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For a decade, Republican strategists have warned that unless the GOP does a better job winning support from black, Latino, and Asian-American voters, its long-term viability may be at risk.
On Tuesday Mitt Romney, who has not managed to make substantial inroads among minorities during his presidential campaign, will find out if that day has arrived. With the nation's demographics changing rapidly, the election's results will render a verdict on whether the GOP can continue to win national elections with negligible support from minority groups, who account for more than a quarter of the electorate.
A loss by Romney, despite what is shaping up to be stronger support from whites than any Republican candidate has received in a generation, would underscore the growing political power of minority voters. It could force the GOP to adjust its positions, especially on immigration, where its hard-line stance has alienated Latinos.
By the same token, though, the high level of racial polarization reflected in preelection polls hints at dangers for Democrats. Predictions that Republicans will suffer from an increasingly diverse population rest on the assumption that many white voters will continue to vote Democratic. But if this year's surveys showing three of every five whites supporting Romney prove accurate, and are a harbinger of long-term trends, falling support from whites could outpace Democratic gains among minorities.
"Both outcomes are possible," said Merle Black, a political science professor at Emory University. "The Democrats have a huge problem among white voters, and it seems to be increasing. And whites remain the majority of voters in the United States."
Even if Romney ekes out a victory, it may be the last one the GOP can wring from the white coalition that has carried the party to the presidency in seven of the last 11 elections, analysts said. This election is the "last hurrah for whites," said William H. Frey, a demographer at the Brookings Institution, a nonpartisan think tank.
""Either the Republican Party will go down, or they'll understand things are changing,'' he said.
In Nevada, Colorado, Virginia, and other battleground states, minority voting-eligible populations have surged since 2008, according to Frey's analysis, trends that are expected to accelerate. In the long term, minorities are projected to outnumber whites by 2042, although the composition of the electorate that shows up to vote tends to lag broader demographic changes and may remain predominantly white for years afterward.
The racial divide is shaping up to be historic. A Pew poll released Monday found that 57 percent of whites planned to vote for Romney, compared to only 37 percent for Obama. That number would translate into the lowest share for a Democrat in a two-person race since Walter F. Mondale got 35 percent of the vote in 1984. By comparison, in Obama's 2008 victory, 43 percent of white voters supported him.
Michael Dimock, Pew's associate director for research, said that white voters without college degrees, who tend to have lower incomes and may be more likely to be suffering from sluggish economic growth, accounted for most of Obama's falloff in the poll.
"Obama's running about as well among white college graduates as he did four years ago," Dimock said. "The bigger difference seems to be among less educated whites. It's almost two-to-one for Romney among the less educated whites.
"There's a tendency to want to infer a lot of cultural weight to that, but I think given the circumstances it's economic," said Dimock, downplaying the possibility that the gap presaged any long-term shifts among whites. "College grads have a little more of a cushion in this economy than non-college grads. People who had a problem with Obama's race, that was already there in '08. The loss of support probably has a lot to do with the economy."
But while the Republican ticket may attract greater white support this year than John McCain did in 2008, Democrats are hoping that boost will be concentrated in Southern states, where it won't help. Romney could run up the score among white voters in those states, but since he is likely to win their electoral votes anyway, increasing his total number of white votes there won't help him win the election.
Dimock said that because the economic recovery has been uneven geographically, and white voters are an extremely heterogenous category, it was plausible to think Obama's losses among whites will not be evenly distributed.
Polls of swing states released Wednesday by the New York Times and CBS lent some credence to that theory. The polls found Romney with a huge lead over Obama among working-class white voters in Florida, but virtually tied with Obama among that demographic in Ohio.Ohio's overall racial demographics are little changed from 2008. But in other swing states, the population is changing rapidly. Nevada recorded the steepest minority gains, going from 30 percent of the voting-eligible population in 2008 to 39 percent this election. California, North Carolina, New York, and Florida recorded large minority gains as well.
For now, members of racial and ethnic minority groups make up about a quarter of the national electorate, and polls show Obama far ahead. Obama maintains an overwhelming lead among blacks, according to polls, and a smaller margin among Asian-Americans. Among Hispanics, he led 69 percent to 21 percent, according to a Pew Hispanic Center poll earlier this month.
As recently as 2004, when George W. Bush won 44 percent of the Hispanic vote, Latinos were considered a swing constituency. Karl Rove, Bush's political strategist, who said in a speech this month in Arkansas that the GOP would be doomed without winning over more Latinos, pushed the party to back immigration reform that year.
But the effort stalled. In the 2008 and 2012 Republican primaries, Republican candidates took hard-line positions on immigration. Romney opposed the Dream Act, which would allow children of illegal immigrants a pathway to citizenship.
Since winning the nomination, the Romney campaign has campaigned for Latino votes with elected Latino Republican officials like Senator Marco Rubio of Florida and Governor Susana Martinez of New Mexico. But his numbers do not seem to have budged.
One hope for the GOP in the future, Dimock said, is that some of the overwhelming minority support for Obama might not be transferable to other Democrats in future presidential elections.
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HCAM brings arts, careers
Hickory Career and Arts Magnet High School is a unique learning opportunity for Catawba County students.
When students leave HCAM after four years of instruction, they graduate with a high school diploma, four to five college credits and, in some cases, a career certification — all at no cost to students.
"So many people say, 'Where was this when I was in high school?'" said HCAM principal Kelly Owen. "...The idea of HCAM is to engage students in a different kind of way in a unique environment."
HCAM offers eight career programs, and six of those programs include college credit. Available careers include cosmetology, criminal justice/forensics, culinary arts, firefighting, graphic design and advertising, theater arts, dance and photography. Students pick a career path when they enroll in HCAM and focus on those classes during their junior and senior years.
In its first year, the school has about 100 students enrolled. About 15-20 students are selected for each academy in every grade level.
"They're the students who just want something different," Owen said.
"We really want to be something different. ... To see high school students engaged, it's amazing. There are some of them that can't find their motivation, and we want to help them find that motivation."
Students apply to attend HCAM, but acceptance isn't based on school grades or previous academic achievement. If applications exceed the allotment for each academy, applicants' names are put into a lottery, so every student has an equal opportunity to become an HCAM student.
"We've seen students who have struggled in the past that have succeeded here," Owen said. "Students who have struggled in the past with grades and attendance ... have stepped up as leaders."
HCAM received about 50 applications for admission into the school for the 2011-12 year. Although March 15 is the school's tentative date for the selection lottery, Owen said HCAM will continue to accept applications and recruit new students until the next school year starts.
Because students apply to be part of HCAM and choose their career academy, teachers and administration at the school say students have a vested interest in learning their crafts and participating in classroom activities.
"It's seeing that the kids have found something they really enjoy," said graphic design and advertising teacher Jonathan Lail. "I've had some students who have really blown me away with their talent."
Graphic design student Kathrine Gomez was attracted to HCAM because of the opportunity to gain college credit. She also liked HCAM because it was unlike any other school in Catawba County.
"It's just different here," said Gomez, a junior. "It's the one-on-one relationship with teachers; it's great."
HCAM is open to all Catawba County students, regardless of where they live within school systems. Transportation is provided to every HCAM student, so even a student who lives at the opposite end of the county will have a ride to school every day.
"I think HCAM is a great opportunity for students to get a head start on their college education," said Shelley Shaffer, who teaches forensics at HCAM.
The school's start-up costs for the first three years were funded through a grant, so HCAM officials said the new school doesn't put added pressure on an already tight state budget. After the school's first few years, Owen said the school will become self-sustaining based on state average daily membership funding.
The school will undergo changes this summer with the addition of a simulated cosmetology salon environment, a black box theater, a forensics lab and a culinary center.
Sophomore Shaquille Smith is part of HCAM's acting career academy.
Although he plans to be a neurosurgeon, he has always loved acting.
"The teachers here are really interactive with students," he said. "(HCAM) is something that I can say I was a part of."


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LEWISBURG, Pa. — Bucknell University's Office of Multicultural Student Services is hosting a series of lectures in honor of Hispanic Heritage Month. All events in the series are free and open to the public.
Augustine Romero, director of student equity with the Tucson Unified School District and co-founder of the Social Justice Project, will give the talk, "Precious Knowledge," Wednesday, Sept. 19, at 7 p.m. in the Forum of the Elaine Langone Center.
Romero will examine how political discourse on race, ethnicity and access affects the resources devoted to the education of Latino students in some southwestern U.S. communities.
In a related event, the documentary film "Precious Knowledge" will be shown Tuesday, Sept. 18, at 7 p.m. in Rooke Chemistry Auditorium (Room 116) of the Rooke Science Center. The film showing is co-sponsored by the Office of Multicultural Student Services and International Student Services.
The film chronicles the success of the Mexican American studies program at Tucson High School and the fight to preserve the program, which has become a national model of educational success, with 100 percent of enrolled students graduating from high school and 85 percent going on to attend college.
"Hispanic Heritage Month is an annual opportunity to engage the campus and surrounding community with artistic, intellectual and political representations of Hispanic culture. Staff, faculty and student groups are united in providing eclectic intercultural opportunities," said Vincent Stephens, director of Multicultural Student Services.
Previous events in the series included a talk by Isabel Molina-Guzman, author of Dangerous Curves: Latina Bodies in the Media, will give the talk, "Performing Latina Racial Flexibility in the 'Post' Media World," Sept. 10.Molina-Guzman is associate professor of communication and Latina/o studies at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. She examined why some Latina bodies in film, television, and music can perform across a diversity of ethnic and racial identities.
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I don't know anyone [who was a skeptic] who became a believer in global warming.
You mean like Richard Muller [slashdot.org] who quite famously denounced anthropogenic global warming [nytimes.com] only to come to the same conclusion by his own means? Yeah, that opinion piece by him opens with "Call me a converted skeptic."
Oh, I get it, after it turns out that his research didn't back up your "beliefs", he must never have been a skeptic to begin with, right? Or perhaps when you made that statement you meant that you just don't know Richard Muller personally?
Political word games have always been such a pain in the ass.
But you are right that while peer reviewed journals move one way, the population moves the other [yale.edu]:
The most striking result is the increase in the proportion of Americans who express strong doubt or rejection of the reality of global warming through their free associations. In 2003, only 7% of Americans provided "naysayer" images (e.g., "hoax," or "no such thing") when asked what thought or image first came to mind when they heard the term "global warming." By 2010, however, 23% of Americans provided "naysayer" images.
My analysis is that in the global warming debate, we won.
I'm not sure what he thinks the prize is going to be. But I'm willing to wager that it will indeed be a surprise. A big one.
Although it sounds rather inflammatory and is really, really stupid, the fact that the House has jammed up that committee with people having the intellectual prowess of fleas really doesn't change things. It's pretty clear that the US government is unable and unwilling to be particularly proactive about this. It's also not very clear that we CAN do anything substantive about climate change.
Hang on to your butts!
Well that's the trick with republicans retaining control of at least one part of government. They can jam up the process on anything inconvenient. That was the point for them all along.
I agree that it's not clear what Obama and the democrats in general would do if given the chance anyway. We can all pontificate over what they think they might want to do, but I have no idea what they'd actually be able to wrangle their own party into given the opportunity.
The reason our federal government is set up this way is PRECISELY for keeping the mob rule (House) or the aristocracy (Senate) from becoming a battering ram to shove whatever agenda they see fit through the process. The process is geared towards compromise. The Founders meant for it to be this way (ever wonder why it's so damn hard to amend the Constitution? Same logic.) If you read the Founders' writings (Jefferson and Adams in particular) you'll see that their purpose was not to create a "juggernaut" that trampled over anything in its path, but a slow tortoise that didn't rush into legislation and learned from compromise rather than intimidation.
Granted, there are exceptions to the rule, but the point being, we don't WANT a speedy federal government (remember the PATRIOT Act?)... we want a lukewarm slow moving behemoth that doesn't fuck things up every 2 years.
Except R isn't interested in compromise.
For example, way back when Obama started with redoing health care, he invited the Republicans to participate and said "Lets start with the plan from one of YOUR people, John McCain." The response was that that plan was unacceptable and that they wouldn't participate AT ALL.
For every issue that actually matters, R largely is "Either you do what we say or we will block everything you want to do".
... we don't WANT a speedy federal government (remember the PATRIOT Act?)
So how come they're really fast to take away our freedoms when confronted with imaginary threats, but with *real, actual threats they act like a toroise with its fucking legs cut off?
* Like car crashes (PDF): [dot.gov]
In 2010, 32,885 people died in motor vehicle traffic crashes in the United States - the lowest number of fatalities since 1949
That's ten times the number that were killed in 9/11, and that was the lowest year in a long time!
Muller was never a skeptic.
No skeptic I've met said that " carbon dioxide from burning of fossil fuels will prove to be the greatest pollutant of human history. It is likely to have severe and detrimental effects on global climate." (Richard Muller, 2003). So perhaps he became a skeptic later? Not so much. Richard Muller, 2008: "There is a consensus that global warming is real. it's going to get much, much worse."
Muller was never a skeptic.
The minute he said something you disagreed with, he become "biased".
Muller was never a skeptic.
I think you mean:
I don't know anyone [who was a skeptic] who became a believer in global warming.
It is a rather telling quote. If the skeptics are so entrenched in their beliefs that none ever change then they are not skeptics. They are deniers. If that term is deemed to be offensive, then they could choose disbelievers. But "skeptic" implies a willingness to be convinced, and this is obviously not happening.
It also ignores the real skeptics: scientists. These are the people who do studies that reproduce other studies to see if their data matches so they can confirm or deny the original claims. These are the people who do studies to test their basic assumptions (that seem so obvious that the public often laugh at them), just in case they were false truisms. These are the real skeptics.
Perhaps it might help to point out that people are using "skeptic" with two rather different meanings in this discussion. The word means something different in common English than it does in technical/scientific English.
In common speech, a "skeptic" is someone who actively disbelieves something. And note that in common speech, "disbelieves" and "doesn't believe" are synonyms.
In technical English, neither of these is true. A skeptic is rather someone who believes that something should be challenged, even if there's pretty good evidence that it's true. There is a lot of scientific history showing the value of challenging accepted theory, and challenges sometimes turn up important exceptions or qualifications. The poster child for this is Einstein's Relativity, which was based on experimenters testing Newton's theories/equations/mechanics, uncovering a number of exceptions. Newton's mechanics are still taught in schools, with the qualification that they're only approximations that are useful under "ordinary" (here on Earth) conditions, but at high speeds or accelerations become inaccurate. Similarly, even the most "devout" believers in climate change will agree that a lot of further research is needed, and our understanding of climate is still rather limited. So there's a lot of room for skepticism withing the field of climatology, if skepticism is taken in its scientific sense of "needing further research" to improve the accuracy of the equations.
The "disbelieves" vs. "doesn't believe" dichotomy is also important. In common speech, everything is typically either true or false. But scientists live in a world where a lot of things are in an "unknown" state. Disbelieving something therefore doesn't mean that you believe it's false. To a scientist, disbelief means that you don't think we know all the facts, and further testing is needed before we accept something as "theory". It's not uncommon for a scientist to express disbelief in even their own results, and insist that further research is needed. (Funding organizations are very familiar with this phenomomenon.
One of the clear cases of a long-lasting state of disbelief was back in the 1980s, when as a result of recent paleontological discoveries, birds were finally reclassified as a branch of the dinosaurs. This wasn't a new idea; it was suggested back in the 19th century by none other than Charles Darwin, as well as by numerous colleagues. The similarities between those newly-discovered dinosaur fossils and bird skeletons couldn't be missed, and the discovery of the few Archeopteryx fossils in Germany just added to the suspicion that they were close relatives. But until the 1970s, no further ancient bird fossils were found. So scientists said "Yeah, it looks like a real possibility, but we need a lot more evidence." Most biologists expected that it would be found true, but they remained officially skeptics until more evidence turned up. Then Mao died, China opened up to field research, and several beds of ancient avian fossils were found there. After a few decades and a few thousand more avian fossils, the skeptics finally said "Yeah; we've got the evidence now", and what everyone suspected all along was made official theory. But this followed more than a century of skepticism on the part of most biologists.
Also, note that some biologists continue to express skepticism about the bird-dinosaur link. It's mostly of a pro-forma nature, but it's generally considered proper if done scientifically. Compared to other kinds of critters, birds still have a very sketchy fossil record. Their thin bones just don't fossilize well. So various biologists continue to challenge the details of the classification, with the hope that funding will be found to collect the evidence. Thus, recent DNA studies have verified that the ratites are birds and not a separate branch of dinosaurs. Other studies have shown that cockatiels really are close relatives of cockatoos, and not an independent early bra
Good post, and exactly the sort of which there is not enough of on Slashdot these days. I was going to add however that I'd caution against reading into too much from taxonomic changes. Taxonomy is, in my opinion, rather a "dangerous" discipline in this respect when used as a basis for factual discussion.
The problem with taxonomy is that it tries to apply classification in a uniform manner, when the evolutionary tree is anything but uniform. As such, classification all too often ends up being nothing more t
"Oh, I get it, after it turns out that his research didn't back up your "beliefs", he must never have been a skeptic to begin with, right?"
Nor was he much of a Scotsman.
If you are concerned about global warming (as I am) and think that human-created carbon dioxide may contribute (as I do), then you still should agree that we are much better off having broken the hockey stick.
As far as I can tell, he's been concerned about global warming for a long time.
I do believe global warming is happening, however, I am not sure mankind is responsible for a majority of it. However, I do believe we must cut pollution for the sake of pollution regardless of whether it puts a dent into the overall problem of global warming.
I do believe global warming is happening, however, I am not sure mankind is responsible for a majority of it.
At all other times in the planet's history when there have been periods of warming, it's taken orders of magnitude longer than the current period. The difference? This time is post industrial revolution and the wide-spread burning of fossil fuels. How do we know? Ice cores. But don't let the actual facts get in the way of your skepticism.
Don't let them wrap you up in a correlation game. Real researchers put together a model and compare it to past data - the science has advanced well beyond simple correlations. Everyone who has taken the time and effort to build a model has come to the same conclusion.
Real researchers put together a model and compare it to past data
As a start, sure. Real researchers then use that model to make a prediction from their original hypothesis, and wait until reality has either disproven or not disproven the hypothesis.
True - and that has been happening over the last 30 years or so. Since the mid 90s, the models have been looking pretty good.
It could be a fluke, though - which is why it is still good to look at thousands of years of historical data rather than putting too much weight on any single decade.
At all other times in the planet's history when there have been periods of warming, it's taken orders of magnitude longer than the current period.
http://www.esd.ornl.gov/projects/qen/transit.html [ornl.gov]
How do we know? Ice cores.
http://www.climate.unibe.ch/~stocker/papers/bereiter09grl.pdf [unibe.ch]
It's interesting to see how fragmented the anti-science people are.
That 23% of people who express doubt, are actually a bunch of different doubters. People who think it's not happening and lah-lah-lah (fingers in ears).
People who believe it IS happening but its natural.
People who believe it's man-made , but there's nothing we can do about it.
If you watch Fox (it's the only US news I see on my cable), they can't keep their story consistent between which of these they are. I suspect all they really care about is that you use fossil fuels as wastefully as possible at as high a price as possible. Whenever energy efficiency comes up, they're all screaming 'unAmerican' as if anyone would be against doing the same thing for less money!?
But it does show that you don't actually have 77%-23%, you have a more fragmented 77%-10%-10%-2%
It's not that they are "anti-science." It's that they don't value things they don't understand and more importantly, aren't as interesting as other things.
In a way, these types exhibit unreal amounts of arrogance. They know that without the sciences, their comfortable lives could not be what it is today. (Though in their prayers, they thank god for things other people did... even for things they did themselves.) They know the things they don't understand have a profound impact on their current lives. I
You wrote: "They know that without the sciences, their comfortable lives could not be what it is today."
I suspect a large fraction doesn't know that. I doubt these are people who, when they flip a light switch or run hot water in their kitchen or flush a toilet, even occasionally think of the infrastructure that lets them do those things. They not only don't know what they don't know, they aren't curious about it. Much less capable of changing their minds in light of scientific evidence that conflicts with their faith/beliefs.
Serious failure of Occams razor going on here AC.
Lets take three things we know;-
1) You say climate change is happening. Well we agree on that. Lets put that into "Known knowns".
2) We know CO2 significantly traps infra red radiation. This was known since the 1800s when researchers first started putting alarm bells out about climate change after Fourier first demonstrated CO2s effect on IR spectrum light in the laboratory.
3) And we are putting staggering amounts of CO2 into the atmosphere. Something in the range of 35000 teragrams per year.
4) You dont think humans are responsible for most of the climate change.
The question I ask then, is what mechanism are you proposing that is stopping physics from doing its thing here.
This is the thing the "Humans are not having an effect" people seem to miss here. Thats a huge claim which breaks a tonne of very old and very established physics, and for the "we are not causing climate change" thing to be true, novel physics needs to be proposed to provide a mechanism that causes CO2 to stop absorbing IR light.
I should note some caution here. If a mechanism is proposed, a LOT of things break. Huge amounts of our knowledge of chemistry , astronomy (absorbsion lines, etc) , and so on are dependent on our understanding of how gasses absorb light, and we'd be throwing out perhaps entire fields of science, because holy crap have we got a lot of things wrong? All that stuff we learned from staring at black lines on rainbows shitting out of our telesopes? Wrong wrong wrong. All the whacky stuff we've learned bouncing light through gasses in laboratories? Wrong wrong wrong. Chemistry wrong, physics wrong, astronomy wrong, biology wrong, its exaustive.
To wit;- Big claims require big evidence.
And I'm not seeing that evidence, instead I'm seeing frauds like "lord" monkton, a guy whos entire scientific/mathematical education was finishing highschool, being paraded around by right-wing think tanks as a "renowned mathematician". I'm seeing incredibly detailed frame ups of researchers involving multiple right-wing thinktanks pushing campaigns of deliberate misrepresentation of peoples emails. I'm seeing polls of scientists, in such dead-on fields as "political science" and "marketing" denouncing basic observational physics and not a single damn qualified climate scientist in sight.
I'm actually not seeing shit. Theres almost no legitimate reason left to doubt climate change and our role in it anymore. Its happening, its real. That debate ended 150 years ago in Fouriers laboratory.
It certainly could be true that the excess carbon dioxide is not having the predicted warming effect. For example, the warming should cause the humidity to increase, and we have observed this increase in humidity. The increased moisture in the atmosphere might create more clouds, which could possibly reflect more sunlight into space, causing a negative feedback to limit the warming.
Negative feedback either places limits on an external forcing mechanism serving to reduce the deviation from a natural state (b
If you can't beat scientists on the F of Facts, then go by the F of Funding..
Senator Barack Obama in 2008:
What I've said to them is that I believe that God created the universe and that the six days in the Bible may not be six days as we understand it... it may not be 24-hour days, and that's what I believe. I know there's always a debate between those who read the Bible literally and those who don't, and I think it's a legitimate debate within the Christian community of which I'm a part. My belief is that the story that the Bible tells about God creating this magnificent Earth on which we live—that is essentially true, that is fundamentally true. Now, whether it happened exactly as we might understand it reading the text of the Bible: That, I don't presume to know.
http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/science/2012/11/rubio_and_obama_and_the_age_of_earth_politicians_hedge_about_whether_universe.html [slate.com]
These guys are politicians. Part of being a politician is to not annoy anyone who might vote for you, unless you have a really good reason. Privately, both Rubio and Obama might well believe the science is settled and that the literal word of the Bible is just wrong... but why would they say so? Why not just give a non-answer that annoys the fewest number of people?
So, is it stupid and wrong when Rubio does it, but okay when Obama does it? If you have that kind of double standard, then shame on you.
Someone should ask them if Jonah really lived in a fish/whale for 3 days and 3 nights.
Hi. Nice to meet you, Dana. I go by the name Sarten X, often represented with a hyphen.
When The global warming concerns were first being voiced, I was skeptical. Surely humans' influence couldn't be that severe? Then I started learning. I learned about how CO2 traps heat. I learned how human CO2 production has been increasing exponentially. I learned how small shifts in ocean temperatures put far more moisture into the air, producing more severe storms.
I learned too much to doubt. Even if half my knowledge turns out to be wrong, the other half still leads to the same conclusion: Our society is royally screwed because of global warming, and we're making it worse every day.
I hope I'm wrong. I hope that we've been terribly mistaken in our analysis. I hope the solar system drifts into a previously-unknown dust cloud, and the greenhouse gasses save us. Hope, though, will not explain to my great-grandchildren why they can't leave the tunnels during storm season.
At this point, I am still skeptical of many of the claims. A world covered in poison ivy by 2015? I doubt that. The east coast of the United States submerged in a decade? Probably not. Regardless of what preposterous scare-tactic forecasts are made, there is still too much evidence for me to ignore. Though the outcome is uncertain, the trend is clear. We, as the current dominant species on this planet, should do what we can to reduce the approaching threat of a warming planet. We should strive to make our pollution as harmless as we can, and keep our industrial processes as flexible as we can to allow future change if similar problems are discovered. We should have been more cautious in our designs over the past century, and we may not even have another century to live if we do not change our ways now.
I am Sarten X. I was a skeptic of global warming, and I now support the efforts to fight it.
You are on the same track as me. The next step is to realize that you can't fight it any more than you can convince locusts to peacefully leave a field alone. Currently, I want politicians to talk about mitigation... can we try to predict what will happen and what we can do about it? For instance, New Jersey and New York just got walloped by a hurricane that wiped out thousands of houses in low lying areas. It would be nice to have some idea whether it is cost effective to rebuild and wait for the next 100-
It is a pity when insane people are allowed to embarrass themselves in public so.
Watch this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6gE6zipFWmo [youtube.com]
and you'll know why you're a "skeptic."
I believe the universe was created by an omnipotent, antisocial hedge-maze 3.5 years ago. Science can do nothing to prove me wrong. You actually *can't* know the truth in these types of questions, which is why it's called faith. Please stop confusing the two.
Oh, and when religious types can't define their faith in non-disprovable ways they are rank amateurs, and should be ridiculed for their ignorance. Attack ignorance, not faith. We'll all just get along better.
-Your friendly neighborhood theological
This whole business is a large part of why I can not vote for a Republican, at least in national races. Between the people mentioned in this story, and we all remember Todd "In the case of a legitimate rape" Akin and Paul "Lies straight from the pit of hell" Broun, both who were/are also on the House Science committee. I mean, a Republican can say, "Hey, yeah, that is looney, but we're not all looney!". But I have to ask, "Who let these people serve on the science committee, and what does that say about... their concern for the nation?" Its this unbelievable horror story that these people are in an elected office, just utterly baffling. Sometimes I expect Rod Serling to step out from around a corner and tell us all that this was all just an odd trip into the Twilight Zone.
Why do we still pretend it is okay for uneducated people to make policy decisions?
Before politicians are elected (and particularly before they get into any committee with science in its name) they should have to pass a written examination.
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LONDON, England (AP) -- British police say a 16-year-old boy who used prosthetics and dreadlocks to conduct armed robberies in disguise has been jailed for five years.
Police say Miles Alura pretended to be an elderly man with facial prosthetics, make-up and a hair piece to steal 50,000 pounds (US$79,500) of jewellery from a shop in Kent in July. They say he produced two handguns and tied up employees before fleeing.
That robbery was linked to one in London a month earlier when Alura wore fake dreadlocks to rob a jeweller of 100,000 pounds (US$159,000) worth of stock.
Alura was jailed Friday at Kingston Crown Crown Court.
Two teenage accomplices who cannot be named for legal reasons were sentenced to three years in jail and a 12-month detention order.
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Casey Anthony is a free woman. She finished her probation in August and her last known location is being kept from the public for her own protection.
"We are still not releasing that information just in case. We could be jeopardizing somebody's life, somebody's security," said Ann Howard with the DOC.
Casey was found not guilty of murdering her daughter Caylee last year. The acquittal sparked public outrage.
Casey didn't report Caylee missing for an entire month and was convicted on four counts of lying to police, a misdemeanor, until now.
Monday, a new law inspired by the Anthony trial, went into affect. Had it been in place before her trial, Casey could be in prison serving 20 years for lying to police.
From now on, people who lie to police trying to find anyone under the age of 16 can be charged with a third degree felony, carrying a penalty of five years behind bars.
FDLE Special Agent Supervisor Carol Frederick says the new law gives investigators a better shot at finding missing kids quicker by helping to eliminate false leads. "If somebody has reported a child missing, it is a serious matter and we all look. We don't want people to cry wolf."
Even though Casey isn't behind bars, she's still paying for the death of her daughter. She's broke and death threats have forced her to live in hiding.
When lawmakers began working on this legislation, it was called Caylee's law but the title was quickly changed. The sponsor wanted to make sure people knew it was being drafted broad enough to protect all Florida children.


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Cupid's juiced. Lance Armstrong's head is corked. Is there anything left to love about modern sports, the apparent bastion of liars, cheats and psychopaths?
Well, here are 100 Valentines dedicated to all that's still good about sports. "There are really 100?" you ask. OK, maybe 99:
—The poetry of the phrase "pitchers and catchers report ..."
—The thwaaaack of a well-hit anything (baseball, golf ball, puck).
—Batting cages.
—Bleacher bums.
—Kevin Costner's "small-of-a-woman's-back" speech.
—Soccer in the rain.
—Football in the snow.
—Bill Murray singing "Take Me Out to the Ball Game."


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The soccer doubleheader at Harvard - originally scheduled for Saturday - has been postponed due to inclement weather. With the forecast calling for a 100% chance of rain, the matchups have been pushed back a day. The women will play at 11 a.m. on Sunday morning, with the men's game kicking off at 2 p.m.
The men's team, which will be looking to avenge last season's 1-0 loss to the Crimson, has gone undefeated in its last five games. The Bears enter Sunday's tilt with a 7-3-1 overall record, including a 2-0 mark in Ivy League play. The Bears have gone 6-1-1 in their last eight games and have not allowed more than one goal in a game since their season-opener back on Sept. 2. Junior Ben Brackett leads the team with four goals and one assist for nine points while as a team, Brown is leading the Ivy League in both goals scored and goals allowed.
The women's squad enters Sunday's match with a 5-7-0 overall and 1-2 Ivy record. Senior Kim LaVere is the reigning Ivy League Player of the Week after leading Brown to its first Ivy victory of the season last weekend over Princeton. All seven of the Bears losses have come by just one goal. Freshman striker Lindsay Cunningham leads the team with four goals this season.


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Why hasn't anyone figured out yet that Ray Ray is Belichick?
Ray, how many more games do you think we win this year?
Jesus, do I really have to wade through all this BS bickering just to keep up with today's tweets? Go girl slap each other in the dumper please.


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It's going to take some great defense to keep Mount Union in check.
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The winners this weekend will earn the opportunity to compete for the Walnut and Bronze in Salem.
The left side of the bracket, with UW-Oshkosh and St. Thomas, will yield a winner who has never before played on Division III's biggest stage. On the right side, the Top 25 poll's first- and second-place teams square off, and both Mount Union and Mary Hardin-Baylor are on familiar ground.
Saturday builds to the football finale that will take place at 7 p.m. Friday, Dec. 14. Pat, Keith and Ryan bring you their projections for who will play in Stagg Bowl XL – and by how big of a margin they'll get there.
No. 5 UW-Oshkosh at No. 4 St. Thomas
Ryan's take: UW-Oshkosh 24, St. Thomas 21 Here are two teams that were absolutely blazing beasts with their performances last week — but in very different ways. St. Thomas decimated a Hobart team that came in holding all the right cards to match up well against the Tommies. That's a tip of the hat to the winner, who proved that games aren't won on paper but rather on the field. Can you even remember a team that posted 200 rushing yards on Hobart? UST is the first to do it since September. And farther out west, it's no secret that I'd hitched my wagon to Linfield since before the season started, and the fact that UW-O battled back from a 21-6 halftime deficit to push overtime and then earn the win gets tremendous respect in my book. Rushing, passing, Nate Wara-ing — the Titans we able to do it all against a great Linfield team. I realize I'm spending this whole post gushing on the teams without really saying why I'm going with Oshkosh. Fact is, I'm impressed with the foundation that both these teams have built, and it'll be fun watching them go head to head on Saturday. But the Titans will be a little better at holding in check what the Tommies throw their way.
Keith's take: UW-Oshkosh 28, St. Thomas 21: In all honesty, who the heck knows what's going to happen here? Isn't not knowing part of the fun? St. Thomas probably surges to an early double-digit lead, and UW-Oshkosh storms back, wears the Tommies down and continues its magical run towards the Stagg Bowl. That would make sense, the WIAC champ back in Salem, just with the Titans playing the role of the Warhawks. It would be rather depressing for the Tommies to have the season end in this round in back-to-back seasons, so I'm betting St. Thomas sees this as their chance to break through. The matchup to watch is when the Tommies' defense is on the field against the UW-Oshkosh offense. What a chess match that'll be, if you read this week's feature about the Tommies' success getting off the field on third downs, and how they have a thick playbook capable of giving multiple looks to an offense. The Titans' offense is a combination of confusion, tempo and power, and all season it's both worn teams down, and caught them at one point or another out of place for big plays. UST opened up with two WIAC teams, and is familiar with this level of competition from MIAC play and by beating a CCIW team in Round 2. I haven't done any detailed video study of the teams' tendencies, so don't go getting your panties in a wad over the pick (although that's more for the fans of the other game; I got zero complaints for picking against the Tommies last week, and zero taunts for missing the margin by 41 points). It's an educated guess. And I don't really care if it's right or wrong. On Saturday, I'll be enjoying the moment and the chance to see someone new earn a shot at a Stagg Bowl. If you're thinking about how the D3football.com guys missed the picks instead of doing the same, you're cheating yourself. This is the high-water mark for whichever program wins, so soak up every second of it. Even if it's not another Titans come-from-behind victory.
Pat's take: St. Thomas 27, UW-Oshkosh 21. Neither of these is a one-man team, so the nicks and bruises of a regular season shouldn't have as much impact as they would on teams that were eliminated earlier in the bracket. Wara is about as indispensable a player as there is in this game, though. On the other side of the ball, probably Ryan Stefaniak, who is the heart and soul of that defense. On the St. Thomas offense, perhaps Logan Marks (and I'll explain more in a minute) and on the defense, I like how Chinni Oji has been playing at safety. Oji first made a big impact on the Tommie defense when he replaced a classmate at corner a couple of seasons ago, and now he's making his presence felt at safety. About Marks — sure, Matt O'Connell is the guy with the ball in his hands all the time, but Kyler Anderson has done well when given playing time, and the drop-off might not be so bad. But without Marks at tight end, you go to Matt Allen, and then the Tommies' two-tight end sets would see a dramatic difference. If St. Thomas comes out as fast as it did last week and UW-Oshkosh as slow as it did the first two weekends of the tournament, it may not be this close.
No. 2 Mary Hardin-Baylor at No. 1 Mount Union
Ryan's take: Mount Union 35, Mary Hardin-Baylor 28. Over several years of doing Triple Take, I've picked against Mount at times, and it's often cost me. And this decision was not an easy one, because UMHB will be the toughest test of the season for Mount. By all accounts, this matchup could be more competitive than the Stagg Bowl itself. I'm going with the Purple Raiders because, despite all that the Cru has going for them, they haven't always been able to protect their end zone as well as they should. Twenty points from teams like Louisiana College or Franklin easily translates to 35 (or more) from The Machine. Of course, the Crusaders' offense has averaged more than 55 points over the past six games, and it will be interesting to see if the Sultans of Shutouts are able to stop the Texas threat. Both teams, on both sides of the ball, are packed with playmakers, but more importantly, have such great supporting casts that there is little question that either team would be an ideal representative of Division III in Salem. This is not a pick against UMHB, but rather one in favor of Mount Union. None of these players have tasted Stagg Bowl success, and there's no doubt they'll leave every last bit of themselves on the field.
Keith's take: Mount Union 37, Mary Hardin-Baylor 30. I don't think there's anything groundbreaking to say here. People from UMHB are saying this is the best Cru team in history, and people from Mount Union are putting this team alongside the great Purple Raiders squads. While I think both sides can be right, only one team is going to Salem — a quirk that's on those who set up the brackets. Each team is going to be the best team the other has played this season, and champions need to overcome intense challenges to solidify their greatness. Excuse the hyperbole, but think of it like this: Would Ali have been Ali without Frazier? Each of these teams is capable of going down alongside the great champions, and the signature victory would help define it. So how can it happen? Nobody can match Mount Union's team speed, although UMHB could come close. Mount Union hasn't faced a quarterback like LiDarral Bailey, who's got speed with the ball in his hands and touch when he lets it go. But Kevin Burke has shown that skill set as well, so Javicz Jones and the UMHB defense has to be able to deal with a QB who can keep it on a read option, or toss it over defenders' heads if Jasper Collins or somebody gets a step on a DB. Truthfully, this game will probably be decided along the lines, and I give Mount Union the edge there. If UMHB is able to muscle up like it did in 2004, it'd send shockwaves through the D-III world. But if you think about it, that's the way UW-Whitewater beats the Purple Raiders too. Last week showed me that this Mount Union team is not just better than last year's team by a lot. They sure make it look like they are ready to take their place in Purple Raiders history, but they'll need to go through the best team the rest of D-III has to offer, one whose talent might be on their level in the way UW-Whitewater teams have been, to seal the deal. I'm going with the safe pick, and hope, no matter who wins, we see a semifinal to remember.
Pat's take: Mount Union 38, Mary Hardin-Baylor 20. I think that Mary Hardin-Baylor has faced some pretty good offenses this year, certainly better offenses than Mount Union has seen. The UMHB defense has been tested. And sometimes it's failed a bit. If Hardin-Simmons can score 32 on UMHB, how many can Mount Union score? I figure at least a few more. Mary Hardin-Baylor won't be intimidated in this game, unlike most Mount Union opponents, but confidence alone will not be enough to win. UMHB had its two worst running days (by yards per carry) against Wesley and won't find it easier to run the ball on Mount Union. Now, here's where it might turn in UMHB's favor: The Cru have had to play its starters well into the fourth quarter a few times this season, including this past week. If the game remains close, Mary Hardin-Baylor has the ability to wear opponents down. And as I've mentioned all season, the Cru has a credible passing game, perhaps even a really good passing game. Maybe not as good as Widener, but with a running game to take some of the pressure off, Bailey should have some time to work. And of course, the ability to pull the ball down and take off. That's how UMHB could win.


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So I was genuinely surprised, really shocked to see this statement [Barney Frank] put out tonight that is just an embodiment of fecklessness, resignation, defeatism and just plan folly. The gist of his point is that that's it for health care reform. If a few Republican senators will come across the aisle and help maybe it will happen. But if not, that's it. Amazing. Just amazing.Barney Frank is a politician, a smart one. Work it out from there.


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LANGHORNE — Win or go home. Go big to stay home. Go strong. Make a statement. Refuse to lose. Dig deep. Rise up. Fight back.
Whatever the idiom of choice may be, the Methacton girls basketball team took the hint and came back from a second half deficit to defeat Neshaminy 50-44.
"We had high hopes of qualifying for states and we didn't bring our best (against Bayard Rustin)," Methacton coach Craig Kaminski said of his team's loss on Wednesday.
"Today it took us some time to get into a flow, but we executed well and grinded it out."
Whether it was the woes of the District One loss, a slow practice the day before, or the hour-long bus ride to Neshaminy, the Methacton team forked over a five-point lead they held after the first, trailing by one a half. The Neshaminy squad created turnovers through defensive deception by switching up various zones and full-court presses that stressed out the visiting Warriors.
"I felt as though we were getting a little impatient out there," Kaminski said. "Throwing up 19-foot air balls just doesn't cut it."
In the second half, Methacton forsook their Warrior name and battled back through cool, calm and collected play.
Kelly Watson, who struggled in the game against Bayard Rustin, shot the ball with confidence Saturday afternoon. She worked inside, bought opportunities at the line, and made free-throws down the stretched that sealed the victory.
"I didn't want to go home yet," Watson said. "My goal throughout my high school career was to make it to states and we still have that chance."
Watson scored 26 points in the game, more than half her team's points and the only player from Methacton in double digits. She was 10-16 from the line including clutch shots down the stretch when Neshaminy could only — in desperation — send the opposing girls to the line.
Responding to a loss in the postseason can be tough. The thought of winning three games when winning one would have had the same result is intimidating. But, the Warriors in the face of defeat, away from home, turned the page and put it all on the line.
"We realized at half that this could be the end of our season," Methacton forward Jenna Carroll said. "But, nobody in there wanted that to happen."
Carroll and Watson split Methacton's twelve points in the third, and in the fourth Watson again scored half of her team's points with eight.
"It's just easier to make those shots once you have the lead," Carroll said.
Methacton will be home versus Downington West on Tuesday or Wednesday.


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WASHINGTON Today, at a White House forum hosted by Vice President Joe Biden, the U.S. Department of Labor announced two new rules designed to enhance retirement security and transparency for the millions of workers covered by 401(k), pension and other retirement arrangements. The announcement was part of the White House Middle Class Task Force's year-end report, which the vice president released at this morning's event.
During the past year, the Middle Class Task Force has focused on solutions to the challenges facing America's middle class including retirement security and the need for high-quality jobs for middle class workers. The report details the year's work of the task force, and it includes a proposed rule on investment advice. The department also is announcing the publication of a final rule on multiemployer plan transparency.
"A secure retirement is essential to workers and the nation's economy. Along with Social Security and personal savings, secure retirement allows Americans to remain in the middle class when their working days are done. And, the money in the retirement system brings tremendous pools of investment capital, creating jobs and expanding our economy," said U.S. Deputy Secretary of Labor Seth Harris. "These rules will strengthen America's private retirement system by ensuring workers get good, objective information. When that happens, workers make the kind of decisions that are good for their families and the nation as a whole."
The first of the two rules would ensure workers receive unbiased advice about how to invest in their individual retirement accounts or 401(k) plans. If the rule is adopted, it would put in place safeguards preventing investment advisors from slanting their advice for their own financial benefit. Investment advisors also would be required to disclose their fees, and computer models used to offer advice would have to be certified as objective and unbiased. The department estimates that 2 million workers and 13 million IRA holders would benefit from this rule to the tune of $6 billion.
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My final purpose is to find some new interacting protein of my protein of interest.
I want to prepare some high quality mouse brain lysate,then apply them to the strep-tactin resin with my double(strep/flag) tag fusion of interest(from E.coli. expression) on it.
Then I will elute the potential interacting protein complex with D-biotin and apply the eluate on the anti-flag M2 resin,then elute with flag peptide(two step purification to reduce non-specific purification).
Does anyone know some good protocol or lysis recipe to prepare mouse brain lysate?
Which will release great majority of protein,on this regard,will high salt buffer be helpful?which will later be diluted to normal salt concentration.
and will homogenate or sonication be helpful?
and does anyone have any suggestion on my overall interacting protein discovering approach?
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How to prepare high quality brain tissue lysate?
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You may want to try to use the spin columns (filter cartridges) for fast and clean protein extraction. This format can handle very small sample amount. Depending on the lysis buffer you want to use, you can have denatured (for SDS-Page), or native proteins prepared in a few minutes. I believe the kits are available. Just google "spin column protein extraction" and you should be able to find the source.


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Europe's fragility at display in Italy
The risk that Europe is taking on as it attempts to implement a fiscal crackdown in its weakest members states without losing support in the street has been underlined by early results from Italy's election.
Plans to raise taxes and cut spending in the eurozone nations that line the Mediterranean are challenging in themselves, and risk being derailed if the governments that have agreed to implement the cuts lose power, or are driven into minority governments that are too fractured to be coherent.
The latter outcome is a real possibility now in Italy, where elections appear to have dashed hopes for a uneventful changeover from Mario Monti's centre right government to one led by the centre-left Democratic party that also backs Italy's fiscal crackdown after a strong showing by two anti-euro, anti-austerity parties, former prime minister Silvio Berlusconi's centre-right party and comedian Beppe Grillo's ad-hoc 5-Star movement.
The election may be inconclusive rather than a disaster for the market in the first instance. If the result is inconclusive as appears likely another election will be held, as occurred in Greece in June last year.
In Greece's second election, anti-euro, anti-bailout parties that had surged in the earlier poll lost ground, and a conservative government that backed Greece staying in the euro and committed to budget cuts in order to get a second bailout package was formed.
Italy is in better shape than Greece. It's likely to produce a primary budget surplus of about 5 per cent of GDP this year.
Italy's government debt load has however expanded from about 102 per cent of gross domestic product to 127 per cent or about 2 trillion euro ($2.5 trillion) in 20 years. The markets want that debt mountain to come down. They are nervous that the election might result in the debt reduction program being weakened, and will stampede if an anti-euro coalition takes power.
That would in turn probably usher in the European Central Bank's big moment. European Central bank president Mario Draghi pulled Italian and Spanish bond yields down from dangerous highs from mid 2012 onwards after promising that the central bank would spend whatever it took to defeat any bond-market selling attack.
The promise to intervene calmed the markets down, making actual intervention unnecessary, but Draghi's resolve could be tested if Italy produces an anti-euro government.
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(41) lisa, December 29, 2010 3:11 AM
Its their party & they'll cry ( or not) if they want to!!!
(40) Anonymous, December 27, 2010 3:53 PM
Totally agree with Shunrata!!!!
(39) Shunrata, December 27, 2010 9:56 AM
Yes, you ARE missing something!
Rabbi Salomon, I am so very happy for you that you are missing something. It means that you have never been through the horrible nightmare of an abusive marriage. After being through years of hell, the first time you close the door at night and realize you don't have to be afraid of anyone you live with - well, that is certainly a reason for celebration and relief. There are times divorce is not just 'acceptable' or 'necessary', it is freedom from bondage. Do we celebrate Pesach, when we escaped the evil Egyptians? Do we celebrate Independence Day? Then why not celebrate escaping a physically or psychologically brutal spouse? The cake and ring thing seems a little weird, but I'd be inclined to cut some slack in this situation.
(38) Anonymous, December 27, 2010 2:11 AM
Celebrate your new life it's a rebirth.
Staying in a marriage that has ended is making a mockery of marriage. To ridicule, pretend, cheat and deceive is making a mockery of marriage. I could say you are making a mockery of devorce by jeering and by being glib. You made your point and I had a good laugh. I say celebrate. Invite friends and family from both sides let them know there is no need to choose sides. If it's possible both parties minus attorneys could be present. Am I missing something? I am 70 years old devorced at 43 wish I celebrated. My kids and family would have been better for it...to know Mom is O.K. and entering a rebirth.
(37) Leslie Duverge, December 27, 2010 12:54 AM
I don't think Rabbi Salomon is missing anything from the new ways of divorce. I firmly believe it is people's lack of integrity with their own self and the sanctity of marriage. A marriage is something beautiful from God, and I agree that when there are children, it is true, there is a great level of pain for the children regardless of their age. After 26 years of marriage and three children, mine ended in divorce. I felt compelled to file for divorce, but I would never celebrate the trials and tribulations of a marriage gone wrong. When someone called me to celebrate, I thought it was very disrespectful of my friend to suggest a celebration. Rather, it is as if a part of what I worked so hard to sustain for the sake of family permanence and our children, left my soul...it is more as if mourning a loved one, regardless of the circumstance that led to the divorce. Celebrating a divorce in any way, to me is low, and a lack of respect toward one's own children and toward that other person with whom you had built a life before. It would be more beneficial to focus on offering mental and emotional stabilities to the children by the divorcing parties. Thanks Rabbi Salomon for discussin the issue and making people more conscious about their behavior towards divorce.


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After spending two years at the sophomore level, Geneseo volleyball coach Joni Nelson has made the jump to varsity to lead the Lady?Leafs in her first varsity coaching role.
After spending two years at the sophomore level, Geneseo volleyball coach Joni Nelson has made the jump to varsity to lead the Lady?Leafs in her first varsity coaching role.
"I definitely knew this opportunity would eventually come with (former coach) Rachel Tharp having two young kids, but I didn't know it would be this soon," she said. "Faith Nelson (new sophomore coach and Joni's sister-in-law) and I are on the same page with wanting to keep the program going. I thought about it for awhile and it is the best option for us and the program."
Nelson, a 2007 Monmouth College graduate, ran track and cross country in college and was a three-sport athlete in high school playing volleyball, basketball and track.
Nelson is beginning her third year at Geneseo High School where she teaches earth science and biology, but it is her fourth year in the district because she did her student teaching in?Geneseo.
"I feel definitely fortunate to have had Rachel for the last two years because I was always able to see the varsity games and talk to her during the game," said Nelson. "She was a great mentor and has given me advice."
Nelson stated she has high expectations not only for her team, but for herself as a coach.
"I have high expectations about getting the program started from the beginning, which includes the lower levels," she said.?"We are still in the process of figuring things out and seeing where everyone fits. I've had the juniors for a couple years now, and they know what I expect and that there is a lot to be expected."
Even though she has only been coaching for two years, Nelson believes she is prepared for her new position.
"I've done a lot of camps, I know the game really well and it is just a matter of figuring out how my girls fit in," she said. "I don't feel a whole lot of pressure because?I played sports my whole life."
Coach Nelson's goals for this first season include the Lady Leafs having a winning season, creating more community involvement with the program and getting more support for the team.
Nelson admits the game has changed a lot since she played in high school, but she said she is adjusting through researching, watching the game and attending clinics, which have been beneficial.
"The transition from sophomore to varsity has been pretty good because the girls already know me so it has been a very smooth transition," said Nelson. "The girls are ready to work hard and it has been nice that I haven't had to talk about raising to expectations because they know and are ready to go.
"I really don't have a philosophy. No matter who the team is I keep those high expectations and if the girls are willing to come in everyday then they will rise to those expectations. I like to stay positive and do more team-oriented activities."
As for any changes Nelson is looking to incorporate in her first year, she said she is working with the girls on doing a little more on offense, like running pattern work.
"At the varsity level, you have to be able to run patterns to be able to hit against good blockers," she said.
The Lady Leafs open their season at home at 5 p.m. Aug. 28 against Alleman.
"I am definitely looking forward to getting practice started and starting our offense," said Nelson.
"I feel ready, but I will always be learning and going to clinics. It is always a changing a game, but I feel ready and prepared and will always take opportunities to learn more."


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Heavy rain and strong winds have led to 70% of Venice being flooded, while some 200 people were evacuated from their homes in Tuscany because of severe weather.
Authorities said sea levels in the lagoon city reached a peak of 5ft (1.5 metres) above normal before receding slightly.
This marked the sixth-highest level since records began in 1872, Italian news agency ANSA said.
Moveable barriers that would rise from the sea bed to protect Venice from high tides have been in the works for years but will not be operational before 2014.
In Tuscany, around 200 people were evacuated from their homes because of heavy rain which caused mudslides.
The most affected region was the province of Massa and Carrara, where around 50 people were evacuated and a car was swept away by an overflowing river.
Residents have been told to avoid going into the streets and to stay in the upper floors of their homes.
In Pisa, some streets have been without electricity.
In Liguria, the region bordering Tuscany, 30 people were forced to flee their homes.
In anticipation of the floods two days ago, authorities issued warnings and planned security measures to avoid casualties after 13 people died in Tuscany and Liguria a year ago.
The bad weather is said to be heading slowly towards the centre of the country and is set to hit Rome where civil defence forces have been put on alert.


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This may be obvious but...
BeOS was/is a great OS, but I don't think it's realistic to think it can survive the amount of time it would take for somebody to write something as big as a "BeOS-Native" office suite. There are simply not enough developers in it's small userbase to do this. Even if such a thing appeared tommorrow, without MS Office compatibility it's useless.
MSOffice compatibility means it must have similar features...features that GoBe Productive fans often refer to as "bloat". I you personally only use an office suite for simple tasks, it doesn't make the more advanced features available in MSOffice "bloat". Business & government *need* these advanced features. Yes, an application should be intuitive and simple and light and fast - but Gobe Productive is frankly limited in it's features, as wonderful as it is.
The most important consideration is that OO.org is *alive* and is being actively developed. Internally it may be a bowl of spaghetti, but you must admit it has improved in it's lifetime and it has the momentum to continue to improve. There is just no way the BeOS community could do the same thing - there are too few users & developers. With OO.org, BeOS will continue to inherit the improvements by it's many developers. OO.org is the frontrunner as an MS Office alternative - it seems to have gained the most traction. It would actually be crazy for Yellow Tab *not* to attempt a port, because BeOS as a platform would be more isolated and limited in appeal, and there would never be enough developers to make the "BeOS Native" applications everyone prefers.
Besides, wouldn't it be nice to use file formats that are really cross-platform, but have decent features?
I think this shows that Yellow Tab has genuine concern for the future of BeOS, and are not solely trying to make a buck with a "cosmetically improved beta version".


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If you're writing an application that uses XML as a data-interchange format, you need a way to extract the data from the XML document and store that data in your database. T-SQL's OpenXML keyword is a convenient way to insert, delete, and update data in SQL Server 2000. OpenXML creates one or more relational views (or rowsets) of the XML document within a T-SQL stored procedure. You can access the data in those views to perform relational operations on your database. Although OpenXML is fairly easy to work with, you need to overcome a few hurdles before you can use it in real-world applications. I've discussed the largest stumbling block—the difficulty in passing an XML document to a stored procedure—in my Exploring XML columns in July 2001, InstantDoc ID 21077, and August 2001, InstantDoc ID 21259. Now let's look at two other common OpenXML obstacles you might encounter.
Declaring Namespace Prefixes
Real-world XML documents use namespace-qualified elements to ensure that the application that processes the data interprets the document correctly. If your application uses OpenXML to extract data from an XML document, at some point you'll likely need to specify namespace-qualified elements as XPath queries for the row and column patterns that OpenXML uses to construct the relational view. Row patterns use an XPath query to select elements from the XML document that correspond to rows in the relational view. Column patterns use XPath queries to select columns for each of the rows. Specifying namespace-qualified elements or attributes might be a challenge, especially if you don't know which prefixes will be used in the XML. A namespace prefix provides an abbreviated way to specify that an element or attribute belongs to a particular namespace defined by a Uniform Resource Identifier (URI). You can't depend on a prefix being associated with a particular namespace because the namespace specification lets you choose prefixes arbitrarily, even letting different prefixes correspond to the same namespace. (For more information about namespace specification, see the Namespaces in XML specification at http://www.w3.org/TR/1999/REC-xml-names-19990114/.) However, you can overcome the problem of undeclared namespace prefixes by using a system stored procedure.
Sp_xml_preparedocument is a system-supplied stored procedure that T-SQL uses to parse an XML document into an in-memory representation and return a numeric handle to the in-memory document. OpenXML uses this handle to obtain the in-memory representation of the XML document and build a rowset incorporating the data the document contains. If you've used sp_xml_preparedocument before, you're familiar with the first parameter (the handle to the in-memory representation of the XML document) and the second parameter (the XML document that is parsed into memory). But you might be surprised to know that you can pass a third, optional parameter to sp_xml_preparedocument. This parameter contains an XML document that declares prefixes for namespaces that you can use within the OpenXML syntax. You simply write a root element for the document, then include namespace declarations on it. For example, the <root xmlns:p="urn:myPerson" /> XML document declares the prefix p for the namespace associated with the "urn:myPerson" URI. Then, you can use the prefixes from these namespace declarations in your XPath queries to build a rowset that contains data from the namespace-qualified attributes or elements. Let's look at a practical example.
Listing 1, page 42, shows a simple XML document that contains information about a book, including the title of the book and the title of the book's author. These specifications create ambiguity because you're using the <title> tag to specify both the book and author titles. The two <title> tags would be indistinguishable except that each belongs to a different namespace. Suppose I want to use OpenXML to extract the book's title and the author's title, first name, and last name. Listing 2 shows the T-SQL code for the stored procedure containing an OpenXML statement that extracts the book and author data. Callout A shows the call that executes sp_xml_preparedocument. Notice the last parameter. This XML document declares the namespaces that will be used in the OpenXML statement. Callout B shows the OpenXML statement. Notice the use of the prefixes declared at callout A. OpenXML properly matches the namespaces associated with the prefixes.
Listing 3 shows the T-SQL code that executes Listing 2's stored procedure. Notice that the document passed to the stored procedure uses different prefixes (bk and pers) than those in the third parameter to sp_xml_preparedocument. Namespace prefixes are just placeholders for the URIs that define the namespaces (in this case, myBooks and myPerson). When the OpenXML statement executes, it matches the namespace URI associated with the prefix rather than the prefix itself. Therefore, the stored procedure correctly selects the book and author titles. Figure 1 shows the results of executing the stored procedure.
Storing Unmapped Data
Passing the third parameter to the sp_xml_preparedocument stored procedure is a painless fix for using namespaces with OpenXML. You'll find that the solution for storing unmapped data is also a breeze. XML by nature and by name is extensible. This extensibility makes applications resilient to certain changes in the data format by letting additional elements and attributes appear within the XML without breaking the applications that consume the data. As you saw earlier, OpenXML lets you extract—or map—data from the elements and attributes in the XML document to the rows and columns of the rowset that OpenXML generates. However, some elements and attributes might not map to your database. What if you want to store this data in case you need to return it in a query later? OpenXML can capture, return, and store this unmapped data—or the complete XML representation of the data (which in this column's example is one book)—in a column of the resulting rowset. To retrieve the unmapped data, you specify the @mp:xmltext metaproperty as the XPath query for the column pattern of a column in the rowset that OpenXML produces. OpenXML automatically inserts the proper XML data into the column. The default mode is to store all the data for the XML fragment that OpenXML's row pattern specifies. Alternatively, you can specify that OpenXML will store only the unmapped data. By setting the third bit of the flag parameter to OpenXML (flag is a bitmap—a set of bits that controls OpenXML's execution behavior), you can specify that OpenXML will include only unmapped data in the column that uses the @mp:xmltext metaproperty. To see how OpenXML stores the unmapped data, let's return to the book example.
You used OpenXML in Listing 2's stored procedure to build a relational view containing the book's title and the author's title and name. Now suppose you also want to store other data associated with the book so that when someone queries your database for information about the book, you can return not only the title and author information but also the genre, description, or any other attributes or elements included in the XML. To accomplish this task, you simply include another column in the rowset that OpenXML generates, designating @mp:xmltext as the column pattern. Listing 4 shows the OpenXML statement, which returns a rowset that contains the XML representation of each book in the Alldata column. This column contains the book element—including all of its attributes and descendants. Figure 2 shows the statement's results, which you obtain by executing the T-SQL stored procedure in Listing 5. (This code is identical to the T-SQL code in Listing 3 except that it calls ViewUsingNamespaceXMLText instead of ViewUsingNamespace.) By using the @mp:xmltext metaproperty, you can obtain all the data for each book without specifically knowing the name—and namespace—of each individual attribute or element that the XML document contains.
I encourage you to experiment on your own with OpenXML's features, including the two features described here. When you receive an XML document that contains data you need to store in one of your databases, OpenXML provides the most flexibility for extracting that data. Add to this flexibility OpenXML's ability to use T-SQL to write business logic that validates the data and executes INSERT and UPDATE statements, and you've acquired a valuable tool in your quest to write Internet-enabled applications.


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An article I found on MSN:
Good dogs, bad dogs, and homeowners policies
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Good dogs, bad dogs and homeowners policies
With dog-bite claims on the rise, some insurers are canceling policies for homeowners whose pets are at fault. Here's what you need to know about risk and prevention.
By Insure.com
About 40% of American households own a dog, according to The Humane Society of the United States. And many of those dog owners have homeowners insurance, too. But the two don't always mix well. As the costs of dog bites spiral -- more than $310 million in 2001, according to the Insurance Information Institute -- some insurance companies are refusing to write coverage for owners of certain breeds.
While there may not be an industrywide "blacklist" of breeds, it's probably best to check with your agent before you buy a German shepherd, a pit bull or a Rottweiler. A number of other insurers do not maintain a blacklist of breeds, believing that each case has to be considered individually.
One of the reasons some companies deny that they look at dog breeds is because state regulations prohibit them from doing so in certain parts of the country.
Some companies don't discriminate by breed. "We believe that there are good dogs and bad dogs within every breed, just as we believe that there are responsible and irresponsible owners," says Phil Supple of State Farm, the nation's largest home insurer.
Dan Hattaway, an underwriting consultant for State Farm, says that the company doesn't even track how many of its home insurance policyholders own dogs. Policyholders do have to answer questions about dogs on the application, however. Specifically, the company wants to know if a dog has ever bitten anyone or if it has been trained for attack purposes.
If it turns out that the dog has bitten someone, State Farm will want to know the circumstances surrounding the bite. "We'll want to ascertain if it's ever likely to happen again -- if precautions have been taken to prevent it," says Hattaway. Other factors the company looks at are the seriousness of the injury and whether the attack was provoked or unprovoked.
Dogs with a history of attacks
Hattaway gives this example. An Irish setter gives birth to a litter of puppies. She and the puppies are on the back porch. Some friends come over with their little boy to look at the puppies. Under the supervision of the insured, everything is fine. Everyone goes inside, and parents tell the boy that it is time to leave the dog alone with her puppies.
"Well, the adults got to talking about adult things, and the little boy, unnoticed, decides he's going to go out and pet the puppies. He got bit," says Hattaway. "When State Farm followed up on the claim, we found that the insured had had the female spayed. She wasn't going to have any more puppies, and she showed no further aggressive tendencies." Because the dog's owner had taken steps to make sure that a similar incident would not occur, State Farm continued his coverage.
Some will ask "Do you own a vicious dog?" on home insurance applications and any previous dog-bite claims will show up on your claims history, which insurers check before issuing a policy. Like State Farm, some insurers will consider whether an attack was provoked or unprovoked.
Insurers are most concerned about unprovoked dog attacks. If your dog has an unprovoked attack in its history, most insurers will cancel or not renew an existing home insurance policy, decline your application for a new one, or attach an exclusion for the dog to the policy. The exclusion means that the insurance policy would not cover any liability claims caused by the dog, making you personally responsible for any medical bills or lawsuits stemming from your dog's actions.
Raleigh Floyd, a spokesperson for Allstate, acknowledges that his company pays attention to breeds. "It's not a blacklist," he says. "But we have breeds that we follow more closely than others, mostly because of a variety of trends and statistics about dog bites." On the list are Rottweilers, pit bulls, chows, bull terriers, Dobermans, and German shepherds.
He notes that owning one of these breeds does not mean an immediate rejection from Allstate. Keeping the dog chained and putting up a six-foot-high fence in your yard will definitely work in a dog owner's favor. "We also look at other factors having to do with homeowners insurance not related to the dog," says Floyd. Those factors include claims history and the condition of the home.
Prevention is the best medicine
The best way to make sure your home insurance won't get canceled because of your dog is to make sure it won't bite anyone. Hattaway of State Farm outlines the ways to make sure a dog won't bite the hand that pets it: "Socialize the pet with people and other animals outside the household," he says. Training it to obey your commands -- whether on your own or with the help of obedience school -- will also lessen the chance that it will strike out on its own. Keep your dog healthy; if your dog is in pain, it's more likely to lash out. Obey leash laws, even on your own property.
Statistics from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention show that the majority of dog-related fatalities involved unrestrained dogs, both on and off an owner's property. Spaying and neutering an animal can also improve its disposition, especially with male dogs. Don't put your dog in situations where it will be threatened or teased. Hattaway notes that 60% of dog-bite victims are children, who may not be aware that their behavior is threatening. "Most importantly, be alert to signs that your dog is having a problem," says Hattaway. If your dog is agitated or appears threatened, take the necessary steps to calm it down.
What to do if someone is bitten
If your dog does bite someone, make sure you respond right away. Restrain or confine your dog immediately. Then do whatever you can to help the victim, whether that means calling 911 or driving them to the emergency room. If your dog hasn't had its rabies shot, it's especially important for you to cooperate.
Once the victim is taken care of, you may have to contact the local authorities to report the dog bite. You should then call your homeowners insurance company especially if there are medical costs involved. Be sure to cooperate with your insurance company. No doubt, the adjuster will want to investigate the circumstances surrounding the incident. You may or may not agree with the insurance company's opinion of your dog's disposition, but they won't be able to make a decision until they have all the facts.
Take steps to make sure that a similar incident doesn't happen. Short of finding another home for your dog, that might mean building a fence around your yard or sending him to obedience school. When all else fails, a certified animal trainer might help.