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For the past thirty-five years, American higher education has been engaged in a massive social experiment: to determine whether the use of racial preferences in college and graduate school admissions could speed the process of fully integrating American society. Since Bakke,1 universities have often tended to justify affirmative action for its contributions to diverse classrooms and campuses. But the overriding justification for affirmative action has always been its impact on minorities. Few of us would enthusiastically support preferential admission policies if we did not believe they played a powerful, irreplaceable role in giving nonwhites in America access to higher education, entrée to the national elite, and a chance of correcting historic underrepresentations in the leading professions.
The biggest flaw I've seen in reports like this is the assumption that prestige = academic difficulty. The fact that transfer students from low-ranked schools to high-ranked schools tend to stay at the top of the class at their new transfer schools is evidence that more selective schools are not any more rigorous than lower ranked ones.


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Since its founding, the networking giant Cisco has been one of the major developers of ways to network both government and civilian computers together. But there is one type of computer that even Cisco has neglected, even though this type has been around for over 40 years and whose use continues to grow. I'm talking about the on-board computer in your vehicle.
What Cisco is proposing to do is make your car more like a smart phone -- something that switches seamlessly between wireless networks and 4G. This could allow for firmware updates from anywhere, not to mention uninterrupted data streaming for passengers.
The Cisco Connected Vehicle initiative would network the systems already in a car and connect them to the Internet. Aside from letting the kids browse the Web in the backseat while Dad gets GPS-enabled driving directions, Cisco also is quick to point out the benefits such networking could have for first responders and other emergency crews.
A vehicle arriving first at the scene of an accident, for example, could send video to a control center, giving dispatchers a better idea of what other crews are needed at the scene, the company says. Ambulances could connect with hospitals to arrange care for an incoming patient, and police could send images from a crime scene to more quickly identify suspects. And using wireless IP connections could help them all avoid the communication problems that often occur with radio systems that aren't interoperable.
Also, since every system in the car would be connected more wirelessly, the folks at Cisco estimate they could eliminate 70 to 80 pounds of cables from the average car. And with gas prices what they are, every little thing to improve mileage is good.
In addition to emergency services, this kind of technology also could have other uses in government, such as for fleet management or for agencies that have a lot of employees in the field. And the military, which is always looking for ways to keep soldiers and commanders connected in the field, could make use of it, too.
Cisco says it has been in contact in every car manufacturer in the world about its connected cars, so there's a good chance we'll be seeing them on the roads pretty soon.
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A hacker's dream come true! I'll pass...
My concern with technologies of this type is the potential to decrease or eliminate as many remaining freedoms that citizens possess. Can 'Big Brother' track your location at all times, now? Maybe, but since I'm not a luddite, I don't advocate eliminating all technologies, but the potential for governmental spying is much too great with this. Stalin would have loved it.
"The folks at Cisco estimate they could eliminate 70 to 80 pounds of cables from the average car." I don't know about other people, but when I see what appears at face value to be a gross exaggeration, I tend to distrust everything else in the article. The 'average car' might contain 70lbs of copper cabling, but that doesn't mean that the car of the future will have wireless headlights. Also, how are they going to prevent hacking the car? Viruses that cause the car's computer to reboot when you're doing 70mph on the highway?
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The national economy remains sluggish — but don't tell the auto industry.
Auto sales showed surprising strength in January, with all three domestic manufacturers — General Motors Co., Ford Motor Co. and Chrysler Group — reporting double-digit percentage gains. Toyota Motor Corp. and Honda Motor Co., the two biggest Japanese brands, also posted strong sales.
Overall, the industry sold more than 1 million vehicles in January, a 14.2% gain over the same month a year earlier, according to Autodata Corp.
Shoppers are streaming into showrooms, looking to take advantage of low interest rates and big leaps in fuel economy by replacing the cars they have held onto through the economic downturn.
"The year is off to a very good start," said Kurt McNeil, GM's vice president of U.S. sales operations. "There's a sense of optimism among our dealers."
So much so that the industry is starting to put billions of dollars of investment into the U.S. economy.
"Almost unlike any other industry in the United States right now, automakers are not sitting on their cash pile," said Ken Goldstein, economist at the Conference Board.
Over the last week, GM said it would invest $800 million in a Kansas City, Kan., factory and a test facility in Pontiac, Mich. It plans to launch an additional $700 million of North American plant and facility investments this year.
Chrysler will add shifts and a combined 2,100 jobs at factories in Warren, Mich., and Toledo, Ohio, this year. Ford plans to hire 2,200 salaried workers in the U.S. this year, its largest increase in salaried workers in more than a decade.
The investments are taking place in the industrial Midwest, among the regions hit hardest by the most recent economic turndown, Goldstein said. That's particularly good for the U.S. economy, he said, which contracted slightly in the last quarter of 2012.
"It would be difficult for the economy to get back to a 2.5% growth rate without a healthy auto industry," Goldstein said. "It makes it a lot easier."
A booming domestic auto industry contrasts with recession-plagued Europe, where sales are plunging and automakers are piling up losses.
Ford lost almost $1.8 billion in Europe last year and expects to lose an additional $2 billion this year. It plans to lay off 6,200 workers as it closes assembly plants in Genk, Belgium, and Southampton, Britain, as well as a parts operation in Dagenham, Britain. GM is expected to announce losses from its European operations when it releases fourth-quarter financial data this month.
Strong sales and profits in the U.S. are more than offsetting losses suffered by Ford and GM in Europe.
GM's U.S. sales rose 15.9% in January to 194,699 vehicles compared with the same month a year earlier. Ford sales rose 21.7% to 165,683, according to Autodata, its best January since 2006. Chrysler Group also had its best January in five years, with sales rising 16.4% to 117,731.
Japanese automakers also fared well. Toyota's U.S. sales rose 26.6% to 157,725 vehicles in January. Overall, the sales pace exceeded Toyota's expectations for the industry, said Bill Fay, Toyota's U.S. general manager. Honda sales rose 12.8% to 93,626.
Even luxury brands posted big gains. Jaguar Land Rover's sales rose nearly 25% last month. Porsche sales soared almost 32%.
Cars are selling because the economy is much better off than most people realize, said Beth Ann Bovino, senior economist at Standard & Poor's.
Concerns about the so-called fiscal cliff pushed consumer confidence down in January to its lowest level since late 2011, according to a widely watched barometer from Thomson Reuters and the University of Michigan.
But that really reflects two factors: people's fears about how Congress and the Obama administration resolve their budget battle, and the end of the payroll tax holiday Dec. 31, Bovino said.
"The jobs market is healing, and that bodes well for consumer spending down the road," she said.
Employment grew at an average 181,000 jobs a month last year, and although that is under the 200,000 average target economists consider healthy, it still represents steady growth, Bovino said.
"I think we are at a tipping point," Bovino said. "Spending on an automobile is a big-ticket item, it takes a lot of confidence to get out there and put a lot of money down."
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I've been thinking about evolution, and it has occurred to me that there are 3 problems with it. 1.) evolution by definition is a reactionary process, so how can it look forward - eg how can we as end results of the process ask "what if?" 2.) humanity has the potential to self destruct - Ayn Rand in Atlas Shrugged recognised that we were the only species that could do that - how can an evolved / reactive process develop a self-destruct mechanism? 3.) At what point along the evolutionary process did it decide to split out into separate genders, and where can we point to to demonstrate this? Any thoughts?
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Eric, this is how I understand evolution: The process of evolution by natural selection does indeed look back at what has worked in the past, but not in the sense you describe. You and I and all living things on the planet are alive because each and every one of every organism's ancestors lived to reproduce. What works, in any given environment, is repeated simply because the organisms live long enough to reproduce or are more successful at reproducing. There is no conscious thought to this, even if the organism is homo sapiens.
This happens at the level of DNA. Random mutations happen and many go unnoticed. Some have catastrophic results. Some just happen to enable the organism to be better able to reproduce in its environment, and then more of these organism are created, live, reproduce, change, and so on and so on. That is a gross oversimplification of the process of evolution. You are putting way too much thought into it, over-complicating it, and attributing to it aspects that wholly do not pertain to it. There is no consciousness involved in the process of evolution by natural selection.
Humans have evolved big enough brains and have accumulated enough knowledge and skill to both understand how we arrived at this point, and to annihilate ourselves. If we annihilate ourselves and other life on the planet, whatever forms of life that may be left will continue the process of evolving in their environments. Homo sapiens sapiens will be just another dead end. The DNA that develops humans will have been unsuccessful at that point. Organisms that annihilate themselves will not reproduce and that will be it. More organisms have evolved and gone extinct than there are living currently.
We humans have developed the ability to artificially select various kinds of life, including our own, because the characteristics which worked out that process enabled our ancestors to survive. Unfortunately, those same characteristics may enable us to wipe ourselves out as a species. There are conscious processes involved in the individuals and societies affected, and I suppose we could alter our genetics to reduce this likelihood. In the end, though, even if homo sapiens survives beyond the stage of being smart enough to figure out how to wipe ourselves out and too stupid to prevent it, it is still evolution by natural selection at work. Everything that lives, lives.
I was going to try to field that one, but since you have already replied that you will read The Ancestor's Tale, I will let it explain how it works.
Another good read might be The Dragons of Eden: Speculations on the Evolution of Human Intelligence by Carl Sagan. It is old but a classic.
I do have to say that I disagree with you about evolution having to stand up to philosophical scrutiny. It has been occurring and will continue to occur unabated until the planet can no longer support life of any kind, regardless of how well we understand it or whether or not we agree or approve.
RE: "having the ability to consider and debate such issues is not a natural outcome of an evolutionary process" - yes, it is, but I will leave you to your 900 pages of Dawkins and await your return with that information under your belt before resuming the discussion.
Eric - RE: "no consciousness involved in the process of evolution by natural selection"
No one is saying that now, among humans, no consciousness is involved - physical appearances, money, status, security, all of these are part of the conscious, human selection process that we use when deciding on a mate.
But does a male warthog reject a female warthog in heat because he's waiting for a prettier one? Somehow, I doubt it. But if there are other male warthogs around, there will be competition, and the fittest will mate with the female, passing on those genes that made him the fittest.
But we could go question/answer all day long - some of the answers would be spot on, while others would be less accurate. Your best bet would be to read the book I suggested - it's 900 pages, so reserve yourself a quiet evening - and come back to chat with us regarding your findings.
@Diane - I read The Dragons of Eden many years ago, but recently, I wanted to mention the limbic, "Reptilian Brain," which really formed the foundation of Sagan's book, but in a last-minute fact check, I learned that the concept had fallen out of favor among behaviorists.
I personally believe it explains a lot, and hope to see the day when it comes back in favor.
Well that's how it goes, isn't it? New theories emerge as new information becomes available. If I weren't so busy surviving and raising offspring I'd be more current. ; )
Been there, done that, and the T-shirt reads, "World's Greatest Dad" - I'm sure it's an exaggeration --
Evolution in and of itself is not a thought conscious process. Organisms and lifeforms at all levels of complexity are in a continual evolutionary process. Genetic mutation and changes in the environment play a role in the development or possible extinction of species. Natural selection takes no prisoners. And all this happens at an infinitesimally slow rate of change.
You're so right, Ed - a perfect example, two actually, are that koalas are going to run out of Eucalyptus trees and pandas run out of bamboo LONG before either animal evolves to be able to survive on other foods.
A shortage of bamboo in China! I would never of thought it possible.
Archaeopteryx just highlighted the perils of overspecialization. And he reminded me of a related issue. A population suddenly finds itself with no check on its reproduction, like a hypothetical highly contagious and deadly disease. Such will consume all of their food supply, exterminating the species they rely on to survive. Then they will go extinct. Sure, that makes them an evolutionary "failure" but in the meantime they "successfully" wiped out another species. The true evolutionary successes are the diseases, etc. that don't kill off their hosts, and the predators who don't succeed too easily at their hunt, and the herbivores who don't end up overgrazing.
Well, that's unlikely, but if it does happen, all things shall pass eventually, anyway. Sooner or later, what difference does it make? Once we're gone, we're gone. By a million years from now, we'll be gone no matter what and no one will remember us.
Even if all life is wiped out on the surface, it'll be a long lont time before life is wiped out subsurface.
"Diane, for natural selection to stand, it must be able to withstand critical philosophical scrutiny. I'm not attempting to over-complicate it, rather I'm just trying to get my head around it, and the suggestion that "there is no consciousness involved in the process of evolution by natural selection" just doesn't square with us as a contemplative species." (Your text will automatically post as white. You don't have to change it.)
No, it must withstand critical scientific scrutiny. Just because you aren't attempting to over-complicate the issue doesn't meant that you aren't in fact doing so.
We are a contemplative species because our ancient ancestors of a million years ago were better able to propagate because their brains allowed them to survive. Bigger brains allowed for better survival until we got to where we are today. I encourage you to start looking into human evolution and anthropology. Once you begin to see how random the process is, you won't see any notion of purpose to it.
We aren't the only species with sentience either. Cetaceans (whales and porpoises) and Elephants show exceptional intelligence especially in the way of culture, language, and social groups.


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UPDATE: The National Union of Metalworker of South Africa (NUMSA) and Transform SA have successfully obtained an urgent court interdict to block Eskom from signing 27 renewable energy contracts.
The High Court in Pretoria ordered the Energy Minister to not sign the agreements with independent power producers after a late night application by NUMSA on Monday. The Minister will have to wait until a full court hearing.
The Renewable Energy Project was on hold when Jacob Zuma was still president but it will finally see the light of day. A total of 27 Renewable Energy Independent Power Producer Projects (REIPPP), will be signed on Tuesday, 13 March with the full support of the President and the Cabinet, and Public Enterprises as well as Eskom. A power purchase agreement with Eskom will also be signed.
Government is re-confirming its commitment to renewable energy after a long period of uncertainty due to the dubious dealings behind the nuclear deal that Zuma wanted to push through. This initiative will enable R56 billion of new investment in the economy over the next two to three years, which will immediately contribute to growth in the economy supporting the already positive achievement of 3.1% GDP growth in the fourth quarter.
This programme, as well as the proposed future initiatives, will significantly contribute in job creation across the energy value chain including the re-establishment of industrial development and support to the technical training of young people to be absorbed in the labour market. The 27 projects will create 61 600 full-time jobs. They will be spread out in all nine provinces, but the bulk of the jobs will be in the Northern Cape (59%), followed by the Eastern Cape (15%) and North West (13%).
The usage of different types of energy supply, which includes renewable forms of power generation, is in line with the energy policy. It also aligns with the commitment made in Paris as it relates to reduction of carbon emissions, whilst complying with South African environmental standards.
Part of the agreement with the independent power producers is that they are obligated to contribute part of their profits to socio-economic development of the areas (within a 50 mile radius) where the power plants are built.
Radebe said that the price of electricity generated by wind power stations ranged between 76c and 56c a kilowatt/hour, and solar PV between 87c and 77c a kilowatt/hour. The price of electricity generated by new coal-fired power stations is around R1.20 a kilowatt-hour.
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Now that's more like it. Michael Phelps bounced back from a stunning loss with something more familiar — another world record Wednesday.
Now that's more like it. Michael Phelps bounced back from a stunning loss with something more familiar — another world record Wednesday.
One night after he was soundly beaten by Germany's Paul Biedermann, Phelps set a world record in the 200-meter butterfly with a time of 1 minute, 51.51 seconds — more than a half-second ahead of his previous mark, 1:52.03.
Phelps whipped around quickly to see his time and held up his right index finger when the "WR" was posted. And just like Beijing, he has taken down another Mark Spitz's standards, this time with the 34th world record of his career — one more than Spitz had during his brilliant run in the pool.
There couldn't have been a more appropriate place for Phelps to add another record to his resume. Shortly after he climbed from the pool, Italy's Federica Pellegrini sent the home crowd into a frenzy when she set the 20th world mark of the four-day-old meet in the 200 freestyle.
It didn't take long to set No. 21. South Africa's Cameron van der Burgh broke the mark he set in the semifinals to win the 50 breaststroke, a non-Olympic event.
Phelps couldn't wait to get on the podium to collect his first individual title at the Foro Italico. While his name was being announced in English and Italian, he stood impatiently with his right foot already on the stand.
Finally, he hopped up to the highest rung, thrust both arms in the air with a defiant look that melted into a smile. He was back on top.
The scene was much different than a night earlier, when Biedermann blew away Phelps in the 200 free, winning by more than a full body length and snatching away one of the American's five individual world records.
The loss — Phelps' first in an individual race at the Olympics or world championships since 2005 — was followed by coach Bob Bowman's angry tirade against the sport's governing body, which allowed polyurethane suits to be used at these championships.
FINA plans to ban all high-tech bodysuit sometime early in 2010, but Bowman said Phelps might sit out all international meets until the rule goes into effect, believing Biedermann's Arena suit gave him a huge edge over Phelps' once-revolutionary Speedo LZR Racer.
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Apple is getting ready to roll out iOS 7, but not all iPhones, iPads and iPod touches will be able to be upgraded with the new mobile operating system.
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MINNEAPOLIS—Courtney Moses scored 23 points Sunday and No. 22 Purdue defeated Minnesota 75-63.
KK Houser and Drey Mingo scored 14 points each, and Sam Ostarello had 10 points and 10 rebounds for the Boilermakers (20-7, 9-5 Big Ten), who had lost two in a row. Purdue is tied for third in the Big Ten.
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UNH's Peters headed to Philadelphia Eagles' training camp, tooBy ROGER BROWN
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April 29. 2013 10:18PM
University of New Hampshire defensive back Dontra Peters wasn't drafted last weekend, but his goal of playing in the National Football League is still within reach.
Peters said he has accepted an invitation to attend the Philadelphia Eagles' rookie camp next month. Peters also received invitations from the Seattle Seahawks and the New York Jets, and said he was leaning toward a tryout with Seattle until he received a phone call from UNH coach Sean McDonnell on Saturday night.
"Coach Mac told me he had just talked to (Eagles coach) Chip Kelly, and the Eagles were interested too," Peters said. "Then I got a call from Chip Kelly. He told me, "If you can play in Coach Mac's system, you can play for me.'
"After talking with my parents and Coach Mac, I figured the Eagles would be the best fit. I feel like I have a better chance to make my presence felt with the Eagles."
UNH linebacker Matt Evans is also scheduled to attend the Eagles' rookie camp. Evans is UNH's all-time leading tackler.
Kelly, a former Manchester Central quarterback and former assistant coach at UNH, is in his first season as Philadelphia's head coach.
After redshirting in 2009, Peters played on the offensive side of the ball during his next three seasons with UNH. He was moved to defensive back before his senior season, and said that's the position he'll be playing during rookie camp.
Peters was named to the Colonial Athletic Association's Second Team after his senior season, when he tied for third among CAA players with four interceptions. He also led the Wildcats in kick-return average (26.8 yards).
He rushed for a team-high 595 yards and scored seven touchdowns on 117 carries as a junior. "I have nothing handed to me," Peters said. "I still have to compete.
"If I do my best, I can live with that. I have to make the most of this opportunity and that's what I'm going to do."
According to UNH spokesman Mike Murphy, former UNH punter/tight end Kyle Auffray will attend the Arizona Cardinals' rookie camp. Auffray played at UNH in 2009 and 2010 after transferring from Mississippi State, where he played quarterback.


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Press Release
WHO Calls for United Action to Address HIV in Europe
July 21, 2010
Vienna, Copenhagen -- A huge divide exists between Western and Eastern Europe in access to HIV services for people living with HIV, according to the World Health Organization (WHO).
"While HIV epidemics in Western Europe are, with some exceptions, generally stabilizing, in many countries in Eastern Europe, they rage out of control," said Dr Andrew Ball, Senior Strategy and Operations Adviser of the HIV/AIDS Department at WHO Headquarters.
There were over 1.2 million reported HIV cases in Europe by the end 2008, with over 100 000 reported new infections during that year. The number of reported annual new cases is relatively stable in the West (about 20 000), but volatile and increasing in the East (about 80 000). Overall, Europe now has the fastest growing HIV epidemic in the world.
HIV on the continent is largely fuelled by injecting drug use. In some countries, over 50% of people living with HIV are injecting drug users (IDU). At the same time, major proportions of these people are also co-infected with tuberculosis and hepatitis C. In a large number of countries drug users are often stigmatized and excluded from health and social services, including HIV treatment.
Ukraine is one of the most severely affected countries in the region. The country has reported the largest annual number of new infections to date in 2008 -- over 15 000.
Ukraine has responded by distributing clean needles and syringes among IDU and established programmes for drug injectors including opioid substitution therapy which is proven by evidence to improve health of IDU, reducing their drug injecting behaviour that is fuelling the epidemic. "Treatment and prevention for drug users are proving to work in Ukraine," said Dr Olena Eschenko and Dr Natalia Nizova, Ministry of Health, Ukraine.
Moving West, HIV has become relatively stable, for example, in Portugal, the country that once had a grave HIV problem. "Brave moves to reduce harm of drug use and delivering prevention and treatment to people who inject drugs has turned the epidemic around," said Dr Henrique Barros, National AIDS Coordinator, Portugal.
"Glaring disparities in HIV/AIDS response between Western and Eastern Europe are unacceptable," said Mr Nikos Dedes, European Treatment Action Group, Greece. More united action is required in order to limit the rapid spread of the disease and improve treatment and care in the Eastern Europe.
"HIV in Europe depends on the access to services in the East," said Mr Martin Donoghoe, Programme Manager for HIV/AIDS, Sexually Transmitted Infections and Viral Hepatitis of the WHO Regional Office for Europe. "We also need to prevent the re-emergence of HIV epidemics in the West." Limiting the fast growth of HIV in Europe requires a much concerted action by all Governments and their partnering organizations across the region.
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HIV/AIDS 2010: Challenges in Europe
European AIDS Clinical Society, World Health Organization Each Issue Revised HIV/AIDS Treatment Guidelines
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Often overlooked but important is the role of URLs, so going from yoursite.com/?pageid=123&sub12 to yoursite.com/our_services/ not only helps the user verbally say the URL but also the search engines to connect it to something meaningful.
This is even more important when you have product or service pages so going from a URL that looks like yourhotelsite.com/?hotelID123&city123 to yourhotelsite.com/reykjavik/hotel_plaza/ is not only better to communicate but also helps the search engines to connect the URL to search terms in this case Reykjavik and Hotel Plaza.
We could even go further and ad the country to it so something like yourhotelsite.com/Iceland/reykjavik/hotel_plaza/ instead of yourhotelsite.com/?CountryID123&hotelID123&city123, you get me?
So what should you have in mind? Well before you do anything open up Excel and start creating a folder structure, then you might want to do some keyword analysis so that you are choosing the right keywords, then you implement. Simple? Yes and no, what if your CMS system does not support this?
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A lot to get to, but I wanted to get this post up quickly.
Adam Caplan of Scout.com just unloaded an interesting nugget during a TV appearance on CSN.
Per Caplan, the Redskins offered defensive tackle Albert Haynesworth to the Eagles as part of the Donovan McNabb deal, but the Birds didn't want him.
"The Redskins actually offered - I'm told by two league sources - Albert Haynesworth, the oustanding defensive tackle, but Albert Haynesworth has an enormous contract," Caplan said, adding that Haynesworth was a pain to the Redskins' previous coaching staff.
Haynesworth, who will turn 29 in June, signed a $100M contract last offseason with the Redskins, which included $41M in guaranteed money. He received - get this - a $21M roster bonus on April 1. His 2010 and 2011 salaries of $3.6M and $5.4M are guaranteed, according to contract details.
The Eagles have two good defensive tackles in Mike Patterson and Brodrick Bunkley, but neither guy was on the field on third downs last season, and neither has shown the ability to pressure the quarterback up the middle.
Haynesworth had a disappointing debut season with the Redskins, but the thought of him teaming up with Trent Cole deserves at least a moment of thought amid all the other things that are being discussed this evening.
Much more to come.
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The Eagles announced today that they have signed former Air Force wideout/returner Chad Hall, after a tryout.
The team later announced it would host a pair of veteran free agents today -- ex-Raiders running back Justin Fargas and a former Eagle, wideout Hank Baskett, who finished last season with the Colts. Baskett's inability to field a surprise onside kick was a big moment in Indianapolis's Super Bowl loss to the Saints, but he was a sturdy, reliable reserve with the Birds.
Fargas is the son of actor Antonio Fargas, who played "Huggy Bear" on "Starsky and Hutch."
Hall, 5-8, 185 when he starred as a running back and receiver for the academy, has been on active duty as a second lieutenant the past two years. Here is a link to a story written about him during his senior season of 2007.
Hall worked out Monday at Utah's pro day. Several teams expressed interest, the Eagles more than the others, he said.
Hall, 23, told reporters today in a conference call that he is currently negotiating his departure from the Air Force; right now he is a maintenance officer at Hill Air Force Base in Salt Lake City, working 10 to 12 hours a day, he said.
"Right now I'm part of the 421st Fighter Squadron, the Black Widows," Hall said. "You have 28 F-16s and about 200 troops. Right now I'm the assistant commander, so I'm second in command."
Hall wasn't drafted. He had tryouts with the Falcons and the Bills before beginning his 2-year service commitment.


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Baruch College's Jewish Studies Center Hosts Conference: "Jewish Arts and Identity in the Contemporary World"
NEW YORK, NY-- April 24, 2013 – The Jewish Studies Center at Baruch College is hosting a conference to explore the portrayal of Jewish identity in theater, music and visual arts. The "Jewish Arts and Identity in the Contemporary World" conference will feature panel discussions with directors, Off-Broadway actors, composers, artists, museum educators and college professors from noon - 8:30 p.m., May 7. Audio and video clips of performances will be shown.
Carol Zemel, Professor of Modern and Contemporary Art History at York University, will give the keynote address. Dr. Zemel was a Fellow at the Center for Judaic Studies at the University of Pennsylvania; completed a book, Graven Images: Visual Culture and Modern Jewish History; and is co-founder and co-director of Project Mosaica, a web-based exploration of Jewish cultural expression in the arts.
Noon -1:45 p.m.: Panel 1: The Jew on Stage
Gordon Edelstein, Director of the New Haven Long Wharf Theater
Ari Brand, Actor, Off-Broadway play "My Name is Asher Lev"
Lenny Wolpe, Actor, Off-Broadway play "Old Jews Telling Jokes"
Edna Nahshon, Professor of Hebrew, The Jewish Theological Seminary
The panel discussion will be moderated by Baruch College Music Professor Elizabeth Wollman
2 p.m.-3:45 p.m.: Panel 2: Jewish Music: Listening To Its Worldly Influences
Bruce Adolphe, renowned composer
Gil Harel, Baruch College Professor in the Fine and Performing Arts Department
Mark Kligman, Hebrew Union College Professor of Jewish Musicology
Dr. Galeet Dardashti, Taub Center Postdoctoral Fellow at New York University, lead vocalist of Divahn
4-5:45 p.m.: Panel 3: Jewish Ways of Seeing: The Visual Arts and the Jewish Tradition
Vivian Mann, Director of the Master's Program in Jewish Art and Visual Culture, Jewish Theological Seminary
Dr. Tom Freudenheim, Museum Consultant, former Deputy Director and COO of Jüdisches Museum Berlin, Germany and former Executive Director of YIVO
Audrey Flack, nationally recognized painter and sculptor
Samantha Baskind, Associate Professor of Art History at Cleveland State University
5:45 p.m.-6:15 p.m. – Refreshments and Book Sales
6:15 p.m. – 6:45 p.m. – Audrey Flack and the Art History Band
7 p.m. – 8 p.m.: Keynote Address, "New Jews/New Diasporas: Re-forming Identity in the Visual Arts" by Carol Zemel, Professor of Modern and Contemporary Art History at York University
8 p.m.- 8:30 p.m.: Reception
WHAT: Conference, "Jewish Arts and Identity in the Contemporary World"
WHEN: Noon – 8:30 p.m., May 7, 2013
WHERE: Baruch Performing Arts Center, Engelman Recital Hall, Newman Vertical Campus,
55 Lexington Avenue (Enter on 25th Street)
RSVP: Jessica Lang, Director of the Jewish Studies Center, at (646) 312-3975 or
About Baruch College:
Baruch College is a senior college in the City University of New York (CUNY) with a total enrollment of more than 17,000 students, who represent 160 countries and speak more than 100 languages. Ranked among the top 15% of U.S. colleges and the No. 5 public regional university, Baruch College is regularly recognized as among the most ethnically diverse colleges in the country. As a public institution with a tradition of academic excellence, Baruch College offers accessibility and opportunity for students from every corner of New York City and from around the world. For more about Baruch College, go to http://www.baruch.cuny.edu/.
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Members of Broward County Parks Bike Patrol were recognized for their dedication on May 15, 2011, with a picnic at Markham Park. Parks and Recreation Director Dan West (far right) addressed the group and commended them for their invaluable service to Parks and to the cycling community. Park Manager Trevor Fell awarded certificates of appreciation to those volunteers who had accumulated more than 500 hours of service. Patrick Mason of the Parks Safety Section recognized two patrol members who made significant contributions to rider safety by performing monthly trail inspections: Michael Hodges and Roseanne Valenza (pictured, with certificates).
With the assistance of the volunteers, Broward County Parks has developed extensive mountain bike trail systems at both Markham and Quiet Waters parks. Volunteers provide trail maintenance and serve as bike patrol members. More than 17,000 people have registered to ride the trails since 2008.
We appreciate our volunteers and value the thousands of hours they contribute to the Parks and Recreation Division each year!


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PHOENIX (AP) — The Arizona Legislature embraced a signature component of President Barack Obama's health care law Thursday after a drawn out battle that divided the state's Republican leadership and saw GOP Gov. Jan Brewer work closely with Democratic lawmakers to expand Medicaid access.
The Legislature passed Brewer's $8.8 billion state budget and Medicaid expansion after months of stalled negotiations, tense debates and political maneuvering from both sides.
Brewer called it a "sweet victory" for Arizona's budget and its people. The expansion will provide health insurance to an additional 300,000 poor Arizonans under a key provision of the Affordable Care Act.
"The day has been a red-letter day for the people of Arizona," Brewer said. "It was a win, win, win all the way around."
A newly formed coalition of Democrats and moderate Republicans worked closely with Brewer to push back against the conservative leaders who run the Legislature and had blocked debate on the Medicaid expansion for six months. Lawmakers worked through the night Wednesday to get the plan through the House, and the Senate vote came hours later Thursday afternoon.
Brewer, an early critic of the Affordable Care Act, surprised the nation when she embraced the Medicaid expansion as the law of the land in her State of the State address in January. She noted that rejecting an expansion would mean Arizona taxpayers would subsidize care for those in other states while receiving no benefits themselves.
The expansion is expected to help reduce the amount of uncompensated care hospitals must absorb and help cut what Brewer called a hidden health care tax that people who buy insurance pay, through higher premiums, to cover others' care.
After the Legislature secured her political win, Brewer softened her support for the health care law.
"Medicaid was here long before Obama health care. I have never liked Obama health care," she told reporters after the vote. "It has nothing to do with Obama health care."
Republicans control the Legislature and all statewide elected offices in Arizona, but the Medicaid fight highlighted internal fractures between those who want smaller government and others who, like Brewer, who said broader health care access is good for the state.
"The bottom line here is greed," said Sen. Al Melvin, a Tucson Republican who is running for governor and voted against the Medicaid expansion. "The people who want this know in their hearts that Obamacare is going to collapse under its own weight."
The expansion is optional under last year's Supreme Court decision upholding the health care law, and many Republican governors rejected it.
In all, 23 states plus Washington, D.C., are moving ahead with the expansion, while 15 states have turned it down. Another 12 states are still weighing options.
Nearly all the states refusing are led by Republicans. Several of the states accepting have Republican governors, but most are led by Democrats.
Washington will pick up the entire cost of the expansion for the first three years and 90 percent over the longer haul. It's estimated that less than $100 billion in state spending could trigger nearly $1 trillion in federal dollars over a decade.
In Arizona, Republican leaders in the Legislature called the expansion a massive government overreach that would drive the federal government deeper into debt. They predicted the government promises of paying for the expansion would turn out to be false.
"This is the biggest mistake we've made in the Arizona Legislature this year and maybe ever," said Republican Sen. Kelli Ward, of Lake Havasu City.
The Senate president and House speaker had blocked action on the expansion for months, with the Senate finally adopting it in May. Speaker Andy Tobin continued to stall as he tried to get Brewer to compromise, but she finally had enough Tuesday and called the Legislature into a surprise special session. Both chambers started afresh Tuesday evening.
As the debate progressed, Brewer's allies refused to so much as answer questions on the floor or discuss provisions in the proposed budget. Instead, lawmakers exchanged barbs and policy rebuttals on Twitter long into the night as conservatives ranted on the floor.
"I've never seen the case where a governor has rolled over her own party because she was throwing a temper tantrum," said Republican Rep. Eddie Farnsworth, of Gilbert.
Senate President Andy Biggs said lawmakers had little information about what was in the budget before passing it. He said he only learned of the special session after a reporter called him Tuesday afternoon.
"I am deeply and profoundly disappointed at the manner at which this came down," he said.
Brewer dismissed the insults, predicting that all would be forgiven and Republican leaders would move forward together.
"Tomorrow they'll probably say 'I'm sorry' or we will just forget it," she said. "I just try to listen and let it go."
It was a year of wins and losses for Arizona's GOP.
The Legislature voted to adjourn its 2013 session early Friday morning after passing a slew of other bills, including an election overhaul that could make it more difficult for voters to obtain and return mail ballots. Biggs had to beg for extra votes to get the measure opposed by Democrats and voter outreach groups passed in the Senate.
Among the bills left on the floor was a proposal that would have prohibited abortion clinics from using Medicaid dollars to fund administrative costs and allowed for unannounced inspections, a top GOP priority.
Still, Brewer signed more than 100 bills advanced by conservative Republicans throughout the marathon session, including a measure that bars cities and counties from destroying guns turned over to police at community buyback events and instead requiring that they be resold. She also signed bills that will wildly increase campaign finance limits for state candidates and require unemployed workers to present documents showing they were fired before they can receive benefits.
Through it all, Brewer made it clear that the Medicaid expansion was her top priority. She held multiple rallies featuring low-income patients on the Arizona Capitol lawn and during the final month of the session, Brewer refused to sign any other bills until lawmakers passed a budget that included the health care expansion.
The Medicaid plan would cover people making between 100 percent and 138 percent of the federal poverty level and restore coverage to more than 100,000 childless adults who lost Medicaid coverage because of a state budget crunch. About 1.3 million Arizonans already are covered by the state's plan.


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Here's a look at a recent survey conducted with 1,000 likely U.S. Voters which shows fewer than ever now consider auto bailouts a success.
The survey revealed 40 percent think the bailouts of the auto industry were good for the United States, the lowest level in a year, while 45 percent think they were bad for the country, up three from March and the highest since last August and 15 percent are not sure.
In April 2009, only 27 percent of Americans thought it was a good idea for the government to bail out General Motors and Chrysler, but support had steadily risen since then and reached a peak of 53 percent last September.
When told that the government will lose money on them, just 29 percent of voters consider the auto bailouts a success, down from 34 percent in March and the lowest finding to date, while 56 percent of voters regard the bailouts as a failure, up six from March and also the highest finding yet and 15 percent are undecided.
The number of voters who consider the bailouts of the auto industry a success has been on the decline since regular surveying began on the question in November, while those who think the bailouts were a failure has been on the rise since then.


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Topic: What does Boba Fett really look like?
{sorry if there's already a topic about this}
i just want to know what you all think Boba Fett actually looks like under his helmet.
we all know he's a clone of Jango but that just doesn't tell me enough..
he could be thinner, thicker, more scarred, less scarred, different hair style, facial hair, tatoo's.. .. i mean really what do you all think he looks like.. be discriptive..
personaly i like this one where he's still has the escence of jango but is alot thiner, has scraggly hair that the back comes down behind his ears, younger, has a bit of facial hair.. like less then a beard and mustash, but more then stubble, and has a realy big scar going from the bottom of the right side of his face to a little under his cheek bone...
shi gotal'u haastal,,


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