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More than thirteen hundred projects have been funded as part of the We the People program. They range from small grants to help institutions begin preserving their collections to hefty challenge grants to help institutions expand and grow. Whether big or small—or somewhere in between—the projects all have one thing in common: They increase our knowledge of the nation's history and the people who made it.
Whether you lean toward original meaning or consider it a living document, projects about the Constitution abound. New programs and centers to study the Constitution and its legacy are in the works at St. Mary's College of Maryland, George Washington University, Montpelier Foundation, Kenyon College, University of Notre Dame, and Washington College. All of these are being funded through the use of challenge grants.
The University of Wisconsin, Madison, is publishing new volumes of The Documentary History of the Ratification of the Constitution and the Bill of Rights, bringing the total to nineteen, with ten more to follow. If you prefer your history digested, scholar Pauline Maier is working on a narrative history of the ratification, while fellow historian David Kyvig is writing about U.S. Constitutional culture since 1960, what he calls the "age of impeachment."
There is nothing like studying history where it was made. The Landmarks of American History and Culture Workshops have given more than seven thousand school and community-college teachers the chance to do just that. One workshop, held at Montpelier, looked at James Madison's role in writing the Constitution, and another, based at Mount Vernon, explored George Washington's importance in its adoption.
Does this vest make me look presidential? A clothing collection belonging to James Monroe and his family was conserved by the University of Mary Washington. Meanwhile, the Hermitage, the home of President Andrew Jackson, is getting a complete makeover. A reinterpretation will place Jackson and his home in the context of American history from the Revolution to the Civil War.
Between Monroe and Jackson came Adams, John Quincy. The Massachusetts Historical Society continues production of new volumes of the Adams family papers, documenting the first father-son presidential dynasty. The life and writings of the senior Adams in Braintree and Boston were also the focus of a teacher workshop. At times, John Adams had no love for Thomas Jefferson, but, fortunately, Princeton does. It is working on volumes 34–39 of Jefferson's papers.
While the colonists dumped tea into Boston Harbor, Spaniard Juan Bautista de Anza led the first overland expeditions from Mexico's Sonoran Desert to northern California, colonizing San Francisco in 1776. The Huntington Library's Early California Population Project has created a database of baptismal, marital, and burial records registered by Spanish missions from 1769–1850, providing insights on the settlers, Indians, and soldiers who called Alta California home.
Benjamin Franklin never did any California dreaming, but he did see Paris in the spring.
Franklin—printer, inventor, diplomat, and ladies' man—was the focus of teacher workshops hosted by Villanova and Pennsylvania State University. The rest of the country can learn about Ben too. The exhibition, "Benjamin Franklin: In Search of a Better World," travels to forty libraries across the country through 2011. Scholar Alan Houston is writing a book about Franklin and the politics of improvement, while Yale University is working on volumes 38–43 of Franklin's papers.
Bostonian Elizabeth Murray has been called the female Benjamin Franklin. Murray ran a successful import business, helped other women open shops, and became part of the swirl of Revolutionary politics. A Web site about her life features primary documents and teaching resources.
Murray didn't fit neatly into society's ideas about the role of women. The same could be said of Jane Addams and Eleanor Roosevelt. A new permanent exhibition is in the works for Hull-House Museum, the settlement house founded by Addams, and the University of Illinois, Chicago, hosted a teacher workshop about Addams's life and her involvement in the Progressive movement. After Franklin Roosevelt contracted polio, his wife Eleanor became his emissary, descending into mines and climbing onto tractors in his stead. George Washington University is editing her papers and creating a searchable database of her "My Day" columns.
When students at Washington D.C.'s Howard University picketed lunch counters that denied them service, Eleanor Roosevelt publicly lauded their efforts. The National Trust for Historic Preservation traced the journey of African Americans living in the nation's capital from slavery and emancipation to Reconstruction and segregation. Stanford University is developing a Web site with primary documents and teaching resources about Martin Luther King Jr. and the modern Civil Rights Movement.
The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database, which helped pioneer the digital humanities field, is getting a tune-up with eight thousand new entries, supplements to nine thousand existing entries, and expanded online access. The Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation used a challenge grant to endow its Digital Archaeological Archive of Comparative Slavery.
You can't sing if you don't know the words. The American Antiquarian Society cataloged and rehoused three thousand song sheets and poems printed as broadsides from 1850 to 1876. More than 4,670 hours of original analog sound recordings of folk and traditional music are being digitized by the National Council for the Traditional Arts. At a summer institute hosted by the University of Pittsburgh, teachers studied music as a window onto American history.
You can sing, but can you swing? Jazz at Lincoln Center is using a challenge grant to endow staff positions and fund humanities programming. Howard Pollack's George Gershwin: His Life and Work offers a comprehensive look at the composer's career, and Brian Harker is working on a book about Louis Armstrong and the rise of jazz. A teacher institute hosted by Washington University and directed by Gerald Early examined the history of jazz in American life.
Salty songs (and a bit of rum) helped sailors maintain ships of the line. The USS Constitution Museum is hoisting a new permanent exhibition about the ship's crew and how their service during the War of 1812 shaped their lives and the young nation's image of itself. From blockade to perimeter patrol: Nebraska's Fort Robinson was the focus of teacher workshops about its role in the history of the West. The fort started as a temporary army outpost in 1874, and evolved into one of the largest Plains military installations. The Minnesota Historical Society is installing a permanent and traveling exhibition about its "Greatest Generation," looking at the experiences of Minnesotans who fought World War II.
Too old to fight, poet Walt Whitman salved the wounds and souls of injured soldiers during the Civil War. The Walt Whitman Archive is using a challenge grant to ensure long-term access to its comprehensive Web site. The correspondence and journals of literary rival Henry David Thoreau are being edited by the University of California, Santa Barbara.
Thoreau's retreat from civilization looks like a picnic compared to the homestead experiences of Laura Ingalls Wilder's family. The Laura Ingalls Wilder Memorial Society, Inc. preserved its collection of photographs, clothing, books, furniture, and historical artifacts belonging to the author, ensuring that more than just Wilder's Little House on the Prairie endures another South Dakota winter.
Like Whitman, Mark Twain got his start as a newspaper man. The Mark Twain Project, based at University of California, Berkeley, is putting the finishing touches on digital versions of Twain's letters and autobiographical writings. The Mark Twain House hosted teacher workshops on the Gilded Age and the treatment of race in Twain's novels. The museum also received a grant to preserve artifacts and archival materials related to Twain's life. Scholars Jerome Loving and Kerry Driscoll are both at work on books about Twain. Loving is doing a biography, while Driscoll is examining Twain's evolving views about Indians.
Twain once asked, "Is Shakespeare Dead?" He's as dead as Julius Caesar, but the Bard's creative genius lives on. Shakespeare in American Life, a radio program narrated by Sam Waterston, explored the impact of Shakespeare's work on American civic and cultural life. The influence of fellow Brit and word-stylist Winston Churchill on American politics and the shaping of the Anglo-American relationship was the topic of a teacher institute.
It's not the Globe, but the U.S. Supreme Court offers plenty of drama. The radio program Thurgood Marshall Before the Court looked at the life and career of the first African-American justice. The Bill of Rights Institute is readying a resource book and a Web site for high school teachers and students on important Supreme Court cases.
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MSPP #138: Philmont Training Center 1984stevejb68 on June 29, 2014 in Nostalgia, Philmont, Training, Uncategorized
Philmont! I attended a week long session at the Philmont Training Center (PTC) this month and on the way back from the trip to New Mexico Bob and I looked at the pictures I had taken of my trip to the facility in 1984, which also happened to be the first time I visited Philmont Scout Ranch. It was interesting to see what had changed over the last three decades, and also what had stayed the same. If you have been to the ranch a few times over the decades you will know what I mean.
I thought those of you who have been to training center years ago might enjoy seeing this slideshow of my 1984 trip posted to the Melrose Scout Productions Podcast. Even those of you who have been there recently will enjoy seeing the new buildings and other changes to both the training center and the base camp from which the Boy Scouts leave on their 12 day treks into the backcountry. You will notice that one of the biggest and best changes has been the new Welcome Center at the base camp.
By the way, three of the songs used in the video are song by members of the Philmont staff over thirty years ago. They are from a cassette tape I bought in 1984 at the base camp trading post. The album is called Philsongs: Remembered Days. I checked the store this month and did not see this available to buy anymore, is cassette or cd formats. I converted the cassette to mp3's several years ago so I could listen to the songs on my iPod.
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I've finished adding a full Locale features to SLDataText, and I've attempted both ruRU and frFR files based on some original SLDT locale translations with some help from Google Translate. The locale file isn't too massive, so anyone willing to pump out quick translations for other locales, I would greatly appreciate it...just send the file to me via email or site PM and I'll add it to the next upload.
Still working on LibSL and LibSLTip to both add layout features to the config menu's as well as some better handling of notes on the Tooltips. In the meantime while I work on those, I've been creating replacements for some heavier AddOns I typically use for Cooldown and Spell timers. They'll be separate Plug-Ins, one for Cooldowns and one for Spell Timers. I've finished the Cooldown side, and I'm just adding some customization features...and I'm just getting started on the Spell Timers. I think those will be cool additions because they're often used, and these are quite a bit lighter on system usage then full-feature versions...with still the ability to integrate them into almost any UI with out-of-the-box customization options.
StatLine & SLDataText 4.2.7
01-13-12 07:28 AM by:
I've just finished up the rewrite of the StatLine plug-in for SLDT. It's much better than the original, IMO. New is the fact that each stat is generated on an independent frame, allowing easier stat updating as well as anchoring. You can do horizontal and vertical arrangements now, both with Justification. So if you have the orientation set to Vertical and Justify to the Left, you'll see:
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Or Vertical with Center:
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Also new, is the option to set the amount of blocks (from 1 to 5). The plug-in will reactively change the view to account for the amount of blocks, and only update those currently shown. I've also changed the way statistics are fetched...originally there was a massive single function to fetch all stats and create a local database with them. It's setup now to only access the stat function required for display...so it's much faster and less of a system hog.
I should have it out this weekend, if not tonight. I do want to make some changes to LibSL-1.0 to support mulit-column configuration (StatLine makes the config window pretty high), but it's not necessary and it seems to work fine in it's current state. A little more testing and I'll be ready to release it.
SLDataText 4.2.7 is just about ready to go. I've started work to localize the entire SLDT library of addons, StatLine is the first to be "fully" localized. SLDataText is pretty big and it will take some time, so that'll be my project for 4.2.8. Fixed some problems for 4.2.7 though, including click-through issues when the tooltip is set to off, and truncated titles for the Currency module. The mail module has had a major revamp...very cool, a lot like the old Titan Panel / FuBar mail plug-ins. Counts mail, AH alerts, etc.
People may have noticed, too, that I've been slowly integrating icons into the individual modules. This is something I plan to work into all of the modules. Of course, there's an option to turn it off if it's not to your liking.
Updates to SLDataText, oUF_Taffu, and more...
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SLDataText is in very good shape right now, so what I'm going to be working on is putting out some individual goodies as plug-ins. So far I've released module plug-ins for Guild, Friends, ItemTracker, and CombatMonitor. It's my first time working with the CombatLog events & info, so be kind if my calculations are off (and let me know so I can fix it!). Right now I'm working on an Archaeology Assistant module called SLDataText_ArchAssist. I'm going to utilize my new LibSLTip to create an interactive tooltip that benefits on the fly Archaeology management as well as selective tracking.
Now that I've finally finished the base portion of SLDataText, I've been working on an oUF layout for quite some time that I hope to be able to finish up. It will be from the ground up as far as projects are concerned, and I'm borrowing a little from here & there (ie. oUF_Phanx border handling) to make it a unique little addition to the oUF family of unit frame layouts. I'm also adding as heavy customization as I can for in-game options so that people with little-to-no LUA programming experience can use it and modify it in-game to their liking (from sizes, to locations, and more).
I'm still working on putting a full release version of LanChat out, but I'm finding it a little harder than I thought to add customization options in-game to a extensive chat rework that was intended to have LUA only configuration! I'll get it done, though...
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I'm soon going to be offering a closed Alpha for SLDataText v5 to test out some features as well as get some feedback from users about additional features and whatnot they would like to see get included, as well as possibly get some new module ideas. I'll be making a forum post here at WoWInterface with that information soon.
Also, I've spoken to Lanerra (author of oUF_Lanerra), and I'll be tweaking a version of chat mod created for his interface. It will be dubbed LanChat, and while primary design credit will go to Lanerra I'll be releasing, tweaking, and maintaining it. It's a very, very cool chat AddOn and I'm hoping it will be well received. My primary objective is to get it to require no dependents (right now it requires !Beautycase), as well as add a large customization menu.
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SLDataText Rebirth for v5.0
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I'm back, most likely permanently, and have once again restarted the rebuild of SLDT that I had begun with the v3 Beta quite some time ago. My goal is to finish up prior to MoP release so that I can get a Beta of v5 out to the masses.
SLDataText has come along way, but I imagine it's been somewhat of the red-haired stepchild as of late. The new version I'm working on is pretty much everything I ever hoped the AddOn would become in time.
It's got a way smaller footprint than what you might be used to right now. Most likely less than 200kb running full load with all release modules. It's only using AceDB-3.0, but I may even remove that by the time I release it. It still has LibSharedMedia support and will have a custom Tablet-type lib built in. I've custom built a configuration lib for this (and possible future) SL-named AddOns.
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The Reformers taught that we are saved by grace alone, through faith alone, on account of Christ alone, as revealed in Scripture alone. I believe this also. I also believe that we are declared righteous, not because of ourselves, but due to the righteousness of Christ imputed to us.
Roman Catholicism tells us that this teaching is foreign to the history of the church, that the Church never taught it and the early church fathers never taught it. Rome claims that we believe in a legal fiction.
Granted, the church could have been wrong all along, but is that likely? Since some doctrines took time to develop, can we say that the church never spoke about the imputed righteousness of Christ? I would like to investigate this. Can you help?
Thank you for your question. Let me begin with answer 33 of the Westminster Shorter Catechism:
Justification is an act of God's free grace, wherein he pardoneth all our sins, and accepteth us as righteous in his sight, only for the righteousness of Christ imputed to us, and received by faith alone.
This statement sets forth the doctrine of justification held by the Reformers, and accurately represents the Bible's presentation of the constituent elements of a believer's judicial standing before an all holy God.
Was the doctrine of justification stated this clearly prior to the reformation? Let me direct you to James Buchanan's magisterial volume, The Doctrine of Justification (1867; Banner of Truth, 1984), and, specifically to Lecture 3, "History of the Doctrine in the Times of the Fathers and Scholastic Divines":
The question, therefore is not, - Whether all the Fathers taught the doctrine of Justification in its original purity, nor even whether any one of the Fathers was entirely exempt from the corruptions which were gradually growing up in the Church; but simply, whether the doctrine of Justification by grace, through faith in the merits of Christ, may not be traced in the writings of some witnesses for the truth, along the whole line of the Church's history; and whether some true believers were not nourished and refreshed by it, even in the most degenerate times? We answer this question in the affirmative, by adducing testimonies from the Fathers of every succeeding age; and in doing so, we refer to them, not as authorities in matters of faith, but simply as witnesses to a matter of fact. (pages 78-79)
... there is no truth in the allegation that [the Protestant doctrine of Justification] had been unknown for fourteen hundred years before the Reformation. (page 80)
The magazine Modern Reformation has made Lecture 3 of Buchanan's excellent book available online here. In that lecture Buchanan supplies numerous and lengthy quotations from the early church fathers to support his assertion.
Buchanan wisely notes, "This doctrine was always held in substance by true believers; but it seems to have been reserved, for its fuller development, and more precise definition, till the great controversy which arose between the Romish and the Reformed Churches in the sixteenth century." (page 87) Just as controversies led to the carefully crafted Trinitarian formulations of Nicaea in the fourth century, and the Christological formulations of Chalcedon in the fifth century, so the controversies of the Reformation period led to the magnificent statements of our Reformed confessions on justification.
Is the Protestant doctrine of justification legal fiction? When I was a boy, I remember being taught by my Presbyterian Sunday School teachers a definition of justification that went like this: "God treats me as if I had never sinned." Such a definition is simply wrong, and opens the way to the charge of legal fiction.
God does not treat the believer as if he were righteous. He is in fact righteous by virtue of his union with Jesus Christ. God has made Christ "our righteousness" (1 Cor. 1:30), and in Christ we are "the righteousness of God" (2 Cor. 5:21).
John Murray makes this point well: "The righteousness of Christ is the righteousness of his perfect obedience, a righteousness undefiled and undefilable, a righteousness which not only warrants the justification of the ungodly but one that necessarily elicits and constrains such justification. God cannot but accept into his favor those who are invested with the righteousness of his own Son." [John Murray, Redemption Accomplished and Applied (Eerdmans, 1955), page 124.]
No fiction here. In Christ the believer is truly righteous.
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In other words - I'm trouble.
I attempted college, but made a mess of that scene, too. Chalk it up to yet another disappointment in my parents' ever-growing list of Kady failures.
Deciding I needed an escape from reality, my best friend and I flew off to Europe, where we were going to have the time of our lives.
The only problem with that plan is that I ran out of money after two weeks, and now I'm stuck in Florence, Italy with no means of getting home.
See? Trouble finds me wherever I go.
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I bypassed college and went straight to the pros. I've been playing overseas in Italy for six months, gaining fame, fans and having fun.
There's only one problem. I miss home. I'm not too big to admit I'm homesick for my family and friends.
But that all changed when I heard from Cade Griffin, a former college hoops star. He called and asked me to rescue his sister, Kadence, who's stranded and alone here in Florence.
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That's what we like to hear. And since our PSA last week about MikeeUSA, we've been really pleased to see people coming out of the woodwork to say, in effect, "OMGWTF!" and "NOT COOL."
It's funny… when I wrote that post, I was cringing in anticipation. After the last couple of contentious things I'd written, I was sure that I was going to get a flood of posts telling me how I was over-reacting, how raising these issues was harming the open source community, or that I should focus on the positive. I hit "post" with some trepidation, then left the office almost shaking.
I kept checking the comments throughout the evening, and even woke up in the middle of the night expecting a storm of invective. And there wasn't one. Around twelve hours after the post, I cautiously said on IRC, "maybe there won't be a backlash this time," and then wanted to retract the words in case it was some kind of jinx.
Instead, what we got was support. Twitter and Identi.ca were buzzing with retweets/redents of people spreading the PSA, and the comments here on GF — even from people who said they usually disagreed with feminist goals — were 100% supportive. You know how we have a comment policy here that says we will delete stuff that's blatantly anti-feminist? Well, this was the first contentious post we've ever had where we didn't delete a single comment.
So, thanks. It's good to know that there are some things just so vile that nobody in our community will tolerate them. It's good to know that we can visit almost any open source blog this week without having to be confronted by Mikee's hateful comments, because they've been sent to the bit bucket. And it's good to know that at least some of the women (and men) who were targetted by Mikee's hate speech over the last week or so knew how to handle it, and knew they weren't alone, because we got the word out.
Thanks for having our backs.
But let's stop for a moment and think about why that's such a big deal. It's a big deal because it's unusual. Most of the time, backlash, not support, is the strongest response.
Next time round, I'd like to ask everyone to remember that every little incident in our community occurs in a context of institutionalised sexism that ranges from the odd thoughtless joke to… well, to Mikee and beyond. And it's the little things, repeated over and over and excused just as often, that serve to reinforce the feeling that we don't quite belong, and that the majority of the community might not back us up, might even attack us, if the shit hits the fan.
Please don't let this happen.
We need to know you've got our backs. Even for the little stuff. Even when it's a community leader. Even when you aren't quite sure why it's a big deal. Especially those times. Because it's the security of knowing that someone's got our backs that lets us speak about the big stuff without shame or fear. And it's only that security that lets us feel safe to give all our energy and focus to what we came here for in the first place: free and open source software.


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Coldly, cruelly came the news that there had been a crash. Three young men had been killed on the highway. One father said with relief that it could not be his son because he had forbidden him to drive on the highway for another year.
But he had and it was. People assumed at first that young men driving late at night... it must have been their fault. In fact they were sober and driving responsibly. But a truck on the other side of the road jack-knifed and hit a car which flipped high over the median and landed on top of the young men's car. How would this singularity rate in an actuarial table?
Comparisons are odious but that the death of a child must be the most devastating of human tragedies. It rips open parts of the inner world that we did not know even existed and tramples on our deepest instincts and expectations. We vainly protest against the unfairness of the cosmos and its laws. The law of karma clearly does not respect us but nor can we now believe in the higher law of grace. There are no silver linings yet to be seen. We see exposed how insensitive it is to human frailty, how totalitarian and arbitrary in its intricate machinations of law and chance. We suddenly know what helpless really means and justice seems a merely human thing.
Soon after the accident another son was kidnapped and the family endured eleven days of sleepless agony. There were negotiations over an unreasonable ransom demand, threats to murder him, the impossibility of going to the police because they might well have been part of the gang and eventually a successful raid on the kidnappers' hideout with a private security team. Peace again. Then a devastating personal humiliation for a daughter as a private video went viral on the internet. Slow recovery from the barrage of suffering. And then, in his prime, Parkinsons.
I listened to Will, not Job, as he described this fantastic series of trials. He spoke with emotion but calmly and with his precision as an engineer. The expressiveness of his facial muscles was already being affected. But I was not wrong to notice a twinkle in his eye and his sense of humour. He asked God for one thing only, to spare his family from more.
We live so bedazzled by statistics and so controlled by systems designed to make life predictable and safe that we blithely forget how singular and unpredictable it all is. Then suddenly it feels as if God's finger descends as in a cartoon from behind the clouds of unknowing and picks us out for punishment for a crime that, like Kafka's, is never explained. It is the Gutanemo of justice.
What soft beat of a butterfly's wings in the Amazon makes a car of young people arrive at the exact point in space and time to receive the car flying across the median?
I was listening to a group of young meditators describe what their faith and prayer meant to them, each so unique and yet with so much in common. One young woman spoke of living with chronic pain. As she linked this to her spiritual journey and discovery of faith we saw depth. Usually we hear words or ideas about human depth. We even argue about them, as always with words. Occasionally the verbal veil is dissolved by the power of simple truth and the depth is laid open. At that moment, again, I saw in her eyes and smile a peace that seemed utterly incongruous. How could there be peace in the midst of such pain?
Maybe Advent gives the time needed to understand this. Is the real meaning of Christmas in the preparation and expectation rather than in the busy and wordy religious and secular liturgies by which we celebrate it? After all, although we sentimentalise Christmas, the story behind the carols is pretty harsh too. An excluded homeless couple expecting a child, having already endured perhaps a certain social embarrassment about paternity; a short visit from some wise men frightened for themselves; a sudden exile to a hostile land and a massacre of babies born at the same time. Happy Christmas?
Yet this familiar story of the distilling of divinity in a singular birth into the human condition, cruel today, charming tomorrow, breathes peace. Not, however, as the world gives it. Not wrapped in expensive gift packaging. So who gives it? Where does this twinkle of joy and peace in the midst of relentless misfortune come from? Life is no more predictable when this peace of Christmas is transmitted from eye to heart and even, at times, from heart to heart. But there is a silent, seismic convulsion as we feel a prophecy fulfilled.
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Exploratory Data Analysis and Critiques of Significance Testing
This course will introduce students to the approach called "Exploratory Data Analysis" (EDA) where the aim is to extract useful information from data, with an enquiring, open and sceptical mind. It is, in many ways, an antidote to many advanced modelling approaches, where researchers lose touch with the richness of their data. Seeing interesting patterns in the data is the goal of EDA, rather than testing for statistical significance. The course will also consider the recent critiques of conventional "significance testing" approaches that have led some journals to ban significance tests.
Students who take this course will hopefully get more out of their data, achieve a more balanced overview of data analysis in the social sciences.
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A Sandwich a Day: The Roast Pork And Triple Cheese Panino from Craigie On Main, Cambridge
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In this great country of ours, one could eat a different sandwich every day of the year--so that's what we'll do. Here's A Sandwich a Day, our daily look at sandwiches around the country. Got a sandwich we should check out? Let us know. --The Mgmt.
I may be accused of writing about Craigie on Main, Tony Maws' farm-to-table restaurant in Cambridge, a bit too often. Fair enough. But let me assure you, it's well-deserved. Heck, the burger alone should have a site all to itself.
While Craigie on Main may be better known for its animal parts and tasting menus than its brunch, I recently discovered what might be the best cake doughnut I've ever had hiding on that Sunday-morning-only menu. And sitting next to it on the menu, a little bit more conspicuously: the Triple Cheese and Pork Panino ($17).
It starts with not-too-fat, not-too-thin slices of excellent pain au levain from Iggy's (the best baker in the 'hood by a long shot), then gets piled high with slices of pork collar that's brined and slow-cooked in a fancy-pants CVap steam oven. The resulting meat has the salty juiciness of a great ham, but the meltingly tender texture of a perfectly roasted pork shoulder.
Sweated leeks, shallots, and pickled ramps get added to cut through some of the porky fattiness before being stacked with Comté, Shelbourne Cheddar from Vermont, and a sharp aged Provolone. The whole thing is grilled panini-style to a crisp melty, golden brown. The fat fries on the side ain't half bad either.
Roast pork, three cheeses, and it's toasted in butter? Overkill you say? Please. This is brunch. There's no such thing as overkill.
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First Injunction Explicity Banning Facebook And Twitter Comes Into Effect
The first injunction to explicitly ban the publication of information on Twitter and Facebook was issued yesterday, protecting a mother who wants to withdraw life support from her critically-ill daughter.
The Court of Protection's ruling, reported by The Telegraph, is thought to be the first of its kind and prevents traditional press outlets from identifying the woman, her relatives and people close to her, a total of 65 individuals. Information will not be allowed to be spread by social networks and keeps reporters from going within 164 feet of the care home where the woman resides.
The ruling comes after the publication of information on so-called Super Injunctions, gagging orders taken out by celebrities and high-profile sports-stars for large sums of money, which prevented the media – even those involved – from revealing their identities in connection with certain events.
The new injunction restricts the publishing of the woman's identity in "any newspaper, magazine, public computer network, internet site, social network or media including Twitter or Facebook, sound or television broadcast or cable or satellite programme service". The 43-year old woman -referred only to as "M" – was admitted to hospital over eight years ago, suffering from encephalitis (swelling of the brain). She has since remained in a "minimally conscious state".
Details on how the injunction will be enforced are not known, with it thought to be increasingly difficult considering Twitter does not currently have a UK base of operations.
With the mother applying for treatment and medical support to be withdrawn, a full hearing will be held in July.
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Link to article: http://www.economist.com/news/briefing/21606795-todays-young-people-are-held-be-alienated-unhappy-violent-failures-they-are-proving
The writer's arguments are valid, and are largely applicable to Singapore's society. Many countries have introduced, if they have not already in the past, tougher measures to police youth's disruptive behaviour in order to curb such violent acts. At the same time, the standard of education for many youths have increased, inculcating important values and providing youths with information, while acting as a deterrent against dropping out from school. In addition, parents have increasingly become nurturing parties that help to bring up their children with better moral values and learning attitudes. All these phenomenon have been relevant and apparent in Singapore as well, making the passage very applicable to our society.
The author finds that the tougher policing in many societies, including Britain's, has curbed many illegal acts that teenagers of the past had used to indulge in, such as the consumption of alcohol. Hefty fines and "ferocious policing" have helped to catch and punish such teenagers, along with the stores that abet their illegal acts. According to the author, such policies double up as deterrent measures as well, to prevent such crimes in the future. This argument is valid, because an increased policing is a measure that increases state resources dedicated to dealing with crime and illegal youthful indulgences. Naturally, this would lead to a reduction in the crime rate, because there is more manpower and effort directed towards solving the problem, giving law enforcements the necessary resources to identify such activities. In doing so, we direct citizens, especially youths in this case, away from immoral acts and encourage them to pick up better habits instead. This argument is relevant to Singapore as well, though the context may be different. Singapore has long had a reputation for tough crime-fighting policies, and so there has never been much destructive behaviour in the country. Its recent prosecution of "Sticker Lady" Samantha Ang for pasting stickers on traffic lights and lamp-posts only goes to show the continuation behind Singapore's tough stance on crime. Effectively, Singapore enjoys low crime rate, even for juveniles, showing that there might possibly be a link between having tough policies and better behaviour in youths. This resounds with the claim of the author.
The author also explains that the increased standard of education, and subsequently its cost, has made youths more staid and strait-laced. On one hand, the education in and of itself has taught youths morals and information they require to excel in school and in life. On the other hand, the "new premium on education", such as increasingly expensive university tuition fees, has given youths a stronger reason not to neglect their studies. This is a valid argument that is also very applicable to Singapore. For many, a good education represents an opportunity to succeed later in life. With the necessary skills and knowledge, students will be better equipped to deal with challenges, and have the necessary qualifications. This hope acts as a source of motivation for youths to study hard, and keep on track. This argument is especially relevant in Singapore, which mostly follows a meritocratic system — the standard of education one receives usually determines how successful one is later on in life. Hence, a huge majority of students are often serious about their work, and put in much effort into preparing for their exams, such as the GCSE O Level and A level examinations. Clearly, the rise in standard of education has encouraged more youths to be more hardworking and determined to succeed in school.
Another reason brought up by the author is that parents now positively influence their children. First, the fact that many young people still live with their parents means that they are more restrained. Second, youths are now brought up with more attention, care and strictness, as parents become increasingly determined to help their children succeed, by helping their children in any way they can, as compared to the arguably more laid-back style of parenting seen in the past. This leads to youths being more hardworking and strait-laced, having been encouraged to study hard by their parents, and inculcated with stronger moral values. This is a valid argument — parents are often a strong source of influence for their children, which means that more time spent with their children can be expected to lead to children that have better learning attitudes and a stronger moral compass. In Singapore, though many parents may be working in the day and do not take care of their children during that time, they often send their children to childcare centres during that time, and catch up with their children in the evenings to help them with schoolwork. Many Singaporean parents have also been credited with being "kiasu", or being afraid that their child may lose out to others in school, or in life ten years down the road — this turns out with them being very strict with their child's behaviour at home. All of this reflects the degree of care and concern they have for their children's future education and occupation. This comes in stark contrast with parents of the past, who would often leave their children to their own devices, expecting them to pick up the necessary skills on their own. In essence, the increased parental influence in the lives of their children motivates the latter to work harder and strive to do better in the things they do, picking up better moral values along the way.
In conclusion, it is largely true today, especially in Singapore, that young people nowadays are hardworking, serious about their work, and have good moral values. The three main reasons for this, as the author states — namely tough laws and policies, increased standards of education and heightened parental influence — are indeed very valid explanations for this phenomenon, and they are very applicable to the Singaporean context. Ultimately, I agree with the author on his point of view on young people today.


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On a percentage basis, fewer African-Americans are earning degrees in STEM subjects today than at any other point in the last decade. What's behind the declining numbers? While the U.S. currently is not known for churning out as many STEM professionals as it used to, there is a particularly notable dearth of new mathematicians, engineers, and scientists among African-Americans.
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Vincenzo M. Petrullo was born in Italy in 1906, entered the United States in 1913, and eventually became a citizen in 1930. Petrullo represented the Penn Museum as the anthropologist for the Matto Grosso Expedition from late 1930 until 1931. Petrullo did archaeological excavations at the expedition headquarters at Descalvados, while waiting five months for governmental permission to conduct research in the Brazilian interior. In 1933 Petrullo returned to South America, his purpose to establish a Latin American Research Institute in Venezuela, with support from that government and the University of Pennsylvania Museum. Petrullo visited South America once again in 1935 in a joint Columbia University-University of Pennsylvania Museum expedition.


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Barclays has been a cautionary lesson for other banks involved in the LIBOR-rigging scandal. Outrage over the bank's involvement in manipulation of the interbank rate that claimed its top three officers in addition to exacting a heavy financial toll has led to other banks involved in the scheme to seek a group settlement rather than expose themselves individually to regulatory and public fury.
Reuters reported Friday that unidentified sources cited preliminary discussions with regulators by banks in an effort to avoid the spotlight cast on the first bank to come to terms with regulators. Those familiar with the banks' reasoning said that while it is not yet known if regulators will allow such an arrangement, the banks want to avoid the backlash from politicians and from people in general that assailed Barclays for its role in the scandal.
A group settlement had been discussed before Barclays reached its agreement with regulators, and now such talks have been resumed in the wake of the furor. While many banks are involved in the investigation, it is not known which are engaged in group settlement talks.
One unidentified banker said in the report that a group settlement would appeal to regulators because of the headlines it would produce and the magnitude of the potential settlement figure. The report cited the $25 billion settlement reached by five U.S. banks and American regulators over the mortgage meltdown.
However, the banker conceded that the banks were having a hard time working together, with considerable bargaining and jockeying for position taking place that could complicate any possibility of a settlement.
Another source at one of the involved institutions said that further complications were the fact that different groups of regulators were involved with different banks, and that charges were different in each instance. Such difficulties lowered the odds of reaching a successful agreement, the source said.
Still, the possibility of avoiding the vortex of publicity that overwhelmed Barclays is a powerful incentive, particularly since, although in financial terms Barclays was granted a 30% "discount" in its settlement, it paid far more in lost reputation and leadership.
According to analyst estimates, the banks could be on the hook for $20 billion to $40 billion. Added to the increased regulatory scrutiny they already face, the cost of their participation in the scheme will be great.
Much of the public outrage was spurred by the release of numerous e-mails showing the blithe attitude of those involved, with offers flying between banks of coffee and champagne in exchange for rate adjustments to specifications. Some of the manipulations boosted bank profits and others masked their financial health.
Regulators, too, are unlikely to emerge from the ordeal unscathed, since allegations have surfaced that some—from the Bank of England (BoE) to the New York Fed—knew of the manipulations for years.
Regulators across the globe have already undertaken investigations of regional interbank lending rate setting, and discussions are planned on whether to replace LIBOR altogether. The rate influences the prices of some $550 trillion in financial products, from mortgages and consumer loans to corporate paper and bonds.


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A 14-year-old Indian boy staying with his aunt and uncle in the Tamil Nadu village of Ekkadu couldn't afford the 8,000 rupees (roughly $150) to purchase a video game system, so he strangled a 69-year-old neighbor.
According to local authorities, the teen and his aunt hatched a plan to murder their neighbor, a 69-year-old retired nurse named Rajam that regularly wore gold jewelry, as a means of acquiring the money to purchase the boy a video game console. Some news sources are reporting the console as a PlayStation 3, though the 8,000 rupee price is more in line with a PlayStation 2 than the newer, more powerful console.
On Sunday evening Rajam was on her way home when the boy lured her into his aunt's home under the pretense of giving her mangoes. Once inside the boy strangled Rajam with a length of cloth. His aunt then struck her over the head with a grinder stone to make sure she was dead. When the uncle arrived home Rajam's jewelry was removed and her body stuffed in a gunny sack, driven to a neighboring village of Sengadu, doused with gasoline and set on fire.
Police found Rajam's charred remains on Monday. A missing persons complaint by the deceased's son led police to the suspects' home, where the boy confessed to murdering Rajam with the help of his aunt and uncle.
The adults are currently being held in judicial custody at Vellore prison, while the murderous teen was sent to a juvenile home.
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Obukedo is a local term in Uganda for banana leaf. These are dried, coiled, and bound to each other using raffia, which comes from the raffia palm that grows near the beautiful shores of Lake Victoria. Both of these are natural, renewable, and abundant resources.
The baskets are traditionally used for serving food, wrapping gifts and storing items, though they are also commonly displayed by themselves as decorative elements.
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Sen. Charles Schumer wants New York Regents to accept STEM, CTE pathways
Sen. Charles Schumer urged the New York State Board of Regents to approve changes that would create two new pathways to high school graduation, equipping graduates with skills necessary for current and future jobs in New York.
The proposal, which the Board of Regents has been considering since April, will open up alternatives to the current graduation pathway.
The science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) pathway would eschew the U.S. or world history requirements and give students more science and math examinations. This will better equipped students for college or careers in STEM fields.
Additionally, a career and technical education (CTE) pathway would be available that would include all of the traditional courses, but would substitute the U.S. history and government test for a CTE examination.
"As Upstate New York's economy switches gears towards the advanced industries of the 21st century, we need our students and education system to keep pace," said Schumer. "It is critical that young adults across the state are college- and career-ready to meet the demands and job availability of today's industries."
Schumer said New York has seen rapid growth in its specialized manufacturing, biotechnology and nanotech sectors, though residents seeking employment rarely meet the standards required for open positions.
According to Schumer, companies like industrial Support Incorporated in Buffalo and Thermold Corp in Canastota have many current job openings, are continuing to grow and have a dramatic need for people with skill-sets that the STEM and CTE pathways would provide, such as welders, mold technicians, machinists and electrical engineers.
Schumer highlighted current programs in New York that already fall within the constructs CTE.
Seneca-Tioga BOCES in Tompkins County offers a Cisco Career Certification Exam for students interested in computer systems and networking. The exam tests students on skills that can be applied to eight different career paths, such as network design and network security. This technical exam would fulfill the CTE examination requirement.
Another example is the aviation program at the Ulster County BOCES. Students are able to get a private piloting license after taking the program, avoiding around $7,000 in fees. With the adoption of CTE, programs like these may become more widely available in the state.
Schumer said he believes the creation of these pathways will create higher graduation rates and provide the skills necessary to compete in the current and coming job market.
"I hope that this plan will help reduce high school dropout rates by showing our kids a future in these careers," Schumer said.


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Charles Ramsey was eating some dinner Monday night when he heard screaming. Soon, he was knocking down a neighbor's door, freeing three women and a girl who police say were held hostage for years.
Within hours, he was a national hero, a viral video star, and the top topic on Twitter.
"I'm eating my McDonald's, I come outside, and I see this girl going nuts, trying to get out of the house," he told CNN affiliate WEWS in an interview watched around the world.
"I got on the porch and she said, 'Help me get out. I've been here a long time." I figured it was a domestic violence dispute. So I open the door. And we can't get in that way 'cause of how the door is, it's so much that a body can't fit through; only your hand."
He and a man named Angel Cordero broke down the door, WEWS reported.
"We kicked the bottom. And she comes out with a little girl and she says 'Call 911. My name is Amanda Berry."
He immediately called 911 — and only then realized that Berry was the woman who had been missing for years. "I thought this girl was dead," he said.
"She's like, 'This (expletive) kidnapped me and my daughter,'" he told the 911 operator.
After police arrived, Berry explained there were other women inside. When police came out with them, Ramsey said, "it was astonishing."
Berry was last seen after finishing her shift at a Burger King in Cleveland in 2003 on the eve of her 17th birthday. The other two women are Georgina "Gina" DeJesus, who disappeared at age 14 in 2004, and Michelle Knight, who vanished 2002 at age 19, according to the Cleveland Plain Dealer newspaper.
While Ramsey's quick action made him a hero, his colorful descriptions helped make him dream fodder for the Twitterverse.
Explaining that he had no idea Ariel Castro, his neighbor, may have had other people inside his home, Ramsey said, "I've been here a year. You see where I'm coming from? I barbecue with this dude. We eat ribs and whatnot and listen to salsa music…
"He just comes out to his backyard, plays with the dogs, tinkers with his cars and motorcycles, goes back in the house. So he's somebody you look, then look away. He's not doing anything, but the average stuff. You see what I'm saying? There's nothing exciting about him. Well, until today."
Castro "got some big testicles to pull this off, bro," Ramsey said. "Because we see this dude every day. I mean every day."
He added, "I knew something was wrong when a little, pretty white girl ran into a black man's arms. Something is wrong here. Dead giveaway."
In one of the top tweets about Ramsey, comedian Patton Oswalt wrote, "Dear Charles Ramsey: I am not a little pretty white girl, but I totally want to run into your black arms. #hero."
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One of the current Google Offers for Los Angeles is "$29 for $60 toward a 'Lookout Lunch for Two' on Mt. Baldy."
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Looking at the menu, all items are under $13, and most of them are below $10, so $20 should cover most of lunch for two.
A decent price for one of the more unique dining experiences here in the Inland Empire, eh?
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Officials: 6 dead in Christian school shooting
A gunman opened fire at a Christian university in California Monday, killing at least six people and wounding three more, authorities said. Police say they have a suspect in custody.
The shooting erupted around midmorning at Oikos University in Oakland and left six dead, according to City Council President Larry Reid, who said he was told the count by the police chief.
The suspect was taken into custody in the neighboring city of Alameda, according to law enforcement officials who spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to release the information.
Officer Johnna Watson did not give any other details about the suspect.
Authorities earlier described him as a heavyset Korean man in his 40s wearing khaki clothing. "I can confirm that we do have one person who has been detained that we believe is possibly responsible for this shooting," Watson said.
KTVU-TV reported that the shooter was a student and opened fire in a classroom.
Earlier, television news footage showed a chaotic scene as heavily armed officers swarmed into the building, located in a large industrial park near the Oakland airport. The footage also showed bloodied victims on stretchers being loaded into ambulances. Several bodies covered in sheets were laid out on a patch of grass.
Pastor Jong Kim, who founded the school about 10 years ago, told the Oakland Tribune that the shooter was a nursing student who was no longer enrolled. He did not know if the shooter was expelled or dropped out. Kim said he heard about 30 rapid-fire gunshots in the building.
"I stayed in my office," he said.
Deborah Lee, who was in an English language class at the time, said she heard five to six gunshots at first. "The teacher said, `Run,' and we run," she said. "I was OK, because I know God protects me. I'm not afraid of him."
Angie Johnson told the San Francisco Chronicle that she saw a young woman leave the building with blood coming from her arm and crying: "I've been shot. I've been shot."
The injured woman said the shooter was a man in her nursing class who got up and shot one person at point-blank range in the chest before spraying the room with bullets, Johnson said.
"She said he looked crazy all the time," Johnson said the victim told her, "but they never knew how far he would go."
Four victims arrived at Highland Hospital for treatment, said spokeswoman Jerri Randrup.
According to its website, Oikos University offers studies in theology, music, nursing and Asian medicine. A telephone message left on the university's voicemail was not immediately returned.


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Few days ago, I had written about a new Need For Speed: Most Wanted coming soon. At this year's E3, EA gave a demo of Need For Speed: Most Wanted and showed us what can be expected from it.
Being developed by Criterion, the sequel to Most Wanted looks like a Burnout Game in Need For Speed clothing. Each race will have a start and finish line; how you reach the line is completely up to you. You can take the tarmac roads, go hunting for shortcuts or even go offroad. Autolog will be available as well and you and your Autolog friends should be able to jump into the race at any point of time. Need for Speed Most Wanted will be released on October 30th in North America and November 1st in Europe for all major consoles (PS3, Xbox 360), PC and portable and mobile devices.
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Tax changes top Missouri lawmakers' 2013 agenda
Lawmakers say they plan to pursue tax code changes
Massive tax cuts in neighboring Kansas have put pressure on Missouri lawmakers to respond with new incentives for favored industries and, potentially, a widespread income tax break for businesses and individuals.
Missouri House and Senate leaders said in interviews this week that they plan to pursue tax code changes meant to spur economic development as one of their top priorities when they convene in January. Senate leaders said they hope to pass the legislation before their annual spring break the week of March 17.
"We're sending a message to the rest of the country that you need to take a look at Missouri when you're looking to grow or expand," said Sen. Tom Dempsey, R-St. Charles, who is expected to be elected by colleagues to the Senate's top spot of president pro tem.
Incoming majority leaders Sen. Ron Richard, R-Joplin, and Rep. John Diehl Jr., R-Town and Country, both attributed part of the urgency among Missouri lawmakers to new tax cuts in Kansas.
"Certainly what they've done on the Kansas side puts a lot of pressure on the economic development climate" in western Missouri, Diehl said.
Missouri and Kansas have been waging an intense competition for businesses, committing more than $750 million in tax incentives and bonds in the past five years to get nearly 200 businesses to locate or expand in the Kansas City area alone, according to an Associated Press analysis published in May. Some of those businesses have merely shifted existing jobs a few miles across the border to new taxpayer-subsidized buildings.
Also adding to the sense of urgency in Missouri is the fact that lawmakers have repeatedly failed to pass a proposed overhaul of the state's tax incentive programs. But some of the individuals involved in past stalemates will be gone come January because of term limits. Incoming lawmakers are "extremely motivated" in their desire to influence policy, "and that means getting things done," Dempsey said.
Republicans will have super majorities in the both the House and Senate for the first time since the Civil War era, allowing them to override vetoes from Democratic Gov. Jay Nixon without the help of minority Democrats. But that may not be necessary, as Nixon and Democratic lawmakers also have made economic development initiatives a priority.
Nixon called lawmakers into an autumn 2011 special session to consider a legislative package that would have scaled back some of Missouri's existing tax credits, including those for developers of low-income housing and historic buildings, while revamping the state's main business incentive program.
That package also would have created incentives for certain industries, such as computer data centers and international cargo shippers at the St. Louis airport. The legislation failed, but it could re-emerge as a framework for the 2013 session.
Officials at the Missouri Chamber of Commerce and Industry said they feel encouraged after meeting with Republican leaders.
"I think you're going to see this General Assembly when they convene in January want to move quickly on a number of things - one being an economic development package," said Dan Mehan, president and chief executive officer of the Chamber of Commerce. "They're going to get after it, and they're going to get after it early."
House Speaker Tim Jones, R-Eureka, plans a five-day "listening tour" across the state beginning Dec. 10, and House Republicans expect to meet after that to develop their agenda for the 2013 session. Senate Republicans met this month to outline their policy priorities.
In addition to an overhaul of the state's income tax credits, Dempsey said senators plan to pursue a general income tax cut that could be targeted at corporations, individuals or modeled after a new Kansas tax break for small businesses.
Kansas is reducing its individual income taxes beginning in January, dropping the top tax rate to 4.9 percent from 6.45 percent while also increasing the standard deductions claimed by married couples and heads-of-household. The state also will exempt the owners of 191,000 partnerships, sole proprietorships and other businesses from taxes. Legislative researchers estimate the Kansas tax cuts will add up to $4.5 billion over the next six years, and they project the cuts will create collective budget shortfalls of nearly $2.5 billion during that time.
Missouri legislative leaders want to avoid a similar budget pitfall by offsetting tax cuts with other means of generating money. Dempsey cited measures enhancing Missouri's ability to collect taxes on Internet sales or closing a tax loophole that allows local outlets of large national chain stores to lower their state income taxes by paying royalties to sister companies in other states and then claiming those payments as business expenses.
Diehl said House Republicans haven't delved into specifics, but support the general idea of a tax cut.
"There's a strong preference in our caucus to try to cut tax rates," Diehl said. "When you cut tax crates, you create more economic activity."


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Stamford woman killed in Capitol shooting
STAMFORD -- A Stamford woman was shot and killed after trying to ram her car into a White House security barrier and leading police on a high-speed chase past the Capitol with her 18-month-old daughter in tow.
Miriam Carey, 34, of 114 Woodside Green, drove her black Infiniti coupe onto a driveway leading to the White House, and over a set of lowered barricades. When Carey couldn't get through a second barrier, she spun the car in the opposite direction, flipping a Secret Service officer over the hood of the car as she sped away, said B.J. Campbell, a tourist from Portland, Ore.
A representative of Carey's family in Brooklyn, N.Y., said the family is still gathering information and was surprised by Thursday's incident.
On Friday morning the law enforcement response appeared to be packing up. Stamford police officers still had the area cordoned off, and residents were still not being allowed into building 114. Residents whose cars were parked in the lot in front of it were able to get out. Bridge Street was reopened. There was still a state environmental response trailer and crew on the scene, though.
Thursday night, fire trucks had lined Washington Boulevard, with a hose line running down to the area of the condo complex's lawn, where there are barbecue grills. Plastic tarpaulins had been strung up around the area, and emergency lights on telescoping poles shone down into it. Stamford police officers kept the public away, and people wearing FBI jackets or plain clothes swarmed around the property.
Residents stood around the edges watching and hoping to get back into their apartments. One had resolved to go to his parents' house, but needed clothes for work the next day. Another had parked his car on a side street, and was considering sleeping in it.
Carey was a licensed dental hygienist and according to a local law enforcement official, she suffered from mental illness, but had no criminal record.
Carey's car at one point was surrounded by police cars, and she managed to escape, careening around a traffic circle and past the north side of the Capitol. Video shot by a TV cameraman showed police pointing firearms at her car before she rammed a Secret Service vehicle and continued driving. Metropolitan Police Chief Cathy Lanier said police shot and killed her just outside the Hart Senate Office Building, a block northeast of the Capitol.
One Secret Service member and a 23-year veteran of the Capitol Police were injured. Officials said they were in good condition and expected to recover.
"This appears to be an isolated, singular matter, with, at this point, no nexus to terrorism," Capitol Police Chief Kim Dine said.
Dine said an officer took the child from the car to a hospital. She is in good condition and under protective custody, officials said.
Soon after Carey was fatally shot, the investigation into the chaotic events led to Stamford. Local police, along with federal law enforcement officials, descended on the Woodside Green condominium complex, bordered by Washington Boulevard and Bridge and Summer streets, just north of downtown.
"A full investigation is underway by federal authorities who are in Stamford currently," Stamford Mayor Michael Pavia said. "Stamford police are assisting federal authorities as needed."
City officials were not able to provide further information about the incident, as federal authorities are in charge of the investigation.
Several federal agents, including FBI and Secret Service, were seen entering the complex. The FBI expects the investigation to continue through the night.
"It is a very methodical process not unlike Newtown," an agent on the scene said.
A state Department of Energy and Environmental Protection response truck arrived at the scene around 8:30 p.m.
Investigators are piecing together any clues that would indicate why someone who appeared successful would strap her young daughter into a car seat in the back of a luxury car, drive to the nation's Capitol, which is in the midst of a government shutdown, and act so erratically.
According to public records, Carey lived near her family in Brooklyn, N.Y., from at least 1997 to 2009, when she moved to Stamford. She earned her dental hygiene license from New York state in 2002, and after letting her license expire in July 2008 she applied for and received a license to practice in Connecticut in September 2009. In 2011, she started her own temporary employment firm called Experienced Dental Placements out of her condo.
In 2012, Carey's condo association filed suit against her, but it was later withdrawn for the parties to discuss matters out of court. It's not clear why the suit was filed.
Before entering the condo Thursday evening, police used a bomb-detecting robot to enter Carey's unit, 1C at 114 Woodside Green. Federal agents showed neighbors a photo of the suspect, but did not identify the woman, according to neighbors. Residents of the 212-unit complex were still not being allowed to re-enter their homes as of 9 p.m.
At one point, two plain-clothes officers escorted a woman into the building and emerged a short time later, the woman carrying a small, white dog.
Vanessa Fabre, who said she moved into Woodside Green this past February, shook her head when she heard the woman involved may be one of her neighbors.
"That's crazy," she said.
Fabre had earlier driven into the parking lot of the complex, saw police surrounding it and two news helicopters hovering overhead.
"The people here seem very nice, but there are some weird people here."
Janet Vazquez was among the hundreds of residents barred from entering their apartments while police investigated, said she was alarmed by the situation.
"This is so scary," Vazquez said. "It makes you realize you can't escape stuff like this anymore. It doesn't matter if you live in a big city or a small one."
Kevin Morano said he lives two doors down from the suspect and said he only knew that Carey was a dental hygienist and that she drove fast in a black Infiniti and a white BMW.
"I know one thing; she always drove too fast," Morano said.
Staff writers Wes Duplantier, Maggie Gordon, John Nickerson, Mike Mayko and The Associated Press contributed to this report.


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Tomorrow will mark another chapter in the 24 Hours of PASS series.I am involved once again - this time in a moderator role. The event begins at 8am ET for me. I will be introducing Alberto Ferrari who will be speaking on "Excel 2013 Power Pivot in Action" which is a great self-service BI story.
This 24hop event will be in a different format. 12 hours of Live webcasts followed by 12 hours of on-demand webcasts from the previous 12 hours. All sessions will be available for viewing on Feb 11, 2013. There is also a new hashtag to follow on twitter - #PASS24hop. And there is a new website as well... http://www.24hoursofpass.com/
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Franklin, Tapley lead No. 17 SDSU over Tigers
Jamaal Franklin had 18 points and 15 rebounds and Chase Tapley scored 16 points to lead No. 17 San Diego State to a 74-62 victory over Texas Southern on Monday night.
DeShawn Stephens added 13 points and Dwayne Polee had 10 for the Aztecs (6-1), who won their sixth straight game since losing the season opener to Syracuse on the flight deck of the USS Midway. In their previous two games, they beat Southern California 66-60 in Los Angeles and UCLA 78-69 in the John R. Wooden Classic in Anaheim, SDSU's first victory over the Bruins since 1940.
It was Franklin's fourth double-double this season. He made the Aztecs' final two baskets, including a reverse slam on an alley-oop, both passes from Tapley.
Texas Southern (1-7) was coming off an 85-80 double-overtime loss at then-No. 19 Colorado on Wednesday. Omar Strong, who scored a career-high 39 points against Colorado, including nine 3-pointers, had 15 points against the Aztecs. Fred Sturdivant added 14 points.
The Tigers trailed by 18 points at halftime but played closer in the second half.
San Diego State jumped to a 9-0 lead, with Tapley scoring five points. The Aztecs led 16-3 on James Rahon's 3-pointer before the Tigers made their first field goal of the game, by Aaron Clayborn, nearly 10 minutes in.
San Diego State led 34-16 at halftime. Texas Southern was just 5 for 27 (18.5 percent) from the field in the first half.
The Tigers went on a 9-0 run early in the second half, with Sturdivant scoring four points, to pull within 36-27.
Raymond Penn made a 3-pointer with 10:30 left to get the Tigers within 49-41. The Aztecs ran it back out to double digits, and went up 60-45 on a layup by Tapley with 7:09 to play.


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LOS ANGELES (KTLA) -- Three years ago, Apple's iPad hit the scene and changed the way think about computing.
Today, the iPad still continues to be the tablet to beat, but there are plenty of other alternatives. We're listing our favorite picks of tablets for the 2012 holiday season.
The iPad now comes in two versions with the regular size starting at $500 and the mini starting at $300.
Though it's on the more expensive side, you'll get the best choice of apps and accessories. Also of note, consider going cellular if you'll be using the iPad on-the-go.
The Nexus by Google is a considerably cheaper option starting at only $200. However the app market is still second to Apple's and the accessories can be harder to find.
The Nexus comes in two sizes, a 7 inch and a 10 inch.
Surface by Microsoft is a cross between a laptop and tablet.
"It's a great gift because it can do all the fun and games like Netflix and Xbox music and video, as well as do the great stuff like Microsoft Office when you need to do school work or business work" said Jay Paulus, director of product marketing at Microsoft for Windows.
You're taking a chance on something new with Surface, but it has arguably one of the best tablet interfaces out there.
The Kindle Fire HD is a good bet if you're a fan of Amazon. It's cheap and packed with Amazon's digital books, music, and videos. However you only get access to select Android apps within Amazon's app marketplace.
Finally, if you're not sure a full-fledged tablet is what you want, consider the Samsung Galaxy Note 2.
It's a combination of a cell phone and a tablet that still fits into your pocket or purse. It even includes a stylus that lets you draw notes.
With all the different options out there, just remember before you put down your credit card make sure the tablet does everything you want.
For more info visit RichOnTech.tv.
iPad – http://www.apple.com/ipad/
Nexus – http://www.google.com/nexus/
Microsoft Surface – http://www.microsoft.com/Surface/en-US
Kindle Fire HD – http://www.amazon.com/Kindle-Fire-HD/dp/B0083PWAPW
Samsung Galaxy Note 2 – http://www.samsung.com/global/microsite/galaxynote/note2


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XLarge x Suicidal Tendencies
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Having already worked with illustrious names including Vans, Bearbrick and FUCT, Venice Beach Hardcore Trash legends Suicidal Tendencies have now teamed up with streetwear masterminds XLARGE to release a nice little capsule collection for Spring/Summer 2013. Heavily influenced by the bandís distinct style, each pieceís design is based on their trademark bandana pattern printed on T-shirts, short-sleeved shirts, hats, shortsÖ and bandanas of course.
Even XLARGE's OG Logo has been accordingly reworked, featuring the Gorilla sporting a flipped up hat. The collection will be available soon at XLARGE stores across Japan, and online at ZOZO and calif.


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I think it's a nice spot and i almost surf here every day.. Biginners are not for this spot.The reef is sharp and hard,i waster already 1 wetsuit.lol
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Point is WiCkEd - Hey ... point is a wicked wave,... shot yes, but can be VERY hollow and MEAN specialy when its east wind!! I know people (all locals knows him) , that broke his nose 2 times ofthe 3 times he was in there!! !LOL!!!
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ouch! - I kak'd on that spot cut my freaking head open and scaped my hands got kiff scars though.
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Point !? - No-one knows point aswell as dirk and myself do,crap to surf big but great to surf 3-4ft.left goes off when its a good swell,if you have a problam e-mail me!
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New Action Figures Take Flight This Fall...
Earlier this week, Spin Master announced that they had been awarded the worldwide master toy license for DreamWorks' Dragons slate of upcoming franchise properties. These include a new television series, Dragons: Riders of Berk, as well as the sequel to the original film, How to Train Your Dragon 2 (see our story HERE). Today Spin Master shares with us a first look at some of their new Fall 2013 Dragon toys. Check out:
DreamWorks Dragons GIANT FIRE BREATHING TOOTHLESS SRP $34.99
Toothless breathes realistic-looking fire as youve never seen it before! Safe water vapor creates amazing blue fire and steam that must be seen to be believed. Giant Fire Breathing Toothless also features a 23-inch wingspan and launches two glow-in-the-dark fireballs. Its the must-have toy of the year for anyone who loves dragons!
DreamWorks Dragons ACTION DRAGONS Assortment SRP $12.99 each
These 8" - 10" Action Dragons bring the action-packed dragons of Berk to life. Each Action Dragon has flapping wings and great action features that fans of the franchise will love: Take control of Toothlesss catapult tail, Stormflys glowing snap attack, and the Zipplebacks wild double-headed flex necks. Combine them with 3-inch Viking figures (sold separately) and take to the skies!
DreamWorks Dragons MINI DRAGONS Assortment SRP $4.99 each
SpinMaster's 3-inch Mini Dragons bring highly detailed figures to a pocket-size at an impulse price. You can collect Toothless, Stormfly, Gronckle and the rest of the iconic DreamWorks Dragons!
To insure your action figure collection, get in touch with Collectibles Insurance, the official insurance company of the Figures.com network. Say "Figures.com" to get 5% off your first term premiums.
To buy action figures, take a look at BigBadToyStore.com, Toynk.com, BriansToys.com, ToyWiz.com, and MonkeyDepot.com.