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Seven Deadly Sins That Will Bring Judgment Upon IsraelPart Three
Monthly Report: June 2006Iyar-Sivan 5766
We have written several times in the Maoz Israel Report concerning the persecution of believers - the most recent occuring in the southern towns of Arad and Beersheva. Harassment of Jewish believers in Israel has been on-going throughout the 39 years I have lived in Israel. It has been the policy of the Ministry of Interior to refuse Jews who believe in Yeshua as Messiah the privilege granted to all Jews that of immigrating to Israel under the Law of Return. In the past, the ultra-Orthodox went to great lengths in America to check into the lives of candidates for immigration, searching specifically for believers in Yeshua in order to prevent them from entering and living in Israel.
Ultra-Orthodox demonstrate in mass against Messianic Jews worshipping in their Beersheva Congregation
However, since the Bible explicitly promises many times over that Jews who are serving God with a new heart will be brought back to the home of their forefathers, Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, these Orthodox policies will be overturned (as has already begun). Over the years, the Lord has helped His Jewish believers and will continue to help them circumvent these unjust practices. Just as the British government kept Jews from immigrating to Israel during and after World War II, so has the Orthodox establishment kept Messianic Jews from immigrating to Israel since the founding of the State of Israel. Nevertheless, even during the British mandate, a continuous stream of Jews landed in Israel, evading the British army. Also, though the Orthodox have made extreme attempts to keep Messianic Jews out of Israel, many believers have managed to gain their citizenship over the years; those who have obtained it can tell you how God miraculously helped them through the bureaucratic dragnet. A promise is a promise, and God is known for keeping all of His!…[when] you return to the Lord your God and obey Him with all your heart and soul…the Lord your God will bring you into the land which your fathers possessed…and He will prosper you and multiply you….Deut. 30:2, 5This is a promise that has encouraged many Messianic Jewish immigrants to fight for their citizenship and win, and their presence in the land is a witness to the many victories.Nevertheless, many Messianic Jews have been turned away from the shores of Israel by the Orthodox-run Ministry of Interior. In the last few years, the secular majority of Israel grew sick of the control the Orthodox wielded over the entire nation in many areas of civilian life, and the Orthodox were pushed out of the Ministry of Interior and over time, the restraints have begun to loosen up. Indeed, there is little doubt that in the last three years, the Messianic Jews have grown in strength in the land. There are several reasons for this:1. Our numbers are increasing. Congregations are springing up and a number have acquired permanent buildings.2. There is a growing number of Israeli soldiers who are Messianic Jews and a number of born-again Christians and they have a reputation for excellency. Some of them serve in important positions and the army is aware of their worth.3. Secular Israelis are ever more tolerant of Messianic Jews especially the younger generation.4. Slowly but surely, Israeli believers are gaining better employment, opening up businesses and prospering financially.5. And as we mentioned, the Orthodox have lost power in the government. At the present time, the strongest concerted persecution is still being carried out in the south of Israel by the Gur Hassidim ultra-Orthodox sect. There are several thousand of them living in Arad; they attend their yeshivot (Talmudic schools) and do no work. They live off of government dole and donations a percentage of which comes from Christian organizations. Therefore, these Gur Hassidim have much time on their hands and they have continued to intensify their harassment against the small number of believers in the south of Israel. They persist in publicly haranguing the believers whenever and wherever they see them, engaging in the most repulsive blasphemy against them and the Messiah. This type of revulsion and hatred has the same agonizing taint to it as was exhibited by Nazi-influenced Europeans before Hitler took power.Since the Scriptures emphasize that God "forgives iniquity, transgression and sin; yet He will by no means leave the guilty unpunished," (Ex. 34:7) the Israeli people must be shown how to seek God's forgiveness of their sin. Otherwise judgment will surely come.
The six sins that I have listed in this and the last two issues allowing sex slavery trade; making Tel Aviv a world homosexual center; creating a culture of state-paid abortions; mistreating Arab allies from the West Bank and Gaza; implementing suffocating, horrendous laws concerning debt; and persecuting Israeli Messianic Jewish immigrants and citizens are all perpetrated and abetted by the government of Israel, or at least tolerated (as in the sex trade). For that reason, I believe that these sins are more flagrant and injurious and will receive the greater judgment.
Note just one symptom of the continuing deterioration of rabbinical philosophy: Kabbalah what used to be an off-brand of mystical Judaism is fast becoming an extremely popular spiritual highway for hungry young Jews (and non-Jews). Receiving its inspirational fountainhead directly from eastern mysticism, it attempts to transcend human limitations and transport its followers into the spirit world. Without the direction of the Holy Spirit of God, Kabbalah wanders into the preternatural world of evil spirits and "cosmic energy." In Israel, Kabbalah is often studied in secret, usually beginning at midnight or in the middle of the night, "scanning" texts by "brushing their eyes over the Hebrew words" to receive revelation from the Zohar, the main kabbalistic text. Tying red strings around their wrists is part of their rituals against the evil eye. New believers who come to the faith need deliverance from superstition and fear of Satan before they are ready to throw away their red strings. Many Israelis carry an "upside down hand" to protect them from the evil eye. But as for you, do not listen to your prophets, your diviners, your dreamers, your soothsayers or your sorcerers who speak to you....Jer. 27:9Kabbala has many dark sides. It was Kabbalists who cursed Yitzhak Rabin on October 6, 1995 with a "pulsa denura" (lashes of fire) curse, saying: "Angels of destruction will hit him. He is damned wherever he goes. His soul will instantly leave his body…and he will not survive a month…I deliver to you, the angels of wrath and ire…Put to death the cursed Yitzhak...." (worldnetdaily.com 26July06) Yitzhak Rabin was assassinated on November 4, 1995. This curse was discharged by Orthodox rabbis and practitioners wearing black garb, blowing shofars in synagogues and extinguishing candles. The Israeli media carried extensive reports of another pulsa denura against Ariel Sharon, instigated by Kabbalists on July 26, 2005. Ten rabbis and Kabbalists assembled at a gravesite near the mystical center of Safed in Galilee. On January 4, 2006, Sharon suffered a massive stroke, which has left him comatose. Secular Israelis are not frightened by the pulsa denura, as they simply do not believe it has any power no matter the tragic incidents with our two prime ministers. However, many of the religious and traditional Jews are very frightened of these curses and for that reason, when, say, Rabbi Yosef curses those who don't vote for Shas, it most definitely has an influence on a significant number of people, especially among the poorer classes.Is it any wonder the Israeli youth are looking elsewhere for LIFE! But where do they turn? By far, most of the multitudes are looking to eastern religions. For several decades, tens of thousands of Israelis have made their way to India and the Far East until these eastern religions have penetrated and permeated the entire youth culture of Israel.
Tent belonging to Evangelism Team where witnessing continued day and night. During this shavuot we are taking a team from our congregation to witness to participants at Shantipi
Twenty two of the 28 young people from Congregation Tiferet Yeshua, Tel Aviv, who are scheduled to travel to the U.S. in July to the Messianic Jewish Alliance of America Conference. (Two others will be joining us from other congregations.).
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These Israelis will be meeting and sharing with American Jewish believers, and witnessing to Israelis in the U.S. in malls in Philadelphia and New York. Amir, (far right) son of Joseph Haddad, Israeli Arab and pastor of the Lebanese Congregation in northern Israel, is seeking a visa in order to join us.
ALERT: We have just been notified that the American Embassy in Tel Aviv would not issue Amir a visa to visit the U.S., saying that his salary is too low. (He assists his father in the Arab church.) The Haddad family is earnestly praying with us that the embassy will reverse its decision. PLEASE PRAY WITH US!
FROM THE KING'S COLLEGE AND SEMINARY SPECTRUM magazine VOLUME 7, ISSUE 1
Related Links
April 2006, Seven Deadly Sins That Will Bring Judgment Upon Israel
May 2006, Israel's New Goverment: Where is it Going?


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Session Objectives: To provide concrete examples (from the US and from Cameroon) of formal, structured processes in which the best scientific evidence was used to inform a controversial food security policy. For US government representatives who have requested assistance from the US Academy to share why they requested the study and how they used the input. For committee members and academy staff who participated in the study to describe the process and outcomes of the analysis.
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I received a gift from my friends garden the other day. A beautiful kohlrabi! I know that some people are like what the heck is 'kohlrabi'? This vegetable is from the cabbage family and this is time of year that they are harvested in my neck of the woods. It is like a big turnip that tastes like cabbage and broccoli mixed together.
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Pharoahe Monch has been a voice in the hip hop world for over twenty-five years. In that time, he's worked on six studio albums -- three as half of Organized Konfusion with his partner Prince Poetry (better known as Prince Po) and three as a solo artist. His seventh album, P.T.S.D. (Post Traumatic Stress Disorder), is due out early this year, continuing where the MC left off with 2011's W.A.R. (We Are Renegades).
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This week, music writer Oliver Wang stops by to recommend a hip hop album and a soulful single.
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In the early 1960s, two well-dressed young men roamed the streets of San Francisco with a tape recorder and a sense of whimsy in their stride. James Coyle and Mal Sharpe would conduct man-on-the-street interviews and bamboozle unsuspecting bystanders with their hilarious and bizarre setups and put-ons.
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6 Reasons why NXT is better than RAW|6 Gründe, warum NXT besser als RAW ist
Posted by soulwarrior in Blog on September 30, 2015
In case you didn't know, I'm a huge wrestling fan. I had been watching it as a kid back in the nineties, took something like a 10 year break – missing most of the attitude era (talk about bad timing…) in the process – and I've been watching it regularly for the past 3 or 4 years. While this has been painful at times, e.g.
- I didn't like the whole idea of the Nexus a lot when it was first introduced, but looking back at it, I consider it a rather cool storyline.
- Similarly, I found the Shield rather annoying when they were first introduced and they interfered in random matches for no apparent reason, but that whole storyline also eventually grew on me.
- I think that at the beginning of 2015, the writing was so atrocious (it was the time when we had been watching Survivor Series rematches for around 5 weeks in a row, only to then see the Authority reinstated in the least creative way possible) that I seriously considered to stop watching it.
Anyway, while it's obvious that I can't really be considered an "early adopter" of some of the most important storylines of the past few years, I do at least hang around so they can win me over eventually. And at that point, I'm also willing to reconsider my original opinion and admit that it was rather entertaining.
Having said all of that, I still get a lot more out of watching NXT these days when directly comparing it to WWE's flagship product Monday Night RAW. Here are my top 5 reason.
It's easy to buy into the storylines
The storylines in NXT might not always be super creative, e.g.
- Bayley has tried time and time again to win the NXT Women's Champion
- Unfortunately, she never succeeded
- She's finally on a roll
- She beat the best women in the division (Charlotte, etc.)
- She gets a chance to win the title from Sasha Banks at the Takeover PPV
- She finally does it!
… but at least you understand them and you can easily buy into them.
I will prefer a "basic storyline" like this one anytime to something "creative" like
- Let's build up Lana as the hottest valet in recent history by
- Teaming her up with Rusev so someone can fill the void that is his microphone work and
- Make him look like the most threatening heel in the entire company by having him go toe to toe with the top face in the company
- Only to then turn Lana face, which is completely out of character for the person everybody loved (to hate) and
- Follow this up with a completely un-believable love rectangle between Rusev, Lana, Dolph Ziggler and Summer Rae
If they had built up Dolph Ziggler as the biggest player in the company who's going out with a different girl every other week, this would make sense. But we weren't introduced to that idea really (people who read a little more about wrestling claim that he is somewhat notorious for doing exactly that…). We also still don't know exactly why Lana suddenly has a strong love for the US and this list goes on and on.
This is just one example. While I'm writing this, I'm watching Big Show vs. Mark Henry as part of the Monday Night RAW episode from the 28th of September. Big Show, a guy that has had so many turns over the years that my head is spinning just thinking about it. Mark Henry, a guy who was friends with Big Show at around 5 points in time, only to then have a rather entertaining feud with him in between 2 of those points in time (and a lot more bad ones in between the others…). I can't help but sit here and wonder why they are fighting / what their motivations are. You could always blame that they are just on the midcard, but this brings me to my next point…
The Undercard and Midcard matter
Pretty much every guy on the NXT roster does have a storyline. 8 weeks ago, I had no idea who Bull Dempsey was. He seemed like a generic dude that's wrestling on the undercard. He had a "funny" match against Tyler Breeze (who is great, btw.) where he lost because he couldn't finish 3 laps around the ring thanks to his horrible cardio.
Over the following weeks, Bull was coming ever closer to getting fired right before he started "Bull Fit", his very own "fitness program" that helped him (and supposedly millions of others) to "get in shape".
The Commentators are doing their job
Continuing with the Bull Dempsey storyline, the commentators helped getting the character over. When Corey Graves first talked about Bull's "ab" (singular, as in "1 ab" rather than "abs"), I laughed out loud. Granted, Byron Saxton is not scoring a lot of points with me, mostly because he doesn't seem to say anything (of importance) ever, but Rich Brennan is doing an OK job as the play by play guy and Corey Graves is the best heel commentator since the King turned face commentator after his heart attack back in 2012.
On RAW, more often than not, the commentators will take the focus away from the match and bore you with stories that seemingly have zero connection to the match that is taking place. It has definitely improved since they got rid of Booker T., but Byron Saxton isn't helping the case here either. JBL is doing alright in my opinion or at least he has improved dramatically and Cole is alright, even though he doesn't appear like he's really trying.
Side note: I'm currently working on the "Cole bingo", a funny game to be played at a PPV of your choosing where every participant has to draw a number of generic phrases that we will always hear from Cole and the player who first crosses off all of his boxes will win the entire game.
The Women's Division is actually entertaining
Over the past few weeks on RAW, they have been talking about the "Diva's Revolution". Meanwhile, on NXT, they didn't just talk about it, they actually did it.
It's rather disappointing to watch as you see gals like Charlotte who used to do a tremendous job elevating the women's division of NXT having to deal with the horrible booking of RAW. On the one hand, the obviously gifted self-proclaimed "four horsewomen" (Sasha Banks, Charlotte, Becky Lynch and Bayley) have to wrestle with girls that are roughly half as good as them, on the other, they again don't have a storyline you can buy into.
There is a chance that the current heel turn of Paige will change my opinion on this matter; it's the best thing (storyline wise) that I have seen in women's wrestling in years (or maybe ever), but there's always the chance that they will screw this up royally like they did with so many other promising storylines…
If you ask me, they should have Sasha turn on her teammates of "Team BAD" as they are hindering her rise to the top, make her team up with Paige and then have them go up against Charlotte and Becky (and basically eliminate the entire Team Bella from the picture and have them move down to the midcard or something).
It is not just that the storylines are better, it is also that the wrestling is much better. Mostly, because the women get the time they deserve to show off their skills. There are no 3 minute squash matches that are basically just a disservice to the entire division, they have matches that matter. And like I stated above, the undercard and midcard matter, so even the women you don't see that often or that are still being developed will get an opportunity to make you care about them.
They are pushing the right talent
If someone like Samoa Joe is over with the fans, he gets a push in NXT. Right from the first day he shows up in the company.
At the same time, they are not afraid to have their top stars take a loss every now and then if it makes sense from a storyline perspective and it helps to establish another wrestler. Take the Dusty Rhodes Tag Team Classic as an example; they weren't afraid to have the reigning tag team champs getting eliminated, just like the former tag team champs, the Lucha Dragons, paved the way for Joe and Finn Balor (all of this is a great set-up for Joe and Finn ending up in the finals of the Tag Team Classic which will most likely take place at the next Takeover, where the women's match will be the main event) instead of moving on themselves.
Over at RAW, if someone like Cesaro is oozing talent AND he's already rather over with the fans, shit happens. They will have him lose 10 matches in a row, several of them against the same guy. They will not give you a reason why he is going up against the same guy over and over and over again. Under normal circumstances, there is no such thing as "too much Kevin Owens vs. Cesaro", but if you don't know why they are fighting for the fourth time when it's 3 – 0 Owens, you eventually stop caring. Keep in mind that there was an excellent opportunity to have Owens take a loss to Cesaro at Summerslam, the day after Owens lost to Finn Balor at the NXT Takeover PPV in a grueling tables match (setting up a rematch that you can sell along the lines of "what would have happened if Owens was a 100%?!"), but instead the writers decided to just have Cesaro put Owens over for basically no reason…
Only to then have Owens go up against Ryback (with no set-up, because why bother?) and win the title. And end the Cesaro vs. Owens "feud" (if you can even call it that) without any sort of real conclusion.
The show manages to surprise you
Every episode of Monday Night RAW feels like it's the same. There's a 10 minute talking segment, more often than not with the Authority / Seth, then we see a rather meaningless match, then Cena is trying to elevate the mid card and after a lackluster Divas match, we'll watch a tag team match of guys that will go up against each other at the next PPV (or a rematch of the PPV the day before).
You'll rarely be able to predict the way an episode of NXT will go down. Which is even more surprising when you consider that they only have 3 titles (Women's, Tag Team and NXT Champion) whereas RAW has, in theory, 5 titles that could be up for grabs (WWE Heavyweight, Tag Team, US Champ, Intercontinental Champ and Diva's Champ).
Wrapping Up
Most of this truly came "from the top of my head", without a lot of research, etc. I think if I were to put in another hour, I could easily come up with 10 or more reasons why NXT is better than RAW…
Ironically, WWE's future is depending a whole lot on Vince McMahon's involvement. Rumor has it that investors don't really trust Stephanie and Triple H to run the company. When you consider that NXT is the one show that Vince is basically not involved in at all and that it's a lot more entertaining than RAW, this doesn't make a whole lot of sense. Hopefully, sooner rather than later, WWE will listen to the fans and RAW will also undergo a face-lift so it can take its rightful place. This should then result in higher ratings and, hopefully, a lot more trust from the investor's side.
P.S.: The Kane storyline that is currently taking place on RAW is rather entertaining. Fortunately, there is always hope.


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Geraldine Hines JD'71: Defending Justice
Geraldine Hines JD'71 took her seat this year as the first African-American woman to serve on the Massachusetts Appeals Court. She traces her path to the judge's bench directly back to her experience as one of four black students in the UW Law School's Class of 1971, arriving on a campus convulsed by opposition to racism and the Vietnam War.
Soon after her arrival in 1969, Hines participated in the black student strike, which sought to focus the university's attention on the needs of African-American students.
"I got right into activism my very first year," Hines says. "It was a tumult. I … became very involved with the black student movement and politics in general. More importantly, Professor James Jones, the first black law professor at the Law School, taught me how law could be a tool for racial and social justice."
That set the pattern that Hines has followed throughout her career: carrying on the struggle for racial justice through the law. "I took on all kinds of unpopular cases, never thinking, 'I shouldn't do this because I want to be a judge one day.' I didn't realize I was establishing a record of the kind of person that a governor would want to have on the bench."
It was a challenge being a black woman lawyer in the late 1970s, when Hines worked on a highly publicized case of a black man accused of raping eight women that was tried in Brighton, Massachusetts. "The judge in that case would not accept me as an equal partner on the defense team," says Hines. "He refused to allow me to participate in the conferences on the case."
Hines turned the tables with a motion that led to the judge being disqualified from the case and replaced by another judge. When Hines was appointed to the Superior Court in 2001, she took the seat of the very judge who had been disqualified.
"People pay attention to the history of their seat around here," she says. "He was a white, male product of his time who refused to accept a black woman as a legitimate participant in a case. Almost thirty years later, I was appointed to his seat. It shows you how things change."
During those thirty years, Hines litigated civil-rights cases relating to discrimination in education as a staff attorney at the Harvard University Center for Law and Education, and then entered private practice, where she continued to litigate civil-rights cases as a founding partner in New England's first law firm of women of color.
Hines admits that moving to the other side of the bench was a challenge. "I had always considered myself a zealous advocate," she says. "But the judge, too, has an important role to play. At sixty-five, I'm still reaching for new opportunities to defend justice, and I'm happy about that."
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The Tuesday Playlist: Brilliantly Awkward, Central Park Five, Deadliest Catch
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The 1874 Society
Class year: 1981
Major: Chemistry
Hometown: Colorado Springs, CO
Current profession: Director of Finance and Administration, Department of Microbiology, University of Colorado School of Medicine
Current city: Broomfield, CO
Freshman dorm building: Mathias
Favorite professor: So many, but if I must choose ~ Richard Taber in the Chemistry Department.
Favorite course: Again, how to choose? The list is too long.
Best block break memory: Camping at the base of the Maroon Bells near Aspen first block break sophomore year with Mathias floor-mates.
Why I came to CC: My older sister went to CC and I felt the Block Plan was intriguing and the liberal arts curriculum inspiring.
Favorite thing about CC: Of course I should say the Block Plan and block breaks, but intramural sports (hockey, basketball and softball) were some of my best non-academic experiences at CC.
Why I am an 1874 Society member: I feel a great responsibility to ensure the CC experience is available to students now and in the future. We were all lucky that alumni believed in CC with their donations when we were students. Now is my time to return the favor. In addition, Karen and I enjoy meeting the amazing members of the 1874 Society at the events.


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We've compiled this list of some of the common Awareness ribbon colors and causes. This list is not necessarily all-inclusive, so feel free to let us know if you would like another awareness ribbon or awareness cause added to our Awareness Ribbon Colors reference guide.
Black Ribbon: Melanoma, Mourning, POW-MIA, Suicide, Anti-Gang
Black and Clear Ribbon: Street Racing Awareness
Blue and Yellow Ribbon: Down's Syndrome Awareness
Brown Ribbon: Colorectal Cancer Awareness
Dark or Royal Blue Ribbon: Colon Cancer, Anti-Tobacco, Arthritis Awareness, Child Abuse Prevention, Crime Victim Rights, Domestic Violence, Drunk Driving, Education, Epstein-Barr Virus, Police Officers Lost in the Line of Duty, Reye's Syndrome, Huntington's Disease
Gold Ribbon: Childhood Cancer Awareness
Grey Ribbon: Diabetes Awareness, Asthma, Brain Cancer Awareness
Green Ribbon: Kidney Cancer Awareness, Organ Donation, Bipolar Disorder, Cerebral Palsy Awareness, Glaucoma Awareness
Lavender Ribbon: Epilepsy, Hysterectomy, Rett Syndrome, Testicular Cancer
Light Blue Ribbon: Prostate Cancer, Thyroid Disease, Men's Health, Addison's Disease, Grave's Disease
Multi-color (puzzle piece design): Autism Awareness
Orange Ribbon: Leukemia, Lupus, Motorcyclist Safety, Multiple Sclerosis
Pink Ribbon: Breast Cancer Awareness
Pink and Blue Ribbon: Miscarriage, ARDS, Male Breast Cancer, SIDS Awareness
Purple Ribbon: Thyroid Cancer, ADD, ADHD, Alzheimer's Disease, Animal Abuse, Cancer Survivor, Children with Disabilities, Crohn's Disease, Cystic Fibrosis, Domestic Violence, Epilepsy, Fibromyalgia, Macular Degeneration, Pancreatic Cancer
Red Ribbon: DUI Awareness, Heart Disease, HIV/AIDS, MADD, DARE, Substance Abuse
Silver Ribbon: Abuse of the Elderly, Children with Disabilities, Diseases or Disorders of the Brain, Parkinson's Disease
Teal Ribbon: Ovarian Cancer, Polycistic Ovarian Syndrome, Sexual Violence, Spaying and Neutering Pets, Substance Abuse, Tourette Syndrome, PTSD, Cervical Cancer, Uterine Cancer, Gynecological Cancer
White Ribbon: Adoption, Bone Disease, Bone Cancer, Child Exploitation and Abuse, Free Speech, Innocence, Peace, Poverty Awareness, Purity, Student Sexual Assault, Victims of Terrorism
Yellow Ribbon: Support our Troops, Adoptive Parents, Endometriosis, Liver Cancer, Liver Disease, Missing Children, Missing Persons, Suicide Prevention, Testicular Cancer


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A preoccupation with security
If there is one thing Microsoft is preoccupied with right now, it would have to be security. Microsoft is in the news more for security problems with Windows (whether fairly or not) than any other issue. With other operating systems such as Mac OS X (Panther) and Linux (Kernel 2.6) getting significant updates, some are wondering, what Microsoft is up to? A few months ago, developers were given a preview to Microsoft Windows Longhorn. Longhorn is still at least two years away, leaving the rest of us who use the currently-available Windows XP wondering what the next big XP update will hold.
Microsoft has taken the wraps off of Service Pack 2 for Windows XP. At first thought, one might think "big deal?? Service Packs from Microsoft are generally bug squashers." Things are different this time. Service Pack 2 addresses security concerns, fixes previous security issues, and implements new security features. In case you are slow on the uptake, Windows XP Service Pack 2 is all about security.
Slated for release in Summer 2004, SP2 weighs in at a hefty 222MB (which includes debug symbols) in its beta form. Like other Windows Service Packs, installation is straightforward. Upon initial restart, Windows will require you to make a decision about Automatic Updating. This is a great move. Unlike Windows XP SP1, where Windows just floats a notification window detailing the automatic update ability, Service Pack 2 has a full-screen window that refuses to be ignored ? you cannot exit without making a decision.
The Firewall
Upon making your selection Windows continues its initial start-up and you then end up at your desktop. Depending on which programs you have installed, on startup you will immediately notice the revamped Windows XP Internet Connection Firewall (ICF). Reminiscent of Zone Alarm, I was presented with an onslaught of dialog boxes asking me if it is ok for certain programs (MSN Messenger, AIM) to receive data from the Internet.
The dialog box is not very intuitive. "Allow" and "disallow" would be better options than "Configure" and "Close". In SP2 Beta, you need to press "Configure" which then opens the following window.
The ICF was a part of Windows XP SP1, and for a simple throw-in, it was fairly sound. It provided the features of a stateful firewall (meaning that it has the ability to keep information about the sate of connections) and could also configure itself on the fly with uPNP. In Service Pack 2, Microsoft has built on the foundation of the original firewall. Clicking on the Exceptions tab gives the user a list of programs and services that can be blocked and opened.
Simply checking the appropriate box enables or disables access to the requesting program. With this application-level firewall control, ICF now only opens ports when the appropriate program is running, whereas previous versions would leave the ports open all the time. Clicking "Add" brings you these options:
Nothing out of the ordinary here, but unlike SP1, this ICF allows you define specific programs and/or ports that can be open to the world. ICF in Windows XP SP1 did not have its modes spelled out as well. With these settings the user can do some basic tuning. The ICF also allows for some granularity in the ports that are open between the different network devices:
For those of you that are curious, ICF retains the same level of logging as in the previous versions of Windows. It is on the light side, but it does provide some basic information.
By default ICF denies ICMP requests. This provides another level of protection for your PC. But it also removes one of the oldest tricks in troubleshooting ? it is always nice to be able to ping someone when trying to problem-solve, but with ICMP turned off, the computer will not respond to pings.
The Service Pack 2 ICF provides one more notch of security above its predecessor. In XP SP1, there was a delay between the initializing of the networking layer and ICF. I always found this problematic, as during Blaster's reign I have seen XP machines with ICF enabled get infected during startup. With the new ICF, Microsoft has inserted a static rule that will allow the firewall to provide protection until the ICF is fully started. With this basic setup the computer will be allowed to communicate with DNS, DHCP, and an AD server for policy reasons.


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River Clean-Up Date below
|Mark your Calendars for Sept. 21st, 2019|
Promoting Healthy Watersheds
Through Community Involvement in
Stewardship, Restoration and Education
What is the River Exchange?
The River Exchange is a not-for-profit organization located in Dunsmuir, California. We promote healthy watersheds through community involvement in stewardship, restoration and education.
Our work is focused in the headwater streams of the Sacramento and McCloud Rivers, which originate high on the slopes of Mount Shasta and the surrounding mountain ranges. The quality of life in this region depends on these outstanding water resources, which draw people to these rivers for world-class fly fishing, boating, spiritual renewal, and enjoyment of our stunning natural landscapes.
Established in 1996 in the aftermath of the disastrous Cantara Loop spill, the River Exchange serves the community as a catalyst for action. We provide opportunities for individuals, communities, and businesses to take an active role in stewardship and protection of water resources through watershed education programs, watershed restoration, and community events like our annual Great River Clean-Up.


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|Haegue YangSiblings and Twins
Edited by Melanie Ohnemus, Portikus
Texts by Doryun Chong, Bart van der Heide, Melanie Ohnemus
Siblings and Twins, a catalogue of Haegue Yang's installation works, documents the same-titled exhibition held at Portikus, Frankfurt am Main. The exhibition was part of a serial project designed by Yang in which she staged additional installations in other international exhibition sites. The works are formally distinct but are connected by metaphorical parallels. Yang's current works are based on the lives of a variety of historical characters marked by an intense struggle with their own fate in pursuit of their political ideals. In the case of "Siblings and Twins," shown at Portikus, Yang worked with two heroes: Kim San, the fighter for Korea's freedom, and the French author Marguerite Duras. Yang is distinguished by her ability to place abstractly conceived, complex states of affairs in the world into a self-supporting language of formal abstraction.
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It's been almost one week since Michael Hancock fulfilled a childhood dream and was elected to become the 45th mayor of Denver. Now the mayor-elect must put together a team of staffers so that he's prepared to hit the ground running once next month's inauguration day arrives.
Mayor-elect Hancock stopped by Inside the Mile High to discuss where he's at in the transition process and to reveal who he believes should start at quarterback for the Denver Broncos in 2011.


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This is double the purchase mortgage share earlier in the year, according to Jonathan Corr, president and COO of Ellie Mae.
2013 closed with the loosest credit requirements of the year, with 31% of closed loans had FICO scores below 700, compared to 21% in December 2012, Corr says in the report.
Home Affordable Refinance Program-related refinancing activity rose for the second consecutive month with refinancing at 95%-plus loan-to-value ratios above 12%, the highest percentage since August.
The respective distribution of refinance loans vs. purchase loans changed to 46%/54% in December 2013 from 69%/31% in December 2012.
The respective distribution of Federal Housing Administration loans vs. conventional loans changed to 20%/69% in December 2013 from 19%/73% in December 2012.
Days-to-close for all loans in December 2013 was down 12 days year-over-year at an average of 43 days. Days-to-close for refinance loans in December was down 17 days year-to-year at 40 days.


text: Blog Shopping For Replacement Windows and Doors in Mt. Pleasant, MI April 16, 2015 Searching for replacement windows and doors isn't something people do every day. The choices are vast and the process can be a bit stressful for some. The right replacement windows and doors can transform spaces in your home. Here are some things to keep in mind as you kick off this process. Find your inspiration – doing a little research and finding photos of your vision are critical to finishing what you have in mind. Take a stroll around your neighborhood or take a look at your friends and family's homes. You never know when you'll find that look you've been searching for. Visit your Mt. Pleasant Showroom – this will give you the best chance to see all the options available to you and allow you to give them a try. Not only will this give you a better idea of the functionality, but can help you get an up-close look to see if it's what you had pictured. Prioritize your needs – replacing your windows and doors is an investment. But it can help lower your heating and cooling costs and increase security. New windows and doors can also improve the value and curb appeal of your home, lower outside noise, and make cleaning faster. Prioritizing the benefits you value most can help steer you toward the right door or window for your home. Talk to an expert – once you've done your research, give the staff at Pella Windows and Doors a call at 989-317-2558. It's important to get the information you need to answer all of the questions you have. That way you can look at all of the details and get a better idea of the cost associated with your plans. Searching for the right replacement windows and doors starts with finding the best choices to fit your home and budget. Once you know where to look, you can start creating a room you'll enjoy for years to come. Whether it's an in-home consultation, or a quick visit to the Showroom in Mt. Pleasant, the specialists at Pella Windows and Doors are here to listen to your needs and give insight on the possibilities available to you. Then, you can feel confident that you are on the path to making your vision a reality. Have a few questions that you need answered quickly? Give the experts at Pella Windows and Doors a call at 989-317-2558, they are more than willing to work with you to transform your house in to the home you've always envisioned. Back to Blog


text: The Raspberry Pi is a single-board computer developed in the UK by the Raspberry Pi Foundation. The Raspberry Pi is a credit-card sized computer that plugs into your TV and a keyboard. It's a capable little PC which can be used for many of the things that your desktop PC does, like spreadsheets, word-processing, and games, as well as plays high-definition video. The design is based around a Broadcom BCM2835 SoC, which includes an ARM1176JZF-S 700 MHz processor, VideoCore IV GPU, and 512 Megabytes of RAM. This revision 2.0 board features two mounting holes for easy installation, a built-in reset circuit, and can be powered via the USB data ports. The design does not include a built-in hard disk or solid-state drive, instead relying on an SD card (not included) for booting and long-term storage. The Raspberry Pi is intended to run Linux kernel based operating systems. Component colors may vary. Not all units manufactured in the UK.


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What is this?
ThoughtFix is the name adopted by a nerd named Daniel Gentleman. Here, you'll find some of the odd writings, projects, hacks, and other sources of amusement. Topics cover mobile technology, microcontrollers, robotics, gaming, and the obligatory pictures of cats. This is rarely updated.
Featured content:
- Arduino Haunted Pumpkin (for Radio Shack's Great Create - farewell Radio Shack)
- Twitter-enabled pet food and water dishes.
- Server room temperature monitor: Blinky version and Ethernet version.
- Arduino mint-sized success meter for quitting smoking.
- Chumby Phone (for Make Magazine vol 16)
- The Frankenmac - A Core2Duo in an acrylic G5 Cube case
- R2-D2 Laser ToyBot for Cats
- DFRobotShop Rover example code
- 2 wheel drive autonomous roving robot
- Parallax BOE-Shield for Arduino bot
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The Weekend Playlist: Dead Popular, 40 Years of Great Performances
Oct 18, 2013 9:05 AM EDT
Is "I've Got You Under My Skin" the most appropriate sweet nothing to croon in the skin-crawling world of AMC's The Walking Dead? No matter, because there's not much of a lull in Sunday's powerful episode (9/8c), ominously titled "Infected." Which su… Read more


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Genome advances promise personalized medical treatment
WASHINGTON — A whirlwind of activity is under way to apply the findings of the $3 billion Human Genome Project to improve health care in the United States and around the world.
Six years after scientists finished decoding the human genome — the genetic instruction book for life — they're starting to take their new knowledge from the research laboratory to the doctor's office and the patient's bedside.
"We hope all this knowledge of the genome will lead to more kinds of therapies,'' said Francis Collins, who ran the federal government's Human Genome Project from 1993 to 2008.
Researchers are seeking ways to tailor treatments to individuals — they call it "personalized medicine" _in order to improve patient outcomes and to lower costs in the overburdened U.S. health care system.
The goal is to deliver the right drug at the right time in the right dose to the right person, and eliminate treatments that don't work.
"Already some of these personalized treatments are finding their way into practice,'' Collins told a recent seminar in Washington. "We want to optimize the way we practice medicine, diagnosis and risk prediction.''
For example, instead of a standard therapy to treat breast cancer, personalized medicine allows doctors to employ a treatment precisely designed to fit one woman's specific needs. If a gene test shows that her tumor overproduces a substance called HER-2, she's considered to be a good candidate for the drug Herceptin, which cuts her chance of a recurrence nearly in half. If the test is negative, using the drug could be wasteful.
Advocates say that personalized medicine also can reduce unnecessary suffering and expense by minimizing the chance of adverse drug reactions. According to the Food and Drug Administration, there were 319,741 serious illnesses and 49,958 deaths due to unexpected reactions to drugs last year in the United States alone. A British study estimated the cost of such reactions at $847 million per year in the United Kingdom.
For instance, heart patients who have two tiny mutations in their genomes have an increased risk of serious problems, even death, if they take the popular anti-clotting drug Plavix, according to Rick Hockett, the chief medical officer of Affymetrix, a genetics firm in Santa Clara, Calif.
Experts caution, however, that it's premature to say that an era of individually customized medicine has arrived. Major scientific and policy hurdles remain before patients can benefit widely from the promises of personalized medicine. Issues of insurance coverage, medical training, privacy and safety remain to be resolved.
"It is not ready for moving into the clinic. It is not ready for prime time,'' Pamela Sankar, a medical ethicist at the University of Pennsylvania, told the seminar.
Nevertheless, advances in genomic medicine are accelerating, thanks to new, high-speed sequencing machines. Unlike the slow, painstaking methods used to decode the first sample genome, second-generation robotic machines can analyze hundreds of thousands of units of DNA in minutes.
Collins said the improvement in speed of sequencing had been "breathtaking.'' Costs have come down proportionately.
In 2003, it cost an estimated $300 million to decode the first genome of an individual human. By 2007, the cost per person had come down to $100 million, and by 2008, it was $60,000. The current cost is about $20,000, according to Clifford Reid, the chief executive of Complete Genomics Inc., a gene-processing company in Mountain View, Calif.
Radoje Drmanac, the chief scientist at Complete Genomics, predicted that it soon will be possible to sequence a person's genome in one day. "For the first time, this will enable large numbers of patients to be sequenced to get to the bottom of thousands of genetically controlled diseases,'' Drmanac said.
Collins said the goal was to be able to sequence a complete human genome for $1,000 by five years from now, making it a staple of medical practice. People routinely will have their genomes sequenced to predict their individual risks of disease and responses to drugs, he predicted.
So far, fewer than two dozen complete human genomes have been published in scientific journals, but more are being sequenced rapidly. Larger efforts are also under way.
Last year, an international consortium launched a "1000 Genome Project'' to sequence the genomes of at least a thousand people from around the world by 2012. The goal is to produce a catalog of all the genetic variations that exist in at least 1 percent of the human population. The cost is estimated to be $30 million to $50 million.
"This will change the way we carry out studies of genetic disease," Collins said.
Already, studies of variant genes have provided clues to hundreds of diseases, he said.
Scientists are beginning to apply a new idea to cut the cost dramatically and speed the process of reading a person's genome. It's based on the fact that only about 1 percent of the 3 billion units of DNA in a person's genome contain the genetic code to produce proteins, the chemical building blocks of an organism. The rest used to be called "junk DNA,'' but some of it's now known to perform important functions, such as turning genes on or off.
So, instead of sifting through a "vast ocean of stuff,'' as one researcher called the complete genome, only the coding bits, known as the "exome,'' need to be read. The faster, simpler, cheaper exome process is sometimes called the "One Percent Solution.''
Scientists at the University of Washington in Seattle reported in the journal Nature last week that they've sequenced 12 human exomes and have identified the cause of Miller syndrome, a rare disease that causes terrible facial and limb abnormalities in children.
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You're being followed: Scientists track movement of living things
Like hungry teen, life on Earth had big growth spurts
Scientists seek to manage dopamine's good and bad sides
Researchers unravel brain's wiring to understand memory
DNA's repair system studied in hopes of better cancer treatments
Patenting human genes thwarts research, scientists say
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New Chris Christie TV ad touts balanced budgets, job gains
No new taxes. The best job growth in a decade. All under Chris Christie's leadership.
New Jersey was a broken state before Christie became governor, but now that he's here and has made tough decisions, the state is on a more positive and fiscally sound path, a new television ad claims.
"Four balanced budgets in a row, with no new taxes for anyone. The best job growth in 12 years. Nearly 130,000 new private-sector jobs. Merit pay to reward New Jersey's best teachers, and the most education funding ever," a narrator states as scenes of a gritty New Jersey and the aftermath of October's Hurricane Sandy, play.
This fact-check looks strictly at the ad's claims about balanced budgets, new taxes and job growth. Two of the claims are on target. We will fact-check the ad's education-related claims Sunday.
The governor claims he balanced four budgets and he's correct. But it's hardly an accomplishment that distinguishes Christie from any other governor since state law requires a balanced spending plan.
No new taxes for anyone, however, is debatable.
During a 2011 town hall meeting in Evesham Township, Christie ruled out any tax increases, according to a fact sheet for the ad shared by Christie For Governor spokesman Kevin Roberts.
But other actions by the governor could be construed as raising taxes, experts have previously told PolitiFact New Jersey.
Although rates for income, sales and corporate business taxes have not gone up under Christie, Christie has cut funding to several tax credit programs that have the same effect as tax increases.
Here's one example: New Jersey scaled back the state's Earned Income Tax Credit -- which the state Treasury Department website said "reduces the amount of New Jersey tax you owe and may also give you a refund, even if you have no tax liability to New Jersey" -- in Christie's first year in office.
Although rates didn't increase, some homeowners and some low-income individuals received less money to offset tax bills – and that's a type of increase, professors from the University of California Davis School of Law, and at The George Washington University, told us.
Bill Quinn, a Treasury Department spokesman, said at the time that "the Earned Income Tax Credit in most cases really represents a subsidy payment to low income citizens," pointing out that more than 76 percent of earned income tax credit recipients in 2010 owed no New Jersey tax.
Next, let's review that claim about New Jersey having the best job growth in 12 years, amounting to about 130,000 new private-sector jobs.
The claim is accurate, according to data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. New Jersey saw an inrease of 66,400 total payroll jobs from December 2011 through 2012. There is no other annual timeframe, measured from December to December, that had as high an increase in the previous 12 years, said Joseph J. Seneca, an economics professor at the Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy at Rutgers University.
The state also had the best year-over-year increase in private-sector jobs from December 2011 to December 2012, at 59,100, he said. New Jersey also added 127,800 private sector jobs from February 2010 – Christie's first full month in office -- through March 2013, Seneca said in an e-mail.
Seneca said Christie's bipartisan efforts to control costs, not raise taxes and to reduce inefficiences that increase business costs all factor into New Jersey's improving business climate.
Our ruling
A new ad by Christie for Governor claims that under the governor's leadership, the state has had "four balanced budgets in a row, with no new taxes for anyone. The best job growth in 12 years. Nearly 130,000 new private-sector jobs. Merit pay to reward New Jersey's best teachers, and the most education funding ever."
It's true that Christie has balanced four budgets -- as required by state law, but some experts have told us that cuts in tax credit programs can be deemed tax increases.
In terms of job gains, the news is positive for year-over-year data, growth in the past decade and since Christie's been in office. A Rutgers economist confirmed that some of Christie's actions are responsible for those gains.
We rate these claims Mostly True.
Read Part 2 of our fact-check of this ad on Sunday.
To comment on this story, go to NJ.com.


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Ghent Functional Programming Group
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The "Functional Programming Group Ghent" (GhentFPG) is just starting up. We'll have a next meeting at the end of June/beginning of July (date to be selected with a doodle poll). Suggestions for talks are welcome! More information can be found here.
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Meeting information
May 13 Meeting
Our second meeting was on May 13, 2010 in the 'Technicum' building of Ghent University, Sint-Pietersnieuwstraat 41, starting at 19:00. The program was as follows:
- Atze Dijkstra: The Utrecht Haskell Compiler
- Jean-Christophe Mincke: An Introduction To Monads
- Drinks at a local bar
April 1 Meeting (First Meeting)
Our first meeting was on April 1, 2010. This was in the 'Technicum' building of Ghent University, Sint-Pietersnieuwstraat 41, starting at 19:00. The program was as follows:
- Jeroen Janssen - Welcome and short introduction to FP
- Jasper Van der Jeugt - "BlazeHtml: a blazingly fast Html generator in Haskell"
- Tom Schrijvers - "Functional Pearl: The Monad Zipper"
- Romain Slootmaekers - "Functional Programming at Amplidata : a tentative experience report"
- Anonymous - "An introduction to PHunctional Programming"
- Short discussion on the direction of the Ghent Functional Programming Group


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If you think you have to be 7-feet tall or 300 pounds to make it in the sports world, think again.
When it comes to sports, everyone always assumes that bigger is better. But we at SIKIDS.com decided it's time the little guys get their due.
We'll be counting down the Top 10 small athletes in the world today. Each of these athletes is either below average height when compared to the rest of the world (shorter than 5' 9" for men, 5' 3" for women) or star in a sport like basketball, where everyone in the league is especially tall.
They might not stand tall, but these 10 stars prove that big things can come in little packages...


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The Christmas decorations came down today and the New Year display went up. (Always a problematic transition, that...)
These two framed photos are our favorites for this motif. We picked them up in an antique shop in Butte, Montana several years ago. A good lesson to be learned, here ~ never over-imbibe in a pool hall! Love the dolly in the crook of that one guy's arm....


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PMGGI seeks joint body to address migration conundrum
PMGGI seeks joint body to address migration conundrum
KABUL (Pajhwok): The Peace, Media and Good Governance Institute (PMGGI) has demanded the creation of a joint commission to handle migration-related challenges and issues.
Ahmad Kameel Mir Shad Big, PMGGI chief, addressing the third academic conference "Media, Migration, Opportunities and Challenges", said: "Media can play an effective role in spreading awareness regarding prevention of migration."
He said media through special programs, exclusive documentaries, video clips and others could support the anti-migration campaign.
"For this purpose, a joint committee comprised of media organizations, refugees, information and other ministries should be formed."
He said the proposed programme would financially benefit the media which would spread more awareness among people regarding migration in return.
Syed Hussain Alami Balkhi, the minister of refugees and repatriation, said the media did play a vital role in the decline of migration from Afghanistan.
He said: "We hope the media would help us in controlling the growing migration. We witnessed that media's role was very effective in restricting migration. We had joint prorammes and we hope for joint work in future."
He said in the current time migration was both an opportunity and challenge and the government of Afghanistan should convert this challenge to opportunity.
Syed Muzgan Mustafavi from the Ministry of Information and Culture affairs, said independent media outlets should cooperate with the government on the migration issue.
She said media with its positive image in society could play role in reversing the tide on growing migration.
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Growing Beyond Oil: Productivity, Performance and Progress in the Countries of the Gulf Cooperation
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The oil-rich countries of the Gulf Cooperation Council present a misleading picture of affluence. Recent rapid economic expansion is fueled by high oil prices and has triggered growth in real estate and construction, producing undiversified economies that rely too much on expatriate labor and a depleting resource. If these countries can remove institutional barriers that segment their workforces, they should be able to raise living standards, close performance gaps with countries like India and China, and develop economies capable of sustained growth.
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Munson Valley Historic District was listed in the National Register of Historic Places in 1988 for its landscaping and eighteen of the buildings. During the 1930s and 1940s, landscape architects Thomas Vint, Merel Sager, and Francis Lange oversaw the development of the rustic landscape around Munson Valley at almost every level. The landscaping of Munson Valley no longer has much of the original work of Vint, Sager, Lange and the CCC, but the layout and natural placement of buildings still remains.
Some of the historically significant buildings within the Munson Valley Historic District include:
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Summary Meeting Notes: November 7, 2012 Infrastructure Equity PEG Meeting
Summary Meeting Notes
Infrastructure Equity Policy Expert Group
Meeting Date: November 7, 2012
Time: 10:00 a.m. to 12:00 noon
PEG Attendees: Susan Aldrich, Roger Anthony, Roger Averbeck, Matt Brown, Alex Deley, Justin Fallon Dollard, Liz Gatti, Karyn Hanson, Jeff Leighton, Kathryn Levine, Jackeline Luna Acosta, Midge Purcell, Olivia Quiroz, Steph Routh, Joe VanderVeer, Randy Webster, Sara Weiner-Collier.
Other Attendees: Michele Crim, Bob Glascock, Joan Frederiksen, Michelle Kunec & Chris Scarzello (Bureau of Planning & Sustainability); Argel Jimenez, Anna Chinburg, & Jen Morris (contract translators); Terry Parker (public).
PEG Lead: Bob Glascock
Facilitator: Andrée Tremoulet, Commonworks Consulting
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Welcome and Introductions (10 minutes)
Presenter: Andrée Tremoulet, Facilitator
Summary: Andrée Tremoulet welcomed participants and provided an overview of the meeting. The small groups did an icebreaker.
Gentrification and Displacement (60 minutes)
Presenter: Tom Armstrong, Portland Bureau of Planning and Sustainability
Summary: Tom Armstrong presented an overview of research conducted by the Bureau of Planning and Sustainability and Lisa Bates of Portland State University concerning gentrification risk in the city. Work completed thus far includes identifying risk indicators and applying them to mapping levels of risk in Portland's neighborhoods ("neighborhood change typology"). Work is underway (but not yet completed) on a Gentrification Toolbox to assist communities at different stages along the gentrification continuum. Presentation highlights included:
- Definition of gentrification: Displacement of lower-income residents due to the loss of affordable housing caused by an under-valued neighborhood becoming more desirable and attracting new investment.
- The challenge is to find a way to improve the neighborhood without inducing higher rents and property values, and thus involuntary displacement.
- Lisa and Tom used displacement indicators (current vulnerability and demographic change) and housing market change indicators (property value, appreciation and adjacency) to create a neighborhood change typology that classifies neighborhoods along a continuum of risk/stage of gentrification.
- To identify tools appropriate to a specific neighborhood, it will be necessary to drill down to determine which indicators placed that neighborhood at risk. For example, the Boise-Eliot neighborhood has a high percentage of renters, but the Cully neighborhood has a high percentage of homeowners. Different tools will be required to preserve affordable housing in each neighborhood.
Discussion highlights included the following:
Questions & Responses
- Why was the city average used as a cut-off point in developing indicators for risk of gentrification? Answer: Having a score below average in just one indicator does not label a neighborhood as being vulnerable to gentrification. A "potentially vulnerable" neighborhood shows several risk indicators.
- What strategies and tools are under consideration to address gentrification? Response: Lisa Bates is preparing a Gentrification Toolbox, drawing on report on national best practices. The toolbox will be vetted through a public engagement process.
- Political will is likely to be a factor in determining which tools will be adopted. For example, if current restrictions on uses of urban renewal tax increment financing funds could be changed, a wider array of tools might be available.
- Suggestions for fine-tuning displacement indicator: Reduce risk for rentals that are subsidized; increase risk for home owners underwater on mortgage.
- Cannot determine whether increase in educational level and other favorable outcomes resulted from in-migration/out-migration or changes made by existing residents.
- It would be useful to overlay urban renewal areas and major infrastructure or transit investments on the gentrification risk map to look for correlations.
- Are today's at-risk populations tomorrow's displaced populations?
- Rapid response is needed because change is happening quickly in some areas.
- Not investing is not a solution to gentrification. Investment is needed to address a legacy of disinvestment.
- There is ongoing tension between urbanization and suburbanization.
- Instead of developing a customized project-by-project response to mitigate gentrification risk, the city instead should pursue a citywide approach.
- Gentrification Mapping Presentation, Tom Armstrong/Portland Bureau of Planning and Sustainability
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Terry Parker, Portland, addressed the group on equity issues regarding who pays for infrastructure and other costs supporting different modes of transportation.
- Letter from Terry Parker to Infrastructure Equity PEG, November 7, 2012
Infrastructure Service Levels (40 minutes)
Presenter: Andrée Tremoulet, Facilitator
Summary: As a continuation of last month's work, IE PEG members met in four small groups to discuss equity issues related to service levels. They then discussed their conclusions as a full group. Highlights of this discussion included the following:
- Water quality is good citywide and service levels are the same citywide.
- Lack of infrastructure is not an issue currently.
- Currently, cost of services is distributed equally citywide, even if area is more costly to serve.
- Residents of western neighborhoods may feel that they pay for city services (such as storm water management) that they do not receive. Furthermore, storm water issues are elevating costs to address transportation issues because city deals with them as a package.
- Future investment needs may increase costs. What is the most equitable way to distribute those costs?
- Is there a relationship between income and quantity of water used? Public education should be used to reduce usage and costs. [NOTE: the City receives lower revenues when people and businesses conserve water use.]
Environmental Services
- Looked at sanitary sewer risk map relative to demographic maps to identify places where high risk and higher concentrations of people of color renters and lower income residents coincide.
- Some areas, such asEast Portland, have relatively low sanitary sewer risk due to engineering and upgrades after areas were annexed.
- The demographic characteristics of a household may impact that household's ability to respond to system failure and thus should be part of the risk analysis.
- Funding should be prioritized to address service deficiencies and community vulnerability.
- Everyone should have access to a base level of service. However, this does not imply that the infrastructure need be the same.
- Transportation levels of service impact equity issues related to health, safety and youth well-being.
- Lower air quality along high traffic corridors or in places with congestion raises health equity issues.
- It is important to connect transit-dependent populations to transportation services that enable them to meet their daily needs.
- If an equity lens is applied to limited demographic factors, some vulnerable populations and areas may be missed.
- There should be options for interim or incremental improvements so that partial needs can be met.
- Both local and collector streets should be considered.
- ODOT streets are not city-owned and are also not a state priority. However, some have service and safety issues.
- In freight corridors, many of which are not city-owned, providing transit and pedestrian access is a challenge.
- There are tensions among investments in different modes.
- Are higher densities of parks needed in higher density areas?
- Proximity to parks doesn't tell the full story of access and level of service provided.
- Improving parks can impact property values and the quality of life in an area.
- Consider the role of private development in providing open space.
- There is interest in correlating park amenities with profile of surrounding community.
- Portland Public Schools are under pressure to improve availability of turf fields for soccer for private youth clubs and other groups with higher income levels. Concern that the user fees charged to do this may price out local users and limit their use of the fields.
- Similarly, there is pressure to convert spaces for dog use.
Wrap Up (5 minutes)
In response to a question, Bob Glascock stated that the current discussions about infrastructure equity, gentrification and service levels are being used in two ways: to inform the development of the discussion/commentary in the Comprehensive Plan and to develop group understanding of the topics so that the IE PEG will be prepared to review the Discussion Draft of the Comprehensive Plan in early 2013.
Michele Crim stated that the December 5 IE PEG meeting would consist of an equity training session led by the Portland Office of Equity and Human Rights that is being provided to all the PEGs.
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How a postseason APR ban fueled UConn's run to a title
ARLINGTON, Texas — With his college career complete and his second national championship in hand, Connecticut guard Shabazz Napier stood tall on a dais placed in the middle of AT&T Stadium and thanked a most unlikely ally: the NCAA.
"Ladies and gentlemen, you're looking at the hungry Huskies," Napier said. "This is what happens when you ban us."
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Minutes later, after UConn had cut down the nets in celebration and amid a sea of red-and-blue-tinted confetti, UConn athletic director Warde Manuel reflected on Napier's remark, pausing briefly before replying with simple approval.
"Great," Manuel said.
Meet the Huskies, a team and program forged by the disappointment of a one-year postseason ban, and a team – like so many before it – that rode an unflappable us-against-the-world mindset to a most improbable national title.
"Coach (Kevin) Ollie told us, this going to be a two-year plan, and since that day on we believed," Napier said. "Like said, man, I just wanted to grab everybody's attention and introduce the hungry Huskies, because it's been two years.
"We worked so hard for this. We didn't want to lose it. We worked so hard. So here we go, celebrating."
Said forward Leon Tolksdorf, "I feel like last season we still had a good season. We used the season to get even closer as a team. Our goal was to show everybody what we were capable of and eventually show them this year."
UConn was placed under a one-year ban in 2012 for low scores in the Academic Progress Rate, a measurement used by the NCAA to calculate eligibility and graduation rates for its member universities. In UConn's case, the ban came as a result of an APR score of 889, below the benchmark for postseason eligibility.
The score was largely a measurement of past Huskies, not the then-current team: The 889 APR score was calculated during the course of a four-year stretch from 2007-11, before many players had enrolled in the university.
"I was just a little upset that we were being punished for guys ahead of us," senior Tyler Olander said, "but at the same time, we know it's a family here at UConn, so those guys who came ahead of us are still part of the family."
The impact of the ban was felt almost immediately. In terms of personnel, the ineligibility led several players to consider transferring to another program; these thoughts were strengthened in September, when longtime coach Jim Calhoun retired on the eve of the season opener, acknowledging "there have been some bumps in the road."
One player who waffled on his commitment to UConn was Napier, who was convinced to remain in the fold by Ollie's full-court pitch in the days after he was named as Calhoun's interim successor.
"That was my No. 1 recruit," Ollie said. "I wanted to make sure he understood that it's going to be a program that's going to be the same."
The Huskies have certainly retained a Calhoun-era feel, from the program's defense-first mentality to, of course, the bottom line: UConn's latest national title is its fourth overall, joining Calhoun's trio in 1999, 2004 and 2011.
This year's roster even bears Calhoun's overwhelming fingerprint. Napier, Ryan Boatright, Niels Giffey, DeAndre Daniels and Olander – four of Monday night's starting five – were signed by the previous staff, leaving Ollie with a stocked cupboard of experienced hands.
But several players spoke of one subtle tweak by Ollie and the then-new staff in 2012: UConn's roster – from stars through walk-ons – was placed under a stronger academic microscope, a natural byproduct of diminishing APR returns.
Mandatory study halls. Tutors. Class checks. "If you miss a class you were up at 6 a.m. running," Olander said.
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The result was a program refocused, not to mention a team constantly reminded of the bitter taste of postseason rejection – with players like Napier primed for the opportunity to make up for lost time.
"They were underdogs the entire way, and that gives you added motivation," American Athletic Conference commissioner Mike Aresco said. "Let's remember this team held together under adverse circumstances. You know, they couldn't go to the tournament last year and some transferred, but this core group stayed together.
"They believed in Kevin. He had a great year last year. They were ineligible, but he had a great year. And then this year he follows it up with this."
Ollie has "set a championship culture," Manuel said, one with roots in the humbling postseason ban, the nadir to Monday night's apex.
"The tough times are not going to define who we are," Manuel said. "We're going to define who are as an institution, and continue to grow and continue the culture of winning and preparing ourselves off the court and on the court, off the playing field and on. That's what we're doing, and that's what this represents."


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Lumpy's Links for 2015.12.27
Lumpy's Links for 2015.12.27
I hope you all had a great holiday. I will be rather sparse between now and the first of the year. Enjoy the last link list of 2015!
Here they are:
- Ludicrous – This week's was a no-brainer. A shoplifer is thwarted by exploding cookie dough.
- Useful – I found this post abouthow to clean a computer keyboard. I think most of us could benefit from this.
- Music – Want to lay down some beats? Check out the The HTML-909 Rhythm Composer! (Kudos to Never Enough Notes for sharing it on Facebook.)
- Photo – You will likely need to zoom in a bit to see it but check out this red sprite captured by NASA from the ISS.
- Yours (Something from the web's social networks) – This week I went with a tweet from @ScienceChannel, they call it the doorway to Hell which has currently been open for 40 years!
- Science – Light is the fastest thing in the universe. It travels about 100 times faster than electricity and can circle the globe in 0.1 seconds. I would be wonderful if electronics could use light. Scientist have developed a CMOS chip that can process both light and electricity.
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Aion gets two new Euro servers
NCsoft said today that its opened two new Aion servers for Europe. French-speaking players can make their new feathery home on the Deltras server. English speakers among you can plump for Kahrun. On Friday, NCsoft announced that a new West coast US server, Fregion, was added, and an East coast server will follow shortly. There's […]
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Aion launches in Europe
Aion's launched in Europe, NCsoft confirmed today. The MMO is by far the largest game of its type taking off this year, and those looking to inhabit the European servers will no doubt be praying the crippling rush of the game's pre-start program has calmed somewhat. "We're extremely excited to finally deliver the game to […]
Aion server queues unlikely to be "repeated regularly"
NCsoft MMO Aion's been experiencing some clogging issues since it went live yesterday, with many seeing waits of several hours before being able to get a-levelling. The publisher isn't worried. "This isn't a scenario that's likely to be repeated regularly since it's really just about that initial rush of players trying to gain access to […]
Aion was designed for global launch "from the beginning"
NCsoft said today that imminent MMO Aion was constructed from the ground-up to appeal to both Asian and western gamers. "From the beginning, Aion was designed for a global audience," said lead desginer Yong Chan Jee, speaking in the game's latest video podcast. "Aion adopted a global mind-set, not only in gameplay, but also in […]
Western Aion activated pre-orders pass 300,000
NCsoft MMO Aion now has more than 300,000 activated pre-orders ahead of its western launch later this month, Euro MD Véronique Lallier told VG247 yesterday. "Aion's starting to achieve nice numbers," said the boss. "We are over 300,000 activated pre-orders in the West. "It's looking healthy. It's nice and healthy two weeks before the launch… […]
Aion CGI trailer tells the backstory with loads of fighting
The latest trailer for Aion: The Tower of Eternity tells the MMO's backstory for the game. It's posted after the jump courtesy of Kotaku. As per all Aion videos, it's drop-dead gorgeous. It releases on September 22 in the US and September 25 in Europe.
Aion movies show elyos and asmodian races
After the break. The NCsoft fantasy MMO's just silly-pretty, as the footage testifies. Whether you pick the elyos or asmodians you're going to be doing a lot of fighting. For eternity, apparently. It's out on September 25.
New Aion shots show off classes
NCsoft's released new Aion screens, this time showing off the MMO's Templar, Gladiator, Ranger and Assassin classes. They're on GamersHell. We say it every time, but Aion really is beautiful. It releases on September 22 in the US and September 25 in Europe.
Aion has lengthy video, looks bloody amazing
Good gravy. Aion's first proper dev diary lies after the break, showing an MMO like no other. Whether or not it p;lays like a bag of shit is yet to be determined, but on the visual front it looks astonishing. There's a bunch of stuff in there, including the game's flight ability and a good […]
Aion summer Beta kick-off begins this weekend
The July issue of Beckett Massive Online Gamer has listed the Beta dates for Aion. Aion's official website confirms the Asmodian Beta talking place this weekend, but other than what the magazine posted, the rest has not been announced. June 19-21: Asmodian closed beta capped at level 10 July 3-5: Asmodian level cap increases July […]
Aion gets lovely new screens
NCsoft's Aion: Tower of Eternity is looking prettier than ever today, which a bunch of new shots showing the MMO's spookier aspects. It's out this year, hopefully. Screens after the break.
Aion: Tower of Eternity vid shows off Ishalgen Zone
NCsoft's released a trailer of Aion's Ishalgen Zone: stream it here. The Korean MMO's out in the West this year, and does a good job of looking extremely pretty. Apparently: The island of Ishalgen is a fragment of Asmodae, slowly being pulled apart by several warring factions. The Ulgorn Bandits have established themselves quite comfortably […]
NCsoft releases 16 new Aion shots
Yep, 15 shots for Aion: The Tower of Eternity, and they're right lovely. The western version of NCsoft's CryEngine-developed MMO is expected sometime this fall. Take a look at 'em over on GamePlanet.
Aion pegged for autumn 2009
NCsoft's confirmed that Korean MMO Aion will launch in the US and Europe this autumn. The game was supposed to release at the end of last year, but localization caused the delay, apparently. "The localization effort is enormous, with a vast amount of content. Aion is not simply being translated, a team of dedicated content […]
NCSoft Europe CEO: New City of Heroes titles planned, Aion for Q4 2008 release
Speaking to VG247, NCSoft Europe CEO Geoff Heath has confirmed that the company is planning to launch new titles in the City of Heroes franchise "in the next couple of years" and will bring Korean swords-and-sorcery MMO Aion: Tower of Eternity to Europe in "Q4 of this year." "We have some major plans for City […]
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I find Rep. Chris Van Hollen's comments very ironic about Rep. John Boehner wanting to delay on the fiscal cliff until he is re-elected Speaker of the House ("Conservatives battle Obama," Dec. 13). Isn't this the same Rep. Van Hollen, the super-committee member, who had an opportunity to craft a deal more than one year ago? What did he do during negotiations? How was he compromising in the process last year? I think he didn't.
Asking a Maryland Democrat to compromise is unheard of, after all. Can he give insight as to what would be a fair and equitable solution? After all, he was on the front lines of negotiations and now all he offers is throwing stones.
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