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The Little Engine That Could…
Wow, the winner is….ME!
When the season started and the Yankees promptly proceeded to drop the first 8 games of their season series to the Boston Red Sox, I was starting to develop an inferiority complex. At every turn, Julia was emerging victorious and I was wearing pink Red Sox hats. But finally the tide turned in early August.
At the All-Star break, the Yankees trailed the Red Sox by four games. They had been swept in their last series before the break by the Los Angeles Angels, and admittedly, I was a bit pessimistic.
But after the break, the Yankees quickly caught and passed the Red Sox. Then, came the four game sweep at Yankee Stadium against the Red Sox in early August that stopped the losing streak.
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But the true test was the latest road trip. The Yankees first headed for Seattle where they took 3 of 4 from the Mariners. Next stop was Oakland. Former Yankee Brett Tomko silenced the Yankee bats in the first game, but the Yanks came back to win the next two to take the series. With a 5-2 road record, the Yankees headed for Boston. The Sox had been playing very well, and the 30 inning scoreless streak against the Yankees earlier in the month seemed to be a distant memory.
The Yankees took the first game at Fenway Park, but it wasn't easy as ridiculous as it sounds. With a 12-1 lead, I was actually fretful of a Sox comeback. The Red Sox did starting scoring runs, but fortunately the Yanks stayed several steps ahead. At one point, I had sent an email to Julia to tell her guys to quit scoring. She didn't listen. With a 20-7 lead in the 9th inning, the Red Sox scored 4 runs to close the gap to 20-11, but that was it…finally.
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I knew that once the Yankees scored 20 runs, they were in trouble the next day. Generally, whenever the Yanks have scored 20 or more runs in a game, they struggle offensively the next night. I can really only recall one time that ever not being the case. Unfortunately, it held the next day as the Red Sox thrashed the Yanks, 14-1.
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So, Julia and I went into the final game of the series tied. I wasn't overly optimistic given that Josh Beckett was on the mound. But at least we had CC Sabathia on our side. I recognize that CC has had his share of failures at Fenway Park, but in August, CC seems virtually unstoppable. It wasn't a great performance on Sunday, but he didn't give up 5 home runs like Beckett. Plus, he had Hideki Matsui on his side. Matsui lived up to his nickname this series, "Godzilla"…
It was somewhat bittersweet given that this is perhaps his final year in pinstripes. There is virtually no chance that the Yankees will re-sign Matsui so this is his farewell tour. The Red Sox probably wish that he would have left a year earlier.
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In the end, the Yanks had an 8-4 victory, and completed a 7-3 winning road trip. They had taken the Red Sox in the latest series, with only one more remaining. So, it means that my friend Julia will be posting a Pro-Yankee Top 11 List. Plus, she must spend a day wearing a Yankees cap and provide photos to prove it. A pink Yankees cap has been ordered through MLB.com, and is making its way to Boston.
Enjoy being a Yankees fan for a day, Julia!
…farewell until we meet again in September! We'll need to come up with a memorable wager since it will be the last hurrah of 2009…well, at least until the Yanks meet the Red Sox in the American League Championship Series!
With the Red Sox' win tonight over the Chicago White Sox, the Yankees' lead in the AL East stands at 7 games. This one is far from over, but on August 24th, I like where the Yankees sit.
During the off-season, I liked the moves that Theo Epstein made for the Red Sox, including the one they didn't make (Mark Teixeira). Overall, I thought that Theo did a better job of filling the holes, while Brian Cashman was focusing on big game. Even during the season, Theo has made some wise moves, such as the trade for Cleveland's Victor Martinez. John Smoltz didn't pan out, but he was better suited for the NL anyway. In the grand scheme of things, I'd rather have Clay Buchholz in the starting rotation than John Smoltz so it worked out for Boston. I was frustrated when the Yanks' biggest in-season moves were Eric Hinske, Jerry Hairston, Jr., and Chad Gaudin. But the patience that Brian Cashman had (that I did not have) paid off as the bullpen solidified once Phil Hughes began his mastery of the 8th inning. I guess that's why Cash gets the big bucks, and I only sit and write about it.
I am still not convinced that the Yankees have the starting pitching to go deep in the play-offs unless A.J. Burnett steps up his game. But the Yanks have the talent to get hot in late September/early October. Frank Miller, a late cartoonist for The Des Moines (Iowa) Register, used to say that it wasn't an official World Series if the Yankees weren't in it. I am thinking that it is time for an official World Series…
Go Yankees!


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The increase in multi-screening, coupled with time spent on social channels, means content creation strategies need to evolve.
Here is a quick SlideShare piece that does a nice job explaining how businesses (small and large) need to take advantage of sharing their business stories across platforms for maximum impact.
What I like are the visuals that quickly convey the different 'screens' (computer, cell phone, etc.) for sharing stories, how to think about them, and then how to start taking action.
Truly, it is a complex marketing world we face out there these days and we can use all the insights we can find. I hope these slides bring an insight or two for how you can continue moving forward and use your stories more effectively.
This review was written by Karen Dietz for her curated content on business storytelling at www.scoop.it/t/just-story-it

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Carroll joined West Ham on a season-long loan from Liverpool before the transfer window closed and enjoyed an impressive debut in the 3-0 win over Fulham. However, the England international was forced off in the second half after hurting his hamstring and Hammers boss Allardyce is taking a cautious approach with Carroll's recovery.
"The next window of international break comes on October 6, so if he's fit before then we'll have done a magnificent job, but I probably don't think so," Allardyce told Goals on Sunday.
"I think it will be after that. "If the lads do the job they've started to do then it won't be too desperate to rush him straight back. "He's not had a lot of pre-season because of the European Championships and he didn't have a lot of football at Liverpool. "We've got to be very careful that we don't rush it too much and the hamstring might reoccur because that would be a disaster for us and for him."
Allardyce hopes the arrival of Carroll can help inspire Carlton Cole, who had an early shot cleared off the line during West Ham's 0-0 draw at Norwich.
"Carlton has got stiff competition because all of a sudden he has seen a centre-forward that has come from Liverpool, who Kenny [Dalglish] paid £35million for," said Allardyce. "It is one where you have to look at it and say 'what am I going to do? Am I going to shrivel up and die or am I going to roll up my sleeves and flight?' "In this league when you have got competition it has got to bring the best out of you, it is a simple as that."
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You have said that your doctor wants you to get support from your family. I'm sure your doctor will understand, when to mention this issue, that you gave it a good try and that the support won't be possible. Have to try something else.It would have been good, but it's just not going to happen.That helps "shut the door" on paying any attention at all to what your family says.
To clarify what I had said earlier, I dont engage with my sister over this,and had stopped discussing it with her months ago. Then she got around this in a sense by giving me a book on it. One of the reasons for my post was asking how to respond to a gift that is more of a statement " I know we stopped discussing this bc your doctor said its not bipolar,but frankly I know best so here is a book to help you " . I only posted this a day ago and I think I actually said the advice has been very helpful, ...i never said I was unwilling to take the advice, actually the opposite is what I said. As for family support, its considered part of treatment bc its that important..but like I said if theyre unwilling to simply do that, then at least I would like them to stop being harmful .
I would just send the book back to her. That will get the point across. Then continue to refuse to discuss.
I haven't for sure made up my mind on how to respond to the gift....I think I will probably tell her "thanks, I asked my therapist and she said even though its mainly written for bipolar, there are some useful tidbits I can apply to my own condition, like meditation is good for anyone..I was glad that even though its for bipolar some parts if it can still be applied to anxiety...
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Residents of Secaucus had a chance to chat informally with various members of the Police Department as well as the mayor and Town Council members when the Coffee with a Cop series officially launched on Wednesday, July 16 at Natoli's Deli.
"This is the chief's brainchild," said Det. Michael Torres about the new program. "Get out in the community, speak to everybody, answer any questions they have, build that connection with the public. A lot of towns don't have that. In the end, without the public's help, our job is a lot tougher."
Deputy Chief John Cerny, a 27-year veteran of the force, took over as acting chief of the Secaucus police on June 2. One of his first acts was to organize Coffee with a Cop as a way to build rapport with the public.
Officers from all levels throughout the department attended the event, held inside Natoli's and in their outside dining area. Members of the public showed up to ask questions, get to know the cops, and show their support.
"The idea was to show them we're approachable," said Torres. "You have questions, we'll talk to you. Because without the people, the citizens, I wouldn't be able to do my job. They're my eyes and ears. We're all on the same side. And by doing this periodically it opens those channels of communication."
Coffee with a Cop will continue regularly at different locations throughout town. The next session is scheduled for Aug. 4.
Junior police
"My son is going to the police academy," said resident Laurie Pein, whose husband is also a cop in a neighboring town. She came to the event to show her support. Her 23-year-old son Tyler was about to start training at the police academy in Mahwah. He is one of five Secaucus officers in a class of almost 100 trainees. "He's very excited, he's very happy."
Attending the event with Pein was her young son Connor, who already wants to be a cop. Lt. Carlos Goyenechea was ready to get him started this summer. Goyenechea runs the D.A.R.E. (Drug Abuse Resistance Education) program for Secaucus as well as the Junior Police Academy.
The Junior Police Academy is an intensive and immersive four-day course for kids to learn about law enforcement. "The first day we do the old-school thing, you yell at them, make them do pushups, start teaching them how to march," he said. "Second day last year we went up to Bergen County Police and Fire, showed them a couple of videos, we went to the range, saw the cops shoot. They go into the smokehouse and get trained in what to do in a fire. They actually put out a fire."
It doesn't stop there. Day three they're on the road again. "Last year we went down to the air force base down at McGuire and they trained with the air force," said Goyenechea. "Fourth day we do everything here. One year I had a helicopter land. State police talked to them. We've had a dog, a police dog. The fire truck comes in, EMS comes in. It's a lot of fun for the kids but at the same time we're always teaching them the drill ceremony and how to work together as a group. They don't stop."
And how do the kids like it? "We got kids now that are repeat offenders, they just keep coming back," said Goyenechea. "Because they love it. Last year we had 60 kids."
Among them last year was William Postel, age 14, who attended the Coffee with a Cop event.
"They showed us how to put out fire electronically," said Postel. "We went to the police academy and they told us about what they did and how it was. We practiced marching. And we did some pushups. Me especially. Because my brother's a cop."
Postel recommends the JPA for others his age. "It was good. They'll have fun."
This year the Junior Police Academy takes place from Aug. 18-21. Anyone interested can contact the police department.
A passion for law enforcement
Three members of the Williams family attended Coffee with a Cop as well, led there by son Isaac, a boy scout who saw the event advertised in The Reporter and didn't want to miss it.
"I'm looking to start a police explorer post for the town of Secaucus," said the 17-year-old. "It's like a police cadet program that's owned by the Boy Scouts of America. This is for my eagle scout project."
Williams has plans to raise funds via events to purchase uniforms. Ultimately he hopes to go into law enforcement.
"I always had a passion of wanting to protect people and to defend the constitution," he said. "I started looking into it and I wanted to become an FBI agent. Then it was the DEA and then all these other agencies."
Currently he has his goal set on the FBI or the Secaucus Police Department.
Accompanying Williams to the event were his 14-year-old brother Jacob, also a boy scout, and his dad, Joseph C. Williams, a longtime Secaucus resident.
"One of the requirements to become an eagle scout is you have to do a project for the community," said the proud dad. "And he's always been interested in law enforcement so when we saw the ad in the paper – come down, drink a cup of coffee, this type of thing – he said, 'okay, this is my opportunity.' He's civic minded. I guess that's part of the scouts, too."
The next Coffee with a Cop session is scheduled for Aug. 4 at a location to be determined. Cerny plans to continue the series regularly at different locations throughout town. Also in the works are periodic informational sessions at the library about home safety and other issues, as part of the department's community outreach initiative.
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The bubbles are just about gone and the squid tank is all clear! You can now get a really good, clear view of this amazing specimen.
Last night we had to close off the squid exhibition for a few hours, during our normal Thursday evening opening hours. The team took out about 600 litres of fluid from the tank, lowering the level of the liquid. They then carefully added the liquid back into the tank using a gravity feed, rather than pumping it in – to avoid adding in any air.
The annoying bubbles had been sticking to the tank lid through surface tension. By changing the liquid out in this way, we've managed to get rid of nearly all the bubbles.
It was also a chance for us to have a good look at the squid specimen and check out how it's doing. The squid was sitting quite close against the lid of the tank, which is not ideal as this may cause damage to the tissues. The liquid changeover has improved things but we will need to keep reviewing things over the next few weeks.
We also took the opportunity to add in some more biocide to the tank liquid, to make sure that no nasty moulds are growing on it!


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Ever since David Walliams and creative partner Matt Lucas had the sense to retire their hit comedy show once it had become a catalogue of diminishing returns - all tired catchphrases and excuses to dress in the same drag - it's been hard to pin Walliams down. Despite critical acclaim for his turn as Frankie Howerd in BBC4 drama, his over-expressive face makes him hard to visualise as a straight actor. And, although he is a professed authority on all things James Bond, it'll be a very brave man who puts odds on him ever playing 007.
But the last couple of years have seen him sneak into the room marked 'National Treasures' - helped by an astonishingly valiant charity swim the length of the Thames, and marriage, jaw-dropping to many, to supermodel Lara Stone.
And now, judging by last night's season debut, it seems he's sealed the deal with the British public's affections, with his show-stealing gig on Britain's Got Talent. Here are five reasons why Walliams has come home...
All too often, we've been subjected to Walliams' complete lack of self-consciousness when it comes to dropping his clothes with not always pleasant results. Saturday night's show told a different story. His bespoke suit was cut to within an inch of its life, the collar was spotless, and the ensemble was an effective contrast to Simon Cowell's ruffled, T-shirted affair. Slick hair and porcelain skin completed his metrosexual presentation.
The girls Alesha Dixon and Amanda Holden frankly shouldn't have bothered going into makeup, the camera was on them so little on Saturday's show. It was all about the burgeoning relationship between Walliams and Cowell, a mixture of flirting on Walliams' part, visible discomfort on Cowell's, equal attempts at one-upmanship and finally Walliams winning Cowell round with his contagious sense of fun. He's the puppy running around Cowell's legs, and who can resist a happy Labrador? As he said last night, "I feel like I've found my family at last..."
Walliams is much quicker than erstwhile judge Piers Morgan, and has his finger firmly on the zeitgeist, unlike the wide-eyed David Hasselhoff. Last night saw a gay couple have a twirl to You Raise Me Up. When Cowell expressed his concern that the small man was lifting the taller one, Walliams was quick to retort: "It's good to be equal." He couldn't resist adding: "You know if we danced together, Simon..." at which point he was swiftly cut off, but not before he'd got his dancing duo through to the next round.
I don't think there's ever been any doubt that David Walliams is in touch with his feminine side, but such sentimental credibility gives him the right to come over all misty-eyed during a performance by a 122-strong choir of Welsh teenagers - without the pound signs you see twinkling in Cowell's big brown blinkers.
Walliams is attached to this kind of end-of-the-pier, nothing-to-lose entertainment, arguably more than any other judge in the history of the show. As he has proved in his own various get-ups from Little Britain onwards, nothing is too outlandish to tickle him, unlike the more conservative Cowell, and the ladies who, whatever they claim, always take their lead from the ringmaster.
This was made clear during one unique act on Saturday's show, the Evanescence warblings of German Dennis Egal, who felt the occasion warranted a gold lame outfit, shower cap included, but whose piece de resistance was four insect-like wings that extended half way across the stage as the act reached its climax. When Walliams boomed how much he liked it, he was believable, possibly even in an unironic way, and that kind of engagement with the contestants can provide magic that even the producers' international chequebook can't often buy. Which, of course, Cowell's smart enough to know. Which is why, with a rise of his bushy brows, Cowell once again allowed Walliams to have his way.
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School's out for summer!
It may just be the most anticipated day of the year — right up there with Christmas and a birthday.
Monday, a half day of school marked the end of the school year for students across the Punxsutawney Area School District, SS.C.D. and the Punxsutawney Christian School.
Students were all smiles as they headed out of the buildings, free to rejuvenate themselves with whatever activities they have planned for the summer.
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Vatican City, Nov 18, 2013 / 05:32 am (CNA/EWTN News).- A well-known composer and professor in Rome has revealed his goal of depicting the Bible through musical composition, stressing that it is an important avenue of evangelization.
"My career," explained Msgr. Marco Frisina in a Nov. 11 interview with CNA, is to have "the Bible and the music" be "together like one embrace."
Msgr. Frisina graduated with a degree in composition from the Conservatory of Saint Cecilia in Rome, as well as a Licentiate from the Pontifical Biblical Institute in the city.
He is currently Chairman of the Diocesan Commission for Sacred Art and Cultural Heritage and a Consultant of the Pontifical Council for Promoting the New Evangelization, and since 1991 has been the Director of the Pontifical Musical Choir of the Lateran Basilica in Rome.
For his ministry as "a priest," Msgr. Frisina noted that in the "evangelization" through music, "the Bible was a unique link."
As an expression of this connection, he has written over twenty musical selections specifically for Bl. John Paul II, whom he knew in seminary, and for Benedict XVI, all illustrating the lives of various Biblical figures and Saints.
Highlighting how music is also an important tool for evangelization, Msgr. Frisina stated that "I believe the music, in my experience…is a great harmony" in terms of meeting different "people" and "cultures."
"All things with the music" he added, "begin to move; to move emotion, to move conversion, to move friendship, to move faith."
Evangelization, continued the priest, "for me is communicated love. The music is love because we sung only for love. The singer, player is an act of love. And I believe to communicate the faith with the music, communicate the love with the music (or) with the words…is the love."
Having been born in Rome and written most of his work in Italian, including the music for several movies on the lives of the Saints and the Beatification Mass for Bl. John Paul II, Msgr. Frisina expressed his ardent desire to continue expanding his work into the English language.Although he mostly writes English compositions for "international occasions" such as World Youth Day, the priest expressed that it is his "dream to write the great compositions in English" like the "'oratorium' opera."
"I believe the English language is a language universal for many people," Msgr. Fisina explained, referring to the language as "the new Latin of the world."
"I believe in English it is possible to tell the Bible history in music."
Msgr. Fisina travelled to the United States in 2011 for a special tour in which he performed concerts in New Jersey, St. Patrick's Cathedral in New York, Sacred Heart in Newark and Regina Pacis in Booklyn, and will return to America again in 2014 for several other commissions he has accrued there.
Among the compositions requested of him in the United States is a new symphony he is working on entitled "Mysterium Paschale," the "movements" of which are like the days of Triduum, Paschale Triduum: Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday of Easter."
"Like a passage, a passage from the love, the painful, the waiting and the light and this passage is Paschale Mysterium, the Mystery of Easter."
"Music is," he said, "like one language universal. God has created the music, I believe, to give us a way, a way to meet God and friends and brothers, like one privileged way to us."
As far evangelization, the priest stated that "Music can be a potential weapon, capable of uniting the close to the far away making them vibrate to the unison for beauty of love of Christ."


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Adobe's Gala Flash Player Preview Now Available
Adobe's Gala Flash Player Preview Now Available
HD Flash video can sometimes be quite a pain on lower end systems, with the CPU often being choked by the demands placed upon it. Adobe's 10.1 Flash player does include hardware acceleration which uses the GPU but this feature had yet to be made available to OS X users. Finally though, Adobe's Gala version promises to remedy this, but bear in mind this is preview build, so there may be bugs.
labs.adobe.com - Welcome to the Flash Player preview release, code-named "Gala," which introduces support for H.264 video hardware decoding on Mac OS X 10.6.3, the most recent release of Mac OS X Snow Leopard. Gala allows developers to preview Flash Player with hardware acceleration of H.264 video on supported Mac computers equipped with the following GPUs: NVIDIA GeForce 9400M, GeForce 320M or GeForce GT 330M. The hardware acceleration functionality in the Gala preview release of Flash Player is expected to be included in an update following the release of Flash Player 10.1.
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Blocks: Navigation Web
This block brings a new possibility of navigation to moodle. After clicking on the minimap of the block a full screen concept map will appear. This map conatins learning activities which are connected in the sense of their semantic relations. For example: "voltage" depends on "electric charge" as well as "current" etc. These semantic relations are visualized by the navigation map. You can click the nodes to get to the corresponding learning activity.
The relations have to be set by you and can also connect learning activities of different courses. Connected courses are organized in "bundles".
Some learners may feel cognitive overloaded by the web. Doesn't matter, they can use the path navigation and get along a predefined (by you) sequence of learning activities by clicking the next and back button of the block.
If you have installed the other blocks of this set, "Learner Adaptation" and "Learner Preferences", the map will be enhanced with adaptive navigation support. The nodes will be colored red, yellow, green and gray (link annotation) to inform the learner, which learning activity is the best one to visit next. You can also choose to navigate along the adaptive path (direct guidance).
Please have a look into the docu (dasis.pdf) to get more information.
Useful links
- Thu, 6 Sep 2012, 10:57 AMThanks Andre, i'll approve these soon and delete our resolved review comments for some fresh comments just one last query:
this whole set seems to work fine for me even in 2.1 and 2.2 (just not in 2.3 onwards as there is this error then " Invalid table name {block_case_repository_new_cases}: name is too long. Limit is 28 chars.")
so wondering if you overlooked that we can set the plugin for multiple versions i.e.(2.0,2.1 and 2.2)
- Thu, 6 Sep 2012, 5:51 PMThanks Aparup, you're right. I just didn't recognized the multiple select option ;)
So now the Plugin requires moodle 2.0, 2.1, 2.2.
By the way, the "table-name-issue" of version 2.3 works against the plugin guidelines. I manipulated moodle/lib/xmldb/xmldb.xsd line 13 and moodle/lib/xmldb/xmldb_table.php line 47 and increased the limit. With mysql this solution works fine on moodle 2.3.
- Mon, 22 Apr 2013, 8:19 AMI am really intrigued by these plugins. Unfortunately I wasn't able to install them correctly on my test site (code is just beyond me :P) but would love to see them in action. Do you have a functional example somewhere (in English) that I could have a look at before I start to pester my admin to install them.
I am interested in using them to create learning landscapes that could guide a student through concepts and topics from stage 3 (yrs 5 &6) through to stage 5 (yrs 9 & 10), with a separate map for each strand (Number, Algebra, etc), but connecting where appropriate. Is this possible and if so, any suggestions?
Will this plugin be updated to be forwards compatible?
Sorry about all the questions just excited by the possibilities.
- Mon, 22 Apr 2013, 1:20 PMHello Daniela,
I just updated the plugin but I didn't pushed it to moodle.org yet.
You can get the new version on github right now. I will push it here in time.
There you will find a user manual too.
Contact me, if you have any questions.
Cheers, Andre
- Fri, 14 Jun 2013, 11:11 PMI am very intrigued by this suite of plugins. The concept maps are lovely! I want to learn more about the adaptive features. I read https://github.com/AndreScherl/DASIS/blob/master/dasis.pdf and have some understanding of the plugin's function, but only at a fairly abstract level. (BTW, I recommend putting a direct link to the PDF in your plugin descriptions. I'm still unclear about some of the practical use of it.
Do you have a demo site where we can see the plugins in action? There's a lot to understand here, and seeing it would be very helpful.
If that's not possible, could you record a screencast of how it works, with commentary? That might be even better than a demo site for helping us all understand exactly what the plug in does.
This is very exciting, and may be a good solution for our needs. Thank you for your work on this -- I'm sure it is a huge undertaking.
I'm going to install it locally and see what I can do with it.
- Tue, 25 Jun 2013, 4:31 PMHello David,
thanks for your feedback!
A screencast is a very good idea! Unfortunately I have no moodle environment with content at the moment. So I can't create a video manual.
Cheers, Andre
- Thu, 23 Jan 2014, 6:54 AMHi Andre, I don't know if I not doing well the learning path creation, I read the dasis.pdf document but this part is dificult to me. I have a Moodle 2.1 with the 3 blocks installed and when I try to config the navigation web block an error occurs, the page looks well except for the box in the navigation block it does not go away and I think the learning path creation stops the javascript functions, when I see in the Firebug console I can see that Y.one(...) is null in the semantic_web.js file
Could you give me a little help?
- Thu, 23 Jan 2014, 6:56 AMhere is a printscreen tha I post on your github page
- Thu, 23 Jan 2014, 7:42 AMHi Andre, I just check the page source code and there's no match with "id_delete_path", so when you try to run:
Y.one("#id_delete_path").on("click", removeLearningPath);
the Y.one (...) object is null, Thereafter the javascript code stops working
- Thu, 23 Jan 2014, 7:59 AMO.o
Hey man the problem is that the "create new path" does not appear in the select when I login as a teacher of the course, however when I login as administrator it does
teachers do not have permissions for this action?
- Fri, 24 Jan 2014, 12:05 AMHi I just saw the access.php file and it is clear that the teacher is not able to create paths.
On the other hand I solve the problem with semantic_web.js on line 360, the line was:
Y.one ("#id_delete_path").on("click", removeLearningPath).;
and should be replaced with these:
var deletePathObj = Y.one ("#id_delete_path");
if (deletePathObj) {
deletePathObj.on ('click', removeLearningPath);
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Broomfield-based Ball Corp. on Monday announced plans to acquire an extruded aluminum packaging plant in Mexico and to enter into a joint venture to expand its reach in South America.
Ball reached an agreement to acquire Envases del Plata S.A. de C.V., an aluminum aerosol packaging firm with a facility in San Luis Potosi, Mexico. The acquisition is expected to close by the end of October, Ball officials said.
About 150 people work at the Mexico plant, which operates five manufacturing lines and produces products for personal care and household products. Envases del Plata's consumer portfolio includes companies such as Unilever, Avon, Palmolive and Colgate-Palmolive.
Additionally, Ball signed a joint venture agreement with Envases del Plata Group to combine the two companies' aerosol packaging operations in Argentina and Brazil.
The joint venture, which will be named Envases-Ball, includes Ball's steel aerosol can plants and Envases' extruded aluminum packaging plants in Buenos Aires and San Luis, Argentina, and also Envases' aluminum packaging plant in Manaus, Brazil.
Financial terms of the transactions were not immediately disclosed.
"These actions are consistent with our Drive for 10 strategy to broaden Ball's geographic reach and expand into new products and capabilities," John A. Hayes, Ball's president and chief executive officer, said in a news release.


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| The new Waze Wiki, aka Wazeopedia, is now live at Wazeopedia.waze.com! While this legacy wiki will remain accessible for the time being, it is no longer updated by the community. For the most up-to-date guidance, please visit your local Wazeopedia.
Please do not make any more updates to these legacy wiki pages, all future updates should be made in your country's local Wazeopedia.
Montreal Area
The Montreal Area editors have spent half of 2012 hashing this all out, with Waze input as well.
For the purposes of Waze, we define the Montreal Area as:
- Île-Montréal
- Laval
- Île-Bizard
- Île-Perrot
- All smaller islands
- Châteauguay
- Kahnawake
- Saint-Constant
- Delson
- Candiac
- La Prairie
- Brossard
- Saint-Lambert
- Longueuil
- Boucherville
- Varennes
- Repentigny
- Lachenaie
- Mascouche
- Terrebonne
- Lorraine
- Blainville
- Mirabel
- Rosemère
- Saint-Thérèse
- Boisbriand
- Saint-Eustache
- Deux-Montagnes
- Sainte-Marthe-sur-le-Lac
- Pointe-Calumet
- Oka
- Hudson
- Saint-Lazare
- Vaudreuil-sur-le-Lac
- Vaudreuil-Dorion
- Les Cèdres
- Pointe-des-Cascades
Naming Municipal Roads
The Waze priority for naming roads is what the road signs say, but in the Montreal Area, road signs vary by age and municipality/borough.
The Quebec government mandates that only French be used on a road sign, although there are some officially bilingual municipalities that may use both English and French road types on a sign, for example Hampstead's "Rue Fleet Road".
The bilingual municipalities in the Montreal Area are:
- Baie-D'Urfé
- Beaconsfield
- Côte-Saint-Luc
- Dollard-Des Ormeaux
- Dorval
- Hampstead
- Hudson
- Kirkland
- L'Île-Dorval
- Montréal-Ouest
- Mont-Royal
- Pincourt
- Pointe-Claire
- Rosemère
- Senneville
- Westmount
- Greenfield Park (Longueuil borough)
- Pierrefonds-Roxboro (Montreal borough)
In the rest of the Montreal Area, streets should be identified by the French designation only.
In the above municipalities, it would be in accordance with Waze practices to put both French and English road designations, but this can get cumbersome with, for example, "Chemin de la Côte-Saint-Luc Road".
There's an uneasy compromise in place among most Montreal-area Waze editors. Instead of bilingual excess, where a municipality uses both French and English on the road signs, we leave out both to avoid clutter. "Chemin de la Côte-Saint-Luc Road" becomes simply "Côte-Saint-Luc" in the officially bilingual town of that name. Montrealers do that most of the time anyway.
There are some issues. The Waze TTS does not read "Ch" as "chemin" or "Aut" as "autoroute". Regardless, we use abbreviations including those to avoid clutter.
Highways and Ramps
Quebec has numbered autoroutes and routes. We use the standard Rte abbreviation for routes. The Aut abbreviation does not yet work in Waze TTS, but we use it anyway.
Although some highways may have names, these names are rarely if ever listed on the on-ramp signs so we leave them out. We don't mark Aut 40 as the Trans-Canada. Visitors who don't know that the 40 is the T-Can could get confused, and that's the opposite of what Waze is striving for. So we just call it Aut 40. The new alternate street names field works well for adding additional routes etc.
Contrary to Waze practice we do not use "to" or "vers" on highway ramps. The French TTS doesn't handle "to" and the English one doesn't omit "vers". We just deal with it.
Note that the road designation abbreviations without periods are a standard of use in Waze, although most of the Montreal Area does the opposite as of 2012. This should be corrected.
We use Est and Ouest because a) that's what the signs mention and b) Waze clients have no idea what O stands for. Same for Nord and Sud.
The English TTS pronounces Ouest passably enough but pronounces Est as "estate". We have to live with that for now.
Waze pronounces both St and St. as "street" (for now), which is why we always spell out "Saint" or "Sainte". Although the English TTS garbles some of the accents, we use them as they occur in the official French name of the road.
Nearly every compound street name and city name uses a hyphen even if it's the name of a person:
- Boul Réné-Levesque Est
- Chemin de la Côte-Saint-Catherine
- Pointe-Claire
Unless the last name is composed of two words: Av Pierre-De Coubertin. Also note the "missing" hyphen in Dollard-Des Ormeaux. Sometimes, roads named after English places or names may not take a hyphen: Rue Duff Court; Av King Edward (but Av George-V).
If in doubt, consult the Quebec Toponymy Commission's search page.
We do not use Town/Municipality/Village/Ville/City of/de to name political entities. The only exception is Ville Mont-Royal, which is how everyone refers to it.
Boroughs of agglomerated cities are identified in brackets like "Montréal (Verdun)". We always use the French form of a city name.
For historical reasons, we use Montréal (Île-des-Soeurs) instead of Montréal (Verdun) - also Montréal (Pierrefonds) and Montréal (Roxboro) instead of the single borough Montréal (Pierrefonds-Roxboro). Feel free to change this if you want.
In all other cases, this document takes precedent over what is currently on the Waze map for this region.


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With winter fast approaching, this is the time of year we all start thinking about dragging out our Christmas card list. If you're a manager or small business owner, you might end up with two lists on the go: one for friends and family, and one for colleagues, customers, and business partners.
Sending cards to loved ones is fairly straightforward, but when it comes to selecting the right cards for your business, it can be difficult to get the balance right between professionalism and friendliness.
Quality counts. The most important thing to remember is that just like company advertising, brochures, products, and services, your holiday cards represent your business. They represent YOU. Quality counts so treat these cards like any other business correspondence.
Personalizing holiday cards with your company name, logo, or a photo is one way to make them meaningful. The good news is that if you're a small business, home-based, or one-person shop, you can have the same quality cards as larger competitors. While custom greetings cost more than generic off-the-shelf cards, your business will appear in the best possible light (which is the whole point).
One web site that has great card ideas and fresh modern designs, is Tiny Prints Corporate. Non-photo cards start at around $1 each for 25. Photo card designs start at $1.50 each.
What should you say? Carefully consider what message you are going to have printed inside the card, but never opt to have your signature printed as well. Always sign your cards individually and add handwritten notes where appropriate to personalize each greeting further. Remember, you would never send out a business letter without signing it.
Some suggestions for what to write or have printed inside include:
- Thanking people for their business during the last year.
- Wishes for a prosperous New Year and continued relationship.
- Courteous reminders to clients who haven't been in contact for a while that you and your business are still available to help them.
- An early Christmas gift of a generous discount on any of your services or products used in the New Year
Timing is everything. No one particularly likes the chore of writing out Christmas cards, but from the point of view of building relationships, it's essential. So, don't leave the task until the last minute. Order your cards early (in October, for example), and if you have a lot of cards to write, do a few each day. You'll make a better impression if your cards are one of the first to be received instead of the last. Have your cards in the post the first week of December, by December 15th at the latest.


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PRESCOTT, Ariz. (AP) -- Authorities say a northern Arizona man accused of impregnating a 14-year-old girl has been arrested in Florida.
Yavapai County Sheriff's officials said they were notified Wednesday by the U.S. Marshals Service that 18-year-old Cody Williams-Claxton is in custody. It wasn't immediately clear where in Florida he was arrested.
Authorities say Williams-Claxton is being held on a $150,000 bond pending extradition to Arizona.
Sheriff's officials say Williams-Claxton allegedly has sex with the underage girl in August 2012, which resulted in a pregnancy.
When authorities were prepared to charge him in the case last December, they found Williams-Claxton had fled Arizona.
A warrant was issued for his arrest on suspicion of sexual conduct with a minor under the age of 15.


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Tottenham outcast Emmanuel Adebayor is set to make a return to the Tottenham side as they take on Sheriff in the Europa League tomorrow night, reports The Metro.
The Spurs striker, who has not featured for the club since pre-season, was expected to depart the club in the summer as he was heavily linked to Russian giants Zenit St Petersburg.
However, now the former Manchester City man looks set for a return to the squad as his manager Andre Villas-Boas has admitted he could be involved.
The Portuguese tactician told reporters: "There is a chance he could be involved but I'm not sure if he's starting or not.
"Last season we wouldn't rotate as much for this competition as we have so far. This is done because of the immense talent we have at our disposal.
"We can make six or seven changes now, which keeps the players fresh and motivated."
Both Roberto Soldado and Jermain Defoe are also in Villas-Boas' squad for the match in Moldova, so Adebayor has competition for a starting berth.
However the likes of Andros Townsend, Paulinho and Kyle Walker have been rested and left in London.
Spurs will be hoping for another three points in Europe as they look to continue their 100% record in Group K.
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Get your pink on this Friday and head over to the Pink in the Rink IceRays game as they face the New Mexico Mustangs at 7:05 p.m.
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I am a Miss Manners fan. So much so that I often read her books to no particular purpose—for sheer enjoyment, not because I am seeking answers to a particular question. I like to think I already know the answers; I always agree, after all, with everything she says. But maybe that's just because she's incredibly persuasive, and I'm reinventing my own reality as I read.
In any event, in the way of the truly wise, Miss Manners has a way of opining about matters I didn't even know I was seeking wisdom about. The other night, as I was thumbing through her A Citizen's Guide to Civility, I found this compelling exegesis:
Symbolic rules of etiquette are totally arbitrary, which is why people often assume they can be violated with impunity. This is a mistake. Everybody scrutinizes such things as clothing, nomenclature and gesture for symbolic content all the time . . . .
Following the conventions of the society is taken as a measure of respect for it. No one, not even those who are most vehement in claiming to have sartorial freedom from symbolism, would hire a trial lawyer who wore pajamas (which would serve the practical function of covering the body as well as a suit) to court, or submit to an operation by a brain surgeon who wore a Dracula sweatshirt in his consulting room. Don't even think about flouting symbolic dress conventions if you want a career in the law, the military, diplomacy, the church or athletics. All of these professions have particularly strict etiquette rules, and compliance is taken to symbolize adherence to the particular values that these professions require: fairness, obedience, respect, piety or valor.
Judith Martin, A Citizen's Guide to Civility 35-36 (Three Rivers Press, 1996). Now, how did Miss Manners know that Early Interview Week was all but upon us? What better time for discussing appropriate lawyer attire?
Now, there are those who may dispute the appropriateness of my weighing in on this question. After all, consider my milieu. Academics, even those at professional schools, are not typically fashion-forward, often clad in a manner that is in fact just one step above pajamas. And more than one student over the years has suggested that I am failing to carry out some portion of my work responsibilities as exhibited by my marked lack of success in bringing one faculty member up to snuff. What do you want from me? I was a coconspirator in the forced-donation to the 2008 Student Funded Fellowship auction of the poor man's 1980s-era teal and fuchsia ski jacket (rumor has it that the winning bidders—to the tune of $1,000, if I recall correctly—later immolated their purchase in a ceremony on the Quad). I may have failed, but I went down swinging.
Anticipating the potential skepticism, though, I decided to outsource. I have surveyed various people in a position of unalloyed authority: lawyers in all parts of the country who have been both the givers and receivers of many, many interviews. The passion my question evoked was considerable, suggesting that Miss Manners is truly onto something. One's fashion faux pas are, it would seem, not simply being elided over by a gentle and forgiving lawyerly audience. They have noticed, and they were almost alarmingly eager to weigh in.
Now, to be honest, I stacked the deck. I only asked people who I know get themselves pretty agitated about this topic. The fact of the matter is, the bar is not incredibly high here. You need to look presentable. You can ignore vast swaths of the amazingly strongly worded advice below and be perfectly safe in your presentation. But where's the fun in reading that version of advice? That is not the Miss Manners way. (Along those lines, many of my advisors went out of their way to say that they didn't think people should be denied a job just because they dressed "wrong"; people should be hired based on brains and talents. I suspect that Miss Manners would strongly disapprove of this soft-hearted, nay, cavalier attitude.)
Mind you, dealing with people who have strong feelings on fashion can get super-fraught. Divisions run deep. I, for example, admire men who wear wingtips, but one of my advisors thinks they are too casual. That, people, is crazy talk. Likewise, I can think of no better shirt for a man wearing a suit than a white button-down long-sleeve oxford shirt , but again, this advisor demurred in favor of a straight collar, once more claiming that the former is "too casual." Guess what? He and I are enemies now. (Speaking in the third person about himself, this advisor sent me to this website, and then "rested his case." Whatever.)
For the record, all of my advisors made clear that this advice relates solely to an interview setting (as well as to, say, U.S. Supreme Court arguments), not to everyday attire at work. Once you get the job, you may find that implementation of the rules may very well be quite lax, if not entirely nonexistent. But when you're in the position of importuning, signaling through strict adherence that you have mastered the rules is a worthy undertaking. And even if you're interviewing in a laidback office, dressing formally is a clear gesture of respect that will not be taken amiss.
I have here provided just the advice that everyone could agree upon. And don't be annoyed with me because it's so bossy and opinionated. I'm just the messenger. Well—okay. I also loved the message. So fine, go ahead and be annoyed with me.
The overarching point is this: if you wear the right uniform you won't be noticed for your clothes; you'll be noticed for your brains. And that, at the end of the day, is the goal.


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SALT LAKE CITY (AP) -- Alec Burks scored a career-high 34 points to spark the Utah Jazz to a 118-103 victory over the Denver Nuggets on Monday night.
Derrick Favors added 19 points and 15 rebounds while Trey Burke had 18 points for the Jazz, who won their fifth game in the last six home starts.
Burks was filling in for Gordon Hayward, who sat out his second consecutive game after scoring a career-high 37 points -- including the last 17 -- in a win over Oklahoma City last Tuesday. The swingman strained his left hip flexor late in the game and his absence was apparent as Cleveland snapped Utah's four-game home winning streak on Friday, 113-102.
But Burks made his presence felt from the start and had 17 in the first half to help the Jazz run out to a 67-53 lead, the highest first-half total for the Jazz this season.
Ty Lawson had 23 points and J.J. Hickson scored 21 but the Nuggets trailed by as many as 24 points as they saw their improbable five-game winning streak come to an end.


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Van Dyke Parks makes his first appearance on Mountain Stage, recorded live on the campus of the University of Georgia in Athens. For music fans who pay attention to album credits, Parks' name is something of a legend. As an arranger, songwriter, lyricist and musician, he's contributed to scores of famous works, from The Byrds, Sonny & Cher and Harry Nilsson to Vic Chesnutt, Little Feat and Ry Cooder. Most notable, though, was Parks' collaboration with The Beach Boys' Brian Wilson, which resulted in the storied Smile album.
Sitting behind the piano, Parks plays an assortment of baroque Americana from throughout his career, including "Come Along" (a retelling of the story of Br'er Rabbit) and "Orange Crate Art," one of many songs he wrote for Brian Wilson. Parks' first new project in 15 years is a series of seven-inch vinyl singles which feature artwork by Ed Ruscha, Art Spiegelman and West Virginia native Billy Edd Wheeler, among others.
Parks is followed by Mountain Stage Band pianist Bob Thompson, with his unique take on the Whitney Houston classic "Saving All My Love for You."
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Utilizing what little money they had made from their concerts, the band quickly put together a seven-inch single in 1979, the legendary "Communist Radio" backed with "Catholic Love," on their own label, Giggling Hitler Records. Chronologically, it was the second punk record issued out of Miami (the first being Critical Mass's single "Silver Screen," which was released in 1978). It treated listeners to what Pickett describes as Eddie's "black Irish humor." "I remember sitting with [local bassist and soon-to-be Eat member Kenny Lindahl] with our mouths open, thinking, How could anyone be so smart and so normal at the same time?" says local guitar legend Pickett. "The Eat were the most intellectual, most eclectic, and at the same time easiest to love band; you didn't have to put on your Captain Beefheart hat to understand them."
The Eat's sound was reminiscent of Fifties rock and roll dipped in an amphetamine bath. The O'Brien brothers' driving guitars flanked an incredibly tight and powerful rhythm section. Eddie's guitar work twanged vestigial, his rockabilly/country/psych influences tug-o-warring with younger Michael's metallic punk licks. Newland's bass acted as a clarifying metronome to the sonic sibling rivalry, while Cottie generated a booming, steady beat that grounded the rock and roll monster. Even in the lo-fi quality of the "Communist Radio" single, Eddie's delivery of a line like "I learned my Latin up in Manhattan/And I've brought it down South to you" is bound to make you hum.
The five-song EP, God Punishes The Eat, was released in 1980. Allegedly the band recorded it during days 98 through 123 of the Iranian hostage crisis on a four-track recorder in Eddie's basement. Its cover illustration -- Miami's downtown skyline being demolished by lightning and brimstone -- is a classic punk rock image. God Punishes The Eat's subject matter was a reflection of the times: the Mariel boatlift, corrupt cops, and drugs. "Nut Cop" best displays their never-ending struggle between debauchery and a Catholic upbringing: "I'm gonna tell ya what the jury said/Ten Hail Marys and I'll see you on Tuesday/One for your mother, one for the Pope/Eight for policemen selling you dope."
By 1982, the band had enough material and chemistry as a unit to invest in a slightly higher fidelity recording. The result was the extremely rare cassette Scattered Wahoo Action, released on Broward County's now-defunct Jeterboy Records. It was fueled by the same energy of their first two releases, while displaying newfound creativity and range, thanks to Cottie's keyboards and the quirky saxophone performance of longtime friend Dirk Bill on the neo-funky "Nixon's Binoculars," an acid-constructed venture poking fun at the Watergate scandal. The track "She's Pissed Off" came from an offhand remark by a fan concerning a friend of hers: "Oh, she's pissed off 'cause my brother wouldn't fuck her."
Unfortunately, Eddie's personal life (married since 1974, his first son was born in 1982) prevented him from aggressively pursuing band business. Newland had already split by 1981, and was replaced by Lindahl. By the time Scattered Wahoo Action hit stores, The Eat's progress had slowed considerably. In lieu of family and outside interests, their live appearances gradually stopped. Their place in Miami rock history, however, was secure.
"The Eat were one of the first and most important punk bands in the state of Florida," says Bob Suren, musician, archivist/collector, and owner of the Sound Idea record store in Brandon. "They inspired the first wave of Florida hardcore, bands like F, Roach Motel, Lethal Yellow, and Gay Cowboys in Bondage. Without The Eat, hardcore and punk would have not developed here."
Years after winning accolades in fanzines, most notably in San Francisco's Maximum Rock'n'Roll, The Eat's small discography is prized by collectors around the world. Original copies of "Communist Radio" have fetched anywhere between $200 and $650 through online auctions and record swaps. Anybody who read Maximum Rock'n'Roll in the early Nineties probably remembers a guy in some Scandinavian country who ran a scam, promising a mint copy of "Communist Radio" for $125 plus shipping and handling. After a few irate punks shelled out $125 and never received the record, the editors pulled the ad from the zine's pages.
The Eat even drew a famous supporter, Jello Biafra. His love of the band led him to broker a deal with the Dutch record label Wicked Witch, which re-pressed Scattered Wahoo Action as a ten-inch vinyl EP in 1996. This edition excluded the slow versions of "Catholic Love," "The Car," and "Subhuman," (the last of which Wicked Witch would later make available on the split seven-inch compilation, Kangaroo vs. Wicked Witch: Co-operation, Not Competition). Additions to the rerelease included "One Call to Cuba" and a great live version of "Communist Radio." The Scattered Wahoo Action rerelease coincided with the premiere of a newly recorded seven-inch, "Hialeah," for Jeterboy.
In 1996, The Eat performed a raucous set at Churchill's Pub. Well-rehearsed and firing off songs with intensity, the O'Briens, Cottie, and Lindahl played like fellows half their age who had never stopped gigging. Two years later, on July 11, that line-up appeared together at Churchill's for the last time to play a short set at a memorial show for Pete Moss, a beloved local scenester who'd played in a dozen bands (including Gay Cowboys in Bondage and Spanish Dogs) since the late Seventies.
On June 6, 2004, Cottie passed away. The drummer performed on the South Florida bar circuit for decades, earning enough cred to play in the country/psych band Helios; Icarus, a quasi-classic rock band from Nova Scotia; and with the late David Allen Coe (of "Take This Job and Shove It!" fame). "The best drummer I ever played with," says Lindahl. "He didn't just keep time, he wrote songs, and contributed greatly to the band." But Cottie did more than just play punk rock. In the mid-Eighties, he received his bachelor's degree and teaching certificate from Barry University in Miami Shores, then his master's degree in counseling from St. Thomas University in Miami Gardens. He had been on sick leave from the Robert Renick Educational Center in Opa-locka, where he worked as a guidance counselor, and had been planning to have bariatric surgery when he suddenly died. The giant who wrestled with weight issues throughout his life will be remembered for his powerhouse drumming and his big heart.
[From a Miami New Times 2004 article by Abel Folgar.]
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David Pogue, a technology writer and former Broadway arranger is the new host this season for NOVA scienceNOW, a PBS program that aims to make cutting-edge science entertaining. (It airs at 10 p.m. Wednesdays on WGBH 2.)
Q. Surveys suggest that something like 40 percent of Americans don't believe in evolution. How do you interest a mass audience in science when so many people don't believe or trust in it?
A. There are two categories of people among those 40 percent. There are those who will watch the show — and I think that's wonderful because I think at its heart, this issue is about fear. People are naturally afraid of what they don't understand. A science show like this one from a trustworthy source, where you actually get to see the evidence, is a way of demystifying and therefore de-frightening science. The others won't watch it and will continue to believe what they believe.
Q. What do you think you bring to the program?
A. I think I was chosen as the host because I'm not a scientist, because I'm the representative of the viewer. I go into these situations and these labs, and my job is to dig out the story from the scientist, to de-jargonize what they say and to do my best to make it relevant to my life and your life.
Q. You look like you're having fun up there. Are you really, or are you faking it?
A. I'm not faking it. It's the greatest experience of my life. If you think of what I've been able to do: I swam with sharks, I went hang-gliding, I fired an AK47, I landed on a nuclear aircraft carrier, I poured gold that I watched mined from the underground, I had four MRIs, I've been to five countries. It's just been an incredible, incredible ride.
Q. Any regrets or things you did that you really didn't want to do?
A. I ate mealworm larvae on a taco. There were things like that that I really was sort of terrified about. Having done it, I'm really glad I did. I was able to conquer my fear. I trust that [the producers are] not going to kill me. That would get great ratings, but only once.
Q. What do you think are the benefits of presenting science on television and doing it on PBS?
A. I can't think of any better medium than video to show the world just how cool science is and how amazing some of the new frontiers are. With PBS, there's no commercial interest, there's no hovering fear about what an advertiser might say. [That's] really refreshing.
Q. Have you met any resistance from scientists as you try to make their work accessible and fun?
A. Their willingness to play ball with us has surprised and delighted me.
Q. What gets you particularly excited about their science?
A. Some of these scientific breakthroughs are beyond brain-frying. There's just absolutely incredible stuff going on. We visited these Carnegie Mellon researchers who have invented a mind-reading computer. I was stuffed into an FMRI tube and shown pictures of objects in pairs [such as a strawberry and a skyscraper]. I was asked to think about which one I was seeing. When you're shown a strawberry, the parts of your brain that represent red, edible, handheld, small, and juicy — those areas light up. The computer was 100 percent right at guessing what I was thinking about based on which parts of my brain lit up.
Q. Do you ever find stuff like that creepy?
A. Yes. For the crime episode, they are working on lie detection EEGs — they put a helmet on the suspect [to read their brain waves]. Unlike the polygraph, which is fairly easy to fool if you're a psychopath, there's no fooling this. When the brain lies, certain areas light up before you speak. There is no getting away from Big Brother in that case.
Q. Has learning this stuff changed the way you look at the world?
A. It does show me where science can take us, what the future might be like.
Q. And you like being the person who tells the public what the future might bring?
A. For me, to have this national PBS outlet to do this small thing toward getting people interested in science again, especially reaching kids, that's the greatest thrill in the world.Interview has been edited and condensed. Karen Weintraub can be reached at karen@karen


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The Securities and Exchange Commission announced today that it has filed an injunctive action against Nevin K. Shapiro, alleging that he conducted a $900 million offering fraud and Ponzi scheme targeting more than 60 investors nationwide.
The SEC's complaint alleges that from February 2003 through November 2009, Shapiro, the president, Chief Executive Officer and sole shareholder of Capitol Investments USA Inc., (Capitol), a Miami Beach, Florida-based grocery diverter, offered promissory notes claiming annual returns of 10 to 26% purportedly backed by purchase orders and receivables generated by Capitol's food brokerage business. In reality, Capitol was operating at a loss since late 2004 with virtually no operations by 2005. Beginning in January 2005 through November 2009, Shapiro operated a Ponzi scheme using new investor funds to pay principal and interest to earlier investors.
Grocery diverters like Capitol purchase lower-priced groceries in one region and re-sell them for a profit to another region, where prices are higher. According to the SEC's complaint, filed in U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida, Shapiro used his business relationships and word of mouth to solicit investors by selling them short term promissory notes, telling them that he would use their funds as short term financing to purchase and resell groceries for Capitol's business. Shapiro falsely touted Capitol's financial success (as well as his own) and assured investors that their principal was secure because Capitol would not broker the sale of the goods without first obtaining a purchase order from a buyer. Shapiro also falsely told investors that Capitol would pay the principal and interest from the profits it received when it resold the goods. When investors raised questions about Capitol's business, Shapiro showed them fabricated invoices and purchase orders for nonexistent sales.
The SEC's Complaint further alleges that Shapiro also misappropriated at least $38 million of investor funds to finance outside business ventures unrelated to the grocery business, including a sport representation business and real estate ventures, and to fund his lavish lifestyle. He also used investor funds to pay large commissions to individuals who attracted additional investors.
The SEC's complaint charges Shapiro with violating Section 17(a) of the Securities Act of 1933, Section 10(b) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 and Rule 10b-5 thereunder. The SEC seeks a permanent injunction, sworn accounting, disgorgement of ill-gotten gains with prejudgment interest, and a civil money penalty against the defendant. The SEC coordinated the filing of these charges with the United States Attorney for the District of New Jersey who charged Shapiro today with securities fraud and money laundering. Shapiro surrendered this morning to special agents of the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Internal Revenue Service criminal investigation unit. The Commission appreciates the assistance of the U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of New Jersey, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and the Internal Revenue Service, with which the Commission has coordinated its investigation. The SEC's investigation is continuing.
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Launching a business and/or sustaining a satisfying career in the 21st Century can feel almost death-defying at times. Kelly Standing knows first-hand. She was struck by lightning while working against a deadline in a thunder storm. … She had her own intellectual property attributed to a competitor. … Someone hacked into her business bank account 19 times! And yet, she's still standing, still smiling.
What does she know that could help the rest of us land on our feet no matter what tries to knock us off our heels? Find out on Tuesday, Feb. 12 at the Batavia Women in Business (BWIB) luncheon. You'll learn how one funny, unflappable woman picks herself up time after time from what would defeat most of us.
Kelly Standing, author and owner of STANDING Media, LLC, will deliver a message titled, "Jump from STANDING in Your Own Way to OutSTANDING in Your Field" at 11:30 a.m. at Lincoln Inn Banquets, 1345 S. Batavia Avenue, Batavia. ($25 for members and $30 for non-members and guests.). Pre-register for the luncheon by Sunday, Feb. 6. Contact Batavia Chamber online at www.bataviachamber.org/programs or call 630-879-7134.
While you may admire her resilience, you may not want to stand too close to Kelly Standing. She has been hit by a car, hanged from a tree and just missed a mass murder at her high school workplace. At 29, she came so close to dying, she went into the "Bright Light," but, again, emerged still Standing. She says her many brushes with death may have given her a greater sense of urgency about resilience.
"Too often we overlook the power we have to improve our own circumstances," said Standing. "We think things happen TO us, but they don't. We get to choose -- every minute of every day.
"No, we can't always go back and fix what we broke or get what someone didn't give us, but we can choose to live now, today, the way we'd like to be remembered," she continued. "We always have a choice. We can re-write our stories."
Kate Sullivan, co-chair of Batavia Women in Business and publisher of "Neighbors" magazine encourages you to attend the luncheon to hear Standing's amazing story.
"Batavia Women in Business works hard to find outstanding programs for our members," explained Sullivan. "Not only do we sponsor quality speakers, but this is one of the best opportunities to meet and network with other professional women in the Tri-Cities."
Copies of Standing's book "I'M STILL STANDING: How One Woman's Brushes with Death Taught Her How To Live" will be available. Normally $24.99, the hardcover book can be purchased at BWIB's luncheon for only $20.
Although BWIB focuses primarily on businesswomen, men are encouraged to expand their network as well by checking out the group. For more information about Batavia Women in Business, visit their website at www.bataviawib.com.
About Batavia Chamber of Commerce:
A local business centered organization, the Batavia Chamber of Commerce sponsors or is involved with several annual Batavia events; including the Annual Mayor's Breakfast, Citizen of the Year/Ole Awards, Chamber Legislative Breakfast, Annual Business-to-Business Expo and much more. The Executive Director is Roger Breisch. Membership and information about upcoming Chamber and community events are available online at www.bataviachamber.org or by calling 630-879-7134.
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The Mission of the Batavia Women in Business is to provide networking, education and philanthropy opportunities for women in business. BWIB meets on the second Tuesday of every other month, at various locations. The format is a luncheon with guest speakers on various topics of interest to people in business. There is no fee to join the Batavia Women in Business if you are a Batavia Chamber of Commerce Member, and the group is open to all chamber members. Participation is not limited to women only. Non-chamber members may choose to join the Batavia Women in Business for an annual fee of $50.
More about Kelly Standing:
A veteran speechwriter and executive coach, Kelly Standing is the author of "I'M STILL STANDING: How One Woman's Brushes with Death Taught Her How To Live". Her company, STANDING Media, LLC, works with organizations that want their people to rally around change and adversity … so they can blow the doors off every goal they set. STANDING Media offers keynotes, seminars and one-on-one coaching. Reach them at 312.924.3440 or visit her web site: www.standingmedia.com.


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Candidate and speakers gathered
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Republican primary candidates and speakers gathered for the Candidate Meet and Greet event sponsored by Franklin County members of the Republican Women of Northeast Texas at the Sacred Heart Catholic Church. Around 100 attended the event. For a listing of candidates who participated, see the March 29 edition of the Mount Vernon Optic-Herald.


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Rocky Point deal still not filed with court
With the fanfare deserving of the occasion, city and state officers and officials were joined by Small Business Administration district director Mark Hayward at Rocky Point on Sept. 17 to announce an agreement had been reached for the state to acquire the remaining 82 acres of the former amusement park.
Hayward was optimistic that everything would come together quickly and that the state would hold a deed to the land by Jan. 13, 2013. He said it was only a matter of days before the purchase and sales agreement would be filed with the Federal District Court, thus starting the clock on a 45-day period during which a qualified buyer could step forward and acquire the property at a 10 percent premium on the $9.65 million purchase price.
But first, the State Properties Committee had to approve the agreement. That happened on Oct. 10 and again it looked like everything would fall into place rapidly.
But as of yesterday, the SBA had still not filed the agreement with the court.
"There are a couple of technical things that need to get done," Hayward said Tuesday without elaborating.
Despite the delay, Hayward remains optimistic that everything can come together by the end of the year and the transaction will be completed even before the Jan. 13 date in the agreement.
Asked whether there has been renewed interest in the park from developers since the state and SBA have reached agreement on the price, Hayward said he hasn't gotten any calls.
Likewise, City Planner William DePasquale has not heard of any inquiries from developers over the property.
Apart from economic conditions and the chill it has put on the housing market, the terms of the agreement with the state would have to be met by a developer. That includes preserving 50 acres of the site as open space, which would reduce the acreage that could be used for development. Furthermore, when the City Council abated taxes and liens on the land of approximately $2.3 million on Sept. 26, it was on condition of a sale to the state. A private developer would therefore need to come up with the taxes plus the 10 percent premium for a total of $12.9 million.
Asked what should happen after the state acquires the property, DePasquale said, "I think it has got to be a collaborative where all stakeholders are involved in determining the future of the property." He suggested the process would be "fun" and should "connect with what people really love about this property."
He said the park is a place where many people shared a good time and that future activities could include shows, concerts and fairs as well as concessions.


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LUBBOCK - Texas Tech has its fifth defensive coordinator in five seasons.
Coach Kliff Kingsbury has hired Texas A&M linebackers coach Matt Wallerstedt as Tech's new defensive coordinator, the Avalanche-Journal learned Sunday.
Before spending a lone season with the Aggies, where he served on the same coaching staff with Kingsbury, Wallerstedt spent the previous four with Air Force, where he served as defensive coordinator under Troy Calhoun. He has almost a quarter century of coaching experience, which also includes defensive coordinator positions at North Alabama (2003) and Wyoming (1997-2002) and a stint as special teams coordinator and linebackers coach at Kansas State (2006-07).
Texas Tech has not officially announced any hires since Kingsbury took the head-coaching job on Dec. 12. A Tech spokesman said last week that no announcements will be made until the staff is complete.
However, the staff is getting close to full.
Kingsbury is known to have hired offensive assistants Eric Morris, Sonny Cumbie, Lee Hays and Mike Jinks and defensive assistants Mike Smith, Trey Haverty and Kevin Curtis in addition to Wallerstedt.
Including Kingsbury, the average age of the staff is 35 with six members being 33 or younger.
Wallerstedt has coached in seven bowl games, including Texas A&M's Cotton Bowl rout of Oklahoma earlier this month. The Aggies this season ranked ninth in the 14-team Southeastern Conference in total defense at 390.2 yards per game.
Tech finished 38th in total defense this season (367.1) under Art Kaufman, a major improvement from its 114th ranking in each of the previous two seasons. The Red Raiders' entire 2012 defensive staff, including Kaufman, went with former coach Tommy Tuberville to Cincinnati.
Wallerstedt is a native of Manhattan, Kan., and played linebacker at Kansas State from 1984 through 1987. He led the Wildcats in tackles his junior and senior years and was an an honorable mention All-American in 1987.
He then started his coaching career as a Kansas State student assistant in 1988. He was an Arizona State graduate assistant in 1989 and 1990 and made his next stops at Fort Hays State and Emporia State before going to Wyoming.
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2WD 5 speed manual dimensions.
Posted 20 June 2005 - 02:55 AM
fisrt post
Can any one give me some dimensions of a 2WD 5 speed manual gearbox from a pre 95 liberty?
the most important ones right now are total length and width of gear housing.
Its for my EJ22 Fiat X1/9 project
Posted 20 June 2005 - 11:50 AM
You are going from a transverse to longitudinal engine in your X1/9? Where will the people sit?
Posted 21 June 2005 - 04:45 AM
Posted 22 June 2005 - 07:24 PM
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Posted 02 September 2005 - 09:04 PM
How is your x1/9 subaru going? What led you to chose an x1/9? I am interested in the mid-engine subaru transplant as well. 914 for me. Good luck
Posted 04 September 2005 - 04:29 AM
How is your x1/9 subaru going? What led you to chose an x1/9? I am interested in the mid-engine subaru transplant as well. 914 for me. Good luck
I havn't done any work on it so far but I know I want the 5 speed manual box from a mid 90s liberty with an ej22 or ej20 preferably with a turbo or two. I will hopeful be using a water to air intercooler with an extra radiator in the front. What led me to choose the X1/9, well I have one! its a 1300 4sp with too many miles on the clock and things are starting to wrong, so I decided its time to think of a good transplant. I've seen V6 x1/9s and V8s and heaps of superchaged or turbo chaged 2lt lancia powered ones but not yet seen a flat four one. I thought it would be a good option moving the engine foward just a little and using a light engine like the ej (much lighter than a 2lt twin cam lancia), and I've always loved the sound of the subi flat 4
anyways have a good one,
Posted 20 October 2005 - 04:15 PM
I have the info you want on my website on this page. Last photos on the page!
Mines a Impreza 1996 box, but they are the same as the legacy unit.
Posted 20 October 2005 - 11:06 PM
couple of questions on your diagram of the suby engine and VW transaxle:
1. does your measurement of the engine (420mm)include the radiator? if not what does it go to? front of timing cover? front of belts/pullys?
2. any chance you could get a measurement to the center of the drive axel with the suby tranny? how close is it to the 618mm with the VW trans?
3. if im doing my conversions correctly 420mm = 16.5 inches and 618mm = 24.33 inches
thanks in advance for any help and good luck with your project!
Posted 21 October 2005 - 08:16 AM
nice site spyder!
couple of questions on your diagram of the suby engine and VW transaxle:
1. does your measurement of the engine (420mm)include the radiator? if not what does it go to? front of timing cover? front of belts/pullys?
2. any chance you could get a measurement to the center of the drive axel with the suby tranny? how close is it to the 618mm with the VW trans?
3. if im doing my conversions correctly 420mm = 16.5 inches and 618mm = 24.33 inches
thanks in advance for any help and good luck with your project!
1. 420mm is from the gearbox face to front of pulleys if I recall
2. The VW tranny /subaru dimension was taken from scrapyard parts and info supplied to me. and includes a nominal figure for an adaptor plate.
I would estimate the subaru to subaru would be 420mm for engine + the 165 to the centre line of the axle from the bellhousing ,so 585mm or 23.03 inches
3. Near enough 1inch = 25.4mm or 2.54cm
Have a look at these two sites www.ricola.co.uk my mate has done a 356 replica with WRX power , and is currently building a STI RA powered 1303 bug cabrio
Also look here http://www.petermcle...petesrides.html an aussie guy with a spyder like me . (currently with tweaked wrx motor 283 bhp at the wheels)
Posted 22 October 2005 - 10:07 AM
those shots of the 5speed manual subi box will realy help
Posted 23 October 2005 - 04:05 AM
Outcome of this is depending what you are putting it into you may have problems clearing lower crossmembers etc. On mine with a non turbo I can probably get the engine to sit over the lower cross member with a turbo motor the engine would have to sit behind. You could overcome this with different design exhaust manifold for the turbo.
Posted 03 November 2005 - 01:24 AM
Posted 03 November 2005 - 04:13 PM
Pic of their shift lever here.
Mailed them the other day. Brett from Saker replied you can buy the bits from them to convert a 4WD 5speed WRX box to 2WD. For both the new rear cover and the gearbox adaptor to make it 2WD, talking $210 Aus. (Dirt cheap for me in the UK to import)
Now currently looking at trying to find the dimensions of the 4WD turbo box to the rear of the centre diff housing from the bellhousing. Looks like trip to the local Subaru Specialist.
Posted 04 November 2005 - 04:27 AM
Posted 04 November 2005 - 06:57 PM
The assembly at the back!!,
The shift assembly can be simple or complex. In my Spyder I have built a gear shift lever which is operated via my right hand (remember that here in the UK we drive on the left like you guys) . http://brookespeed.v.../BOT297V_14.JPG
I have one rod between the lever and the gearbox gearchange spigot
It works very similar to a formula Vee gearshift. Works pretty well only oddity is that the shift is inverted at the lever (quite common in race cars anyway)http://brookespeed.v...y/shiftgate.JPG Takes some getting used too though.
You can get the shift the correct away around but that brings more joints into the equation. More joints equals more slack in the assembly though.
I am going to take a look at the Saker set up a bit more though to work out which way that operates.
You could consider a cable shift setup too I am looking at that option as well.
Have a look in the local scrapyard for Mk2 MR2's, they use a cable setup that could possibly be used on a subaru box as the MR2 box only has one operating spigot sticking out the gearbox. Ignore the fact the MR2 box is transverse cables don't care. The little assembly that operates the spigot on the MR2 box may be usable on the Subaru box.
Posted 06 November 2005 - 05:53 PM
Have only bothered with the dimensions I interested in to make it 2WD
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Delinquency in a Birth Cohort in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1945-1963 (ICPSR 7729)
Published: Jan 12, 2006
Principal Investigator(s):
Marvin E. Wolfgang; Robert M. Figlio; Thorsten Sellin
Version V3
The purpose of this study was to investigate the history of delinquency in a birth cohort--in particular, the age of onset of delinquent behavior and the progression or cessation of delinquency. Data were collected on a cohort of males born in 1945 and residing in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Information provided in the study includes demographic characteristics of the individuals studied, academic performance, offense information, demographic characteristics of victims of offenses, and criminal incident information.
Export Citation:
United States Department of Health and Human Services. National Institutes of Health. National Institute of Mental Health (1-R11-01252-01 NIMH)
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Geographic Coverage
Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research
Time Period(s)
1945 -- 1963
Date of Collection
Data Collection Notes
In the individual file (Part 1), the sequence id numbers range from 1 to 11,172, then skip to 20,000 and range to 20,131. In the offense file (Part 2), the sequence id numbers range from 1 to 3,534, then skip to 11,111 and range to 11,172. The individual file therefore has 11,303 total sequence id numbers representing 11,303 individuals, of which some are offenders and some are nonoffenders. The sequence id number in the individual file links to the sequence id number in the offense file, where only offenders are documented. There are 3,595 total offenders, but since some offenders have multiple offenses, the total number of offenses is 10,214.
Boys who were born in 1945 and lived in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, from the ages of 10 to 18.
Data Source
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The public-use data files in this collection are available for access by the general public. Access does not require affiliation with an ICPSR member institution.
This dataset is maintained and distributed by the National Archive of Criminal Justice Data (NACJD), the criminal justice archive within ICPSR. NACJD is primarily sponsored by three agencies within the U.S. Department of Justice: the Bureau of Justice Statistics, the National Institute of Justice, and the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention.


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Submission + - HP says Whitman's politics, and Romney support, are her own (computerworld.com)
dcblogs writes: HP CEO Meg Whitman is out front in supporting Mitt Romney's bid for the presidency. Her endorsements are on Romney's web site, and she was the co-chair of a Silicon Valley fundraiser this week with tickets as high as $50,000, reported the San Francisco Chronicle. Whitman may be getting a pass from HP's board in having to follow the company's employee code of conduct regarding political activities. HP's code states that employees are to "ensure that your individual political views and activities are not viewed as those of HP." Asked how HP reconciles Whitman's active support for Romney with its conduct guidelines, a company spokesman said that: "HP encourages our employees to participate in the affairs of the community. Meg Whitman's support of Mitt Romney is that of a private individual. HP has not taken a position in the current presidential election, and Ms. Whitman's support of Romney should not be interpreted as such." Outside observers see risks for HP. "There is no upside for an organization to have their CEO to be so prominently supporting one political candidate," said David Gebler, who is on the International Advisory Board of Suffolk University's graduate program in Ethics and Public Policy


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The U.S. stock market had its best start to a year since 1999, but by Friday—the halfway mark of 2013—investors had ditched their party hats and braced for the Federal Reserve to cut back on policies that helped send stocks soaring this year.
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With Election Day looming, some religious leaders in Massachusetts have urged their congregations to vote against a controversial ballot question to allow doctors to prescribe life-ending drugs to certain terminally ill patients.
"I do believe that the major streams of Jewish thought would line up in agreement to the opposition of [Question] 2," said Rabbi David J. Meyer of Temple Emanu-El in Marblehead, a Reform Jewish temple.
Meyer said that he spoke out against the measure during his Yom Kippur sermon in late September.
"Although I feel strongly in opposition to this, I feel even more strongly that we have a responsibility that we inform the community," he said.
Meyer joined 20 other reform rabbis in releasing a statement last month in opposition to the ballot question.
Not all in the reform community, regarded as the most liberal wing of the Jewish faith, oppose the question.
Rabbi Ronne Friedman of Temple Israel of Boston spoke in favor of the question during his Oct. 5 sermon, and he and four other reform rabbis have released a statement backing the measure.
"There are a lot of people who want to know that it would be possible," Friedman said Sunday in a phone interview. "It's hard to imagine that level suffering if you're not in that condition. They want to feel that if it's intolerable, they have the right and permission to exit on their own terms. Just the knowledge provides a sense of relief."
The question would allow doctors to prescribe lethal medication to adult patients who request it, provided they have been diagnosed with an incurable disease projected to cause death within six months, and are deemed mentally capable of making their own health care decisions.
Imam William Suhaib Webb, of the Islamic Society of Boston Cultural Center, said that while the question has not been formally addressed during services, "religiously we're pretty much in agreement as Muslims" against it.
"We believe that every breath is a gift," Webb said. "Every difficulty through that suffering is a means of purifying into the life thereafter."
As a Mass at the Cathedral of the Holy Cross in Boston's South End drew to a close Sunday, the Rev. Kevin O'Leary urged parishioners to vote "no" on the question, and he advised the congregation to review literature the church had provided. He declined to discuss the question afterward with a Globe reporter, but some Mass attendees voiced strong opposition to Question 2.
"It's the wrong direction to go in," said Bob Denning, 57, of Boston. Denning said that society was "looking for a quick fix" to suffering and that physician-assisted suicide was "immoral and a crime."
In addition to distributing literature opposing Question 2, Denning said, the church has played a DVD on the subject from Cardinal Sean O'Malley.
'A person ravaged by disease has no less dignity than Michael Phelps in the swimming pool.'
Beth Bamberg of Wilmington also decried the measure.
"I actually can't believe it made it to the ballot," Bamberg said. "The way the law is, it's actually insulting to humans."
The Rev. Walter Kim of Park Street Church, a Protestant church in Boston, said his church recently held a panel discussion on the question, which he opposes.
"It's a moral as well as a political issue," Kim said. "If we created a culture that really took care of the elderly and gave them vibrant communities, we'd be greatly alleviated."
The wording of the question "is so problematic it doesn't enable us to speak with moral clarity," he said. He added that the lack of safeguards makes it such "that you don't even have to get to all the moral issues. This ballot is problematic."
The Rev. Kazimierz Bem, pastor of the First Church in Marlborough, which is affiliated with the United Church of Christ, preached a sermon against the physician-assisted suicide question on Oct. 21.
He said that educating the public was important and that he was moderator of a panel discussion held that same day at the church. Supporters and opponents sat on the panel, he said, but the choice is a clear one.
"A person ravaged by disease has no less dignity than Michael Phelps in the swimming pool," said Bem. "It is not up to us to decide when we go."Globe correspondents Zachary T. Sampson and Evan Allen contributed to this report. Derek J. Anderson can be reached at email@example.com. Travis Andersen can be reached at email@example.com


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Bottle to the head in the City of Red
Well go ph-igure. as I predicted Phillie got a little rowdy last night. The best/worst story I heard is about the Ray's fan who climbed up a traffic lightpole and was knocked off by an "absolut" ly perfectly thrown vodka bottle .
Tossed by a drunk Phillies fan..I assume.
That F'n brutal man. Way over the top. I mean they stop selling alcohol in the 7th right? How drunk can you get in one inning?
You can't buy advertising like that. "Absolut Vodka, the choice of drunk rowdy bottle tossers everywhere." Priceless.
Remember people, enjoy don't destroy. Here's a link to the carnage:
Dude hit in the head with a vodka bottle .
The guy gets tagged with the bottle, loses his balance, hangs there suspended for a bit, then just drops to the ground. Hope he's ok.
That will be one hell of a story he'll be telling if he can get back to Florida.
I thought Phillies Manager Charlie Manuel speech after the game was really heartfelt. You could feel his emotion as he spoke each word.
Here is what Charlie had to say:
"I always thought we could win the World Series. I knew we could beat anybody in our league. I look at what I see in our guys, I see chemistry and attitude and our makeup and how much we like to play and how much the Philadelphia fans back us, I know we can win the World Series.
"This is for Philadelphia. This is for our fans. I look around here and who's the world champions? I thank you."
Classy guy, and he's right.
I respect the hell out of sober Phillie fans. They understand hard times, and are stronger fans for it.
Say what you want, the "City of brotherly love" doesn't always love a brotha.
Glad I wasn't walking downtown with a Rays jersey on last night.
As for the Tampa Bay Rays?
Almost there. I have a feeling that team will stay pretty much intact next season. If it works, don't mess with it right?
Might I suggest a new hairstyle?
Go with a mullet. I know of a guy they can get styling tips from who is way ahead of the curve.
I think the World Series was decided by the pitchers.
In a nutshell, everyone thought that the Rays bullpen had the better talent, and in the end the Phillies bullpen just out pitched them…D


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