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Craigslist's Dumb Lawsuit Against Spam Tools Provider
from the what-are-they-thinking? dept
Next, Craigslist is making a really weak DMCA claim here. It's claiming that its various anti-spam technologies (captchas, phone verification, etc.) act as "technological protection measures" that Red Trumpet is circumventing... and thus running afoul of the DMCA's anti-circumvention rules. But the circumvention has nothing to do with violating Craigslist's "copyright," though the lawsuit makes a half-hearted attempt to claim that it does.
Then, there's the trademark claims. There are a few different ones, but it argues that Red Trumpet is violating Craigslist's trademark by mentioning Craigslist on its website and in its ads. While again, you can see why this is annoying to Craigslist, if the company is accurately describing services it provides (the ability to post on Craigslist) it's difficult to see the "confusion" being caused. The ad in question doesn't appear to imply any endorsement at all by Craigslist. And, does Craigslist really want to open up a can of worms concerning trademarks being used in ads? After all, there must be a ton of posts on Craigslist that mention trademarks.
Finally, there's Craigslist claiming that Red Trumpet violates the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act by accessing its site despite violating its terms of use. Does this sound familiar? It's the same argument that was used to try to punish Lori Drew, and was recently tossed out by a judge. Basically, it's claiming that if you happen to violate the terms of use of a site, and then still access the site, you've effectively "hacked" into the site. This is a really bad reading of the law, which is why it was good that the Drew ruling got tossed out. So why is Craigslist trying to re-establish that as a rule?
Yes, clearly, Craigslist is upset about the spam on the site -- and it should be. Plenty of users are upset about it, and Craigslist wants to help those users, help itself and stop the spam. But this particular lawsuit, with these claims, seem highly problematic -- such that even if Craigslist wins, the precedents it sets could come back to haunt Craigslist... and many other parts of the internet as well. Is Craigslist really so desperate to stop spam that it's willing to do all this other damage as well?


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While spawning two different threads using Thread from threading module i am getting duplicate logs in log file.
Creating two threads in this way :
t = Thread(target = check_Input_Status_Action.thresholdCheck, args = (thresholdTime,))
t1 = Thread(target = check_Input_Status_Action.main, args = (sys.argv,))
But if call the above two statements with small sleep in between them then the duplicate log problem doesn't coming.
Could you please help me in knowing that when we spawn two threads in the consecutive statements does this problem occur or do we need to give some time lag in while calling these two statements.

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Submission + - Six of Hanford's Nuclear Waste Tanks Badly Leaking (seattletimes.com)
SchrodingerZ writes: "Recent review of the Hanford Nuclear Reservation in Washington state (where the bulk of Cold War nuclear material was created) has found that six of its underground storage tanks are badly leaking. Estimations say each tank is leaking 'anywhere from a few gallons to a few hundred gallons of radioactive material a year'. Washington's governor, Jay Inslee said in a statement on Friday that 'Energy officials recently figured out they had been inaccurately measuring the 56 million gallons of waste in Hanford's tanks.' The Hanford cleanup project has been one of the most expensive American projects for nuclear cleanup. Plans are in place to create a treatment plant to turn the hazardous material into less hazardous glass (proposed to cost $13.4 billion), but for now officials are trying just to stop the leaking from the corroded tanks. Today the leaks do not have an immediate threat on the environment, but 'there is [only] 150 to 200 feet of dry soil between the tanks and the groundwater', and are just five miles from the Colombia River."


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I had an ex like this (no kids though) While I never said no, I did learn to say over and over "I'm afraid that won't be possible" and variations thereof. Eventually I started making it a joke and I would start to quiz him about how he could afford the latest and greatest gadget that he was bragging about but not a sandwich and coke. ...funnily enough we no longer talk...I can't imagine why
I'm coming to realize (more than 10 yrs post divorce) that ex was not the man I thought he was, but is still always who he has been. (if that makes sense... I was blind, youngish, & dumb)
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Face Pattern Recognition offers a new approach for discovering who we are. It is the piece of the blueprint we were born with. It helps us to discover the unique qualities in every individual. When Naomi sees a person's face, no matter where they live in the world, she sees the potential that is written in the face - potential that individual may never discover! Her passion is about making a difference in people's lives. This is also a great tool for sales, communications, customer relations, team building and much more.
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Built by the Freemasons in 1927 as San Jose`s Masonic lodge, it was a masterpiece of design and a centerpiece of the then -Tony St. James Park neighborhood. Along with the old downtown post office, the later-demolished Gothic city hall, the historic courthouse trinity Episcopal Church, and other historic structures that predated it, it was a major attraction for our out-of- town visitors, writers and photographers describing the best attributes of San Jose. By 1977, having been damaged by several earthquakes and needing deferred repairs, it was focused by the city to close until repairs could be effected. When the masons obtained cost estimates, they found the huge repair costs prohibitive ( about $ 500,000 - imagine that! ) A decision was made to build a new temple in a different location, and to sell the existing one to be demolished and replaced by a modern office building.
Fortunately , some alert members of the San Jose chamber of commerce were able to quickly lobby the city and federal governments to designate the building as a historic landmark, thus preventing it's demolition-at least until it could be proven that no beneficial be found for it. For the next three years, a chamber for committee studied various ideas from private and public developers and agencies. Finally, in 1980, the owners of the venerable Oakland Athletic Club, a family-owned enterprise with a great history over two generations, proposed to convert the building to a first rate athletic club and social facility, retraining it's historic façade and the traditional qualities of it's remarkable interior – a challenging undertaking.
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When things go south for a team that's expected to be a Stanley Cup contender, three people receive most of the heat: the head coach, the goalie and the captain.
Zdeno Chara bore his brunt of criticism when the Bruins were floundering in the middle of the winter and in mid-March. So he should be rewarded with a lot of credit for his Norris Trophy-worthy play down the stretch run into the playoffs and then the first-round upset of Buffalo. Of course, then he's as much to blame for the Bruins' historic collapse as anyone.
Chara registered just a couple assists in the Bruins' season-ending four-game losing streak. At a time when they needed their most important player to do something extraordinary, he came up short despite his best efforts. Trying to figure out how much Chara did behind the scenes as a leader to try to get his team motivated to close out Philadelphia would be a fool's errand. All we know is that on the ice, he wasn't able to match his Flyers counterpart Mike Richards in the determination and aggression department when the Bruins needed to be led to the promised land.
Stats: 80 GP, 7-37-44, 87 PIM, plus-19
Season highlight: In a season that saw Chara's goal total drop by 12 from 19 to seven, the defenseman's best offensive moment might've been a goal that doesn't count on his stat sheet. In one of the guttiest efforts of the season, the Bruins pulled out a 2-1 shootout win at San Jose without Marc Savard, Patrice Bergeron or David Krejci in their lineup. Chara's slap shot from between the circles beat Evgeni Nabokov to the stick side and was the only score of the four-round shootout.
Season low-light: It took Chara until game No. 16 to score his first goal, and then he went 12 more games after that without lighting the lamp. His defensive game also seemed to suffer at the outset of the season, which hurt the Bruins' chances at getting off to a better start.
Final grade: B-minus
Chara was a man possessed in the season's final weeks with a playoff spot hanging in the balance. He was maybe the best player on the ice for six games against Buffalo, and he dominated Richards and the Flyers for the better part of the first three games in the second round. The Flyers comeback, however, was triggered by Richard turning around that matchup. You have to combine Chara's late-season struggles with his early-season problems and his inability to be more of a power-play threat all year to formulate this grade.
The crystal ball says … Chara returns for the final year of his Boston contract ready to erase this season's debacle and his outstanding play all over the ice forces the Bruins to proactively sign him to an extension and make some hard decisions on over players for after 2011.


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Maurice Ashley may be a professional chess player, but he approaches the game like a spy. By carefully studying his competitiors' habits — from their previously played games to their favorite moves – he has taken down enough chess champions to earn the title of International Grandmaster, the first African-American player in history to do so. He's also a three-time national championship chess coach, the author of two books, and the designer of the app "Learn Chess! with Maurice Ashley."
Ashley sat down with Ophira Eisenberg on the Ask Me Another stage and admitted that despite his success, he still considers himself the least accomplished member of his family, as his sister is a world champion boxer and his brother is a world champion kickboxer. But Ashley holds his own in any arena — like the aggressive chess matches in Brooklyn, NY, where he trades the silent calm of the international tournament scene for trash talking and soul music. He also explains how the rise of technology has changed the game, and what it feels like to lose to a 12-year-old prodigy.
Maurice Ashley may be a chess genius, but how will he fare in an Ask Me Another Challenge? For this game, we'll ask him about some of the more human quirks of famous chess masters, from Emanuel Lasker's failed pigeon-breeding hobby to Bobby Fischer's paranoid delusions.
About Maurice Ashley
Maurice Ashley lives his passion. Through his love for chess, he not only made history as the first African-American International Grandmaster in the annals of the game, but he has managed to translate his love to others as a three-time national championship coach, two-time author, iPhone app producer, puzzle inventor, DVD creator, ESPN commentator and motivational speaker.
Maurice has traveled the world as an ardent spokesperson of the character-building effects of the game, going from the rough and tough streets of Kingston, Jamaica and Brooklyn, New York, where he grew up, to the crime-ridden neighborhoods of Detroit, the townships of Cape Town, South Africa and the poverty-stricken jungles of Belize, Central America. His book, Chess for Success, (Broadway Books, 2005) crystallizes his vision for the character-building effect of chess, particularly for at-risk youth, and he continuously spreads his message of living one's dream to universities, businesses, chess clubs and non-profit organizations around the globe.
Maurice's app, "Learn Chess! with Maurice Ashley," has been sold in over 30 countries, and he has received multiple community service awards from city governments, universities, and community groups for his work. Maurice is a Fellow at Harvard's Berkman Center and was recently appointed a Fellow of the Media Lab at MIT.
In the video below, Ashley delivers a talk about his favorite strategy — working backwards to solve problems — at TEDYouth 2012.
You're listening to NRP and WNYC's hour of puzzles, word games, and trivia - ASK ME ANOTHER. I'm your host Ophira Eisenberg and joining me for our Really Hard Edition is our puzzle editor Art Chung. One of your jobs as our puzzle editor, Art Chung, is when we have our VIPs on - our Very Important Puzzlers - you have to devise a game that is tailored just for them.
ART CHUNG: That's right.
EISENBERG: So what are some of the things that you think about when creating these games?
CHUNG: Well, sometimes we ask them if they have some quirky interest or hobby thats obscure that, you know, we didn't know about. Like they fly fishing.
EISENBERG: Right.
CHUNG: And that worked out really well.
EISENBERG: Dan Kennedy, everybody.
EISENBERG: Of the many things you gave us to base your quiz on, we were most intrigued about your claim to know about salmon and fresh water bass and the terrestrial and aquatic insects that trout eat to survive. So we tried to write a quiz, of course, that made fresh water bass and trout interesting. Turns out, that isn't possible.
EISENBERG: We couldn't do it. So your quiz is titled Questions Not Really About Fish.
CHUNG: Yes. Yes.
Sometimes they have a very specific profession and we can write a really difficult quiz that they can answer but no one else can.
EISENBERG: So it's basically a one-person game. They are the only person on Earth who can do this puzzle.
CHUNG: For example, when we had chess grandmaster Maurice Ashley on the show we asked him about a very obscure chess master from the 1900s.
EISENBERG: Yes. Which we also found out they all are insane.
CHUNG: I wouldn't say insane. They all were a little focused.
EISENBERG: You're very nice. Puzzle editors are very nice that way. In this next game too is our guest musician Julian Velard.
EISENBERG: Hello, Julian.
JULIAN VELARD: Hello, Ophira. I like this guy.
EISENBERG: Maurice?
VELARD: Yeah, I want to take him.
EISENBERG: No, he's cool. He's cool.
VELARD: So let's take him down.
EISENBERG: He's a killer.
MAURICE ASHLEY: I like you too, man.
VELARD: All right, all right, leave it for after. Let's listen.
EISENBERG: Now, Maurice, chess players are often seen as these incredible geniuses with the processing power of a computer and the creativity of an artist. But they're only human, right? Many stories of the greatest chess players in history revolve around their more human quirks.
So in this game, we're going to explore the lighter side of chess history. Today, you're going to be playing for Christopher Vehon from Phoenix, Arizona. So here's how it works. If you get three questions right, you and Christopher win a prize.
ASHLEY: Cool.
EISENBERG: All right, let's see how you do.
ASHLEY: How many questions do I get?
EISENBERG: Nineteen.
ASHLEY: Nineteen, good.
EISENBERG: No, no, no.
ASHLEY: Whew, I needed that. Good.
EISENBERG: Three.
ASHLEY: What kind of game?
EISENBERG: Let's see what goes on here.
ASHLEY: All right.
EISENBERG: Emanuel Lasker, do you know him?
ASHLEY: We've played once or twice.
EISENBERG: OK. So he's not only a chess champion but a world class bridge player and mathematician, who was good friends with Albert Einstein. But he wasn't an Einstein at everything. At one point, he became interested in breeding championship pigeons for the Berlin Poultry Show. After months of failing to get his pigeons to mate, he realized his fairly obvious mistake. What happened, Maurice?
ASHLEY: He was breeding roosters?
EISENBERG: I think that's a good idea that he didn't even know they were pigeons.
ASHLEY: The hell? Emanuel - by the way, I didn't play him once or twice since he's been dead for over 60 years.
EISENBERG: No, I know, obviously, if he was friends with Einstein. Yeah, he bought a bunch of - no, he definitely was sure they were pigeons. And he bought all these pigeons. He clearly didn't check one important thing. And then he put them all together and he was like, oh, they're going to breed, and something happened.
ASHLEY: Well, like I said, the rooster thing, they were probably the same gender.
EISENBERG: You are correct. They were all male, exactly.
EISENBERG: I see what you're doing there. That was very smart. Written in the 1980s during the height of the Cold War, the musical "Chess" features a bad boy American, a defecting Russian, a love triangle and spies. The same plot as "White Knights," by the way.
In the musical's most famous song, the main character extols the seedy virtues of the Asian city hosting the world chess championship. Julian, let's have a little of that song.
VELARD: Something, something and the world's your oyster. The bars are temples but the pearls ain't free. You'll find a god in every golden cloister and if you're lucky, then the god's a she. I can feel an angel sliding up to me.
ASHLEY: I should know this song.
EISENBERG: Maurice, do you know this song?
ASHLEY: I know the song, except I don't know the city.
ASHLEY: But I want to say - no - I want to say Bangkok.
EISENBERG: Yes.
EISENBERG: You want to say right, "One Night in Bangkok." The best song from that musical.
ASHLEY: Yeah, you know, no chess player went to see that musical.
EISENBERG: What do you mean no chess players went to the see the musical "Chess"? It was a hit. One of the greatest champions of the 1920s and 30s, this grandmaster was born in Riga, then part of the Russian empire. He was known for his many eccentricities, including wearing bed clothes to tournaments and insisting in restaurants that he was intentionally being served portions that were smaller than everybody else's. The answer is not my dad.
EISENBERG: Who was he?
ASHLEY: The first answer that popped in my head, but I can't believe you guys would choose this guy, but I'm just going to say because it's the first one. I have another answer. I'm trying to pick between two.
ASHLEY: So I'm going to say Bogoljubov.
ASHLEY: I really meant to say...
EISENBERG: Who was the other one you were thinking of?
ASHLEY: Nimzowitsch.
EISENBERG: Ah! Nimzowitsch is correct.
ASHLEY: That's right.
EISENBERG: Nailed it. At a 1925 tournament, Aron Nimzowitsch found himself losing a match to Friedrich Saemisch. Incensed, he stood up on the table and shouted what phrase that I'm sure you have thought to yourself from time to time.
ASHLEY: I have no idea. I resign.
EISENBERG: You resign on that one. You know what, I'm not sure but I would love to do this. Anyone out there?
UNIDENTIFIED MAN: Cheater.
EISENBERG: Wrong. All right, cheater. I like that. They're a cheater.
ASHLEY: I'd be really upset if somebody else got the answer.
EISENBERG: He said, just why must I lose to this idiot?
ASHLEY: Yeah, yeah, I've heard that many times.
EISENBERG: Has that ever rolled through your head at all?
ASHLEY: It ain't just Nimzowitsch. I've heard that many times.
EISENBERG: With the exception of why must I lose to this idiot, which I know you are just too nice to ever think, you got them all right. So...
ASHLEY: I'm going to practice that one, though.
EISENBERG: So not only do you get a prize, but also Christopher Vehon, congratulations, you have won. You've both won ASK ME ANOTHER Rubik's Cubes, your very own to have. Well done.
ASHLEY: Thank you.
EISENBERG: Thank you so much, Maurice Ashley.
ASHLEY: Thank you.
EISENBERG: Julian, what are you going to play for us?
VELARD: I'm going to play a song that I think is what Maurice is going to do after this game. He's going to take the money and run. Take his Rubik's Cube and run. That's the name of the song.
VELARD: (singing) I didn't used to be this way. I was a good kid back in the day. Safe to say things have changed. Yeah, I remember when I brushed my teeth every night. I held my pretty little girlfriend tight. I never let the bedbugs bite. But that was so long ago and now I've lived long enough to know. You take the money and run. Don't wait till the deal is done. Well, I'm telling you son, take the money and run.
(singing) Step out the back, shoot like a bullet from a gun. Boy, don't be dumb. You take the mo-mo-mo-money and run.
EISENBERG: Julian Velard.
VELARD: Thank you.
EISENBERG: Are you the one writing us emails about how easy our games are? Well, then we want to meet you. To be a contestant on a future show, reach out to us on Twitter or Facebook at npraskmeanother or send us an old fashioned email at email@example.com. In exchange, we'll send you a little quiz and see if you've got what it takes to make it to our ASK ME ONE MORE final round.
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Eight Crazy Unwritten Rules and How to Break Them
Do you have some ridiculous "unwritten rules" running rampant in your organization? You know, those rules which are not written down but seem to have taken on a life of their own?
Here's our list of the top eight most outlandish unwritten rules which we've either experienced, seen or been...
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Submission + - Steve Jobs publishes some 'thoughts on Flash' 1
teh31337one writes: Steve Jobs just posted an open letter of sorts explaining Apple's position on Flash, going back to his company's long history of Adobe and expounding upon six main points of why he thinks Flash is wrong for mobile devices. HTML5 naturally comes up, along with a few reasons you might not expect. He concludes in saying that "Flash was created during the PC era – for PCs and mice." Basically, it's for the olds. And you don't want to be old, do you?


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It was the contention of William Morris, the great progenitor of the modern arts and crafts movement and the historic preservation movement, that the signal qualities of industrial society are waste and useless toil. One hundred and twenty-six years after Morris gave a lecture entitled "Useful work versus useless toil" to a group of workingmen in London, little has changed except perhaps that the amount of waste and useless toil has grown exponentially.
The waste, of course, is obvious: wasteful consumption (tied neither to survival nor beauty but rather status); planned obsolescence as an industrial principle (which helps create repeat sales as well as ever higher mountains in our landfills); and profligate energy use which exhausts finite sources of energy such as fossil fuels.
Useless toil refers to all those tasks which either produce nothing of value for society (even if they enrich some individuals) or which actually detract from the overall public good. Morris had a nascent environmental awareness and decried the destruction of the landscape caused by industrialism in England.
Today, some of Morris's themes may seem passé. He champions shorter working hours so that people can not only rest but also have adequate leisure to enjoy their lives. He thinks work ought to be on the whole pleasurable, that human beings want to work and make things of value and beauty. And, he wants working conditions to be not merely tolerable, but actually pleasant and enticing.
Some of the world's leading companies have striven to make work as Morris had envisioned it a reality. But perhaps the most questionable aspect of modern work is what it produces. Craft was at the core of Morris's philosophy, and so the mass consumerism made possible by industrial production has created a world that is an anathema to Morris's notions of usefulness and beauty. And, it has condemned countless millions of industrial workers in so-called developing countries to live in conditions not far removed from those suffered by the English working class in the 19th century. Think Charles Dickens' Oliver Twist and Friedrich Engels' The Condition of the Working Class in England in 1844, the latter a truly grim accounting.
Another important indictment would be that against the so-called FIRE economy, that is finance, insurance and real estate. Morris would consider these functions parasitic on the true productive output of the economy. He might have advised keeping such functions to a minimum, more like public utilities than central players in the economy. And, the great mass of jobs involving sales, marketing, advertising, public relations, consulting, legal work, accounting and the broad array of desk jobs necessary for any large industrial concern–the jobs we tell college students to prepare for–would also be considered parasitic on the system. Morris would consider practically all the work in these occupations useless toil, no matter how pleasant the working conditions or how good the pay.
How then to run a complex, modern industrial society along principles conceived by Morris? The simple answer is you can't. But in a society beset by the problems of peaking fossil fuels, climate change, deforestation, depletion of water, destruction of fisheries, and erosion of farmland, Morris sounds like a person in the vanguard of the sustainability movement. Even more famous during his life for his novels than for his tapestries and stained glass work, Morris described the kind of society he deemed consistent with his principles in a utopian novel entitled News from Nowhere.
News from Nowhere describes a highly decentralized craft- and agricultural-based society of small towns and villages, one with democratic governance and equality of the sexes. Using the trope of a man visiting the future–200 years into the future to be precise–we get not only a description of the current conditions, but also a history of how the world evolved to that point.
News from Nowhere is not a literary masterpiece. But it offers a useful look into the mind of a man who thought deeply about the relationship between the way we organize the economy and the way we structure society. And, he offered a radical vision that sounds very much like the radical vision of those now proposing the relocalization of human society in response to the myriad challenges we face to our very survival as a species.
For Morris two guiding principles undergirded his social thinking: 1) Nature ought to be the aesthetic guide for society, and 2) pleasure in labor is a necessary condition for the creation of beauty. These principles are not a bad place to start if you are trying to remake all of society. They focus us on nature as we must, and they provide the basis for an appealing vision of a low-energy society that provides high satisfaction for its members.


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50% Wholewheat Loaf
This is a late 50% Wholewheat loaf i made:
Happy Healthy Baking!
This is a late 50% Wholewheat loaf i made:
Happy Healthy Baking!
Well done Mebake!
Great crumb and as Eric pointed out, nice ear!
If you don't mind, what was your hydration ratio? thanks!!
I forgot to mention, I also like your tile back-splash on the counter. Very artsy!
May I pls ask how long do you use the pyrex bowl to cover the loaf and do you use this before it turns brown or after.
I've made wheat loaf before but it doesn't hava a very crisp crust, Many thanks.
One thing I forgot to ask what would 70% hydration ratio be in terms of water in oz/ml, assuming I'm using 150grm ww + 150grm AP flour. based on your recipe. I don't think you mentioned the total amount of flour you used for your loaf.
Thanks Mebake
Thank you so much for the tips and I do apologise for the long silence as I have been taken ill for quite a few days. I have recently bought a Staub 22cm cocotte which I think I can use for baking bread as well. I shall def. try out your method as well as using the dutch over to see how it turn out. This method can be applied to most breads (not sweet one though). I'm just a novice and can just about make an olive loaf or wheat bread w/caraway seeds. I can use this method too if I want the crust to be really crispy? Thanks.
I really love this website and there's so much to learn.


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Skip to comments.Rand Paul stumbles but doesnt fall at Howard University
Posted on 04/11/2013 7:46:57 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Sen. Rand Paul R-Ky. delivered an effective speech at Howard University, even though he rhetorically stumbled at points.
The audience was mostly silent through Pauls prepared speech, which highlighted traditional Republican policies such as school choice, free markets, and limited government.
Pauls more libertarian ideas, however, appeared to resonate with the audience, as they applauded for his views on reduced jail penalties for non-violent drug users and a more humble foreign policy.
Republicans are often miscast as uncaring or condemning of kids who make bad choices, Paul said. I, for one, plan to change that.
Paul admitted that Republicans had failed to highlight the importance of their rich heritage of supporting civil rights, which was part of the reason he decided to give a speech.
Paul created a stir when he asked the students if they were aware that the NAACP was founded by Republicans a line that the crowd apparently perceived as insulting.
The audience also laughed when Paul forgot the name of Edward Brooke when he tried to cite the black Massachusetts senator who was a graduate of Howard University.
Paul admitted that people told him he was either brave or crazy for speaking at a historically black college, especially after the controversial comments he made about the Civil Rights Act during an MSNBC interview with Rachel Maddow in 2010.
Here I am a guy who once presumed to discuss a section of the Civil Rights Act, Paul said, admitting that it didnt go so well.
The audience, however, had this event in mind, as a student accused Paul during the Q-and-A session of believing in the federal governments legal right to discriminate against individuals.
Ive never been against the Civil Rights Act, Paul stated flatly in response. Ever.
After the audience was silent in response, the host of the event encouraged Paul to explain his position further, reminding him that this was on tape.
Paul responded that he was only concerned about certain portions of the Civil Rights Act that were beyond race.
His attempt to explain earned him a little bit of applause from the audience but it perhaps he should have been more prepared to address the topic.
Paul made an effective argument that Republicans werent targeting black voters by requesting a photo I.D. in order to vote insisting that it was different from the Southern Democrat literacy tests of the 1850′s.
I think that if you liken using a drivers license to a literacy test, you demean the horror of what happened, he stated.
During the Q-and-A session one student suggested there were two Republican parties, one of the party of Abraham Lincoln and civil rights and the other the party of Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan.
After the audience applauded the question, Paul argued that there wasnt any difference between the two historical eras of Republicans, but that the party had failed to talk about it enough.
Judging by the audiences response, Paul perhaps should have spent less time talking about Republicans and their role in civil rights movement to students who likely had the facts fresh in their mind from their history classes.
Instead, Paul probably should have done more to diffuse accusations of racism within the modern Republican party and asked the students themselves how the party was perceived.
At the end of the event, a student challenged Pauls belief that government should just leave us alone, and suggested that he wanted a government that could help him go to college.
Pauls response to the question relied heavily on the federal governments budget and deficit numbers that perhaps sounded a bit cynical for a young man who saw government as his path to opportunity.
In the end, Pauls humble demeanor and earnest approach probably saved him from any embarrassing boos or ridicule such as Mitt Romneys speech to the NAACP during the presidential campaign.
Paul deserves credit for reaching out, but his effort illustrated that more Republicans need to spend more time speaking and listening to the black community.
RAND PAUL TO HOWARD UNIVERSITY: 'Big Government Is Not A Friend To African Americans'
Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/rand-paul-howard-black-voters-2013-4#ixzz2QANKfOcr
Here's the take from a Hispanic writer:
Rand Paul Howard University Speech: He Didn't Bomb, But it Was a Little Embarassing
A little embarrassing, but not a catastrophe. That seems to be the overall consensus rolling in from Senator Rand Pauls (R-Ky.) speech at Howard University, a historically black university located in Washington D.C. Paul. He received a respectful but tough response from the audience, understandable given the Republican Party's reputation among the African American community and Ran Paul's own controversy regarding past remarks concerning race.
The Paul family has not had the best time when it comes to race. Rands father, Representative Ron Paul (R-Texas), himself has a history of statements that many saw as racially insensitive. Rand Paul himself stoked controversy regarding remarks about the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Rand Paul's speech at Howard University, however, represents an attempt to broaden the Republican electoral brand, even if the first step is a little embarrassing.
The speech itself focused on pre-1964 racial history. Paul gave several standard conservative talking points, reminding the audience that Abraham Lincoln was a Republican, Democrats passed Jim Crow laws, and that the founders of the NAACP were republicans. As reported by Talking Points Memo:
"'Would everyone know here they were all Republicans?' he said at one point, referring to the NAACPs founders.
'Yes!' came the booming response from nearly the entire audience, who appeared offended Paul would even raise the question."
Still, Paul showed political astuteness in bringing up parts of his libertarian ideology that would resonate with the audience. His position that mandatory sentencing for drug crimes should be reduced was popular. When he claimed "I will do everything I can to keep nonviolent criminals out of jail," Paul drew applause from the audience.
The response to Paul's speech was mixed, with some appreciative of his remarks and other grateful that he had made an effort to come out. At one point two audience members interrupted Pauls speech by holding up a sign that had written upon it "Howard University doesn't support white supremacy" and were quickly escorted out by security. But this was the only major altercation, and for the most part, Paul was treated with respect.
"as they applauded for his views on reduced jail penalties for non-violent drug users and a more humble foreign policy."
The Occupy crowd will be pleased.
WATCH THIS SHORT VIDEO TO UNDERSTAND THE BLACK LIBERAL MINDSET AND WATCH RAND PAUL's RESPONSE ( whether it sinks it or not remains to be seen ):
Rand Paul tries to reason with a Howard University moron who says I want a government that is gonna help me
Explaining the Leave Me Alone governing philosophy to Melissa Harris-Perrys ideological twin. A monumental task indeed
I want a government that is gonna help me. I want a government that is gonna help me fund my college education
Howard University, April 10.
WATCH THIS SHORT VIDEO TO UNDERSTAND THE BLACK LIBERAL MINDSET AND WATCH RAND PAULs RESPONSE ( whether it sinks it or not remains to be seen ):
Rand Paul tries to reason with a Howard University moron who says I want a government that is gonna help me
Explaining the Leave Me Alone governing philosophy to Melissa Harris-Perrys ideological twin. A monumental task indeed
I want a government that is gonna help me. I want a government that is gonna help me fund my college education
Howard University, April 10.
RAND OPAUL IN THE LION's DEN.
Here is the full text of Pauls prepared remarks:
Id like to thank President Ribeau, the Howard University faculty, and students for having me today.
Some people have asked if Im nervous about speaking at Howard. They say You know, some of the students and faculty may be Democrats...
My response is that my trip will be a success if the Hilltop will simply print that a Republican came to Howard but he came in peace.
My wife Kelley asked me last week do you ever have doubts about trying to advance a message for an entire country?
The truth is, sometimes. When I do have doubts, I think of a line from T.S. Eliot, how should I presume to spit out all the butt ends of my days and ways, and how should I presume.
And when I think of how political enemies often twist and distort my positions, I think again of Eliots words: when I am pinned and wriggling on the wall, how should I presume?
And here I am today at Howard, a historically black college. Here I am, a guy who once presumed to discuss a section of the Civil Rights Act.
Some have said that Im either brave or crazy to be here today. Ive never been one to watch the world go by without participating. I wake up each day hoping to make a difference.
I take to heart the words of Toni Morrison of Howard University, who wrote: If there is a book you really want to read, but it hasnt been written yet, then you must write it.
I can recite books that have been written, or I can plunge into the arena and stumble and maybe fall but at least I will have tried.
What I am about is a philosophy that leaves YOU — to fill in the blanks.
I come to Howard today, not to preach, or prescribe some special formula for you but to say I want a government that leaves you alone, that encourages you to write the book that becomes your unique future.
You are more important than any political party, more important than any partisan pleadings.
The most important thing you will do is yet to be seen. For me, I found my important thing to do when I learned to do surgery on the eye, when I learned to restore a persons vision.
I found what was important when I met and married my wife.
Although I am an eye surgeon, first and foremost, I find myself as part of the debate over how to heal our sick economy and get people back to work.
I truly believe that we can have an economy that creates millions of jobs again but we will have to rethink our arguments and try to rise above empty partisan rhetoric.
My hope is that you will hear me out, that you will see me for who I am, not the caricature sometimes presented by political opponents.
If you hear me out, I believe youll discover that what motivates me more than any other issue is the defense of everyones rights.
Of strong importance to me is the defense of minority rights, not just racial minorities, but ideological and religious minorities.
If our government does not protect the rights of minorities, then democratic majorities could simply legislate away our freedoms.
The bill of rights and the civil war amendments protect us against the possibility of an oppressive federal or state government.
The fact that we are a Constitutional Republic means that certain inalienable rights are protected even from democratic majorities.
No Republican questions or disputes civil rights. I have never waivered in my support for civil rights or the civil rights act.
The dispute, if there is one, has always been about how much of the remedy should come under federal or state or private purview.
What gets lost is that the Republican Party has always been the party of civil rights and voting rights.
Because Republicans believe that the federal government is limited in its function-some have concluded that Republicans are somehow inherently insensitive to minority rights.
Nothing could be further from the truth.
Republicans do, indeed, still believe many rights remain with the people and states respectively.
When some people hear that, they tune us out and say: hes just using code words for the states right to discriminate, for the states right to segregate and abuse.
But thats simply not true.
Many Republicans do believe that decentralization of power is the best policy, that government is more efficient, more just, and more personal when it is smaller and more local.
But Republicans also realize that there are occasions of such egregious injustice that require federal involvement, and that is precisely what the 14th amendment and the Civil Rights Act were intended to do-protect citizens from state and local tyranny.
The fourteenth amendment says, No state shall . . . The fourteenth amendment did change the constitution to give a role for the federal government in protecting citizenship and voting regardless of race.
I did not live through segregation nor did I experience it first-hand. I did grow up in the South in public schools comprised of white, black, and Latino students largely all getting along with each other.
So, perhaps some will say that I can never understand. But I dont think you had to be there to have been affected by our nations history of racial strife.
The tragedy of segregation and Jim Crow in the South is compounded when you realize that integration began in New England in the 1840s and 1850s.
In 1841, Frederick Douglas was pulled from the white car on the Eastern Railroad, clutching his seat so tightly that he was thrown from the train with its remnants still tightly in his hands .
But, within a few years public transportation was integrated in the northeast.
It is a stain on our history that integration didnt occur until more than 100 years later in the South. That in the 1960s we were still fighting to integrate public transportation and schools is and was an embarrassment.
The story of emancipation, voting rights and citizenship, from Fredrick Douglas until the modern civil rights era, is in fact the history of the Republican Party.
How did the party that elected the first black US Senator, the party that elected the first 20 African American Congressmen become a party that now loses 95% of the black vote?
How did the Republican Party, the party of the great Emancipator, lose the trust and faith of an entire race?
From the Civil War to the Civil Rights Movement, for a century, most black Americans voted Republican. How did we lose that vote?
To understand how Republicans lost the African American vote, we must first understand how we won the African American vote.
In Kentucky, the history of black voting rights is inseparable from the Republican Party. Virtually all African Americans became Republicans.
Democrats in Louisville were led by Courier-Journal editor Henry Watterson and were implacably opposed to blacks voting.
Watterson wrote that his opposition to blacks voting was founded upon a conviction that their habits of life and general condition disqualify them from the judicious exercise of suffrage.
In George Wrights Life Behind the Veil, he writes of Republican General John Palmer standing before tens of thousands of slaves on July 4th, 1865, when slavery still existed in Kentucky, and declaring:
my countrymen, you are free, and while I command, the
military forces of the United States will defend your right to freedom.
The crowd erupted in cheers.
Meanwhile, Kentuckys Democrat-controlled legislature voted against the 13th, the 14th, and the 15th amendments.
William Warley was a black Republican in Louisville. He was born toward the end of the nineteenth century.
He was a founder of Louisvilles NAACP but he is most famous for fighting and overturning the notorious Louisville segregated housing ordinance.
Warley bought a house in the white section in defiance of a city segregation law. The case, Buchanan v. Warley, was finally decided in 1917 and the Supreme Court held unanimously that Kentucky law could not forbid the sale of a house based on race.
The Republican Partys history is rich and chock full of emancipation and black history.
Republicans still prize the sense of justice that MLK spoke of when he said that an unjust law is any law the majority enforces on a minority but does not make binding upon itself.
Republicans have never stopped believing that minorities, whether they derive from the color of their skin or shade of their ideology should warrant equal protection.
Everyone knows of the sit-ins in Greensboro and Nashville but few people remember the sit-it in the Alexandria public library in 1938.
Samuel Tucker, a lawyer and graduate of Howard University, recruited five young African American men to go to the public library and select a book and sit and read until they were forcibly removed.
Tuckers sit-in set the stage for students who organized the sit-in at Woolworths in Greensboro that brought down Jim Crow in many areas, years before the civil rights act of 1964.
I think our retelling of the civil rights era does not give enough credit to the heroism of civil disobedience.
You may say, oh thats all well and good but that was a long time ago what have you done for me lately?
I think what happened during the Great Depression was that African Americans understood that Republicans championed citizenship and voting rights but they became impatient for economic emancipation.
African Americans languished below white Americans in every measure of economic success and the Depression was especially harsh for those at the lowest rung of poverty.
The Democrats promised equalizing outcomes through unlimited federal assistance while Republicans offered something that seemed less tangible-the promise of equalizing opportunity through free markets.
Now, Republicans face a daunting task. Several generations of black voters have never voted Republican and are not very open to even considering the option.
Democrats still promise unlimited federal assistance and Republicans promise free markets, low taxes, and less regulations that we believe will create more jobs.
The Democrat promise is tangible and puts food on the table, but too often doesnt lead to jobs or meaningful success.
The Republican promise is for policies that create economic growth. Republicans believe lower taxes, less regulation, balanced budgets, a solvent Social Security and Medicare will stimulate economic growth.
Republicans point to the Reagan years when the economy grew at nearly 7% and millions upon millions of jobs were created.
Today, after four years of the current policies, one in six Americans live in poverty, more than at any other time in the past several decades.
In fact, the poor have grown poorer in the past four years. Black unemployment is at 14%, nearly twice the national average. This is unacceptable.
Using taxes to punish the rich, in reality, punishes everyone because we are all interconnected. High taxes and excessive regulation and massive debt are not working.
The economy has been growing at less than 1% and actually contracted in the fourth quarter.
I would argue that the objective evidence shows that big government is not a friend to African Americans.
Big government relies on the Federal Reserve, our central bank, to print money out of thin air. Printing money out of thin air leads to higher prices.
When the price of gas rises to $4 per gallon, it is a direct result of our nations debt. When food prices rise, it is a direct result of the $50,000 we borrow each second. Inflation hurts everyone, particularly the poor.
If you are struggling to get ahead, if you have school loans and personal debt, you should choose a political party that wants to leave more money in the private sector so you will get a job when the time comes.
Some Republicans, lets call them the moss-covered variety, mistake war for defense. They forget that Reagan argued for Peace through strength, not War through strength.<
The old guard argues for arms for Ghaddafi and then the following year for boots on the ground to defeat Ghaddafi.
I want you to know that all Republicans do not clamor for war, that many Republicans believe in a strong national defense that serves to preserve the Peace.
In Louisville, in the predominantly African American west end of town, it was recently announced that 18 schools are failing. The graduation rate is 40%.
The head of Kentuckys education called it academic genocide. Johns Hopkins researchers call these schools dropout factories.
I defy anyone to watch Waiting for Superman and honestly argue against school choice.
A minister friend of mine in the West End calls school choice the civil rights issue of the day. Hes absolutely right.
By the sixth grade, Ronald Holasie was failing most of his classes, but through school choice he was able to attend a Catholic school in the DC area.
There he learned that he had a natural gift for composing music, but before that, his reading level was so low that he had struggled to write lyrics. Ronald then went on to matriculate at Barry University.
There are countless examples of the benefits of school choice - where kids who couldnt even read have turned their lives completely around.
Maybe its about time we all reassess blind allegiance to ideas that are failing our children.
Every child in every neighborhood, of every color, class and background, deserves a school that will help them succeed.
Those of you assembled today are American success stories. You will make it and do great things.
In every neighborhood, white, black or brown, there are kids who are not succeeding because they messed up.
They had kids before they were married, or before they were old enough to support them, or they got hooked on drugs, or they simply left school.
Republicans are often miscast as uncaring or condemning of kids who make bad choices. I, for one, plan to change that.
I am working with Democratic senators to make sure that kids who make bad decisions such as non-violent possession of drugs are not imprisoned for lengthy sentences.
I am working to make sure that first time offenders are put into counseling and not imprisoned with hardened criminals.
We should not take away anyones future over one mistake.
Let me tell you the tale of two young men. Both of them made mistakes. Both of them were said to have used illegal drugs.
One of them was white and from a privileged background. He had important friends, and an important father and an important grandfather. You know, the kind of family who universitys name dorms after.
The family had more money than they could count. Drugs or no drugs, his family could buy justice if he needed it.
The other man also used illegal drugs, but he was of mixed race and from a single parent household, with little money. He didnt have important friends or a wealthy father.
Now, you might think Im about to tell you a story about
racism in America, where the rich white kid gets off and the black kid goes to jail
It could well be, and often is, but that is not this story. In this story, both young men were extraordinarily lucky. Both young men were not caught. They werent imprisoned.
Instead, they both went on to become Presidents of the United States.
Barack Obama and George Bush were lucky. The law could have put both of them away for their entire young adulthood. Neither one would have been employable, much less president.
Some argue with evidence that our drug laws are biased-that they are the new Jim Crow.
But to simply be against them for that reason misses a larger point. They are unfair to EVERYONE, largely because of the one size fits all federal mandatory sentences.
Our federal mandatory minimum sentences are simply heavy handed and arbitrary. They can affect anyone at any time, though they disproportionately affect those without the means to fight them.
We should stand and loudly proclaim enough is enough. We should not have laws that ruin the lives of young men and women who have committed no violence.
Thats why I have introduced a bill to repeal federal mandatory minimum sentences. We should not have drug laws or a court system that disproportionately punishes the black community.
The history of African-American repression in this country rose from government-sanctioned racism.
Jim Crow laws were a product of bigoted state and local governments.
Big and oppressive government has long been the enemy of freedom, something black Americans know all too well.
We must always embrace individual liberty and enforce the constitutional rights of all Americans-rich and poor, immigrant and native, black and white.
Such freedom is essential in achieving any longstanding health and prosperity.
As Toni Morrison said, write your own story. Challenge mainstream thought.
I hope that some of you will be open to the Republican message that favors choice in education, a less aggressive foreign policy, more compassion regarding non-violent crime and encourages opportunity in employment.
And when the time is right, I hope that African Americans will again look to the party of emancipation, civil liberty, and individual freedom.
Did he mention education spending, food stamps, medicare and SS, affirmative action, HUD, all that stuff they love?
That is when reality sets in.
Obviously he is targeting some other voters by talking to them....asians?
Q and A Session at Howard University
Howard University student to Sen. Rand Paul: "Good afternoon, Senator. My name is Keenan Glover, Im an administration of justice major from Rochester, New York. A freshman, as well. You say you want to provide a government that leaves us alone. Quite frankly, I dont want that. I want a government that is going to help me. I want a government that is going to help me fund my college education. I want a government that wont define me by my FAFSA or by my familys income. Im a dollar sign with a heartbeat in this nation. This society is a mirror image of Capitol Hill. Do you, Senator Rand Paul, have a solution to come up with new American values so that the citizens of this nation have a worth of more than dead presidents and Ben Franklin?"
CLICK HERE TO WATCH RAND PAUL's RESPONSE TO THE QUESTION:
Q and A Session at Howard University
Howard University student to Sen. Rand Paul: Good afternoon, Senator. My name is Keenan Glover, Im an administration of justice major from Rochester, New York. A freshman, as well. You say you want to provide a government that leaves us alone. Quite frankly, I dont want that. I want a government that is going to help me. I want a government that is going to help me fund my college education. I want a government that wont define me by my FAFSA or by my familys income. Im a dollar sign with a heartbeat in this nation. This society is a mirror image of Capitol Hill. Do you, Senator Rand Paul, have a solution to come up with new American values so that the citizens of this nation have a worth of more than dead presidents and Ben Franklin?
CLICK HERE TO WATCH RAND PAULs RESPONSE TO THE QUESTION:
Honestly, I think he is wasting his time. The black culture in our nation is so utterly depraved and corrupt that efforts like this are akin to Charlie Brown kicking the football. There are some very intelligent, thoughtful and rational African-Americans in this nation who understand the values of conservatism, but the umbrella over it all casts a dark shadow of dysfunction and perversion of values.
"It is better to light a candle than to curse the darkness" — Edmund Burke
mark and Bttt
The black education/civil rights establishment has created an elaborate alternate reality with just enough cherry-picked historical facts to make it seem true to black students and MSNBC hosts. That isn't going to be overthrown by weakly presenting an alternate set of facts and trying to seem nice and non-threatening. Rage against historical injustice is too convenient an outlet for frustrations over personal failure. There is little chance the black political establishment will voluntarily let go of it.
As a practical - if somewhat cynical - alternative, Republicans would get more votes if they spoke to Hispanic community groups instead and rather than wasting time on immigration issues promising to crack down hard on the epidemic of urban black-on-Hispanic crime.
As a response to the question hes says "We dont have to agree on every issue...I want a government that leaves you alone...that doesnt mean no government.."
Trying to create this picture for them: 'WOW, leave me alone?? I love that idea, I still get all those freebees and Rand will stop the POLL-ICE from their stop and search missions though my neigborhood? I can smoke weed without getting hassaled?"
My point is that to be serious Rand needs to at least try to convince them his real positions are good for them.
I still remember the Jack Kemp disaster.
I appreciated his filibuster, because it changed the game. But this is the speech of an unprincipled suck-up who also manages to shoot himself in the foot. Making nice on behalf of illegal drugs in front of people basically destroyed by them. Not addressing moral issues, where most would have agreed with himexcept, maybe he's not so big on those issues after all.
And as far as the so-called Civil Rights Act is concerned, local malfeasance and corruption can't be cured by Federal malfeasance and corruption. Don't have the brass to say that either? What is it you do, Rand?
"Facts" my arse.
Rand Paul is a socially liberal and fiscally conservative isolationist like his old man. He will never be taken seriously because of his whacky libertarian (if it feels good do it, just leave us alone), mentality.
The fact is that our police force, through the 'War on Drugs' has become a standing army of automatic rifle toting thugs. They have infringed on the rights of ordinary Americans to simply be left alone.
They burst in unannounced breaking private property and terrorizing citizens, often completely innocent citizens, exercising often spurious search warrants.
Our prisons and court system are clogged with drug abusers who haven't done anything violent. This leaves violent criminals able to run wild. Imagine how much cheaper it would be to require treatment on demand as apposed to the tens of thousands a year that it costs per inmate to house and feed the hundreds of thousands of nonviolent drug offenders every year.
In a country that has found an invisible right to privacy in the U.S. Constitution in order to allow women the ability to kill their unborn children because it is her body and she can do what she wants to that body. I find it difficult to believe that a person would not have the right to destroy ones body, or in the case of steroids, improve certain aspects of their body without the Federal Government getting involved.
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Downtownfrombehind (DFB) is a photographic series capturing subjects riding their bike from behind on some 200+ streets, avenues and lanes below 14th street in New York City. The result is an environmental portrait for each street and subject with a goal to highlight a set of individuals, emerging and established, each uniquely contributing; culturally, socially and physically, to make this part of the city what it is today.
The project has been widely covered in the press, from New York Times, Huffington Post, Coolhunting, Vogue, Nylon Magazine and many blogs (thankyou). Subjects photographed to date include industrial designers, architects, creative directors, restauranteurs, entrepreneurs, hoteliers, artists and academics.


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Saturday, Dec. 8, is the 343d day of 2012. There are 23 days left in the year. The
Jewish Festival of Lights, Hanukkah, begins at sunset.
Today's birthdays: Actor-director Maximilian Schell is 82. Flutist James Galway is 73. Rock musician Gregg Allman is 65. Reggae singer Toots Hibbert (Toots and the Maytals) is 64. Actress Kim Basinger is 59. Actress Teri Hatcher is 48. Singer Sinead O'Connor is 46.
In 1776, during the Revolutionary War, General George Washington's army crossed the Delaware River from New Jersey into Pennsylvania.
In 1854, Pope Pius IX proclaimed the Catholic dogma of the Immaculate Conception.
In 1941, the United States entered World War II as Congress declared war against Japan.
In 1961, a fire at Hartford Hospital in Connecticut resulted in 16 deaths.
In 1980, rock star John Lennon was shot to death in New York City by a deranged fan.
In 1987, President Ronald Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail S. Gorbachev signed a treaty calling for destruction of intermediate-range nuclear missiles.


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A UN panel has found Chinese involvement in more than half of the suspected violations of the North Korean arms and luxury goods embargoes, a Japanese media report said yesterday.
The panel identified 38 instances in which banned goods have gone to or from North Korea. Of these, 21 have involved China, the Asahi Shimbun reported, citing unnamed sources.
"The findings reflect in the end China has helped North Korea expand its weaponry and military threats," the Asahi said.
The panel, created in 2009 after North Korea's second nuclear test, reviewed the implementation of UN Security Council resolutions banning trade with North Korea in certain goods, the paper said.
In the majority of cases examined, Chinese ports served as transit points or Chinese firms were involved as intermediaries, it said, adding that the panel's report could be released as early as next week.
Of the 21 cases linked with China, two involved the export or import of items related to weapons of mass destruction or ballistic missiles, the Asahi said.
One of them was a 2007 attempted shipment from North Korea to Syria — via the Chinese port of Dalian — of electronic parts and metal plates to be used for ballistic missiles, the Asahi said.
The other was a 2010 shipment from Taiwan, via China, to North Korea of machine tools that could have military applications.
Six other cases involved the export or import of weapons. The remaining 13 cases were about imports of luxury goods to North Korea, the Asahi said.
Yesterday's report followed earlier claims that a Chinese firm had exported four giant trucks capable of transporting and launching ballistic missiles in August last year.
The vehicles were likely those shown at a huge military display in April marking the centennial of the birth of the state's founder Kim Il-sung, the Asahi said.
However, the UN panel did not include this in the tally as an investigation into the claims is still ongoing, the paper said.
China is North Korea's sole major ally and has long shielded Pyongyang from the worst of the international community's wrath over its nuclear and missile programs.


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The Mennonite Heritage Center invites people to participate in a harvest baking contest as part of the Apple Butter Frolic to be held Saturday, Oct. 6 from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. at the 565 Yoder Road, Harleysville campus. The Apple Butter Frolic celebrates the harvest season and what better way to enjoy the celebration but with a home baked apple or pumpkin pie or cake. Enter your favorite recipe featuring apples or pumpkin � whether a family tradition or a favorite recipe that you enjoy baking. The contest has three categories � Pies, Cakes, and Bread & Muffins.
To participate in the harvest baking contest, bring your home baked entry to the Apple Butter Frolic between 10 and 11 a.m. on Oct. 6 along with a copy of the complete recipe. Entries must have either apples or pumpkin in the recipe. Your entry will be good for one free adult admission to the Apple Butter Frolic. Winners in each category will receive handsome gift baskets of Bauman�s Fruit Butters.
Entries will be judged atnoon and the winners will be announced at 1:30 p.m. All baked items will be sold at the Frolic during the afternoon with the proceeds going toward the Mennonite Heritage Center. Winning recipes will be published on the Mennonite Heritage Center website and copies will be available at the center. For more information about the contest, check www.mhep.org, email firstname.lastname@example.com or call 215-256-3020.


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It's a chic initiative, to take design terms and apply them outside of the classroom. And students at MassArt took up the challenge, altering, embellishing, and designing pieces for Wearable Art 2012.
The stylish exhibit, now on display at Copley Place, features 36 garments, each crafted by fashion design students from the Massachusetts College of Art and Design undergraduate and fashion certificate programs. Dotted throughout the center court of the Copley mall are five platforms that showcase ensembles constructed with materials ranging from the traditionally luxurious (silk, chiffon, and lace) to quirky (tree bark and paper clips).
"We have the unconventional and incredibly interesting non-textiles, but we also have elegant eveningwear and bridal wear, beautiful tailored pieces and very fashionable ready-to-wear, too," explained Jayne Avery, associate professor of fashion at MassArt and curator of the event. "It covers all the areas that the MassArt fashion design students study."
Back at the mall, foot traffic slows and halts when shoppers come upon the exhibit. As a pair of women hovered at the non-textiles platform, scrutinizing Faith Garland's gown made from Aquafina water bottles, one wondered aloud: "Can you imagine the time that went into this?"
"People were stopping even as we were putting pieces on the platforms," said Avery. "They were marveling over them."
It takes about three weeks, Avery estimates, for a piece to go from conceptualization to completion. While students busily worked to meet design deadlines throughout the school year, Avery was carefully surveying their creations, searching for perfect craftsmanship and ingenuity.
"Each individual piece has to be amazing," she says. "The quality and the scope of the pieces is equal to a professional exhibit, yet all this work was done by students. Some of the pieces look like they're pulled right off the rack from Neiman Marcus. The construction has to be impeccable, because [the exhibit offers] an up-close-and-personal view of things."
Though the display is representative of most every field of study at MassArt, it's the non-textile platform that really stuns.
"Some of the non-textile pieces are actually elegant, beautiful pieces but made from ordinary products that you would normally discard," said Avery.
For Jessica Tenczar, that meant tearing sheets of bark from dead birch trees to piece together a surprisingly graceful gown.
"It definitely was not easy," said Tenczar, a junior at MassArt who hails from Lowell. "People were saying I was crazy because the material is so hard to work with. There were times when I took chunks out of my hand with a glue gun and I was like, 'OK, is this going to happen?' But it all came together from there."
Tenczar spent two weeks in December harvesting frozen bark before beginning the 50-hour creative process that resulted in the much-buzzed-about garment.
"I've always loved white birch trees, and I knew it was going be my first big project so I wanted it to be more symbolic than just a tree dress," explained Tenczar. "I wanted it to appear as if [the dress] was rooted into the ground and ever-growing, so that the wearer looks like she's growing and changing, a reflection of what I want my career to be."
For other student designers, inspiration came from a variety of places, from nature to cartoons. Amy Plante and Nyima Smith, who collaborated to create a featured menswear garment, were influenced by "the glistening effect of water rolling over black stones."
Sarah Maloof, a senior majoring in fashion design, created "The DeVil," a costume that channels Disney's fashionable villain.
"I took something from a childhood show that's kind of fun and scary and made it into a dress," she said. "[When you see] the finished result, you're happy to connect your inspiration with the actual piece that came out of it."
Students who have garments on display have high hopes for what the exposure might yield.
"It's nice to have hard work recognized," says Tenczar. "To be featured and hope that people will recognize that dress and then recognize your name is very exciting."
Maloof shared a similar sentiment.
"It's an honor to be in the exhibit in Copley, in a more populated venue right in the middle of Boston," she said. "It's definitely a great place to get into and be shown, and for the students to get their names out there — I'm hoping to be recognized as a designer."
Avery maintains that though fashion is integral to the exhibit, there's an especially artistic flair.
"At MassArt, being an artist is an important part of being a fashion designer," said Avery. "For students who are still in college to produce such an array of creations — from ready-to wear to red carpet couture to show-stopping and ingenious non-textiles — is extraordinary."
Wearable Art 2012 is on display through Sept. 27, with a runway show featuring garments on Oct. 3 from 6-8 p.m.Jessica Teich can be reached at email@example.com.


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My vision is augmented.
Perhaps the googles do something?
No, because once everyone is wearing these, the goggles will just photoshop out the goggles everyone else is wearing.
Those who do not learn from Sonny Bono are doomed to follow him (into a tree).
Eclair was Android 2.1. I can definitely see why soulskull was scared about dice imposing standards on the editors. Any other media outlet would have long since fired these flunkies.
A heads up display allows you to look straight ahead without adjusting your focal point or moving your eye. This doesn't look as though the image is projected onto the surface of the googles. the user must make an effort to view information, it is not overlayed with the normal field of view. It's just a mini-display tucked into the corner of diving googles.
"It's just a mini-display tucked into the corner of diving googles."
You need to learn to ski better.
Skiing is already kind of dangerous, and has lots of opportunities to run into things and people.
I'm not sure embedding a display that can distract you is necessarily a great idea...
A pure HUD overlay over the whole view that was primarily about warning you of collisions might be useful though. Especially indicators of things to the side just out of your FOV, or terrain radar warning you of ripples in the terrain you could not see because of flat light or snow.
Driving is dangerous too, yet every car comes with a vast array of readouts and inputs.
Not as dangerous: the view ahead of you is clear, the other displays are out of the way and (most importantly) not impeding peripheral vision.
I would also argue that most people skiing have much less control ability than they do in a car to react to sudden peril. Hitting brakes or steering is very easy; braking/turning sharply on uneven terrain is difficult on skis or a snowboard.
I'm not sure embedding a display that can distract you is necessarily a great idea...
It is just as distracting as the edge of your goggle frame, your hand as it moves into view, the hot skier chick who skied by.
How distracting is your speedometer when you are driving? That is about how distracting the Recon device is
The article and summary both get this wrong. Also, most people would not consider ski goggles unobtrusive.
Thufir's a Harkonnen now.


text: I'm an LCCE and doula and I've been hearing a lot about the effects that cervical scars might have on dilation during labor. Personally, I have had 2 clients with IUIs, both "slow" or stalled during labor and both ended up with c-sections. I saw a post from about a year ago and there was no reserach or evidence to back this up. I'm wondering if there is any new reserach out there. I've searched the internet, Cochrane Collaboration and NIH and I'm still only finding anecdotal information. Hoping to see more evidence surrounding this soon!


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University of Vermont
2012-2013 Catalogue
Biology (Master of Science)
Faculty research interests fall into two broad groupings: 1) cell and molecular biology, physiology and behavior; 2) ecology and evolution. Current research projects under the first group include: molecular biology of cilia; smell and taste receptor cell function using molecular biology, calcium imaging and electrophysiology; olfactory and taste driven behavior; muscle development using biophysical, molecular and proteomic approaches; proteomics, biochemistry and cell biology applied to molecular mechanisms of signal transduction governing neuronal positioning. Current research projects under the second group include: community ecology and evolutionary ecology of carnivorous plants; genetics of malaria parasites using classical parasitology, field studies and molecular biology; ecology, zoogeography and conservation of small mammals; modeling and analysis of complex biological and environmental systems; multi-species interactions among plants, their mutualist pollinators and antagonists that include herbivores, seed predators, and competitors; developmental plasticity interactions with extreme sexual size dimorphism in spiders; evolution, ecology, and behavior of social insects; ecology and evolution of disease.
General Requirements
Specific Requirements
Requirements for Admission to Graduate Studies for the Degree of Master of Science
An undergraduate major in biology or its equivalent. Satisfactory scores on the Graduate Record Examination, general (aptitude) section. Acceptability to the faculty member with whom the candidate wishes to do thesis research.
Requirements for Advancement to Candidacy for the Degree of Master of Science
Satisfactory completion of a qualifying examination.
Minimum Degree Requirements
Biology Graduate Colloquia, four credits; eleven to eighteen additional credits in biology and related fields; thesis research (eight to fifteen credits) and successful defense of thesis. Each candidate must participate in the teaching of at least one undergraduate course.
- Colleges and Schools: College of Arts and Sciences. Graduate College.
- Departments and Programs: Biology Department.


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December 4, 2012 > Niles Canyon public meeting
Caltrans will hold a meeting on Monday, December 10, 2012 at 7 p.m. at Fremont Senior Center to give the public an opportunity to provide feedback on the Road Safety Assessment (RSA) and the Value Analysis Study final reports for State Route 84/Niles Canyon. These reports are available on the Caltrans website at www.dot.ca.gov/dist4/nilescanyonIn response to public concern about planned safety projects in Niles Canyon, Caltrans invited a panel of traffic-safety experts from the Federal Highway Administration to perform an independent Road Safety Assessment (RSA) on State Route 84. Additionally, a Value Analysis Team also examined the data and developed safety-solution concepts based on the recommendations of the RSA. Preliminary information from these studies was presented to the public on July 30, 2012 and is also available on the Caltrans website.Caltrans invites the public to review the RSA and the Value Analysis final reports and to provide feedback on these two studies.Please note that this is a change of date and venue. There will not be a meeting on December 11, 2012 at Niles Elementary School.Niles Canyon Public MeetingMonday, Dec 107 - 9 p.m.Fremont Senior Center40086 Paseo Padre Parkway, Fremontwww.dot.ca.gov/dist4/nilescanyon


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The best things in life are free, isn't that what they say?
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Thank You for the Reminder
Your suggestions remind me of a special tradition in our family. Every year, until they entered high school, I have taken a "hooky day" with each of our children on or near each of their birthdays (and yes, part of the specialness of the day is the fact that they are allowed to miss school). We have traditionally spent the entire day doing whatever they want. Our activities have included staying home and watching movies, visiting museums, visiting outdoor historical sites (even in the cold and rain), etc. The children are also allowed to have a special meal (their choice) on their special day. I am an educator and recently had a very rough ending to a very long (and sleep-deprived) semester. After my grades were finally turned-in, my youngest (our only child still at home) and I spent my first day "off" visiting a special exhibit of the Dead Sea Scrolls at one of our state museums. When asked on the way home to rate the day, my 10-year-old rated it as a "9 or 10".... Not bad for a 10-year-old. Long after our children forget their gifts, I know that they will remember those priceless "hooky days."
(5) Anonymous, December 23, 2008 10:29 AM
yasher koach!
(4) Shoshana Z., December 23, 2008 10:16 AM
Good ideas
(3) John Campana, December 23, 2008 8:20 AM
Great wisdom.
His comments about the gift of yourself and the gift of your time brought tears to my eyes. Nothing is as important in this world as the gift of yourself. As an 80 year old person the gift of a box wraped in blue ribbon can never mean as much as having my children give my wife and me the gift of their time.


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Release Notes: This release contains several enhancements and bugfixes, as well as new features. Experimental features added are DMARC, PRDR, TPDA, and Redis. Enhancements/bugfixes to existing features touched Cyrus SASL, default logging of remote acceptance, number suffix "G", allowing multiple router/transport header statements, TLS, DNS, Authenticators, Retry rules, Header generation, LDAP/LDAP_TLS, ClamAV settings, and the build system. There are new commandline options for better sendmail compatibility, cutthrough delivery, calling an ACL as an expansion item, and some new expansion variables.
Release Notes: This is a bug-fix release for the DKIM segfault on empty headers/body (introduced in 4.70). DNSDB lookup is now enabled by default. There are also minor documentation fixes.
Release Notes: This release is a combination feature and bugfix release. The major new features are native DKIM support without an external library and experimental DCC support via dccifd. PCRE is no longer included with the Exim distribution. Experimental Yahoo! Domainkeys support was dropped in favor of native DKIM support. Various minor bugs were fixed.
Release Notes: This release adds preliminary DKIM support. The --help handling has been changed. The -bylocaldomain option has been added to eximstats. This release defends against bad data coming back from gethostbyaddr. There is a documentation fix for acl_not_smtp. There is a PCRE update to 7.4.
Release Notes: A number of minor bugs have been fixed and a small number of new features have been added.
Release Notes: This release fixes one major and two lesser bugs in the 4.64 release.
Release Notes: This is another "ongoing" release with a mixture of bugfixes and minor enhancements.
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Ala. House Panel Approves Restrictions on Abortion Clinics, Coverage
May 4, 2012 — The Alabama House Health Committee on Wednesday approved two bills that would increase regulation of abortion clinics and restrict insurance coverage of abortion, Alabama Live reports (Chandler, Alabama Live, 5/2).
Both bills were thought to be dead for the year after committee Chair Jim McClendon (R) said the panel would not meet again. However, McClendon said he received several requests to consider the bills and agreed to hold a meeting (AP/NECN, 5/2).
One bill would require abortion clinics to meet the same standards as ambulatory health centers. It also would mandate that physicians who provide abortion care have admitting privileges at a nearby hospital and take part in before and after care of the patient. In some cases, clinics would have to report the names of minors who seek abortion care and the person suspected to be the father.
Rep. Mary Sue McClurkin (R), who sponsored the bill, claimed that a recently closed abortion clinic had "raunchy" conditions and that more oversight was needed.
Opponents of the bill said it was an attempt to close clinics by enacting excessive regulations. Kim Adams of the National Organization for Women said, "We believe the ultimate aim of this bill is to make abortion services so difficult that the number of health care facilities offering them and the women able to afford them will plummet."
The second bill would prohibit health plans in the state's health insurance exchange from covering abortion care in most circumstances (Alabama Live, 5/2).


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Aug. 22, 2009
SANTA BARBARA, Calif. - The UC Santa Barbara men's soccer team used a late offensive surge to defeat cross-town foe Westmont, 3-1, on Saturday evening at Meredith Field at Harder Stadium. Freshman Michael Nonni scored twice, helping lead the Gauchos to the win during his first appearance in the blue and gold.
After a scoreless first half, Westmont was the first to get on the scoreboard 58:44 into the game when Ben Gordon connected on a cross from Daniel Guzman, which he shot to the far left corner of the Gaucho goal past a diving UCSB goalkeeper, Trond Helge Takset, to give the Warriors a 1-0 advantage.
It took almost 14 minutes for the Gauchos to respond, but that response was an offensive onslaught of three goals in the final 17 minutes of the game.
In the 74th minute, a shot by David Walker was saved by Westmont goalie Matthew McNab. On the deflection, Nonni was able to make contact, kicking the ball into the wide open net to tie the game at one apiece.
Less than five minutes later, Nonni struck again when he scored on a header from a cross by Danny Barrera to give the Gauchos a one-goal advantage.
The final goal of the game came during the 85th minute when Martin Hedevag was able to get behind the Westmont defenders and beat the goalkeeper, sailing the ball to the far right corner of the net.
During the game, UCSB out-shot Westmont 21-7 with nine shots on frame versus the Warriors' four.
Nonni's two goals came on just three shots and Walker and Tetteh led the team with four shots apiece.
In goal, junior college transfer Sam Hayden got the start and shutout the Warriors throughout the first half, tallying one save. Takset played the second half and posted two saves for UCSB.
The Gauchos' regular season will get underway on Sept. 1 when they host Cal State Bakersfield at 7 p.m. at Meredith Field at Harder Stadium.
Season tickets for the 2009 men's soccer season are still available for only five bucks a game. Fans who purchase 2009 season tickets will be guaranteed the opportunity to buy tickets for the 2010 Men's NCAA College Cup hosted by UCSB at Meredith Field at Harder Stadium Dec. 10-12, 2010. To accompany the successful "Soccer Town, USA" slogan as part of the College Cup bid, a discounted family valued offer is also available where a family of five can catch games for only $2.50 per game! Family Plan package also includes three free youth t-shirts and memberships to the new UCSB kids club: GKids. Fans can easily buy tickets online or by calling 805-893-UCSB. To purchase your tickets click here.
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HONESDALE- On Wednesday, January 2, Fiesta on Main will host Tastes of Wayne County, "First Wednesdays" for the Wayne County Historical Society.
Fiesta on Main is an authentic Mexican Restaurant located at 1139 Main Street in downtown Honesdale.
A few of the Mexican dishes at the restaurant include: Fajitas, Burritos, Taquitos, Vegetarian Chile Relleno, Seafood Enchiladas, Carne Asada and so much more.
There are also Mexican Wings, Black Bean soup and nachos. For dessert there are dessert Nachos, Flan Pastel de Tres Leches or a Banana Pinata.
Fiesta on Main has a facebook page where people can see the menu and hours of operation, (
https://www.facebook.com/FiestaOnMainMexicanRestaurant).The restaurant is open for lunch and dinner. Call 352-3700 to make reservations or just stop in. A portion of the sales for January 2 will go to support the Wayne County Historical Society.
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All of us at Eli's Cheesecake are delighted to again partner with the great people from the Michigan Apple Committee. Eli's is a proud user of Michigan Apples and we look forward to sharing cheesecake and other recipes using Michigan Apples.
We are honored that the 2007 Michigan Apple Queeen, Pauline Wendzel, will be attending the Eli's Cheesecake Festival on Saturday, September 15th. Wendzel's great-grandfather, grandfather and father have been involved in all aspects of the apple industry as growers,
packers and processors.
Check out the informative Michigan Apple Committee web site at http://www.michiganapples.com/ .


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Sunday, March 25, 2012
Union Rags Breezes the 'Right Way' in Preparation for Florida Derby
HALLANDALE BEACH, FL - Fountain of Youth (G2) victor Union Rags breezed a half-mile in company Saturday at Palm Meadows Training Center in preparation for a start in next Saturday's $1 million Florida Derby (G1).
The 3-year-old son of Dixie Union, who is expected to be a solid favorite in Gulfstream Park's signature race, breezed the four furlongs in 49.10 seconds under assistant trainer/exercise rider Peter Brett.
Chadds Ford Stable's star made his 2012 debut on Feb. 26 in the Fountain of Youth, in which he finished four lengths clear of the field while in hand under jockey Julien Leparoux.
"I think he should take a step forward from that. It didn't look like he had to give everything he had," Matz said. "I would hope that having a race under his belt would help him for the Florida Derby."
Union Rags captured his first three races, including the Saratoga Special (G2) and the Champagne (G1), before finishing second, a head behind Hansen, in the Breeders' Cup Juvenile (G1). He was forced to race extremely wide from his outside post position and was unable to overtake pacesetter Hansen.
"He had some unfortunate problems in the Breeders' Cup, which unfortunately could arise again, but right now he's more mature physically and mentally than he was as 2-year-old, and I think it showed in his last race," Matz said.
Another Florida Derby contender, Chuck and Maribeth Sandford's 3-year-old Take Charge Indy, breezed five furlongs in 1:01 2/5 Saturday morning at Palm Meadows for trainer Pat Byrne in his final tune-up for the Florida Derby.
"It was a good maintenance work," said Byrne. "He's ready to go. It looks like the best (Kentucky) prep of the year. We know it will be a tough race. Union Rags is a very good horse. I'm actually a little surprised they've got six horses likely to run against him."
A regally-bred son of A.P. Indy out of Grade 1 winner Take Charge Lady, Take Charge Indy will be making his second start of the season as will Union Rags. In their only previous meeting, Take Charge Indy finished fifth in the Breeders' Cup Juvenile (G1) at Churchill Downs on Nov. 5, beaten 6 ¼ lengths as Union Rags finished second by a head as the favorite behind Hansen.
Take Charge Indy returned to finish a good second in a 1 1/16-mile allowance race here on Jan. 29, two lengths behind Todd Pletcher-trained El Padrino, the latter going on to win the Risen Star Stakes (G2) at Fair Grounds on Feb. 25. Take Charge Indy was entered but scratched from a start in the Tampa Bay Derby (G3) on Mar. 10 after drawing post position 10.
Jockey Calvin Borel was aboard Take Charge Indy for the first time in the allowance race last out and will fly in for the mount Saturday.
Meanwhile, at Gulfstream, News Pending stretched his legs in a five-furlong breeze. The Fountain of Youth runner-up was timed in 1:02.90 in preparation for the Florida Derby..
"It was slow but good," trainer Dale Romans said. "It was a perfect work."
The son of Harlan's Holiday has shown strong development at the Gulfstream meeting, which he kicked off with a maiden victory in his fourth lifetime start on Dec. 22. He scored by a half-length in the 1 1/8-mile turf event and came right back to close from far back to finish second behind highly regarded Exothermic in an entry-level allowance on Feb. 5. Although no match for Union Rags in the Fountain of Youth, News Pending was clearly second best, finishing 2 ¼ lengths clear of favored third-place finisher Discreet Dancer after prompting the early pace.
"He's had a good winter here," Romans said. "He's ready to run next weekend."
Rajiv Maragh has the mount for the Florida Derby.
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"As a teacher, I value choices for my students in both how they learn and in how they demonstrate that learning. I try to give my students choices about as many things as I can each day, including whether to use technology in their learning or to use more traditional methods. Because I am fortunate enough to now have a classroom set of iPads, I am able to offer the choice of using technology much more often."
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