuesday's game against the Los Angeles Lakers, but neither player has been cleared by doctors.
Trailing 62-54 late in the third quarter, Detroit grabbed the momentum and took a 71-68 lead on Knight's 3-pointer. Knight scored 10 points in the period and the Pistons took a 76-70 lead into the fourth quarter.
Charlie Villanueva hit a pair of 3-pointers to help the Pistons take a 14-point lead early in the fourth. The Cavaliers cut the lead to 99-95 on Varejao's free throw with 40.1 seconds left, but Rodney Stuckey's basket with 18.3 seconds left gave the Pistons a six-point lead.
Cleveland used a 24-7 run in the second quarter to take a 46-36 lead, but Detroit rallied and trailed 52-49 at halftime. The Pistons went ahead 54-52, but the Cavaliers scored 10 straight points for a 62-54 lead.
Stuckey and Maxiell each scored 10 points for Detroit, which committed only nine turnovers.
C.J. Miles scored 15 points while Tyler Zeller added 13 for Cleveland. Varejao's streak of consecutive double-doubles ended at 10 Friday against Minnesota when he had four points and 14 rebounds.
NOTES: The Pistons play at Philadelphia on Monday, the site of their only road win prior to Saturday . ... Detroit coach Lawrence Frank was one of Scott's assistants with the New Jersey Nets. "I worked for him for three years, so I know that his teams are always prepared," Frank said. "They also tend to take on some of Byron's personality, being tough-minded groups that never make excuses." ... Cleveland scored 22 points in the first quarter after 14.7 in the first period in its previous three games. ... The Cavaliers begin a stretch of four games in five nights Tuesday.


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In our post-carpocalyptic and post-paper world, truly amazing auto show press reveals are a rarity. Rightfully so. Why spend tens of millions of dollars to unveil a car to a group of balding, morbidly-obese, and irrelevant auto "press" when it's already been seen online by an audience a thousand times larger and more influential? But, even if automakers have to spend less, they can still do something cool that creates digital content. A great example is Volkswagen.
V-Dub's reveal of the seventh-generation Golf at this week's New York Auto Show used projectors and animations to illustrate the history, heritage, and technology of the car — and society around each previous generation — in a way that captured attention and just looked cool. Frankly, despite not being interested in buying a Golf, it was still awesome to watch.
But who cares about me? As I said, I'm not going to buy one. But maybe one of the 10,000 people who saw the YouTube video VW posted online of the reveal might. That's ten to twenty times the number of people who saw the unveiling at the show.
If you're going to spend the money on creating something cool in real life, you better be able to leverage it in the digital space by using it to create something cool there as well. Otherwise, an automaker's just wasting money.
Ray Wert is the former Editor-in-Chief of Jalopnik and founder of automotive custom content studio Tiny Toy Car.


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We highlighted this video years ago, and it remains the quintessential depiction of having a good times with boules. And so close to the atmosphere we enjoy in Amelia Island!
Now on YouTube, without annoying advertising, the fabulous group "Message", zouk music from Guadeloupe:
June 7, 2012
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