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A brief history of capacity-building in the UNFCCC process
A country cannot mitigate or adapt to climate change without first having the capacity to do so. That is why capacity-building has been part of the UNFCCC negotiating process since its inception two decades ago. Capacity-building has long been recognized in the Convention's work on such issues as national communications, greenhouse gas inventories, technology transfer and adaptation.
Since 2001, capacity-building activities in developing countries and in countries with economies in transition have been guided by two frameworks, described in more detail below.
In 2001, the Conference of the Parties (the supreme decision-making body of the Convention) adopted two frameworks that address the needs, conditions and priorities of developing countries and countries with economies in transition. The frameworks are enshrined in decisions 2/CP.7 and 3/CP.7.
The frameworks provide a set of guiding principles and approaches to capacity-building, for example that it should be a country-driven process, involve learning by doing, and build on existing activities. They also contain a list of priority areas for action on capacity-building, including the specific needs of least developed countries and small island developing States. They reaffirm that capacity-building is essential to enable these countries to implement the objective of the Convention.
The frameworks set out a way forward for capacity-building activities, such as developing and strengthening skills and knowledge, as well as providing opportunities for stakeholders and organizations to share their experiences, and increasing their awareness to enable them to participate more fully in the climate change process.
The frameworks also provide guidance on the support of financial and technical resources to be addressed by the Global Environment Facility, bilateral and multilateral agencies, and other intergovernmental organizations and institutions. The frameworks call for developing countries and countries with economies in transition to provide information on their specific needs and priorities through national communication and submissions, while promoting cooperation and stakeholder participation.
In 2005, the Conference of the Parties serving as the meeting of the Parties to the Kyoto Protocol (CMP) decided that the capacity-building frameworks were also applicable to the implementation of the Kyoto Protocol. The CMP endorsed these frameworks to guide capacity-building activities under the Kyoto Protocol in developing countries and countries with economies in transition.
More information on previous comprehensive reviews of the implementation of the capacity-building frameworks in developing countries and in countries with economies in transition is available here.
In the years following the adoption of the frameworks in 2001, countries continued to implement or enhance capacity-building activities at the individual, institutional and systemic levels. These efforts were bolstered by annual monitoring and periodic reviews that looked at progress on the implementation of the capacity-building frameworks, as well as by a series of workshops and meetings.
In 2009, capacity-building was introduced in the Ad hoc Working Group on Long-term Cooperative Action under the Convention (AWG-LCA) negotiating process. The Chair introduced a draft decision that called for enhanced action on capacity-building. This marked the start of talks that would result in the establishment of the Durban Forum on Capacity-building.
The following year, a decision was adopted at the Cancun Climate Change Conference. In the Cancun decision, Parties agreed to several action items, including strengthening relevant institutions, including focal points and national coordinating bodies and organizations, and strengthening climate change communication, education, training and public awareness at all levels.
At the Panama Climate Change Conference in 2011, Parties engaged in a three-hour in-depth discussion on capacity-building with representatives of relevant bodies established under the Convention, with the Global Environment Facility and with other delegates involved in negotiating mitigation, adaptation, and technology and finance. They discussed various issues, including: support and institutions for adaptation; capacity-building for the preparation of national communications; and the need to design, integrate and coordinate capacity-building in order to deliver it more effectively.
The Panama in-depth discussion, hailed as a success by Parties, paved the way for the careful crafting of the decision text on the Durban Forum a few months later during the Durban Climate Change Conference the city from which the Forum takes its name. Parties decided the Forum would meet once a year during the UNFCCC negotiating sessions and allow for the participation of all stakeholders in the process. The Forum was designed as a place where representatives from Parties, UN organizations, intergovernmental and non-governmental organizations, research, academia and the private sector would share ideas, experiences, lessons learned and good practices on implementing capacity-building activities in developing countries.
The Forums inaugural meeting was held at the Bonn Climate Change Conference in May 2012. More >>


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Abstract: Rulership, Patronage and Architecture in the Roman Capital
Rome was not built in a day! The urban fabric of the ancient city of Rome developed over hundreds of years and came to reflect its position as capital of a huge empire. The elite, the aristocrats in the Republic and the emperors in the imperial period, played a major role in this development. Returning triumphant generals, puffed up with glory from their conquests overseas, constructed temples and porticoes in the city to commemorate these events, as well as provide a permanent reminder to the populace. The spoils of war came to be used prominently in this process: marble from Greece, wild animals from North Africa, and prisoners of war who fought as gladiators in the shows and spectacles that accompanied the construction of monuments. By the last days of the Republic, power and political position in Rome were being sought using the resources of Empire, a process which reached its climax under the emperors.
This lecture will look at the way architecture was used to legitimate power in the city and how it helped to shape its development.
Short bibliography and/or website on lecture topic (for lay reader):
P. Connolly and H. Dodge, The Ancient City, Oxford 1998
J. Coulston and H. Dodge, Ancient Rome. The Archaeology of the Eternal City, Oxford 2000
J. Stambaugh, The Ancient Roman City, Baltimore 1988
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2005-06 Men's Basketball
Bluffton 96, Carnegie Mellon 83
By Molly Burnell, sports information assistant
January 2, 2006
BLUFFTON, Ohio - The Bluffton University men's basketball team (10-1) knocked off the previously undefeated #23 Carnegie Mellon Tartans 96-83 in Founder's Hall on Monday, January 2, 2006. The Tartans were coming off a monumental 51-46 win over perennial Division I power Princeton University on December 28, 2005. With their eighth straight victory, the 2005-06 Bluffton squad set a new team record for consecutive wins eclipsing the previous mark of seven set in 1934-35 and tied in 2000-01.
The Tartans started off with a Marques Johnson free throw and a pair of Clayton Barlow-Wilcox layups to take an early 5-3 lead over Bluffton. Following a stretch of tight team defense, junior Eric Schwieterman (St. Henry/St. Henry) connected on a layup to give the Beavers a two point advantage (7-5) at the 16:23 mark. Ball control and perimeter pressure by Bluffton, along with missed shots by both teams, kept the score within one point until a Colt Cunningham (Powell/Worthington Christian) jumper increased the Beaver lead to three points midway through the first half. Senior Scott Bergman (Elmore/Woodmore) drained four treys during a five-minute span and junior Ricky Reucher (Toledo/Central Catholic) nailed a triple at the four-minute mark to give Bluffton a six-point advantage. Carnegie Mellon countered with six points from Barlow-Wilcox to cut the Beaver lead to four points. Following an A. J. Straub trifecta, Dave Patch (Minster/Minster) nailed a jumper sending Bluffton to the locker room with a three-point advantage, 45-42.
Free throws by Anthony, Bergman and Schwieterman and a triple by Patch helped the Beavers open up a ten-point lead (62-52) with just over 14 minutes left in the game. The Tartans and Beavers traded baskets until a Nate Maurer layup cut the Bluffton lead to seven points with less than ten minutes to play in the second stanza. Carnegie Mellon's Barlow-Wilcox, who finished with a game-high 27 points, continued his onslaught as he hit a jumper to cut the Beaver advantage to four points with seven minutes left in the contest. Key free throw shooting and tight defense allowed Bluffton to open the gap to ten points at the four minute mark. Senior post Eric Sweet (Ottawa/Ottawa-Glandorf) nailed two shots from the charity stripe to give the Beavers an 11-point cushion with less than two minutes to play. Schwieterman and Cunningham connected on foul shots down the stretch to seal the win for Bluffton by a final score of 96-83.
Bergman led the Beavers with 26 points, 18 of those coming off of three-pointers. He also added eight rebounds and six assists. Anthony scored 16 points and pulled down a team-high ten rebounds to record his first career double-double while pressuring standout Tartan Nate Maurer most of the night. Schwieterman added a career-high 15 points and dished out seven assists while running the show for the Beavers. Although Sweet saw limited action due to foul trouble he contributed 13 points and grabbed a team-high four steals on the evening. Reucher set a career high by scoring 10 points and adding three steals. Senior Darren Clark (Plain City/Jonathan Alder) tallied eight points and dished out three assists in the victory. Bluffton hit 31-59 shots from the field, including 11-19 from long distance, and converted on 23-33 attempts at the charity stripe.Bluffton will return to action on Wednesday, January 4 when it hosts Manchester College in the Heartland Collegiate Athletic Conference opener for both teams. Tip-off is scheduled for 7:30 p.m.


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My father got a bill Saturday from Telecom USA for $68.65 for three collect calls - 3 minutes, 2 minutes and 2 minutes - on November 17, when I called him three times from the holding cell at One Police Plaza in New York City. That's just shy of $10 a minute.
The people who make calls from One Police Plaza are mostly poor. Their possessions have been confiscated, they're sitting in a disgusting cage breathing urine fumes while police fill out paperwork, and they haven't been charged with anything - not arraigned, not booked, nothing. And in order to get through to anyone, even just for one minute, the prisoners have to dock their families ten bucks.
Telecom USA is a subsidiary of MCI, which itself is a subsidiary of Verizon. It specializes in small services, advertised to working-class people on grounds that they're inexpensive. "Minute Pass" is written about on Telecom USA's web site as "The prepaid card with great rates - home and away. Get rates as low as 3¢ a minute and your minutes never expire. Get 100 BONUS minutes on your first recharge!" "TalkSmarterUSA" is "a long distance plan with no frills and no long-term commitment. Just cost-effective calling and a reliable coast-to-coast network."
But the thing for which Telecom USA is most well known is 10-10-321 and its successors, 10-10-220 and 10-10-900 (1010220.com is an earlier Google search return for "Telecom USA" than telecomusa.com). Popularized during Clinton's corporate telecomm consolidation, these would enable you to "dial around" your long-distance carrier to give you better rates on long distance calls. The reason I know that is the same reason anyone who was a child around the same time I was might: I remember how heavily these features were advertised, big-time celebrity endorsements and everything.
Basically, Telecom USA is the telecommunications equivalent of a payday lender (small services offered to the poor and packed with minutiae to rip them off), except it's owned by Verizon, the telecommunications equivalent of a bailed-out investment firm. Verizon is emblematic of the worst abuses of the austerity-industrial complex, dodging taxes, claiming rebates, spending tens of millions on lobbying, laying off thousands of workers, giving its executives exorbitant bonuses, turning over millions of call records to government spies and championing Internet-restricting legislative measures.
An email request for information on Telecom USA's involvement in my call (through the phone in jail, through 1-800-COLLECT or through my father's service provider) was not immediately answered. Nor did Verizon respond to a request for comment. But that's for the same reason as the lack of redress for the grievances of striking Verizon workers: capital is not interested in making nice with its employees and consumers - if HQ is yielding huge profits, everything is fine. The ownership class' diplomacy is relegated to a whole different sphere of economic activity than 99 percent of us will ever know. For instance, in 2008, AT&T Mobility and Verizon Wireless completed a wireless asset swap, "following regulatory approval from the FCC and Department of Justice."
Under the terms of the agreement, AT&T Mobility acquired some former Rural Cellular Corporation properties previously acquired by Verizon Wireless, including licenses, network assets and subscribers, in the Burlington, Vermont, metropolitan service area and in rural service areas (RSAs) in New York (RSA-2), Vermont (RSA-1, RSA-2) and Washington (RSA-2, RSA-3). AT&T also acquired a cellular license from Verizon Wireless in portions of Kentucky (RSA-6).
Also under the terms of the agreement, Verizon Wireless acquired from AT&T Mobility some former Dobson Communications Corporation properties, including licenses, network assets and subscribers, in Kentucky (RSA-6 and RSA-8). Verizon Wireless also acquired ten MHz of PCS spectrum in a number of areas and received an additional cash consideration from AT&T Mobility. These transactions satisfy the divestiture requirements related to AT&T Mobility's acquisition of Dobson last year.
These companies are in the business of swapping entire regional markets; they do not have time to worry about the paupers and debt peons waiting endlessly in a holding cell in New York City, and they do not have time to worry about the communications workers whose livelihoods are at stake.
This is the face of America right now: a bill from the corporate giant who has ensured that you can't go to jail for protesting corporate governance without it extracting $68.65 from you.
Later in the week of these events, I got the following email from my father:
So, I call Telecom USA to speak to a "customer care representative" about why they charge $68.65 for three collect calls totaling seven minutes. She asks me if I've sent the payment yet. I said no, I didn't intend to. She says, "Well, since you haven't sent the payment yet, we can offer you a one-time courtesy charge of only ..." Then she disappears for about 30 seconds to consult her computer and comes back with, " ... only $24.02." This 65 percent off "one-time courtesy charge" gives some indication of what an enormous rip-off these maggots are making.


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CSI Theatre – Mousetrap
- CSI Fine Arts Auditorium
- 315 Falls Ave, Twin Falls, ID 83301 United States
Additional Information
What do you get when you mix a young newlywed couple, an old British manor, a snowstorm and a variety of strong personalities? An Agatha Christie Masterpiece! Join the CSI Theatre Department as they suit up as Mollie and Giles Ralston, mysterious Christopher Wren, the disagreeable Mrs. Boyle, Major Metcalf, Miss Casewell, Mr. Paravicini, and, of course, Det. Sgt Trotter and bring this timeless classic to life. Be careful though, once all the players arrive, the murders will begin and only the murderer is safe from destruction. Is it "the butler"? Or is the Honorable Sgt Trotter an interloper? You won't know unless you come see the final production of the 2012-2013 Season. Tickets are $8/adults and $6 for students or seniors. CSI Students are eligible for two free tickets with a student I.D.


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This is a beginning ballet lesson idea
Music, P.E. & Health
Title – Beginning Ballet
By – Heather Andreson
Primary Subject – Health / Physical Education
Secondary Subjects – Music
Grade Level – K-6
Junior High or High School Students –
1. While stretching, let them listen to music that is currently popular, and on occasion, let them dress up like they are from the 80s and dance to 80s music.
Elementary Students –
1. For the elementary students, you should let them listen to familiar songs or nursery music while they stretch. Let them bring in approved CDs to listen to or they can request music and like with the high school, they can also dress out differently than usual.
2. Ballet stretches are like those you would do for a race or before running so you do not pull any muscles. First, you do what is called the straddle stretch – where you have your legs spread apart on each side of your body while sitting down. You lean against one side for about 1 minute and then to the other side, then to the center for about 2 or 3 minutes. The next stretch that you should do is the pike stretch, where you have both legs together and knees are facing the ceiling. For about five minutes, you should lean against the knees with your legs straight (including knees). Then you repeat those while standing up.
3. Teach the basics of ballet as you would teach someone to read, one step at a time. Explain how to do the following: plié
- -bent knees,
- -pointed toe on the floor,
- -same as tendu, but goes through the tendu to brush about 2 in. in the air.
Some ballet steps that are mobile are grand jeté
- which uses a plié and 2 brushes to get high up into the air, and a
- which is also known as the step of the cat. You begin with a plié and lift one leg up at a time.
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MIAMI (AP) — A four-year-old girl is dead after being shot while sitting in a car in Miami.
Miami-Dade Police reports Rahquel Carr was shot in the upper body Saturday at about 6:10 p.m. She was taken to Ryder Trauma Center at Jackson Memorial Hospital where she died.
Detectives say Carr was seated in a parked white Mercedes-Benz with several other small children when she was shot.
Investigators say it is unclear if one of the other children in the vehicle is responsible for the shooting.
The Miami-Dade County Medical Examiner Department will conduct an autopsy while the state attorney determines if charges will be filed.
(© Copyright 2013 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.)


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Special Premieres Monday, August 8 at 9PM ET/PT
August 2, 2011
July 22nd 2011, a day now indelibly ingrained in Norway's history, is the date Anders Behring Breivik killed eight people by setting off a bomb outside government headquarters in Oslo. He also embarked on a 90-minute shooting spree, resulting in the death of 69 teenagers on Utoya Island.
In a program commissioned by Discovery Networks International and set to air this month across the United States, Europe, Middle East, Africa, Latin America and Asia-Pacific, Discovery Channel chronicles the events of that horrid day - and the impact it has on a nation - in NORWAY MASSACRE: THE KILLER'S MIND. The hour-long special will premiere on Discovery Channel in the United States on Monday, August 8 from 9-10PM ET/PT.
Breivik calls his actions "atrocious but necessary", but exactly who is this man, and what led him to act? Through psychological analysis NORWAY MASSACRE: THE KILLER'S MIND examines the mind and the motives of the self-confessed assassin who is responsible for these heinous killings. This program provides new insight into Breivik's motives by some of the world's leading experts on criminal psychology, including Professor David Wilson and Johns Hopkins University's Katherine Newman, analyzing his likely psychological journey during that day and asking just what drove him to orchestrate and carry out a plan of carnage.
Weaving together the moments leading up to this tragedy, the documentary also charts the hour-by-hour events from the time of the bomb set off in Oslo, to the cold-blooded shooting of defenseless young people on the idyllic island of Utoya. In addition, the special will provide first-hand accounts from eyewitnesses and survivors who personally suffered the tragedy.
NORWAY MASSACRE: THE KILLER'S MIND will have an encore presentation on Investigation Discovery, airing under the ID Investigates banner on Thursday, August 11 from 8-9PM ET. Military Channel will air the special under the title 90 MINUTES IN HELL: ASSAULT ON OSLO on Tuesday, August 16 at 10PM ET.
NORWAY MASSACRE: THE KILLER'S MIND was commissioned by Elizabeth McIntyre, Head of Production & Development, DNI Factual and is being Executive Produced by Chris Shaw at ITN Productions.
About Discovery Channel
Discovery Channel is dedicated to creating the highest quality non-fiction content that informs and entertains its consumers about the world in all its wonder, diversity and amazement. The network, which is distributed to 100.8 million U.S. homes, can be seen in over 210 countries, offering a signature mix of compelling, high-end production values and vivid cinematography across genres including, science and technology, exploration, adventure, history and in-depth, behind-the-scenes glimpses at the people, places and organizations that shape and share our world. For more information, please visit www.discovery.com.
About Investigation Discovery
Investigation Discovery (ID) is America's leading investigation network and the fastest-growing network in television. As the source for fact-based analytical content and compelling human stories, ID probes factors that challenge our everyday understanding of culture, society and the human condition. ID delivers the highest-quality programming to more than 77 million U.S. households with viewer favorites that include On the Case with Paula Zahn, Disappeared, Unusual Suspects and Stolen Voices, Buried Secrets. For more information, please visit InvestigationDiscovery.com, facebook.com/InvestigationDiscovery, or twitter.com/DiscoveryID.
About Military Channel:
The Military Channel brings viewers compelling, real-world stories of heroism, military strategy, and significant turning points in history. Currently available in more than 57 million homes, the network takes viewers "behind the lines" to hear the personal stories of servicemen and women and offers in-depth explorations of military training, aviation technology and cutting-edge weaponry. As the only cable network devoted to military subjects, it also provides unique access to this world, allowing viewers to experience and understand the full spectrum of human drama, courage, and patriotism intrinsic to the armed forces, as well as, the long-held traditions of the military. For more information, please visit military.discovery.com.
About Discovery Communications
Discovery Communications (NASDAQ: DISCA, DISCB, DISCK) is the world's #1 nonfiction media company reaching more than 1.5 billion cumulative subscribers in 210 countries and territories. Discovery empowers people to explore their world and satisfy their curiosity through 130-plus worldwide networks, led by Discovery Channel, TLC, Animal Planet, Discovery Science and Discovery HD, as well as leading consumer and educational products and services, and a diversified portfolio of digital media services including HowStuffWorks.com. Discovery Networks International distributes 23 international brands, reaching over one billion cumulative subscribers with programming available in 43 languages. For more information please visit www.discoverycommunications.com.


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Submission + - Code.org Documentary Serving Multiple Agendas?
theodp writes: 'Someday, and that day may never come,' Don Corleone says famously in The Godfather, 'I'll call upon you to do a service for me.' Back in 2010, filmmaker Lesley Chilcott produced Waiting for "Superman", a controversial 2010 documentary film that analyzed the failures of the American public education system, and presented charter schools as a glimmer of hope, including the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation-backed KIPP Los Angeles Prep. Gates himself was a "Superman" cast member, show here in a clip that laments how U.S. public schools are producing 'American Idiots' of no use to high tech firms like Microsoft, forcing them to 'go half-way around the world to recruit the engineers and programmers they needed.' So some found it strange that when Chilcott teamed up with Gates again three years later to make Code.org's documentary short What Most Schools Don't Teach, kids from KIPP Empower Academy were called upon to demonstrate that U.S. schoolchildren are still clueless about what computer programmers do. In a nice coincidence, the film went viral just as leaders of Google, Microsoft, and Facebook pressed President Obama and Congress on immigration reform, citing a dearth of U.S. programming talent. And speaking of coincidences, the lone teacher in the Code.org film (James, Teacher@Mount View Elementary), whose classroom was tapped by Code.org as a model for the nation's schools, is Seattle teacher Jamie Ewing, who took top honors in Microsoft's Partners in Learning (PiL) U.S. Forum last summer, earning him a spot on PiL's 'Team USA' and the chance to showcase his project at the Microsoft PiL Global Forum in Prague in November (82-page Conference Guide). Ironically, had Ewing stuck to teaching the kids Scratch programming, as he's shown doing in the Code.org documentary, Microsoft wouldn't have seen fit to send him to its blowout at 'absolutely amazingly beautiful' Prague Castle. Innovative teaching, at least according to Microsoft's rules, 'must include the use of one or more Microsoft technologies.' Fortunately, Ewing's project — described in his MSDN guest blog post — called for using PowerPoint and Skype. For the curious, here's Microsoft PiL's vision of what a classroom should be.


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In this day and age, falling victim to fast or processed foods is so easy to do. Who wants to slave over the stove for even an hour every night? I sure don't, especially on the nights I'm cooking for one.
To remedy this, I have figured out a system that works pretty well for me and my family and I hope these tips will take some of the guess work out of creating frugal, healthy and fast meals.
I base my meals around legumes, grains and vegetables. I pressure cook a pound of beans at a time and a pound of grains at a time. Often, I will have two different types of legumes and two different types of grains cooked in the fridge. I make a large batches of sauces to store in my freezer. One week, I will make enough marinara to last a month. The next week, I will make enough salsa. The week after that is a nutritional yeast base. I also make 1 large pot of soup per week to use as a filler food. A filler food is just that; something to help fill you ( or my teen son! ) up. It can be used as a snack, a quick breakfast or an addition to a meal. I always freeze at least half of the soup the day I make it in 2 cup portions. The filler soup is most often bean based and I use an entire pound of dried beans in the batch.
Usually on Sunday, I get ready for the week. For this hypothetical week, I check out my freezer and see that I have 1 quart of salsa and 1 quart of nutritional yeast base. I take those out to defrost in the fridge. Then I get to work:
- I make a large batch of Simple Marinara; reserve 1 quart and freeze the rest for later use.
- I cook up a quick Split Pea Soup in the pressure cooker using a pound of beans. Cool and freeze half the soup in 2 cup portions.
- While the soup is cooking, I'm making a pound rice. I will freeze half of the cooked rice in 1 cup portions and reserve the rest for meals.
- Next, I will pressure cook a pound of chickpeas. I reserve the chickpea cooking liquid for future use ( as a base for salad dressing or for use in seitan or even to use in baked goods ).
- I'll mix together veggie burger mix out of leftovers, some of the cooked rice and chickpeas.
- Finally, I soak seeds for sprouting
This week, I am starting out with cooked rice, split pea soup, cooked chickpeas, chickpea cooking liquid, salsa, marinara, nutritional yeast base sauce and veggie burger mix. This is how I would use the food and prep for the next day:
Breakfast oatmeal with raisins and flax meal
Lunch: Veggie Burgers
Dinner Chana Masala over Brown Rice and Raw Collard Slaw ( sauté an onion, garlic, ginger and curry spices add cooked chickpeas and salsa ) If there is any leftover, add some oatmeal , soy sauce and place in fridge to use for veggie burger. For 1 cup of soup I usually get two decent sized burgers.
Prep for Tuesday: Cook 1 lb of lentils
Breakfast: Green smoothies
Lunch: Split Pea Soup or veggie burger
Dinner: Brown Rice Pasta, Marinara, Salad with Marinated Chickpeas ( I make a low fat vinaigrette out of the chickpea cooking liquid )
Prep for Wed: Make bread dough and store in fridge overnight ( freeze enough for a pizza later in the week.)
Soak seeds for sprouting
Breakfast: Oatmeal with apples and chia seeds
Lunch: Raw Slaw with Curried Veggie Burger
Dinner: Lentils with Caramelized Onions, Homemade Bread, Sautéed Greens and BBQ Sauce ( add liquid smoke, mustard, allspice and some stevia to salsa)
You will bake the bread while you cook the onions and sautéed greens.
Prep for Thursday:
Bake 6 potatoes while you are baking the bread
Make a batch of Sugar Free Banana Bread
Breakfast: Banana Bread with Peanut Butter
Lunch: Soup made from leftover lentils/collards. Add a bit of nutritional yeast base sauce, water and spices along with some brown rice ( from the freezer ) Eat half of the soup and freeze the remaining 2cups.
Dinner: Fried Potatoes and onions, Steamed Veggies and Veggie Burger Cutlet with Nutritional Yeast Gravy
Prep for Friday:
Cook a pound of millet
Soak Seeds for sprouting
Breakfast: Banana Bread with Peanut Butter
Lunch: Veggie burgers, homemade bread, Split pea
Dinner: French Lentil Soup with leftover Potatoes, Millet Pilaf and salad ( soup recipe here)
Prep for Sat:
Mix leftover soup with oatmeal for burgers
Breakfast: Oatmeal with Raisins and Chia
Lunch: Veggie Burger, Raw Slaw
Dinner: Pizza ( dough from freezer ), marinara, nutritional yeast sauce, veggies, Salad with lentils
Sunday: After a brunch of Potato/Veggie/Bean hash ( use all your leftovers ) start over for the next week!
This sounds a bit daunting, but I assure you, once you get into the groove it is quite simple. I believe the key is to change your mindset about food and don't be afraid to experiment with what you have on hand.
If this all seems like it's too much, take baby steps. Cook up one pound of dried beans and 1 pound of whole grains and build your meals with those staples. You can do it! Remember, 1 pound of dried beans = around 6 cups of cooked. A 15 oz can of beans is around $1.00 and yields 1.5 cups of beans. Cup for cup, you are saving around $3-$5 depending on how much you pay for dried beans. I usually spend between$.99- $1.49 per pound of dried legumes.
Today is my Raw Wednesday. Tomorrow I will post my menu and nutritional breakdown.
Have a great day!


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Submission + - Motion Capture System Makes Actors the Camera (gizmag.com)
Zothecula writes: Computer-generated imagery (CGI) has become such a staple of modern movie-making that most people know what actors are doing when prancing around in front of green screens wearing skin-tight leotards with reflective balls affixed at various locations over their bodies — motion capture. In addition to the actor's performance, such techniques can also require the tracking of camera movements and props so that perspective is maintained when translating the movements into CGI. Now researchers have demonstrated a system that can perform motion capture almost anywhere and without the need to track a separate camera and it does this by mounting the cameras on the actors instead.


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A woman was raped by a man lurking in Washington Park Sunday morning, police said. It was the second sexual assault in the city that morning. The first attack occurred on a nearby street in Pine Hills, police said.
The victims gave similar descriptions of their attackers, but police are not certain whether the assaults were committed by the same suspect. Both attacks occurred within a span of 75 minutes, said Officer James Miller.
Police were called to Albany Memorial Hospital after doctors contacted police to say a 25-year-old woman there said that she had been sexually assaulted in the park, Miller said.
The victim said she had been walking home with a friend at 3:30 a.m., but the pair split up when they got to the park. The victim kept walking through the park alone when a man came at her from behind and pushed her to the ground, Miller said.
The suspect pressed something against his victim's head and threatened her, Miller said. The man raped the woman and said he would to kill her if she moved while he ran away, Miller said.
Police are not sure whether the suspect actually had a gun.
The woman told police she last saw her alleged attacker running west toward New Scotland Avenue. She described him as a 5-foot-7 black man wearing black baggy sweatpants and a dark hooded sweatshirt.
A 21-year-old woman who was assaulted in the first attack said the man who attacked her around 2:15 a.m. was also a 5-foot-7 black man with a small build wearing a black hooded sweatshirt, Miller said.
The victim was walking with two friends on Hamilton Street, near the intersection with Quail Street, when a man snuck out from behind a fence, walked up the victim, stuck his hand up her skirt and ran off, Miller said.
The victim said she and her friends last saw the suspect running west on Hamilton Street toward Ontario Street.
Miller said police are looking at whether Sunday's attacks may have been committed by the same suspect who sexually assaulted one women and attempted to attack another last summer.
The attempted sexual assault occurred on Yates Street, where a woman fought the man off. The other alleged assault was on Lancaster Street.


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ATLANTA (AP) - State officials are offering funding to groups interested in running spay and neuter programs for pets.
Agriculture Commissioner Gary Black says the money is intended to make pet sterilization more affordable to ease the strain on Georgia's animal shelters.
Money for the program is raised through the sale of dog and cat license plates and through voluntary donations made by taxpayers. Black's department said since 2003, more than 70,000 procedures have been performed under the program.
Black said grant applications will be accepted from licensed animal shelters and nonprofit animal rescue groups. Recipients can receive up to $10,000. Applications must be submitted by Dec. 31.
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They meet Italy at Stourbridge RFC on Sunday (kick-off 1.00pm) and then close against France at Castlecroft, Wolverhampton on Wednesday, 11 April (kick-off 1.00pm).
Wales were edged out by two points, 24-22, against England last season and have prepared for the tournament by meeting, and beating, Tonmawr Under 17s and Pembrokeshire Under 17s in warm-up matches. England, meanwhile, have warmed-up by playing the Worcester and Bath Academies and a Millfield School side.
"This is a very skilfull group of players and they have some great strike runners behind a very strong pack. We've prepared well and everyone is looking forward to the challenge of the tournament," said Wales team manager James Savastano.
The Wales Under 16 A team got off to a flying start in the Millfield International Schools Festival with a 43-0 win over Romania on Tuesday, 3 April. More than 200 players from eight countries are taking part in the Festival and Wales A meet France on Thursday, 5 April and Scotland on Saturday, 7 April.
WALES UNDER 16 (v England): Dean Gunter (Mountain Ash CS/Blues North); Josh Smart (Tasker Milward School/Scarlets), Ben John (Ysgol Gwyr/Ospreys), Scott Williams (Ysgol Dyffryn Teifi/Scarlets), Will Rose (Ysgol y Cymer/Blues North); Ian Smerddon (Y Pant/Blues North), Tom Rowlands (Whitchurch HS/Blues South); Richard Powell (Cyfartha HS/Blues North), Ieuan Davies (Treorchy CS/Blues North), Tristan Davies (Ysgol Bro Myrddin/Scarlets), Tom Payne (Rhydyfelin CS/Blues North), Rhys Ruddock (Bishopston CS/Ospreys, CAPTAIN), Edward Siggery (Queen Elizabeth HS/Scarlets), Guy Jones (Gowerton School/Ospreys), Garrick Legge (Coedylan CS/Blues North).
Replacements: Chris Phillips (Hawthorn CS/Blues North), Luke Lewis (Bryngwyn CS/Scarlets), Harry Gravelle (Ysgol Llanharri/Blues North), Joe Davey (King Henry VIII/Dragons), Matthew Defilippo (Coedcae CS/Scarlets), Ellis Lloyd (Maes-yr-yrfa/Scarlets), Aled Davies (Ysgol Bro Myrddin/Scarlets), Chris Lewis-Pratt (Wellington College), Rhys Howells (Wellington College), Tom Rees (Treochy CS/Blues North), Deeke Morse (Ysgol Llanhari/Ospreys).


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CHAPEL HILL – Fifth-ranked North Carolina turned in one of its most impressive performances of the season Saturday afternoon as it defeated Big South Conference champion Liberty 4-0 in the first round of the NCAA Division I Women's Soccer Tournament at Fetzer Field.
With the victory, North Carolina (18-4) will now host NCAA second and third round games at Fetzer Field next Friday and Saturday. Texas Tech and Texas A&M will play in the first game Friday at 3:30 p.m. followed by a matchup between North Carolina and the winner of the Indiana-DePaul first round game at 6 p.m. The winners of Friday's matches will advance to the NCAA third round next Sunday at 1 p.m. at Fetzer Field.
Offensive heroes were aplenty for Carolina in their win over the Flames (16-6-1) as senior Kealia Ohai scored a pair of goals and senior Megan Brigman and sophomore Summer Green each recorded two assists. Paige Nielsen came off the bench to add a goal and an assist for the Tar Heels and Cameron Castleberry added her second goal of the season to finish off the scoring.
The Tar Heel defense clamped down from the start and never gave the Flames a great look at goal. UNC outshot Liberty 23-3 and had a 6-1 edge in corner kicks. UNC senior Anna Sieloff made her first career NCAA Tournament game start and posted a clean sheet, being forced to make only one save. It was Sieloff's second solo shutout of the season. Holly Van Noord made eight saves for the Flames. Carolina placed 12 of their 23 shots on goal and matched its season high for goals scored in a game (also scored four goals VCU and Miami).
Ohai recorded the sixth multi-goal game of her career as she scored the first two goals of the game. It was her second multi-goal game this season. She also scored twice versus VCU. Her two goals pushed her career goal total to 39 and her career point total to 104.
Summer Green had a pair of assists for the Tar Heels in the match. The last time she had multiple assists in a game was against Illinois on November 16, 2012. Senior defender Megan Brigman had the first multi-assist game of her career with two, both coming on throw-ins. She now leads Carolina with seven assists this season. Sophomore Paige Nielsen had a goal and an assist as she celebrated the first multi-point game of her Tar Heel career.
After a sluggish first few minutes, UNC notched the only goal it would need all day in the 15th minute. Summer Green picked the pocket of a Liberty defender 25 yards from goal, dribbled to the top of the box and sent a perfect ball to the onrushing Ohai in the right side of the box. The senior forward from Draper, Utah was clinical with her finish from 10 yards for her ninth goal of the season at 14:56.
After outshooting the Flames 9-2 in the opening half of play, the Tar Heel depth really took over in the second half as 21 UNC players saw time in the period and UNC kept the ball on its offensive end virtually the whole way. Carolina broke the game open on Ohai's second goal of the match at 50:05. With her back to the goal, she took a throw-in from Megan Brigman on the left side, turned and beat her defender and then powered a shot from 15 yards past Van Noord for her 10th goal of the campaign.
UNC made it 3-0 at 67:28 when Paige Nielsen scored on a header into the left side panel. Satara Murray set up the play with a deep run into the box on the right side. Murray centered the ball across the penalty area where Green blasted a shot from 15 yards that Van Noord knocked down but could not corral. Nielsen was Johnny-on-the-spot to put the header away for a 3-0 lead. It was her fifth goal of the season and her first since she scored the game-winner at Pittsburgh on September 26.
The Tar Heels then capped the scoring on a brilliant goal by freshman Cameron Castleberry at 81:05. Brigman set up the goal with another throw-in from the left side. Nielsen took the throw-in and fed it across the top of the 18-yard box where Castleberry ran on to it and beat the goalkeeper one-on-one into the lower right side of the frame. It was Castleberry's second goal of the year, the first being the game-winner against Duke on Halloween night.
The Tar Heels outshot the Flames 14-1 in the second half of the game and notched three goals in a half of play for the first time since scoring thrice against Miami in the second half of a 4-0 win in Coral Gables on September 22.
In addition to Sieloff, North Carolina's defense of Hanna Gardner, Katie Bowen, Satara Murray and Megan Brigman was stellar in its performance, limiting Liberty to three shot attempts and notching the 13th shutout of the season in 22 matches.


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San Diego: Stewart Cink, seeking his first PGA Tour title in five years, charged into a one-shot lead at the Farmers Insurance Open on Thursday as Phil Mickelson also moved into early contention despite nursing a troublesome back.
Mickelson, who frequently winced at the top of his backswing because of muscle pain down his side, carded a three-under 69 on the easier North Course while seven-times champion Tiger Woods opened with an even 72 on the brutal South layout.
Cink, who has not triumphed anywhere since his playoff victory over Tom Watson in the 2009 British Open at Turnberry, fired a flawless 64 on the North to seize control of the PGA Tour event at picturesque Torrey Pines outside San Diego.
The 40-year-old Cink birdied four of his last six holes to end a mainly sunny day which began with a fog delay of 30 minutes one stroke in front of fellow American Gary Woodland, who also started out on the North.
Australians Jason Day and Marc Leishman, South African Tyrone van Aswegen and American Jim Herman opened with 66s while American Pat Perez, with a 67, was the only player in the top 16 who played on the more difficult South layout.
Tour veteran Cink was delighted with his opening round, despite totalling just one birdie on the four par-five holes.
"If you drive it well on the North Course, you`re going to have birdie opportunities and I drove it very well most of the day," the tall American told Golf Channel.
"It was just a different game from the short grass out there. You`ve got some shorter holes and I took advantage of a lot of those holes ... the par-fives, I didn`t play those very well. It was a very calm, very relaxed kind of round."
Cink, a six-times winner on the PGA Tour, knows he will face a very different challenge in Friday`s second round on the South Course, which played almost four strokes harder than the North on Thursday.
"It`s definitely a tale of two golf courses here," he smiled. "The South we all know is one of the most difficult courses on the tour and it pretty much requires all facets of the game to be on.
"I have been playing fairly well this year … so I am looking forward to the challenge. It`s a big golf course to really test yourself and see where you stand this time of year."
Woods, competing in his first tournament of the year, offset two birdies with two bogeys on a South layout playing tougher than usual because of firm conditions, narrow fairways and thick rough.
"Well, even par`s not too bad, but I didn`t play the par-fives worth a darn today," said the world number one, who clinched last year`s Farmers Insurance Open by four shots in a fog-delayed Monday finish.
"I played them even par, parred all of them ... to try to get any kind of scoring on the South course you`ve got to take care of the par-fives because there`s not a lot of holes you can make birdies here.
"It (the South) has got to be playing right around three shots easier, so I`m going to have to go out there and get it a little bit tomorrow to not be so far behind come Saturday or Sunday."
San Diego native Mickelson, a three-times champion at Torrey Pines, mixed four birdies with a lone bogey to climb the leaderboard and was thankful he had played his opening round on the less daunting North.
"I kind of milked my way around the golf course and I was able to do that on the North Course because the penalty wasn`t as severe as it is on the South," the American left-hander said.
"I am able to kind of get it up by the green and get up and down and salvage par. I made a couple of birdies but it won`t hold up on the South Course so I`ve got to get it better."
Asked to explain what was wrong, Mickelson replied: "From the top (on the swing), it just kept locking up and giving me a shooting pain. I kind of flinch.
"If I overdo it, it`s just prone to getting a little bit tight. It`s just a muscular thing. My back feels fine, it`s just a muscle on the side. I think it will go away in a short period of time. I don`t think it`s anything serious."
However, Mickelson said he would consider withdrawing from the event if his muscle pain did not respond sufficiently to treatment over the next 24 hours.


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Canadian Real Estate Agents: Without Us, Poor Homeowners Would Be Getting Attacked And Killed
from the oh-really-now? dept
"Easy access to information online is a huge safety issue," said Von Palmer, the real estate board's chief privacy officer. "There is a real possibility of break-ins and assaults; you only have to read the headlines to imagine what might happen. You hear stories about realtors getting attacked and killed. Can you imagine if we put that information out there about consumers? You can only imagine the headlines."Also, they could just look south of the border. The information that the Canadians are now discussing putting online is, for the most part, already available online here in the US. And while I'm sure if they tried hard enough, somewhere, somehow, someone might be able to connect a real estate listing to crime, it's certainly not a common occurrence.
A spokesman for the Toronto Police Service said he wasn't aware violence against real estate agents was a problem in the city.
It's pretty clear that the real issue is just one of control. The real estate agents benefit from being the gatekeepers to that information, and they fear what happens when people can start to route around them. A few months back, I did a talk at a real estate conference, where I compared the music industry to the real estate industry, and it was amazing just how many similarities there were between the two. They were two big legacy industries trying to hold back the tide of what the internet allows, and they were able to come up with all sorts of ridiculous scenarios to explain how horrible the world would be if the information they used to control was allowed to go free online. But it's tough to stop the free flow of information, and real estate agents will learn soon enough that a strategy of spreading FUD isn't a way to future-proof your business. Learning to adapt, and to take advantage of the spread of information by becoming an enabler rather than a gatekeeper, really is the key.


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ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) -- A former U.S. Marine facing extradition to the Philippines on double murder charges says he is innocent.
Timothy Kaufman has been in jail since his arrest in April at business near his grandfather's Albany-area home. The 35-year-old from Knoxville, Tenn., is one of three men charged by Philippine authorities with killing a retired Northern Ireland police officer and his girlfriend in 2011.
Authorities claim it was a premeditated killing in an area known for its sometimes-seamy club scene.
In a handwritten letter sent to the media from jail, Kaufman says he would never do something as "heinous and stupid" as killing the couple. He says he left the country after the killings because he feared for his safety.
An extradition hearing is scheduled for June 25 in Albany federal court.


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Submission + - Sony Rootkit Redux: Canadian Business Groups Lobby For Right To Install Spyware (michaelgeist.ca)
An anonymous reader writes: Michael Geist reports that a coalition of Canadian industry groups, including the Canadian Chamber of Commerce, the Canadian Marketing Association, the Canadian Wireless Telecommunications Association and the Entertainment Software Association of Canada, are demanding legalized spyware for private enforcement purposes. The potential scope of coverage is breathtaking: a software program secretly installed by an entertainment software company designed to detect or investigate alleged copyright infringement would be covered by this exception. This exception could potentially cover programs designed to block access to certain websites (preventing the contravention of a law as would have been the case with SOPA), attempts to access wireless networks without authorization, or even keylogger programs tracking unsuspecting users (detection and investigation).


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Ryan Gosling has recently become something of a new-age Steve McQueen to a certain segment of film lovers. The thirtysomething actor broke through to mainstream viewers in the weepy Nicholas Sparks' melodrama The Notebook, but it's his later work—in more emotionally unflinching films like Drive and Blue Valentine—that has brought him more critical acclaim, as well as a new and widely varied audience of men and women alike.
That rare double-edged appeal—the tough guy with the sensitive side—has also led to a peculiar Internet fame spearheaded by the Fuck Yeah! Ryan Gosling blog, composed mostly of paparazzi and press shots of Gosling overlaid with soft sentiments that always begin with "Hey, girl…" and usually end with something involving cuddling. It's numerous spinoffs and imitators have landed at least one blogger a book deal: Feminist Ryan Gosling can now be found at places like Urban Outfitters, alongside books such as F*ck! I'm In My Twenties and I Hate Everyone (actual titles).
But while his place in pop culture was solidifying, the actor continued to work, and this week a new film from the director of Blue Valentine gives filmgoers a chance to see what Gosling has been up to since he hit the bookshelves. The Place Beyond The Pines is a vastly ambitious story told in three parts by director Derek Cianfrance, with Gosling right back in the Steve McQueen mold.
He stars as Luke, a motorcycle stunt rider who works in a traveling circus. When the troupe sets down in Schenectady (the title is a loose translation of the Mohawk name for the area), Luke looks up Romina (Eva Mendes), an old flame he hasn't seen since the last time he came through town. It must have been a while ago; Romina is now mom to her and Luke's son Jason. Struck by his sudden fatherhood, Luke decides to quit the circus and put down roots as best he can—despite the fact that Romina is now living with another man.
Finding work as a mechanic, Luke is soon lured into a criminal world that can make use of his natural riding ability. It sounds suspiciously like the 2011 film Drive—in which Gosling played a Hollywood stunt driver who moonlighted as a getaway man for hire to local bank robbers—but Cianfrance's film is less stylized than that noir-and-neon story, and tinged more by its own Northeastern environs, where roots tend to run deep.
That strong sense of family proves to be complicated when Luke's new line of work attracts the attention of local cop Avery (Bradley Cooper), another father struggling to balance family and occupation. Eager to escape from the rule of a corrupt detective (Ray Liotta), Avery pins his hopes on Luke, triggering a sequence of events that will come to affect not just the lives of the two men, but the futures of their infant sons.
Also this week: Up in Shelburne Falls, Pothole Pictures continues its weekend movie tradition with Dirty Dancing, the Patrick Swayze picture that defied its goofy roots—an awkward teenager is forced to fill in as the partner for the dance instructor at a Catskills resort—to become a lasting pleasure for an entire generation of moviegoers.
Swayze, of course, is the teacher, whose name—Johnny Castle—should give you an idea of the tenor of the film; a young Jennifer Grey (Ferris Bueller's Day Off) co-stars as Frances "Baby" Houseman, the product of a well-to-do family that has planned out her entire future without stopping to ask her how she feels about it. When the two meet, worlds collide, sparks fly, and everybody is changed. Presented in part by the Pioneer Valley Jewish Film Festival, the Friday and Saturday night screenings will be preceded by live music on the venerable Memorial Hall stage.•
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The problem I see with this being some kind of fraud - is what kind of idiot would choose, as their puppet, this person.
The kind of "idiot" who wants a Democratic candidate that's sure to lose. The people who are alleging fraud are claiming that this is a scheme to ensure that the Republican incumbent is re-elected.
I also wouldn't put it passed the Republican party in SC to want to insure that DeMint beats down a black Democratic candidate by a very large margin. That would give him plenty of angles to spin this as an anti-Obama victory.
You're insane, you know that? The Republicans spin the loss of a black Democrat candidate as an "anti-Obama victory", and all it does is charge up the racist black vote that turned up for Obama last time around based on nothing but skin color.
It would be a silly scheme though considering that this is a safe Republican seat anyway.
It would indeed be a silly scheme, which is how you know it came from South Carolina politics.
Ok if we are going to be throwing conspiracy theories around, how do you know that this is not a scheme by the Democrats to create a scandal that they could blame on the Republicans?
That would be completely ineffective and stupid plan: without a smoking gun, there's no way this would overturn the coming election. Which, now that I think about it, kind of adds credibility to your conspiracy theory.
It would be a silly scheme though considering that this is a safe Republican seat anyway.
Maybe they wanted to make sure anyway, seeing how it's the middle of a huge recession and all.
What if it's actually the Republicans making a scheme to make us think that it's the Democrats trying to make us think it's the Republicans trying to make us think it's the Democrat candidate?
Safe Republican seat? Yes and no.
He won his seat in 2004 by around 9%.
Back in December of 2009, he had a 9% lead against a generic Democrat. That's not a huge lead against a completely unnamed opponent. AND there a lot of people here in South Carolina who really like this whole "anti-incumbent" trend. (Enough to make a difference? Probably not. But enough to scare DeMint a bit.)
Alvin Greene ran no advertisements. He didn't attend the Democratic Party Convention in South Carolina. He had practically no name recognition when compared to his opponent, Vic Rawl, who at least was a state legislator. He was able to pay the filing fee for running for the Democratic primary with a personal check (the filing fee is over 10 grand), but he's poor enough to qualify for a public defender for the felony obscenity charge against him. (Also, please note, that the law being used against him is one that is generally only used for people who show bestiality, extremely violent porn, etc., not the simple hetero porn that Greene allegedly showed someone. So that too comes across as a bit hinky.)
According to the FEC, at least through May 19, DeMint had around $3.5 million in cash on hand for this election cycle. Greene has $0.
Now, as to your last question, could this be the Democrats up to something instead of the Republicans up to something? I don't know. But the whole damn thing smells to high heaven.
With all due respect - what the f@@k are you talking about? I don't know where to begin... "law that is generally only used for people"? Because no one has ever abused a good-intentioned law far beyond the scope it was intended? I am a little to lazy to look things up, but check "war on dru
It seems quite undemocratic that the fee is so high that you'd *have* to have external support just to throw your name into a hat.
It would be a silly scheme though considering that this is a safe Republican seat anyway.
You don't practice and hone your skills on the important 50:50 battles, you practice and hone your skills on the pointless irrelevant battles. Since this is an irrelevant battle, it doesn't matter so much whom is to blame for this individual irrelevant battle, so much as it matters that someone out there is preparing for the big one...
In a PRIMARY, you generally have people who actually care about the outcome going out to vote. The people who would just pick the first person on the list are the ones who stay home and don't vote at all in the primary.
It was a silly scheme, but from what I have read this is business as usual in SC politics. Republican operatives sometimes pay entry fees for black candidates just to "stir the pot" of racial division among the Democrats during the primaries so that blacks will be less likely to vote in the general election.
I have also read that this is often not much more than a practical joke, especially in this case when the candidate did nothing but pay the entry fee and did not even have campaign signs up in his own yard. I think the Republicans really don't want these candidates to win because it would bring national attention to the way SC politics work, and they were probably just as shocked that Greene won as everybody else was.
Back in 1990, Rod Shealy [wikipedia.org] used this exact same tactic in a Lt. Governor race in SC. He recruited a homeless black guy with a criminal conviction in an attempt to take out the Democratic frontrunner, so his sister (a Republican) could win. It was a crass attempt to play on the racial prejudices of SC (both for blacks in the Democratic Party and against blacks among the general populace) to get his sister elected. He almost succeeded to. And he is still working in SC Republican politics (most recently in the Bauer gubernatorial campaign).
All of you who are saying this is a preposterous idea have obviously never been involved in SC politics. This isn't even a particularly nasty tactic by SC standards.
So, you're saying that Democrats in SC are so racists that their whole party platform can be brought down by having someone running that is ostensibly on the same side but of a different heritage?
Damn. Just, damn.
Well, no, it didn't work. Read the post.
Republicans have a theory that black people vote for black Democrats over white Democrats, no matter how incompetent they are, or how much they are 'real' Democrats. Ergo, they think if they run incompetent black people as Democrats, they will split the vote. Or at the very least, have some black people, disgusted at the primary outcome, not vote in the general election.
They also think the same thing about women. (Re: Sarah Palin and the whole PUMA thing they invent
The people who are alleging fraud are claiming that this is a scheme to ensure that the Republican incumbent is re-elected.
That makes no sense. Even the left-leaning fivethirtyeight blog [fivethirtyeight.com] listed the South Carolina Senate seat as safely Republican back in late April, with a 95+% chance to be won by the Republican candidate.
It's not a scheme to get anyone elected, it's a scheme to screw with the Democrats by introducing racial divisiveness. Republicans appear to believe that the entire left operates on identity politics. (Vote down a woman for president? We'll collect the female vote by having one as a VP! That's not why people were for Hillary, you asshats.)
In South Carolina, as is pointed out,t he scheme is usually done by throwing a clearly unqualified black guy in the Democratic primary when there's no serious black candi
so what would they have to gain by doing this?
According to TFA, these voting machines have a large number of problems and no audit trail. Who's to say this wasn't just a fuckup, rather than deliberate malice on anyone's part?
If this shows anything, though, it's the need for a non-electronic audit trail. I've often had people find it odd, given that I'm a programmer, that I'm so against purely electronic voting. I don't find it odd-I know exactly how easy it is to manipulate data on a large scale, even data that's supposedly secure and tamper-resistant. It's a whole lot harder to tamper with thousands or millions of paper ballots than it is to tamper with thousands or millions of electronic records.
That doesn't mean electronics have no place. An electronically generated human-readable ballot would be fine. In that case, the speed and reduced human error of electronic voting could be realized, but the voter would still have the ability to verify their choices after printing, and if wrong, go to an election judge, say "I didn't intend to vote this way", and have their ballot scrapped and recast. Backup paper systems should always be available at every precinct in case of a total failure of the machines, electrical failure, or just people who are not comfortable using them.
Having that type of mechanism in place would prevent exactly this type of scenario. It would allow for the result either to be overturned, or to say with certainty that, while unlikely, it is indeed the outcome.
>>If this shows anything, though, it's the need for a non-electronic audit trail. I've often had people find it odd, given that I'm a programmer, that I'm so against purely electronic voting.
Indeed. In fact, it has been demonstrated to be so easy to own some of the electronic voting machines (many years back) that the fact that people are still using these atroicities is a disgrace. My county (San Diego County) scrapped the electronic voting machines, or at least it looks that way. They weren't in exi
I've often had people find it odd, given that I'm a programmer, that I'm so against purely electronic voting.
It is amazing how often people find that odd. But don't just tell them you're against it...tell them pretty much the entire industry is against them, because computers do exactly what you tell them to do, including lie, and then they can lie about being told to lie.
People need to hear this more from people they regard as knowledgeable about computers. Over and over. Computers lie if told to do so. This is not detectable because they'll just lie about their lying to the people checking them.
The election of Greene is quite plausible.
All it would take is word of mouth among kinfolk, in churches, and other offline channels.
Voting is along racial lines (reasonable given history!) and actual qualification has never been relevant to either side. It's about race and
I live in SC and find this hilarious. Folks might as well vote for their homeboy. He can hardly do worse that what they have.
What's that old saying?...Never ascribe to malice that which is adequately explained by incompetence.
Yeah, I think that sums it up pretty good.
Was he listed under "A" or "G"? Were the other candidates listed around "Z", "Q" and "U"?
Here's the problem... if this was a "dirty trick" by the Republican side.... why in this much of an already red district? This was a safe seat that's now in jeopardy if this scandal goes much further.
People do weird things some times. Why did Nixon commit felonies in the 1972 race against McGovern (and thereby destroy his Presidency) when it was obvious to almost everyone that McGovern had no chance of winning anyways?
In other words, the observed vote pattern for Rawl could be expected to occur only about 10% of the time by chance.
In other words, the observed vote pattern is something you will expect to see a lot when checking various machines and various elections over time.
An unusual, non-random pattern in the precinct-level results suggests tampering, or at least machine malfunction, perhaps at the highest level.
A 10% chance of a pattern in no way suggests any tampering. Perhaps together with other evidence it is a tiny indicator. It's hard to take any article seriously that doesn't examine the facts properly. Now if the chance was one in a million it might suggest tampering, but one in 10? I'll put it bluntly: Give me a fooking break
Significance at 10% is very significant for an election as closely monitored as first world elections are
No it isn't. If you test 10 elections you would expect one of those to fail this test *even if they are all 'good' elections*. There are more than 10 primaries aren't there? Nothing can be concluded from this result in isolation, however when taken with other *independent* evidence it can strengthen the whole case.
"In other words, the observed vote pattern is something you will expect to see a lot when checking various machines and various elections over time."
Problem: They are NOT "checking various machines and various elections over time". They are only checking this one, right now. In other words: Clue #1 was whatever caused anyone to investigate the fishiness of this election in the first place and decide to run this test. Clue #2 was this test then indeed coming back positive for non-randomness at the 90% confid
...you'd need some pretty pliable sheep to believe that one.
Welcome to America 2.0, the result of 100 years of dumbing-down the populace.
The P value of this test is 0.1, pretty much all research I read demands a P value of 0.05 to justify a hypothesis. How many elections are there in the USA every year? By this standard even if all of them were not tampered with and totally legitimate 1/10th of them would be found to have been tampered with. That's a large percentage of false positives for such a serious accusation.
Basically, bullshit, either do better research to get a lower P value or stop drawing such spurious conclusions.
If you're picking unremarkable campaigns at random out of a hat, then yes, this result signifies nothing.
But if you're interested in one *particular* campaign, because that campaign has other irregularities which indicate possible fraud, then a statistical test with a 10% P-value is worthy of note.
To put it another way: if the guy next to you at the blackjack table gets two blackjacks in a row, you shouldn't be alarmed, that happens all the time. But if the guy is also winking at the dealer and has a suspicious bulge in his sleeve, it's time to find another table.
Would you say to meteorologist that 9 out of 10 of hurricanes like this one were destructive, "That's meaningless unless it's 19 out of 20"?
The threshold for statistical significance is an arbitrary convention, not some ironclad law that lets you ignore evidence. As a guideline it is more appropriate in some circumstances than in others. Something does not stop being evidence simply because it does not reach that threshold. I read scholarly papers all the time that say "while X does not achieve the threshold of significance, it is suggestive and worthy of more research." When there is other evidence to support it, such a result can be valuable. And there is such evidence: this calculation was done precisely because the election looks fishy.
You have it exactly wrong when you say "that's a large percentage of false positives for such a serious accusation." The election process is not innocent until proven guilty. We apply the presumption of innocence to human beings. An election is treated in the opposite way. It is not enough for it to be fair: it must be seen to be fair. It must be must be demonstrably legitimate. We do not let suspicious elections slide simply because the accusation is "serious." On the contrary, that is why we investigate them. This needs to be investigated precisely because of its seriousness.
Would you say to meteorologist that 9 out of 10 of hurricanes like this one were destructive
Depends. I could walk around and see how much mess they made.
But in the voting situation you're trying to make inferences from a hidden process; you didn't actually catch anyone stuffing ballot boxes.
You have it exactly wrong when you say "that's a large percentage of false positives for such a serious accusation." The election process is not innocent until proven guilty. We apply the presumption of innocence to human beings. An election is treated in the opposite way. It is not enough for it to be fair: it must be seen to be fair. It must be must be demonstrably legitimate. We do not let suspicious elections slide simply because the accusation is "serious." On the contrary, that is why we investigate t
South Carolina voter registration is close to 50% AA according to NPR. Greene is black. Greene had the first position on the ballot. Rawl did not raise money or campaign. Rawl did not do basic opposition research to find out Greene's shortcomings before the election. It sounds like Rawl should have lost because he is a terrible candidate and basically assumed he would just win because he was the "establishment candidate". In case people have not noticed the "establishment candidates" haven't been doing
Ya'll racists can't accept that Mr. Greene, a popular African-American, won the election fair and square so you guys undermine the integrity of our very system that is so great so you can throw out the will of the voters that elected him.
Why don't you guys put on the white robes, toss the bed sheet on the horse and chase this guy out of town you bunch of racists!
I... What.
This can't be a troll. Has anyone *seen* opensourceg.com? Not even
It's worth noting that in some precincts, Mr. Greene received more votes than were cast. As in, he got 115% of the votes.
I can't believe you're being so negative about such a high voter turnout.
>>>>he won the election day votes by 20 points but lost the absentee votes by 60.
From TFA:
"The result in the Senate election is highly statistically significant: Rawl performs 11 percentage points better among absentee voters than he does among Election Day voters."
In other words, not at all what you're talking about.
While an 11 point swing is interesting, it's not the smoking gun that TFA makes it out to be - absentee ballots are not an independent sample of an electorate. They're well known to
South Carolina uses an open primary system where any registered voter can vote in the Democratic primary, not just registered Democratic Party members.
Is it possible that thousands of Republicans decided to vote for Alvin Greene not because they want him to be their next Senator, but because he is such a hopeless candidate that he will be crushed by the Republican nominee?
On the face of it, this open primary system seems open to abuse. If you vote for candidate A in the primary, and he wins the primary to move onto the general election ballot, shouldn't your vote be "locked in" to support him in the general election?
Is it possible that thousands of Republicans decided to vote for Alvin Greene not because they want him to be their next Senator, but because he is such a hopeless candidate that he will be crushed by the Republican nominee?
Sorry to repost, but this seems a better place. If you look at the election results [enr-scvotes.org], you'll see that 424,893 people voted for the Republican primary while 197,380 voted for the Democrat primary. The electorate there is so strongly Republican that if 30k Republicans crossed over to giv
The Republican crossover theory debunked. In addition to many smart comments from 538 readers to the previous post on the SC race, I received an email from one particularly astute reader named Harrison Brown. Complete with an excel spreadsheet to back up his conclusions, Brown basically argues that there's neither any logic to, nor statistical evidence to support, the idea of Republicans crossing over to infiltrate the Democratic primary. Here are the key sections from his email to me, verbatim:
1. Suppose people were being brought into the Democratic-primary voting pool (from unregistered voters, the Republican faithful, or wherever) for the sole purpose of voting for Greene. Imagine a variable encapsulating the proportion of primary voters in each county who are Greene partisans; this (hidden) variable ought to be strongly positively correlated with both Greene's final results and with the participation rate in each county. In particular, this implies that Greene's vote share and the participation rate, both of which we can measure, would be correlated. But this is not the case -- under either linear or rank correlation! The R-squared and rho-squared are both effectively 0.
2. Even if that effect didn't show up, there should still be other signs. For instance, we can see if there are any counties where turnout for the Democratic primary exceeded the number of votes Barack Obama received in 2008; those would be prime suspects for Republican influence. And, in fact, there are three such counties: Hampton, Lee, and Union. But these are all fairly small counties where McCain/Palin received under 30% of the vote -- hardly Republican-dominated...
A more robust analysis of turnout levels reveals similar patterns. Although I didn't collect data for Republican voters (except for the McCain vote share), I came up with a rough estimate of GOP voters in 2008 by assuming the two-party share was 100% in each county. Running a linear regression to predict the number of Democratic primary voters from the number of votes Obama and McCain received, we find that the McCain raw vote total is statistically significant--but it has a negative coefficient. If anything, this points to voter suppression (no real surprises) rather than ballot box stuffing.
3. Finally, there's the simple question of where the Republican voters would have come from! From eyeballing the GOP primary totals, it seems like turnout in that elections was almost ludicrously high, which seems more-or-less corroborated by what Google's told me. But barring widespread voter fraud and/or corruption by local election officials, high turnout in the GOP primary should be incompatible with infiltration into the Democratic primary.
In conclusion, while the voting patterns in the D-Senate primary are strange and may not be totally legitimate, they don't bear the expected hallmarks that would arise in the case of a Republican plant.
With all that now added to the record, so to speak, how does the matter now stand?
Well, I think it's safe to say that the third possibility I raised in the previous post--GOP cross-primary infiltration--can be eliminated. There doesn't seem to be any direct or circumstantial evidence for that, and there were sufficient motives to participate in the very contentious GOP gubernatorial primary (especially with Nikki Haley running). So we can almost certainly eliminate the idea that there was a coordinated GOP effort to get Republican and/or conservative voters to pick up Democratic ballots with the intent of selecting Greene as DeMint's general election opponent.
Mod parent up, all signs point to this; both parties play this game every election. Heck, a good percentage of Hillary's support in 2008 [boston.com] was from Republicans voting against Obama. Democrats play the same game (remember the South Carolina Bush vs McCain primary in 2000?).
But why pull this trick in SC when the Republican seat is safe? Simple, neither side would ever pass up an opportunity to embarrass the other.
Fraud would be if the candidate or someone on their behalf tampered with the results or the machines to get them elected. If the voting machines are defective and produce a illegitimate outcome then it's something else. Not to mention beating 1 in 10 odds isn't that suspicious.
Fraud would be if the candidate or someone on their behalf tampered with the results or the machines to get them elected. If the voting machines are defective and produce a illegitimate outcome then it's something else.
Yeah... it's fraud on the part of the people who make the machines.
Alvin Greene is a broke, unemployed guy who is facing a felony obscenity charge.
So not really any different from the typical politician.
Apart from being broke, but I'm sure that'll fix itself soon enough.
So not really any different from the typical politician.
Typical politicians don't get charged. Everyone might be equal before law, but the pigs are more equal than others.
Apart from being broke, but I'm sure that'll fix itself soon enough.
Well, the first use for money would be some actor lessons [youtube.com].
Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity.
The ballot entries were listed in alphabetical order. Green comes before Rawls. Both were relatively unknown quantities. People are stupid.
I think, as I heard someone on NPR say this morning, people just choose the first guy on the list.
Seems like we only hear about election fraud when the Democrat National Committee gets a result they don't like.
But in this current political climate, what's so hard to believe about an unknown outsider at the top of the ballot winning?
The only ones who can't believe it are the ones heavily invested in forcing the outcome to what we're led to believe is the "predictable" outcome.
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With an eye to Europe, the Dow closed down 42 points after a volatile day.
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The Dow Jones Industrial Average closed down 42.55 points, or 0.28%, to 14932.41. Year to date, the Dow is up 14%. The Standard & Poor's 500 declined 0.88 points, or 0.05%, to 1614.08. The NASDAQ Composite fell 1.09 points, or 0.03%, to 3433.40.
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Give me a literary, not literal, translation
Translation at its best requires a sense of poetry, writes a former Latin teacher.
Guest blog post by Bernard J. Lee, S.M.
Once upon a time I taught a high school Advanced Placement course on the poetry of Virgil: the Georgics and the Aeneid. I always required an accurate literal translation, and I also invited students to try for an English translation that matched the literary beauty of the Latin poetry (especially the Georgics). The inventive students often took me up on it. It's a lot more work and demands some literary intuitiveness.
A literal translation of Latin liturgical texts into English is a literary tragedy, for beauty captured in Latin is not transmittable literally into any other language. It takes English literary genius to capture Latin literary genius. When ICEL (International Committee on English in the Liturgy) was kidnapped from trained liturgists, the literary disasters with which we are now confronted were predicable.
I am not talking about bad will. I believe that everyone who has a love for good liturgy wants to make it come out right. And I understand the desire for English texts to be faithful to the Latin text. I simply want to propose that "literally faithful" and "literarily faithful" are different expectations. For the sake of the beauty of liturgy, the "literarily faithful" deserves, in my opinion, to be a liturgical preference.
The difference between "literal" and "literary" is not minor. One cannot bargain with the literal meaning, but can take some liberties to match a literal rendering with literary beauty. Some of my young students were uncannily inventive. Poetry never traffics literally between languages. That's why there are so many translations of the Iliad and the Odyssey and of scripture.
No translator, however good, is ever utterly free of presuppositions even while trying to translate literally. That is why there are so many translation of the New Testament. I'd wager that Catholic and Protestant translations of Paul's Letter to the Romans will never be identical.
I first read Edmund Rostand's Cyrano de Bergerac in French. The poetry and dramatic images are spectacular. I then read an English translation that was flat. It had none of the comic and tragic beauty of the French text. It was close to dull. Someone suggested that I read Brian Hooker's English translation, which I did, and the magic was back. Hooker must himself have been a fine poet who caught the poetic spirit of Rostand's comic-tragedy. Good translation is not interchangeable with literal translation.
We do the best we can in getting meaning and context from one language into another. Et cum spiritu tuo has become almost a battleground. The literal translation is "and with your spirit." But that, frankly, is probably not even a good literal translation, even though spiritus and spirit are cognates. Spiritus functions differently in Latin than it does in English, as does its closest Greek approximation pneuma, or its Hebrew approximation ruach. All translation are approximations, and cognates do not guarantee that meaning from one language has best been named by the same sounding word in another language.
Poets have a critical role to play in getting meaning from one language into another. Literalists can damage meaning if not in community with poets, just as poets can damage meaning if not in dialogue with the literalists. I personally opt for a substantially dialogic poetic voice that is kindly and dialogically disposed to the literalists.
Guest blogger Bernard J. Lee, S.M. is a professor of theology at St. Mary's University in San Antonio, Texas. He is author of The Becoming of the Church (Paulist Press) and editor of Alternative Futures for Worship and Eucharist (The Liturgical Press).
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Cosplayer Orochi X has already graced the blog once for his phenomenal Siegfried Schtauffen ensemble. I couldn't pass the opportunity to feature him again once I set eyes on his newest project – Final Fantasy summon Bahamut. The quality and caliber of the costume make it the perfect way to recognize our fiftieth CosBlog. Check out the photos below, and thank you for your continued support!
Who: The CharacterI chose Bahamut, an Aeon from the game Final Fantasy X. In the game, an Aeon is a powerful creature that Yuna is able to summon to help her in battle.Why: The DecisionI've always been a big fan of the Final Fantasy series, and of all of the Final Fantasy summon creatures, I like Bahamut best. I summon him so often, I think I'm a bit obsessed with the creature.
The Final Fantasy X version of Bahamut is on the top of my list. I like the design, the color of the wings, and the version of Bahamut looks wonderful together with the beautiful Yuna.What: The ProcessIt took a full two months of my year, and holiday from college to make this costume. I worked on it almost every day and enjoyed it, though some parts killed me and almost beat me down.
I combined many materials for this costume, including plastic, liquid plastic, light clay, aluminum foil, car paint, fiber glass, foam, vinyl, some metallic colored paper and velvet for the wings. I think the final cost is around USD200.
Molding the head and choosing the right material for Bahamut's skin was really hard for me. I did research for variety of materials and to make the color gradation on his skin, I even mixed some car paints and dyed the velvet.
The most trying part was the wings. It wasn't as difficult as molding the head, but I had to make a total of 12 big red feathers and 10 small feathers one-by-one. It's still okay for me at first, but you know…doing the same thing over and over again caused me to get bored and frustrated. Where and When: The DebutI wanted my Bahamut to look like it was flying so I needed a good panorama of the sky.
I decided to shoot it on a building roof, so luckily I found a building under construction near my house. It was so painful. There was no lift in building and our photo shoot was on the roof. We took the stairs…
My big brother, his friend, and my photographer helped me carry all the props, but the four of us still needed to go up and down the stairs around three times.
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At least he doesn't cost all your mana to summon.
ummm.... holy ***?
That is the most amazing cosplay I've ever seen. And Bahamut is a favorite of mine too.
That is....a masterpiece
That is an an impressive piece of work. I don't think I'd have near enough patience to try that.
Wow. Probably the most impressive cosplay I've ever seen
He is LEGEND.
Holy crap!
Holy h*ll that's impressive. Wow..
Wow. That has to be one of the best cosplay's I've seen
Impressive. Most impressive.
Wow, I wonder how much time and effort that took.
SHEET! nice job
Playing through FFX right now. Bahamut is awesome, and so is this costume!
That is excellent. Thank you for this.