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Methodists Call NCAA to Drop Beer Ads
Methodists Call NCAA to Drop Beer Ads
With the start of March Madness, church leaders are calling out the NCAA and college presidents for promoting alcohol consumption with sports viewing.
Millions of Americans, particularly young people, will be glued to the T.V. over the next few weeks watching the college men's basketball tournament. But they'll be viewing a little more than hoop action.
Beer ads are commonly shown when the game is on.
"The alcohol industry relies on advertising at college-level sports to encourage young people to become lifelong customers, some who become alcoholics," said the Rev. Cynthia Abrams, director at the United Methodist Board of Church and Society, according to the United Methodist News Service.
The Methodist agency last year signed a letter that asked members of Congress to consider an increase in federal alcohol excise taxes. Alcohol use, the letter stated, is the third leading cause of early mortality in the country.
On a more grassroots level, the agency has been supporting the Campaign for Alcohol-Free Sports TV which is part of a comprehensive national effort to prevent underage drinking and excessive drinking.
According to the campaign, youth see more commercials for beer than for juice, gum, chips, sneakers, skin care products, and jeans. In 2006, Anheuser-Busch alone spent over $252 million to advertise during televised sporting events – some 77.3 percent of its total ad spending that year.
"Today, the abundance of alcohol ads on television makes it nearly impossible to watch a televised sports event without seeing slick beer ads that attract youth attention, cultivate positive attitudes toward drinking, and mask the many risks related to underage – and adult – consumption of alcohol," the campaign states.
Repeated exposure to alcohol advertising influences youths' decisions to drink and to participate in more frequent and heavier drinking, according to the Center on Alcohol Marketing and Youth.
Moreover, alcohol is a significant factor in the four leading causes of death among persons ages 10 to 24, including motor-vehicle crashes.
The campaign says curbing alcohol advertising on televised sports is one critical step in addressing the problem of alcohol use by young people as well as the problem of excessive drinking among adults.
"People should be aware of the way in which NCAA and beer producers exploit a youthful, healthful, action-packed activity to sell beer and to promote beer to an audience that includes a large number of impressionable young people," said George A. Hacker, director of the Campaign for Alcohol-Free Sports TV, according to UMNS.
Some 372 schools and 16 conferences have signed a pledge with the campaign to eliminate alcohol ads from college sports.
The NCAA games drew to CBS 10.3 million viewers (18-49 demographic) Thursday night.


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The Mohache homeworld of Harmony (8142) in the Tranquillity (400) system is a world of mountains, grasslands, plains and gentle seas. Our people evolved in peace and solitude over many millenia with no violence of note befalling our society, as each Mohache respects the land they occupy.
The Tranquility system is also home to the world of Peace (2955), which shares a similar orbit around our life-giving sun. Decades ago, the Mohache Elders attempted a misguided colonisation project for this world, resulting in vast tracts of the planet being converted to ugly cities, with buildings designed to cram as many people together as possible. Understandably, this failed, as few Mohache desired to leave the wide open plains of Harmony to live there.
Within the last decade, the former Nootka Listens to Voices with the aid of his Yakimas embarked upon an ambitious project to convert these urbanised areas back into farmland. This has encouraged an exodus of a large portion of our overcrowded 12 million-population homeworld, and Peace is developing magnificently.
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With family in Torino and in Sicilia, it should be no surprise that we have family in Rome too, which is where we finished our trip. For me, the city of Rome has more significance, it's where I studied. One of my favorite places is the Spanish Steps because you can see a decent part of the city from the top. After a bit of shopping, we got lunch at the "Tre Sorelle" where I had some great lamb. Closing the day with more shopping and more wandering which is my favorite thing to do, especially in Rome. The trip concluded a few days later.
After my second trip to Italy, I would always come back with a new appreciation to something in the states that Italy just doesn't have. Most of the time it's food, the first time was American soft served ice cream, which is blasphemous considering I was coming from the land of gelato. No matter what, I love a vanilla-chocolate twist with a crunch coat. Then it was hamburgers, we just do them better here. After I studied abroad, it was my family and eventually the Italian-American culture dynamic in the States. This time around, it was breakfast in its entirety. I absolutely adore big breakfasts in the states. I also learned something else. I could never happily work in Italy. Making job connections is 100% more important in Italy it is in the states. The few times I accompanied my aunt to meet with people for the tour company everyone wanted to know everything about her: where she grew up, how she learned Italian, where her family was from and so on and so on. While I think it's important and necessary in some cases in the states; in Italy it's mandatory, or so it seems. Italians aren't just content with a deal and handshake. At the same time, that's the charm of the country. People seem invested; not only in the ideas, but what influenced it and it feels genuine when they ask. Over all that's the point of my aunts mission through travel. Knowing the people and the country on a more intimate level, making you feel like you have become a part of it in some way. Though for every difference there is a similarity and it's fun discovering them, and in my opinion one of the main reasons to travel (food also plays a huge role, I go a lot for the food). When you really boil it down the differences are trivial and in the end, we are really all the same, as the Italian saying:
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The Union Cycliste Internationale's WorldTour reforms appear to have hit another problem, as the organisation that represents professional cycling teams has been 'compelled' to issue a statement distancing itself from a UCI press release published in June relating to new WorldTour rules.
The AIGCP (Association Internationale des Groupes Cyclistes Professionnels) has a specific problem with a passage in the UCI press statement issued on June 23 that says new WorldTour events will have a minimum of 10 WorldTour teams taking part in them.
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The AIGCP says that it did not agree to such a proposal when it was discussed as part of a Professional Cycling Council (PCC) meeting on WorldTour reforms.
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"AIGCP wishes to state publicly that it cannot endorse the June 23rd UCI press release on the June 22nd decisions adopted by the Professional Cycling Council concerning the 2017 Reform of professional road cycling to the extent that the latter misrepresents one key element of said PCC decisions," read the AIGCP statement issued on Thursday.
The AIGCP approached the UCI to rectify its statement, but was 'unsuccessful at obtaining the needed rectification' so felt it necessary to clarify itself position. It wants the newly-appointed WorldTour events themselves to be responsible for attracting the participation of at least 10 WorldTour teams, without it being compulsory.
Existing events in the UCI WorldTour calendar are mandatory for all current WorldTour teams. But as the UCI pushes for new events to be added to its top-flight calendar for 2017, some teams appear reluctant to be 'forced' into riding in them.
"AIGCP maintains that it is not the case that the PCC approved the principle of setting up for newly-promoted WorldTour events… nor is it the case that the PCC agreed to examine such a proposal '[…] at the next meeting of the PCC.'" said the AIGCP statement. "On the contrary, it was confirmed, as was approved by the Management Committee and the PCC in 2015, that newly-promoted WorldTour events bear the full responsibility for securing participation of at least 10 WorldTeams with no coercive mechanisms."
It creates a difficult position for the UCI, with new events added to its WorldTour calendar that do not have the full complement of WorldTour teams riding in them.
The 2017 WorldTour calendar has been approved, but now the AIGCP is saying that the mandatory participation of 10 WorldTour teams in the new events changes its approval of new events joining the WorldTour.
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9/16/10 - Did EPA overreach and act contrary to Congressional authority? Yes.
ATLANTA/WASHINGTON, DC: Filing a Motion to Stay the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) greenhouse gas emissions rules in the multi-party legal challenge against the EPA's Endangerment Finding on carbon dioxide emissions in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia yesterday, Southeastern Legal Foundation (SLF) cites "significant legal precedent for the court to halt EPA's regulatory steamroller." SLF is joined by the Coalition for Responsible Regulation, Inc., the American Iron and Steel Institute, the Competitive Enterprise Institute, the Ohio Coal Association, and Landmark Legal Foundation.
All legal documents and filings, as well as scientific background and reports, are available at www.epalawsuit.org. The complete list of plaintiff-petitioners follows this release.
A stay on the EPA's Endangerment Finding would halt the forward progress of EPA's implementation of greenhouse gas standards for light-duty vehicles and pending issuance of permits and other devastating regulatory measures for so-called "stationary sources."
"EPA faces a major legal question," said Shannon Goessling (pronounced GUESS-ling), SLF executive director and chief legal counsel. "EPA has concluded that requiring power plants and other industrial sources to get permits for greenhouse gas emissions leads to "absurd results" and "administrative impossibility." Why, then, is EPA asserting Congress intended it to do this under the Clean Air Act?"
Goessling points out that "absurd results" include apartment house furnaces and bakery ovens covered under the EPA rules, leading EPA to enact a so-called "tailoring rule" covering some smaller emitters and compelling states, which are responsible for permitting, to enact new permitting rules by the beginning of 2011, rather than the average multi-year cycle for most EPA regulations.
"Under similar circumstances in the past, stays have been granted when the proposed EPA rules were impractical, scientifically questionable, and even dangerous to implement," said Goessling. "The barrage of almost-daily scientific information that decimates the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change reports, which underpin EPA's Endangerment Finding, absolutely call into question the basis for the regulatory regime."
Key excerpts from the Motion to Stay supporting brief filed by SLF:
"As EPA Administrator Stephen Johnson warned in 2008 . . ."the regulation of greenhouse gases under any portion of the Clean Air Act could result in unprecedented expansion of EPA authority that would have a profound effect on virtually every sector of the economy and touch every household in the land." Because of the choices since made by Administrator Johnson's successor, that day has arrived."
"But EPA ultimately admits the impossibility of applying some section of the *Clean Air] Act to greenhouse gas emissions without ignoring other sections . . . *EPA's+ so-called "Tailoring Rule," confesses the need to rewrite by regulation several unambiguous provisions of the Act in an effort to avoid "absurd" burdens on the public and the States, which EPA concedes that Congress never intended."
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Grilling Recipe for End of the Summer Cookout
A grilling recipe I bet you haven't tried yet! For one last hurrah by the grill this Labor Day, cook something other than the usual hot dog or burger. Change it up with Chicken Tikka Kati Rolls, made popular in the United States by the Kati Roll Company. This Indian street food, which originated in Kolkata in the 1930's is served hot and ready, stuffed with marinated meats and sautéed with savory red chili and paprika spices.
Chicken Tikka Kati Rolls
By the Kati Roll Company
Recipe: For 10-12 rolls
(the wrap for this grilling recipe – an Indian flatbread best eaten fresh but can be made ahead of time. If the recipe below sounds too much, you can substitute by any of the following from your grocery store – rotis, malaysian frozen parathas, or even naan bread)
All-purpose flour 2 cups
Whole wheat flour 1 cup
Butter or canola oil 2 tbsp
Kosher salt 1 tsp
Water to knead
Some extra melted butter/oil to layer and brush.
- Combine all the ingredients in a bowl or food processor and knead into a semi-soft dough using enough water. Let the dough rest for 15 minutes.
- Divide and round the dough by hand into 12 equal portions. Brush with a little oil, cover and rest for 15 minutes.
- Roll out each portion into a flat 7" circle. Use a little oil to make rolling easier. Brush the top with melted butter. Fold into half to form a semi- circle, and brush with some butter. Fold this again to form a triangle/quarter.
- Roll out again into a circle approx. 7" across.
- Heat a cast iron or non-stick griddle and cook each paratha on both the sides, using a little oil or butter, till brown spots appear on both the sides.
- Repeat steps above to make all the parathas.
- Cool and store in refrigerator till needed.
- To Warm – heat both sides on a non stick griddle till you hear a little sizzle. Do not overcook.
(Use either thighs or breasts for this grilling recipe – thighs are more forgiving on the grill. If you plan to use chicken breasts then reduce to cooking time accordingly)
Chicken thighs, boneless and skinless 4 lbs
For the marinade:
Greek Yogurt 1 cup
Ginger paste 3 tbsp
Garlic paste 3 tbsp
Lime Juice 2 limes
Red chili powder 1 tbsp (adjust for heat preference)
Paprika 1 tbsp (for color)
Vegetable Oil 3 tbsp
Coriander powder 2 tbsp
Cumin powder 2 tbsp
Garam Masala** 2 tbsp
- Wash the chicken piece, flatten and pat dry.
- If using thighs, score the flesh with the point of a knife upto a quarter inch deep and 1 inch apart.
- Mix all the ingredients above in a bowl. Add chicken and mix well.
- Leave covered for at least a couple of hours in the refrigerator.
- Before cooking, bring it to room temperature.
- Put the whole chicken thigh pieces on the grill. Cook for 4-5 minutes each side.
- Rest for 5 minutes. Then cut into strips or cubes.
** Garam Masala is readily available in the spice section of most large grocery stores. You can substitute with Tandoori Masala from an ethnic Indian grocery store as well. For the adventurous, here is a recipe for Garam Masala. This is an aromatic blend of spices and will easily keep for a couple of months in an airtight jar. Grind the following in a coffee or spice grinder:
- 2 tbsp whole cumin, 2 tbsp black pepper, 2 tbsp coriander seeds, ½ tbsp nutmeg powder, 10 cloves, 15 green cardamom, ½" stick cinnamon, 3 bay leaves, 3 whole dry indian red chilli.
- Red Onions, sliced and separated into slivers.
- Cilantro Chutney *
Other Options:
- Chopped lettuce, Chaat masala (available at an Indian grocery), diced tomatoes, ketchup etc
- Have the heated flatbread ready. If using naan bread from a packet, then you can heat it on the grill for a few seconds.
- Arrange a few grilled chicken tikka strips in the center of the bread.
- Top it with a few strands of sliced red oinions.
- Drizzle some cilantro chutney
- Roll the bread into a tube with the filling tight inside. Use a piece of aluminum foil to wrap half the roll and secure one end.
* Cilantro chutney is available in grocery stores. If you want to make your own, follow these directions:
- Clean and wash two bunches cilantro. Cut of section of stem nearest the roots, and then coarsely chop the rest of the leaves and stems. In a wet grinder/food processor, add the cilantro, ½" ginger skinned, 2 green bird's eye chili, juice of one lime, salt to taste, and a little water to grind. Make a fairly smooth paste. Keeps covered in a refrigerator for 24-28 hrs.


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Helicopter crash kills seven, including pilot, near Katra
Seven people were killed on Monday when a helicopter ferrying pilgrims to the Vaishno Devi temple crashed near Katra in Jammu and Kashmir, police said
Jammu: All seven people aboard a helicopter that crashed on Monday in Katra area of Reasi district have died, police said.
The Himalayan Heli Services helicopter was carrying Vaishno Devi pilgrims when it crashed at 12.55 p.m.
"The helicopter belonging to Himalayan Heli Services had taken off from Sanjhichhat helipad near the shrine. It was supposed to land at the Katra Bus Stand helipad when it crashed in the mountain area," a police official told IANS.
"All the seven people on board, including the pilot, have died."
Emergency service personnel and rescue workers gather around the wreckage of the helicopter which crashed at Katra on Monday. Pic/AFP
Those on board the helicopter have been identified as pilot Sunita Vijayan, and six pilgrims Arjun Singh, Maheshwar, Vandana, Akshita, Amritpal Singh and Sachin.
The chopper caught fire immediately on crashing on the mountainside.
Senior police and civil administration officers, including the district magistrate and the district police chief, rushed to the crash spot immediately after the news spread in the area.
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Dallas Returns, 20 Years Later
J.R. Ewing and company take another shot at prime time in TNT's explosive remake
Who shot J.R.? You may not remember the answer, but I'm sure you remember the question. (OK, trivia fans, the shooter was Kristin Shepard, J.R. Ewing's sister-in-law and mistress, played by actress Mary Crosby.)
The surprise shooting of the villainous Texas oilman, so memorably acted by Larry Hagman, was the cliffhanger ending to the second season of Dallas in 1980. The popular prime-time soap on CBS began as a five-part miniseries, but it was such a ratings hit that it became a long-running weekly series (1978-91), with J.R. staying healthy enough to connive and conspire throughout its entire run.
The show first aired during the Carter administration, reached its height of popularity during the proudly conspicuous displays of consumption that characterized the Reagan era, and endured through most of the Bush 41 years. It spawned a whole generation of similar prime-time dramas, including Dynasty, Falcon Crest and Knot's Landing.
Now, Dallas and Hagman are back. A rebooted version of the series, featuring J.R. and other familiar members of the moneybag Ewing clan (plus newly introduced characters), had its premiere this week (Wed., June 13) on TNT, where it's set for a 10-episode run.
This resurrected Dallas hopes to rope in fans of the original series as well as first-time viewers (the premiere attracted 6.9 million viewers, the biggest draw this year for the first showing of a new cable series). Like its predecessor, nu-Dallas is set in the Texas metropolis for which the show is named and concerns the feuds, business machinations and romantic lives of the Ewings.
Along with Hagman, other major returning veterans include Patrick Duffy as Bobby Ewing, J.R.'s younger, more ethical brother, and Linda Gray as Sue Ellen, J.R.'s long-suffering, now ex-wife. (Missing is Victoria Principal, who played Pamela, Bobby's wife, on the original; the actress is active these days in environmental causes and promotes a skincare line.)
This time around the primary rivals are the Ewing cousins: John Ross Ewing (Josh Henderson), the hot-headed son of J.R. and Sue Ellen, and Christopher Ewing (Desperate Housewives' Jesse Metcalfe), who is Bobby's son. John Ross is an oilman through and through — he, gasp, wants to drill on Southfork, the Ewing family spread — while Christopher is trying to develop alternative energy sources.
Like the original show, the conflicts on TNT's Dallas revolve around oil, family and money. And, oh yes, women. The younger Ewing boys both lust after Elena Ramos (Jordana Brewster), a geologist who grew up around Southfork as the daughter of the Ewings' cook.
Will the new Dallas succeed? It may have the same theme music as the original but it arrives in a very different world than its namesake's. When Dallas made its debut more than 30 years ago there were only three TV networks: CBS, NBC and ABC (with PBS for eggheads). Prime time was prime time and you watched Dallas at 10 p.m. on Friday nights or you didn't see it at all — the VCR was only just beginning to be sold for home use. As for downloading the show via the Internet — that prospect was decades away.
Now, of course, in addition to the three major networks, there's Fox and scores of cable channels offering both popular and niche programming. You can DVR, download, use On Demand to watch what you want when you want, day or night, whether on TV, laptop, smart phone or tablet. It's massively more difficult these days for a show to break through all that clutter — not to mention the competition from DVDs, video games and online offerings.
More to the point, will the feuding and machinations of the fictional Ewing clan be enough to attract viewers who regularly watch people act out in equally, if not more, outrageous ways on the various iterations of The Real Housewives and Jersey Shore? Like Dallas, those so-called reality shows are all about conspicuous consumption, swagger, in-fighting and telling secrets.
Of course, if the new Dallas doesn't make it, we can collectively dismiss its attempted revival as just a dream. That, fans of the original series will recall, was the apex of ridiculousness reached in the 1986 season finale, when it was revealed that the entire season, including the death of Bobby Ewing and all the subsequent family fallout, was just his wife's horrible nightmare. Bobby was back — and now so is Dallas.


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I always take a week off in between jobs, and call it the Week of Freedom. Then I usually spend my notice period writing up a HUGE to-do list, part errands, part feel-good things to do. I also always try to get away to somewhere special, even just a few days, to clear my head and mark the occasion. This time we headed to the Faroe Islands. Read on »
Hiking solo on Arran
They always say that solo hiking isn't for everyone. Now that I've done it, I understand why… but I also know that it's definitely one hundred percent for me!
When Dan signed up for a reverse five ferry challenge starting from Wemys Bay and ending at Brodick, the main city on the Isle of Arran, I knew it was the perfect excuse for me to go do a whole day of walking. I've never been to the island before and I never went off on my own either, so it just made sense to spend the day with some recreational hiking. Read on »
Hikes from Wentworth Falls
The best part of this Oz trip was undoubtedly going out into the mountains… after that, I never wanted to come back! These last three days were the most spectacular and relaxing out of the two weeks I spent over there, wedged right at the end of my time there. Melbourne, Canberra, and the one night in Sydney was all go go go, but as soon as we arrived in Wentworth Falls, I knew it was time to unwind. Read on »


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FDA Approves Humira Biosimilar That Won't Be Available Until 2023
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) gave the green light to Hyrimoz, a biosimilar to AbbVie's blockbuster drug Humira, five years ahead of the time it can be launched in U.S. markets. The biosimilar was developed by Sandoz, a subsidiary of Swiss pharma giant Novartis.
Hyrimoz (Adalimumab), is an inhibitor of tumor necrosis factor (TNF), a protein that is overproduced in certain autoimmune conditions-including rheumatoid arthritis, plaque psoriasis, Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis-causing inflammation. The FDA gave approval to Hyrimoz as a treatment for rheumatoid arthritis, juvenile idiopathic arthritis in patients four years of age and older, psoriatic arthritis, ankylosing spondylitis, adult Crohn's disease, ulcerative colitis and plaque psoriasis.
Regulatory approval in the U.S. was based on late-stage research that confirmed the pharmacokinetics, immunogenicity and safety of Hyrimoz. The study met the primary endpoint, demonstrating bioequivalence for all primary pharmacokinetic parameters, Novartis said in an announcement. A confirmatory efficacy and safety biosimilarity study demonstrated therapeutic equivalence in the sensitive indication of patients with moderate to severe chronic plaque-type psoriasis, with a similar safety and immunogenicity profile to the reference biologic, the company added.
Biosimilars, which are made inside a living cell, are always uniquely different in composition, which differentiates them from generic drugs, which are exact replicas of other drugs. They have been widely available in Europe since 2006, but the FDA only granted the right to review and approve them when Obamacare was passed in 2010.
Stefan Hendriks, global head of biopharmaceuticals at Sandoz, said biosimilars are helpful options for patients suffering from chronic, debilitating conditions.
"With the FDA approval of Hyrimoz, Sandoz is one step closer to offering US patients with autoimmune diseases the same critical access already available in Europe," Hendriks said in a statement.
Despite the Halloween regulatory approval, there was something of a trick rather than treat for patients looking forward to a Humira biosimilar. Hymiroz will not be available for sale in the United States until Sept. 30, 2023, under terms of intellectual property-related litigation with AbbVie.
AbbVie, the maker of Humira, has been highly protective of its product, which is the world's best-selling drug. Last year, Humira generated more than $18 billion for the Illinois-based company and AbbVie has been fighting to preserve that revenue stream. AbbVie has created a thicket of patent protection in the United States that will prevent biosimilars being sold in the U.S. until 2023. It was only about two weeks ago that Humira began to face biosimilar competition in Europe per deals AbbVie struck to protect its cash-cow. In Europe, Humira is now being challenged by biosimilars developed by Amgen, Novartis, Samsung Bioepis and Mylan.
For Sandoz, Hyrimoz is the company's third approved biosimilar medicine in the U.S. Additional biosimilars for oncology and immunology indications are expected to launch globally across major regions by 2020, the company said.
When Hyrimoz is finally available in the U.S., it will be joined by two other Humira biosimilars, Amgen's Amgevita and a biosimilar developed by Boehringer Ingelheim.


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Credit Scores 101
What's a Credit Score?
A credit score is a number between 300 and 850 that is assigned to you to help a lender gauge your credit-worthiness.
That sounds simple enough, but behind this three-digit number, there's a mountain of statistical data. All that data gets fed into a credit scoring system that tells lenders how likely you are to make good on your loan.
What Determines Your Score?
Payment History
Paying bills on time is the most important factor when it comes to your credit score. Make sure that you pay at least the minimum monthly payment to avoid any penalties.
Credit Utilization
You won't help your score by not using your available credit, but you will be penalized for having a high debt to credit ratio. Using 10-20% of your available credit is ideal..
Length of History
A long history of on-time payments and regular credit use adds up. Want a score of 800? That can take 10 years of good credit history to achieve.
New Credit
You don't want to open too many new credit cards or apply for multiple loans at once. Desperation doesn't look good on anyone, and that is what new credit scorers see when you try to access too much additional credit.
Types of Credit
Variety is the spice of life. It helps your credit score if you're able to manage multiple credit cards and an auto loan responsibility.
Improving Your Score
Get Feedback
Reach out to your loan officer. They're experts when it comes to scoring systems, how different factors weigh in, and actions you can take to improve your score.
Fix Errors
Pay attention to outstanding debts, numbers that don't match, or potential fraudulent activity on your report. File an online submission for disputes, typically handled within 30 days.
These Things Take Time
If you do have legitimate problems with your credit, some can be fixed easier than others. Start with the easy stuff, and go from there!
Short-Term Solutions
Pay your bills: If you're late or behind, catch up. Always forgetting the phone bill? Switch to automatic bill pay. In collections? Pay it off.
Reduce Balances: Using too much available credit will count against you. Avoid closing accounts. This reduces your overall available credit, which raises your debt-to-credit ratio.
Don't Apply for New Credit: This is easy. Don't apply for new cards or loans while you're trying to buy a house. Each inquiry counts against you.
Long-Term Solutions
Improve Your Credit History: Fixing errors and delinquencies will help your report in the short term, but lenders want to see smart credit management over the long haul. Make an effort to keep up with bills and to pay down balances. The longer you do so, the better your score will be.
Credit Reporting Agencies and What Matters
You've probably heard of Experian, TransUnion, and Equifax. Every time your credit is checked – landlords, utility companies, car dealerships, credit card companies — it's one of these three companies handling the request.
Where do they find your information? They maintain long-term records about an individual's credit experience. The most common source is from your own financial institutions.
Why Are Scores Different
Scores vary by only a couple of points. Each agency uses a slightly different scoring model. If they're off by more, usually an error is to blame.
Which Report Really Matters
Looking at a Tri-Merge report, most lenders have a policy to go with the middle score, assuming that all three agencies' are slightly different.
Why Doesn't My Report Match
The key is to request a copy of your FICO report directly. Meet with a mortgage officer for a no-obligation review to see where you stand.


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In the Soviet Union the Red Army was still making good progress chasing the Germans westward. As the spring arrived and the weather improved the pace accelerated. It was no less exhausting of the Soviet troops to be doing the chasing. They had to maintain the pressure, not giving the enemy time to pause and prepare proper defensive lines.
Petr Mikhin was an artillery officer advancing with the front line infantry, ready to call in artillery fire as needed. At the beginning of April he was in the Kirovograd area in central Ukraine. they had already pushed through thin German defence lines several times in the last few weeks.
We were now pushing towards the Dnestr. The Germans had to abandon one defensive line after another. Even now, under our pressure the Germans were yielding a trench line ahead of us.
We, the survivors, were so exhausted by the three previous assaults on this line that we weren't running, but slowly strolling towards the German trench under a bright spring sun. The sun was so hot by eleven o'clock that morning, that we were uncomfortable in our unbuttoned overcoats. The riflemen sat down on the edge of the German trench, dangling their legs into it, and lazily wiped their sweating faces with their side caps. To hell with the Germans; let them run away, no one had the strength to chase them again.
… [the telephone line to their artillery behind them was temporarily cut]…
The 45—year—old Mineev from Penza was beyond joy that the line had been fixed; he roared so loudly as he passed my orders to the gun crews that my receiver started to crackle.
Some twenty seconds later, we could hear the rustle of our rounds passing, over our heads, and then dozens of powerful explosions covered the field through which the Germans were running. Our riflemen immediately stirred and craning their necks, they looked out across the steppe in front of them.
When the dust raised by the explosions dissipated, instead of the running Germans we all saw scattered bodies here and there across the field. Some of the bodies remained prone on the grayish—yellow field, but some of the survivors among the fallen rose to their feet and started to run for their lives again. There weren't so many of them, and they clustered in small groups of three or four men. I saw glee on the faces of our riflemen; they were so excited that at first they couldn't say a word. Then they all started to cheer at once, looking back at me. Abaev was also happy. He grabbed me by the shoulders and shook me delightedly: 'Hit that group over there! Look how many of them there are!'
A command to the battery followed, and a shell swept away the fleeing Fritzes. The soldiers kicked up an even louder row, and now each man was trying to point out to me the group of fleeing Germans to shell next. The joy of revenge quickly restored their energy, freed them from the fear that they had experienced in the attacks, and softened their sorrow over the comrades they had lost in the fighting. Watching the enemy die in front of them was like balm for their rattled nerves.
So, the Germans had been destroyed and the riflemen had gotten a rest and had cheered up. Abaev ordered his battalion to move out, and we all set out in a rare crowd across the barren, unploughed field. Gradually the battalion's remnants shook out into an attacking line, with Abaev and me running on the left flank. Shtansky could barely keep pace, hampered by the roll of cable on his shoulders and the field phone dangling from his hand, which kept swinging and hitting him in the legs. I grabbed the phone so that it was easier for him to run.
Crossing a hillcrest, we spotted a new German trench line in the distance. I thought to myself, 'How many more of these trenches would we have to take on our road to Berlin?'
The Germans spotted us and a machine-gun burst sprayed us, as if warming up for battle. Then a German howitzer battery, deployed in the open behind the trench, opened fire. We took cover.
Shtansky had already connected the field phone to the cable and I called in fire on the German howitzers. They were not dug in; they must have just deployed to fire in a hurry. This made our job easier. Powerful explosions covered the entire battery. It immediately fell silent as the crews took cover next to their guns.
Just in case, I fired another volley at the battery and then I shifted my fire to the German trench. My shells exploded along the whole length of the trench. The German infantry couldn't withstand it, clambered out of the trench and fled again. I gave them the chance to run away and then hit them again, to ensure they wouldn't try to return to the trench.
Then I again shifted my fire to the German battery to make sure it wouldn't resume firing. The fleeing German infantry reached the battery and the surviving artillerymen joined their flight. Abaev immediately ordered the battalion to charge, and we raced after the retreating enemy.
See Petr Mikhin: Guns Against the Reich: Memoirs of an Artillery Officer on the Eastern Front
As they pushed on they captured two German 105mm artillery pieces. They were delighted to be able to fire German guns at the retreating Germans and their battery took possession them for the remainder of the war, which they used alongside their Soviet 122mm guns. There was a plentiful supply of German ammunition from the position they had captured, and, as they advanced they were able find similar supplies again and again.


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The DataGrid in WPF has no special event handler to handle mouse double clicks on a row. If it had, you could easily determine the row that was clicked and could gain access to the underlying data. This blog entry shows a possible solution by implementing the standard mouse event handler. In short terms it looks for the element under the mouse cursor to determine if it's a row and in that case gets the selected element of the grid.
Let's start by defining the DataGrid in the view:
<DataGrid x:Name="dataGrid" MouseDoubleClick="DataGrid_MouseDoubleClick"/>
The definition already contains an event handler for the double click event of the mouse. The binding of the data happens in code and is intentionally left out for brevity. In the example a simple DataSet was used. So let's have a look at the event handler implementation:
private void DataGrid_MouseDoubleClick(object sender,
System.Windows.Input.MouseButtonEventArgs e)
IInputElement element = e.MouseDevice.DirectlyOver;
if(element != null && element is FrameworkElement)
if (((FrameworkElement)element).Parent is DataGridCell)
var grid = sender as DataGrid;
if (grid != null && grid.SelectedItems != null
&& grid.SelectedItems.Count == 1)
var rowView = grid.SelectedItem as DataRowView;
if (rowView != null)
DataRow row = rowView.Row;
//do something with the underlying data
The MouseDevice class has a very nice property called DirectlyOver which returns the element that is directly under the mouse cursor when the event handler is called. All that needs to be done now is to check if this element is a FrameworkElement and in that case if its parent is a DataGridCell. The double click event is fired whenever you click on any element of the grid (e.g. header, row selector, etc.). But we are only interested in rows and so we check if a cell was clicked and only do further processing if that was the case. The rest is very easy. We get the selected item from the grid and cast it to DataRowView because the underlying data source is a DataSet. If you used another object just cast to that object. The DataRowView has a Row property which represents the underlying data.


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New York
9 December 2008
Price realised
The head turned slightly to his right, with his characteristic wavy hair combed forward and ending in corkscrew curls along his forehead, with a cropped beard and mustache, his forehead with vertical creases at the bridge of the nose, with gently arching brows, the convex eyes unarticulated, the preserved left ear with a diagonal crease across the earlobe, standing in a chiastic pose with the weight on the right leg, the left bent at the knee and drawn back, the left arm lowered, the right arm raised, wearing a voluminous mantle around the lower part of the body and over the left arm, exposing the well-modulated muscular torso, the head and body both ancient, possibly contemporaneous, with typical 18th century restorations throughout completing the statue
82 in. (208.2 cm.) high
Villa Montalto-Negroni-Massimi, Rome.
John Bligh, 4th Earl of Darnley (b. 30 June 1767; d. 17 March 1831), Cobham Hall, Kent, England.
Catalogue of the Valuable Contents, Pictures, Statuary, Furniture & Household Furnishings, Etc., of Cobham Hall, Near Rochester, Kent, Sotheby's, London, 22-23 July 1957, lot 383.
with J. Wilson Raker, New Orleans, Louisiana.
IBERIABANK, New Iberia, Louisiana, 1961 (now headquartered in Lafayette, Louisiana).
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C.C. Vermeule, "Notes on a New Edition of Michaelis: Ancient Marbles in Great Britain" in American Journal of Archaeology, vol. 59, no. 2, April 1955, p. 133, pl. 42, fig. 9.
M. Wegner, Das Römische Herrscherbild, abt. II, vol. 3: Hadrian, Plotina, Marciana, Matidia, Sabina, Berlin, 1956, p. 95.
C.C. Vermeule, Greek and Roman Sculpture in America, Malibu, 1981, p. 310, no. 266.
The future Emperor Hadrian, Publius Aelius Hadrianus, was born in Rome on the 24th of January in 76 A.D. His father Aelius Hadrianus Afer was a Roman Senator and a native of the Roman settlement of Italica in Spain, while his mother, Domitia Paulina was from Gades (modern Cadiz). When, at the age of nine, Hadrian lost his father, guardians were appointed, one of whom was another native of Italica, the general Marcus Ulpius Traianus, who was soon to become the Emperor Trajan. At the age of eighteen the young Hadrian began his distinguished career of public, and later, military service. In 117 A.D., on his deathbed, Trajan officially adopted Hadrian as his son and heir.
Much of the modern view of Hadrian's reign (117-138 A.D.) has been corrupted by the immensely popular and well-researched historical novel, Memoirs of Hadrian, by Marguerite Yourcenar (1951). The recent volume by Thorsten Opper, Hadrian, Empire and Conflict, (2008) which accompanies the exhibition at the British Museum, has rectified many of the distortions. Contrary to Yourcenar, Hadrian was not a philhellenic pacifist, but rather a political pragmatist. At the moment of his succession, the Empire was in turmoil. Trajan's last Parthian campaign ended poorly, so Hadrian had no choice but to reverse course on Rome's expansion, renouncing recently acquired territories in order to solidify the Empire's borders. He traveled extensively to achieve this goal. His legions built impressive walls in Britain and Algeria, and vanquished the Jewish revolt led by Simon Bar Kokhba. He created a Panhellenic League and completed the Temple of Zeus in Athens in order to secure the loyalty of the Greek aristocracy.
For political and dynastic considerations, Hadrian initiated an unparalleled building program throughout the Empire. In Rome he built the celebrated Pantheon in the Campus Martius, the Temple of Venus and Rome in the Forum, another to the deified Trajan, and his own Mausoleum (now Castel Sant'Angelo).
In 130 A.D. his companion Antinous drowned in the Nile, which inspired the grieving Emperor to encourage the locals to venerate the deceased as Osiris. Hadrian founded the city of Antinoopolis in his memory and the Antinous cult spread throughout the Empire. A large Antineion flanked the entrance of Hadrian's enormous villa at Tivoli, and was likely the source for many of the Egyptian and Egyptianizing statues recovered there.
The Cobham Hall Hadrian was formerly in the Villa Montalto-Negroni-Massimi, Rome, and was acquired in the late 18th century by John Bligh, 4th Earl of Darnley, for his home Cobham Hall in Kent, England. At the time of its first publication in 1955, Vermeule informed ("Notes on a New Edition of Michaelis: Ancient Marbles in Great Britain," p. 133) that this important collection of ancient marbles had been entirely overlooked by modern archaeologists.
As was the taste during the 18th century, the statue was restored to create a "complete" figure. There can be no doubt about the authenticity of the head, based on the presence of a distinctive physiognomic detail, a diagonal crease in his preserved left earlobe. This feature may have been the symptom of coronary artery disease, and was generally not recognized by later copyists. The chiastic stance of the ancient muscular body recalls the works of the Greek sculptor Polykleitos. The addition of the mantle around the hips and over the arm suggests that the individual being honored was already deceased. The type was first adopted by the Romans during the late Republic, probably first for a figure of the deified Julius Caesar in the Roman Forum. For related examples from the Julio-Claudian period see the draped figure formerly restored with the head of a bearded god, no. 21 in Angelicoussis, The Holkham Collection of Classical Sculptures, and two statues in New York, nos. 416 and 417 in Picon, et al., Art of the Classical World in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The head and body of the Cobham Hall Hadrian are both approximately contemporaneous with each other, but it is impossible to know if the two parts had been together since antiquity.
The statue was acquired at Sotheby's in 1957 by the New Orleans dealer J. Wilson Raker, who sold it to IBERIABANK. Hadrian's Iberian ancestry was the inspiration for the bank's acquisition; the statue was placed on a pedestal outside the St. Peter branch of the bank in the town New Iberia until 1980, when it was covered by a domed glass enclosure.
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Small cell lung cancer (SCLC) is a devastating illness with frequent metastases and poor outcome. Years of research and innovative treatment yielded improved understanding of SCLC biology and control of symptoms, but little increase in the area of early diagnosis and tumor behavior. The major goals of this project are to discover and validate patterns of copy number alterations and of protein expression associated with clinically relevant outcomes such as diagnosis, response to therapy and prognosis of SCLC. Our specific hypothesis behind the proposed research is that SCLCs carry a number of copy number alterations that determines the expression profiles of proteins that are implicated in tumor progression, response to therapy and carry prognostic information. We will use three approaches to test the hypothesis. First, we propose to test this hypothesis with a unique in depth analysis of carefully selected SCLC tissues based on clinical outcomes with high throughput technologies. We will use combined genomic and proteomic analysis to select the most quantifiable candidate biomarker signatures in SCLC. These molecular signatures will lead to greater insight into lung tumorigenesis, tumor behavior and improved diagnostic tools to allow earlier and more targeted therapeutic interventions in an attempt to reduce the morbidity and mortality from SCLC. Second, we will perform a detailed comparative molecular analysis between SCLC and NSCLCs and address specificity of diagnostic signatures. We will use detailed biostatistical approaches to address stability of the signature which will highlight several novel genes/proteins associated with the disease and underscore a key molecular pathway that may offer promise in the design of future therapies. Third, because our preliminary data suggest a distinct role of focal adhesion pathway in SCLC progression, we propose to begin investigating this pathway and determine how it may impact on SCLC behavior. To achieve our goals, we propose the following specific aims:
Specific Aim 1 : We propose to identify SCLC-specific candidate biomarkers of diagnosis, time to progression and survival by detailed molecular analysis. We will test the hypothesis that SCLCs carry genomic alterations that determines the expression profiles of proteins that are implicated in tumor progression. Array CGH and shotgun proteomics represent our key discovery platforms.
Specific Aim 2 : We propose to perform a detailed comparative genomic and proteomic analysis between SCLC and NSCLCs to identify potential new molecular diagnostic targets. We will test the hypothesis that specific molecular pathways and potential therapeutic targets can be deduced from careful differential molecular analysis. The concept behind ourstrategy is the use of various approaches for theanalysis of clinically relevant samples obtainedfrom the same patient, along with the systematic integration of the biological and clinical data.
Specific Aim 3 : We propose to investigate the focal adhesion signaling pathway that emerges from our preliminary data as activated in SCLC. We will confirm FAK amplification in SCLC, determine the expression level in tissue microarrays, and determine a role of FAK in SCLC by blocking and knocking down, or overexpressing FAK. We will assess the impact of these changes primarily on cell adhesion, motility and invasion properties. We will determine the clinical correlates of this molecular pathway in tissue microarrays (TMA) for response to therapy, progression of disease and overall survival.
The management of lung cancer is a top priority in our Veterans population because of its high prevalence and associated mortality. Small-cell lung cancer (SCLC) is the most aggressive form of lung cancer and is strongly associated with cigarette smoking, a tendency for early dissemination, and short survival. This research proposal's main goal is to discover new molecular biomarkers of SCLC to address an urgent need for improved management of SCLC. Using state of the art revolutionary technologies will guide the identification of the involved genes and proteins that may represent new tools for early diagnosis, progression, and response to therapy. This translational work offers considerable promise for the benefit of this group of Veterans. Ultimately, by detecting SCLC early in its course, we hope to provide patients and loved ones with decrease pain and suffering and possibly a chance for a cure.
|Udyavar, Akshata R; Wooten, David J; Hoeksema, Megan et al. (2017) Novel Hybrid Phenotype Revealed in Small Cell Lung Cancer by a Transcription Factor Network Model That Can Explain Tumor Heterogeneity. Cancer Res 77:1063-1074


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A Southern California school board has fired its superintendent amid investigations into his outsized compensation.
The Daily Breeze reports the Centinela Valley Union High School District board wrapped up a six-week termination process against Jose Fernandez Wednesday night.
The 54-year-old Fernandez has come under fire for drawing a compensation package ranging from $663,000 to $750,000 in 2013.
In addition to the internal audit being conducted, Fernandez's pay is under review by the FBI, the Los Angeles County Office of Education and the district attorney's office.
Interim Superintendent Bob Cox said he doesn't know whether Fernandez will contest the firing.
Fernandez has declined to comment on any of the board actions since he was placed on leave April 9.


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On Linux systems,
vmlinux is a statically linked executable file that contains the Linux kernel in one of the object file formats supported by Linux, which includes ELF, COFF and a.out. The
vmlinux file might be required for kernel debugging, symbol table generation or other operations, but must be made bootable before being used as an operating system kernel by adding a multiboot header, bootsector and setup routines.
Traditionally, UNIX platforms called the kernel image
/unix. With the development of virtual memory, kernels that supported this feature were given the
vm- prefix to differentiate them. The name
vmlinux is a mutation of vmunix, while in
vmlinuz the letter
z at the end denotes that it is compressed (for example gzipped).[1]
Traditionally, the kernel was located in the root directory of the filesystem hierarchy; however, as the bootloader must use BIOS drivers to access the hard disk, limitations on some i386 systems meant only the first 1024 cylinders of the hard disk were addressable.
To overcome this, Linux distributors encouraged users to create a partition at the beginning of their drives specifically for storing bootloader and kernel related files. GRUB, LILO and SYSLINUX are common bootloaders.
By convention, this partition is mounted on the filesystem hierarchy as
/boot. This was later standardised by the Filesystem Hierarchy Standard (FHS) which now requires the Linux kernel image to be located in either
/ or
/boot, although there is no technical restriction enforcing this.[2]
Traditionally, when creating a bootable kernel image, the kernel is also compressed using gzip, or since Linux 2.6.30,[3] using LZMA or bzip2, which requires a very small decompression stub to be included in the resulting image. The stub decompresses the kernel code, on some systems printing dots to the console to indicate progress, and then continues the boot process. Support for LZO,[4] xz[5] and LZ4[6] compression was added later.
The decompression routine is a negligible factor in boot time, and prior to the development of the bzImage, the size constraints of some architectures, notably i386, were extremely limiting, making compression a necessity.
On the SPARC architecture, the vmlinux file is compressed using simple gzip, because the SILO boot loader transparently decompresses gzipped images.
The filename of the bootable image is not important, but many popular distributions use vmlinuz.
As the Linux kernel matured, the size of the kernels generated by users grew beyond the limits imposed by some architectures, where the space available to store the compressed kernel code is limited.
The bzImage (big zImage) format was developed to overcome this limitation by splitting the kernel over discontiguous memory regions.[citation needed]
The bzImage was compressed using gzip until Linux 2.6.30[3] which introduced more algorithms. Although there is the popular misconception that the
bz prefix means that bzip2 compression is used (the bzip2 package is often distributed with tools prefixed with
bz, such as
bzcat, etc.), this is not the case.
The bzImage file is in a specific format. It contains concatenated
bootsect.o +
setup.o +
misc.o +
piggy.o contains the gzipped vmlinux file in its data section (ELF) (see compressed/Makefile piggy.o). All source files mentioned are in
The script
extract-vmlinux found under
scripts/ in the kernel sources decompresses a kernel image. Some distributions (e.g. Red Hat and clones) may come with a
kernel-debuginfo RPM that contains the
vmlinux file for the matching kernel RPM, and it typically gets installed under
/usr/lib/debug/lib/modules/`uname -r`/vmlinux or
/usr/lib/debug/lib64/modules/`uname -r`/vmlinux.
Object format[edit]
This is the ELF header from an x86-64 Gentoo 2.6.29 executable kernel image:
$ readelf -h vmlinux
ELF Header:
Magic: 7f 45 4c 46 02 01 01 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
Class: ELF64
Data: 2's complement, little endian
Version: 1 (current)
OS/ABI: UNIX - System V
ABI Version: 0
Type: EXEC (Executable file)
Machine: Advanced Micro Devices X86-64
Version: 0x1
Entry point address: 0x1000000
Start of program headers: 64 (bytes into file)
Start of section headers: 13951312 (bytes into file)
Flags: 0x0
Size of this header: 64 (bytes)
Size of program headers: 56 (bytes)
Number of program headers: 5
Size of section headers: 64 (bytes)
Number of section headers: 45
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- ^ "vmlinuz Definition". www.linfo.org. Bellevue Linux. March 29, 2005. Retrieved 2015-06-21.
- ^ "Section 3.5.2 — /boot : Static files of the boot loader". FHS 2.3. 2004-01-29. Retrieved 2014-03-11.
The operating system kernel must be located in either / or /boot.
- ^ a b Linux 2.6.30, released the 9th of June 2009, added support to compress the kernel image with the LZMA and bzip2 algorithms [1]
- ^ Linux 2.6.33, released on February 24, 2010, added support to compress the kernel image with LZO [2]
- ^ Linux 2.6.38, released on March 14, 2011, added support to compress the kernel image with xz [3]
- ^ Linux 3.11, released on September 2, 2013, added support to compress the kernel image with LZ4 [4]
- ^ Yann Droneaud (1999-09-28). "Re: bzImage decompression". LKML (Mailing list).
The zImage contain bootsect.o + setup.o + misc.o + piggy.o
Further reading[edit]
- Alavoor Vasudevan (2003-08-15). "10. Kernel Files Information". The Linux Kernel HOWTO.
- Daniel Pierre Bovet (2013-01-03). "Special sections in Linux binaries". LWN.net.
all special sections appearing in the Linux kernel end up packed in one of the segments defined in the vmlinux ELF header. Each special section fulfills a particular purpose.


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If the lady from Toledo can be required to disclose what she read
yesterday and what she will read tomorrow, fear will take the
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Revised Patriot Act Will Make It Illegal to Read Patriot Act.—The
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It was probably predictable that librarians would be among the first to recognize how great a threat the post-9/11 surveillance regime poses to our First Amendment traditions as well as to our privacy. Among the framers of the Constitution were dedicated librarians. In 1731, Benjamin Franklin convinced his friends to pool their book collections to start the Library Company of Philadelphia, said to be the country's first subscription library.2 Franklin was so widely admired that a town in Massachusetts decided to name itself in his honor and asked him to bless their choice by donating a church bell. Instead, he sent a crate of books, declaring that "sense" is preferable to "sound." The town of Franklin claims to have instituted the first American public library when it voted in 1790 to make the books its namesake had provided available to all residents for free.3 Thomas Jefferson, a famously prodigious reader, maintained the largest private collection of books in the country. After the British burned the Library of Congress during the War of 1812, the library was restocked with books from Jefferson's collection.4
The twenty-first-century librarians of the American Library Association (ALA), custodians of this intellectual tradition, passed a resolution in January 2003 condemning the Patriot Act's threat to ideas, the fuel of democracy.5 The ALA, which has over 60,000 members, is the oldest library association in the world. Its policy is to oppose "any use of governmental


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Census of the seas
First global count of marine life logs 230,000 species — but scientists warns of mass extinctionsworld Updated: Aug 04, 2010, 00:57 IST
First global count of marine life logs 230,000 species — but scientists warns of mass extinctions.
It has been the biggest and most comprehensive attempt ever to answer that age-old question — how many fish are there in the sea?
A 10-year study of the diversity, distribution and abundance of life in the world's oceans attempts just that.
The Census of Marine Life estimates there are over 230,000 species in our oceans.
"From coast to the open ocean, from the shallows to the deep, from little things like microbes to large things such as fish and whales," said Patricia Miloslavich of Universidad Simón Bolívar, Venezuela.
It also covers crabs, plankton, birds, sponges, worms, squids, sharks and slugs.
A team of over 360 scientists around the world surveyed 25 regions, from the Antarctic through the temperate and tropical seas to the Arctic.
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Overfishing, degraded habitats, pollution and the arrival of invasive species. But more problems are around the corner: rising water temperatures and acidification thanks to climate change and the growth in areas of the ocean that are low in oxygen and, therefore, unable to support life.
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A fifth of the world's marine species are crustaceans such as crabs, lobsters, krill and barnacles. Add in molluscs (squid and octopus) and fish and that accounts for nearly half the species in world's seas.
Species often used in conservation campaigning — whales, sea lions, turtles and sea birds — account for less than 2% of the species in the oceans.
Enclosed seas such as the Mediterranean, Gulf of Mexico, China's shelves, Baltic, and the Caribbean as having the most threatened biodiversity.
The most diverse regions are around Australia and south-east Asia.
Australian and Japanese waters contain more than 30,000 species each and are among the most biologically diverse in the world.
The manylight viperfish (Chauliodus sloani) is the most "cosmopolitan" marine creature with a presence in around a quarter of the world's seas.
The number of marine fish species known to science stood at 16,764, and was growing at around 100 a year. There are believed to be 22,000 fish species in the world.


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Creative learning environments
What makes a positive or negative learning environment? Rik Cross, Code Club leader and Raspberry Pi Curriculum Manager, shares his advice on creative learning spaces.
At a recent Code Club meet-up, I was chatting to a volunteer who asked for tips on running a Code Club. They felt that some aspects of their club were, in their words, 'chaos'. This got me thinking. In some ways, my club can be chaos too — and I think that's a good thing! Obviously there is a need for rules and structure within a club, but children also need an environment in which they feel free to experiment and share ideas. Here are a few examples of chaos in my Code Club:
Students work on different projects
They are personalising their learning, working at their own pace on a project that interests them. I've known children to skip projects that don't appeal to them, or spend weeks on a project that captures their imagination. Some students may, after completing a handful of projects, decide that they have enough knowledge and skill to build something of their own.
Students move around a lot
They look around at what others are making, getting ideas and inspiration. They often invite others to try out or play (i.e. test) their finished projects, and then make improvements based on feedback they receive. Students get a lot of motivation from seeing others huddled around their computer, playing and enjoying a project they have made. This prompts children to make sure that their project is of high quality before allowing others to play with it.
It can sometimes get loud
Students ask each other questions and move around the room to help each other out. They test each other's projects, giving verbal feedback, sharing ideas, or even just having fun with the things they've created. When children are motivated to create things that interest them, I think it's important that they have time to enjoy what they've made.
Students play games
My club members use Scratch online, and so, as well as playing each other's games, they get time to play other Scratch projects online. Obviously it's important that this doesn't dominate a club, but I think this helps students to learn lots about what's possible with Scratch, especially when moving past the basics. Posting their own creations online is also a great opportunity for students to get real feedback from the wider Scratch community.
What some volunteers call 'chaos' is in fact part of the fun, and part of the learning experience. It is how students show the excitement and enthusiasm they feel when making things with computers. All this differentiates a Code Club from regular computing classes, so I always advise volunteers to embrace it!
This article was featured in Hello World, the free computing and digital making magazine for educators. You can try out some of these approaches in a free Code Club — find out more at codeclubworld.org.
As you've heard, embracing chaos can often be a good thing. Based on Rik's experience, how will you work to create an open learning environment in your makerspace? Share your thoughts in the comments.


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"With the recent introduction of our Clearly Canadian Natural Enhanced Waters, including dailyEnergy, dailyVitamin and dailyHydration, a certified organic essence water, this acquisition accelerates our efforts to further establish Clearly Canadian as a provider of healthy, good-for-you, products," said Brent Lokash, President of Clearly Canadian. "We see great upside in Sweet Selection's business over the next several years as retailers are placing a major emphasis on organic and natural products. With a growth rate of over 25% per year and a strong presence in Canada's largest grocery chains, Sweet Selections is an ideal complement to Clearly Canadian's brand recognition and established presence in the beverage sector. This combination creates a host of opportunities to penetrate our key markets and fulfills our stated objective to enter into the complementary snack food market."
Mr. Lokash added, "Our model for growth into the organic and natural foods market is to emulate what Pepsi/Frito Lay has done so well over the years in connecting beverages and snack food. We believe the combination of these two companies will provide a host of strategic opportunities to penetrate this exploding market and create value for our shareholders. Sweet Selections is a fast growing and profitable company. This acquisition will nearly double top line revenues with little immediate dilution to our shareholders."
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Wednesday, September 12, 2012
Yarn Along--hats, because they are easy
I am joining in Ginny's Yarn Along again this week. I have been trying to knit new hats for the children, and I have requests for fingerless mitts and cowls as well. It's a lot less pressure than trying to do six sweaters in six months, as I did last year (I managed five). With schooling five of my six kids this year, knitting time is at a premium, so all the lovely sweater and shawl patterns will have to wait. Unless I can squeeze one in for Gemma...
The first hat is called Graham, and the pattern is here. Very easy and satisfying, but I need to do it with a softer yarn, or perhaps a thinner yarn and larger needles, as I want it to "drape" a bit better. It's a bit too stiff. I love the pattern and will be using it again.
I will also be making another Ribbed Watchman's Cap. I knit it up in some leftover Cascade Eco Wool, and it turned out perfectly. Thank you, Adrian, for agreeing to model your brothers' hats for the photos (Adrian wants a slouchy hat in black merino).
As for the reading, I really haven't done any this past week, other than reading a short story of Una's I'm editing, and reading aloud to the big boys from Christians Courageous.
Hope I'll be able to stop by and see what you are knitting and reading. Does't the approach of autumn make you want to do nothing but knit and read (and maybe bake)?
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Love love love the hats! Hats are one of my favorite things to knit, mainly because they knit up pretty quickly for me :-) Especially love the slouchy one!ReplyDelete
Love the yarn you've used, and especially the slouchy hat.ReplyDelete
knit, read, bake---yep, that pretty much sums up my days!!!! great hats!!ReplyDelete
Nice! Love the colors tooo--spell Autumn:-)ReplyDelete
Great hats, I especially like the red slouchy one.ReplyDelete
Mittens, cowls, hats... all good for instant gratification (well, maybe not instant, but definitely less time than a sweater). Some of my favorite things to knit!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousSeptember 12, 2012 at 9:20 AM
Great hats! I really like the Ribbed Watchman Cap. Have a great day!ReplyDelete
i really love that scrunchy hat. i also enjoy knitting hats, they are pretty mindless and go quickly, so you have this nice useful thing at the end. :)ReplyDelete
Oh I love the hats! I have been enjoying working on some smaller projects too lately, it's so nice to have quick results! I'm your newest follower so happy to have found your blog! I found you through the link up, I'm sharing toddler leg warmers and my mama scarf this week. Happy knitting!ReplyDelete
I'm a Catholic homeschooling mom, too. This year I'm teaching four out of my five--the oldest is a sophomore in college. So, I can relate to knitting time being at a premium!ReplyDelete
I like your hats--great styles and colors. I've bookmarked the pattern called Graham.
Oh! Such great hats! The chilly weather had me stopping by the sale aisle to see if any wool was there. Yeah! We loaded up the cart with dreams of sweaters, hats, gloves, anything wool! Can't wait to get started!ReplyDelete
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"Girl, you sound like a neat glass of single malt in a world of Michelob Ultra." Those were the words of Grammy award-winning songwriter Mike Reid ("I Can't Make You Love Me") when he heard Kira Small sing. This sultry, soulful siren combines the smoothness of Norah Jones, the rawness of Bonnie Raitt, the hip-ness of Alicia Keys and the flat-out-wailing of Aretha Franklin to her mix of spellbinding original material and R&B classics. While Nashville (her current home base) is most known for country music, there is a deep vein of southern soul and R&B running through it that Kira has tapped into, and it has become her lifeblood. Her 2006 CD, Love In A Dangerous World, was produced by Bruce Dees (James Brown, Ronnie Milsap) and features numerous Motown and Muscle Shoals R&B veterans. How does this white chick from Wisconsin sound like anything but a white chick from Wisconsin? Who knows, who cares...it's working. Maybe it was the gospel, jazz and R&B she discovered in high school. Maybe it was Berklee College of Music's many and varied influences. Maybe it was her years of soaking up soulfulness in Austin, TX. Maybe it was the position of the moon and stars at the precise moment of her birth. Whatever it was, this is an old soul speaking through a vibrant and powerful new voice. Kira has followed her muse to many musical and geographical destinations. She sang and danced in production shows in San Antonio, witnessed Mardi Gras from behind the piano at Pat O'Brien's, became a fixture in the Austin music scene, returned to Boston as a member of Berklee's voice faculty in 1999, and finally (for now) landed in Nashville in 2001 where she has worked with Wynonna Judd, Martina McBride, Gretchen Wilson, Radney Foster, Alan Jackson, Ray Stevens, the Jordanaires, Jimmy Hall, Wayne Jackson of the Memphis Horns, and the Muscle Shoals Rhythm Section, among others. **************** PRESS ***************** 'Nashville-based Kira Small has just released Love In A Dangerous World, and our guess is that it won't be long before the world, dangerous or otherwise, takes notice. The title track kicks things off with a laid-back Latin-flavored groove. Things get funkier with 'Not Me Without You,' a mid-tempo piece in which Small channels the Queen of Soul herself. 'Miss You Bad Tonight' practically drips with longing, while the forbidden affair in 'Not Supposed To Love You' makes being bad sound oh so good. Small will woo your ears with stratospheric vocal runs and then dive down to sexy, Earth-mama lows. She may be loving in a dangerous world, but she's certainly giving it a seductive soundtrack.' - Mare Wakefield, PERFORMING SONGWRITER 'Kira Small is a songstress able to transcend her Midwestern upbringing into a sound that is multidimensional and timeless...hers is a voice that gently and at times spiritually strokes the senses like the hairs on a feather, but can still whollop you like a Rocky Balboa knock-out punch. She jokes that she doesn't sound like a regular white chick from Milwaukee, and she is dead-on...that girl can 'sang.'' - Yolanda D. White, SHEPHERD EXPRESS (Milwaukee, WI)
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In 1970, while in Quan Loi, Vietnam, I experienced a great miracle which both preserved my life and stole my future. Quan Loi was a forward firebase for American army artillery, a base carved out of a jungle of rubber trees by massive B52 bombing. Inside the perimeter of the base, many rubber trees still stood. It was beside one that the miracle occurred. The Vietcong would fire off mortars and occasionally, huge rockets at our base, then fade into the jungle or down into their tunnels while we were climbing out of bunkers or pulling our dead and wounded out of the rubble.
On this day, I was outside when a rocket exploded beside me–literally. These rockets were so large I could actually feel a pressure wave before it hit. Before I could articulate the thought "holy shit, something's coming", I felt what I could only describe as a giant hand pushing me to the ground, and then covering me, as the rocket hit and obliterated a rubber tree near me. The sound was muffled by whatever was covering me, but it was still incredibly loud. When I came to my senses, all that was left of the rubber tree was a smoking crater. My body was completely protected from the explosion and the shrapnel from the rocket and the tree.
I couldn't process what had happened, but about 17 years later, when I read the Book of Daniel, and it described how an angel of the Lord protected Daniel from lions Daniel 6:24, and protected Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego from the fiery furnacebook of Daniel , I finally understood. This did happen to me. But while my body was protected, I didn't realize that my future was in some ways stolen. My hearing was permanently damaged, but the gradual deterioration was so subtle and insidious that my first conscious realization of hearing loss wasn't until 15 years later. I was in a friend's kitchen and my back was turned. She came and faced me and asked, "why are you ignoring me? I just asked you a question. You ignore questions a lot." I really didn't even hear the question, nor did I ever consciously ignore other questions. In that moment, the incident in Quan Loi came back to me, and the thought "I wonder how long I haven't been hearing people."
That is the insidious nature of hearing loss. How many people in your own life same suffering from the same malady? Here are some signs that someone you know is suffering from hearing loss–and might not even know it:
- When in a group he seems distracted or inattentive, and doesn't participate much. If the cause is being unable to hear, he isn't participating because he's afraid to say or ask something inappropriate.
- An obvious sign is ignoring a question or answering the wrong question, especially when you aren't face to face, or frequently asking you to repeat questions.
- Nodding of the head as if agreeing, but actually pretending to understand and follow what others are saying.
- Getting defensive or dismissive when the issue of hearing is brought up. For reasons I don't understand, wearing hearing aids feels like advertising a disability and carries a stigma of being old, while wearing glasses bears none of that embarrassment, and is even a fashion statement.
- Withdrawing from relationships and avoidance of group situations, because of the fear of miscommunication.
I tend to be explicit about my disability with people I meet. Others are very reticent. But all of us hearing-impaired would appreciate your willingness to ask what accommodations you can make (like speaking louder or enunciating more clearly). Thanks for reading.


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A cool phone is a healthy phone. On a sunny day, don't leave your phone in the car, and use it in the shade whenever possible. Using it in under the sun also requires maximum brightness, which again, heats up the phone. For lengthy voice calls, prefer using earphones. It is also a good idea to keep your phone in open areas instead of confined spaces like pockets, bags, etc.
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