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Argument from admired religious scientists
The argument from admired religious scientists exists in several forms:
- "Isaac Newton, Galileo, Louis Pasteur, and other great scientists were religious, therefore it is possible to be both a believer and a scientist."
- "Isaac Newton, Galileo, Louis Pasteur, and other great scientists were religious, therefore there is no conflict between religion and science."
- "Francis Collins, Kenneth Miller, and other esteemed scientists believe in God. Are you saying you're smarter than they are?" (By implication, you should believe in God as well.)
- "Isaac Newton, Johannes Kepler, Galileo, and others were creationists. Therefore creationism is scientific."
Religion and science
Only the first form of the argument is valid. The existence of scientists who believe in God does prove that it is possible to believe in God and still be a good practicing scientist.
The difference between the first and second forms of the argument is subtle but important: a scientist may, for instance, believe that God intervenes in the world by performing miracles. However, she is expected to set aside her belief in miracles while working as a scientist: there is no objective evidence for the existence of miracles. They are therefore, at best, a highly-speculative hypothesis.
The third form is an combination of the argument from authority and of the argument by intimidation. "X is true because Y says so" is a fallacy. The truth of a statement about the world does not depend on who believes it, but why they believe it. And smart people can still believe things that aren't true. Newton, for instance, was a believer in astrology and numerology.
The fact that a person is an expert in one field does not grant expertise in unrelated fields. The fact that a man is a brilliant auto mechanic does not mean that he is also an expert at baseball or cooking. Likewise, Newton's or Einstein's knowledge of physics do not give them special insight in theology.
Dead scientists and evolution
Creationists are fond of circulating lists of scientists who believe in divine creation. However, invariably most of the scientists on the list died before Charles Darwin presented his ideas. It is unfair to imply that these notable scientists would reject the theory of evolution, when they never had a chance to become acquainted with it.
Organizations like the Institute for Creation Research, Answers in Genesis, and the Discovery Institute also make this argument by touting the academic degrees of members of their staff. However, these scientists rarely do creationist research in their field of expertise.


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August 6, 2013 > Yoga May Help You Manage Menopause Symptoms
Women's Center Workshop Offers Guidance and Instruction
While the experience of going through peri-menopause and menopause is different for each woman, this "change of life" process often involves symptoms such as hot flashes, mood swings, irritability, insomnia and fatigue resulting from sleep deprivation. In many cases, however, a personal home practice of yoga may help alleviate those symptoms - even without the use of hormone replacement therapy."The physical and mental benefits of yoga that bring energy and balance into your life are particularly helpful to women who are transitioning into menopause or who find themselves already there," says Colleen de la Torre, a certified yoga instructor at Washington Women's Center. "As our hormone levels and body chemistry begin fluctuating rapidly, we can be left feeling out of balance and 'victimized' by our changing bodies," she explains. "Yoga assists in leveling out this physiological instability by relaxing and gently stretching our muscles, thus promoting better blood circulation and greater oxygenation of our body cells and tissues. This helps optimize the function of the endocrine glands and the organs of the female reproductive tract. In addition, yoga improves the health and well-being of the digestive tract, nervous system and other systems in our bodies - which is beneficial for anyone, but particularly for women at this stage in life."To help women in the community learn more about how yoga may help them manage the symptoms of menopause and how to develop a personal yoga practice, the Washington Women's Center is offering its first-ever workshop in "Yoga for Menopause" on Tuesday, August 13 from 7 to 9 p.m. The workshop, which is limited to 25 participants and costs $15, will be held in the Conrad E. Anderson, M.D. Auditorium, Room C, in the Washington West Building located at 2500 Mowry Avenue in Fremont. Women of all ages and stages of menopause are invited to attend the workshop, which is suitable for yoga students at all levels of practice from beginner to experienced. Ms. de la Torre, who is a certified ViniYoga instructor and is also certified in Restorative Flow Yoga, will lead the two-hour workshop. She has been teaching classes in yoga for menopause at a local yoga studio for 11 years."The yoga exercises included in this workshop address many specific menopause-related symptoms and other issues such as bone strength and cardiovascular and breast health that are of concern to women transitioning through midlife," she says. During the workshop, participants will explore:* Asanas (yoga postures) focused on concerns and symptoms such as insomnia, anxiety, irritation, frustration, depression and fatigue.* Pranayama (breathing techniques) for heat-related issues including hot flashes, night sweats, strong thirst and dryness, as well as for mood swings, irritation and anxiety.* Yogic meditation to reduce stress, calm the mind and harmonize the endocrine system.Instruction will focus on developing a personal practice of exercises that bring each participant the most relief and health benefit. Handouts will be provided to assist participants in continuing the practice learned in the workshop on a regular basis at home. Additional handouts will provide information on topics such as the myths and truths of women's hormones, and the pros and cons of various vitamins and dietary supplements. Workshop participants may bring their own yoga mats, but equipment also will be available for those who do not bring their own. Participants should dress in comfortable clothes and bring water bottles."We'll begin the session seated in a circle to focus on breath work and relaxation techniques before introducing ourselves and sharing our common experiences with the menopause process," Ms. de la Torre says. "We will learn some gentle yoga movements and then focus on customized poses that apply to specific symptoms of menopause. At the end of the workshop, we'll offer time for questions and answers before closing with relaxation and meditation exercises that will leave participants feeling relaxed and refreshed."Ms. de la Torre notes that she has received very positive feedback from women who have taken part in her yoga for menopause classes in the past. "In addition to appreciating the benefits of specific yoga techniques, the women have expressed positive comments about the group experience," she says. "They felt reassured by the fact that they're not the only ones going through the experience of the hormonal roller coaster ride called menopause."To register and pay for the workshop on August 13, call (510) 608-1301. For more information about programs and services offered at the Washington Women's Center, visit www.whhs.com/womenscenter.

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Hewlett-Packard likes to remind people that it does things on a massive scale. Its global supply chain? The largest on the planet, it says. Its deployments of SAP ERP, Salesforce.com CRM, Workday HR, and Microsoft Lync unified communications software? Also the largest. Its $120 billion in annual revenue? World's biggest among IT vendors.
How about its big-company bureaucracy? You can't bait HP executives into any planetary references there, though new global CIO Ramon Baez concedes that lots of company processes before he arrived in August 2012 "were built for slow."
Part of Baez's job, working with boss John Hinshaw, executive VP of technology & operations, and the rest of the HP leadership team, is to focus "on creating a model that's more flexible and agile. How can we move at the speed of business?" Baez said in a wide-ranging interview with InformationWeek. After losing its way under former CEO Leo Apotheker, HP is now heading into year three of CEO Meg Whitman's five-year turnaround plan. Last year the company focused on diagnosing problems and shoring up its processes and infrastructure, and this year it has focused on rebuilding, before it heads into the recovery and expansion parts of Whitman's grand strategy.
[ Want to know more about the CEO's strategy? See HP's Whitman: Microsoft Now Our Rival . ]
Progress has been slow. Following an analyst meeting in October, where Whitman reversed her earlier statement that company revenue would likely grow next year, the company released a statement saying its revenue decline will "moderate" from last year's.
In an interview I conducted earlier this year with Hinshaw, he said HP's customers want to see three main things from the company right now: stability and a consistent strategy; renewed product innovation; and "one HP face" as they buy from multiple company units. I asked Baez about progress on that last front in particular, as most CIOs I meet with say what frustrates them most about HP is its inability to give them a single point of contact/throat to choke.
Baez responded by talking about Whitman's emphasis on building customer relationships, the fact that she has met with more than 1,000 customers in her two years as HP chief. He talked about the new "HP Way Now," about reemphasizing the principles Bill Hewlett and David Packard established more than 70 years ago.
"That being said, this is a very large company. It takes time to change the culture. It's my responsibility as a leader to show what that 'One HP' actually means," Baez said, noting that he's an executive sponsor of five large customer accounts. "When I meet with the CIOs of those businesses, I want them to think that they're the only customer I ever think about. I'm not in sales. I'm an IT practitioner, and I know what I expect from my suppliers, and I want to treat them how I want to be treated. I try to demonstrate that among our leadership teams, the deal teams, the account teams, and so forth. This is how you work with a customer."
HP is training a few hundred executives as sponsors to augment the standard account GMs. "People are a little frustrated because we went through some changes in that structure," Baez acknowledged. "But these account GMs now know who to reach out to."
I asked Baez about his overall philosophy on IT leadership and strategy, and how his charter at HP differs from the one of former HP CIO Randy Mott, who led an "IT transformation" at the company between 2005 and 2008, under which it consolidated 85 datacenters to six and 6,000 applications to about 1,200, while requiring a rigorous cost-benefit analysis of every new IT project.
"What I can do is articulate how my leadership team views IT and changes in the operating model," Baez said. "I tell my team that I don't want us viewed just as a service provider. I want us viewed as a value creator and a knowledge center. That's extremely important here, especially when account teams say, 'Hey, Ramon, can you come to talk to one of my customers about so and so.' I'd love to, but you know what, I have someone within my organization who's an expert in that area, and they do a great job, they can present to that individual. If all they want to do is see me, that's one thing. But if they really want the knowledge of how to do something, let's bring [that expert] in.
"First, we changed the organization from being very inward-focused to being very outward-focused. We're thinking of that customer all the time. How does this make the experience for the customer working with us better? The second thing, we're not optimizing for IT; we're optimizing for the business. ... We've gone from a cost-cutting view of the world to one of investing in innovation. ... We're not looking at consolidation. Those days are over. We're focused on creating a model that's more flexible and agile. How can we move at the speed of business?"


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by John Calvin (compiled by John H. Kromminga)
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For there shall arise false Christs, and false prophets, and shall shew great signs and wonders; insomuch that, if it were possible, they shall deceive the very elect. Behold, I have told you before. —Matthew 24:24, 25
But you know how the Son of God forewarns us, so that nothing should trouble us, seeing that we have been prepared for it beforehand. Think rather that this is not the end, but that God is trying you very gently, supporting your weakness, until you have more strength to sustain blows.
But be this as it may, beware of letting yourself be cast down by indifference or despair. Many are overcome, because they allow their zeal to grow cold, and run off in self-flattery. Others, on the contrary, become so alarmed when they do not find in themselves the strength they wish, that they get confused, and give up the struggle altogether.
What then is to be done? Arouse yourself to meditate, as much upon the promises of God, which ought to serve as ladders to raise us up to heaven, and make us despise this transitory and fading life, as upon threatenings, which may well induce us to fear his judgments.
When you do not feel your heart moved as it ought to be, have recourse, as to a special remedy, to diligently seeking the aid of him without whom we can do nothing. In the meantime, strive to your utmost, blaming coldness and weakness, until you can perceive that there is some amendment.
And in regard to this, great caution is required so as to hold a middle course, namely to groan unceasingly, and even to woo yourself to sadness and dissatisfaction with your condition, and to such a sense of misery as that you may have no rest; without, at the same time, any doubting that God in due time will strengthen you according to your need, although this may not appear at once. —Correspondence
John Calvin was the premier theologian of the Reformation, but also a pious and godly Christian pastor who endeavored throughout his life to point men and women to Christ. We are grateful to Reformation Heritage Books for permission to use John Calvin's Thine Is My Heart as our daily devotional for 2013 on the OPC Web site. You can currently obtain a printed copy of that book from Reformation Heritage Books.
Dr. Joel Beeke, who is editorial director of Reformation Heritage Books, has this to say:
"Calvin shows us the piety of a Reformed theologian who speaks from the heart. Having tasted the goodness and grace of God in Jesus Christ, he pursued piety by seeking to know and do God's will every day. He communed with Christ, practicing repentance, self-denial, and cross-bearing. Moreover, his theology worked itself out in heart-felt, Christ-honoring piety. The selections of this devotional bear this out, and hopefully will be used by God to direct pious hearts in our own day."
These devotional readings from John Calvin were compiled by John H. Kromminga. Be sure to read his "Introduction" to John Calvin's Thine Is My Heart.


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Camille Jania is 6-0 in singles play and 6-1 in doubles action during the dual season (photo Gil Talbot).
WILLIAMSBURG, Va. – The Harvard women's tennis team got back to its winning ways with a 5-2 win over William & Mary Saturday afternoon in Williamsburg, Va. The match was played indoors due to the weather.
Harvard continued its dominance in doubles, as the Crimson won its eight straight doubles point. Harvard won two out of three matches in tandem play, including wins from Hannah Morrill and Kelly Whelan and Samantha Gridley and Camille Jania. The Tribe took the first match to finish, before Gridley and Jania eased past Anik Cepeda and Marlen Mesgarzadeh, 8-1. Morrill and Whelan clinched the point with an 8-6 win over Katie Kargl and Hope Johnson.
The Crimson continued its momentum gained in singles to put away William & Mary early in the match. Harvard won three of the first four matches to clinch the win.
Hideko Tachibana was the first Crimson to win, taking down Maria Belaya, 6-3, 6-1, at the No. 1 position. Belaya was ranked No. 109 in the nation coming into the match.
Samantha Gridley followed Tachibana with a win to get Harvard within a point of victory. Gridley dominated William & Mary's Johnson, 6-2, 6-1, at No. 5 for her fifth singles win this season.
After Kristin Norton slipped to Jeltje Loomans, Camille Jania finished off the Tribe. Jania, who continued her undefeated season in singles, defeated Nina Vulovich, 6-1, 6-3, in the No. 3 spot. Jania improved to 6-0 in individual matches during the dual season.
Natalie Blosser also won for Harvard in the No. 4 position. Blosser erased a 1-0 deficit to get past Cepeda, 3-6, 6-3, 10-4.
Harvard, which has won five of its last six, is back on the courts tomorrow to take on Old Dominion in Norfolk, Va., at 10 a.m.
Doubles (2-1 Harvard)
1. Belaya/Loomans (WM) def. Tachibana/Norton (H) 8-3
2. Morrill/Whelan (H) def. Johnson/Kargl (WM) 8-6
3. Gridley/Jania (H) def. Cepeda/Mesgarzadeh (WM) 8-1
Singles (4-2 Harvard)
1. Tachibana (H) def. Belaya (WM) 6-3, 6-1
2. Loomans (WM) def. Norton (H) 6-2, 6-3
3. Jania (H) def. Vulovich (WM) 6-1, 6-3
4. Blosser (H) def. Cepeda (WM) 4-6, 6-2, 10-4
5. Gridley (H) def. Johnson (WM) 6-2, 6-1
6. Kargl (WM) def. Li (H) 2-6, 7-5, 10-5


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WASHINGTON -- Representatives Barney Frank, a Democrat from Massachusetts, and Republican Ron Paul of Texas, polar opposites on many issues, joined Wednesday in asking the White House to refrain from acting against marijuana users in Colorado and Washington, which became the first states last week to legalize recreational use of the drug.
In a letter to President Obama, the duo asked the White House to "respect the wishes of the voters of Colorado and Washington and refrain from federal prosecution of the inhabitants of those states who will be following their states' laws with regard to the use of marijuana."
Paul, who ran unsuccessfully for the Republican nomination for president, is widely considered a leading libertarian in Congress, while Frank is an unabashed liberal. Citing "individual freedom," both are coauthors of legislation that would legalize marijuana across the nation.
"We believe there are many strong reasons for your administration to allow the states of Colorado and Washington to set the policies they believe appropriate in this regard, without the federal government overriding the choices made by the voters of these states," the letter said, noting a state's right to set policies that affect their own residents and the potential cost for enforcing federal laws prohibiting the recreational use of marijuana, which is against federal law.
Other states permit medicinal use of Marijuana. Last week, Massachusetts became the latest state to do so.
But Colorado and Washington broke new ground in the movement to decriminalize use of the drug, when voters in those two states legalized the possession and growing of the substance.Bobby Caina Calvan can be reached at email@example.com. Follow him on twitter @GlobeCalvan.


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Ken Lloyd knows jerks. The career expert and author of the best-selling "Jerks at Work: How to Deal with People Problems and Problem People" runs a website and writes a newspaper column devoted to the most aggravating and annoying people in your workplace. His newest tome is "Office Idiots: What to Do When Your Workplace is a Jerkplace." We asked him for his advice on how to deal with the most common species of terrible bosses. Here are 10 of the worst offenders and some tactics for managing them.
Workplace or Jerkplace?
Ken Lloyd knows jerks. The career expert and author of the best-selling "Jerks at Work: How to Deal with People Problems and Problem People" runs a website and writes a newspaper column devoted to the most aggravating and annoying people in your workplace. His newest tome is "Office Idiots: What to Do When Your Workplace is a Jerkplace." We asked him for his advice on how to deal with the most common species of terrible bosses. Here are 10 of the worst offenders and some tactics for managing them.
The Endlessly Distracted Exec
He's nodding and saying "Mm-hmm" while you're in his office updating him on a problem, but his eyes stay glued on his email inbox. At meetings, you catch him checking his phone.
How to handle it: "There are so many ways that managers can be weak communicators," sighs Lloyd. "You need to bring him back to reality. Say, 'This is important, should we talk later?' Or just sit down and say nothing and it will gradually dawn on him, 'Hey, there's a human being sitting here."
The Super-Suspicious Snoop
When she comes to talk to you at your cubicle, her eyes immediately dart to your screen. If you happen to ride up in the elevator with her boss, she'll know in minutes and come ask what you talked about.
How to handle it: "Managers should manage by wandering around, talking to people, using all of their senses to stay on top of what's truly going on," says Lloyd. "If there's an edge to it, if it feels excessive or micromanaging, it could be that your boss is under pressure from above and you're feeling her anxiety about it. So keep it business-like and ask, 'Is there anything we can help you with?' Even better, see if you can arrange to update her regularly. That way, she might worry less." And you might too.
The Conclusion Jumper
While you're filling him in, he's finishing your sentences. Before you can propose a solution to a problem, he's already telling you what to do.
How to handle it: "This is pretty common because managers are or perceive themselves to be so busy that they'll often push on and say, 'Okay, I get it, let's move on,'" says Lloyd. "Remain calm and don't take it personally, or you'll undermine yourself. Don't start talking faster, trying to get it all in. Just keep going and stick to the facts. You can also help yourself by bringing whatever factual evidence you have—emails, reports."
The Bellicose Boss
She might have your back a little too much. You update her on that little problem with the tech guy, and next thing you know she's gunning to get him fired. Report that Accounting turned down a supply request, and suddenly the two departments are locked in combat. Other managers hate her—and you fear that, by extension, they'll hate you too.
How to handle it: "If people are in this conflictive mode all the time, you're talking about a personality characteristic that isn't going to change. But you may be able to affect behavior," says Lloyd. "First, let her vent, because she's got to get it out and if you cut her off she's not going to hear it. After she's had her catharsis, then it's time to really talk. Focus on the factual outcomes, and try to let this person see if they approach it in a different way, you can get to a better solution. And if they do back off, it's very important to reinforce that behavior: 'That really worked out great. Thank you for doing that.' People like recognition, including managers."
The Know-It-All
This is the guy who snorts derisively in a brainstorming meetings, or writes cutting comments on your reports. When you present a new idea, he asks so many pointed questions you feel like you're in a game of 'Gotcha!'
How to handle it: "This is a power need—a need to show 'I'm smarter and tougher'—and an affinity for control," says Lloyd. "So as soon after the behavior as possible, but not in the meeting, try to find a calm time when he's in a good mood and go talk to him. Avoid asking 'why' and using the word 'you'—both make people defensive. Focus on yourself: 'I sensed in the meeting that my comments really weren't on target, and I'd worked really hard to prepare. I think I need some help here. Can you tell me more about this?'"
The Badmouthing Boss
Behind closed doors she'll give you an earful about your co-workers' weaknesses—but you're pretty sure she's never talked directly to them. Now you have to wonder: What is she saying about you behind your back?
How to handle it: "Don't dive into the conversation, because you don't want to reward the behavior—and if she's badmouthing everyone else, you can bet she's badmouthing you too," says Lloyd. "If you want to, you can try to give a little perspective—'I've never had a problem working with Linda'—but don't get lured into being your colleague's defender. Then say something like, 'It's your decision how you want to approach that' and try to get the discussion back to the real work that needs to be done."
The Ticking Timebomb
This is the screamer, the door-slammer, the phone-thrower. "Surprisingly, this [type]–immature, arguably unstable, and acting like a two-year-old in a managerial position–is pretty common," says Lloyd.
How to handle it: "This is not someone to approach one-on-one because it's arguably a dangerous situation. So while generally it's not great to try to run up the ladder, this is one where, if you have an active, functional HR department, you should go to them first, or go to his (or her) boss. Do it in a group, so it's clear it's not a conflict with one person. Management needs to know because people get hurt, and companies get sued over this kind of behavior."
The Chronic Oversharer
Last night, she and her husband got drunk, had a fight and slept in separate rooms—and you know it because she told you. Oh, and the upcoming firing of your colleague Betty in the Sales Department—yeah, she told you about that too.
How to handle it: "Some managers are just prone to talking, either because they don't have filters or they just have this compulsion to keep words going," says Lloyd. "As you're sitting there listening to information that's really not for your ears, try to find a way to exit. At some point, during a break in all the verbiage, make a perfunctory comment like, 'I'm still so behind, I need to get back to my desk' or 'I have a phone call scheduled, so I need to bow out.' People who talk a lot are used to being interrupted and cut off, because others do to it to them all the time, so your manager might not even notice. Then next time, see if you can go into the meeting with a colleague, or arrange for someone to come get you if you're not out in 10 minutes."
Mentally Absent Manager
Strategy? Goals? Whatever! Your manager is physically present, but you're not sure what it is he does exactly—except play a lot of Angry Birds.
How to handle it: "There are probably two problematic managers in this situation: One is yours and one is your manager's manager," says Lloyd. If the behavior has gone on unchecked or unchallenged for awhile, senior management is implicitly condoning it. "It might be because of a special relationship, or maybe your manager has a very specific skill that's valuable to the company but he's in the wrong job. Either way, as professionals, you and your associates need to dig in, do your jobs and figure out how to manage up [and around him] so you can get your own work done."
The Perpetually Indecisive
She puts off making decisions for so long that everything is always a crisis, and opportunities drift away before you can grab them.
How to handle it: "Lying underneath that is a huge amount of insecurity, fear of failure or fear of doing something wrong," says Lloyd. "The only way to deal is to bring up deadlines: 'It'd be great to get this decision by Friday so we can make Tuesday's deadline.' Try sending it through different media—an email, a text, a Post-It, a meeting—in case there's one that your boss responds best to. But keep in mind that it's important to document these suggestions so that if things start to fail at least you'll be protected."
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I owned one for 6 months to investigate it's feasibility of use within my company (i personally purchased the machine). (Nov 2012 - May 2013). It was the Samsung ARM variant for £220.
I thought the machine worked really well, i could see us deploying it as a quick machine with no overhead, regarding updates, user profiles etc.. as users would simply log in with their google accounts.
The offline worked well, i used to be able to do a lot of work on the train which didn't have an internet connection.
The places were it did fall down was on logging in and security offline. I used two factor security with my google account and sometimes it would log off or restart itself, logging back in without an internet connection was a pain and usually couldn't be done.
I can see the use of these devices, for business and consumer, like i said earlier, zero config, easy to maintain, generally well made and very cheap. The battery also lasted for ages/hours.
However it really comes down to what you want to use it for. Anything remotely heavy and it's not the laptop for you.


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The John Murray Show Tuesday 29 October 2013
A lively mix of entertainment, human interest and lifestyle features with Miriam O'Callaghan.
Joining Miriam on the line this morning is Brian O'Shea, the father of Soren, Saoirse & Connor whose lives were claimed in a car crash in Denmark. Their mother Maria, survived along with four month old Torben, who recently has turned 8 months.
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ComScore's quarterly report, a national survey of mobile subscribers age 13 or older, for the first quarter of 2013 comes with some interesting questions about the U.S. smartphone market. Is Apple losing market share? Are iPhone sales slowing down? How much of the market does Android own? And which Android smartphone maker is on top? For those answers and more, check out ComScore's results.


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The girls are 15 and 13...they aren't in elementary or nursery school. I think the polite thing would be to tell their daughters why the divorce is occurring otherwise they'll be stuck in the "why" and dealing with that emotional baggage for a long time.My parents divorced when I was really really young due to an extramarital affair on my father's part, so I know it's hard to hear but in this situation I really do feel that honesty is the best policy. I'd be very very upset if at the age of 15 my parents didn't think that I had the right to know the true reason for the breakup.I also find that it would be really unkind to the mother to not be able to tell the truth. It puts the marriage ending on two people's shoulders, rather than where it actually belongs...
Mom and dad should get together ahead of time and talk about what will be said, agreeing that there will be no mudslinging, just the facts.
Under the circumstances, I'd very, very strongly say that what they really need is a good family therapist or counsellor with a speciality in divorce and family issues. ....I would also add that what's being done with the kids now is kind of cruel. They know very well that something is badly wrong in the marriage, and they are being given a brushoff. When, sometime down the road, they find out their worst fears are being right, they will realize that they were being lied to, which can cause extra anger and resentment on top of the fact that their family has just been destroyed.
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Dante and Johnny continue to argue about Sonny at the police station, as Olivia tries to broker peace. Dante wants him to trust the system, but Johnny warns if Sonny walks, it's on Dante.
Morgan comes to the police station to look for Dante, but finds Ronnie instead, who tries to get information out of him about Michael. Dante walks in and throws Ronnie against the wall, warning if he goes near his brother again, he will cut his heart out. Morgan's eyes widen as he watches.
Maxie catches up with her vision of Georgie at the hospital who tells her she has a decision to make: life or death. If she decides to live, Georgie wonders what kind of life she wants to have. Maxie tells her sister how much she loves Spinelli but she knows she'll break his heart because she wants the bad boy - someone who will take chances. She admits Spinelli has given her everything, but it's still not enough and thinks it would be better for him to lose her this way. Maxie doesn't want to die, she just doesn't want to break Spinelli's heart again. Johnny comes in and Georgie and Maxie watch as he visits with Maxie's body to talk about his issues with Sonny and Dante. Spinelli wheels in and tells Johnny Maxie's vitals are sinking and he's afraid she is dying. Spinelli expresses his insecurity over their relationship and Johnny reassures him, but then gets a call and has to leave. Spinelli tells Maxie how beautiful she is and that he knows she loves him. He thinks he failed her by putting her in danger in order to prove himself. His life matters because of her and his heart is full. He breaks down in tears as he begs her live. He longs for her to find her heart's desire even if it's not him. Maxie announces she wants to go back because she would be a fool to leave him. Georgie says she can go back, but she won't remember, however, she will remember if she dies and goes with her now. Maxie decides to live and Georgie is happy she made that decision. Maxie thanks her sister for her guidance and they say their goodbyes. Maxie wakes up much to Spinelli's relief.
Luke tries to get through to Kristina at her house warning her Sonny will kill Ethan if she doesn't tell the truth. She just wants this to be over and Luke says the only way to do that is to name the person who really hurt her. He shares his experience of being beaten, feeling scared and protecting the person who hurt him. As Kristina gets close to telling the truth, Sam walks in and orders Luke out. After he leaves, Alexis walks in to find Kristina in tears. Sam tells their mother Luke was there to convince Kristina to say Ethan is innocent. Alexis is upset and offers to have the charges reinstated. Kristina just wants things the way they were and blames herself for messing things up. Alexis assures her that's not the case and runs out to take care of something.
After Sonny declares he wants Ethan dead, Jason notices Claire standing outside the office and points her out to Sonny. Once Claire leaves, Jason tells Sonny to focus on the trial, worried Claire will use this against him. Sonny doesn't think the jury will ever know because it has nothing to do with Claudia. Sonny leaves and Luke pays Jason a visit, assuming he knows Ethan is innocent or else Ethan would be dead already. Luke and Jason sit down in the restaurant and Jason admits he thinks there's a hole in Kristina's story, but he's left it up to Lucky. He suggests Luke tell Lucky to have Dante investigate because Sonny believes in Dante. Luke leaves and Sam walks in upset about Kristina, so Jason takes her out for a walk.
Jason and Sam find Ethan at Kelly's chatting up a waitress. Sam calls him a sick freak.
Alexis goes to the Haunted Star to express her displeasure with Luke's actions and warns him about going all Cassadine.
Claire finds Jax at court and asks him how she can illicit the response she just witnessed from Sonny. He suggests she find someone to testify he is violent towards women. As they talk, Sonny walks up and accuses Claire of being bought by Jax. Diane approaches and brings her client into court. Claire vows to make Sonny lose it.
Inside the courtroom, Claire calls Johnny to the stand and the judge chastises Coleman for talking with Lisa. He suggests Coleman listen to the evidence before he renders a verdict. Claire questions Johnny about Claudia's relationship with Sonny. Kristina sits in the back of the room, as Johnny talks about Claudia's accident and miscarriage. Johnny then says Sonny abused Claudia, which makes Sonny go off. The two argue as the courtroom explodes into chaos.
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TOPEKA, Kan. (WIBW) -- School is supposed to be one of the safest places on earth, but after rumors of a potential shooting and then a 911 call made inside the school this morning, Topeka HIgh School police officers were on edge.
The call turned out to be an accidental pocket dial.
But extra police officers were on patrol at the school after an anonymous tip of a student shooting supposedly planned for today, this all fueled by social media sites like Facebook and Twitter.
School officials ask parents to keep calm through an email sent on Wednesday. Officers have been in contact with parents as well.
Coordinator of Campus Police Officer Mike Homan said parents have been very helpful and cooperative and giving him names of kids who have heard talk of the shooting.
Police interviewed students, and after collecting information, they decided the threats were unsubstantiated. That doesn't mean it's any less important.
"We still have to take it serious," Homan told 13 News. "If we didn't take it serious we wouldn't be doing our job. No matter if we hear something we know that's not what happened, we still follow up. We're here to keep these kids and staff safe."
Most students did go to school today.
Freshman Ahjanaye Conley said she is there to learn and finish her finals and not worry about rumors.
"It shouldn't happen, it's not cool," freshman Xavian Burton said.
Officer Homan said that students were being nonchalant about the whole thing and it was a good day.
He also said if students didn't feel comfortable coming to school today, they were excused and will be able to make up their finals.


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PRINCETON – Every year, in honor of Earth Day, PES teacher Angie Thompson assigns a unique project to her third graders, called "Trash to Treasure."
The project requires students to transform recycled items and materials into new, useful "treasures."
Thompson explained she first assigned the project to students in her first year of teaching. It was a final project for a recycling unit and when projects started rolling in she was "blown away.
"I couldn't believe the creativity," she said. "It was so much fun that I assigned 'Trash to Treasure' with every class I had after that."
The project has expanded from Thompson's classroom to the entire third-grade class at PES. It brings in about 100 recycled projects each year.
Thompson admits when she first assigned the project, her goal was for students to learn about recycling paper, plastic and glass. However, students took the project above and beyond when they brought in "treasures" that incorporated items like an old shovel handle, a rusty bucket and dirty piece of string.
"We are surrounded by so many treasures in this world. It's all in the way we look at things. Sometimes I find myself digging through the recycling at home after seeing a fantastic idea," Thompson said.
Monday, on Earth Day, the third-graders traveled room-to-room scoping out other students' projects. In Thompson's class, students used various recycled materials to create items such as a dress made from pop cans and two liter pop labels, a picture frame made from corks, a bean bag toss game made from old rags and bird seed for the bags and various sized plastic containers for the targets, bird feeders made from old bottles and even a purse made from an old basketball.
When mentioning the importance of recycling, Thompson used the example of when people talk about how wearing a hand-me-down shirt saves money. She added it's also important to remember it saves water, energy and pollution, which is used to produce and ship the product.
"If everyone made a few more choices like that, it would make a huge impact on our Earth," she said.
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Norfolk District Attorney Michael W. Morrissey says all communities in his district should be prepared for worst-case situations should violence break out in a local school.
So last week he offered each of those 27 communities a free, comprehensive safety assessment for one school building to be prepared by the Metropolitan Law Enforcement Council, or MetroLEC, a consortium of 43 local police and sheriff departments that share resources, equipment, and expertise.
The organization uses a variety of tools to determine how best to decrease or prevent injuries in the school environment if violence occurs, officials said.
A team of MetroLEC officers who developed an "Incident Management Protocols and Critical Tasks" program will walk the targeted building to conduct a physical assessment, then provide a package of options to school administrators including virtual imagery of the space and floor plans, as well as recommended locations to gather in an emergency. Officers and others will also review existing lockdown procedures and may offer customized alternatives, as well as a "crawl, walk, run" strategy, officials said. Police and prosecutors involved in the program declined to offer specifics of the plan because of the sensitive nature of school safety.
About $3,500 has been budgeted for each safety assessment from the forfeited proceeds of drug cases handled by the Norfolk prosecutor's office. At the end of the assessment, the district will have recommendations and clear steps to take to keep children safe, officials said, which can then be applied to other buildings.
Morrissey said his offer is not a knee-jerk reaction to the shootings at the Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., or elsewhere, but an ongoing priority to protect children since he became district attorney in 2010. He announced the new program last week during the first meeting of a new countywide school safety task force that includes more than 50 representatives from Avon, Braintree, Canton, Foxborough, Milton, Sharon, Stoughton, Walpole, Westwood, and Weymouth, among other communities.
"This is very important work, and I want to make it as easy as possible for towns to have it done," said Morrissey.
He said his office will provide one assessment that local police and school officials can then use as a template to craft safety plans for other school buildings as they see the opportunity.
Some districts, like Avon, have been working on similar protocols and procedures for some time, said School Superintendent Margaret Frieswyk.
Avon is one of the county's smallest districts, with just 700-plus students in two schools. Still, Frieswyk said her district has a crisis team that meets regularly, a manual that provides protocols and sample letters to parents — for disasters from floods to suicides — and each classroom is equipped with a flipchart that contains emergency instructions for teachers.
Currently, the district is discussing whether to keep an emergency lockdown procedure in place, or perhaps adopt something more aggressive, as Canton did earlier this year. Canton began training for "ALICE" — a potentially confrontational action plan whose letters mean "alert, lockdown, inform, counter, and evacuate."
The program calls on staff and students to make active decisions, such as blocking doorways, coordinating on-the-spot evacuations, or even throwing things at, or tackling, an assailant.
"We have security cameras, door buzzers, and we have told students we have to monitor their safety,'' Frieswyk said. "We are always looking at different options. We are intrigued with anything new that comes along."
Canton police Detective Chip Yeaton, a school resource officer, defended the ALICE protocol recently, maintaining that the program is about teaching students options, rather than instilling a status quo response to just lock the door and wait.
Weymouth Assistant Superintendent Matt Ferron said his management team is still evaluating Morrissey's assessment offer for one building in the 12-school district.
"Until we present this option to our School Committee, I can't say with certainty that we will participate, but we are giving it very careful consideration,'' he said.
Foxborough Superintendent Debbie Spinelli said her district commissioned MetroLEC safety assessments on all five schools at least four years ago at the urging of Police Chief Edward O'Leary. Since those plans are already in place, Foxborough wants Morrissey to consider allowing the schools to use the grant funding for school security cameras instead.
"We are in the early stages of planning and are meeting with faculty and parent groups to discuss improvements to our school security and emergency response plans,'' Spinelli said.
Walpole administrators recently floated a plan to install security cameras in schools, something that students have objected to through a petition drive.
Morrissey has offered schools in his district three rounds of grants for capital improvements — from door locks and intruder alarms to video security cameras, according to information provided by his office. In November, the month before the shooting at Sandy Hook that killed 26 children and adults, and again in February, Morrissey said he hosted training for police and school personnel on techniques that can save lives in active shooter situations.
That most recent training was provided by Response Options, a Texas-based firm founded by a school principal and a SWAT officer who are married to each other.
"School-age children are one of our most targeted and at-risk populations, and I want every chief, every superintendent, every principal, and every parent to know that they have a partner in making their children as safe as we can," Morrissey said.Michele Morgan Bolton can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com.


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Their High powered offense and no defense may get the job done in regular season..but strong defense will beat them in the playoffs.. That and a qb who doesn't turn the ball over. Every team you mentioned beating the pats had stellar D.
The Patriots have developed a fatal pattern of playing their best football in the regular season and their worst football in the playoffs.
Here's the evidence.
In 2007, the Patriots averaged 36.8 points per game in the regular season and finished with a 16-0 record. But they imploded during Super Bowl XLII; the Giants sacked Tom Brady five times and held him to a single passing touchdown. The Patriots only scored 14 points.
In 2009, during a playoff game against the Ravens in the Wild Card Round, the Patriots allowed Ray Rice to burn them for an 83-yard touchdown on the first play of the game. The Ravens scored again on their next possession, too, going up 14-0 after five minutes. The Patriots didn't sack Joe Flacco once all day. The Ravens sacked Tom Brady three times and they also intercepted him three times. The Patriots only scored 14 points.
In 2010, the Patriots averaged 32.4 points per game and finished the season with a 14-2 record. Then, during a playoff game against the Jets in the divisional round, the Patriots allowed Mark Sanchez to throw three touchdowns without a single interception. They didn't sack Sanchez once. Meanwhile, the Jets sacked Tom Brady five times, intercepted him once and held him to two touchdowns.
In 2011, the Patriots averaged 32.1 points per game and finished the season with a 13-3 record. Then came the ghosts. During Super Bowl XLVI, the Patriots were hit with a safety on Tom Brady's first throw of the game. The Giants sacked Brady twice and hit him eight times. New England's high-powered offense only produced 17 points all night. The Patriots lost, despite the fact that Eli Manning only threw one touchdown in the game.
In 2012, the Patriots averaged 34.8 points per game and earned a playoff bye. And, yet again, they imploded in the playoffs. They scored a dismal 13 points against the Ravens in the AFC Championship. They let Joe Flacco throw three touchdowns without an interception. Worst of all: The Patriots went scoreless in the second half.
This pattern is too clear to ignore. This isn't a lack of talent, this is a lack of leadership and preparation, starting at the top.
Bill Belichick should have his team ready to play their best football in the most important games of the postseason. Instead, the Patriots regularly look passive and baffled in these big games.
There's plenty of blame to go around, but the head coach gets the bulk
Their High powered offense and no defense may get the job done in regular season..but strong defense will beat them in the playoffs.. That and a qb who doesn't turn the ball over. Every team you mentioned beating the pats had stellar D.
Considering there offensive prowess in the regular season they won all there SB's by 3 points and I believe lost them by the same. The Bills went 4 times after dominating the regular season and lost all of them. Even the great HC's lose the big ones it's the NFL.
I hate defending the Pats but I'd much rather win the division every friggin year and make the playoffs than have no shot half the time.
Again it comes down to that idiom.
Even in an offensive league, defense wins championships.
The Patriots have never been able to replace the great defensive players they used to have: Vrabel, Bruschi, Law, Harrison, Seymour, Samuel, McGinest. These guys were not only great players but they were leaders. The Patriots still do not have a great leader on defense. Wilfork and Mayo are good, but they are not the true leaders on that defense.
Only bitter, jealous JET FANS are capable of taking everything that the pats have done (virtually dominating at best, extremely successful at worst) and dismiss it.
I can't stand Tex, but I have to give him credit for taking his lumps
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Living the Scientific Life (Scientist, Interrupted)
Tag archives for flightlessness
tags: ratite, tinamous, evolution, biogeography, phylogenomics, convergence, flightlessness, Paleognath, homoplasy, vicariance White-throated Tinamou, Tinamus guttatus. Image: Wikipedia. New research suggests the ostriches, emus, rheas and other flightless birds known as ratites have lost the ability to fly many times, rather than just once, as long thought. Further, the ratites appear to form a group with…


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Haitian ex-leader 'Baby Doc' Duvalier appears in court
Latest update : 2013-02-28
Jean-Claude Duvalier, the former Haitian dictator also known as "Baby Doc", appeared in a Port-au-Prince court on Thursday for a hearing that will determine whether he can be charged with crimes against humanity.
Former Haitian dictator Jean-Claude Duvalier appeared in court Thursday after three times shunning a summons for a hearing on whether he should be charged with human rights abuses during his brutal 1971-1986 regime.
Dozens of supporters cheered as Duvalier emerged wearing a navy blue suit and gray tie and sat facing the three-judge panel. Next to him sat his defense attorneys and his longtime partner, who did not remove her sunglasses during the proceedings.
Those seeking to have Duvalier prosecuted smiled as they saw him finally arrive for the session, and some applauded.
Reed Brody, counsel and a spokesman for Human Rights Watch, said the session "is an important victory for Duvalier's victims, who never gave up hope of seeing him in court, and for the Haitian people who have the right to know what happened during the dark years of the Duvalier dictatorship," Brody said.
The hearing began with arguments over legal proceedings, with Duvalier's defense attorneys requesting a closed-door hearing, which the judges granted. However, the hearing was still publicly under way early Thursday afternoon.
The steamy courtroom was packed with journalists, observers and Duvalier supporters. The crowd, however, remained quiet overall, unlike the two hearings that Duvalier did not attend, which became raucous and sometimes volatile.
The former dictator known as "Baby Doc" had previously ignored the court summons three times.
The Duvalier case seemed to have vanished until it went before Haiti's Court of Appeal in January. A lower court judge had ruled in January 2012 that Duvalier should only face charges on alleged financial crimes.
Duvalier returned to Haiti in early 2011 after spending 25 years in exile. While in exile, Duvalier remained quiet except for a September 2007 radio address in which he apologized for wrongs committed under his rule and urged supporters to rally around his fringe political party.
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SOMONAUK – For many of the Somonauk School District 432 board candidates, passing a referendum that could generate $900,000 for the district is crucial.
"It's the most important issue there could be possibly be right now," candidate Michael Short said.
The referendum that would allow the school board to raise its education fund tax rate to 4 percent has been touted as a lifeline for the district. School board President Tom Nielsen, who is not up for re-election, said in February the district would cut three teachers and a host of extracurricular programs if the referendum fails.
LaSalle County is not a tax-capped county, which means that to raise revenue, the district needs voter permission April 9 to raise tax rates. Even though it extends into DeKalb County, the majority of the district is in LaSalle.
Voters also will choose among six candidates – Short, Corey Britt, Bradley Casner, Roger Duffield, Amy Wiegman and Matthew Wilson – who are vying for four spots on the board. Britt and Duffield are the only incumbents seeking re-election.
For Wiegman, failure is not an option when it comes to the passing the referendum.
"I don't really want to think what will happen if it fails," Wiegman said.
She first got involved with the school district in 2012 when her husband, Jay, led the pro-referendum committee. It was an eye-opening experience, she said.
"We really became more and more aware of problems of communication between the schools, the businesses and the community," Wiegman said.
With her background as a social media manager at a publishing company, Wiegman said she would use her skills to open up more lines of communication among the three entities.
Wiegman and Short have children in the first grade. If elected, Short said he would not micromanage the administrators or teachers.
"I'm willing to listen and take input when it's time to make a decision," Wiegman said.
Wilson taught agriculture and general science in the district for 33 years, and he's hoping to bring his appreciation for the education system to the board.
"I know how to live through tough decisions and tough times, and I hope to make a difference," Wilson said.
Regardless of the outcome of the referendum, the board should begin planning for whatever direction it wants to take in the future, Duffield said. With a background in insurance and risk management, Duffield said he believed he excels at long-term planning.
"We're going to have to figure out what's important for citizens," Duffield said, "and it just can't be in a time of crisis."
D-432 candidates
Affiliation: Independent
Age: 48
Town: Somonauk
Career: Insurance and risk management
Children: Nick, 24, Taylor, 20, Amber, 18
Affiliation: Independent
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Town: Somonauk
Career: Geotechnical engineer, Illinois Department of Transportation
Children: Madeline, 6, Patrick, 5, Andrew, 2, Natalie, 1
Affiliation: Independent
Age: 35
Town: Somonauk
Career: Social media manager, Annie's Publishing
Children: Ellie Wiegman, Spencer Wiegman
Affiliation: Independent
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Town: Somonauk
Career: Turf specialist /retired teacher, Young and Younger
Children: Christopher S. Wilson, 32, James M. Wilson, 28, Laura L. Carpenter, 27


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In its final outing of the season, South Tama Middle School's eighth grade football team swept Newton on Oct. 16.
The first game victory was the first for the A-team all season. Newton received the ball first, but South Tama's defense forced a three-and-out. Then STC blocked Newton's punt on the Cardinal's 15 yard line. Kolbie Clark scored a couple plays later on an 11-yard jet-sweep run. Dillon Graves punched in the two-point attempt through the heart of the Cardinal defense, giving STC an early 8-0 lead.
The Trojans and Cardinals offenses proceeded to trade a pair of turnovers that cost both teams scoring opportunities. With only seconds left in the first half, the Cardinals broke a 75-yard run. STC's Elias Garcia ran down the Cardinals player and tackled him at the Trojans 10 yard line. The Trojans defense tightened up and held Newton out of the end zone as the second quarter expired. STC led 8-0 at the break.
South Tama added to its lead in the third quarter. Clayton Rosenberger scored on a five-yard option run, giving STC a 14-0 lead. The Cardinals answered in the fourth quarter with a touchdown of their own. The point-after attempt was no good. The Trojans recovered the onside kick attempt and then proceeded to run out the clock and take a knee to end their 2012 season with a win, 14-6 over Newton.
"We had a tragic thing happen this year and for us to go out there and give it all we had and to get this win is amazing," Rosenberger said. "You're in our prayers Ian Mcfate."
In the second game of the doubleheader, the Trojans were led by Ruben Fuentes with 10 tackles and a forced fumble on the defensive side of the ball. Leading rushers were Lansin Lacina and Elias Garcia with 44 and 57 yards, respectfully.
The Trojans scored the lone touchdown of the game on a one-yard quarterback sneak by Nathan Weiss. The two-point try was no good and the Trojans defense held strong with solid performances from Onel Valdez, Skyler Steuhm and Gabe Garcia. The Trojans won the nightcap 6-0.


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The hour program will feature interviews with fan favorites including Tony Geary, Genie Francis, Maurice Benard, Jack Wagner, Rick Springfield, many other cast members, and Executive Producer Frank Valentini.
20/20 goes behind-the-scenes and offers a visitor's guide to Port Charles and its residents, and show how love in the afternoon has changed dramatically.
The special will also look at how GENERAL HOSPITAL has been the launching pad for many actors including Demi Moore, John Stamos, Kristin Davis and Richard Simmons, as well as for chart-topping music hits; and how it has led the way in cultural stories like HIV, teen sex, working moms, birth control and breast cancer.
Anchored by Katie Couric, GENERAL HOSPITAL – THE REAL SOAP DISH, A Special Edition of 20/20, airs Saturday, April 6 (9:00-10:00 p.m., ET) on ABC.
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If you get into the hills these summer holidays, you'll find many plants are in flower.
Many of New Zealand's flowers aren't particularly showy. But pay them closer investigation and many will reward you with a subtle beauty.
Here's a selection from my just completed field-work throughout the South Island, where my pursuit of Gleichenia tangle-ferns led me up several mountains.


text: The Second Annual Knoxville Youth Wrestling Tournament is next weekend at both Knoxville Middle and High Schools. Varsity Coach Eric Whitcome says 16 teams are scheduled to be in Knoxville next Sunday which is up from last year. Whitcome adds last year the first tournament went so well that they just had to have a second one.


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REPORT: A Roadmap to Responsible Soy: approaches to increase certification and reduce risk
A Roadmap to Responsible Soy highlights that only 2 to 3% of soy production is currently certified as responsibly-produced. Responsible production in soy lags far behind other commodities such as palm oil, cocoa and coffee. This brings reputational and commercial risks to end users including manufacturers of food, animal feed and biofuel. Global NGO and activist campaigns have targeted palm oil in recent years, but attention is also being paid to soy.
A Roadmap to Responsible Soy is published in collaboration with the Sustainable Trade Initiative (IDH), WWF, FMO (the Netherlands Development Finance Company) and the International Finance Corporation (IFC).


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MJIL Symposium: A Response to Ramesh Thakur and Thomas Weiss by Spencer Zifcak
[Spencer Zifcak is Allan Myers Professor of Law and Director of the Institute of Legal Studies at the Australian Catholic University.]
This post is part of the MJIL vol13(1) Symposium. Other posts in this series can be found in the related posts below.
I begin this response by acknowledging the two commentators. Ramesh Thakur and Tom Weiss are, together with Gareth Evans, the pre-eminent writers in the field — as well as each having played formative role in the creation of the Responsibility to Protect ('R2P') doctrine in the first place. So, it is a privilege that both have chosen to write a commentary on my article and it is my pleasure now to respond.
Plainly, Professor Thakur and I agree on his four summative points, so there is no need for me to comment further on them. He does, however, point to three matters he believes I have missed, so, let me say something about each.
Professor Thakur observes that, in the Syrian case, a perverse incentive exists for the Syrian rebels to respond brutally to governmental repression in order to internationalise the conflict and thereby encourage external intervention on their side. I had neither seen any prior commentary to this effect nor had this occurred to me. So, I'm grateful for the observation.
My only reservation about it is that it does seem to me difficult to make any valid, general comment about how the rebels are thinking, and why they are acting in the way that they are, because the rebel cause is so divided. As Hussein Agha and Robert Malley note in a recent article in the New York Review of Books, the opposition is an eclectic assortment of 'Muslim Brothers, Salafis, peaceful protesters, armed militants, Kurds, soldiers who have defected, tribal elements and foreign fighters'. And then there is Al-Qaeda. So, I accept completely that some parts of the rebel leadership will be angling for external intervention but I'm not at this stage sure which ones and how representative they are. Further, if brutality and crimes against humanity are part of a rebel strategy, it does seem to be counter-productive. It is clear that international support for the rebel cause has waned in direct proportion to the increasing number of reports emerging from Syria of rebel atrocities. And so has support within Syria itself. If a vote were taken of Syrians now, it is by no means clear that the rebels would prevail over the regime.
Professor Thakur then refers to the existence of the Sunni-Shi'a split in the country and in the region. I don't think I missed this one but may not have made it as explicit as it should be. The tragedy within Syria is that initial calls for democratic reform have morphed into a fully-fledged civil war on Sunni-Shi'a lines. And Professor Thakur is right to point to the fact that the Sunni-Shi'a battle has profound regional implications as well. Again, tragically, the civil war has drawn influential regional actors into the fray, so much so that the Syrian conflict already appears, at one level, to be a proxy war between Iran/Iraq on one side, and the Saudis, Qataris and allies, on the other. This is one critical factor that militates against any form of external intervention, as any intervention will alienate significant regional powers with unpredictable and inevitably adverse consequences both ways.
Professor Thakur points to my failure to discuss the Brazilian 'Responsibility while Protecting' ('RWP') proposal. He is right. I didn't. I footnoted it and that is all. There were two reasons for this. First, I've read it many times and have not found it particularly helpful. In my view, it is not much more than a statement of the obvious, in the wake of the mistakes made by the international community in the Libyan case. Secondly, one of my major objectives in the article was to encapsulate the standing of R2P following Libya and Syria. I did that in a series of propositions at the end of each section. These propositions in part resemble those in the Brazilian document but are more specific, detailed and, I hope, more helpful. So, I didn't want to muddy these waters by setting out to compare and contrast the two encapsulations. And since one was my own, obviously I chose to give it most prominence. Professor Thakur is right, however, to point out that the Brazilian concept note has provoked some new thinking. So, I will take that as an encouragement to explore the discussion while maintaining my reservations about the Brazilian note itself.
Professor Thakur points to two key elements in the RWP proposal that he believes are significant. The Security Council should ensure that it sets in place a monitoring and review mechanism when any intervention is commenced so as to ensure compliance with the Council's resolutions. It should also formulate an agreed set of criteria on the basis of which to debate and mobilise consensus upon an R2P military intervention.
The second one is interesting. Gareth Evans has been a tireless advocate of the Security Council's adoption of such prudential criteria and I am in wholehearted agreement with him on this. I note that Professor Thakur too, has joined Evans in a recent letter in which both support the deployment of the prudential criteria developed in the International Commission on Intervention and State Sovereignty ('ICISS') report, the High-Level Panel report and Kofi Annan's In Larger Freedom. It was in this context that I wrote the sentence that appears to have surprised Professor Weiss. In the article, I wrote that 'judgments as to whether and when to intervene are likely in the foreseeable future to be made case by case rather than according to predetermined, universally applicable principles'. This was a reference to my earlier discussion about the desirability of adopting prudential criteria. There is substantial opposition, not least amongst the P-5 to the Security Council's adoption of the criteria, but one can always hope.
I note Professor Weiss's comment that applying universal principles may have a detrimental effect. I'm not sure whether he was referring here to Evans-Thakur prudential criteria or something else. But if it was in relation to the criteria, I think his criticism is misconceived. It is precisely to avoid the prospect of double-standards that I support the criteria's application. The South would have far more confidence that they would not be subject to neo-imperial meddling if they could be assured that the relevant criteria including necessity, proportionality and balance of consequences were consistently and openly discussed and applied when decisions as to intervention were being made.
He may be right on another point, however. Yes, it's true, lawyers love criteria. We think they're really useful as a means of structuring constructive deliberation and decision-making. But political scientists? Perhaps we are as different as Weiss surmises.
On another matter, Professor Weiss is clearly right. Humanitarian impulse rather than humanitarian imperative is the better descriptor. I will use it. But his last sentence rather puzzles me.
On what basis can it properly be said that if Assad leaves Syria, his exit will have in part been attributable to the R2P norm? Apart from the occasional and cursory reference to R2P in Security Council resolutions decrying the regime's failure to protect its people from atrocity, for reasons I've outlined in some considerable detail, the Syrian case is passing R2P by. Neither the regime, nor its rebel opponents, nor the major regional and international players, seem to be concerned with it at all. Each pursues its agenda with absolute ruthlessness.
R2P is a noble doctrine. For the time being, however, it will have to play on a different and less contested field.


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The 1989 commissioned oil portrait of the city's first black mayor was moved earlier this month to the Erma L. Henderson Auditorium on the 13th floor of the Coleman A. Young Municipal Center.
It was removed in December from nearby Cobo Center for restoration.
Young was elected in 1973 and spent 20 years as mayor.
Detroit-Wayne Joint Building Authority executive director Gregory McDuffee says in a release that "it is befitting that Mayor Young's commissioned portrait be restored and hung in his building namesake."
The Building Authority is the facilities manager for City Hall.
A portrait of Detroit's 62nd Mayor Albert Cobo was moved from City Hall to Cobo Center.


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In its last two games, UMass (0-8, 0-4 Mid-American Conference) hasn't scored in the first half. It is probably no coincidence that it was outscored in those two games, 73-7. The Minutemen's last first-half touchdown came Oct. 6 during a 52-14 loss to Western Michigan.
"Once we get in the end zone, everybody's confidence increases exponentially," coach Charley Molnar said. "It's hard to be confident, to come out as well as the defense has played in some games in the first half, and you've got a goose egg on the scoreboard. You're talking about coming back and winning the game. But everybody is probably wondering inside, 'Is the offense going to get in the end zone?' It's been hard duty for the offense to do that."
The last two games, the UMass defense has blunted opposing attacks in the first half. On Oct. 20 at Gillette Stadium, UMass trailed Bowling Green at halftime, 7-0. Last Saturday on the road, for most of the first half, the Minutemen limited Vanderbilt to a lone touchdown. The Commodores scored two touchdowns in a 55-second span late in the second quarter.
Freshman linebacker Kassan Messiah has been at the head of UMass's defensive charge. In the last two games, Messiah has recorded 25 tackles.
"I think the defense has found its stride," Molnar said. "They've got the right guys in the right places. The young guys on defense seemed to have matured quickly. I think we've found some real gems in some of the younger guys. They've been developing week in and week out. They've stayed the course."
But all that first-half mileage has led to tire wear in the second half. Bowling Green held the ball for 17:29 in the first half. Vanderbilt's first-half possession time was 16:00. In both games, quarterback Mike Wegzyn and the UMass offense never found a rhythm in the opening 30 minutes.
Upon each three-and-out misfire, the UMass defenders had to pull on their hard hats and trudge back onto the field.
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In the second half, both opponents broke through against the winded UMass defense. Bowling Green scored two third-quarter TDs. Vanderbilt piled up 28 points in the third quarter.
Wegzyn hasn't thrown for a touchdown in three games. Wegzyn's best day came on Sept. 29 against Ohio, when the redshirt freshman went 27 of 51 for 373 yards and four touchdowns. A.J. Doyle has relieved Wegzyn the last three games.
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KENNETH WINSTON STARR, President of Baylor University, has had a distinguished career in academia, the law, and public service. Prior to serving as President of Baylor University, he served for six years as the Duane and Kelly Roberts Dean and Professor of Law at Pepperdine, where he taught current constitutional issues and civil procedure. He also is of counsel to the law firm of Kirkland & Ellis LLP, where he was a partner from 1993 to 2004, specializing in appellate work, antitrust, federal courts, federal jurisdiction, and constitutional law.
Starr has argued 36 cases before the U.S. Supreme Court, including 25 cases during his service as Solicitor General of the United States from 1989-93. He also served as United States Circuit Judge for the District of Columbia Circuit from 1983 to 1989, as law clerk to Chief Justice Warren E. Burger from 1975 to 1977 and as law clerk to Fifth Circuit Judge David W. Dyer from 1973 to 1974. Starr was appointed to serve as Independent Counsel for five investigations, including Whitewater, from 1994 to 1999.
Starr is the author of more than 25 publications, and his book, First Among Equals: The Supreme Court in American Life, published in 2002, was praised by U.S. Circuit Judge David B. Sentelle as "eminently readable and informative…not just the best treatment to-date of the Court after (Chief Justice Earl) Warren, it is likely to have that distinction for a long, long time."
Starr has received a multitude of honors and awards, including the J. Reuben Clark Law Society 2005 Distinguished Service Award, the 2004 Capital Book Award, the Jefferson Cup award from the FBI, the Edmund Randolph Award for Outstanding Service in the Department of Justice, and the Attorney General's Award for Distinguished Service.
JAMES HUFFMAN joined the Lewis & Clark Law School faculty in 1973 and served as dean from 1993 to 2006. He has been a visiting professor at Auckland University, Francisco Marroquin University, the University of Oregon, and Athens University. His academic subjects have included constitutional law, natural resources law, water law, torts, jurisprudence, and legal history.
Jim has been a fellow with The Heritage Foundation and the Humane Studies Institute, and currently serves on the Hoover Institution Task Force on Property Rights, Freedom and Prosperity. He has written over 200 academic articles and chapters and writes regular commentaries for The Daily Caller and occasional op-eds for The Wall Street Journal, The Oregonian, The Washington Times, and other newspapers. In 2010, Jim was the Republican nominee for United States Senator from Oregon.
Jim serves on the editorial board of the Cato Supreme Court Review and the boards of the Classroom Law Project, the Federalist Society Property and Environment Practice Group, the Rocky Mountain Mineral Law Foundation, and the Western Resources Legal Center. He is a graduate of Montana State University, the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, and the University of Chicago Law School.
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Students gain an understanding of the litigation process and how laws impact the day to day operations of natural resource dependent businesses. Students also experience a more profound educational experience by personally observing how laws and litigation impact businesses, the economy, and local communities.
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When: Monday, March 18, 2013 @ 5:30PM
Where: Agnes Flanagan Chapel, Lewis & Clark College, 0615 S.W. Palatine Hill Road, Portland, Oregon
Cost: Free and open to the public
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Obviously, the proof will be up to the Dolphins. If teams decided they still aren't going to allow Miami to run, then Chad Henne and Marshall must hurt the defense deeply enough and often enough to make them adjust. And if defenses decide to stop Marshall from the start, the tight end play and the running game must be good enough to make the defense pay for its decision.
This much is certain, however. The Dolphins offense now poses a dilemma for oposing defenses.
And that is a good thing.
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