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i dont think that luffy whil gain strenght trough gear 4, he will probably come up whit some other way or maybe he'll just power up by fighting like he did before the cp9 part
i dont think that would happen and how would the potions effect be infinite or will he just need it 1 time a day or something? i think it would be lameKnowing Oda there is no way we will be able to guess Luffy's next technique :p .
But just to add to the fun, what if Chopper develops a potion or something along those lines that will allow Luffy to eat a 2nd Devil Fruit?
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i'm not sure wat Gear Fourth would be, but if or when Luffy does get that power, well, i can't wait for it!!
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I don't know what the 4th gear could possibly be but I bet the side effect would be him being all streched out and not being able to go back to normal...
A pie in the sky?
Later in the manga, Luffy's gears go up to 5.(it's true) The 4th gear allows Luffy to become solid, REALLY solid. Swords cannot hurt him in this gear as well as bullets. Now the 5TH gear is alittle more complicated, in the 5th gear, Luffy can control ALL his abilities(gears) and use them together.(Yes it sounds like a lame bs. But it's true.)
"The wired might actually be thought of as a highly advanced upper layer of the real world. In other words, physical reality is nothing but an illusion, a hologram of the information that flows to us through the wired."
--Playing as an online 'devil's advocate' since 1998.--
Luffy needs brass knuckles made of diamond and tipped with sea stone. Thus making Luffy able to one hit KO almost all DF users.
What would Gear 4th be, normal is stretching body/skin, then super blood, bones. what else is there? I doubt there will be a Gear 4th, surely Luffy will develop a whole nother style of technique at some stage.


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Reading Group Guide
This reading group guide for These Girls includes discussion questions. The suggested questions are intended to help your reading group find new and interesting angles and topics for your discussion. We hope that these ideas will enrich your conversation and increase your enjoyment of the book.
Questions and Topics for Discussion
1. Discuss the role of work in each girl's life. To what extent do they find a sense of identity in their jobs? How do they define success or failure in their work lives, and how does either affect the way they think about themselves?
2. Each character in These Girls seems to be facing both an internal and an external struggle. Can you identify these? Are these struggles resolved by the novel's conclusion?
3. Did you initially empathize with Abby or Joanna? Did your feelings toward Joanna change as the novel progressed? Does the fact that Abby has an affair with a married man make her less of a sympathetic character to you? Why or why not?
4. Describe the ways that each girl interacts with and connects to other people. How are their relationship styles similar, and how are they different?
5. Given the close bond that Trey and Abby share, do you think that he should have told her what happened to their brother? Why or why not?
6. How are mother-daughter relationships depicted in this novel? Was there one dynamic in particular that you identified with?
7. After Cate reminds her mother not to call her at work, she thinks to herself, "It felt odd to be imposing such restrictions and curfews on her mother, as if they'd somehow swapped roles during the past few years" (78). To what extent is this true of all the parent-child relationships we see in These Girls?
8. What is These Girls saying about the role—and effect—of secrets in relationships? Are some secrets necessary, or are they all inherently negative? Do you agree with Abby's assessment that "The hardest things to talk about are also the most important things to talk about?"
9. Discuss some of the challenges that Cate's new job presents. How does she handle these? In particular, what role does gender seem to play in them?
10. Each girl sees something in another of her roommates' disposition that she covets. What are these qualities? Is this kind of desire an essential component of female friendship?
11. In the last scene of the novel, Cate tells Trey, "I don't want to be the girl who chose a guy over her friends." How did you feel about their final encounter? Did you agree with how Cate handled this situation? Would you have handled it differently?
12. Ostensibly, Renee wants to lose weight because she thinks it will help her nab the beauty editor job. But does she have other reasons? What else could be driving her?
13. If you were casting the film version of These Girls, who would you pick to play each character? Why?
14. Picture where you see Cate, Renee, and Abby in five years. What do their lives look like? Share your imaginings with your group.

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Skip to comments.Rabbi Searches in Vain for Kosher Gay Couple to Marry
Posted on 06/22/2009 2:30:13 PM PDT by Inappropriate Laughter
A rabbi at a Pompano Beach synagogue is ready to say mazel tov to the first Jewish gay marriage in Broward county, if only he could find a happy kosher couple.
Temple Sholom recently shed its ultra-conservative image and is ready to perform the first ever commitment ceremony in the county.
Rabbi David Mark has been placing ads in Jewish newspapers to find two people who want to get hitched, something not possible just a few short years ago.
"There was a need out there among the public for something like this," Mark told the Sun-Sentinel. "It hurt me so much to my very core that I could not help these people. I believe religion should bring people together."
Earlier this year, the Temple shifted away from what it felt was an increasingly right-wing ideology. The temple calls itself "progressive conservative" and is allowed to perform the alternative ceremonies while still holding on to many conservative traditions. The orthodox branch of Judaism still rejects same-sex marriage and wedding substitutes.
The ceremonies at Temple Shalom won't include every part of a Jewish wedding, but it will include an exchange of rings and vows and the breaking of glass.
"Even though Florida does not recognize gay marriage, I feel that gay people are entitled," Mark said. "People fall in love and they should be able to express that love in a public setting."
It's a contradiction.
What is a "kosher gay couple?" or is this satire?
Maybe the good Rabbi can find a group of kosher gay polygamists while he's out there.
Pretty important to a Jewish cannibal.
An irony of biblical proportions. In the paganized temples of the modern gentiles which have been purged of any reverence to God, the "gays" come clamoring in. Not to be outdone, this would be emissary of Moses is now scouting for fresh meat to make unkosher in a new way.
My parents had Jewish friends whose son was a rabbi. He dumped the wife and kids and announced he was gay. His parents were mortified. Trying to remember his name, he was in FL. Maybe he and his partner would like to avail themselves of this mockery.
"There's also a circumcision joke in there somewhere."
Don't tip it...
OyVEH! The JUwish Modz will probably have a ball with this one!
I said "a joke".
now that there is funny, I don't care who you are.
"I said a joke."
Well, in that case, I'll retract it...
Too funny. What an idiot. He's found the cure, but he can't locate the disease.
How did that happen? Seriously, who infiltrated, schemed, lied, and then took over? Know how the enemy works so you can stop him when he tries again.
Very few gays want to get married.
This is about destroying the culture and everything decent, it's got nothing to do with marriage.
It hurt me so much to my very core that I could not help these people. I believe religion should bring people together."
It is all about him.
the clergyman can find a gay Jewish couple but not a kosher couple. He is likely not even Kosher.
The article states that Orthos "still" don't recognize gay marriages.
By definition WE DON'T!!!!!!!
So much for the idea of God's people obeying the covenant revealed to Moses. So much for all the railings of the prophets about Israel being faithful to the covenant.
And yet he can not find anyone to "marry". Seems there was not a need after all.
A Miami rabbi can't find two nice Jewish boys who want to get married? Who knew?
Hawk, it's not nice to file your parodies as actual news stories.
Umm-how can someone be kosher AND gay?
Just wondering...
How can they be kosher if they're porking...never mind. You get the point.
This is disgusting. Deformed "Temples" might as well be worshipping Satan. They have little to do with Judaism. these so-called "rabbis" preach more Marx than Moses.
Yeah, you like that? "STILL". As in "he still thinks the Earth is flat". Typical liberal arrogance against anyone resisting "progress".
Well, I guess it's when one of the pickles ain't completely kosher....
You just can't make this stuff up.
Not possible.
First of all sperm is trafha and the act itself is an abomination before G-d.
I have met many odd Rabbis in my life and I strongly suspect this guy is a little wacky.
He's OK with "gay marriage", but not intermarriage?
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California Eager for Naturopaths to Fill Primary Care Shortage
When Bastyr University opens its San Diego campus next fall, it will be California's only naturopathic medicine higher-education institution.
Which is quite surprising, really.
Californians hold a high level of interest in integrative medicine, as University leaders learned through their market research. The Golden State has a keen shortage of primary care physicians, an opportunity that could be filled by naturopathic doctors. And the state is one of 16 to license naturopathic doctors (NDs) to practice as primary care professionals (thanks in part to the University's advocacy to the 2003 state Legislature). Plus, California has 37 million residents — and the eighth largest economy in the world.
Given all that, it's been clear to University leaders since last summer that the opportunity to expand was as ripe as a California grapevine.
But the question of where to open a campus has taken more consideration. The University hired researchers to conduct market studies on several California locations: San Diego, Santa Ana, Irvine, Pasadena and the San Fernando Valley (north Los Angeles). Prospective students who were surveyed gave San Diego their highest preference. Prospective faculty did the same. Their reasons: the city's quality of life, a culture friendly toward natural medicine, and a strong presence of medical and higher-education institutions. Market demand for an eventual clinic in San Diego was encouraging, too.
That came as no surprise to the California Naturopathic Doctors Association (CNDA), a professional group that's been supporting Bastyr's efforts to open a California campus.
"We export more naturopathic medical students than any other state," says CNDA President Simon Barker, ND, a Bastyr alumnus. "I meet with people on a weekly basis who tell me they want to stay nearby. As a Southern California resident, I'm particularly excited. Not only does it provide a source of hope and pride for us, it also provides a source of training for tomorrow's primary care doctors in California."
California's shortage of primary care doctors is one of the most acute in the nation: Only one in four counties in the state has the recommended ratio of 60 to 80 primary care physicians for each 100,000 residents, according to the California Medical Association. The problem is expected to worsen as physicians retire, baby boomers age and require more care, and an estimated 6 million Californians become newly insured in 2014 under the U.S. Affordable Care Act.
Bastyr won't fill that shortage on its own, of course. University leaders expect about 40 students to enroll in each of the first few years. Those students will be well-positioned to show what natural medicine can contribute to health care challenges – in California and elsewhere.
"NDs are in the perfect place to fill that primary care gap," says Dr. Barker. "This is a great opportunity to do that in the best way possible."
This blog contains the most recent updates and developments for Bastyr University's San Diego campus, which opened in fall 2012.
The San Diego campus and clinic is located at 4106 Sorrento Valley Boulevard in the center of the city's life sciences cluster and approximately 14 miles north of downtown.
It lies within walking distance of the San Diego Coaster commuter train (which connects to more light-rail lines), and is within a short drive of the University of California-San Diego, Scripps Mercy Hospital and the VA San Diego Medical Center.


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I'm a full-time professor of English, but am currently doing my Ph.D. in Bible & Theology at the Assemblies of God Theological Seminary.
I've been a lurker here for over a year, but am just now registering to post, because tomorrow I start Randall Buth's Koine Greek Instructors: Fluency Workshop in Fresno. I thought I could answer questions about it if anyone was interested (in this thread, or maybe I should start another thread in a different sub-forum?).
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i hope i am anyway, would be a little off for this one to get' looked over' by your favourite kite company..
jeez dude, at least now I know who the character Debbie Downer was based on.
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From Thomas Jefferson Encyclopedia
Apart from slaves, Thomas Jefferson referred to Africa a number of times. There were trade routes from Africa to America. He also owned books on the geography and history of Africa, mainly focusing on Northern Africa. During his presidency, he sent a small naval force to fight the Barbary Pirates who came from Northern Africa.
Jefferson was interested in the rice grown there, hoping to find a hardier variety for the southern states, and sheep from Northern Africa also interested him, as well.
Primary Source References[1]
c. 1781. (Notes on the State of Virginia). "That the last part of it [Buffon's assertion] is erroneous, which affirms that the species of American quadrupeds are comparatively few, is evident from the tables taken all together. By these it appears that there are an hundred species aboriginal of America. Mons. de Buffon supposes about double that number existing on the whole earth. Of these Europe, Asia, and Africa, furnish suppose 126; that is, the 26 common to Europe and America, and about 100 which are not in America at all."[2]
c. 1781. (Notes on the State of Virginia). "1675 Oct. 1. 27. Car. 2. A proclamation for prohibiting the importation of commodities of Europe into any of his majesty's plantations in Africa, Asia, or America, which were not laden in England."[3]
1783-1784. (Jefferson's Notes on Sheffield's Observations on the Commerce of the American States). "Seven eighths of the Spermaceti candles made, go to the W.I. where the heat of the climate renders them cheaper than tallow. The other eighth supplies Europe, Africa, and America."[4]
1784 November 11. (Jefferson to Jacob Read). "You will have heard of some little affairs between France and Portugal on the coast of Africa. They will have no ill consequences. Portugal was building forts to appropriate to herself a part of that coast and thus narrow the field of general commerce. France interfered in the common cause, destroyed the forts, and thus placed that part of the coast again in statu quo."[5]
1785-1786. (Estimate of American Imports). This lists imports from Europe and Africa.[6]
1787 August 10. (Jefferson to Peter Carr). List of recommended readings that include, "Bruzen La Maretiniere, Introduction a l'Histoire de l'Asie, de l'Afrique, et de l'Amerique.[7]
1788 July 19. (Jefferson to Rev. James Madison). "He [John Ledyard] went to London, engaged under the auspices of a private society formed there for pushing discoveries into Africa, passed by this place [Paris], which he left a few days ago for Marseilles, where he will embark for Alexandria and Grand Cairo, thence explore the Nile to it's source, cross to the head of the Niger, and descend to it's moth. He promises me, if he escapes through this journey, he will go to Kentucky and endeavour to penetrate Westwardly from thence to the South sea."[8]
1790 November 27. (Jefferson to Samuel Vaughan). "About two months ago I was fortunate enough to receive a cask of mountain rice from the coast of Africa. This has enabled me to engage so many persons in the experiment as to be tolerably sure it will be fairly made by some of them. It will furnish also a comparison with that from Timor. I have the success of this species of rice at heart, because it will not only enable other states to cultivate rice which have not lands susceptible of inundation but because also if the rice be as good as is said, it may take the place of the wet rice in the Southern states, and by superseding the necessity of overflowing their lands, save them from the pestilential and mortal fevers brought on by that operation."[9]
c.1800. (A Memorandum Services to My Country). "I got a cask of heavy upland rice, from the river Denbigh, in Africa, about lat. 9 degrees, 30' North, which I sent to Charleston, in hopes it might supersede the culture of the wet rice, which renders South Carolina and Georgia so pestilential through the summer."[10]
1800 September 23. (Jefferson to Benjamin Rush). "I have not seen the work of Sonnoni, which you mention, but I have seen another work on Africa, Parke's, which I fea will throw cold water on the hopes of the friends of freedom."[11]
1808 December 1. (Jefferson to Benjamin Waterhouse). Jefferson learned from the works of De Porpre fo upland rice growing "...all along the coast of Africa...I found there {Havre] Captain Nathaniel Curring, who was the ensuing spring to go on a voyage along the coast of Africa. I engaged him to inquire for this; he sent me a thirty-gallon cask of it. It arrived in time the ensuing spring to be sown."[12]
1812 June 11. (Jefferson to John Adams). "But unluckily Lafitau had in his head a preconceived theory on the mythology, manners, institutions and government of the ancient nations of Europe, Asia, and Africa, and seems to have entered on those of America only to fit them into the same frame, and to draw from them a confirmation of his general theory..."[13]
- ↑ Please note that this list should not be considered comprehensive.
- ↑ Notes, ed. Peden, 58.
- ↑ Ibid, 188.
- ↑ Ibid, 7:516.
- ↑ Ibid, 19:135.
- ↑ Ibid, 12:18.
- ↑ Ibid, 13:382.
- ↑ Ibid, 18:97-98.
- ↑ Peterson, Writings, 703.
- ↑ Peterson, Writings, 1197.
- ↑ Cappon, Adams-Jefferson Letters, 2:305.


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Elder Garrett R. Jensen has returned from serving a mission for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in the Iowa Des Moines Mission.
He will speak in the Cleveland 1st Ward on March 13 at 9 a.m.
Elder Jensen's parents are Kay and Linda Jensen of Cleveland.
Elder Brett LeRay Jeffs will be returning home March 10. He has successfully completed serving in the Japan Nagoya Mission. He will be speaking in the Castle Dale 1st Ward at 9 a.m. on March 13.
Elder Jeffs is the son of Lee and Pam Jeffs, brother to Jennie Lin Allinson, Tyler, Leeon, and Myron Jeffs, and the grandson of Stella Reid.
Elder Kody Merlin Powell has completed a two year mission for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. He served in the Johannesburg, South Africa Mission. Kody will be speaking March 13 at 11 a.m. in the Huntington 3rd Ward Sacrament meeting, Huntington Stake Center.
Elder Powell is the son of Kerry and Karla Powell and the grandson of Merlin Christiansen of Emery and Roma Powell of Huntington.
Sister Rebecca Unsworth has been called to serve in the Texas Houston East Mission for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
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Sister Unsworth will enter the Missionary Training Center on March 16.
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Imagine the loss, 100 years from now, if museums hadn't begun preserving the artifacts of the computer age. The last few decades offer proof positive of why museums must collect continuously—to document technological and social transformations already underway.
The Museum's collections contain mainframes, minicomputers, microcomputers, and handheld devices. A Cray2 supercomputer is part of the collections, along with one of the towers of IBM's Deep Blue, the computer that defeated reigning champion Garry Kasparov in a chess match in 1997. Other artifacts range from personal computers to ENIAC, the Altair, and the Osborne 1. Computer components and peripherals, games, software, manuals, and other documents are part of the collections. Some of the instruments of business include adding machines, calculators, typewriters, dictating machines, fax machines, cash registers, and photocopiers
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- American engineers have been calling small flaws in machines "bugs" for over a century. Thomas Edison talked about bugs in electrical circuits in the 1870s. When the first computers were built during the early 1940s, people working on them found bugs in both the hardware of the machines and in the programs that ran them.
- In 1947, engineers working on the Mark II computer at Harvard University found a moth stuck in one of the components. They taped the insect in their logbook and labeled it "first actual case of bug being found." The words "bug" and "debug" soon became a standard part of the language of computer programmers.
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More to the point, since the dryer has a much more powerful blower, it will blow lint and humidity into the bathroom.
: : I am finishing my basement bath. Near where I will be installing the exhaust fan is the vent from the upstairs dryer. This dryer vent has a nice lead between the floor joist and out the back of the house. Can I tap my exhaust fan vent into this dryer vent with some type of "Y" connection? It would be so convenient as it will eliminate me having to drill through several joists and make another run of vent pipe to the back of the house. The chances of me drying clothes while the basement exhaust fan is running are very slim. Can I get away with this?
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The Emery County Commission approved a resolution agreeing not to impair the mineral lease revenues of Emery County Special Service District number one. The district is preparing to authorize a bond for the construction of the Lila Canyon Road. The Community Impact Board requires the commission sign a resolution that they will not reduce the percentage of revenue coming into the district so the district can repay the loan to the CIB. Utah American Energy will be responsible for the loan payments. Emery County has worked with several mining companies to construct coal haul roads. There isn't any expense involved to county residents.
The commission approved an agreement between Emery County and ECSSD#1 for partnership on the Huntington Airport improvement project. The ECSSD#1 will oversee the grant on the airport project. The grant is for $137,000 from the aeronautics division of the Utah Department of Transportation. The trailer will have to be moved and the office along with the first hangar. The trees will also be removed. This will allow a clear zone. This project is part of an overall airport improvement plan approved in 2005 which is being done in phases.
Cleveland Town was granted a waiver for a building permit fee of $391.25 for the installation of an electronic sign at the new fire station.
The commission approved the EEO plan for the county. It is required by the federal government and deals with equal opportunity employment.
Commissioner Gary Kofford said the FFA came to a meeting and brought breakfast to the commissioners and county officials. It is FFA week nationwide. "We appreciate the FFA program. FFA has been very successful here in Emery County and teaches the students debate and farm animal husbandry among other things," said Commissioner Kofford.
Ray Petersen, Emery County public lands director explained a land trade for the Crandall Canyon memorial. He said the forest service granted the county a special use permit for five years on the memorial site. It is the intent of the county to do a land trade with the forest service.
Petersen read a letter by David Shaver the project engineer for the mining company. The letter explained the amendment to the quitclaim deed which the company signed in June of 2008 which deeded the land for the Crandall Memorial to Emery County. "We now propose to amend that quitclaim deed to expand the deeded area from .8 acres to approximately 1.7 acres. The purpose for expanding the deeded area is to provide additional area for the parking lot after the mine is ultimately reclaimed, and to include transfer of the required 6 foot diameter culvert which runs under the parking area, and must be left in place after reclamation.
The quitclaim deed also includes conveyance to Emery County of a certain parcel of land located in Huntington Canyon. This parcel has been reviewed by representatives of Emery County and the US Forest Service and is intended to be used at some time in the future to be exchanged for the forest service land presently surrounding the memorial. This is in fulfillment of the commitment which the mining company made in the memorandum of agreement with Emery County signed May 21, 2008.
The document requires the signature of Commissioner Kofford. The commission voted to approve the amendment to the original agreement and it will be brought back next meeting to ratify.
The commission approved out of state travel for Morris Sorensen and Wayde Nielson to look at equipment. Lori Ann Larsen was appointed to the Emery County Care and Rehabilitation Board. A 3 percent raise was authorized for Julie Hall, Karen Royall and Tyson Huntington for successful completion of their six month orientation period. Troylyn Bentley was approved as a 90 day temporary employee at the aquatic center.
The commissioners reported on their schedules for the past two weeks. Commissioner Jeff Horrocks said he attended the fire district meeting where they approved the purchase of eight new fire trucks. One for each community. He met with the Civil Air Patrol. They are trying to revitalize that organization and would like to ask for pilots and nonpilots to join. The organization aids search and rescue in searches by air. The new recruits to the organization can be of all ages. They will work with the Emery County Sheriff's Office on any searches in Emery County.
Commissioner Laurie Pitchforth reported she attended Sen. Bennett's rural conference in Price last Thursday and Friday. She attended the drug coalition which meets to discuss prevention of drug abuse in Emery County. The Utah State Extension Office sponsored a relationship speaker, Matt Townsend over Valentines weekend and his books are available at the extension office. The extension office has started their master gardener classes and they have family photos coming up on March 6-7. The Miss Emery committee is beginning work on the pageant. Any girls between 17-24 are eligible to try out for the pageant which will be held on July 17. Volunteers are needed to serve on the committee and anyone wishing to help out can call Laurie at the commission office at 381-2119. The Royal tea party will be held on June 5. Commissioner Pitchforth reported Sheriff Guymon is doing well.
The patients at the care center have been moved into the south wing. "I would like to thank the staff at the care center. They are doing such a great job during this remodel taking care of the patients needs," said Commissioner Pitchforth.
Commissioner Kofford reported their is an economic development summit in Green River on March 11 beginning at 1 p.m. "I attended the RV show in Salt Lake that the travel bureau participated in and in talking to the people, many of them are repeat visitors to Emery County. These visitors have a significant impact on the county. They were concerned about what Pres. Obama is doing concerning a monument in the Swell. The governor has met with Secretary of the Interior Salazar and he assures us this will not happen. Sen. Bennett is putting together a bill to stop the President from designating lands under the Antiquities Act of 1906. Wyoming passed a bill years ago stating the Antiquities Act would no longer apply to them and they have been successful with it. We have talked extensively with Rep. Matheson's office and our legislators are all against a monument. When the hearings took place against the Red Rock Wilderness Act then the grassroots efforts for a county land use bill was emphasized that the efforts should come from the local level.
"The public lands council has been working on a public land use bill. The lands council has formed subcommittees which involve all the players. It will be an Emery County bill. We are trying to push for what we'd like to see happen. We would like the current Wilderness Study Areas to become wilderness and we'd like to manage the rest of the desert under the Bureau of Land Management's Resource Management plan. We are not moving toward a monument. It is our intent that what will come out of this will settle the issues of wilderness, grazing, transportation, oil, gas and mining. The BLM RMP has an answer to most of it. The RMP is a good tool for managing the Swell. It was put together with input from all interested parties and we can live with it," said Commissioner Kofford.
Commissioner Kofford encouraged anyone with questions about where Emery County is heading with a land use bill to call him or Ray Petersen.


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New Orleans, Louisiana. Another mid-century modern building may be demolished in the Crescent City. Edward Durell Stone's World Trade Center, built as the International Trade Mart, has been under threat since the mid-1990s. Begun in 1959 and partially occupied by 1966, the ITM set the standard for other such structures worldwide. Designed to promote foreign commerce through the Port of New Orleans, the ITM was home to the trade organization, the Dock Board, stevedores, international consulates, shipping companies, a women's clinic, modistes and an art gallery.


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The following maps can help you to better understand the scriptures. By knowing the geography of the lands discussed in the scriptures, you can better understand scriptural events.
Overview and Key
The outlines on the map below indicate the focus of each of the numbered maps that follow. These maps are composed of large regions as well as narrowly focused geographical areas.
- Physical Map of the Holy Land
- Israel's Exodus from Egypt and Entry into Canaan
- The Division of the 12 Tribes
- The Empire of David and Solomon
- The Assyrian Empire
- The New Babylonian Empire and the Kingdom of Egypt
- The Persian Empire
- The Roman Empire
- The World of the Old Testament
- Canaan in Old Testament Times
- The Holy Land in New Testament Times
- Jerusalem at the Time of Jesus
- The Missionary Journeys of the Apostle Paul
- Holy Land Elevations
Following is a key to understanding the different symbols and typefaces used on the maps. In addition, individual maps may contain keys with explanations of additional symbols pertaining to that particular map.
|A red dot represents a city or town.
|A small black triangle represents a mountain.
|Dead Sea
|This typeface is used for geographic places such as seas, rivers, mountains, deserts, and islands.
|This typeface is used for cities and towns (and for the detailed locations on the Jerusalem city map).
|This typeface is used for smaller political divisions such as regions, peoples, and tribes.
|This typeface is used for larger political divisions such as empires and nations.


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By Brendan Conway
A linkfest of the best reading in fund investing:
- Know here as "Mr. ETF" and there as the "Godfather of ETFs," Reggie Browne is a key behind-the scenes figure. — Christopher Condon, Bloomberg Markets
- At Yale, we say "alpha" is not dead. — David F. Swensen, The Yale Endowment
- Lawyers tell Reuters that Mt. Gox's Bitcoin investors may be out of luck. – Joseph Ax and Karen Freifeld, Reuters
- Joseph A. Dear, CIO of Calpers, dies of prostate cancer at age 62. — William Alden, NYT DealBook
- Got buzzwords? "Bionic beta" was the term in the 1970s, and since fading into obscurity. — Rick Ferri, RickFerri.com
- A look at the best-performing muni-bond ETFs. — Cinthia Murphy, ETF.com
- Saba Capital Management LP and Pine River Capital Management are piling into closed-end debt funds. – Lisa Abramowicz, Bloomberg News
- Mind the gap — meaning the yawning difference between funds' year-by-year returns, and what investors actually get. — Russel Kinnel, Morningstar
- Warren Buffett's favorite indicator is not very useful for timing the market. — Barry Ritholtz, Bloomberg View
- Currency hedging your international stock portfolio isn't exotic — it's what a rational investor would do if he were starting from scratch. — Jeremy Schwartz, WisdomTree.com
- An Emory University accounting professor finds suspicious trading patterns … at the SEC! — Dave Michaels, Bloomberg News


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This morning I was sent an article from Huffington Post entitled "5 Tips For Eating Healthfully At A Cookout". Simply reading the title made me want to report the sender to my ISP for violating spamming regulations, but for some reason I felt compelled to click on the link to see what kind of shenanigans the folks over at Huff Post were spewing. What I found was a list of ridiculousness that was more absurd than anything I could have ever imagined. Somehow they managed to suck the heart and soul out of America's only true cuisine just before the weekend we pay homage to those who gave the ultimate sacrifice for our freedom. And as such, I feel compelled to respond from the perspective of an overindulgent meatatarian who embraces and celebrates


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Over the last few months I have received several e-mails from patients with suture reactions, possibly allergic reactions (photo credit). I say possibly because not being their treating physician I can't verify them, but by the descriptions they seem real. I reviewed this topic last year, but felt the need to revisit it. Hope you don't mind me sharing with you.
Allergic reactions to suture materials are rare and have been specifically associated with chromic gut. However, Johnson and Johnson mention known triclosan allergy as a contraindication for use of certain sutures (see below). Contact allergy to triclosan is uncommon.
Surgical gut suture (Plain and Chromic) is contraindicated in patients with known sensitivities or allergies to collagen or chromium, as gut is a collagen based material, and chromic gut is treated with chromic salt solutions.
MONOCRYL Plus Antibacterial suture should not be used in patients with known allergic reactions to Irgacare MP(triclosan).
PDS Plus Antibacterial suture should not be used in patients with known allergic reactions to Irgacare MP (triclosan).
VICRYL*suture should not be used in patients with known allergic reactions to Irgacare MP (triclosan).
Surgical Stainless Steel Suture may elicit an allergic response in patients with known sensitivities to 316L stainless steel, or constituent metals such as chromium and nickel. Skin staples are surgical steel so should be used with the same precautions.
Dermabond -- Tissue glues should not be used in patients with a known hypersensitivity to cyanoacrylate or formaldehyde.
So what is left to use in a patient who may have or has a proven allergy to suture or closure material?
Silk, Dexon, Nylon(monofilament or braided), Prolene, INSORB (absorbable staples), and any of the above listed (in the allergy section) to which the patient in question doesn't react negatively.
The choice of a particular suture material will have to based further on the wound, tissue characteristics, and anatomic location. Understanding the various characteristics of available suture materials will be even more important to make an educated selection.
The amount of suture placed in a wound, particularly with respect to the knot volume, affects inflammation. The suture size contributes more to knot volume than the number of throws. The volume of square knots is less than that of sliding knots, and knots of monofilament sutures are smaller than those of multifilament sutures.
- Allergic Suture Material Contact Dermatitis Induced by Ethylene Oxide: G. Dagregorio, G. Guillet; Allergy Net Article
- Johnson and Johnson Product Information
- Current Issues in the Prevention and Management of Surgical Site Infection - Part 2; MedScape Article
- MECHANICS OF BIOMATERIALS: SUTURES AFTER THE SURGERY; Raúl De Persia, Alberto Guzmán, Lisandra Rivera and Jessika Vazquez
- Materials for Wound Closure by Margaret Terhune, MD; eMedicine Article
- Product Allergy Watch: Triclosan; MedScape Article by Lauren Campbell; Matthew J. Zirwas


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By COREY BLUEMELStaff Writer
At the regular meeting of the Emery County Commissioners, the portable bleachers which the Emery County Recreation District has acquired was the first item up for discussion. During an inquiry into the cost of liability insurance to carry on the bleachers, the recreation district was quoted $1,600 per month for the premium. Commissioner Drew Sitterud explained that the cost of that premium is impossible for the recreation district to carry for the bleachers.
Commissioner Sitterud instructed Mary Huntington to ask the county insurance carrier, USEP, what it would cost the county to carry the insurance. Huntington explained that if the bleachers were the property of the county, there would be no increase in the amount of the insurance premium presently paid by the county.
Commissioner Sitterud went on to explain that the bleachers were acquired with a community impact board grant which the recreation district received for the purchase of the bleachers. He noted that one of the stipulations of the grant is for the recreation district to retain ownership of the bleachers for five years. Before ownership of the bleachers can be transferred to the county for insurance purposes, the transfer must be approved by the CIB. If this transfer of ownership is approved, the county would then maintain control, such as scheduling, insurance and maintenance, of the bleachers. The commissioners approved to proceed with the request for the transfer of ownership of the bleachers from the recreation district to the county.
Emery County Economic Director Mike McCandless presented contract #030845 for amendment #7 for consideration and explained it is a continuation of a past contract. This contract deals with the Department of Workforce Services, Emery Telcom, and the county in an existing contract for the completion of surveys that are completed during the year. Emery Telcom had previously bid on providing the surveys and was awarded the bid. The DWS is the agency which is the contracting agency, and Emery County is the facilitator of the contract. Each year amendments are required to update the number of surveys to be completed in that calendar year. This amendment is for 2006, and it was approved by the commission.
Commissioner Ira Hatch said he had been approached several months ago by Four Corners Behavioral Health, along with several citizens, to become involved in the alcohol monitoring bracelet program. Research has been completed into a company to supply the monitoring bracelets and Four Corners has proposed to be the service provider for the project. It has been proposed the county purchase 13 units at a price of $1,600 each.
If a person is ordered by a judge to wear a monitoring bracelet, the sheriff's office would do the installation, activation and deactivation of the unit. The bracelet will then conduct a test every hour to determine if alcohol is being used. The results are sent to a main computer for monitoring and recording. This system is considered to be a more accurate measure of actual alcohol usage. The monitoring bracelets will be used by Adult Probation and Parole, and also by the drug court. In addition to measuring the alcohol usage, the unit will send a signal if it is being misused or tampered with. As a part of the sentencing, the person would be responsible to pay daily monitoring fees, plus a flat rate to reimburse the county for the initial purchase prices of the bracelet.
In review of the contract proposed, Emery County Sheriff Lamar Guymon, along with Emery County Attorney David Blackwell, raised several questions. The commissioners tabled any action on this issue until more investigation can be completed and changes made to the contract wording.
As part of the risk management in the USEP insurance for Emery County, a request was made by USEP to provide a "release of liability" form to be signed by private citizens who rent county facilities. Huntington explained that the form is for buildings, such as senior centers, which are rented by residents for personal use. We have spectator insurance for those who attend county sponsored events, but this is an agreement which states that the county is not liable for any accident which may occur in a county owned facility during a personal usage rental of that facility. Blackwell and Huntington were requested by the commissioners to further investigate several items in question on the form, and the issue was tabled until the next meeting.
The commissioners then approved an easement, contingent on an encroachment permit being obtained from the road department. This easement will allow a private engineering firm to cross three Emery County roads with pipelines. This company is installing a secondary water system to residences in Carbon County. An easement is required before they can cross the Emery County roads to reach a land locked property.
In other actions taken by the Emery County Commissioners, approval was given to Sgt. Martin Wilson to apply for two grants for emergency services, and hazardous materials preparedness. They also approved to allow Commissioner Sitterud to proceed with the sound system installation project in the Museum of the San Rafael. Approval was needed because the amount the system is costing is slightly above the pre-approved amount.
Emery County is in the process of changing from a private provider for cleaning services to an in-house employee provider. Commissioner Gary Kofford requested permission to purchase several pieces of used cleaning equipment from Castle Valley Maintenance. The purchase was approved contingent on the inspection of the equipment.
Dannette Waite, Julie Jones and Pauline Jensen, of the youth city councils, informed the commissioners about past youth leadership summits. The youth leadership council has presented two summits and both have been well attended. In the past the youth councils have participated in the Emery County Chamber of Commerce lamb fry and other projects as fund raisers to pay for the summit. They have also relied heavily on local businesses to donate. Jones requested consideration by the commissioners to allow the youth city councils to take over the lamb fry and the funds raised from that would finance their entire summit. Commissioner Sitterud informed the youth leadership council members that the fair is in the planning stages now and some location changes are being proposed that may require the lamb fry to be shortened in the number of days it is served. He also stated that the lamb fry works in conjunction with the Castle Valley Pageant and is not affiliated with the fair board.
The next meeting of the Emery County Commission is Feb. 7 at 9 a.m. in the commission chambers in the county building.


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Remarks by Achim Steiner, UN Under-Secretary General and chair of the UN's High Level Committee on Programmes (HLCP)
Check Against Delivery
Brasilia, 24 October 2011-Izabella Teixeira, Minister of the Environment, Brazil; Ambassadors Vera Machado Barrouin and Luiz Alberto Figuerido; Jorge Chediek, the UN's Resident Coordinator in Brazil; senior government officials, ladies and gentlemen,
UN day marks the day when the UN Charter was ratified and brought into force after World War II.
It is perhaps worth recalling some of the preamble to that Charter as the world heads towards Rio+20 in June next year.
. to save succeeding generations from the scourge of war, which twice in our lifetime has brought untold sorrow to mankind
. to reaffirm faith in fundamental human rights, in the dignity and worth of the human person, in the equal rights of men and women and of nations large and small
. to establish conditions under which justice and respect for the obligations arising from treaties and other sources of international law can be maintained
. to promote social progress and better standards of life in larger freedom
In short, it is about people and our shared, common humanity: it speaks of fundamental human rights and of justice; it underlines obligations arising from treaties and the imperative of social progress.
The Charter is as relevant today as it was over 60 years ago in terms of its intent and its aspirations.
What does need changing is the implementation of the ideals and aims in a world markedly similar yet markedly different from that of 1945, not least geopolitically and not least in terms of humanity's impact and presence on the planet.
When the Charter was agreed, the world population stood at 2.3 billion despite the terrible losses of World War II.
By 1992, when world leaders convened in Rio for the Earth Summit, it stood at 5.5 billion, sometime next week the seventh billion person will be born.
. 1.5 billion additional people in just 20 years, that 26 per cent increase is equal to the entire population in 1900
. Seven billion people who each have fundamental human rights
Right to Development
Seven billion people who also should have "equality of opportunity for all in their access to basic resources, education, health services, food, housing, employment and the fair distribution of income".
A point underlined in Article 8 of the 1986 UN Declaration on the Right to Development, some 40 years after the UN Charter was established.
Excellences, ladies and gentlemen,
It is perhaps the Right to Development that should be in the upper minds of a new generation of world leaders in terms of the challenges but also the opportunities when they meet at Rio+20.
The ongoing financial and economic crisis that emerged in 2008 can be a distraction or it can be an engine for transformational change, indeed it in many ways already is.
The deregulation of the banking sector in many countries in the late 20th century is being challenged as having been at best imprudent.
Some are also questioning the phenomenon of globalization itself, but it is not globalization per se that has brought large parts of the global economy to the brink.
Rather it has been the way financial capital has been flowing in recent years, unfettered and unchecked and all too often invested in speculation rather than in innovation, social progress and what one might term 'the real economy'.
Trade, regulated under the World Trade Organization, has assisted in lifting millions out of poverty in Asia and Latin America.
But the unregulated financial markets have delivered the Right to Development for the few at the expense of the many, the gap between rich and poor has widened.
Currently 1.3 billion people are also unemployed or under-employed and over the next ten years or so another half a billion people will be coming onto the labour market looking for work.
The young are already carrying a disproportionately high burden in this respect.
In many countries of North Africa and the Middle East youth unemployment hovers at around 23 to 29 percent or higher.
The youth employment crisis isn't confined to any region or just developing countries - in the Eurozone, youth unemployment has jumped from 14 percent to 20 percent in the past few years, and in some countries, the number is even higher.
In Asia, youth are 4.7 times more likely to be unemployed than adults. In some parts of Africa, youth unemployment can be as high as 70 percent.
In Latin America and the Caribbean, there has been an increase in the share of teenagers engaged in informal sector employment, rather than formal sector, since the economic and financial crisis of 2008 according to the International Labour Organization (ILO).
Globally, youth account for a quarter of the working age population but account for 40 percent of unemployment.
Even in countries where youth employment may seem encouraging, simple statistics can mask the reality.
The ILO estimates that 152 million young people, or about 28 percent of all the young workers in the world, worked but remained in extreme poverty in households surviving on less than US$1.25 per person per day in 2008.
The Right to Development is also being impacted by a development path that either under-values natural capital or considers it value-less-despite it representing close to 90 per cent of the GDP of the poor in some communities and countries.
And the Right to Development is also being impacted by the externalizing of costs such as pollution. 2.5 million people die prematurely from outdoor air pollution annually and millions are exposed to toxic mercury pollution linked with gold mining and other industries.
Before and after the ratification of the UN Charter, many institutions have been established and many creative instruments developed to address the social and environmental norms and standards deemed necessary in a civilized and progressive world.
The UN Environment Programme (UNEP) which I have the privilege to head will be 40 years old in 2012 for example. The International Labour Organization pre-dates the UN charter itself and last year UN Women was established.
In some areas, trade for example, the international community does meet the aspirations of "justice and respect for the obligations arising from treaties and other sources of international law".
But all too often in respect to social protection and environmental sustainability, accountability is found wanting whether it be climate change or biodiversity loss.
As a result the Right to Development, in its full and comprehensive sense, today remains for the majority a dream rather than a reality.
And it will continue to be that way on a planet of over nine billion people by 2050, unless a family of over 190 nations can find the leadership, courage, creativity and cooperative strategies to implement sustainable development and the landmark provisions and agreements of the past 60 plus year including those of the Rio Earth Summit of 1992.
RIO+20; an Institutional Framework
Your Excellences, ladies and gentlemen,
Rio+20's two themes are a Green Economy in the context of sustainable development and poverty eradication and an institutional framework for sustainable development.
How might world leaders and ministers, in partnership with business and civil society be the architects of a new and evolved framework next June, one that accelerates and implements wide-ranging social progress over the 21st century.
Within the UN and beyond there has been a great deal of brainstorming and perhaps I could share a few ideas-these circle around reformed governance at the global, regional and national level because they are all parts of the complex jigsaw puzzle that needs to be put in place.
Firstly governance at the national level
In many countries, public understanding, public participation and thus public support for sustainable development and the necessary policy strategies remains low.
Governments, as a first step, could consider increasing their investment in terms of funding and time to boost societal involvement in the aims and objectives of Agenda 21, agreed at Rio 1992.
Ministries or agencies responsible for social and environmental issues also need strengthening and to achieve perhaps parity with those responsible for finance and economy.
Governments might also wish to consider establishing inclusive advisory bodies to review and monitor a country's progress towards agreed sustainability goals.
Secondly, regional governance
Regional intergovernmental organizations including the UN Regional Commissions could play an important role in fostering and assessing implementation of sustainable development among their members.
Indeed regional intergovernmental organizations could if fully supported be the enabling bridge between global and local policies aimed at achieving sustainable development.
Thirdly, governance at the global level
I think we are all aware that a measure of skepticism as to whether the UN is able to meet the contemporary needs of a community of nations has entered the global debate.
But there are abundant examples of the UN's value added when member states perhaps put aside the narrow issues that often divide in favour of the larger areas that unite us all.
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change is a good example as is the Montreal Protocol on substances that deplete the ozone layer; a treaty that enjoys universal ratification.
That said, there is an urgency to fast forward UN reform in order to reflect the complexity of the world in the 21st century and rise to the sustainable development challenge.
One issue that needs to be perhaps addressed is the perception within and outside the UN that development is only about assisting developing countries.
The fact is that there is no country in the world, developed or developing, that has achieved sustainable development on any reasonable indicator whether it be poverty eradication or sustainable consumption patterns.
The UN has a great deal of scientific, technical knowledge and other skills in this domain that need to be put at the service of all member states.
This is going to require a reconfiguration of the way UN agencies and programmes operate together and with countries and regions.
There is evidence that this can be done in order to make the UN as a whole operate more effectively and more efficiently including by organizing cross-agency collaboration on complex and cross-sectorial issues.
. The Transition Group, supporting governments on designing the Green Climate Fund is one
. Another example would be the Social Protection Floor initiative of the ILO in which a wide range of UN agencies are now collaborating
. Or Global Pulse, the UN Secretary-General's recent technology and data initiative
. Or the UN's Environmental Management Group on greening economies in which 40 agencies, including the Bretton Woods Institutions, are participating.
Others examples are the groupings of UN entities in order to respond to complex development issues in specific fields such as UN Energy, UN AIDS, UN Water and UN Oceans.
There are also other more fundamental proposals being discussed in the run up to Rio+20 designed to achieve better coordination and effectiveness.
These range from reforming the ECOSOC; establishing a Sustainable Development Council along the lines of the Human Rights Council to establishing a Global Economic Coordination Council and a UN or World Environment Organization.
Time will tell which, if any, of these proposals will flourish between now and next June.
Beyond GDP
But one of the key roles of any new institutional framework for sustainable development needs to be not only a decisive way of implementing what has been including the agreed including the financing, but also a rigorous monitoring and measure of success; nationally and globally.
Gross Domestic Product (GDP) is an indicator of economic transactions and activity; it is in many dimensions silent on human well-being and social equity: it no longer reflects the science, the knowledge and the needs of a more complex world
The elements of a new indicator are being vigorously discussed and debated and there are indeed many building blocks that can assist in the construction of a more inclusive and wide-ranging indicator.
For example the Human Development Index; the ILO's Decent Work indicator and the UN System of Integrated Environmental-Economic Accounting which in 2012 will have established an international standard in this area.
The UN, including UNEP is also working closely with the OECD on its Measuring Progress of Societies initiative.
The world is passing through a moment in time where we are at one of those proverbial crossroads where some tough and transformative choices need to be made.
One recent writer has termed it a 'system re-set'.
The world has gone through similar moments; the banking crises and railway infrastructure investment bubbles of the 19th century and the Great Depression of the early 20th century.
In part as a result of leadership at the highest level and in part because of human capital and human innovation, the world did not end.
Indeed some of the greatest prosperity the world has ever known emerged after the Great Depression and many of the extraordinary inventions that we enjoy today such as the telephone and radio emerged out of the crises of the late 19th century.
It is time again for leadership and for justice and a new pact with the global public for social progress that can sustain the lives, livelihoods and hopes of this and future generations.
. A time for a Right to Development that takes the long view than the Right to Get Rich Quick.
The last two or three years have been marked by fear, harsh words and for some a sense of powerlessness in the face of the global financial crisis and other challenges; climate change for example.
But it has also been an extraordinary time of intellectual debate and discussion, in which a wide array of creative and constructive ideas have been emerging across governments, academia, NGOs and business and within the UN on a fresh way forward.
RIO+20 is now increasingly providing the food for thought, the fuel and the focus for this global reflection and sense of endeavor that can transform a sense of fin de siècle into a new and optimistic moment for civilisation .
Brazil, the host country in 2012 and the host of the Rio Earth Summit, is very much part of that fertile debate in terms of positive and powerful outcomes for net June and I would like to congratulate the President and her government alongside the companies and the people of Brazil for their leadership and commitment.
Could Rio+20 represent a moment in time where ideas, directions and values linked with common humanity, that have been maturing since the UN Charter was born; fully flourish, finally bear full fruit.
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The Museum's Graphic Arts Collection, the oldest print-collecting unit in the Smithsonian, focuses on the technical and social history of printmaking to document how prints are made and used. Smithsonian art museums collect works on paper selected for aesthetic reasons, but the National Museum of American History (formerly the Museum of History and Technology) takes a broad view of visual culture.
Our prints illustrate technical developments and cultural changes. They represent all kinds of graphic works that have influenced American society. The collection has always included examples from many periods and countries, fine-art prints as well as popular and commercial graphic art, together with the plates, blocks, and tools used to produce prints. In 1996 the Museum presented an exhibition on 150 years of Smithsonian print collecting, Building a National Collection.
One of the largest print collections ever received by the Smithsonian was donated by the Ferris family between 1927 and 1932. Stephen James Ferris (1835–1915), a Philadelphia painter and etcher, collected over 2,000 European and American prints, both reproductive and original, representing old master and contemporary printmakers. The collection incorporated a variety of artistic subjects, compositions, and styles. Ferris may well have mined it for inspiration for his own work, but he was also deeply interested in art for its own sake. He and his family and friends would have simply enjoyed studying the images.
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Moorish Gate, Granada
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- Stephen Ferris's watercolor view Justicia, Granada shows the Alhambra's Gate of Justice (Puerta de la Justicia) painted during the artist's 1881 visit to Spain. In a letter to Sylvester R. Koehler, later Curator of Graphic Arts at the Smithsonian, Ferris, deeply moved by his experiences, observed: "'See the Alhambra and die' seems a very appropriate expression. I feel it and have more reverence for the Arabs [sic] art than any other school."
- Today the Gate of Justice is the main entrance to the Alhambra complex, which was completed by the Moors in the fourteenth century. The Spanish, who defeated the Moors in 1492, made later additions.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- date made
- 1881
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- Ferris, Stephen James
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- 14548
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- 94830
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The penalty phase of the Jodi Arias trail was postponed for unknown reasons after a closed-door hearing on Thursday. It is unclear if the decision was due to the interview Arias gave minutes after the verdict was announced. VPC
PHOENIX -- If a jury finds Jodi Arias eligible for the death penalty, she would join only a handful of women on Arizona's death row.
Only three of the 125 inmates on death row in Arizona are women, and one of them, Debra Milke, recently had her conviction overturned. A woman hasn't been executed in Arizona since 1930. And that execution didn't go very well. Eva Dugan, convicted of killing a Tucson chicken farmer, was hanged and accidentally decapitated.
Arias was convicted Wednesday of the premeditated murder of her former boyfriend, Travis Alexander. Next week jurors will start deliberating whether the 32-year-old should get the death penalty or life in prison.
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"Statistically ... it's very unlikely that she will be sentenced to death," said Victor Streib, a retired law professorat Ohio Northern University who has researched the death penalty since the 1970s. "If she's sentenced to death, it's extremely unlikely she'll be put to death. But predicting what a jury will do is difficult."
Streib and other experts point to two factors leading to the low number of women on death row:
• Women commit far fewer first-degree murders than men.
• Jurors may have a gender bias, viewing women as mothers and caregivers, traits that make it harder to impose the death penalty, they say.
"Even though we've come a long way in trying to treat women and men equally, as we know, we aren't there," said Andy Silverman, an attorney who has worked on capital cases and a professor at the University of Arizona's James E. Rogers College of Law.
Nationally, women commit about 10 percent of murders but account for only about 2 percent of death sentences. In a given year, three to five women receive the death penalty, a number that has stayed about the same over the past 40 years, Streib said.
It's even more rare for a state to execute a woman. Since 1973, women have accounted for only 12 executions, less than 1 percent..
Women are also more likely to kill someone close to them -- a husband, lover or a child -- than strangers, the experts say. Crimes of passion are many times not premeditated so they don't end up being capital cases.
In Arias' case, she knew her victim well. Travis Alexander was her former boyfriend, and they had an on-again, off-again relationship. They would split up, but then he would invite her over for sex.
Arias admitted killing Alexander on June 4, 2008. Five days later, friends found Alexander in the shower of his Mesa home. He had 27 stab wounds, a slashed throat and a bullet in his head.
The jury will look at what are called "aggravating factors" in determining whether she deserves the death penalty.
The prosecution has alleged cruelty as an aggravating factor in Arias' case. For a finding of cruelty, the jury must agree that the victim, while conscious, experienced mental and physical pain and that the defendant knew or should have known that the victim would suffer.
The jury has to find an aggravating factor — or the death penalty is off the table. Arias would instead then get 25 year to life in prison or life without the possibility of parole.
Juries can be highly influenced if the crime is especially graphic, experts say. In the Arias case, prosecutors showed photo after photo of blood spatters and stains. One image showed Alexander's head cut halfway off. Many juries are never able to get past the photos, experts say. The images stay with them.
The defense will introduce mitigating factors, reasons why the jury should be more lenient. Defense attorneys often seek to portray the woman defendant as emotionally dependent, shy and under the man's control. Other times, they try to build sympathy by bringing up the woman's difficult childhood.
Much of the outcome depends on the skill of attorneys, said Richard Dieter, executive director of the Death Penalty Information Center, a non-profit group in Washington, D.C.
Deter cites as an example the case of Susan Smith, who killed her two sons in South Carolina in 1994. On an October evening, Smith was despondent over a recent breakup with a married man. She considered suicide. Instead, she strapped 3-year-old Michael and 14-month-old Alex into their car seats and rolled the car into the lake. She first said a black man carjacked the vehicle. Then, when her story unraveled, she confessed.
Her attorney, the famous death-penalty lawyer Judy Clarke, was able to arouse sympathy for Smith. Clarke described Smith as depressed and still suffering from being sexually molested by her stepfather. A jury spared her life. She is serving 30 years to life in prison.
In the Arias case, the experts say that even though the jury found her guilty of first-degree murder, sentencing her to death is another matter.
"Even somebody who voted for (first-degree murder) may not feel comfortable with the death penalty," Silverman said.


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VOICE OF THE NATION - The Fountain of Youth Part 3
Vintage Flame
September 13 2011 04:17PM
To round up our series on what the Flames have in the system, I wanted to focus on two ends of the future spectrum. To me it is like bringing this story to completion in full circle. With all the different aspects that I have talked about, and all the different possibilities of what the Flames up-and-comers have to offer the future of this organization, I want to end this series with the blue chip prospect and the dark horse that comes with him.
In 2010, in the 7th round, the Flames drafted Patrick Holland. Was he a gamble? In the 7th round, players aren't generally seen as gambles, or highly touted for that matter. Maybe he was one of those players that were overlooked by scouts, even those of the Flames. After all, he is a player that, at least at the CHL level, can do it all.
In Holland's draft year, he had 36 pts in 59 games and was a +2. Not a standout year by any mark for the rookie, but was decent. It was a learning curve year for him; he was playing his off-wing, but it showed his diversity. The scouting report on Holland was that he was offensively gifted but had a lot to learn on the defensive side of his game. And learn he did.
In the 2010-11 season, Holland registered 62 pts in 71 games, and was a +10. He was given a more prominent role on the Tri-City Americans, and he used the opportunity to develop his all around game. Part of his talent comes from good vision of the ice. He is a good set up man, but is also capable of scoring the clutch goal when his team needs one. Holland already demonstrates the traits of a solid two-way player, as he can be used in a shut down role of the opposition's top lines. Arik James over at M&G had the opportunity to interview Patrick, and one of the things he asked him was, if his dramatically improved defensive play was turning him more into a defensive specialist? Holland didn't agree... but didn't pass it off either.
"Not entirely, but I'll take whatever role is given to me. And no matter what role you have on the ice, you do have to play both ends. It's not a sport where you can just be an offensive guy. Either way I try to take care of my own end first and then when I get my chance in the offensive zone, I just try to make the best of it."
I'm really hoping that Holland gets the chance to showcase the kind of value he can bring to the Heat, and eventually the Flames. Another year with Tri-City is going to be the opportunity to let it all hang out and be that dominant two-way player that he can be. If he can add some muscle to his frame and still be able to increase his developmental curve, like he has over the last two years, then he should be a key asset for Canada at the World Junior Championship. A good performance at a tournament like the WJC, could remove the 'dark horse' tag off of him, and give the fans really something to be excited about for the future.
Sven Baertschi is the guy we have all been waiting for. Or at least that's what we, as fans, are building him up to be. If Holland was the 'dark horse', then Baertschi is the thoroughbred. He represents a lot of what Calgary stayed away from in prior drafts under Sutter. This kid is all about offense and he knows it too. In his rookie season with the Portland Winterhawks, Baertschi scored 34 goals and 51 assists for 85 pts, in just 66 games. Some skeptics claim that most of his success was due to him playing with offensively charged, potentially higher draft picks. Sven mostly saw time on the 2nd line with Cunningham and Rattie, rather than the top line of Niederreiter, Johansen and Ross. While lines were sometimes shuffled, having Baertschi on the 2nd line provided more balanced scoring.
The one thing about Baertschi that I noticed right off the bat is his confidence with and without the puck. He has very quick hands, but what makes him more dangerous is his lack of hesitation with the puck. If he needs to make the pass, he does it, and precisely. But if the shot is there, he'll see that too; and is accurate when he lets it go. At a young age, Sven shows an acute hockey IQ. Offensively he is the complete package, a nifty puck-handler, and his ability to know where everyone is on the ice, makes him, according to central scouting, one of the best at distributing the puck.
Obviously the Flames are counting on Baertschi to play a major role in this organization's future, and for good reason. He is as determined to develop as they come. He is not the biggest kid and although some scouts have said he doesn't have the blazing speed that is usually present when a player lacks size, Portland's head coach, Mike Johnston believes that he works at showcasing his skills in a more complete fashion.
"Quick, skilled, very fast type of player... I don't think anyone can stay on the ice as long as he does. We have to tell him to get off the ice 45 minutes after practice ends. He stays out there forever to work on his game. He works on inside-outside moves, quick shots and little foot movement."
Since he has been quite the topic of conversation this off-season, I'm sure many people have seen what Baertschi is capable of skill ad talent wise, but this kid is a lot of fun to watch when he gets going! So courtesy of Hockey Draft Videos...
For a guy that has been said to have a lack of speed, he looked alright to me. Making plays at a fairly high speed but maintaining complete control of the puck is a lot more appealing than a guy who can skate like the wind, but always runs the risk of having the puck poked off his stick, or even over-skating the puck into the zone. Smart controlled play with moves made at full speed is going to be a huge asset for the not so huge player. Even though he has been known to avoid physical play; who cares? I don't want a guy like this out there running guys like he's Matt Cooke. He is drafted as an offensively skilled guy, and as long as plays responsibly and uses his vision of the ice to his benefit; then he doesn't need to be overly physical. Even without the physical dominance, he is not a player that shies away from tough play inside close quarters. That's just smart hockey.
In the wake of the Tim Erixon signing (or absence of signing) fiasco, Baertschi was quickly put to paper shortly after the Flames called his name 13th overall at the draft. Even though I'm sure one had nothing to do with the other, it was nice to see Feaster and company obviously think enough of this kid to not even risk a potentially devastating repeat of events.
Watching the Flames prospect game, I was very impressed with the play of Baertschi and Holland. Those two, together with Max Reinhart, seemed like a good fit and controlled a lot of the play when on the ice. All three will return to their respective CHL teams when the season starts, but I really like the start these guys, and hopefully the players that follow them, will add in the future development of the Calgary Flames.
When you recycle the same sludge through a broken filtration system, you still get sludge, only a different colour. Stay the course Jay Feaster! Things looks sketchy and uncertain right now. However, if you continue to fill the Fountain of Youth with dynamic players, each adding something unique to this organization, then as someone said, somewhere, at sometime... Hope springs eternal!
September 13 2011, 04:54PM
I wonder if Reinhart and Holland can impress Hockey Canada enough early in the season to get an invite to the WJC selection camp. By my count, the forward group will only have about 4 or 5 guys returning to the team (Connolly, Couturier, Howden, J.Schwarz, and maybe Johanssen but I doubt it), so there is a shot that, if they play well to start the season, they could make the team. Obviously, if RNH doesnt make the Oilers, he's a shoe in to make the team, along with Jonathan Huberdeau. It'll be tough for either of them to make it, but hopefully they can do it.
September 13 2011, 05:13PM
Holland already got an invite but Reinhart did not. For some reason.
The type of player that we need to be looking for in the drafts and in trades with other teams. Acquisitions like Baertschi, Granlund, Gaudreau, and Byron this year are reason to hope for the future. You cant teach skill, vision, and talent you need to draft it and let the players develop the rest of the game that is teachable.
As you mentioned with Holland that his draft review was a one dimensional offensive player. These type of players can learn to play defense but know how to provide offense. Drafting a defensive player that is going to top out as a grinder makes no sense.
September 13 2011, 08:51PM
"Making plays at a fairly high speed but maintaining complete control of the puck is a lot more appealing than a guy who can skate like the wind, but always runs the risk of having the puck poked off his stick, or even over-skating the puck into the zone. "
M. Lombardi or S. Donnovan anyone - my sentiments exactly.
Nice video!!!
September 13 2011, 09:04PM
You also can't teach size. That said, I like the 'gamble' the Flames took this year. I suspect that the Flames picked each of these players late, because other teams passed on them, since each of them is under-sized. It's not a strategy that can be employed in multiple draft years, but drafting little guys with lots of skill could pay off, especially if the late round guy actually pan out.
September 13 2011, 10:08PM
@Vintage Flame
Speaking of which, they still haven't re-signed him. There's a guy I'd like the Flames to inquire about.
@Kent Wilson
To punch and piss off the Sedins? I'd sign him just for that haha.
Great work VF. I'm hoping I can catch a couple games when Kootenay comes to Lethbridge to see how Reinhart is progressing, because I noticed a huge difference in his play from when I saw him at the start and at the end of the year. I have high hopes for him. I haven't seen Baertschi or Holland in person but from what I've heard/seen on TV, they made major strides this year. Hopefully they continue their progress. On a side note: Do you see anyone of these guys playing the first 10 games of the year just to see what they can do? I think they have 10 games to play him before it counts toward his ELC.
September 13 2011, 10:47PM
Speaking of which, they still haven't re-signed him. There's a guy I'd like the Flames to inquire about.
To that end, what would you think would be a fair offer for Marchand?
Hey, if you guys are interested in acquiring small players with skill I hear Patrick O'Sullivan and Robert Nilsson could both be available. Just saying, been there... ;-)
September 13 2011, 11:23PM
@Vintage Flame
Hagman, Stajan, err...Stempniak?
September 14 2011, 08:09AM
While I admit that my first hope in the draft was for Grimaldi, I have high hopes for Bartschi. Lets hope our developmetn system has improved to the point we don't ruin the kid.
Also a fan of Reinhart and Holland.
The problem, as I see it, is that by the time these are truly making an impact at the NHL level Iginla, Tanguay, etc. will be beyond useless.
In other words, I know Feaster said King can find another GM if he wants to burn it to the ground, so lets find another GM and get burn it to the ground already. Some more picks and prospects and 2 years of bottom 5 finishes would put us in a nice position talent-wise.
Boston, Chicago, Pittsburgh, etc. - you can't win it all without 3 or 4 star players in their 20's.
I worry that this desire to always remain competitive will take feaster down the same road as Darryl where some of these assets will be moved (ala Keith Aulie) for more veteran support so that we can squeak into 8th and have "anything happen."
September 14 2011, 08:39AM
It's a rock and hard place situation. I'm certain the Flames won't commit to rebuild until a rebuild is thrust upon them (like almost all teams). The club is certainly good enough to compete, but as you say there's no clear path to taking a step into the league's upper echelon.
We'll be eying the two futures until one comes to fruition I'm afraid.
September 14 2011, 11:36AM
Looks like Marchand will be off the block by the end of the day.


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