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A Preliminary Look at the Problems Already Encountered in the Implementation of the District of Columbia's New Federally Mandated School Voucher Program
A report by People for the American Way Foundation
In early 2004, Congress passed, and President Bush signed into law, an omnibus appropriations act that also created a new federally-funded school voucher program in the District of Columbia, the first such federally-funded voucher program in the country. Under this program, for five years beginning with the 2004-05 school year, federal taxpayers will subsidize the tuition of low-income students in the District of Columbia who can gain admittance to religious and other private schools, up to a maximum of $7,500 per year per student. For fiscal year 2004, more than thirteen million dollars have been appropriated for the voucher program.
According to the voucher law, the primary purpose of the voucher program is to allow low-income students in D.C.'s public schools most in need of improvement (as defined by the federal law) to leave those schools and attend "higher-performing" schools. However, there is no requirement in the law that the private schools participating in the voucher program demonstrate that they are in fact "higher-performing" (e.g., by subjecting themselves to the same criteria applied to public schools under federal law).
To the contrary, the Senate rejected an amendment offered by Senator Mary Landrieu that would have required private schools participating in the voucher program to be subject to some of the same requirements as public schools under the No Child Left Behind Act. Ironically, the voucher legislation uses the No Child Left Behind Act to define which public schools in D.C. are most in need of improvement and whose students are therefore given priority in the voucher program.
Moreover, although the voucher program is supposed to provide educational "choice" to low-income students, the law does not prohibit private schools from imposing admissions tests or other admissions requirements on voucher students, or from charging them tuition in excess of the maximum voucher amount of $7,500 per year if in fact their tuition rates are higher. And while the vast majority of private schools participating in the D.C. voucher program are religious schools, there is also no provision in the law protecting voucher students who attend religious schools from being required to participate in religious worship or other religious activities that may be contrary to their own beliefs, or from prohibiting those schools, now funded with public monies, from discriminating against employees on the basis of religion.
The voucher program has been imposed on the District of Columbia over the objection of many local elected officials, including D.C. Congressional Delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton, who has repeatedly spoken out against a federally-mandated voucher program in D.C., not only because it is unsound and ignores the real needs of students in D.C., but also because it tramples on the right of the District's residents to govern themselves. And while the voucher program has the support of D.C. Mayor Anthony Williams and School Board Chair Peggy Cooper Cafritz, they do not speak for the majority of School Board members. To the contrary, on July 17, 2002, the D.C. School Board, by a unanimous vote except for the abstention of one member, passed a resolution opposing the imposition of a voucher program on D.C.
As more recently stated by School Board member William Lockridge, "The current pro-voucher advocacy of our Board President Ms. Cooper Cafritz reflects her personal change of heart regarding this issue; however, the Board has spoken. We do not want vouchers in the District of Columbia." On July 24, 2003, six members of the D.C. Council and four members of the D.C. School Board sent a letter to the House Appropriations Subcommittee on the District of Columbia urging that vouchers be removed from the D.C. appropriations bill and explaining that funds were urgently needed for the city's public schools. The D.C. voucher program was passed by the House only after the Republican leadership held four separate votes on it, and held the vote open well beyond the normal time period in order to secure passage of the bill.
The voucher program is being run by the U.S. Department of Education ("DOE") in cooperation with the Mayor of the District of Columbia, and administered by a private organization called the Washington Scholarship Fund. The Washington Scholarship Fund was created in 1993 to provide privately-funded "scholarships" to students in the District of Columbia to allow them to attend religious and other private schools. Its Board chair is Joseph E. Robert, Jr., "a local real estate mogul who has spent millions promoting school vouchers..."
Robert has "ties to such national figures in the voucher movement as Wal-Mart heir John Walton and his American Education Reform Council; Howard Fuller... who now heads the Black Alliance for Educational Options; and the Institute for Justice..." At the Department of Education, the voucher program is overseen by the Office of Innovation and Improvement, which is headed by Assistant Deputy Secretary of Education Nina Rees, a staunch advocate of publicly-funded school voucher programs who worked at the Heritage Foundation and at the Institute for Justice before joining the Bush administration.
Given the very serious concerns raised by publicly-funded voucher programs generally and this program specifically, with millions of dollars in federal funds already at stake, and with millions more authorized but not yet appropriated, it is important to take a look at how the program is being implemented. Through a Freedom of Information Act request to the Department of Education, People For the American Way Foundation has obtained documents pertaining to the initial implementation of the voucher program.
From these documents, as well as from other publicly available information, it is clear that the voucher program has not been implemented as Congress intended, that it is not truly serving the priorities set out in the statute, and that, for this school year at least, it cannot even be evaluated as the statute requires. Among other things:
- while the voucher law gives the greatest priority to students attending D.C. public schools most in need of improvement as defined by federal law, it appears that fewer than 75 of the more than 1,300 students who received vouchers came from those public schools
- at the same time, more than 200 students already enrolled in private schools, almost three times that number, have received vouchers
- so few students applied for vouchers that the voucher program cannot be evaluated this year by comparing the performance of students who are using vouchers with that of those students who sought but could not get vouchers, although the voucher law requires that such a comparison be made
- the vast majority of schools participating in the voucher program are religious schools, as to which there are serious concerns of government-funded discrimination based on disability and religion, as well as concerns regarding religious coercion; additionally, the Department of Education and the Washington Scholarship Fund have not given participating schools adequate information about applicable D.C. civil rights law protecting students and employees from discrimination on a number of bases, including disability and sexual orientation
- D.C. voucher proponents have attempted to obscure factors that limit how much "choice" is actually available to students
We caution that this is a preliminary report, that the voucher program is in its first year, and that the Department of Education refused to produce all of the documents responsive to our FOIA request. Nevertheless, the documents that have been provided to us indicate that the serious concerns raised about the D.C. voucher program prior to its implementation were and remain valid. It is imperative that Congress and the District of Columbia take a hard look at how the millions of dollars in taxpayer funds already appropriated for the D.C. voucher program are being spent before any more public funds are appropriated.
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Eight U.S. Beach Teams Still Playing in Paris
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (June 20, 2008) - All eight U.S. beach volleyball teams that began competing at the US$600,000 Henkel Grand Chelem in Paris remained alive at the end of the day on Friday, the fifth day of the SWATCH FIVB World Tour Grand Slam event.
The U.S. women's teams of top-ranked Misty May-Treanor (Costa Mesa, Calif.) and Kerri Walsh (Santa Clara, Calif.), fourth-seeded Nicole Branagh (Orinda, Calif.) and Elaine Youngs (El Toro, Calif.), seventh-seeded Jen Boss (San Juan Capistrano, Calif.) and April Ross (Costa Mesa, Calif.) and 11th-ranked Tyra Turner (Fort Meyers Beach, Fla.) and Rachel Wacholder (Laguna Beach, Calif.) have all made it to Saturday's third round.
However, at least one U.S. team will be eliminated after the third round as May-Treanor and Walsh will play Boss and Ross. May-Treanor and Walsh are seeking their fourth-straight Paris medal after winning the titles in 2005 and 2007, and placing second in 2006.
Branagh and Youngs will face fifth-seeded Talita Antunes and Renata Ribeiro of Brazil on Saturday. Turner and Wacholder will take on 16th-seeded Sara Goller and Laura Ludwig of Germany.
Four U.S. men's teams have advanced to Saturday's second round of elimination play.
Top-ranked Phil Dalhausser (Ormond Beach, Fla.) and Todd Rogers (Santa Barbara, Calif.) swept their pool-play matches and advanced directly to the second round of elimination play where they will face 16th-seeded Mischa Urbatzka and Jonas Reckermann of Germany on Saturday. Twelfth-ranked Matt Fuerbringer (Costa Mesa, Calif.) and Casey Jennings (Las Vegas, Nev.) will take on Latvia's Aleksandrs Samoilous and Martins Plavins, seeded 31st.
The eighth-seeded U.S. men's team of Gibb (Bountiful, Utah) and Sean Rosenthal (Redondo Beach, Calif.) finished pool play 2-1 and had to beat China's 30th-ranked Jian Li and Shun Zhou (21-17, 21-13) in the first round of elimination play to advance. In the second round, Gibb and Rosenthal will face seventh-seeded Harley Marques and Pedro Salgado of Brazil.
Stein Metzger (Honolulu, Hawai'i) and Mark Williams (Los Angeles, Calif.), who had to play in the qualifier to advance to the main draw and are ranked 18th, also had to play in the first round, where they defeated Spain's 20th-seeded Inocencio Lario Carrillo and Adrián Gavira Collado (20-22, 21-17, 16-14).
Metzger and Williams will play 24th-seeded Renato "Geor" Gomes and Jorge "Gia" Terceiro of Georgia in the next round.
The tournament will conclude with the men's and women's medal matches on Sunday.
There is more information on the FIVB beach volleyball site at www.fivb.org/EN/BeachVolleyball/index.asp.

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by Anton Shilov
Nvidia Corp. has learnt its lesson when it unveiled code-named Fermi architecture about half a year ahead of actual release and would like to ensure instant availability of next-generation graphics cards after the formal launch, according to unofficial information. At present the company considers to schedule the launch of code-named Kepler products on March or April.
Nvidia, a leading designer of various multimedia processors, did not show any new graphics cards at the Consumer Electronics Show last week and even did not make any comments regarding its next-gen Kepler graphics processing unit (GPU) products. Instead, the company focused on demonstration of products running Nvidia Tegra 3 system-on-chips, including tablets and even cars. Although the market is clearly shifting towards portable and ultra-portable computing, standalone GPUs remain the most important business for Nvidia and the lack of any mention about Kepler was somewhat surprising.
According to information from VR-Zone web-site, Nvidia's new plan dictates launching the GeForce Kepler when the company is able to insure hardware availability and have all of its partners covered. While the approach may not be the best from advertising and marketing points of view, it is clear that instant availability allows Nvidia to sell more hardware since there will be loads of emotional pre-orders online after reading product reviews, whereas waiting kills emotions.
Kepler is Nvidia's next-generation graphics processor architecture that is projected to bring considerable performance improvements and will likely make the GPU more flexible in terms of programmability, which will speed up development of applications that take advantage of GPGPU (general purpose processing on GPU) technologies. Some of the technologies that Nvidia promised to introduce in Kepler and Maxwell (the architecture that will succeed Kepler) include virtual memory space (which will allow CPUs and GPUs to use the "unified" virtual memory), pre-emption, enhance the ability of GPU to autonomously process the data without the help of CPU and so on. Entry-level chips may not get all the features that Kepler architecture will have to often. Production of Kepler chips was supposed to start in Q4 2011.
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'Extremely Dangerous'
ELLICOTT – The Falconer man facing dozens of misdemeanor charges in connection to a massive deer jacking probe pleaded innocent Tuesday evening in Ellicott Court.
Bruce Giddy, 60, entered his plea in front of town Justice Marilyn Gerace.
Giddy was charged last week by New York State Department of Environmental Conservation Police following a four-month investigation into deer jacking. Police said the Falconer resident, on at least four occasions, flashed a bright light on a deer before shooting them. The practice is illegal in New York.
Giddy and his attorney, Peter Johnson, had no comment when approached outside the courtroom.
State authorities were tipped off by Jamestown police in November after a dead deer was located next to Bush Elementary School in the city. According to Capt. Robert Samuelson of the Jamestown Police Department, the deer was found on school property after receiving a 911 call for shots fired in the area.
"It's extremely dangerous to be out there shooting," Samuelson said last week. "The houses are close together up there near the school. It's never a good idea to be shooting, and it's why we have laws against it."
DEC police were able to match a description of a vehicle seen in one of the incidents to Giddy, who faces 46 misdemeanors for violating Environmental Conservation Law and eight penal law misdemeanors.
Among the charges are: one count of taking deer out of legal hunting hours; four counts of illegal taking of a deer; four counts of hunting deer with an artificial light; and four counts of discharging a firearm over a road.
"This is the highest number of violations we've had associated with a single deer jacking case within our region," said Frank Lauricella, Region 9 DEC police captain.
Giddy also is facing one count each of discharging a firearm within 500 feet of school property and discharging a firearm within 500 feet of a factory.
Giddy is scheduled to be arraigned in Jamestown Court on Tuesday.
Each misdemeanor carries a jail term of up to one year and fines from $200-$2,000 per charge.


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In Russia, President Obama participated in a press conference with President Dmitry A. Medvedev today at the Kremlin. President Obama said:"I seek to reset relations with Russia because I believe that Americans and Russians have many common interests, interests that our governments recently have not pursued as actively as we could have. For instance, I believe that Americans and Russians both would benefit from fewer nuclear weapons in the world, greater control over nuclear materials around the world, a defeat of extremist elements in Afghanistan and Pakistan, an Iran that produces nuclear energy but not nuclear weapons, and a North Korea that refrains from launching missiles and exploding nuclear weapons and instead returns to the negotiating table. I also believe that Americans and Russians have a common interest in the development of rule of rule, the strengthening of democracy, and the protection of human rights.
As I said in my inaugural address: 'To those who cling to power through corruption and deceit and the silencing of dissent, know that you are on the wrong side of history, but that we will extend a hand if you are willing to unclench your fist.' I then emphasized in my Cairo speech that 'I do have an unyielding belief that all people yearn for certain things: the ability to speak your mind and have a say in how you are governed; confidence in the rule of law and the equal administration of justice; government that is transparent and doesn't steal from the people; the freedom to live as you choose. These are not just American ideas; they are human rights.' These are ideas embraced by your president and your people. I agree with President Medvedev when he said that 'Freedom is better than the absence of freedom.' So, I see no reason why we cannot aspire together to strengthen democracy, human rights, and the rule of law as part of our 'reset'."Read the White House Blog for more on the President's visit to Moscow.
Joe in Tennessee writes:
Dmitry A. Medvedev seems more a figure head dealing with social issues more than anything.
1. Don't bowl with Putin, he will win. He used to like to bowl.
2. Listen to Putins ideas on a New World Economy and what is wrong with the system as it exist. He is a brilliant economist.
3. Don't spar with Putin, he will win, unless you are well trained and have some weight on him. He was very fast in younger years.
4. Bring a large bone and a smaller one for his dogs...He loves his dogs, so it would be diplomatic -- LOL!
5. Let Putin tell you about Russia and watch his eyes, he loves Russia and you can feel it as he speaks.
Russia will ALWAYS come first...That is all you need to know: RUSSIA WILL ALWAYS COME FIRST.
Ron in New York writes:
U.S.-Russia Recalibration.
If there is a "reset" for U.S. and Russia, it rests in our mutual interest to create global security, prosperity and freedom. The cold-war was a costly and damaging detour from acheiving these goals. The nuclear obsessions of our nation's were, at the heart, representations of fear. Fear that one nation would vanquish the other's ideology. Instead, it has left a legacy of continued war, instability and the shadow of nuclear holocaust. The U.S. and Russia have much to consider in the recalibration of global affairs.
Shawn writes:
Well, while I'm not that heavily deep into politics, I must say that I do believe there is hope for all nations to unite in peace and unity. And, I also feel personally that The U.S. & Russia can be great friends, with much positive potential among one another (smile)
Thank you kindly U.S. State dept. for this wonderful post. :-)
With love
Edite in Canada writes:
"Rule of rule"? What kind of gibberish is that? President Obama on his virgin trip to Russia received the time-known trick of boring Western leaders with lectures about how great Russia is. It is a machination that has been used again and again as a phsychological tool to unnerve new leaders who Russia suspects do not have much of a spine. Bore them to tears and then they'll be too tired to talk about why they came to Russia in the first place.Or simply, use up the time allotted and then, oops, sorry, times up. Putin's KGB tactics seem to work well on those who counter his ideas or demands. Linking the missile defense shield in Eastern Europe that desperately needs to be built to the Start Treaty and nuclear reductions is a non-starter and should never be adhered to or allowed to happen. Russia will not protect its formerly occupied countries in case of a missile attack from a rogue nation. They would welcome such a missile and that is one of the reasons Russian will never agree to help the USA with Iran's nuclear ambitions(They may pretend they will but they won't)If there are people in the State Department who believe they will, they are all wet behind the ears. Any nuclear arms reductions Russia shows the world it's destroying will not reveal the caches of missiles and weapons stashed away in the Ural mountains. President Obama is not a seasoned veteran of foreign politics and he will slide by on the seat of his pants so fast he won't know which way is up. Putin, by contrast, is a seasoned KGB persona, wily, cunning, deceitful, given the very nature of his trademark past and is not one to be believed.If President Obama does not stand firm on the issue of anti-ballistic missile defense shield ,in the face of Putin's blustering, then his party will most certainly lose many votes in 2010 and by 2012 he'll go down in the history books as a one-term president.
Zharkov in U.S.A. writes:
Our mutually ridiculous excess of nuclear weapons is not the only issue to discuss with Russian leaders.
Where is Obama going with trade with Russia?
Why won't the White House or State Department find a sponsor in Congress to write a bill repealing Jackson-Vanik legislation?
Is expanded trade not part of the "Reset" opportunity?
Our delegation really should stop looking at Russia as a competitor for world domination, and begin to view Russia as we view Estonia, Latvia, and the Ukraine - as places needing more jobs through expanded trade, and protection from outside military attack.
Ron in New York writes:
"Freedom is better than the absence of freedom"
President Medvedev
(I think we must do a little better than that)
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Proposed Headline.....
U.S.-Russia Join in Efforts to Reset the Global Economy.
The U.S. and Russia announced today, that they will take the lead in the Stolen Assets Repatriation program. StAR is a UN initiative to trace, track, freeze and seize trillions in illicit funds; which rob the world of legitimate means to acheive development goals,stability and security. The U.S. and Russia recognize that they share the knowledge, technologies and special expertise to.......
Ron in New York writes:
Insights on RESET:
I visited Russia post-USSR and asked a Russian student to describe Communism. He said, "We were marching through blood and mud, for 70 years, in the wrong direction". RESET may be too simple a term to describe the complexities of what Russians are looking for.


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James Cameron Wins Proggy for 'Avatar'
1/26 Update: You can call me soothsayer. Avatar has sunk Titanic and is now the highest-grossing movie of all time!
Confession: While I was watching Avatar, I found myself mumbling, "I want to go to there," as I grabbed at the three-dimensional floating mountains in front of me. But the best films are those that entertain while also sparking important conversations, and Avatar is certainly one of those films. Through a mastery of CGI and an unparalleled script, Cameron beautifully shows that all nature is interconnected and that all beings—no matter their species or race—deserve to be treated with kindness, respect, and dignity.
For making a film with an overarching message of decency, understanding, and compassion—as well as breathtakingly beautiful CGI that heralds a new era in filmmaking (one that we hope marks the coming end of the use of live animals in entertainment)—we have awarded James Cameron our 2010 Proggy Award for Outstanding Feature Film.
Avatar has already become the second-highest-grossing film of all time worldwide (the number one blockbuster of all time is Titanic), truly making Cameron the "King of the World." My prediction: Cameron will beat his own global box-office record with Avatar (and pick up an Oscar or 10 on the way) long before I'm done learning to speak Na'vi.
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Hahah, My laptop crashed when I was browsing http://www.peta.org last time I was here. And for the past 2 months I have been looking for this wephorum, so thankful I located it once again! 😀
What a wonderful movie. This movie deserved to win best film not that stupid Hurt Locker.
This is definatley what I was thinking while watching it. I love the Na'vi and if by some chance we are able to find a population of living creatures who are humanlike I would immediatley pack up some stuff head there ASAP and never look back.
Caryn You know Pandora is make believe right? You basically justified most hunters with your comparisons. If you honestly think that hunters are mindless killing machines who hunt just for the sake of killing things then you need to do some actual research instead of reading posts on PETAs website. How you described the hunters in Avatar is probably just as accurate in describing hunters here on planet earth. There may be some that are irresponsible but the majority are not. Plus where did you come up with that little nugget that hunters are over weight? You obviously never been rabbit hunting before.
The difference between killing in our world for food and in the world of Pandora is different. The humans in our world are corrupt. They kill without remorse by the billions just to sell it all. And the Navi understand the delicate balance in their world. They kill animals to eat yes. But they kill what they WILL eat and never more than what they will NEED. The reason humans suffer from obesity is not only from eating meat but because they do not need to hunt anymore now that they have grocery stores to provide them what they WANT to eat. I have promised to be vegan because I don't support the way we are getting our meat and animal products and I will not hunt for my meat either because why do it when there are others who are doing it cruelly. Various animals in the movie were used as mounts but they were connected in mind as one and not whipped or roughly handled to move in the direction desired. They were fed good food and treated kindly as a trade for their speed advantage. It's give and receive. I love this movie and hope it inspires others to treat the animals around us like equals.
I think that is stupid! Titanic is a way better movie!
Although they didn't use live animals isn't the idea of what the animals' roles in Avatar matter also? I recall a scene where a bunch doglike creatures were killed albeit in selfdefense and the taming and training of other animals for their own use. These are obviously not terrible ideas either and the idea of the movie was that all creatures live in a cosymbiotic environment anyway but to go and say that Cameron receives an award for making them CGI seems a little silly to me. The nature of the movie calls for it since those creatures don't actually exist. What are we proving by awarding him with this? more movies that are all computer generated? It takes the appeal of reality out of many movies today whether it be with mythical creatures or real ones. I'm running my own tangent here but the thought struck me as I read the briefing.
I just wanted to say that I agree with all points made above….I am a vegetarian and feel completely satisfied that I do not have to eat meat to sustain myself. It's simple have respect for all living things and for nature….there is no need to completely clearcut our forests we do not have to treat our animals inhumanely and we MUST keep sending the message out…..Humans are resourceful people….how is it that they can build rockets to go to the moon but lack in the coexistance between animals and humans. We have the capability of saving our planet It's up to us now or we will not have any place to live…there is only one earth….love it nourish it and respect it. Let's enjoy the fact that so many people are inspired by this great film and hopefully that inspiration will integrate all of our energies for the greater good of the planet nature animals and humans alike. LOVE. LIGHT and LAUGHTER TO ALL!!!! Join my facebook group Coalition of Positve Energy and Change and share your stories of inspiration.
I loved the movie!! The love and respect they have for everything around them. The seen when she gets mad at him for having to kill that animal That didnt have to happen I turned to my nonanimal lover friend with a great big smile. Then to my surprise they turn around and kill later in the movie. I just wish they could have been vegetarians. I like to think that in the future every human in the world finally become a vegetarians.
Heard about how good this movie was from a few friends. I will go see it this week or next weekend.
This was probably the best movie Ive ever seen I loved it and I really wish I could go there too haha D It has such a strong message…
I didn't care for the message of the Avatar graduating because he made a clean kill. They could easily have shown that foraging was enough for them and that no animals needed to die by anyone's hands clean kill or not. People simply don't need to eat animals and this promoted hunters around the world that claim to be conservationists while they murder animals.
Great points Julie R. I have been in an accident too and felt no pain only discomfort I've felt more pain during other procedures in my life that were mild compared to the accident where I broke my jaw and 4 teeth falling off a bike. It seemed to me that the Navi were primative in ways of eating although highly advanced in thinking! and therefor needed to hunt to eat although they did it in the most respectful and "clean" way as to not torture the animal. If one must do it at all I suppose that is the best way. The animal lived its life in the wild. I've been a vegetarianalmostvegan for almost 10 years now just because I cannot stand to see animals in factory farms.
I respond to Kurt K. I agree that killing for food is not a pretty act but in nature it actually appears more brutal than it truly is. The lion's prey will struggle for it's life but while doing so it is in a state of shock which is perhaps nature's way of providing some protection against suffering. I have been in shock myself after an accident my injury was severe yet I felt no pain at all for a certain time following the accident. Nature did not plan for the cruelties of human beings shock only lasts a short time therefore provides no protection against the lengthy tortures an animal endures in factory farms laboratories and slaughterhouses. Or from inept "sport hunters" who wound almost as many animals as they kill.
This planet is our home we must collectively save it from anything 'evil'. We are both saintly and devilish.
What about the sounds of screamingyelping dogs? I don't think that those sound effects came from dogs that were good actors. That's when I left the movie.
I love this movie. I found so many parallels between my life my culture Nuuchahnulth First Nations and terrible things are happening here in our forests and mountains. I find it curious that people want to 'go' there as we are already here… We live on a beautiful planet which we share with many other beautiful life forms. It is crazy that we go to the movies to experience this. It is too ironic and It worries me that mining companies will come and destroy our mountains to get copper to make new 3D TV's for people to watch this at home… But I am happy that PETA approves of this movie. As for the hunting there are many different hunting methods in this world and they need to be recognized. For example fishing. Salmon is a traditional staple food of our Nation but it was not treated as a sport. It is important to show our respect to all plants and animals and while fishing for salmon beings to catch them quickly and as painlessly as possible to give thanks and eat ALL of their body including the head. I really feel sorry for the salmon who are trapped in fish farms today and my heart goes out to the few remaining wild salmon who are disappearing from our seas.
i liked avatar too.
I am looking forward to seeing this film as I believe it will show all the folley of mankind only a few I hasten to add but many of do nothing to stop it. Does anybody know the best way to watch this film at home or is it impossible to record it on ordinary DVD and sell it in the shops?
Who else loved this film as much as I did. Not only was it done by the director that created my other favorite movie Aliens and Terminator but it had an amazing eco message to go along with it. This was by far one of the best movies of all time
It's fairly simple 1 Jake's avatar and Neytiri shoot an arrow through an animals larynx finnishing him off with a knife to the throat. Just because they say "it was a clean death" add some mumbo jumbo prayers right after acting as if they did it out of "respect to animals" doesn't make it any less cruel and unnecessary. 2 The Na'vi do not mentally "become one" with the creatures they plug their organic USB in they literally brainwash them. I say this because if there were actually some kind of symbiosis involved the animal would have it's say. And it doesn't. It just blindly follows everything "the rider" tells it to do. Both are signs of human domination and animal abuse. Roberto Herrera had it right "It seams it is just another PETA's political approach to conquering publics sympathy even if it is against its own ideological premises". …and let's not even touch the subject of transforming a peaceful people into a warmongering nation. It's just another Hollywood propaganda effort.
I am going to see this movie tonight in IMax 3D. I've heard it is pretty good and I am pretty pumped about the experience. I will report my findings on Monday. In the mean I have to respond to Alex. Sorry to burst your bubble but if PETA is not against hunting as you have claimed then I can walk on water. I'd like to know where you learned that. Also I think you need to watch a documentary about lions and watch them kill their prey. It is very brutal and violent. Many times the prey is still alive when the other lions start to feast. That is just a fact of nature. Killing something for food is not a pretty act but it must be done.
I loved Avatar and after watching it the first time was so moved by the message of respect for all creatures that I checked out the Peta website and have now become a vegan.
I haven't seen Avar yet but have read reviews about it especially about it's being the secondhighestgrossing film of all time. I can just imagine what the experience would be like knowing what the Titanic feels like being the highestgrossing film of all time which Avatar is only second to !
Peta is not against hunting. I hate hunting but that's not the point. "if slaugther houses had glass walls". That is all about! Abuse. In the Movie it's all about respect. I cryed all three times I've seen it. I cryed for US humans. The lions Hunt for survival. They don't abuse the Zebras! They don't murder milions of zebras by draging them on the ground kick them cut their throats while they are constiuos. Sadly we'll NEVER be like the Na'vi. I salute James Cameron for this unique feeling he transmits through his incredible fantasy. I understand everything in Avatar.
This movie was beautiful and sad I cried because I know I won't be alive when the masses realize that we are all connected. if it ever happens at all.
I have reservations about the hunting scene also. Of course the Na'vi have better evidence than anyone on Earth for their belief that something of the prey survives. And consider the alternative. Jake Sully says that on the Earth of his day "There is no green left." Like it or not we are headed toward that condition led by people who like the miners think "They can take whatever they want." I think I resent the implication that anyone who rides a horse is abusive. I had a horse of my own for 14 years. If I abused her why was it that every time I went to the stable her greetings were heard half a mile away? I felt I almost had a Na'vi style neural net connection right through the saddle. As far as I'm concerned that's what the Na'vi were defendingand I've never seen anything more worth the risk. I am worried about a sequel. In the real world the story would not end where the film does. The mining company would go to Congress make some nice big fat briI mean "campaign contributions" The Supreme Court just said that's "free speech" whomp up some blather about Na'vi "terrorists" and procure a war. It has already been done for oil they would surely do it for something worth $20 million per kilo. The "tea party" wackos would love itand never mind that the Na'vi are in the position of the original tea partiers only worse. One can live without tea.
The CG was pretty realistic. I find ironic that the film was awarded partially for how it's helping to usher a new age of not using animals when the animals in the film were not going to appear any other way. I mean if you can show me any of those bad boys exist let me see a picture…I'm kidding. Those animals were realistic and are a good stepping stone for the non use of animals in film just like the 2005 King Kong.
This is a comment to Robert Herrera… if you saw the movie you would know that the animals have to accept you obviously domination is out the window… and the only killing by the natives was to save one stupid human the avatar… but seriously it's just a movie and the overall message is a positive one… so why be picky if you can't keep up…
I belive it's a beautiful movie and I felt angry when the tree was down… age 10
I agree with Roberto how can PETA support a movie in which the main character turns into an adept otherworldly "hunter" i.e. an animal killer? I do admit that some of the ideals behind the movie were good i.e. the fact that there is a profound respect and a deep interconnectedness between living beings and the planet they inhabit but since Jake is even shown killing an animal for food at one point in the movie how is this supportive of animal rightswelfare? Seems to me like PETA is sending an incredibly mixed message here….
I can't wait for it to come out on dvd! From what I've heard it is great! I hope I never see another live animal in movies again also but probably not for the same reason. Lately such movies are awful! lol
I'm surprised about PETA's position about this movie. While Avatar does evoke the need to reengage with a more respectful relationship between humans or should I say American pop culture? with this planet we are part of It also tries to sell ideas about legitimate ways to relate with animals that don't fit PETA's ideological statements. If the Na'vi's agreed with PETA's believes about animals not being for our consumption or domination they would not be riding or controlling the will of flying horses nor killing any other animal for food. It seams it is just another PETA's political approach to conquering publics sympathy even if it is against its own ideological premises.
OMFG!!!! I can't tell you how much I loved this movie for its message and I love it even more now that I know no animals were harmed during its making! I'm out to see it for the fourth time soon! WOOOHOO!!!!!!
I loved the movie and certainly appreciated the message of reverence and respect for nature. The only thing I was disappointed in was theinclusion of the hunting scene. I would hope that at least on a planet like this with such enlightened people as the Na'vi there would be no need to kill fellow animals to eat them. Yes yes I know Pandora is just a fantasy world and it was a very realistic and beautiful fantasy. But it's too bad Cameron felt the need to perpetuate one of the uglier human traits as "necessary" to the Na'vi as well. It would have been a more perfect world if they had lived in harmony with ALL the animals. Just one person's fantasy that's all.
I'm not really against the use of animals for movies as long as the animals aren't harmed. Especially if is a dog horse etc. that lives in captivity.
Hopefully they'll save the data they received from using animals for future movies. And since there maybe be a second movie or even a trilogy in the works it seems likely. Cameron was quoted saying some something along the lines of 'not wanting to waste the technology'. Yay for recycling! The visuals were quite stunning. I was surprised when I realized there was little difference between the CGI world and the real one. There maybe be a sequal or even a trilogy in the works. Cameron was quotes saying some something along the lines of 'not wanting to waste the technology'.
sorry for the fyi peeps but they did in fact have to use gasp live animals to get the motion of the animals into the CGI computers. I saw the "backstage" stuff on tv last night and they used a horse. He wasn't being harmed in the makings though…
great movie with a great message. when i was watching this movie i thought about peta and nature and of course our beautiful animals.
Not only did the technology used to portray animals in the movie keep from using live animals but the imagery was vivid and beautiful. So was the imagination of the artists!
Um Ralph he didn't say it was "the first majorly CGI film." He said the "breathtakingly beautiful CGI… heralds a new era in filmmaking." The implication being that the quality and realism of the CGI in this film exceeds that of previous efforts. Please at least do a little more critical reading before you post.
No one said it was THE first. They're saying it was well done. …"please at least read the whole thing first."
This isn't the first majorly CGI film. There have been many films prior to this this is just the largest boxoffice gatherer. It's good to know that no animals are harmed in the making of these films however please at least do a little research.


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The Beatles had the most loyal fans at the Cavern Club
Jan 21, 2010
Pete Price, Liverpool Echo
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THE other week I was having a clean out and a tidy up. I came across a pile of original Merseybeat magazines all individually wrapped and now bright yellow.
I found myself looking back at the history of music from when I grew up. Those days were so magical to me, queuing outside the Cavern and the Iron Door.
Waiting to listen to the raw music, exciting and vibrant sounds and looking at the bands that would go on to great careers.
My favourites were Gerry Marsden, the Big Three, who Cilla used to sing with, and the Escorts. I wasn't a great Beatles fan in those days it took me a while to get into their music. First time I ever saw them live was at the YMCA Hoylake. I always remember the tickets didn't sell well, whereas Gerry Marsden was a sell-out every time.
There were many stories about those days and I am sure all of you have got some. I remember protesting outside the Cavern when Pete Best was sacked from the Beatles.
Here is an interesting story that a lot of people don't know about. The Beatles' early fans were very possessive towards the lads. The Beatles had an amazing bond with the fans at the Cavern. The Cavern Club girls idolised and romanticised about the four lads. And at each and every performance they would desperately strive to attract the attention of one or other of the group in the hope of an acknowledgment or perhaps even a date.
Two minutes before the Beatles took to the stage there would be a mass final preening session amongst the girls. The dust of compact powder would clog the air, hair curlers would be removed and frantic back combing took place. Many of these fans formed themselves into little groups of cliques. They of course had strange names. There was the Cement Mixers, the Bulldog Gang and let's not forget the Wooden Tops. The fans were fiercely loyal and far from being annoyed the Beatles encouraged this kind of attention and yearned for such intimate contact in later years when they were playing venues so vast and cold that they were 200 yards away from their nearest fans.
So partisan and positive of the band were these fans when the Beatles fame began to grow there were many at the Cavern who were angry and resented their success. Wanting to keep them instead as the Cavern's secret.
This began to manifest itself when the Beatles' second single Please, Please Me was released. Many of the Beatles' most dedicated hometown fans, naturally possessive of the group after two years exclusive ownership, realised that buying the record might well take the Beatles out of their grasp.
When the Beatles hit No 1 with Please, Please Me, Bob Wooler announced the news at the Cavern. It was met with a mix of silence and boos. The fans were devastated that they were going to lose their Beatles to the world.
So if it was left to the fans they would have stopped their career purely for selfish reasons. People that live in London don't appreciate their tourist attractions. I wonder if you realise how good the Beatles Story at the Albert Dock really is? Whatever age you are you can immerse yourself in a real piece of history. But if you ever go down, give yourself a couple of hours and go and live in an era of days gone by.


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Serving Size ½ of recipe
Calories 120
Calories from Fat 5
Total Fat 0 g
Saturated Fat 0 g
Cholesterol 0 mg
Sodium 5 mg
Total Carbohydrate 31 g
Dietary Fiber 3 g
Sugars 23 g
Proteins 1 g
Vitamin A 15% DV
Vitamin C 60% DV
Calcium 2% DV
Iron 2% DV
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Preparation Time 10 minutes
Cups of Fruits and Vegetables Per Person: 1.0
Ingredients and Preparation
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Diced apple, unpeeled ½ cup
Sliced banana ½ cup
Grapefruit sections, cut up ½ cup
Grapefruit or pineapple juice 2 tablespoons
Halved grapes 1/3 cup
Pineapple tidbits, juice-packed, drained 1/3 cup
- Mix apple, banana, and grapefruit sections with juice to prevent darkening of apple and banana.
- Add grapes and pineapple; chill.
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (May 14, 2012) – The U.S. men's beach volleyball team of Jake Gibb and Sean Rosenthal pulled into a tie for a slot on the 2012 Olympic Team after finishing fourth at the Beijing Grand Slam in China, the second grand slam event on the FIVB Beach Volleyball SWATCH World Tour.
Gibb (Bountiful, Utah) and Rosenthal (Redondo Beach, Calif.), ranked 11th, are battling with the U.S. men's team of Matt Fuerbringer (Costa Mesa, Calif.) and Nick Lucena (Santa Barbara, Calif.) for the second men's berth on the 2012 U.S. Olympic beach volleyball team.
Fuerbringer and Lucena, seeded seventh, entered the Beijing tournament with a 100-point lead over Gibb and Rosenthal, but were eliminated in the third round on Saturday.
Both teams now have 4,920 points toward Olympic qualifying. Gibb and Rosenthal are also leading the FIVB SWATCH World Tour with 1,880 points while Fuerbringer and Lucena are second with 1,800.
The U.S. men's beach team of Phil Dalhausser (Ormond Beach, Fla.) and Todd Rogers (Santa Barbara, Calif.) already has enough points to secure the first U.S. men's beach volleyball Olympic berth.
Gibb and Rosenthal opened play on Sunday with a loss to third-ranked Reinder Nummerdor and Richard Schuil of Netherlands. In the third-place match, Gibb and Rosenthal fell to Brazil's No. 5-seeded Alison Cerutti and Emanuel Rego.
After a one-week break, the 2012 FIVB Beach Volleyball SWATCH World Tour will continue on May 22-27 in the Czech Republic with the men's Prague Open. There will be two more Olympic qualifying events after Prague: the Moscow Grand Slam on June 7-12 and the Rome Grand Slam on June 13-17.
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Perfect Potatoes au Gratin
- 2 tablespoons butter, softened
- 8 large russet potatoes, scrubbed clean
- 3 cups heavy cream
- 1 cup whole milk
- 1/4 cup all-purpose flour
- 2 teaspoons salt
- Freshly ground black pepper
- 2 cups freshly grated sharp Cheddar
- 2 green onions, sliced thin (white and light green parts only)
DirectionsWatch how to make this recipe.
Preheat the oven to 400 degrees F. Butter a large baking dish with the butter.
Slice the potatoes into sticks, and then cut the sticks to create a dice.
Combine the cream and milk in a bowl. Add the flour, salt and some pepper. Whisk it together well so that the flour is incorporated into the milk/cream mixture. Add the diced potatoes to the prepared baking dish and pour the creamy mixture all over the top.
Cover the dish with foil and bake for 20 to 30 minutes. Remove the foil and bake 15 to 20 minutes more. Just before serving, sprinkle on the grated cheese and return it to the oven until the cheese is melted and bubbly, 3 to 5 minutes. Sprinkle on the green onions and serve it hot. Creamy, dreamy and divine.
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The USA Marathon Team has submitted its list of athletes to the ICF for the Marathon World Championships, to be held September 18-22 on Lake Bagsvaerd in Copenhagen, Denmark.
Kevin Seitz (LCKC) has spearheaded the pre-race logistics, but will pass the Team Leader baton to Holm Schmidt (KEYPA) once the team arrives in Denmark. Shaun Caven, head of the USA Sprint Program, will also accompany the team:
SENIOR WOMEN K2: Kaitlyn McElroy & Maggie Hogan (OKCRS) will again represent the USA following an impressive 8th place finish at last year's World Championships in Rome. Both Kaitlyn and Maggie are also members of the U.S. national sprint team.
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SENIOR MEN K1: Borys Markin (Rockaway Olympic, NY), a former World Championship bronze medalist in the 200-meter sprint (K4), and Brad Pennington (HCKC), twice runner-up at the Marathon Trials, both will make their first appearance on the start line at next month's Marathon Worlds.
U-23 MEN K1: Logan Mynar (TCKRA) will also be making his first appearance at Worlds following an impressive U-23 K1 win at the marathon team trials in Houston in May.
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Hulu, Netflix Only Make Cable TV Stronger
I forget who it was (forgive me, I read hundreds of articles a day and forget to Pocket all of the worthwhile ones), but somebody wrote that if cable and satellite let you pick and choose channels instead of buying a package of 200, most of which you never watch, you would end up paying as much, if not more than you do now.
One hundred percent spot on. In this menage a trois you persuaded her into having, you do not want to role play as the cable company. Sure, they fleece the consumer, but that's only because the content owners fleece them. Don't ask to bear their cost.
But, let's just say mass intuition has it right for once and blowing up the cable/satellite model would be good for humanity.
Deja vu ... that's not going to happen.
The experience of every single company that licenses digital content proves this.
Hulu is fixing to die. And it's not simply because Jason Kilar, the company's CEO, resigned . That's just a symptom of a larger disease called Hulu Has No Future .
For a while, I walked around with this pipe dream that the old guard -- News Corp (NWSA) , Time Warner (TWX) , Disney (DIS) and others -- would make the forward-looking move and turn Hulu into a kick-butt one-stop-shop for any and all content.
If it wasn't obvious before, it is now. Big media could make it happen tomorrow, but they absolutely refuse to because doing so means the end of the television model that makes them not just rich, but carefree.
That model works like this: I am a programmer. I own a bunch of networks. People love one or two of them. Or maybe they just love one or two shows on one of them.
Or, better yet, I have the rights -- for the next decade -- to key professional sports content. I force the cable or satellite company to take the networks nobody watches -- and pay for them -- just so they have access to the stuff people actually like. The consumer pays for the package, but probably doesn't come close to using it all.
Why end this gravy train if you don't have to? As long as content stays concentrated in a relatively small number of entrenched hands, the old guard media conglomerates, particularly the ones with premium sports programming , have no incentive to change.


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Beautiful WeekendPosted Monday, February 1, 2010, at 3:13 PM
Here are beautiful shots of my weekend. Saturday was nice, cold but nice. In the evening it started snowing, and of course Sunday morning the ground was snow covered. By Sunday evening, it was nearly warm. This was a hard weekend, and I have a question for you.
I have some pretty graphic pictures of calves being born, and some not so happy endings. Should I post them?
Saturday morning on our way out.
1. Here is Sam on his 3rd day of real work! With his Mommy
2. Frustrating! Our truck and trailer are stuck.
How beautiful is this view? Is it not great to be paid for doing this and having this for your office?
My horse in trailer, waiting to go, and Wayne getting his horse ready to load
Trotting across the "office" and going thru a messy gate.
Really cold at the end of the day, looking across the river.
1. Horse having well deserved meal time
2. Our horses having their oats Sunday morning.
1. Sunday morning view of the river
2. First calf tagged Sunday morning.
A few really cold views.... brrrrrrrr !!!
1. What do you suppose a cow and crow have to talk about?
2. Geese in no hurry to fly with a flock that just took off.
1 A very stubborn cow
2 But she was brought in, Rolly and Jeff Palmer looking on.
And after an exceedingly long day, the sun starts to go down. I am reminded how beautiful the day is. Notice the snow has melted. What a beautiful pink and purple sunset.
Sun setting on river
Wayne taking the horses to their pasture.
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As always beautiful pictures Jessie.
Maybe ask the news first before posting pictures of the calfs being born? They don't offend me and I think as long as you put in the title "graphic Pics" it should be ok
-- Posted by MsMarylin on Mon, Feb 1, 2010, at 6:26 PM
Thanks Marilyn. Maybe the news will respond
-- Posted by jessiemiller on Mon, Feb 1, 2010, at 6:42 PM
Here is my 2 cents. I tend to lean on the side of caution with this type of material. For the vast majority of people, this type of photos either would not be offensive or they would heed the warning and not look. Then there is the vocal minority, the tree huggers who would scream long and loud about animal cruelty and/or the kids who are forced to look. (I am not saying that this will happen, just that it could.)
If you are willing to subject yourself to the comments of the vocal minority, then I say show the pics of Mother Nature at work. Part of life is death, the survival of the fittest.
-- Posted by jtrotter on Tue, Feb 2, 2010, at 7:49 AM
Jtrotter, you hit the nail on the head. Though the pics would only be of still births that we had nothing to do with. (Were not there to assist or maybe the death would not have happened, or were there, but "Mother Nature" chose to twist that animal with deformity) Either way, it IS Mother Nature at work.
My thought was that the other day I showed assistance that kept life alive...and we did that this weekend too. We happened upon a calf that had literally "Just hit the ground" (actually saw it from a distance and saw his legs flailing somewhat unusually and galloped over) The "sack" was around his face/nose/mouth and he was suffucating, we simply got off our horses & jerked the sack back while Mama was getting up, hung him upside down & tickled his nostrils with weeds, which made him cough and clear his lungs. I actually thought for a few seconds we had been seconds too late..... but when we left, he was up and nursing his Mom. I've seen lots of this, but I am tense inside waiting to know each time. I know it's Mother Nature, but I want them all to live!
I just thought that maybe I could simply show the loss of life, and a bit more of the struggle that we do go thru in those cases. I don't want to portray 100% success rate. Out of 1700 we have only lost 3 so far.
I think you are right, I will keep those pics to myself.... I don't much care about all the negative banter (As some have seen I've had some on my own blogs that didn't affect me one way or another) But I don't want to offend anyone deliberately.
-- Posted by jessiemiller on Tue, Feb 2, 2010, at 8:13 AM
I would post em! Put the warning out there like you did on the last one. It is life. We spend a lot of time "protecting" the young ones from real life stuff. IMHO, it is why some get into the trouble they do. Some do not get to see things like this (the city slickers). I think it is pretty neat stuff and should be shared.
People need to be accountable for what they choose to look at. They have the choice. Take the heat. It is real life and death.
-- Posted by OpinionMissy on Tue, Feb 2, 2010, at 2:13 PM
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Northern Michigan, Alaska bring unbeaten streaks into CCHA series in Fairbanks
MARQUETTE – With five wins and a tie in six games since Jan. 1, the Northern Michigan University hockey team has emerged as one of the hottest teams in the CCHA to start the second half of the season.
The other program torching through the league this month is the Wildcats' opponent this week – The Alaska Nanooks.
"They are a team that is really on the upswing right now," NMU head coach Walt Kyle said. "They have a couple of lines that are very, very dangerous. They have tremendous team speed, a great counter attack."
After picking up a win in overtime and another in a shootout against Alaska in Marquette over the Thanksgiving weekend, the Wildcats head north to Fairbanks to wrap up the regular season-series against the Nanooks at 11 p.m. EST on Friday and Saturday.
NMU (11-10-4 overall, 5-9-4 in CCHA) flew out of Sawyer International Airport Thursday morning with stops in Detroit and Seattle before arriving in Fairbanks. The 'Cats will return via Seattle, Minneapolis and Green Bay on Sunday, bus back to Marquette and then take a week off before a home series on Feb. 8-9 against Ferris State.
"It's a tough weekend for travel, but once we are up there, everything is the same," said Scott Macaulay, the NMU senior defenseman and captain who scored the game-winning OT goal in a 4-3 win over Alaska on Nov. 23.
"They have a lot of good team speed, especially up front. They have a lot of skilled forwards."
Alaska (10-8-4, 8-7-3) has spent the past two weeks on the road playing in the lower 48 states, blazing a path of destruction that resembles the Carlson Center's pregame video featuring an angry polar bear and his fighter jet destroying CCHA campuses and the planet Earth.
The Nanooks began 2013 with a sweep of Michigan – 5-4 and 4-1 – on Jan. 11-12 in Ann Arbor, followed by a 5-4 and 2-1 sweep of No. 7 Notre Dame in South Bend.
While the Wolverines were struggling heading into the series having just lost games to the U.S. National Team Development Program's Under-18 squad and Bowling Green State at Yost Ice Arena, Jeff Jackson's Fighting Irish were alone atop the CCHA and No. 5 in the nation.
"We just got done playing Ohio State and Miami before that," NMU junior defenseman CJ Ludwig said. "They are both very quick teams so it's nothing we haven't seen."
Five different Nanooks scored in the two OT contests at the Berry Events Center Nov. 23-24, including three of Alaska's four leading scorers – freshman Tyler Morley and seniors Jarrett Granberg and Andy Taranto.
All three had goals against the Irish as well with Granberg scoring twice in the third period on Friday to give the Nanooks a 4-3 lead with less that nine minutes to play and 5-4 lead with three seconds left on the Compton Family Ice Arena scoreboard.
Then there is junior Cody Kunyk, the team's fifth-leading scorer, who had two goals and an assist against Michigan.
"They are as fast as anybody in the league," Kyle said.
"They always have great offensive speed and they always have great counter speed. Kunyk is one of the best players in the league without a doubt. Morley, who has come in as a freshman, has done a great job. Granberg is having a great year. Taranto is a hell of a player. They are really, really strong up front.
"They are a dangerous team when they have the puck."
The Wildcats were not at full strength when the two sides met in November with senior forward Matt Thurber and freshman forward Justin Rose both suspended by Kyle for a violation of a team rule.
Junior forward Erik Higby sat out Friday's OT win while serving a one-game suspension for a contact to the head game disqualification he picked up the weekend before. To top if off, junior forward Stephan Vigier left midway through the first period of Game 3 on Nov. 24 with a leg injury after giving NMU a short-lived 1-0 lead.
To counter the key losses at forward, sophomore defenseman Jake Baker and freshman defenseman Ryan Trenz both played at forward against Alaska in key roles on the second and third lines.
Meanwhile sophomores Reed Seckel, who scored a goal in Game 2, and Ryan Daugherty were forced to eat up a significant amount of minutes.
Despite the struggles putting together a lineup, the series proved to be one of the few bright spots for NMU during a rough first half.
NMU received rare goals from junior Jake Johnson, senior forward Kory Kaunisto and junior defenseman Wade Epp while also gaining five out of a possible six points in the CCHA standings.
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Last week, the Department of State led a delegation of technology executives from U.S.-based companies to India to explore the challenges we face in fully engaging the potential of women in the Information and Communication Technology (ICT) sector to meet the demands of our global economy. Headed by Deputy Assistant Secretary for South and Central Asian Affairs Alyssa Ayres, the delegation visited government offices, universities, local and multinational companies, and industry groups in New Delhi and Bangalore.
In both the United States and India, women are a minority in the ICT professions, and significant barriers remain for women and girls at all stages of the ICT pipeline. Furthermore, the representation of women and girls decreases throughout the ICT career progression.
At the university level, the overall percentage of women studying ICT appears to be significantly higher in India following dramatic growth over the past decade. While the percentage of computer science degrees awarded to women remains around 18 percent in the United States, India has made significant inroads in attracting girls to study ICT with reportedly 40 percent or more of degrees awarded to women. Yet, at the elite India Institutes of Technology (IITs), women still comprise only 12 percent of the student body, with perhaps only half that number in the highly competitive computer science programs. Among the theories we heard for this discrepancy were higher career expectations for boys along with parental preference for sending sons (rather than daughters) to expensive and distant coaching centers to train for the notoriously difficult IIT entrance exam.
In the corporate sphere, the number of women initially entering the ICT workforce also appears to be much higher in India than in the United States. Yet, when it comes to career progression, women's participation drops significantly over time in both countries. According to recent studies, in India , women hold only three percent of senior ICT roles, while in the U.S. the comparably meager statistic is four percent.
Both countries have found that visible role models of successful women in the ICT field can help inspire more young women and girls. Mentors and peer networks are also needed to provide support and guidance at each stage of career advancement. The delegation also discussed best practices on programs such as flexible work plans, transitional internships for mothers returning after a prolonged period out of the workplace, child care leave options beyond maternity, and executive sponsors for talented women.
We need to start shifting cultural perceptions around the world so that ICT is a field as open to women as it is to men and women's potential and talents in this field are fully utilized. Both women's empowerment and STEM education have been key priorities for the Obama administration. Bringing the two together by promoting women in ICT is one of the most effective ways we can increase opportunities not only for women, but also for the global economy.
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A trader at JP Morgan, who worked for the so-called London Whale, Bruno Iksil, and who has come under scrutiny as US authorities probe the multi-billion dollar trading loss incurred by the bank's chief investment office, has left the bank.
Reuters reported in early September that Julien Grout, who joined JP Morgan in 2009 and reported to Iksil, the former credit trader at the centre of the trading scandal, had started attracting the scrutiny of US authorities investigating the trading loss http://reut.rs/ObxYyE.
While the fall-out from Whalegate had already led to the departure in July last year of Iksil and two other traders in the chief investment office, Achilles Macris and Javier Martin-Artajo, Reuters reported that Grout still worked for the bank, citing a JP Morgan spokeswoman.
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Can the planet support the majority of humans enjoying the same standard of living as people in high income nations? That will be "the biggest question confronting humanity in the 21st century," reporter Martin Wolf writes in a June 10 column of the Financial Times. The answer, he says, "will determine whether this will be a world of hope rather than despair and of peace rather than conflict."
Wolf's column joins a rising chorus of concern (see recent articles in the Wall Street Journal and by Paul Krugman in the New York Times) that world economic growth is bumping up against ecological reality. Wolf describes himself as an individual inclined toward free-market solutions, and skeptical of predictions of environmental doom. "But it has become evident, at least to me," he writes, "that the human impact on the planet on which we depend has risen to enormous proportions." Wolf quotes data from Peter Vitousek of Stanford University that humans now exploit 50 percent of terrestrial photosynthetic potential for their own use, have made extinct a quarter of all bird species and are responsible for a quarter of the carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. "We are masters of the planet now," he writes. "The great question for the 21st century is whether we can be masters of ourselves."
Read Martin Wolf's column.
It has taken a long time for the financial world to begin to appreciate that there may be limits to untrammelled economic growth. Unfortunately, the whole system of leveraged investment that has sustained the obscene profits and bonuses in the financial sector depends on such growth, so there has been every incentive to pretend it can continue, in order not to erode "confidence". This has extended even to a takeover of the language. A reduction in economic growth is inevitably headlined as a "threat" rather than just a change, house price growth is never referred to as "inflation" and even a serious newspaper such as the UK's Independent can headline that a month of zero economic growth means that the "economy is grinding to a halt". This bias in language skews the debate, and until such pernicious use of language is changed, there is little chance of a more rational economic system.
Indefinite growth of cell-units within an organism is called cancer.
If the unit is the individuuum and the organism is the globe it is called sustainable growth.
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Used to be I didn't admit to both names, so I maintained a separate website here from 1995 to 1999, but abandoned it in 1999 because (a) Nathan wasn't writing much, and (b) nobody was paying any attention to the page anyway.
When I self-published How to Prosper During the Coming Zombie Apocalypse, though, it seemed like a good time to update this.
The original was written in a sort of blog form, pretending that Nathan and Lawrence were separate people; I don't think any of that deserves to be preserved.
As for where Nathan came from, the name "Nathan Archer" has no significance beyond me liking the sound of it and wanting a name that would alphabetize between Piers Anthony and Isaac Asimov, and Nathan was created not because I was embarrassed by anything I wrote under that name, but because "Lawrence Watt-Evans" had become so established as a fantasy writer that I needed another name for anything book-length that wasn't fantasy, so as not to confuse bookstore personnel. It was never meant to be reserved for tie-ins; I always intended to write my own science fiction novels under the Archer name, but never found the time.
How to Prosper During the Coming Zombie Apocalypse got the Archer name entirely because "Lawrence Watt-Evans" looked too pompous on the cover.


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