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Have you been following the reports out of Afghanistan after it was learned that Qurans and other holy books had been burned by troops? The story keeps developing. More people have been killed, including NATO troops, and President Obama sent a letter of apology to Afghan President Hamid Karzai. The New York Times has been all over the story and I've generally found the reports useful. But there were two questions that were left unanswered in their stories. Here's the top of yesterday's report:
Armed with rocks, bricks, pistols and wooden sticks, protesters angry over the burning of Korans at the largest American base in Afghanistan this week took to the streets in demonstrations in a half-dozen provinces on Wednesday that left at least seven dead and many more injured.
The fury does not appear likely to abate soon. Members of Parliament called on Afghans to take up arms against the American military, and Western officials said they feared that conservative mullahs might incite more violence at the weekly Friday Prayer, when a large number of people worship at mosques.
"Americans are invaders, and jihad against Americans is an obligation," said Abdul Sattar Khawasi, a member of Parliament from the Ghorband district in Parwan Province, where at least four demonstrators were killed in confrontations with the police on Wednesday.
Standing with about 20 other members of Parliament, Mr. Khawasi called on mullahs and religious leaders "to urge the people from the pulpit to wage jihad against Americans."
What's great about this type of reporting is that it shows how the murderous rage over the burning is part of a much larger story about the outside presence in Afghanistan and it shows how members of the government are actively trying to foment that outrage and what not.
But what I've found frustrating is the lack of details about the background. You would think that after however many years in Muslim countries, we'd have our policy toward Koran-burning down. So why in the world were these holy books being burned in the first place? There's nothing in that story that explains it. A previous story explains that "A military official said detainees had been using the books to communicate with each other and potentially incite extremist activity."
A CNN report fleshed that out a little more:
The Qurans were among religious materials removed from a detainee facility at Bagram Airfield. The materials were gathered for disposal and were inadvertently given to troops for burning, Gen. John Allen, commander of NATO's International Security Assistance Force, said Tuesday.
"This was not a decision that was made because they were religious materials," he said. "It was not a decision that was made with respect to the faith of Islam. It was a mistake. It was an error. The moment we found out about it, we immediately stopped and we intervened."
A military official said the materials were removed from the detainee center's library because they had "extremist inscriptions" on them and there was "an appearance that these documents were being used to facilitate extremist communications."
OK. So my first question is what we're talking about other than Qurans. Then I'd like to know about Muslim pieties regarding each of these texts and whether they vary.
But the biggest question I have is how the military would dispose of Qurans corrupted by "extremist inscriptions" without offense. What is the approved method? Is there for destroying holy books that are facilitating extremist communications? Has anyone seen any reporting on that? Is there an approved method? Is there more than one approved method? Shouldn't reporting on this topic include that information?
Actually, as I was just about to post on this, I see that CNN included part of what I'm asking about in its latest report! I love when that happens:
Afghan religious scholar Anayatullah Baligh said it can be appropriate to burn a damaged Quran to dispose of it, but that it should be done by a Muslim performing the act respectfully.
"I can't tell you whether Americans intentionally burned the copies of the holy Quran to make Muslims angry or if they did it mistakenly," he said, but said their "carelessness" was "a crime they have committed against the holiest book of 2 billion Muslims around the world."
A military official told CNN on Thursday that it was unclear at this point how many Qurans were involved in the improper disposal and accepted that some had been partially burned.
American troops at the base would not have been able to read the texts and that would have contributed to the mistake, the official said, asking not to be named discussing an ongoing investigation.
I'm still curious for more details about proper disposal, but that's helpful to include, don't you think?


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- "No one does rebellion like the Irish."
- ―Liam[src]
Liam is a key member of the Irish coven. He has a mate named Siobhan, and they are in a coven with Maggie.
He is portrayed by Patrick Brennan in the second movie adaptation of Breaking Dawn.
Early life
Liam was an Irish warrior who fought in the Irish Rebellion of 1641, and later against Cromwell's reconquest of Ireland. Liam became a vampire through one of the most common types of accidental transformation: battlefield excess. It was common for nomads to seek out human wars as an opportunity to feast. Once a vampire was totally sated, they might continue to feed for enjoyment rather than need. They might not drain enough blood from the victim to kill, and thus the victim would begin the transformation process.
Liam met Siobhan during the first six months of his vampire life where she instructed him on vampire rules, thereby stopping him from drawing attention from humans and the Volturi. Liam was very taken with Siobhan's strength and beauty. They joined forces quickly and became mates. Liam can be selective about his prey, and English soldiers are still his preferred victims after centuries of killing Englishmen.
When they found Maggie, Siobhan wanted to make a supernaturally talented vampire of her own, but Liam was opposed to the idea. Partly because he did not want the Volturi to resent the imitation, and more importantly, he did not want to share Siobhan's attention with anyone else. However, she pleaded him to let things play out in time and give Maggie a chance, and he reluctantly agreed. Over time, he came to accept Maggie as part of the coven and considers her as a sister.
Breaking Dawn
- Main article: Breaking Dawn
Liam is present when his coven help defend Renesmee Cullen and the Cullen family from the Volturi's accusation. Because Maggie declares the Cullens' truthful words, he and Siobhan believe their story absolutely and agree to help. He mostly remains in the background, never speaking but hovers around his coven and the Cullens. In the movie, on the night before their confrontation with the Volturi, Liam and Garrett share their interests of warring the English.
During the confrontation, Liam remains in the background while Siobhan gives her witness to Aro.
After the situation ended peacefully, Carlisle asks Liam and Siobhan to locate Alistair, the nomadic vampire who fled before the confrontation, to inform him how it turned out.
Physical description
He is described as a man in his mid-30s, with a hard-face, lean body with an imposing countenance, and is 6'5" tall, and with dark brown hair. In the movies, he has stubble, and appears more overweight than imposing.
Personality and traits
Liam is usually very quiet, and very possessive of Siobhan, his mate. He can, however, be kind. While hunting, he mostly prefers to prey on English men due to his history with them. He is also described as very fierce and focused during a hunt, which manifested clearly when he was still a newborn. Unlike Siobhan, he was not as fascinated by the stories of supernaturally talented vampires, but learned to grow fond of Maggie, who has the ability to sense if someone was lying.
- Main article: Siobhan and Liam
Siobhan is Liam's mate. He is mentioned as constantly near Siobhan and following every order she gives him.
They first met when he was still a newborn, and she took him under her wing to teach him everything he needed to know about being a vampire, including the cons and the pros. Eventually, they fell in love and traveled together.
Maggie is the third member in the coven.
When Siobhan first decided to change her, Liam was reluctant to the idea of sharing his mate's attention with another, but Siobhan managed to convince him to give it a chance. He reluctantly agreed to please her, but after some time, he grew to like Maggie and began to see her as a little sister. Like Siobhan, Liam trusts her power to determine if someone was lying or not.
Film portrayal
Liam is portrayed by actor Patrick Brennan in Breaking Dawn - Part 2.
According to an interview behind the scenes, Patrick had been in an acting slump for two years, so it came as a surprise when he was called in for an audition by the casting director.
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Bring forth the lambs, the knives are being sharpened;
Squad : Prosper Utseya, Gary Brent, Chamunorwa Chibhabha, Elton Chigumbura, Tendai Chisoro, Charles Coventry, Graeme Cremer, Keith Dabengwa, Terrence Duffin, Trevor Garwe, Ryan Higgins, Tinashe Hove, Anthony Ireland, Tafadzwa Kamungozi, Friday Kasteni, Blessing Mahwire, Timycen Maruma, Hamilton Masakadza, Stuart Matsikenyeri, Tinotenda Mawoyo, Christopher Mpofu, Tafadzwa Mufambisi, Tawanda Mupariwa, Mluleki Nkala, Edward Rainsford, Piet Rinke, Vusumuzi Sibanda, Gregory Strydom, Brendan Taylor, Sean Williams.
The horrible thing is that Matsikenyeri is the only survivor from the 2003 World Cup squad.
Timycen Maruma has played for Zimbabwe A and is an offspin bowler with 8 wickets @ 46 from 3 games and 8 @ 13 from 5 domestic one-day matches.There is no information about what Tendai Chisoro, from Masvingo, does, but from the stats he appears to be a bowler, though of what kind is uncertain. It might be better to select Chibhabha's sister Julia who is a gun for the Zimbabwe women's side than these two, because she'd probably make more runs and take more wickets than them!
All of the players have been in the full national and A squads in the past year so they have played a limited amount of good-standard cricket but we'll be lucky to record a win.


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The purpose of this Board of Governors is to promote the objectives of the Maguire Academy of Insurance and Risk Management by providing advice and assistance to the Dean, President, and the Board of Trustees of the University.
Board Responsibilities
The Board is specifically responsible for the following:
1. To further and periodically review the Academy's mission and purpose consistent with its articles of incorporation.
2. Assure the continuity of the Academy and its education programs.
3. Make a commitment to financially support the Academy.
4. Foster collaboration between the Academy and other organizations.
5. Enhance the Academy's public image nationally.
6. Provide advice, counsel and support to the faculty with respect to programs, curriculum and pedagogy.
7. Provide resources such as guest lectures, opportunities for field trips, judges for student presentations and access to information which will enrich the educational experience for students.
8. Provide employment opportunities for internships and cooperative education, as well as graduating seniors.
9. Assist and counsel University officers in obtaining administrators for the Academy.
10. Assess its own performance as the governing body of the Academy.
The board will meet no less than twice a year on the campus of St. Joseph's University.


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When is $6.3 million not a lot of money? When you're a governor with an initiative on the November ballot.
New campaign reports show Gov. Jerry Brown raising $6.3 million for his temporary-tax ballot initiative in the first half of the year. His campaign has $5 million on hand.
That's not much when it comes to California ballot measure campaigns. Indeed, in recent cycles, $5 million is about what it takes to have just one week's worth of ads in all California markets.
Brown likely will need to be on the air for a much longer period of time, since his initiative's main competitor, Molly Munger, has personal wealth upon which to draw.
I'd guess that Brown will need at least $20 million, and probably closer to $30 million, to get his message out and have a real chance of winning. And getting there won't be easy.
He's raising money for an initiative that would raise taxes on precisely the demographic -- the very rich -- who have the money to give to initiative campaigns. And he's raising money from people and interests who are already being tapped for the presidential campaign or other initiative campaigns.
There is one bit of good news. Brown has avoided the kind of criticism Gov. Schwarzenegger received for his fundraising for ballot initiatives.
Yes, such fundraising is problematic -- because it takes governors away from doing the work of governing -- and potentially compromising. But in California's system, when almost any policy changes requires a vote of the people, a governor -- or any elected official who wants to have an impact -- should never stop raising money.
Gov. Brown has a long summer of donor phone calls and fundraising events ahead of him.
Lead Prop Zero blogger Joe Mathews is California editor at Zocalo Public Square, a fellow at Arizona State University's Center for Social Cohesion, and co-author of California Crackup: How Reform Broke the Golden State and How We Can Fix It (University of California, 2010).
Send us your thoughts via Twitter @PropZero or add your comment to our Facebook page.


text: Actor and comedian Tracy Morgan of 30 Rock and Saturday Night Live hosts the all-new season of the frighteningly funny hidden-camera show Scare Tactics. Set up by friends and loved ones, unsuspecting victims are placed into elaborately staged scary situations involving movie-style special effects and makeup. The horror hoaxes are skillfully designed to tap into the wildest fears of the prank's prey. Viewers laugh along to the hilarious reactions of the show's "stars" as they are caught off guard and on camera.


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Hi, I'm 15 and just became an atheist about 5-6 months ago. I've always been pretty skeptical, but always held my belief in God..... then I actually learned something :P
What really made me stop believing were the large amount of contradictions between religion and science. I guess I'm a bit of an oddity though, since I'm not a ex-Christian, I'm an ex-Jew. If you think Christian indoctrination is bad, you should visit a temple :)
I've come out to my friends and I don't really care who knows that I'm an atheist in my school, but I haven't found a way to tell my parents yet. The only other person in my family that knows is my sister, who is an agnostic. But my parents don't know about her either.
Anyway, it's good to find a community of people that think like me :D
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Many adults take multivitamins in hopes that they will help them meet their nutritional needs. Most multivitamins contain a combination of essential vitamins and minerals in different amounts of each depending on the brand. They are generally taken on a daily basis and may be prescribed by a doctor or done strictly by patient choice. These vitamins are usually taken in hopes that they will help prevent illness or disease, such as cancer. Unfortunately, most observational studies have not shown a consistent benefit with taking vitamins and cancer prevention. Also, studies looking at individual vitamins and minerals have generally found little or no benefit for cancer prevention.
Researchers wanted to better clarify the role of multivitamins for cancer prevention by performing a randomized trial. A study, called the Physicians' Health Study II, was performed to look for a potential relation between daily multivitamins and health outcomes. The study found that men who took a daily multivitamin had a lower risk of cancer.
The Physician's Health Study II was a large trial that was started in 1997 and followed participants through 2011. The randomized trial included 14,641 male physicians aged 50 years or older. The physicians were assigned to either a daily multivitamin or placebo. Participants were followed over the course of the trial for development of any cancer and specifically nonmelanoma skin cancer, prostate cancer, and colorectal cancer. About 67% of the men were still taking the pill by the end of the trial.
After about 11.2 years, new cancer developed in 18.2%. Men who took the multivitamin had a significantly lower rate of any type of cancer and compared to those that took placebo. Rates of cancer related deaths were lower in men taking the multivitamin, but the difference was not quite statistically significant. There was no difference when looking specifically at colorectal cancer, prostate cancer, or other specific cancers.
A randomized trial is one of the most dependable types of research. It can be used to demonstrate cause and effect. This trial is also considered more reliable because it has such a large number of participants. The study also followed participants over a long period of time which is important when looking at the development of cancer. A downside to this study was that only about two thirds of the men were still taking the pill they were supposed to take by the end of the study. Also, the fact that this study used a multivitamin with many different ingredients makes it difficult to know which element or combination of elements may have been most useful.
According to this study, it does appear that taking a multivitamin may help reduce the risk of cancer in men. However, this does not necessarily mean that every man should be taking a multivitamin. With certain vitamins, there can be too much of a "good" thing and high doses can be harmful. The decision to start taking a multivitamin should be made with your doctor. Also, you should consider another even more beneficial option to getting your daily dose of vitamins and minerals. That is eating healthy food including plenty of fruits and vegetables.
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Gaziano JM, Sesso H, et al. Physicians' Health Study II trial.JAMA2012 Nov 14;308(18):1871.
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by Mark Garcia March 04, 2014
By now I am sure that you have heard of the new technology known as Variable Speed Pool Pumps - with a permanent magnet induction motor, they run cool to the touch, and are quieter than standard motors. And the best part is - they can save over 75% off your pool pump electrical bill. In some states with expensive electricity, this can save hundreds of dollars per year, or more for larger pools or fountains running 2 or 3 hp standard pumps.
But what about installation - is it complicated? Naaa, aside from programming your new pump, which can take the place of a time clock, a VS pump installs in the same manner as a regular pump. Not so with 2-speed pumps, which require a 4th wire - the low speed wire, and a new time clock. VS pumps don't have an extra wire, just two power leads and a ground wire. They operate on 220V, or 110V per wire.
I'll try to get a video together on the process when the weather warms up, but for now, here's a description of the 3 steps involved in installing a variable speed pool pump - Plumbing, Wiring and Programming.
Start by cutting the pipe that comes in, and the pipe that goes out of the existing pump. This will allow you to move the pump to a better position to remove the wires coming into the rear of the motor (shut off power first at the breaker and the time clock), and the bonding wire. After cutting, use large channel pliers or a strap wrench to remove the threaded fittings in the pump. You may reuse these fittings on your new pump, or use new fittings.
VS Pumps come ready to accept 2 inch pipe, and with the proper fitting, can also accept 1.5", 2.5" and 3" pipe. Some VS pumps, such as the Hayward Eco Star, come with Union connections to make future service removal easy. If you use these connections, make sure that you use a cement suited for CPVC.
If the new pump is too low or too high, you may be able to adjust the pump foot, or the base under the pump to raise or lower the pump to best match the incoming and outgoing pipes. The incoming pipes can also be raised if needed, by using couplings to extend the pipes. In some cases, new plumbing will need to be run all the way to the filter, but it's not that far. Try to plumb in straight runs, with as few 90's and 45's as possible, which add resistance to the system.
As mentioned earlier, the wiring for a variable speed pump is no different from a regular pump. First, make sure that all power is off, at the timeclock and the breaker. Use a test meter to verify. Attach a straight conduit connector to your new VS pump, on the junction box mounted on the motor. Connect the ground wire first, and then connect your two power leads (110V ea) to the two terminals labeled for incoming power. If unsure which connection to make consult your owner's manual.
Here's a couple of shots of the wiring for VS pumps. The Hayward Eco-Star is pictured on the left and the Pentair Intelliflo is on the right. After tightening down the wires, secure the cover plate and fill the pump with water - we're almost ready to test!
If you have ever programmed a TV universal remote, or set up a home thermostat - the menu driven application will feel very familiar. You'll configure the pump address (like an IP address), then set time, AM/PM, Langauge. Then you can set minimum and maximum speeds, and a ramp speed, or how fast the motor ramps up. Then you can set timer modes, or running schedules, and set special cleaning cycles or freeze protection. You can even set a password and engage an auto-lock to prevent someone from tampering with settings.
In most cases, programming for a variable speed pump will take no more than 10 minutes. If you are interfacing with an external controller, then you can expect more time in wiring the pump up to the controller for operation at the main control panel.
Thanks for Reading!
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Yeah, that pretty much sounds like crazy geek YouTube video MadLibs, but in this case it's actually what you get. Fireworks might not be the most accurate missiles, but they're definitely the most fun ones. Especially with
heliumhydrogen-filled targets involved.
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January/February 2004
This journal often looks at ways that science centers serve schools or foster relationships between museum educators and classroom teachers. But some ASTC members take it a step further. They bring school into the museum, setting up classrooms, opening their collections, collaborating in curriculum design—turning curiosity and exploration into a lifetime of inquiry and discovery. "Can we grow naturalists?" wondered the museum educators who helped start one museum-based school. "Are we really earning our identity as educational institutions?" asks a director who shares his museum with another. Read on, and decide for yourself.
• Earning Our Identity: Are We Bring True to Our Educational Core? by David E. Chesebrough
• Museum-School Bridges: A Legacy of Progressive Education, by George E. Hein
• An ASTC Museum-School Sampler
• A Semester for Science: Ontario's Science School Program, by Catherine Paisley
• In Their Own Words: Middle School Students' Experiences at the American Museum of Natural History
• Chartering a Course: Three Communities, Three Schools, by Traci Wierman, Kate Bennett, Jacques Bordeaux and David J. Combs
• Many Doors to Learning: Museums Collaborate to Serve Schools, by Aly Evans and Laurie Battles
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OHCI(4) NetBSD Kernel Interfaces Manual OHCI(4) NAME ohci -- USB Open Host Controller driver SYNOPSIS ohci* at cardbus? function ? ohci* at pci? dev ? function ? usb* at ohci? Arm32 ohci0 at pxaip? DESCRIPTION The ohci driver provides support for USB Open Host Controller Interface. SEE ALSO cardbus(4), pci(4), usb(4) HISTORY The ohci driver appeared in NetBSD 1.4. NetBSD 8.1 March 4, 2017 NetBSD 8.1
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Video-Stream Viewings Soar During Inauguration
The average number of people watching online videos grew by 45 percent during President Obama's swearing in and inaugural speech, according to data from comScore.
The research firm compared traffic patterns on Inauguration Day to patterns from a week earlier between noon and 1 PM. Eastern time. Internet video during that time attracted about 8.9 million unique viewers on January 13, a figure that jumped to 13 million, or 45 percent, on January 20.
The number of videos viewed also increased 33 percent, from 37 million to 49.5 million. Total minutes viewed, meanwhile, were up 129 percent, from 83 million to 190 million, the firm reported.
The video streams for cable news channels MSNBC, CNN, and Fox News attracted 4.1 million viewers, up from an average of 277,000 viewers a week earlier.
"Much like TV, people have a tendency to tune into specific channels when they are consuming a certain type of content," Tania Yuki, senior product manager for comScore Video Metrix, said in a statement. "However, unlike TV, the online video channel offers greater flexibility in how, where and when it can provide these experiences and what digital strategies can be employed to attract the right audiences. The CNN-Facebook partnership is a good example of such a strategy."
"Online video coverage of President Obama's inauguration appears to represent a significant incremental audience to TV, since it presumably includes many people at work who did not have access to a TV," Yuki added.
ComScore did not evaluate the quality of the video streams or whether a significant percentage of them failed, stalled, or forced the user to reconnect.


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Tuesday, May 26, 2015
Can Anyone Help Me With This?
Posted by Shirlee at 1:40 PM 12 comments
Saturday, May 23, 2015
Our house was listed on the MLS yesterday morning. A short time later I received a phone call from our realtor. He had a couple who would like to view our house at 3:30 that afternoon ... would that be okay? I said yes.
At 7 o'clock this morning, the phone rang. Once again it was our realtor. Our house was just what this couple was looking for! They wrote an offer last night ... FULL PRICE!!! They want the closing to be June 26!!! I am having an EXTREME emotional & physical reaction right now. I am literally shaking!!! WE GOT A FULL PRICE OFFER LESS THAN 24 HOURS AFTER THE HOUSE HIT THE MLS!!!
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Thursday, May 21, 2015
Aunt Vera Update
I am humbled & in awe that I am writing to all of you with a praise report already! I just spoke with my cousin who told me that my Aunt Vera is feeling so much better! She has had several visiting medical techs & nurses coming to the house, but two of them told her that they aren't coming anymore ... she doesn't need them! She is able to walk without anyone helping her, & best of all her appetite has returned! She is able to eat & drink without becoming horribly nauseated after just one bite or sip! My cousin said she wanted to talk with me, & when he gave her the phone she sounded tired but wonderful! She has a great outlook. She was even laughing! I told her that people all over the world are praying for her, & she is very appreciative & extends her thanks.
Please keep praying, & add praise as well. God is so good : )
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Sunday, May 17, 2015
Asking for Prayers
Please pray for my Aunt Vera. From the time I was a little girl, she has been my favorite aunt ... always nice, always making everyone laugh. She has always been like a mother to me ... always in my corner ... & I have always been the daughter she never had. I just received a call from my cousin. At the age of 86, my dear Aunt Vera has been diagnosed with breast cancer. The way I understand it, this is a type of cancer that feeds on estrogen. She is receiving injections to "dry up" her estrogen, & she is also receiving chemo & radiation. The doctors all say that the next two months are going to be rough, but her outcome looks good.
The chemo is making her very weak & very ill. She is supposed to have a lot of liquids to help keep her strength up, but my cousin says she can barely get down a sip of tea every now & then ... & she can only manage to eat a bite or two of dry toast.
Your prayers for her will be very much appreciated. My immediate thought was to go to Pittsburgh to visit her, but my cousin said she does not want visitors until her chemo & radiation treatments are over & she is feeling better.
Thank you.
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Friday, May 15, 2015
Almost There
Posted by Shirlee at 7:42 AM 15 comments
Monday, May 11, 2015
Mothers Day, eBay, and Other Stuff
Yesterday ... Mothers Day ... Mrs. Robin became the proud mother of two healthy babies : )
Posted by Shirlee at 11:38 AM 13 comments
Saturday, May 9, 2015
Seeking Suggestions ... Where Should We Move???
The in-depth cleaning & clearing & yard work & what not has just about been accomplished. There is just a tiny bit of clutter from my eBay sales here in the dining room & a bit of daily dusting to do, but otherwise we are ready to call a realtor & list the house for sale.
Posted by Shirlee at 8:37 AM 20 comments
Friday, May 1, 2015
Catching Up
My thanks to everyone who wrote me such nice emails & made such nice comments on my last blog post. I haven't had the chance to respond to anyone yet. Please be patient with me.
John & I have been busy getting the house ready to sell. The almost constant rains these past few weeks have really put us behind on outside work as well as having people come to make needed repairs. It seems we are in for a bit of a dry spell for the next 10 days so we are scrambling around trying to get all that work scheduled & done before the rains come again.
One thing about the rains ... everything is so green & growing beautifully. Even our willow bushes, which we were sure were dead, have sprung to life.
I haven't posted any finishes for the longest time. I kind of lost my stitching mojo in mid February ... I really don't know why ... but prior to that I had completed three designs. Carol of Stitching Dreams inspired me to stitch this first design. I had actually put it into my no-longer-want stash pile because I decided it was bigger than I liked. When I saw that Carol had stitched it on 40 ct to make it into an ornament, I retrieved it from the pile & began stitching. Who would have thought to do such a thing? Well, Carol would have thought it! I'm so dense sometimes ... lol!
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RALEIGH - A former North Carolina state senator who lost narrowly a congressional bid to Democratic incumbent Mike McIntyre in November says he'll run again for the 7th District seat in 2014.
Republican David Rouzer of Johnston County told The Insider that he would announce his candidacy officially next week. Rouzer lost to McIntyre by 654 votes of the more than 336,000 cast. He conceded following recounts in the southeastern North Carolina district, but left the door open for a repeat campaign.
Rouzer did not immediately return a phone call Friday from The Associated Press.
McIntyre is in his ninth term and has filed paperwork to run for a tenth. He was targeted in 2012 by national Republicans after redistricting cut out Democratic precincts and his hometown of Lumberton.


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If you're sat next to me on a plane you'll probably notice at take off and landing I do algebra puzzles. You may not have heard of the term "algebra puzzles" before and perhaps think the juxtaposition of the two words to be odd, but I think it apt... (You may also think this whole post to be showing off, but that's a risk I take in sharing a passion I have.) A classic problem... [More]


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Gilad Atzmon, The Wandering Who? A Study of Jewish Identity Politics (Ropley, Hampshire, UK: Zero Books, 2011). Pp.177. Paperback. ISBN-13: 9781846948756. Review by Mazin Qumsiyeh
Copy Right: Holy Land Studies, May 2012, Vol. 11, No. 1 : pp. 99-101
About nine years ago, I entertained the notion of writing a book on "group identities" so that I can understand these concepts that cause a lot of the ills of society. Both WWI and WWII emanated from interpretations of nationalism (a group identity) and the conflict in Palestine mostly emanates from another group identity called Zionism. The horrors of the Crusaders came from the group identity of Christendom. There is an issue now with the notions of (Political) "Islamism" ala Osama Bin Laden. I am still exploring and reading on this issue from different authors and thus was intrigued to read the book by Gilad Atzmon that addresses this concept within Jewish communities.
Atzmon concluded from personal experience that he does not like Jewish group identity politics and any other form of what he calls "marginal group identity". Atzmon starts by explaining his own upbringing as a third generation Israeli whose grandfather was a member of the underground terror organization the Irgun Gang and how via Jazz (and a questioning mind) he "left Chosen-ness behind to become an ordinary human being".
Atzmon is accused by many to be a "self-hating Jew" and an "anti-Semite". To the former label he admits but he strongly objects to the second label. His book represents in many ways a clarification of why he believes the way he does. He says (p. 15) that he distinguishes Jews (the people), Judaism (the religion), and Jewish-ness (the ideology). He has no problem with the first two but strongly argues against that third. He puts quotes that show that those who believe in this ideology put Jewish-ness above all other attributes. Thus he understands Chaim Weizmann's statement that "there are no English, French, German, or American Jews, but only Jews living in England, France, Germany or America." This third category that Weizmann belongs to even when overlapping with the first or second category, tends to according to Atzmon, overwhelm all other and represent a strong marginal politics.
Using these definitions, Atzmon proceed to explain how and why this belief (identity politics of Jewish-ness) was critical in the error of going to war on Iraq, in the spying by Jonathan Pollard, in the neoconservative ideologies of Paul Wolfowitz and Richard Perle, and even in economic decisions of Alan Greenspan. He makes clear that he does not see these things as Jewish conspiracies but merely independent actions based on a set of political/ideological discourse (the Jewish identity politics). My thought is that individual readers should not judge this based on hearsay but should do it for themselves by reading the book. If one gets convinced by Atzmon's analysis, one could get to the radical conclusion that he makes that "one can hardly endorse a universal philosophy while being identified politically as a Jew" (p. 39).
According to Atzmon, the problems with marginal identity politics such as those of "Jewish-ness" and its alter-ego Zionism is that they are defined by negation: "the political Jew is always against something or set apart from something else. This is far from being an ideal recipe for a peaceful, ethical life, driven by reconciliation and harmony." (p. 48).
But Atzmon goes further and here I believe is where his thesis draws the wrath of some in the establishment and overtly sensitive crowds: Zionism is a "tribal Jewish preservation project" and "within the Zionist framework, the Israelis colonize Palestine and the Jewish Diaspora is there to mobilise lobbies by recruiting International support. The Neocons transform the American army into an Israeli mission force. Anti Zionists of Jewish descent (and this may even include proud self-haters such as myself) are there to portray an image of ideological plurality and ethical concern."(p. 70). And in the secular Jewish political discourse, there is no need for God, political Jews are taught to value the Jewish collective and inflict damage to others in the name of this collective according to Atzmon.
Many things he says do make sense even if we may quibble with other things. In explaining "pre-traumatic stress syndrome" he explains that any Jews are taught to anticipate negative things and that in this regard those who actually experienced the negative things (e.g. holocaust survivors) seem more rational and far less hateful of the other than the Jews who did not experience those directly. The latter may even invent events to justify the perpetual fear and hatred. I thought of this as I thought of all the Zionists who lied, cheated, pressured, cajoled, threatened us and our friends and employers and contrasted those with fellow human beings who happen to have a Jewish background (including many holocaust survivors) who stood with us in fighting for human rights. He explained to me that in this area his study and personal experience were the most significant of his controversial findings.
Atzmon argues rather convincingly that "it is not the idea of being unethical that torments Israelis and their supporters, but the idea of being 'caught out' as such" (p. 84). This phobia according to Atzmon explains the amount of death and destruction that Israel sows in its surroundings in an attempt to resolve or at least distract from this inner conflict between the tribal and the universal. But this only adds to the phobia for to Atzmon 'the more they insist on loving themselves for who they think they are, the more they loath themselves for what they have become." (p. 86). He claims that that leaves three escape routes: total segregation, return to orthodoxy (religion), and flight from "Jewish-ness" (an option he had chosen).
I see in Atzmon writings a number of memes that are seeping into common discourse. A meme is a persuasive idea that spreads in a population like a useful gene spreads in a population. Some of those memes include:
-The now well-established fact that Jews are not a racial group but an ideological religious belief that spread many centuries ago among people of diverse background (this meme came from studies of the Khazars and others by authors like Arthur Koestler, Kevin Alan Brooks, Shlomo Sand, and now Atzmon)
-The idea of a conflict between chauvinistic nationalism and universal humanism.
-The weird mix of religious heritage/belief with tribal notions in Jewish political discourse
-The distorted recruitment of archeological and other studies to support the political ideology of a connection between Jews of today and Israelites of the bible
-The recruitment of the ideology of suffering as a quasi-religious belief that is no longer subject to normal historical examinations (and in fact shielded from such historical examination via laws)
In some places, one could argue that Atzmon goes too far in his conclusions or does not delve as deep as possible in the nuances of identity politics. For example he argues that those who identify themselves as politically Jewish but anti-Zionist serve the same goal as Zionist Jews by keeping the debate "within the family" (p. 102). In another chapter (Chapter 19), Atzmon analyzes the book of Esther and its associated Purim holiday in a political modern context to argue that the lessons drawn from the modern emphasis on the book of Esther (which does not mention God) is the need for Jews to rely on themselves and to get to positions of power in Goyim (gentile) societies to impact their own future. While that interpretation explains the Zionist lobbies in Western countries, some people who are not tribal in their thinking may draw other lessons from the book of Esther or at least downplay it and emphasize other parts of the Torah..
In another place Atzmon questions the sincerity of a Zionist who was part of the group that collaborated with Hitler and who later reported to Lenni Brenner (a historian of the Nazi-Zionist collaboration) that they were wrong and that he is now an American with American loyalties. Atzmon thinks that this relates to the old edict "of being a Jew at home, and a gentile in the streets" (Moses Mendelssohn's "Haskala Mantra").
One could quibble with some of these notions, connections, and conclusions. Atzmon's opinions are to be respected even if some of them are based on subjective judgments about other individuals' emotions and motivations. That is because many of his opinions are also shaped by personal experiences. Other parts of the book are intimate and personal and I do not see how Atzmon's detractors can challenge him on that. For example I fully agree with him that "fighting racism for real primarily entails opposing the racist within" (p. 95). Each of us must fight the demons within before we challenge the demons without. I found these sections of the book which discuss Atzmon's own reflections on his past and evolution of his thinking to be the most fascinating and informative.
As for the other (related) themes and notions presented in this fascinating book, I think this is a very important dialogue to have even if some of us may disagree with some interpretations. The 130 years of Zionist colonization resulted in devastation of a native society and culture resulting in 7 million refugees of a total of 11 million (the rest left in shrinking "people warehouses"). Further, after several wars and countless lives destroyed, it is definitely time to discuss in more detail the motives and the psychology behind Zionism. The attempt to censor and shut down this debate is backfiring. More and more people are spreading memes that challenge the tribalism that lead to conflicts and war. People can choose to dismiss these things and avoid the dialog or can engage in it. I think it is far more constructive to engage in it than to dismiss it out of hand.


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The holiday most-associated with love and passion certainly didn't have such romantic beginnings. Saint Valentine's life was plagued with Christian martyrdom, persecution, execution, and, well, you get the point. It wasn't until Geoffrey Chaucer penned "Parlement of Foules" in 1382 that the holiday took a more tender turn. The poem, which Chaucer wrote to celebrate King Richard II and his betrothed, spoke of Valentine's Day (or, as Chaucer called it, Volantynys day) and birds mating (dreamy, huh?).
Centuries later, the holiday is big business. According to the Valentine's Day Consumer Intentions and Actions Survey commissioned by the National Retail Federation, U.S. consumers are expected to spend 18.6 billion on the holiday this year. It's no wonder that many poo poo Valentine's Day as nothing more than a Hallmark-created holiday.
Spending aside, the holiday does hold value to many, including myself. I still have many fond memories of celebrating the holiday with my family—yes, family. For my mother, especially, it was an opportunity to show us kids how much she loved us. The day always began with a bowl of "special" cereal (hundreds of little hearts that she painstakingly cut out in all colors and sizes). And then there were presents—little tokens of her love and affection. This tradition continues still today (and I'd bet that special box of cereal is tucked away in her house somewhere).
This year, as in years past, my Valentines will include my family and close friends. For most, it'll be a specially-selected Valentine's Day card. (Yes, the kind you can actually hold in your hand.) Some will get something tucked inside that card, like an iTunes gift card, or a subscription to Netflix or MoviePass. Others may receive one of the sweet tokens included in this gallery. All of the items I've gathered here are oh-so-apropos for the holiday.
And, if this gallery of gifts is a little too tame for what you have in mind for your Valentine, you can venture over to our "adult" gift guide.
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ear become less functional.
The cause of otosclerosis is unknown, although it may be
hereditary. Hearing loss from otosclerosis is usually noticed between the ages
of 11 and 30. Women have otosclerosis twice as often as men. The condition may
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Since the tragic events of September 11, 2001, New York State and the City of New York have worked to rebuild the site and return it to a lively and important center in one of the world's most notable cities.
Snøhetta was selected to design the only building that actually sits on the memorial grounds. During the four years of working with the project, the program has changed several times, however it has remained a cultural facility that is dedicated to visitor comfort and orientation. The current design, which has now completed the contract document stage, is scheduled for completion in 2011.
The design for the building embodies a careful reaction to the horizontal character of the memorial design while also providing the area with a lively organic form that allows the visitor to imagine the site and city in a broader sense. The building will provide each visitor with the opportunity to engage in the act of remembering and to ponder the consequences of forgetting.
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Visitors to the Memorial Museum will enter through the Pavilion being presented with a sequence of experiences which allow for individual and personal encounters within an overall context of a historical narrative. The nature of the Museum is such that the shell of the space, comprising existing foundations, the slurry wall and other in-situ elements of the site is as much an artifact of 9/11 as the contents of the exhibitions.
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43. The Committee's attention was drawn to document CC-86/CONF.003/7 presenting up-to-date information on different activities undertaken by different States Parties, private organisations and the Secretariat.
44. In particular, the Committee took note o f the study presented in the annex o f this document, prepared at the request of the Bureau at its 10th session, presenting a promotion plan indicating how States Parties themselves could promote the Convention, as well as the means for cooperation between States Parties and the Secretariat.
45. The Committee agreed with the conclusions of this study concerning the need to decentralise promotional activities by creating national associations as set out in Article 17 of the Convention, and by making more use of the Unesco National Commissions. The Committee suggested that the study be sent out to all Unesco National Commissions in this connection. It was agreed that a special effort should be made to develop material which was representative of all regions and cultures.
46. The Committee was particularly in favour of each State Party designating a coordinator for World Heritage promotional activities and of the Secretariat sending out a questionnaire to obtain more information on past, present and proposed activities to promote the Convention. The Secretariat was requested to send this questionnaire to the Unesco Permanent Delegations and to the Unesco National Commissions for each State Party. Several members of the Committee mentioned activities which had taken place in their countries, for example the issue of special World Heritage stamps by Brazil and Sri Lanka. In this connection, the Committee expressed the wish to have more information on such activities. Regional workshops to be held in Africa and Asia to promote the Convention during 1987 were mentioned in this regard. The Committee underscored the usefulness of preparing a certificate, signed by the Director General of Unesco and the Chairman of the World Heritage Committee to commemorate the inscription of sites on the List, particularly for the Mayors of historic cities.
47. As concerns publications on the Convention and on the properties inscribed on the World Heritage List, the Committee suggested that States Parties should be consulted as far as possible on the texts on their properties and should assist the Secretariat and/or independent publishers in this regard.
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Salisbury transfer Eric Law picked up a rebound on the edge of the crease and scored with 13.4 seconds left to cap a historic comeback and give No. 4 seed Denver a 12-11 win over fifth-seeded North Carolina in the NCAA men's lacrosse tournament quarterfinals at Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis on Sunday afternoon.
The game, played before an announced 7,749, was the first men's lacrosse quarterfinal held at a venue not on the East Coast.
Denver, the first team in men's quarterfinal history to win after trailing by five goals or more, will face No. 1 seed Syracuse in the semifinals Saturday afternoon at Lincoln Financial Field in Philadelphia.
The Tar Heels (13-4), who saw their 10-game winning streak come to an end, were unable to protect a six-goal lead and were outscored 5-1 in the fourth quarter by the Pioneers (14-4).
"North Carolina — what a train that was, trying to stop that coming downhill at us early," said coach Bill Tierney, who leads Denver into Championship Weekend for the second time in the past three seasons. "Mostly, I'm proud of these young men and teammates for persevering. You don't get too many opportunities in life to fight through such adversity and come back ahead."
Joey Sankey, Davey Emala (Gilman) and Mark McNeill (St. Mary's) each scored a pair of goals for North Carolina, while Steve Pontrello, Chad Tutton, Evan Connell (Calvert Hall), Ryan Kilpatrick and Pat Foster (Boys' Latin) each scored goals. Jimmy Bitter, Ryan Creighton, Marcus Holman (Gilman), Greg McBride (Gilman) and Sankey each had assists for the Tar Heels.
Law had three goals and three assists for Denver, and Wes Berg led the Pioneers with four goals and an assist. Colin Scott scored twice for the Pioneers, while Cameron Flint had three assists.
Denver outshot the Tar Heels 37-35 for the game and 16-5 in the fourth quarter. The Tar Heels had a 24-22 edge in ground balls despite Denver winning 17 of 26 faceoffs in the match. Chase Carraro took all 26 draws for the Pioneers, who beat Carolina in the NCAA tournament for the second straight year.
Kieran Burke made 10 saves for the Tar Heels including six in the fourth quarter as the Pioneers staged their furious comeback. Jamie Faus, who played the last 50:23 in the goal for Denver, had 11 saves.
Carolina jumped out to a 2-0 lead in the first 4:03 of the game. Emala scored at 12:03 off an assist by Sankey. Sankey was set up behind the cage and fed Emala on the left side where he scored on an eight-yard bounce shot. On Carolina's next possession, Sankey scored an unassisted goal at 10:57 as he dodged from goal line extended on the right side to finish low past Denver goalie Ryan LaPlante.
The Tar Heels extended their lead to 3-0 on Kilpatrick's first goal of the year. On a give and go on the break, Kilpatrick fed McBride. McBride delivered an over-the-shoulder pass back to Kilpatrick on the run and he scored on a bounce shot at 8:44. A little over a minute later, Carolina made it 4-0 on McNeill's first goal of the year, assisted by Creighton. The Heels scored off a successful clear with McNeill finishing low from 15 yards out at 7:21 of the first quarter.
Tutton scored the next goal for Carolina as he came in through the substitution box and scored on a low hard shot from 15 yards out with 6:36 left in the quarter. Connell scored the next goal for the Tar Heels, the first of his career. The close defenseman forced a turnover, scooped up the ground ball and on a quick clearing attempt he scored from 15 yards out into an empty net. The goal came at 5:24. Denver scored its first goal of the game at 4:11 of the quarter as Scott's first shot was saved by Burke, but the ball bounced directly to Scott, who finished on the rebound.
Each team scored three times in the second quarter. Berg scored at 12:29, assisted by Law to cut the UNC lead to four goals. Sankey answered for the Tar Heels with his second goal of the game on a bounced shot from 10 yards out in front of the goal at 11:04. Neither team scored for almost six minutes before Foster tallied for the Tar Heels at 5:25, taking a feed from Holman out front, turning a firing a shot by Faus.
Denver answered with two quick goals in a span of 26 seconds. Berg scored at 4:30 after a failed clear by UNC and after Denver won the next face-off, Law rolled the crease to score at 4:04. Carolina notched the last goal of the half as Pontrello scored in a timer-on situation, stinging high heat from 10 yards out on the left side off an assist by Bitter.
The Pioneers outscored the Tar Heels 3-1 in the third quarter. Gordie Koerber (Gilman) scored an extra-man goal at 12:39 followed 26 seconds later by a goal by Berg, assisted by Law.
McNeill scored his second goal of the game with 7:02 left in the quarter on a low shot after he finished off a one-man clear. It is McNeill first multi-goal game since his freshman year. The Pioneers then pulled back within three goals on a tally by Berg, assisted by Flint with 1:21 left in the third quarter.
The Pioneers scored the first two goals of the fourth quarter. Law scored at 14:19 when Denver was two men up after a pair of slashing penalties in the last minute of the third quarter. Then the Pioneers pulled within a single goal at 8:51 as Jeremy Noble scored an acrobatic goal while falling to the ground with Law on the assist.
North Carolina regained a two-goal lead at 7:34 as Pontrello's shot was saved by Faus before Emala claimed the ground ball and scored on the rebound. Denver scored on the extra-man after a holding penalty on Holman. Scott scored the goal off an assist by Berg. The goal came with 4:44 to play in the game and pulled the Pioneers within 11-10. Denver tied the game at 11-11 with an unassisted goal by Eric Adamson with 1:31 to play.
Denver won the ensuing faceoff and called timeout with 1:15 to play, setting up Law's winner. R.G. Keenan (Boys' Latin) won the ensuing faceoff, but Carolina could not get off a shot after getting the ball into the high crease.
No. 7 seed Duke 12, No. 2 Notre Dame 11: The Blue Devils scored the final three goals at Lucas Oil Stadium to seize a game that was tied nine times and earn their seven straight trip to Championship Weekend.
Freshman attackman Matt Kavanagh registered a game-high six points on three goals and three assists for the Fighting Irish, while sophomore attackman Conor Doyle (Gilman) had three goals and junior midfielder Jim Marlatt (River Hill) notched two goals and two assists. Senior goalie John Kemp had 13 saves in his final appearance in a Notre Dame uniform.
"I thought [the Fighting Irish] were brilliant today," Duke coach John Danowski said. "Their faceoff guy was terrific. Their goalie was tremendous. They shot the ball extremely well. It was one of those games, playing against a dear friend, Kevin Corrigan, that you hate to see someone lose. With that being said, I am extremely proud of our guys from beginning to end. We wanted to play for 60 minutes. We certainly don't script these endings, last week or this week. We just wanted to play the game. Kyle Turri, while he didn't have a great day in the goal statistically, comes up with a big save on the outlet. He keeps his poise and allows us to score the tying goal."
The game was tied at halftime (6-6) and at the end of the third quarter (9-9). Notre Dame went up 10-9 less than a minute into the third quarter when Marlatt scored off a pass from Kavanagh. The Irish pushed the lead to two, which was their largest of the afternoon, with 9:29 left when Kavanagh fed Doyle on a man-up goal.
Duke's final surge began on a goal by Christian Walsh (Boys' Latin) with 8:31 left. Josh Dionne produced the ninth tie of the game when he scored to make it 11-11 with just over three minutes remaining. David Lawson, who had a game-high five goals, got the deciding goal with 2:16 left to play.
"I'm disappointed in the result because I thought we did a lot of the things that we thought were going to be important to win the game," Notre Dame coach Kevin Corrigan said. "We put ourselves in the position to win the game, but we said all along it was going to come down to making plays and at the end of the game they made a couple plays more than we did."
After a 6-6 tie at halftime, Lawson put Duke up 38 seconds into the second half. Senior midfielder Tyler Kimball brought the Irish back even (7-7) as he scored off a pass from classmate Steve Murphy with 8:29 left in the third quarter. The Blue Devils reclaimed the lead two minutes later on Case Matheis goal.
A man-up goal by Kavanagh, off an assist from Sean Rogers, made it 8-8 with six minutes left in the third quarter. The Irish were 3-for-4 in man-up chances on the day, while the Blue Devils did not have a man-up opportunity.
Notre Dame (11-5) reclaimed the lead with just over three minutes remaining in the third quarter as Kavanagh fed Doyle, who scored from close range to make it 9-8. The game was tied for the eighth time when Dionne scored for Duke with less than a second left in the third period.
Duke (14-5) opened the game's scoring on a Lawson goal just over two minutes into the contest. The Fighting Irish got on the board five minutes later with a Kavanagh tally, which was assisted by Marlatt.
Division II women
LIU Post 10, Limestone 7: Junior attacker Jackie Sileo set an NCAA Division II championships record by adding six points (four goals, two assists) to her tournament total, for 37 in all, as the top-ranked, undefeated Pioneers (20-0) defeated the No. 2 Saints (20-2) for the national championship at Stevenson's Mustang Stadium in Owings Mills.
LIU Post senior attacker Ashley Olen was named the tournament's Most Outstanding Player with her three-goal effort, joining teammates Sileo, senior goalkeeper Dominique Mosca, junior midfielder Katie Rotan and sophomore midfielder Kali Maxwell.
Limestone was led by three goals from top scorer Sylvia Queener.
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This undefeated championship season marks just the fifth time any team has accomplished the feat in Division II women's lacrosse history.


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A few weeks ago, Fannie Mae issued an outright threat to homeowners in this country, creating a new rule that would punish anyone who stops paying their mortgage and walks away from their home, referred to as a "strategic default," by not allowing those who choose that path to get a Fannie Mae loan for seven years.
They call it their "Seven-Year Lockout Policy for Strategic Defaulters," and if you haven't realized it already… look what's been accomplished here: Homeowners have scared the heck out of industry giant, Fannie Mae. I mean… these guys are shaking like leaves, absolutely running scared. I know homeowners have been feeling like they have no power against the bankers, but this should prove otherwise. It's like we pushed the bully, and the bully ran home and got his Mom to come lay down a new rule in response.
On Fannie's Website, Terence Edwards, Executive Vice President for Credit Portfolio Management has the following to say about the new rule:
"Walking away from a mortgage is bad for borrowers and bad for communities and our approach is meant to deter the disturbing trend toward strategic defaulting."
Bad for borrowers, Terrence? Really, how so? Are you trying to say that people who walk away from their underwater mortgages are doing it because it's bad for them? Because I don't think they think that, Terence. I'm pretty sure that those that choose to walk away from their mortgages do so because they've figured out that it's better for them… in their own best interests, as they say.
Hey Terrence, you disingenuous prick, I understand that my walking away from my mortgage is bad for you, but that's only because my house is now worth half of what I owe. You wouldn't mind if I walked away from my mortgage if I had equity, right? So, in other words, you want me to lose the couple hundred grand instead of you, does that about sum up your position here? Yeah, well… I'm sure you do. But I, on the other hand, would prefer that you lose the money instead of me. Sorry about that.
Terrence, last I checked you're just a giant failed mortgage lender who is as much a part of why we're in this mess as any, and you're going to need $1.5 trillion in taxpayer dollars to bail you out.
I'm a taxpayer, Terrence… isn't that enough of a loss for me to take on your behalf? You want me to contribute my tax dollars and probably my child's future tax dollars to your $1.5 trillion bailout. And on top of that, you also want me to eat the loss of a couple hundred grand on my house?
Geeze… when are you guys planning to kick in on this? Your CEO gets a $6 million a year salary, I looked it up, and best I can tell he gets paid to say "yes" to just about everything. I don't know, Terrence, but I'm pretty sure that I could have bankrupted Fannie Mae for a lot less than $1.5 trillion.
Walking away from a $500,000 mortgage on a house that's now worth $250,000 isn't bad for the borrower, it's good for the borrower… it makes all the financial sense in the world, for the borrower. I mean, would you recommend that someone hold onto a stock that's lost half its value.
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By Aditi Malhotra and Tripti Lahiri
Lawyers and women's rights activists appeared delighted with a report released on Wednesday that recommended a slew of legal changes to improve women's safety in India.
The three-member committee, headed by former Chief Justice of India, J.S. Verma, was set up by the home ministry in the wake of a brutal rape of a young woman on a bus in New Delhi last month.
The report recommended defining sexual assault in Indian law and creating new types of criminal offenses, including stalking, voyeurism and trafficking. It also made marital rape a crime and recommended that the government enact a "bill of rights" for women.
Naina Kapur, a lawyer known for her involvement in a landmark case that resulted in directives on handling workplace sexual harassment said she was impressed by the expansive nature of the report and the approach of the committee.
"No institution has been as receptive to the things we've had to say as this group," said Ms. Kapur. "You have to be grateful for the landscape these people have covered."
Albeena Shakil, a women's rights activist, also complimented the panel for broadening its ambit and considering the overall position of women in India, rather than restricting itself to cases of aggravated sexual assault and enhancement of punishment.
Delhi High Court Lawyer Vrinda Grover, who spoke before the committee, said that the report was a "breakthrough as far as legal articulation" of the range of crimes against women was concerned.
Another lawyer, Seema Misra, who works with a women's rights group in Uttar Pradesh, said she was particularly glad to see marital rape was finally recognized as a crime. "Ninety percent of our domestic abuse cases are cases of sexual abuse," she said.
"This is what a lot of women have been asking for for many years," said Ms. Misra, adding that women's groups would now put pressure on the government to act on the committee's recommendations.
But it's not clear how soon that will happen or if there is the political will to turn these recommendations into law. The home minister has said only that there is "no time frame" for acting on the report.
The absence of several top government and law enforcement officials during a two-day public meeting towards the end of the committee's tenure, drew caustic remarks from the panel and raised the concern that these recommendations could languish as many such previous reports have done.
"If this is a sign of things to come and the report is going to be put in cold storage by the government, then actual implementation seems problematic," said Ms. Shakil, the activist.
Lawyers present on Wednesday said that the report provided a very clear road map, as many of the recommended changes could be incorporated into draft legislation to amend the penal code that is already with a committee in the upper house of parliament.
Ms. Grover said that the government should "completely" overhaul the draft legislation, working from the report, which includes proposed text for various sections of the penal code that the committee would like to see changed.
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Sensoring for In-Die Tapping
• No-hole condition due to a short feed of the strip material;
• No-hole condition due to a broken or missing pierce punch; or
• Undersized hole due to a broken or missing extrusion punch.
Although misfeed-protection systems are included in commercial IDT designs as failsafe, protective mechanisms, it's wise for metalformers to employ some method to ensure the successful production of a pretapped hole with every press cycle.
Sensor Basics
The types of sensors appropriate for use with IDT are those capable of detecting the physical presence (or absence) of an object. These sensors are generally configured for use with low-voltage (3-24 V DC) logic circuits. The most suitable types:
• Mechanical contact switches—the least costly option, but generally may have a shorter life expectancy than noncontact alternatives.
• Photo-optic sensors—work on the principle of an interrupted light beam, and are available in several configurations:
1) Separate emitter and receiver;
2) Retroreflective—Emitter and receiver are contained within a single assembly, with a separate mirror to reflect the beam;
3) Diffuse-reflective—Emitter and receiver are contained within a single assembly and the object to be detected reflects the light beam.
• Inductive proximity sensors—These operate on the principle of eddy-current disturbances within the sensor's electromagnet coil when an object is within range. Due to their simplicity, lack of any moving parts and (when Teflon-coated) indifference to fluid exposure, these sensors are the type most commonly used in stamping dies.
Regardless of the sensor type used, the primary objective is to send a logical True/False signal to a programmable logic controller (PLC) to confirm a desirable condition or annunciate an undesirable condition, and subsequently trigger an E-stop of the stamping press, as required. Sensor circuits are configured either as normally open (NO) or normally closed (NC), depending on the condition to be detected.
Prehole Detection
Yet one more option for applications with no strip lift: Use a shielded inductive-proximity sensor (configured to ignore any surrounding metal) at or just below die level to sense the presence of the prehole after the strip has fed into progression.
Tap Penetration and Wear
One of the requirements for achieving a quality thread is driving the tap to its proper depth within the workpiece. Typical nonbottoming taps for IDT will have 2.5 to 5 lead-in threads, and to achieve a complete thread, the tap must drive through the workpiece beyond all of its lead-in threads. If the tap is set too far from the workpiece, it will likely fall short of successfully penetrating the part by the end of the tapping stroke. And, if the tap is set too close to the workpiece, another set of problems (which are beyond the scope of this article) can occur.
Aside from incorrect tap-setup position, there's another scenario that also can result in the tap failing to fully penetrate the workpiece—tap wear. The IDT misfeed system's compression spring must supply sufficient preload force to cause the tap to immediately bite into the prehole upon contact. Rollforming/cold-forming taps predominantly are used in IDT applications and require much more axial force (to engage the prehole) than does an equivalent cutting-type tap. The natural tendency of the first thread of a rollforming tap is to skid against the prehole's opening–particularly in the presence of a chamfer or rolled edge. This tendency increases as the tap wears.
Thus, the axial force required for tap engagement also increases over time, which can sometimes present a confusing problem to diagnose. When the tap is new and sharp, parts are produced with threads fully tapped to the required depth. However, as the tap wears it can start to skid if the required axial engagement force exceeds the available preload force stored in the misfeed spring. As the tapping unit turns the tap, the female lead bushing retracts inward and the misfeed spring undergoes further deflection, because the tap is rotating but not entering the prehole.
To Better Envision this Scenario
…consider how a jack screw operates. As the misfeed spring further compresses, the force it exerts against the tap increases. Once the spring force equals the tap's required axial engagement force, the tap bites into the part and tapping begins, albeit late. As a result, valuable rotational movement required for tapping has been expended in compressing the misfeed spring upon entry, resulting in an incompletely tapped thread (Fig. 3).In the pressroom, this condition can easily be recognized when performing a QC check and the thread gauge nearly makes it through the part cleanly but goes tight within the last turn or two. Note: Most IDT suppliers add some safety margin (generally an extra half-revolution, or half of the tap's pitch) to insure against this condition. However, it's worthwhile to recognize that the male and female lead bushing of the pitch insert (tap cartridge) will undergo accelerated wear whenever partial misfeed spring actuation occurs.
To combat the problem of incomplete-depth threads, use a sensor to look for the tap at the end of its stroke (Fig. 4). Since mechanically driven IDT units als reverse direction at press bottom-dead center, stampers must configure the PLC of their press controls or die-protection center to read the sensor output when the press ram is on bottom. For example, "look on" or "ready" at 175 deg., and "look off" at 185 deg.
Sensor Locations
Any idle progression before the IDT station presents an ideal location for a hot-pilot arrangement to detect the presence of a simple pierced or extruded prehole. With dies that lack idle stations, stampers can install a hot-pilot system that shares another progression that may be performing other operations.
Detecting successful tap penetration of course must be done in the tapping station above or below the tapped hole, depending on tapping-device orientation.
Note: There's an astounding amount of comprehensive sensor know-how available in the marketplace, so this article intends only to motivate die designers and stampers to consider the use of sensors for IDT applications.
Happy Tapping! MF
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Fixing Science's Chinese Wall
In science we very often want certain things to be true.
Sometimes, this desire comes from noble reasons: we want a vaccine to work, because that would save many lives. Other times our motivations are less altruistic: we want our vaccine to work because then we will get lots of citations, a promotion, and a raise.
Scientists wanting things to be true is a fact, and a problem. Which is why science has evolved methods to prevent our desires from distorting the findings. For instance, we use double blind trials to ensure that the researcher's preferences and expectations can't influence the outcome measurements. We use statistical inference with an agreed standard (p = 0.05) to determine the significance of findings, rather than leaving it up to individuals to pick what they want to consider signal and what noise.
These systems are designed to protect observations from the whims of the observers. As Feynman famously said, "Science is a way of trying not to fool yourself… and you are the easiest person to fool." It is rather like how in business, banks and other firms are required to have a 'Chinese Wall' – a cordon around certain information to ensure that it can't reach certain people. This is intended to prevent conflicts of interest influencing those branches of the company whose job is to provide impartial advice to the public or other departments.
However, there is a gap in science's Wall between data and desire – the publication process. Whether the results of a particular experiment get published in a peer-reviewed journal depends upon at least three people:
– the researcher(s) themselves, who decides which results to submit, in what form
– the journal editor(s), who decides whether submissions are 'interesting'
– the peer reviewer(s), who advises the editor on whether submissions are 'good'
All of these people are scientists, with their own agenda and desires. They get to decide the fate of scientific results – knowing what those results are. So the desires of researchers get to influence what's published, and the result is publication bias. This influence would be considered unscientific if it were allowed to happen within the conduct of a given experiment – but once the results are in, we allow it.
There is an alternative. Journals ought to peer review and accept articles before the work has been begun (preregistration with pre-peer review.) This ensures that science is published or not on the basis of the strength and originality of the methods, independent of what the results happen to be.
This would do for the later stages of the scientific process what double-blinding and randomization have done for the earlier, experimental stages. The Chinese Wall would be complete.


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Osama bin Laden's presence in an elaborately fortified million-dollar compound "raises questions" about what some Pakistani officials might have known about the al-Qaida leader's presence prior to Sunday's raid that killed him, the top White House counterterrorism adviser said Monday.
The pointed comments by White House advisor John Brennan come amid mounting tensions between the Obama administration and Pakistani officials over intelligence cooperation, fueled in part by longstanding U.S. suspicions about ties between the ISI, the Pakistani intelligence service, and various terrorist groups linked to al-Qaida, such as the home-grown Laskhar e Taiba.
In a separate briefing Monday, senior U.S. officials stated that that the U.S. government did not inform Pakistani officials beforehand about the successful helicopter assault that killed bin Laden at his compound in Abbottabad, a city about 60 miles north of Pakistan's capital of Islamabad.
The location of the large bin Laden compound -- less than two miles from a prestigious military academy that is sometimes known as Pakistan's West Point -- raises questions about what some Pakistani officials may have known, Brennan said at a briefing for White House reporters. While Pakistani officials "seem surprised" to learn that bin Laden was hiding in the city, Brennan said he questioned how "a compound of that size in that area" could exist without arousing suspicions.
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A Pakistani official on Monday denied there was any prior official knowledge of bin Laden's presence in the conspicuously large house with high walls surrounded by barbed wire in Abbottabad, a relatively affluent area heavily populated by current and former members of that country's military and intelligence establishment. The million dollar compound was built in 2005, U.S. officials said.
"There is no chance at all of this," said one Pakistani official when asked whether any government officials knew about bin Laden's presence or were protecting him. "We are doing (counterterrorism) operations and our people are being killed."
But some counterterrorism experts aren't buying it, noting that the bin Laden compound was literally walking distance from the Kakul Military Academy, the country's premier military academy. Only a week ago, Pakistan's Army Chief of Staff Ashfaq Parez Kayanim addressed graduating cadets about the country's anti-terrorism efforts at the school.
Ali Soufan, a veteran former FBI counterterrorism agent, noted that the compound is located in a town heavily populated by current and former Pakistani military officers – and is relatively free of any terrorist activity. "There's no way he could have been sitting there without the knowledge of some people in the ISI and the Pakistani military," said Soufan.
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"This tremendous milestone in the fight against terrorism also raises serious questions about Pakistan's commitment to that effort," he said. "The ability of Osama bin Laden to live in a compound so close to Pakistan's capital is astounding – and we need to understand who knew his location, when they knew it, and whether Pakistani officials were helping to protect him."
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2012 NFL Scouting Combine: Andrew Luck matches Cam Newton's 40 time
INDIANAPOLIS – A footrace between Andrew Luck and Cam Newton would be pretty interesting.
Luck ran an impressive 4.59 in the 40-yard dash Sunday at the Scouting Combine, the same time Newton ran last year. That speed will help him avoid some potential sacks once he reaches the NFL.
While Luck was not the dynamic runner at Stanford that Newton was at Auburn, Luck showed scouts Sunday he doesn't have to be a statue in the pocket.
Mobility is more important than ever for NFL quarterbacks. Luck's speed should help him extend plays, scramble for first downs, and make him a harder quarterback to defend.
With Robert Griffin III posting the fastest time among quarterbacks at the combine (4.38), it was a superb day for both Luck and Griffin.
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