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Long before the end of Jesus' life there had been conflicts with Jewish religious leaders—over Sabbath observance and in connection with miracles of healing (Mark 3: 6). Traps for him were set and it is not therefore a surprise to read that this opposition came to a head in Jerusalem after Jesus had entered the city with a measure of popular support (Mark 11: 9) and caused chaos in the outer court of the Temple (Mark 11: 15). According to the gospels, after his whereabouts had been betrayed by Judas, Jesus was arrested, brought to trial before the Sanhedrin, and condemned to death. A second trial then took place before the Roman Governor since the Jews, as a subject people, had no legal right to inflict capital punishment, and Pontius Pilate acceded to the wishes of the Jewish leaders, and condemned Jesus to death. He died by the Roman method of execution—crucifixion (Mark 15: 24, 37).
The historicity of the gospel narratives has been questioned, especially by Jewish scholars, who maintain that the evangelists are guilty of putting back into the time of Jesus the antagonism of the Church for the Synagogue. It is argued that the trial before the Sanhedrin is a fiction designed to fasten the blame for Jesus' death on the Jews; and that the historical fact is that Jesus was condemned by the Roman authorities as a dangerous disturber of the peace. The story of the nocturnal trial (Mark 14: 53–64) is not credible—even Luke recognized the improbability and recorded it as happening in daylight (Luke 22: 66); possibly Luke is using a different tradition. The assertion is disputable that the Jews were obliged to hand Jesus over to the Romans because they had been deprived of the right to execute (John 18: 31).
In favour of the gospels' accounts it is held that a preliminary trial before the Sanhedrin accords with Roman procedures elsewhere; it was the diplomatic skill of the high priest to unite the several factions in the Sanhedrin to obtain a unanimous verdict of guilt. The charge of blasphemy could have been based on Deut. 13: 5; a false prophet is to be executed. This was then rephrased in political terms (Luke 23: 2), and Pilate gave way to the pressure. That the Jewish authorities could not themselves inflict the death penalty (John 18: 31) under the Romans is corroborated in the Mishnah. This is not overturned by the death of Stephen (Acts 7: 57), which reads more like a lynching than a judicial procedure.
It is undeniable that the gospels from Mark through Matthew to John show a tendency to exonerate Pilate and maximize the responsibilities of the Jews (e.g. Matt. 27: 24), but the essential facts of trials before the Sanhedrin and before Pilate are defensible.
The gospel of John replaces the trial before the Sanhedrin with an investigation before Annas, high priest until deposed in 15 CE, and his son-in-law Caiaphas, the reigning high priest (John 18: 12–28). Peter's threefold denials are recorded in this section. Cf. Mark 14: 66–72. John's account of this trial is historically improbable. There is no reason why the ex-high priest Annas should have acted as prosecutor. And 18: 20 f. assumes that there are no witnesses to testify, which would be illegal. Possibly John has carefully transposed dialogue of the Sanhedrin trial into John 10 to mark the climax of Jesus' self-revelation.
It is reported in Luke (23: 6–16) that Pilate referred Jesus' case for Herod's opinion, but Herod had no legal right to be consulted. It was perhaps no more than Pilate's crude attempt to make amends for a slight inflicted on Herod (referred to in Luke 13: 1).


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Texas State hosts 29th Annual Barbara Jordan Media Awards
By Paige Wilkerson
University News Service
March 26, 2012
The School of Journalism and Mass Communication at Texas State University-San Marcos and the Texas Governor's Committee on People with Disabilities will host the 29th Annual Barbara Jordan Media Awards on April 28 in the Ballroom at the LBJ Student Center on campus.
The ceremony will begin at 6 p.m. with comedian Zach Anner as the keynote speaker. Anner attended the University of Texas at Austin where he worked on a mocumentary, documentary and sketch comedy show. He currently has his own television show on OWN, the Oprah Winfrey Network.
The winners of the 2012 Barbara Jordan Media Awards are professional journalists and journalism students who produced material that accurately and positively reports on individuals with disabilities.
The stories were produced and submitted in 2011. There were a variety of categories, including entertainment, Internet, photojournalism, documentary and several feature series.
The Office of Disability Services and the Division of Student Affairs at Texas State are co-sponsoring the event.
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Objecting to Methods of Proof of Guilt in Stoning Cases
This is an interview with GholamHossein Raesi, an attorney and member of the Network of Volunteer Lawyers. He is the lawyer of Parisa A. who has been sentenced to be stoned and also an activist with the Stop Stoning Forever Campaign. The interview details Raesi's argument that stoning sentences are being issues unlawfully, particularly with regards to the methods of proving guilt of adultery. Specifically, many clients are punished based on the judges 'knowledge', which lessons the burden of proof significantly. Although Raesi states he wishes to see the law changed, he also argues that under the current law, many clients are sentenced to stoning unlawfully.
Raesi, GholamHossein
Source publication:
Iran Emrooz (Interview with GholamHossein Raesi by Soheila Vahdati. Translated by Shouka Darvish)


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"Naked people tend to make people panic," says Melissa Dean McKinney dryly. True enough, but with her particular audience, she also has to worry about people giggling.
The 37-year-old clinical trial coordinator with the UVA Health System teaches sex education at Free Union Country School. Her week-long course for fourth and fifth graders lasts several hours each day. Such an ambitious schedule has worried plenty of parents.
"In America, there are two distinct myths," says McKinney. "One is that information is good but sexual knowledge might not be, and the other is that information equals permission.
"There's also a notion that children are born ignorant of sexual knowledge, that they're innocents, and that giving them this knowledge takes away their childhood," says McKinney.
"To tell you the truth," says Free Union director Carolyn Lawlor, "it's the parents who initially requested that such a program be put in place to help them with what they're doing at home."
Still, there are always parents who choose to withdraw their child from the class, a decision that both McKinney and Lawlor will support.
"A lot of the time, when I get a chance to talk to these parents, they come around," says McKinney, who would eventually like to start even earlier. "We need to be thinking way younger," says McKinney. "Most comprehensive sexual education curricula begin in preschool."
Cue the worried parents.
"When parents hear that I want to move this down to a lower grade level, they make a leap that the same content will be taught," McKinney says. "That's not the case, but we start laying the foundation early. They're very age-appropriate ideas."
For example, she'd like her fourth and fifth grade students to arrive with their terminology straight.
"By age four, body terms should be second nature for everyone," she says. "By this age, kids start to realize that things have beginnings and endings," she continues, "and they realize 'Hey, I wasn't always here,' so they ask, 'Where do babies come from?'"
That's when some parents start to melt down. McKinney's point is that having consultants like her around to help at that developmental stage might reassure them that they needn't panic.
"At that point, all they really want to know is, 'You were in a uterus,'" she says. "But parents panic, because they think it means penises and vaginas and orgasms. So they start making up things like storks and cabbage patches."
Stop giggling.
Melissa Dean McKinneyPHOTO BY JEN FARIELLO


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This is a part of the applications that run on the Openmoko Phones. For a list of all applications, goto Applications
Official software
for the distribution Om 2008.8
Community Applications
GPS software for glider pilots (and pilots in general), has a port for Qtopia and pulls (world) maps from the KFLog flight planner project. I think someone has put a project like this on the projects website.
is a routing program written in Python by Ojw, and a mobile phone GUI for maps, GPS, and routing.
is a routing and viewer of OSM XML data such as the planet.osm.
GPS Sight,
a popular Openmoko project under LGPL.
a simple trail logger.
a car navigation system with routing engine.
Orrery displays the objects in the night (or day) sky. It uses the GPS position, if available
qtopia (arm PDA) based map viewer with gps features
Qtopia based mapping widget. Displays maps and custom data, also other widgets can be bound to coordinates. GPS parser for the gllin output included.
mapping program. Downloads maps on demand and caches them, very efficient. Works very well.
GpsDrive is a car (bike, ship, plane) navigation system. GpsDrive displays your position provided from your GPS receiver on a zoomable map. The maps are autoselected for best resolution depending of your position and can be downloaded from the Internet. Speech output is supported if the "festival" software is running. All GPS receivers supported by gpsd should be usable. more at homepage
RoadMap for OpenMoko running Qtopia displays a map of the streets, tracks the position provided the GPS receiver, identifies the street matching this GPS position and announces the name of the crossing street at the next intersection. A trip feature allows RoadMap to display routes, tracks, and provide some basic navigation information (distance to the next waypoint, direction, speed, etc..). Voice messages are generated that duplicate some of the screen information. more at [1]
Use cases
- I want to look at maps.
- I want to be able to prepare data and load my own maps.
- I want to load map data in a WKB (well known binary) format such as shapefiles.
- I want to go somewhere; please tell me how to get there. Routing.
- I want to help with the OpenStreetMap project by collecting data.
- I want to use OpenStreetMap data in a map viewer.
- I want to use the smartphone GPS to go Geocaching
- I want the GPS to update profile settings based on my location. Example, mute the phone ringer when I am at work.
- I want to log GPS data for later analysis. GPS Data Logger
- I want to collect GPS data for scientific field work (forestry, biology, etc)


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Summary Report for:
53-7111.00 - Mine Shuttle Car Operators
Operate diesel or electric-powered shuttle car in underground mine to transport materials from working face to mine cars or conveyor.
Sample of reported job titles: Coal Hauler Operator, Ram Car Operator, Shuttle Car Operator
Tasks | Technology Skills | Tools Used | Knowledge | Skills | Abilities | Work Activities | Detailed Work Activities | Work Context | Job Zone | Education | Credentials | Interests | Work Styles | Work Values | Related Occupations | Wages & Employment | Job Openings
- Control conveyors that run the entire length of shuttle cars to distribute loads as loading progresses.
- Drive loaded shuttle cars to ramps and move controls to discharge loads into mine cars or onto conveyors.
- Clean, fuel, and service equipment, and repair and replace parts as necessary.
- Move mine cars into position for loading and unloading, using pinchbars inserted under car wheels to position cars under loading spouts.
- Guide and stop cars by switching, applying brakes, or placing scotches, or wooden wedges, between wheels and rails.
- Push or ride cars down slopes, or hook cars to cables and control cable drum brakes, to ease cars down inclines.
- Observe hand signals, grade stakes, or other markings when operating machines.
- Open and close bottom doors of cars to dump contents.
- Direct other workers to move stakes, place blocks, position anchors or cables, or move materials.
- Monitor loading processes to ensure that materials are loaded according to specifications.
- Measure, weigh, or verify levels of rock, gravel, or other excavated material to prevent equipment overloads.
- Read written instructions or confer with supervisors about schedules and materials to be moved.
- Maintain records of materials moved.
Technology Skills
- Data base user interface and query software — Data entry software
- Facilities management software — Mine maintenance software
- Industrial control software — Automated systems software
Hot Technology — a technology requirement frequently included in employer job postings.
Tools Used
- Belt conveyors — Mining conveyor systems
- Bulk material carriers — Diesel shuttle cars; Electric shuttle cars
- Ear plugs — Hearing protection plugs
- Electric actuators — Electric switch controls
- Locking pliers — Channel lock pliers
- Mining headlamp — Cap lamps
- Protective gloves — Safety gloves
- Pry bars — Pinch bars
- Respirators — Self-rescuers
- Safety boots — Steel-toed boots
- Safety glasses — Protective glasses
- Safety vests — Reflective vests
- Sledge hammer — Sledgehammers
- Two way radios — Mobile radios
- Utility knives
- Valve actuators — Hydraulic valve controls
No knowledge met the minimum score.
- Operation and Control — Controlling operations of equipment or systems.
- Operation Monitoring — Watching gauges, dials, or other indicators to make sure a machine is working properly.
- Monitoring — Monitoring/Assessing performance of yourself, other individuals, or organizations to make improvements or take corrective action.
- Equipment Maintenance — Performing routine maintenance on equipment and determining when and what kind of maintenance is needed.
- Control Precision — The ability to quickly and repeatedly adjust the controls of a machine or a vehicle to exact positions.
- Manual Dexterity — The ability to quickly move your hand, your hand together with your arm, or your two hands to grasp, manipulate, or assemble objects.
- Multilimb Coordination — The ability to coordinate two or more limbs (for example, two arms, two legs, or one leg and one arm) while sitting, standing, or lying down. It does not involve performing the activities while the whole body is in motion.
- Near Vision — The ability to see details at close range (within a few feet of the observer).
- Reaction Time — The ability to quickly respond (with the hand, finger, or foot) to a signal (sound, light, picture) when it appears.
- Depth Perception — The ability to judge which of several objects is closer or farther away from you, or to judge the distance between you and an object.
- Rate Control — The ability to time your movements or the movement of a piece of equipment in anticipation of changes in the speed and/or direction of a moving object or scene.
- Oral Comprehension — The ability to listen to and understand information and ideas presented through spoken words and sentences.
- Problem Sensitivity — The ability to tell when something is wrong or is likely to go wrong. It does not involve solving the problem, only recognizing there is a problem.
Work Activities
- Controlling Machines and Processes — Using either control mechanisms or direct physical activity to operate machines or processes (not including computers or vehicles).
- Operating Vehicles, Mechanized Devices, or Equipment — Running, maneuvering, navigating, or driving vehicles or mechanized equipment, such as forklifts, passenger vehicles, aircraft, or water craft.
- Inspecting Equipment, Structures, or Material — Inspecting equipment, structures, or materials to identify the cause of errors or other problems or defects.
- Monitor Processes, Materials, or Surroundings — Monitoring and reviewing information from materials, events, or the environment, to detect or assess problems.
- Evaluating Information to Determine Compliance with Standards — Using relevant information and individual judgment to determine whether events or processes comply with laws, regulations, or standards.
- Communicating with Supervisors, Peers, or Subordinates — Providing information to supervisors, co-workers, and subordinates by telephone, in written form, e-mail, or in person.
- Identifying Objects, Actions, and Events — Identifying information by categorizing, estimating, recognizing differences or similarities, and detecting changes in circumstances or events.
- Handling and Moving Objects — Using hands and arms in handling, installing, positioning, and moving materials, and manipulating things.
- Repairing and Maintaining Mechanical Equipment — Servicing, repairing, adjusting, and testing machines, devices, moving parts, and equipment that operate primarily on the basis of mechanical (not electronic) principles.
- Performing General Physical Activities — Performing physical activities that require considerable use of your arms and legs and moving your whole body, such as climbing, lifting, balancing, walking, stooping, and handling of materials.
- Establishing and Maintaining Interpersonal Relationships — Developing constructive and cooperative working relationships with others, and maintaining them over time.
- Making Decisions and Solving Problems — Analyzing information and evaluating results to choose the best solution and solve problems.
- Assisting and Caring for Others — Providing personal assistance, medical attention, emotional support, or other personal care to others such as coworkers, customers, or patients.
- Getting Information — Observing, receiving, and otherwise obtaining information from all relevant sources.
- Developing and Building Teams — Encouraging and building mutual trust, respect, and cooperation among team members.
- Interpreting the Meaning of Information for Others — Translating or explaining what information means and how it can be used.
- Thinking Creatively — Developing, designing, or creating new applications, ideas, relationships, systems, or products, including artistic contributions.
Detailed Work Activities
- Operate conveyors or other industrial material moving equipment.
- Position material handling equipment.
- Operate vehicles or material-moving equipment.
- Operate locomotives or other rail vehicles.
- Signal others to coordinate vehicle movement.
- Clean machinery or equipment.
- Maintain locomotives or other rail equipment in good working condition.
- Direct material handling or moving activities.
- Monitor loading processes to ensure they are performed properly.
- Measure product or material dimensions.
- Verify information or specifications.
- Weigh materials to ensure compliance with specifications.
- Communicate with others to coordinate material handling or movement.
- Review work orders or schedules to determine operations or procedures.
- Record operational or production data.
Find occupations related to multiple detailed work activities
Work Context
- Exposed to Contaminants — 100% responded "Every day."
- Wear Common Protective or Safety Equipment such as Safety Shoes, Glasses, Gloves, Hearing Protection, Hard Hats, or Life Jackets — 100% responded "Every day."
- Sounds, Noise Levels Are Distracting or Uncomfortable — 98% responded "Every day."
- Spend Time Using Your Hands to Handle, Control, or Feel Objects, Tools, or Controls — 93% responded "Continually or almost continually."
- Exposed to Hazardous Equipment — 79% responded "Every day."
- Spend Time Making Repetitive Motions — 41% responded "More than half the time."
- Cramped Work Space, Awkward Positions — 69% responded "Every day."
- Duration of Typical Work Week
- Exposed to Whole Body Vibration — 76% responded "Every day."
- Face-to-Face Discussions — 53% responded "Every day."
- Spend Time Sitting — 62% responded "More than half the time."
- Consequence of Error — 58% responded "Extremely serious."
- Exposed to Hazardous Conditions — 79% responded "Every day."
- Work With Work Group or Team — 44% responded "Extremely important."
- Pace Determined by Speed of Equipment — 49% responded "Very important."
- Frequency of Decision Making — 61% responded "Every day."
- Responsible for Others' Health and Safety — 38% responded "High responsibility."
- In an Open Vehicle or Equipment — 71% responded "Every day."
- Extremely Bright or Inadequate Lighting — 68% responded "Every day."
- Impact of Decisions on Co-workers or Company Results — 49% responded "Very important results."
- Contact With Others — 42% responded "Constant contact with others."
- Time Pressure — 62% responded "Every day."
- Importance of Being Exact or Accurate — 34% responded "Very important."
- Freedom to Make Decisions — 38% responded "Some freedom."
- Coordinate or Lead Others — 48% responded "Important."
- Deal With Unpleasant or Angry People — 32% responded "Once a year or more but not every month."
- Spend Time Bending or Twisting the Body — 37% responded "About half the time."
Job Zone
|Job Zone Two: Some Preparation Needed
|These occupations usually require a high school diploma.
|Related Experience
|Some previous work-related skill, knowledge, or experience is usually needed. For example, a teller would benefit from experience working directly with the public.
|Job Training
|Employees in these occupations need anywhere from a few months to one year of working with experienced employees. A recognized apprenticeship program may be associated with these occupations.
|Job Zone Examples
|These occupations often involve using your knowledge and skills to help others. Examples include orderlies, counter and rental clerks, customer service representatives, security guards, upholsterers, and tellers.
|SVP Range
|(4.0 to < 6.0)
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- Realistic — Realistic occupations frequently involve work activities that include practical, hands-on problems and solutions. They often deal with plants, animals, and real-world materials like wood, tools, and machinery. Many of the occupations require working outside, and do not involve a lot of paperwork or working closely with others.
Work Styles
- Dependability — Job requires being reliable, responsible, and dependable, and fulfilling obligations.
- Cooperation — Job requires being pleasant with others on the job and displaying a good-natured, cooperative attitude.
- Self Control — Job requires maintaining composure, keeping emotions in check, controlling anger, and avoiding aggressive behavior, even in very difficult situations.
- Concern for Others — Job requires being sensitive to others' needs and feelings and being understanding and helpful on the job.
- Stress Tolerance — Job requires accepting criticism and dealing calmly and effectively with high stress situations.
- Persistence — Job requires persistence in the face of obstacles.
- Achievement/Effort — Job requires establishing and maintaining personally challenging achievement goals and exerting effort toward mastering tasks.
- Initiative — Job requires a willingness to take on responsibilities and challenges.
- Independence — Job requires developing one's own ways of doing things, guiding oneself with little or no supervision, and depending on oneself to get things done.
- Integrity — Job requires being honest and ethical.
- Adaptability/Flexibility — Job requires being open to change (positive or negative) and to considerable variety in the workplace.
- Social Orientation — Job requires preferring to work with others rather than alone, and being personally connected with others on the job.
Work Values
- Support — Occupations that satisfy this work value offer supportive management that stands behind employees. Corresponding needs are Company Policies, Supervision: Human Relations and Supervision: Technical.
- Relationships — Occupations that satisfy this work value allow employees to provide service to others and work with co-workers in a friendly non-competitive environment. Corresponding needs are Co-workers, Moral Values and Social Service.
- Working Conditions — Occupations that satisfy this work value offer job security and good working conditions. Corresponding needs are Activity, Compensation, Independence, Security, Variety and Working Conditions.
Related Occupations
Wages & Employment Trends
Median wage data for Loading and Moving Machine Operators, Underground Mining.
|Median wages (2019)
|$26.06 hourly, $54,210 annual
|State wages
|Local wages
|Employment (2018)
|1,700 employees
|Projected growth (2018-2028)
|Decline (-2% or lower)
|Projected job openings (2018-2028)
|State trends
|Top industries (2018)
Source: Bureau of Labor Statistics 2019 wage data and 2018-2028 employment projections . "Projected growth" represents the estimated change in total employment over the projections period (2018-2028). "Projected job openings" represent openings due to growth and replacement.


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Le droit des gens, ou Principes de la loi naturelle, appliqués à la conduite et aux affaires des Nations et des Souverains (Londres, 1758). 2 vols. Vol. 1. https://oll.libertyfund.org/titles/1051,
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Who is Mary? Good question. We are all still not sure. One of the families in our new ward has a daughter named Mary who apparently graduated from high school. They had a party, invited the ward, and we went. You don't meet people if you stay home, right? Plus, they were having crabs. That's a game changer, I don't care who you are. So we went to Mary's graduation party, even though, sorry Mary, I couldn't pick you out of a line up. Thanks for the fun evening and good food.
We may live in Maryland now, but, we still take our Cabot and Arkansas gear with us proudly!


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Donald Trump's attorney Michael Cohen must formally declare that his right to avoid self-incrimination would suffer if adult actress Stormy Daniels' lawsuit is not delayed, a federal judge said.
Attorneys for Mr Cohen were in court seeking a stay of Ms Daniels' lawsuit seeking to release her from a confidentiality agreement. They argued allowing that challenge to proceed would undercut Mr Cohen's Fifth Amendment rights in an investigation that produced federal raids on his home and office.
FBI agents were said to have sought information on a payout allegedly made to prevent Ms Daniels, whose real name is Stephanie Clifford, from speaking publicly about an alleged affair with Mr Trump (the White House has denied an affair occurred).
Seeking to limit their client's exposure, Mr Cohen's legal team asked to put Ms Daniels' lawsuit on hold, noting that an "ongoing criminal investigation overlaps with the facts of this case".
But to win a delay, Judge S James Otero said, Mr Cohen himself would need to file a statement declaring that his Fifth Amendment protections could be jeopardised.
Ms Daniels – whose real name is Stephanie Clifford – has sued to nullify a nondisclosure agreement she said she signed in connection with Mr Cohen paying her $130,000 before the election to not go public.
While Mr Cohen has acknowledged the payment, he has said he used his own funds and that the Trump campaign and the Trump organisation were unaware of the transaction. He has also denied an affair occurred.
The president has largely avoided acknowledging Ms Daniels and her claims. He has never mentioned her by name on Twitter, where he habitually savages foes and detractors, although he did earlier this week mock a composite sketch of a man Ms Daniels said threatened her over the alleged affair.


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Lokomotiv faces Dynamo with plenty of players looking to set career records
Shalunov at the double as CSKA wins derby. October 29 round-up
The Faceoff: Hunter Shinkaruk
Eight KHL players to represent Czech Republic at Karjala Cup
Sochi –Jokerit game moved to November 3
CSKA looks for the next two points against fave opponent Spartak!
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No wonder experience is the best teacher. It has to teach us things we don't want to learn. —Unknown
About Linda
I'm a 50+ ranch woman that started running about 6 years ago to keep the fat at bay. I've run two half marathons and will probably try it again. I'm slow but that doesn't matter because I just about always run with the dog and she doesn't care as long as I get out there. I love this blog world full of runners of all different stripes. I've been entering the links in the R.B.F. for a year or so and love checking each one out as they come in. It does stress my bloglines account though because some of them I just have to keep reading.
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While Nintendo managed to lose a cool $US290 million USD this past quarter (for very good reasons), its one-time rival Sega actually managed to have a showing in the black.
Or, rather, its parent company Sega Sammy Holdings did. Because without all those yen flowing in from the company's pachinko business, Sega could have had a less impressive quarter. Sega's consumer division, the part that sells video games for consoles and PCs, saw "firm" sales according to the company.
Sega's major releases during the three month period, Alpha Protocol and Iron Man 2, were "slow." Sega sold 700,000 copies of Obsidian's espionage RPG, while the movie tie-in for Iron Man 2 moved a cool 1.12 million copies.


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If you've watched television over the last few years, you've probably seen one or two of the more controversial anti-smoking ads that run during prime viewing hours. In one commercial, the camera zooms in on fatty deposits squeezed from the aorta of a 32-year old smoker. Another commercial features cowboys and models, traditional tobacco icons, cuddling up to body bags. So why aren't the tobacco companies outraged by these advertisements?
It all started back in 1998. As part of a $206 billion dollar settlement, major tobacco companies like Philip Morris agreed to pay for advertising campaigns to educate consumers about the dangers of tobacco. Not only were they barred from advertising their own products or sponsoring events geared towards teenagers, they also had to contribute millions annually to support these anti-smoking ads in every state
But, there is a catch. And it's a big one.
The settlement mandates that these anti-smoking ads cannot personally vilify or attack the tobacco companies. Under the terms of the settlement, violating the clause can pose big problems for any anti-tobacco group. Just ask the American Legacy Foundation.
With a total endowment of $1.45 billion, the American Legacy Foundation is by far the largest anti-tobacco advertiser in the country. They are brains behind the TRUTH campaign, whose controversial ads have been banned on major networks.
In one TRUTH ad, a young woman enters Philip Morris corporate headquarters with a large suitcase labeled "LIE DETECTOR" and demands to speak with Philip Morris marketers. Security guards escort her to the door. Another commercial, also shot in front of Philip Morris headquarters, shows teenagers unloading body bags by the hundreds, yelling, "Do you know how many people tobacco kills every day?"
Do these ads vilify tobacco companies? The Legacy Foundation doesn't think so. Nor do they see any problem with an earlier spot, featuring a "Demon Awards" ceremony in Hell. In this commercial, a tobacco executive accepts an award for "Most Deaths in a Year," while Adolf Hitler, Joseph Stalin, and members of the Ku Klux Klan cheer him on.
Outraged, Philip Morris protested these commercials, insisting they violated the settlement's anti-vilification clause. The Legacy Foundation responded by removing the Philip Morris company logo from the ads.
The removal was not enough to avoid heat from the Attorney General of North Carolina Michael F. Easley. He warned the group that settlement dollars were intended to be used for "anti-smoking, health-related ads, and not for ads designed to vilify the tobacco companies." He further threatened to yank their settlement dollars if the foundation continued to violate the anti-vilification clause.
The foundation responded by pulling the ads, infuriating anti-tobacco activists across the country.
"How can you run an anti-smoking campaign and not vilify the industry?" asked David Kessler, former head of the Food and Drug Administration. "It would be better not to take the money if the industry is able to pull the strings."
Philip Morris and other tobacco giants may be able to pull strings at the American Legacy Foundation, but other nonprofit anti-smoking organizations are not bound by the anti-vilification clause, even though they receive funding from the tobacco settlement.
The Partnership for a Healthy Mississippi is one such nonprofit coalition. They paid $12.5 million for an ad designed to play on the sympathies of animal rights activists. "Frances, the Lonely Lab Monkey" starred in a commercial in which she is forced to inhale nicotine while corporate tobacco researchers in lab-coats observe her, laughing.
Because of the structure of the settlement, tobacco companies are powerless to stop vilifying ads from nonprofits such as these.
Anti-smoking activists argue that the ends justify the means when it comes to these commercials. They argue that the ads educate the public, and reduce tobacco deaths by persuading teens not to smoke.
It begs the question: do anti-smoking advertisements really get through to America's youth?
One focus group in Minnesota suggests that they do not. Three 17-year-old high school students, all smokers, were shown a commercial in which teenagers sarcastically "thank" the tobacco industry for targeting youths in their ads. The students in the group were not impressed. "I can't see it stopping me," said one student, who smokes a pack a day. "When I want to stop, I'll stop. When a family member dies, that might give me a reason."
According to American Institute resident scholar John Calfee, who studied all available evidence about teens and smoking in his book Fear of Persuasion, advertising has little to no effect on teenagers when it comes to their decisions about smoking. Calfee found teens are influenced by peer pressure, not commercials, and that commercials do not convince teens to stop smoking, or to start.
But anti-tobacco activists point to surveys, such as the 2000 edition of the Florida Youth Tobacco Survey, which found that the number of young smokers in Florida had declined by 79,760 since the TRUTH campaign began.
The tobacco settlement has resulted in an unprecedented reallocation of profits, from the hands of tobacco executives into those of the anti-smoking activists. Perhaps this irony is best summarized in one of the TRUTH's less graphic ads, one which depicts teenagers confronting magazine editors whose publications accepted tobacco advertisements. The teens are given the run-around as they try to ask why the editors took tobacco dollars - the very same dollars that paid for the commercial.
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Here's Diane Kruger on the cover and in the pages of the upcoming issue of FLARE Magazine in advance of the release of The Host. Really, really love the styling of this spread. Like ...vintage-y, right? And well done on the art direction too with the combination of pink and her red dress. It's Bottega Veneta, which we previously saw on Rachel Weisz here.
Diane was not accompanied by Joshua Jackson to the shoot. She did however bring her cat. No, that's not a prop. His (her?) name is Hobbes (sp?).
I've not read The Host, but going by the trailer, Diane, in a pristine, efficient white suit, appears to be the villain going head-to-head against Saoirse Ronan. No doubt, given author Stephenie Meyer's following, Diane will be seen in The Host by many, many, many more people than Farewell, My Queen. Which is too bad. Because she was f-cking incredible in Farewell, My Queen -- equal parts cunning, desperate, and straight up crazy. And the costume porn is awesome. Most definitely the finest performance of her career. I love it when she speaks French. Apparently she worked on a Kentucky accent for her next role as Abraham Lincoln's stepmother...? The film is called The Green Blade Rises, produced by Terrence Malick. Does he take as long with movies when he only produces and doesn't direct?
The Host trailer is below. And click here for behind-the-scenes video of Diane from the FLARE shoot.


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When you talk about thorough cleaning of a home, you must have in mind every detail, including curtains and mattresses, of course. People often forget to clean such big objects, even if they are quite notable and apparently need cleaning, as everything else at home. Each fabric, upholstery and soft furniture should be deeply and properly cleaned, in order to reduce the unhealthy dust and germ levels. If you are based in Hammersmith and you need efficient curtains and mattress cleaning, then you should try our service and feel the difference!
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MILWAUKEE (AP) Paris Gulley scored 21 points to lead Milwaukee over Northern Illinois in an 80-73 overtime win Friday night, snapping a five-game losing streak.
Jordan Aaron had a double-double with 14 points and 11 assists. Kyle Kelm scored 15 points, and James Haarsma had 14 points. Haarsma and Thierno Niang each had a team-high seven rebounds.
Milwaukee (3-6) led 37-28 at halftime, but at the 7:17 mark in the second half, the Huskies led 62-58, but Milwaukee scored seven straight points.
With 39 seconds remaining in the game, Haarsma made one of two free throws, giving Milwaukee a 68-66 lead. Askel Bolin made a layup for Northern Illinois, tying the game at 68. Milwaukee outscored the Huskies 12-5 during OT.
Akeem Springs led the Huskies (2-6) with 21 points and nine rebounds. Abdel Nader had 17 and Sam Mader 10. Nader fouled out with 39.4 remaining in regulation.


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Mayor Chris Beutler today urged residents to cut back even more on outdoor water use to avoid more severe mandatory restrictions. While flows in the Platte River remain at historic lows, the Mayor said the flow has temporarily stabilized. But water use this month has averaged 60 million gallons a day. The City's latest goal for water use is 55 million gallons a day.
"City officials continue to monitor our water supply closely," Beutler said. "We also must look ahead at the City's needs over the next few months, especially if the drought continues through November. We must cut back on water use now in order to begin to replenish the aquifer."
Under mandatory water restrictions, all water customers must follow the designated day schedule for all outdoor watering, including the washing of vehicles:
The Lincoln Police Department (LPD) has issued about 200 tickets for watering violations so far. Because of the high number of tickets, the Lancaster County Court is allowing people who have received tickets to waive court appearances and pay $100 fines plus court costs. Those convicted of the misdemeanor violation can receive a fine of up to $500 dollars or up to six months in jail or both. Violations can be reported to the LPD non-emergency number - 402-441-6000.
"The rain today is very welcome and should help to reduce water use this weekend, but we must focus on the long-term situation," Beutler said. "While residents are legally allowed to water three days a week, we encourage them to voluntarily cut back to two days or to water less on their designated days. We need all residents and businesses to do their part to maintain adequate water supplies."
Those with questions on the water restrictions can contact LWS at 402-441-5918.
The daily usage information, water rates, the City's Water Management Plan and more information on water conservation is available at lincoln.ne.gov.


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Castello Banfi Winery is built partly above ground and partly underground. Such is the degree of computer control that the entire above-ground operation can be controlled by just a few people, while below ground natural elements combine to maintain the ideal conditions for ageing and storing wines year round. The winery contains over 300 stainless steel tanks and 2,000 French oak barriques, plus traditional Slavonian oak casks, used for Brunello di Montalcino, and shaved every ten years or so. These casks have a life of 30 to 50 years. The total storage capacity of the winery is over 12 million liters.
Well-crafted red, with aromas of spice, meat and tar that turn to fresh fruit. Medium-bodied, with clean and fresh fruit, firm tannins and a crisp finish. Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot, Sangiovese and Syrah.
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Anna Nicole Smith's daughter is following in the tragic model's footsteps after shooting an advert for the same clothing company that launched her mom's career.
The busty blonde beauty was selected to replace supermodel Claudia Schiffer as the face of Guess two decades ago, and now her little girl with ex Larry Birkhead, Dannielynn, has been chosen to front the firm's kids Spring 2013 campaign.
In one of the ads, the six year old can be seen wearing a denim skirt, yellow belt, and fedora while flashing a smile on a beach, and in a second picture she is photographed leaning against a piece of driftwood as she looks out onto the ocean.
And company creative director Paul Marciano insists Dannielynn is a natural, just like her mum, who died of an accidental overdose in 2007.
He tells UsMagazine.com, "Dannielynn has the same playful spirit that her mother had on a set. She is a second-generation Guess girl, which makes this campaign a first for us."
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BTW, Assembly Programming is an incredibly wonderful way to start a software career if working on system level interests you, that is. Almost nothing gets lower than Assembly, and as you move on to higher-level languages, you would really know "How Stuff Works" to a level of detail few others would.
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Prepare to be impressed, on both counts.
Victoria Beckham (above) and her Fall 2012 collection (below). Both give off a "We regret to inform you that we will not be taking any prisoners today" vibe, wouldn't you say?
While most of us might shuffle around in our jammies until a late afternoon brunch or spend the day running errands in comfy, vaguely athletic-looking garments best described as "gym clothes lite," Mrs. Beckham was dressed to the nines--Louboutin platforms, cinched skirt and shades--by approximately nine o'clock this Sunday morning. While her 10:00 A.M. Fall 2012 runway show was the cause for her prim 'n' proper weekend ensemble, one gets a sneaking suspicion that Victoria Beckham doesn't have an un-posh bone in her body--and nary a stretch-cotton (or--gasp!--polyester) item in her wardrobe. In other words, that was probably a normal Sunday morning look for V.B.
Fittingly, her Fall 2012 collection was just as smart, sharp and svelte as the woman herself. Beckham's body-con knee-length dresses (with saucy zippers up the back), military-inspired coats, starch-collared tops, epaulet-trimmed shifts, bondage belts were like a handshake from an international power-player: firm, yet polite.
While the unexpected combo of scrunchy socks and Christian Louboutin moto boots is already earning rave reviews on the interwebs (look for them on our Tumblr soon!) no doubt the rich-looking, slip-on-and-go pieces will speak to Beckham-esque ladies who need get out of the house in a hurry looking perfectly polished, seven days a week.
Which Victoria Beckham fall 2012 look do you like best? The dresses? The coats? The bags and boots? Hard to pick a favorite, right?


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Saturday, June 14, 2008
Please Help Cedar Rapids, Iowa!
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Tuesday, June 10, 2008
Feature on Etsy Profiles!
Check out my latest feature on http://etsyprofiles.blogspot.com! Thanks, Sara! And while you're at it, please check out her website at www.SarasTextureCrafts.fusiveweb.co.uk to learn a little more about her work as well!
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Monday, June 9, 2008
First Theatre DONE!!!
Just got back from Little Rock, where my first theatre is now complete. I was kinda dreading seeing the final product, there was a lot of value engineering going on, and of course the first things that get cut are the finishes. But, I was pleasantly surprised by how it turned out. Even on a tight budget, the elements that didn't get V-E'd out had a lot of punch to them, and as a whole, I thought the interior looked great!
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Sunday, June 1, 2008
Great Event, Great Cause!
If anyone is in the Kansas City metro area, here is a great charity event! Maya's Miracles 3rd Annual Volleyball Tournament will be on Saturday, June 21st 2008. This event will benefit Maya's Miracles, an organization that provides resources and support for families with chronically ill children. They raise awareness about children with Chronic Kidney Disease. The volleyball tournament will include a silent auction, and one of my pieces, 'Yellow Against Blue' will be one of the items up for bidding. If you are interested in entering a team for this event, please see their website, www.mayasmiracles.com for all of the information!
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How to make the perfect homemade pancakes
Give yourself and your family a tasty breakfast treat with these easy to make pancakes. Grab the kids and have them join in on all the egg-cracking, flour-stirring, spoon-licking and excessive topping that's all part of the fun in making these scrumptious pancakes.
Preparation time: 15 minutes
Cooking time: 15 minutes
Serves: 4
- 1 cup self raising flour
- 1 tablespoon sugar
- 1 cup milk, plus extra if required
- 1 egg
- 1 tablespoon butter
- Berries, yoghurt and maple syrup, to serve
- Combine flour and sugar in a large bowl, make a well in the centre and whisk in milk and egg, until well combined. Use extra milk to adjust the consistency of the batter to produce thinner pancakes if desired. Rest batter for 5 minutes.
- Melt butter in a large fry pan and pour excess into the pancake mixture, briefly whisk to combine. Pour 1⁄4 cup pancake mixture into fry pan, cook for 2-3 minutes on medium heat until lots of bubbles form and begin to break. Flip pancake and cook on the other side until puffed and set. Repeat with remaining batter.
- Serve hotcakes with your favourite yoghurt, berries and a drizzle of honey or maple syrup.


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Actress Katie Holmes and her 4-year-old daughter Suri were seen leaving the allure of the Seas cruise ship in Fort Lauderdale, Florida today (November 23).
Extra's Mario Lopez shared this adorable picture of his girlfriend Courtney Laine Mazza and their 2 month old daughter Gia.
The Caption read
"Me giving Gia a bath last night. As you can see, she's covering her chichis. Good girl."
Fall out Boy front man Pete Wentz and his adorable son Bronx 2, on a trip to Starbucks in Beverly Hills, CA yesterday (November 22).
The Black Crows front man Chris Robinson was seen picking up his son Ryder, 6, from school in Santa Monica, CA yesterday (November 22). Ryder mom is Chris Robinson's ex-wife Actress Kate Hudson.


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Adobe has introduced their game developer tools for the Flash platform. (Now available on the creative cloud.)
Scout (formerly project Monacle) gives the developer a superior profiling tool during development and optimization of flash-based content.
The Adobe Gaming SDK includes libraries for Starling, Feathers, and Away3D. It leverages usage of your target device GPU.
The Flash C/C++ compiler (formerly Alchemy) takes your C/C++ code to target the Flash player. (Update: This has now been open-sourced as Flash Crossbridge on github: https://github.com/adobe-flash/crossbridge)


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Turn off your mind, relax and float up to the Wellcome
London was swinging long before the Sixties. At the start of the 19th century, the drawing rooms of Regency London were thronged with smart people dancing their wigs off after sniffing hits of dephlogisticated nitrous air, or nitrous oxide as it is nowadays known.
Hardly had the gas been discovered than it was being snorted by the likes of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, who declared that it afforded him "more unmingled pleasure than I have ever before experienced".
Humphrey Davy, who recommended it for use as an anaesthetic, described "a sensation analogous to gentle pressure on all the muscles, attended by an highly pleasurable thrilling, particularly in the chest and the extremities. The objects around me became dazzling and my hearing more acute."
"Laughing gas" parties were so much the rage that they were even satirised by cartoonists, as in this 1823 example from Thomas Rowlandson.
Two years before this cartoon appeared, English society had been shocked by a little-known translator of German texts, one Thomas de Quincey who burst on the literary scene with his Confessions of an English Opium Eater, which contained some of the most brutal and brilliant prose ever written.
Under the connecting feeling of tropical heat and vertical sunlights, I brought together all creatures, birds, beasts, reptiles, all trees and plants, usages and appearances, that are found in all tropical regions, and assembled them together in China or Indostan. G From kindred feelings, I soon brought Egypt and all her gods under the same law. I was stared at, hooted at, grinned at, chattered at, by monkeys, by paroquets, by cockatoos. I ran into pagodas, and was fixed, for centuries, at the summit, or in secret rooms: I was the idol; I was the priest; I was worshipped; I was sacrificed. I fled from the wrath of Brama through all the forests of Asia: Vishnu hated me; Siva laid wait for me. I came suddenly upon Isis and Osiris: I had done a deed, they said, at which the ibis and the crocodile trembled. I was buried for a thousand years, in stone coffins, with mummies and sphinxes, in narrow chambers at the heart of eternal pyramids. I was kissed, with cancerous kisses, by crocodiles; and laid, confounded with all unutterable slimy things, amongst reeds and Nilotic mud.
De Quincey's descriptions of the pains and pleasures of opium influenced writers from Poe and Baudelaire to Arthur Conan Doyle, whose The Man With The Twisted Lip, is about a wealthy man driven to filthy opium dens by his addiction. The theme found expression also in art, as in this pair of oriental gouaches on rice paper from the Wellcome collection.
The success of De Quincey's Confessions ensured that the fascination with chinoiserie and all things Egyptian and oriental would gain momentum. This watercolour of a Constantinople (Istanbul) bazaar was made by J F Lewis in the early 1840s.
Hookahs were a favourite subject for 'orientalist' painters, and soon replaced dephlogisticated nitrous air in the water pipes of the fashionable set. Byron's publisher John Murray was often to be found, wrapped in a silk dressing gown, gurgling on his narguileh. By the middle of the century the hubble bubbles were still chortling away. Lewis Carroll's caterpillar on his mushroom in 1865 is perhaps happily dreaming of two sorts of hallucinogens. Mervin Peake's 1946 drawing has a rather phallic caterpillar, adding a link between psychedelic experience and sex that spoke more of his own time than Carroll's.
As the nineteenth century grew old, the once innocent enthusiasm for things eastern acquired darker undertones. After the 1857 Indian Mutiny, things could never be the same. Queen Victoria's glorious Kohinoor diamond, acquired in 1849 and literally the jewel in the crown of empire, has by the late sixties become a cursed moonstone, hunted by fanatical and vengeful natives who will murder to regain it. The theme recurs in Conan Doyle's Sign of Four, who makes his fanatic a blow-pipe toting Andaman islander. (The Andamanese did not use blow pipes, and the story is one more undeserved stain on their character).
The opium pipe, if not the blow pipe, continued to claim victims in the upper echelons of English society. Conan Doyle's The Man With The Twisted Lip saw light in 1891, and the opium dens were still going strong in the East End, every bit as squalid as they had always been. This engraving was made in the 1870s.
Drugs had the power to intoxicate the imagination as well as the body, and the tradition of Coleridge and de Quincey passed on through a long line of artists, Van Gogh, Gaugin, Dali, Manet, Gautier, Redon, Magritte. Aleister Crowley, as recorded in his Diary of a Drug Fiend, combined drugs and sex and orgies when he could get them. But he lacked rock and roll, and not until the sixties of our own era (well, I am old enough to remember the sixties), did the three great ingredients of the high life come together.
Through Timothy Leary by way of Aldous Huxley, the Beatles found a place where rocking horse people eat marshmallow pies, and everyone smiles as you drift past the flowers that grow so incredibly high.
Blotting paper, little squares soaked in LSD were the tickets to Lucyland, postage stamp sized pieces that melted on the tongue. The blotting paper came in peforated sheets. Some were printed with miniature works of art, like these signed examples from the collection of psychedelic researcher Thomas Lyttle.
This note was originally written to flag the Wellcome Museum's exhibition "High Society: the rich history of mind-altering drugs" in February, 2011. All the pictures came from the Wellcome


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Research Spotlight on Peer Tutoring
NEA Reviews of the Research on Best Practices in Education
Peer tutoring is a term that's been used to describe a wide array of tutoring arrangements, but most of the research on its success refers to students working in pairs to help one another learn material or practice an academic task. Peer tutoring works best when students of different ability levels work together (Kunsch, Jitendra, & Sood, 2007).
During a peer tutoring assignment it is common for the teacher to have students switch roles partway through so that the tutor becomes the one being tutored. Since explaining a concept to another helps extend one's own learning, this practice gives students the opportunity to understand better the material being studied.
What does the research say about peer tutoring? In reviews of peer tutoring programs, researchers found:
- When students participated in the role of reading tutor, improvements in reading achievement occurred
- When tutors were explicitly trained in the tutoring process, they were far more effective and the students they were tutoring experienced significant gains in achievement
- Most of the students benefited from peer tutoring in some way, but same-age tutors were as effective as cross-age tutors (Burnish, Fuchs & Fuchs, 2005; Topping, 2008)
Some benefits of peer tutoring for students include higher academic achievement, improved relationships with peers, improved personal and social development as well as increased motivation. In turn, the teacher benefits from this model of instruction by an increased opportunity to individualize instruction, increased facilitation of inclusion/mainstreaming, and opportunities to reduce inappropriate behaviors (Topping, 2008).
There is an old saying: "To teach is to learn twice." Peer tutoring is a beneficial way for students to learn from each other in the classroom. While one student may excel in math, another student may be top-notch in English. These two students can work together to help each other understand difficult concepts, while deepening their own knowledge of the subject.
Kunsch, C., Jitendra, A., & Sood, S. (2007). The effects of peer-mediated instruction in mathematics for students with learning problems: A research synthesis. Learning Disabilities Research & Practice, 22(1), 1-12.
Burnish, Fuchs & Fuchs (2005). Peer-assisted learning strategies: An evidence-based practice to promote reading achievement. Learning Disabilities Research & Practice, 15(2), 85-91.
Topping, K (2008). Peer-assisted learning: A practical guide for teachers. Newton, Mass.: Brookline Books.
Related Research
Cardenas, J. A., Harris, R., del Refugio Robledo, M., and Supik, J. D.
Valued Youth Program Dropout Prevention Strategies for At-Risk Students. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Education Research Association, Chicago, Ill., April 2003.
This paper describes the Coca-Cola Valued Youth Program, in which limited-English-proficient, middle school children at risk of dropping out became paid cross-age tutors of elementary students. Presents findings that tutors were more likely than controls to stay in school and to have improved reading grades, increased self-esteem, and improved attitudes toward school.
Gartner, A., and Riessman, F. "Tutoring Helps Those Who Give, Those Who Receive." Educational Leadership 52/3 (1994): 58-60.
This article describes a study funded by the Kellogg Foundation in which six New York high schools were test sites for Reciprocal Tutoring. It describes Reciprocal Tutoring, which may be either cross-age or within-grade (with roles of tutor and tutee alternated).


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Israeli police prevent Palestinians under 50 from entering the Old City of Jerusalem to pray at the al-Aqsa mosque. Photo by Julie C.
On 28 September 2000, 13 years ago, former Israeli prime minister Ariel Sharon entered the al-Aqsa compound in an act of provocation, sparking the Second Intifada. Recently, more and more Israelis have been entering the Temple Mount again, causing "the worst tension in memory" around the mosque, according to Palestinian leaders who have urged all Muslims to defend the site.
The New York Times reported that Israeli religious lawmakers and cabinet members have been questioning the limited entrance to the al-Aqsa compound for non-Muslims and the fact that Jews are prohibited from performing any religious rituals there. On Monday, 16 September, the Knesset passed a law allowing "Jews to worship on the Temple Mount" and voted in favor of a proposition to let them use the site throughout the Jewish Sukkot holiday, an unprecedented move.
Yet much more is at stake than the simple right to visit the mosque. According to WAFA, the Palestinian News Agency, Israeli fanatics are trying to create a daily Israeli presence in order to eventually take full control over the site. Jews believe that some 2,000 years ago the First and Second Temple were located where the al-Aqsa compound sits today. Many Palestinians fear that Israel's ultimate goal is to destroy the Dome of the Rock and build a Third Jewish temple on its remains. Al-Aqsa is the third most sacred Muslim site in the world, as Muhammad is believed to have ascended to heaven from there.
Provocative tours
Provocative Israeli tours of the al-Aqsa compound have been steadily increasing. Before, the site was mainly visited by Jewish individuals, yet in the recent past, more and more organized political and religious groups have been visiting under heavy police protection. Many tours are led by rabbis who stress the importance of the site for Judaism and teach their groups about the Jewish temples.
Muath Khatib, from the Centre of Jerusalem Studies, argues that "Israel wants to create a situation similar to that of the Ibrahimi Mosque in Hebron, which means Israeli control over the mosque and splitting the site in two."
During the Jewish Sukkot holiday last week, heavy Israeli activity was reported around the al-Aqsa Mosque. On Sunday, 22 September, over 300 Israeli rightists entered the al-Aqsa compound, followed by another group of 100 the following day, according to Ma'an News Agency. They entered al-Aqsa under police protection to perform religious rituals. In total, more than 700 ultra-Orthodox Jews have entered the compound in the last week, which according to Palestinian officials is the largest number since the 1980 Israeli annexation of Jerusalem.
Resistance & Clashes
These provocative tours have been sparking many clashes between Palestinian protesters and the police. Palestinian protests and stones are met with arrests, rubber-coated bullets and tear gas canisters, wounding many protesters. "Two Fridays ago, I noticed that the Israeli soldiers were using a new weapon, which shoots bullets with little metal balls inside, making them very dangerous. My friend took a bullet in his upper leg and couldn't walk anymore," Muath relates.
Press TV reported that on Tuesday, 24 September, hundreds of protesters demonstrated outside al-Aqsa against Israeli police brutality. Police responded with tear gas and wounded about 40 people with rubber-coated steel bullets and stun grenade shrapnel, according to medics. The next day, Israeli forces raided al-Aqsa Mosque, injuring seven Palestinian worshippers.
After the Friday prayer this week, more clashes broke out between Palestinian protesters and the Israeli police. At least 11 protesters were arrested according to Mufid al-Haj, a lawyer for the Palestinian Prisoners Society. Haaretz reported that they were arrested on "suspicion of stone-throwing and clashing with Israeli police forces."
Muath calls 2013 the year of awakening for Palestine, and for Jerusalem especially. "Because the occupation is speeding up its actions in Jerusalem, everyone in the city is aware of what is going on. The Jerusalemite youth is starting to mobilize and organize the resistance like never before."
Israeli authorities have stepped up restrictions on the entry of Palestinian worshippers to al-Aqsa Mosque. Last Friday, Israeli police and military only allowed men over the age of 50 and holding Jerusalem identity cards to enter for prayers. The Israeli police justified the move by stating that they have "intelligence" that suggests there are plans for a riot within the mosque.
"More and more Jerusalemites are being prohibited from going to al-Aqsa to pray and local journalists are being forbidden to enter with their camera's. They even banned three or four al-Aqsa guards from entering the mosque for a couple of months," Muath recounts. "How can we fight this? The only courts we can go to are Israeli."
A new Jerusalem in the making?
Muath explains that Israel has also started to dig underneath the al-Aqsa mosque to rebuild Old Jerusalem, irreparably damaging five Palestinian houses. "The chemical products they are using underground are also burning up the tree roots. Four big trees inside the al-Aqsa compound have fallen down so far and a number of cisterns and wells have dried up."
Yet, the al-Aqsa site is not the only site in Jerusalem to increasingly be contested. A recent report by the Euro-Mid Observer for Human Rights reveals that one-third of Palestinian homes in Jerusalem are threatened with demolition, supposedly because they were built without a construction permit. According to the human rights group this is all part of Israel's "demographic war against Palestinians in the Holy City." In the meantime, settlement activity in East-Jerusalem is on the rise. At the end of August, the financial committee of the Israeli-controlled Jerusalem municipality approved financial support for yet another 1,500 new houses.
More and more Palestinian shops near the Wailing Wall are also being closed. "Israel has started demanding shops to pay for a certain tax they supposedly haven't been paying for the past 13 years. When the owners can't come up with this huge sum of money, they shut the place down and give it to Israelis," Muath says. "Their eventual goals is full control of the old city and a new Jerusalem for Israelis. The Jerusalemites are trying to protect al-Aqsa, but cannot do it alone. Other Arab countries, especially Jordan, the protector of al-Aqsa Mosque, need to step in and support the resistance."
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Perfect salsa means different things to different people—it could be a secret salsa ingredient, or all about the technique. But this is the story of how one Chowhound editor recreated the salsa recipe from her favorite Mexican restaurant.
Among a certain circle of hipster connoisseurs, Papalote, a little Mexican restaurant on 24th Street in San Francisco's Mission district, is famous for its salsa—rich, brick-colored, smoky with charred tomatoes, and packing a wallop of heat. The burritos are good, but they're beside the point. People go to Papalote for the salsa. "Your senses are awakened and stimulated and your soul is transported up and down the majestic mountains and mysterious valleys of our beloved homeland," says the website. Or, as one reviewer put it, "That salsa is like crack."
I want the recipe. I call Victor Escobedo, one of the owners, and he tells me that it's up to his brother Miguel. Miguel says no. The recipe, based on that of their late father, can never leave the bosom of their family. I wheedle, I plead. I claim salsa dependence. I ask him if he will sell it, and he scoffs: "The last time someone asked me that, the price was $300,000—and it's gone up since then."
Fine. I will do without his recipe. Instead, I will resort to the time-honored tradition of stealing trade secrets. Not exactly stealing, really; I will reverse-engineer the salsa.
Victor has let slip a clue: The tomatoes are romas. From the black pinpoints of charred tomato skin in the salsa, I deduce they are roasted or grilled. Papalote has craftily disguised the salsa's remaining ingredients by blending everything to a puree.
Max La Rivière-Hedrick, then-Chowhound food editor and tireless salsa Sherlock, suggests we sieve it. When we inspect the resulting particles, we can see fragments of leaf that must be cilantro, as well as other white and green specks. Max decides that, even though Mexicans tend to use white onions in their salsas, these look like scallions. So far, the salsa seems straightforward. But the chiles pose a challenge. Jalapeño or chipotle? Ancho or serrano? Then, as I stare at the tiny specks, I have a revelation: We have to go deeper. We will break down the salsa into the very building blocks of life itself. In short, we will get its DNA analyzed. Today, science has developed to the point where we can identify a murderer from a single hair; surely it will be child's play to figure out what's in this salsa.
I persuade a friend to put me in touch with Richard Hamilton, a biotech expert. Hamilton is the CEO of Ceres, a Southern California firm that makes genetically engineered plants. I ask him whether DNA analysis can indeed reveal the salsa's secret. Yes, Hamilton responds via email, there is a laboratory in the Netherlands called Keygene that might be able to do it—if I have a million dollars. My heart sinks. For that amount, I could probably buy the recipe from Victor and Miguel.
Shattered by the news, I can barely finish reading Hamilton's email, which explains that there is not enough plant data in GenBank, the database of publicly available genetic sequences, to analyze my salsa. Essentially, if I want its DNA, I first have to pay someone to map the chili genome. I am sorely disappointed by modern technology. They can crossbreed goats with spiders and weave their milk into bulletproof vests, but it costs a million dollars to figure out a simple salsa recipe?
Researching the subject on the Internet, I discover that DNA analysis of food is chiefly used to detect things that shouldn't be there: specks of nut that might trigger allergies, meat in vegetarian products, pork in kosher products. Strangely, most of the labs that do this sort of thing seem to be on the other side of the Atlantic. Europe, it turns out, is light-years ahead of the States in this field. Partly it's because European manufacturers are legally obliged to mention on the label if a food contains genetically modified organisms (GMOs), and DNA analysis is used to disclose these. Meat scares have also fueled the food-analysis industry. After mad cow, foot-and-mouth, dioxin in feed, and other panics, European meat producers are using DNA tracking to restore consumer confidence. A DNA test will confirm what cow a steak came from, so that the seller can guarantee that the cow was, for example, organically reared and grass fed. (American meat producers call this "gate-to-plate tracking" and are now beginning to use it, too.)
I track down Genome Express, a food-analysis lab in France, where they are experts in exposing fraudulent foie gras. (Apparently some manufacturers are bulking out the pâté with inexpensive pork or chicken.) But can they figure out the sphinxlike salsa?
After several emails, I manage to explain my mission to Genome Express's Franck Robert. (Because my French is barely enough to order a café au lait, Monsieur Robert is kind enough to correspond in English.) If I wish to identify a "species" in my salsa, he tells me, they can do it for a song, but identifying vegetables is much harder. You'd think it would be easier to identify a jalapeño than a horse, but the DNA analysis of food is chiefly used to detect the presence of animal substances, and the science of vegetable detection is not very advanced. "In plant," the "marker" we want to use is "in developpement" at this time, writes Monsieur Robert in his heroic English. "So I make you a proposal: Without any garanty, we test our technology on your product. The cost for you: Zero." Comme c'est gentil! I promise myself that if he solves the riddle of the relish, I will send him a crate of it.
I have a Pepsi cup of salsa in my refrigerator (last time I visited, Papalote was out of jars). I open it and see that, in his eagerness to assist me in my research, my husband has polished off half. But there is just enough—Monsieur Robert said 3 or 4 ounces will do the trick. I decant the pesky puree into a sterilized jam pot and screw the lid on tight. At the post office, I roll it in bubble wrap, pack it in a box, and dispatch it across the Atlantic. I trust that the scientists at Genome Express will have the self-control not to eat it—at least, not before they've analyzed it. I imagine them poring over it as if it held the secret to a crime.
If Monsieur Robert succeeds, the implications are revolutionary. In the future, no recipe will remain mysterious for long. There will be no more secret sauces, closely guarded through generations, and the folks at KFC will be forced to reveal their blend of 11 herbs and spices.
But the days pass, and there is no word from Monsieur Robert. Is it possible the French will fail me? Determined not to give up, I turn to Barb Stuckey of Mattson & Company, which develops new products for the food and beverage industry. Does Mattson ever have to reverse-engineer recipes? And if so, do they have any special techniques? Yes, Stuckey says. In fact, she recently worked on a "matching" project. A company that makes "frozen beef-based entrees" wanted to start a new factory on the West Coast, but it discovered that its East Coast manufacturer owned the rights to the recipes. The company hired Mattson to figure them out.
Stuckey is kind enough to explain, step by step, just how she and her team go about replicating one of the client's frozen meatloaf dinners. Step one is to "assemble a team of trained palates" (food technicians, chefs, and project managers) and "identify the flavor components." Step two is to get the "product specifications," measuring such things as viscosity, pH, moisture level, and sugar content. This is all information your tongue will tell you, but not with the same accuracy and precision.
Seduced by the scientific sound of words like "pH" and "viscosity," I ask Stuckey how much it would cost to hire her team of trained palates. "Between fifteen and twenty thousand a month," she says firmly. Considering that the last quote was a million dollars, I think hiring her is pretty cheap—until I remember I don't have any money. And what is step three? "Trial and error," Stuckey says. Trial and error? That just means "messing around in the kitchen." I brighten up. I could do that on my own.
I check in with Monsieur Robert. He asks for more time. But while I have been exploring the frontiers of science, Max has been busy in the kitchen making variations of the salsa and tracking his results in a spreadsheet. He explains how his salsa sleuthing has progressed. First, he knew that there were two chiles because he saw two different specks in his sieve. Looking for a chili with a kick, he tried jalapeños, then habaneros, but finally settled on dried chiles de arbol. He also discerned a fruity, chocolatey base note in the salsa, so he used dried pasilla peppers (often used in mole). Now he is pretty confident that he has the ingredients down.
But should he cook them? Papalote's salsa has a uniform flavor, which seems to indicate that the ingredients are all cooked together. After charring the tomatoes, Max throws them in a pot with some water and the dried chiles, and then blends everything together. So close. He throws in a pinch of sugar. Closer. But he still isn't satisfied. His salsa lacks the rich mouthfeel of Papalote's—a salsa so thick and creamy that some customers have asked Victor whether it contains mayonnaise or peanut butter (Victor denies this).
Max tries thickening his salsa with cornstarch and pectin, but these give it a "glassy quality." After hours of labor, Max's eyes are taking on a glassy quality, too. He perseveres. He tries thickening the salsa with cassava and with masa harina (corn flour), sometimes used in salsa, but the cassava makes the sauce watery, and the masa's flavor is too intrusive. He tries potato (sometimes sneaked into European sauces to make them creamier), but it doesn't make much difference. He tries adding vegetable oil, but when he leaves the salsa to sit, the oil floats to the top, something that never happens to the vexing Papalote salsa.
Meanwhile, Monsieur Robert is missing in action. But Max is ready. In the end, he finds that toasted pumpkin seeds, one of the ingredients of mole, produce the closest simulacrum of the salsa, and he presents his creation. We dip in a chip and taste. It is absolutely sublime. The tomato flavor is more prominent than that of Papalote's, and the chili does not overwhelm. While the Papalote flavor hits you all at once, the flavor of Max's salsa unfolds in the mouth like that of a fine wine. In fact, I cannot stop eating it. Incredible to say, I think it's actually better than Papalote's. I imagine the Escobedo brothers begging me for the recipe. Perhaps we will sell it to them for $300,000.


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Once upon a time and many many moons ago, I fell in love with Rimmel's Lash Acceleraor. I mean, I was head over heels in love with that mascara. For at least 6 months, every time someone asked me what my favorite mascara was I would blurt out "Rimmel Lash Accelerator!" with full fervor and conviction. I adored that mascara. And time has passed and it looks like Good ole' Lash Accelerator has a sibling. I had high high hopes for Lash Accelerator Endless.
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