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Tuesday November 5th, 2013 12:44am
Thai Community Lacrosse (TCL), a non-profit organization, is giving Thai people a chance to learn and play the sport of Lacrosse. Beginning with the Klong Toei district of Bangkok, the mission of TCL is to spread the game of Lacrosse within the local community for all ages and levels of competition. TCL provides both youth and adult programs and is based off of the principle that Lacrosse is a universal team sport and can be played by anyone and everyone.
Thai Community Lacrosse Youth Program:
The TCL after-school program lets children enjoy the sport of lacrosse, being outdoors with friends and learning important core values such as teamwork, sportsmanship, respectfulness, sacrifice and healthy living.
TCL First Youth Program: Roongrien Wat Klong Toei Nai:
Children in low-income areas such as the Klong Toei district are in need of more after school programs, especially in the field of physical education. School often ends at 3pm, but their parent's workday lasts until 5:30pm or later. This idle time turns children towards the streets where they risk involvement with gangs, drugs and video game addictions. TCL, with the help of Loxley CSR, targets this issue by offering an after school lacrosse program from 3pm to 5pm, every Monday, Wednesday and Thursday. To minimize risk of injuries, TCL Program teaches a non-contact, co-ed version called Intercrosse. TCL provides all equipment: sticks, tennis balls, goals and goalie helmets. The program is completely free and open to all students at Roongrien Wat Klong Toei Nai.
Exercise is essential to keeping children healthy, both physically and mentally. State schools, unfortunately, have very limited funding to be able to run a complete Physical Education or P.E. program on a regular basis. Only one hour of exercise per week is offered at P.E. class. The TCL program thus offers lacrosse as an alternative option to sport, which helps educate students not only about staying healthy and fit, but at the same time teaches them how to become a positive role model for their community.
The TCL program emphasizes core values of Lacrosse that extend beyond the playing field: teamwork, respect, fair play, and helping one another succeed on and off the playing field regardless of age or gender. Through the nature of Lacrosse being a competitive team sport, players have to work together in order for the game to run properly. Our group of Lacrosse players consists of 38 boys and girls in grades 2nd through 6th who signed up for the activity. Lacrosse offers a level playing field for all, no matter of age or sex. The program at Wat Klong Teoi Nai integrates children from all different grades into a single coherent team. The nature of the spor teaches players to work together as a team, as well as develop a strong sense of sportsmanship. These qualities are also shown by example from TCL instructors, both men and women, who range in age, nationality and background. By watching how their instructors work as a team and interact with each other, young players witness the success of teamwork and sportsmanship. This is essentially the most vital element that will eventually lead to future success in the development of a positive and responsible Thai citizen.
In just four months, the test program at Roongrien (School) Wat Klong Toei Nai had proved a huge success. Students came away with much more than simply how to play the game of Lacrosse. There was an immense improvement in the attitudes and behavior of the players. Older players interacted well with younger players, while helping them to improve their game. Teachers at the school noticed that participants in the TCL program extend this sense of teamwork and sportsmanship into the classrooms; the students became more helpful to their teachers and peers. Some even volunteered to help organize books and clean up classrooms on weekends.
Having an after school sport program instills in children a sense of structure in their daily lives. We set the criteria that in order to participate in the lacrosse program; the children must retain at least a 2.5 GPA, complete their homework to the satisfaction of their teachers and attend every single class during the school year.
After one month of issuing this policy, the school had reported astonishing proofs that lacrosse does in fact improve the lives of kids in Rongrien (School) Wat Klong Toei Nai. Not only did their grades rise significantly, but school officials also had reported that the sport of Lacrosse had motivated students to return to school again and attend full days of classes just so they could be eligible to play in the after school Lacrosse program.
These are just a few of the positive changes TCL provides for the children at Roongrien Wat Klong Toei Nai. TCL is now expanding the Youth Program to other schools across Bangkok. Ultimately, the goal is to create a Youth Lacrosse league for all children of different ages and backgrounds where they can enjoy Lacrosse together and share in their commonalities.
Thai Community Lacrosse Adult Program
Similar to the TCL youth program, the adult program provides an alternative sport for all ages, sexes, and occupations. Our team comprises of 25 members ranging from high school students to working adults. TCL hosts games and practices on Monday and Wednesday, 6-8pm at Hattrick Field at Sathu Pradit Soi 20. Everyone, even those who have never touched a lacrosse stick, are welcome to play. The program schedule is divided into two seasons:
Winter Season: December 5th - January 11th (6 weeks long)
Summer Season: June 4th – September 5th (14 weeks long)
To accommodate men and women playing together, TCL plays a modified rule of Lacrosse called Loxcrosse. Loxcrosse combines not only the rules of both men's and women's Lacrosse, but also box lacrosse. Since Thailand is a hot country (average 30 Celsius) with humidity of 90 %, we had to make changes to the normal lacrosse rules in order to accommodate this condition. The only equipment that is required for men players are: Helmet, Gloves, and a lacrosse stick. Elbow pads and chest pads are optional but most of our players do not use it. Women players are only required to have eye protection and a lacrosse stick. Thus, in Loxcrosse, we reduced the contact of normal men's style lacrosse. The biggest rule change being that "Full Body Checking/Contact" is not allowed. Similar to the Youth Program, all equipment are available for free on a loan basis. Everyone can play, regardless of sport experience, gender, age, socio-economic status, or nationality. The only requirement is an eagerness to learn. With the help of corporate sponsors and individual donations, equipment and support is provided.
For updated news, please visit: www.tclacrosse.com and check out the TCL Blog: www.tclacrosse.blog.com
Contact E-mail: email@example.com
?Thai Community Lacrosse Partners and Sponsors: Loxley Corporation, Warrior/Brine, Laxlessons.com, Panorama Productions.


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German Shepherd Dog Forums (http://www.germanshepherds.com/forum/)
- Bloodlines & Pedigrees (http://www.germanshepherds.com/forum/bloodlines-pedigrees/)
- - Computer based statistical analysis of bloodlines (http://www.germanshepherds.com/forum/bloodlines-pedigrees/203834-computer-based-statistical-analysis-bloodlines.html)
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So it's fairly easy to get all the dogs and their lineage into a computer. hip/elbow data is largely available, and other tests like DM, coat genes, etc, are becoming commonplace. A computer, properly employed, could predict trends and recognize patterns in potential breedings a far more accurately than a human. After all, computers make most of the stock trades on all major exchanges with superior accuracy. I've been kicking around the idea of making such a system. Thoughts? Ideas for publicly available data sources?
One of the problems is.........a valid sampling of offspring is not performed (at least over here) and bad results are often not posted.
Isn't that what the ZW is supposed to do over in Germany for hips but there a greater percentage of dogs are submittted for screening (or are they)?
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In other words, if out of the breeding of 2 dogs, where i know half the hips scores, whatever they may be, I can still draw meaningful conclusions that carry less confidence than if I knew every dog's hips
You can't come up with a remotely accurate confidence level using just the skewed data without some kind of reasonable estimate for the distribution of values for the overall population. Otherwise, your residuals will be so high that you might as well not bother.
Perhaps there are more generic statistics reported by veterinary schools, etc, that you can find? That would give you a place to start for some health-related values.
Haven spoken to Lee (wolfstraum) on the phone about a pedigree in the past, my thought is that the data she knew and used to decipher the pedigree is simply not available via queryable data sources. What data DOES live out there (like hip scores and some titles) may be helpful in generating an entry point for analysis, but almost certainly not to the level that one would be able to setup expectations on potential breedings. It appears to me that such info comes from years of first (or perhaps second) hand experience, and is stored in brains only, not silicon.
[EDIT]- I would say that some dogs have been discussed at length via forums like these and PDB. But in such cases, the data is not easily queried since it is in paragraph/sentence form. Sure- it lives in a DB somewhere, but the software would have to be amazingly good at contextual recognition. Not likely unless you can finance Watson.
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What percentage of dogs do you think would have to have that data generated in order to be a viable tool? I believe it is very very low.
There is a "breed betterment registry" or whatever it's called but so few people use it.
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There have been some very detailed and almost sooth-saying novels written - and the common theme is usually and predictably the breakdown of society etc.
Society however large or small depends for at least adequate stability on rules - both social and the law - which then predicates a supervisory force, per LE etc. This with some luck - keeps the lid on most of the time tho even then ''leaks'' occur but they get dealt with. Not forgetting too the other stuff we take so much for granted like power, water, communications and transportation.
Remove all usual and expected services, to the degree we see in NO and very rapidly things become nasty - in part because of starvation, dehydration and disease. There is no longer a true social structure - giving then easy reign to mob rule and survival of the fittest - the latter unfortunately being often survival by rule of force, until that is a superior force like NG troops arrive and get the heavy hammer out to re-establish some structure.
I'll wager, now the military are getting there, it will not be long (if reported) that there are necessary shootings of the fringe and dangerous element.


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make sure to check the intake without a gasket so you know for sure about any spaces etc. also, make sure the gasket is installed right becaus those rear ports are sometimes covered so the coolant flow goes the right way without short cutting.
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Oil Heading Toward Florida Beaches
President Obama is calling it a "potentially unprecedented environmental disaster."
And there appears to be no way to stop the hundreds of thousands of gallons of oil from the damaged well heading toward Florida beaches.
Steve Otwell, a food science professor and seafood specialist at UF, says this is the worst spill he's seen... and if the oil creeping toward Florida coasts damages marine resources, the clean-up process won't be fast... or easy.
Governor Charlie Crist has extended the State of Emergency south to Sarasota County... including Levy and Dixie counties here in North Central Florida.
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The State Emergency Operation Center is in a partial activation mode.
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text: It is no secret the Jaguars must add multiple receivers to stock a fairly bare cupboard this offseason in order to give QB Blaine Gabbert a chance to be successful. But it must be mentioned that of equal importance will be getting their current pass catchers to play better than they did in 2011. New head coach Mike Mularkey is a former tight end, and fixing what ails TE Marcedes Lewis will be one of his top priorities. WR Mike Thomas is another player who did not meet expectations after receiving a new deal last year. If GM Gene Smith can acquire one or two big, vertical receivers who can work outside the numbers, Thomas should benefit from being asked to work mainly out of the slot where he is ideally suited. Jarett Dillard and Cecil Shorts, who both were drafted by Smith, also must show great improvement. Shorts is likely to get a roster spot because he is only entering Year Two, but Dillard, a third-year veteran, could be feeling the heat come summer time.


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Laura Violet necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 151 diseños de 50 diseñadores freelance.
My business is focused on bringing Pilates & Massage to people in their homes so that they can have personalized services focused on their specific health and wellness goals. I go by Laura Violet and want to use "LV" in the logo design.
I will be using this logo to build my entire marketing portfolio and would like it to have a dynamic essence. My business is essentially "me" providing services to my clients and therefore I would like my logo to represent me. I am a young, dynamic, female entrepreneur who prides myself on the following pillars: honesty, respect, discipline, caring and commitment.
- Item 1...Use LV in design.- Item 2...Use deep purple in someway in design.- Item 3...Don't hesitate to email me with questions.- Item 4.....Vector format, preferably .eps-
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An exciting new reader, starring the fabulous LEGO Friends girls!
Level 2 readers feature longer sentences and increased vocabulary, information boxes full of extra fun facts, and a simple index. Occasional adult participation is helpful.
Series: DK Readers: Level 3
Audience: Children
For Ages: 6 - 8 years old
For Grades: 1 - 3
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Number Of Pages: 32
Published: 18th February 2013
Publisher: DK Publishing
Country of Publication: US
Dimensions (cm): 22.4 x 14.9 x 0.2
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Galvan Prime, also known as Galvan Mark II after being rebuilt, is the former homeworld of the Omnivoracious, the current home planet of the Galvan, and has at least one moon, Galvan B, home of the Galvanic Mechamorphs. Its sun is called Galvan.
From space, Galvan Prime is a pale green world with what looks like a giant crater with a large dark green area around it.
Galvan Prime is one of the most scientifically advanced worlds in the galaxy. Miniature skyscrapers and ultra-fast causeways litter the landscape, thus leaving little room for nature.
According to Professor Paradox, on the fifth season, a hot wind blows from the north and the female Galvans' faces become dry and crusty, which is apparently attractive for the males.
As shown in War of the Worlds: Part 1, Galvan Prime can have lightning storms.
BackgroundMillions of years ago, a meteor struck Galvan Prime and destroyed most of the Omnivoracious. Any remaining had continued to roam, but died due to the following change in climate on Galvan Prime.
Alien Force
In War of the Worlds: Part 1, the Highbreed invaded Galvan Prime. Professor Paradox teleported to Galvan Prime and took Azmuth to Earth before the Highbreed destroyed the planet.
After the war, Azmuth left to help rebuild Galvan Prime.
Ultimate AlienIn Map of Infinity, Galvan Prime was revealed to have been rebuilt and given another name, Galvan Mark II. Azmuth teleported the team there to explain to them about the Map of Infinity and to put Max into treatment for his damaged nervous system.
In The Forge of Creation, on Galvan Prime, Azmuth was angry at the team for failing four times to stop Ultimate Aggregor. Ben turned into Alien X in an attempt to stop Ultimate Aggregor, but couldn't convince Bellicus and Serena, so Paradox arrived and reverted him to normal. He then explained the Forge of Creation to the team.
In The Ultimate Sacrifice, Kevin travelled to Galvan Prime to ask for Azmuth's help in fixing the Ultimatrix.
OmniverseIn Showdown: Part 1, Azmuth teleports Ben and Rook to Galvan Prime to fight Khyber and Dr. Psychobos.
In Showdown: Part 2, Azmuth explains that he designed Galvan Prime to have a series of firewalls to safeguard against viral attacks.
Sometime between then and Malgax Attacks, Azmuth made upgrades in their defenses in light of Malware's attack of blowing up Galvan B.
Notable Inhabitants
- Galvan
- Omnivoracious (former dominant species; extinct)
- Galvanic Mechamorph
Non-native species
Notable Visitors
- Highbreed
- Professor Paradox
- Ben Tennyson
- Gwen Tennyson
- Kevin Levin
- Max Tennyson
- Rook Blonko
- Malware
- Khyber
- Zed
- Dr. Psychobos
- Vilgax
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|Spanish (Latin America)
|Galvan Prime (Prime with English pronunciation)
|From Galvan Prime
|Galván Prime (Ben 10: Ultimate Alien)
|Galvan Prime (Prime with pronunciation /preɪm/ in (Ben 10: Omniverse since Showdown: Part 2)
- According to Derrick J. Wyatt, Galvan Prime's form of government is a technocracy.
- In The Secret Saturdays episode "Guess Who's Going to Be Dinner?", Dr. Beeman says "Sweet Galvan Prime!" when spotting a UFO.
- It is shown that some Galvanic Mechamorphs work and live on Galvan Prime.


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|And her poops have gone back to a nice yellow, seedy consistency
LLL has some resources for helping with this if it is really affecting your babe. DD was having thin, greenish, foamy poops and apparently that is common when you have oversupply issues and they only ever get foremilk.
I always let her nurse on the side she emptied last for the next feeding, to make sure she is getting hindmilk first, and then will switch to the other side for the next feeding. Having each breast nursed on two feedings in a row and having the other one ignored for a long stretch of time has really helped to slow down production to an amount that she actually needs.
And her poops have gone back to a nice yellow, seedy consistency. Yea!
The weird thing for me is, I don't FEEL let down at all!! I just suddenly feel WET & then I look down & uhoh, there we go...I do notice that, like you, emotions touch it off. If I feel particularly overwhelmed with love (or worry, or anything), there go the waterworks. (milkworks!)
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Cultural organizations need to reach millennials and that means talking about it – but that talk doesn't make other generations less important.
Cultural organizations desperately need to get better at reaching millennials in order to thrive in the future – but in order to have these conversations, we need to clear up some craziness. The aim of this week's fast facts video is to set the record straight: Talking about the need to reach millennials is responsible and necessary – and adding millennial engagement to important discussion sessions is in no way a dig on older generations because they are extremely important audiences! Talking about millennials does not mean ignoring other generations – and it never has. It seems that all of this millennial talk may be leaving other generations working within the industry feeling confused, frustrated, and maybe a little bit ignored. To feel this way may be based upon a misunderstanding.
Here are four things to remember when your feeling overwhelmed by millennial talk – or maybe even left out by the lack of similar discussion about your own generation.
1) MILLENNIAL TALK is code for EVERYBODY TALK
We discuss millennial mindsets so much because they represent a kind of evolution that affects everyone in today's digital world. "Millennial talk" is often used a bit like an umbrella topic in the discussion about creating twenty-first century cultural organizations – so talk about transparency, social consciousness, personalization, and connectivity often get attributed to millennials. Really, though, these are growing expectations among all audiences.
Sometimes it seems as though organizations label market trends as "millennial talk" in order to somehow dilute conversations about necessary evolution. Calling large-scale trends that affect all generations (like digital connectivity) "millennial talk" may make them seem less looming and perhaps less urgent. But they aren't. We millennials could easily look back at other generations and say, "Wait! You increasingly care about connectivity and impact, too! Why are organizations pinning all of their inconvenient calls to evolve on our generation alone?!" Part of getting over the "millennial talk" is realizing that it's not "millennial talk" at all. It's "market reality" talk.
2) Millennials are the only generation that cultural organizations are NOT reaching at representative rates
We talk about millennials so much because cultural organizations (museums, zoos, aquariums, theaters, symphonies, botanic gardens, etc.) need to reach them. Pause. Real talk: We really need to reach millennials. Millennials represent the largest generation in human history, and we're also the only generation not visiting these organizations at representative rates. On top of that, millennials are also our most frequent generational visitors. This is a unique situation! Millennials are our most prevalent current audiences, but they are also the audiences we need to better engage. (In other words, they are visiting the most, but when we look at the US population, they should be coming much more.) This unique situation is one that must be addressed in order for organizations to thrive in the future. When we look at the size of this population and their make-up, preferences, and lack of representative engagement, it's very clear to see that if we don't start reaching millennials at representative rates, cultural organizations will have a very rough and unsustainable future.
3) Millennial engagement has nothing to do with ignoring other generations (We NEED them!)
Adding "millennial talk" to generational discussions sometimes seems to make other generations defensive. The discussion about the need to attract millennials has NOTHING to do with ignoring other generations. (Has it ever?) Baby boomers still make up a good portion of our audiences and they have noteworthy giving capabilities. Generation X engagement remains stable and consistent (and this generation, in particular, deserves a bit more love). When we talk about attracting millennials, we are NOT encouraging organizations to forget about everyone else. Organizations have been talking about and focusing on reaching Baby Boomers for fifty years and that conversation isn't stopping. It shouldn't! But adding another generation to the discussion at some point – especially a generation even larger than the Baby Boomers – seems reasonable and inevitable. Certainly, there has to be a way to talk about new generations without other generations feeling personally offended. We need all of our audience members! We need to add generations to the discussion. To replace discussions about other generations – and especially to ignore them – would be irresponsible.
4) Strategies for engaging millennials do not generally alienate other demographics
See point one. We at IMPACTS collect a lot of data, but we cannot find any that directly suggests that an organization having programs aimed at attracting millennials particularly alienates other generations on the whole. Again, trends that we are seeing in regard to millennials increasingly appeal to older generations as well. We simply aren't seeing signs that a majority of Baby Boomers really hate transparency, personalization, social consciousness, or digital connection. It doesn't mean that they necessarily prioritize or make decisions based upon them as much as millennials do. But, as it turns out, this whole "Internet thing" has affected all of us and has changed up what we expect from organizations.
When we in the industry underscore the need to reach millennials, we're not digging on Baby Boomers or Generation X (or Traditionalists or Generation Z)! We need these visitors and supporters! But NOT discussing millennials – this new, large, underserved generation that holds the key to our future – would be irresponsible. In fact, ignoring millennials would be just as irresponsible as ignoring those generations that are already engaging with us.
Like this post? Don't forget to check out my Fast Fact videos on my YouTube channel. Here are a few related posts from Know Your Own Bone that you might also enjoy:
- The Two Most Important Mindset Shifts For Reaching Millennial Audiences
- Real Talk:Why Cultural Organizations Must Better Engage Millennials (DATA)
- Three Data-Informed Reasons to Love Generation X Visitors to Cultural Organizations (DATA)
- Attracting Diverse Visitors: Cultural Organizations Overlook The Most Important Factor (DATA)
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Outcomes and Measurements
SeniorServ is the largest nonprofit senior nutrition program in Orange County and one of the largest in the state. SeniorServ has completed an extensive outcomes studies on the impact of its senior nutrition programs. The Meals on Wheels and Senior Lunch programs provide older adults with nutritious meals. The programs are funded in part through the Older Americans Act (Title III grants).
The SeniorServ study included 1,279 frail, homebound senior citizens who received Home Delivered Meals and Case Management services. The research was independently designed, monitored and analyzed by DoctorS Nonprofit Consulting in Fullerton, California, under the direction of Drs. Dallas Stout and Debbie Stout. The study revealed the following statistically significant findings about new program participants:
- Receive 141% more referrals to supportive services
- Gained an average of 2 pounds
- Demonstrated a sustained 20% increase in sense of well-being
- Had 34% reduction in new clients hospitalized and 62% length of stay reduction
Ninety percent of program survey participants were low income, very low income or below poverty level. Further, eighty percent of participants were age 70 or older, more than sixty percent were women, and one-third of participants were ethnic minorities.
SeniorServ provides hot, nutritious lunches to older adults at 26 senior centers in Orange County. Approximately 1,400 participants take advantage of the program every weekday. The SeniorServ study included 1,200 senior citizens who participate in the lunch program and other activities at their local senior center. The research was independently designed, monitored and analyzed by DoctorS Nonprofit Consulting. Survey results revealed the following:
- 68% of seniors reported the lunches have improved their quality of life
- 59% said their physical health has improved because of the program
- 81% reported they would be at home if they didn't come to the lunch program
- 95% have more friends as a result of the program, including 48% who have significantly more friends
- 52% feel more connected to their community and city since attending the program
The data for this study was self-reported by the seniors. Sixty five percent were female, 68% percent were over the age of 70 and more than a third were ethnic minorities.
Given 33% of those surveyed reported eating just one well balanced meal a day at home, the senior lunch program clearly improves nutritional intake. Further, the program also overwhelmingly meets its goal of providing socialization for participants, given that 81% indicated they would be at home if they had not come to the program. Respondents who reported they were happy most days showed significantly higher levels of physical health, number of friends and quality of life. The more they attended the lunch program, the more they reported being happy.
For more information about SeniorServ or survey results, contact
Darla Olson, Vice President, Advancement
(714) 229-3362
For information about Doctors Nonprofit Consulting, contact
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How to Create Passwords to Deter Hackers
With the rise of identity theft through hacking, it is imperative that you learn how to develop a strong password. This information came from a NYTimes article and these tips come from Jeremiah Grossman and Paul Kocher. These tips come from Jeremiah Grossman and Paul Kocher. Mr. Grossman was the first hacker to demonstrate how easily somebody can break into a computer's webcam and microphone through a Web browser. He is now chief technology officer at WhiteHat Security, an Internet and network security firm, where he is frequently targeted by cybercriminals. Mr. Kocher, a well-known cryptographer, gained notice for clever hacks on security systems. He now runs Cryptography Research, a security firm that specializes in keeping systems hacker-resistant.
Tips on how to create a password:
If your password can be found in a dictionary, you might as well not have one. "The worst passwords are dictionary words or a small number of insertions or changes to words that are in the dictionary," said Mr. Kocher. Hackers will often test passwords from a dictionary or aggregated from breaches. If your password is not in that set, hackers will typically move on.
People tend to use the same password across multiple sites, a fact hackers regularly exploit. While cracking into someone's professional profile on LinkedIn might not have dire consequences, hackers will use that password to crack into, say, someone's e-mail, bank, or brokerage account where more valuable financial and personal data is stored.
The longer your password, the longer it will take to crack. A password should ideally be 14 characters or more in length if you want to make it uncrackable by an attacker in less than 24 hours. Because longer passwords tend to be harder to remember, consider a passphrase, such as a favorite movie quote, song lyric, or poem, and string together only the first one or two letters of each word in the sentence.
For sensitive accounts, Mr. Grossman says that instead of a passphrase, he will randomly jam on his keyboard, intermittently hitting the Shift and Alt keys, and copy the result into a text file which he stores on an encrypted, password-protected USB drive. "That way, if someone puts a gun to my head and demands to know my password, I can honestly say I don't know it."
Do not store your passwords in your in-box or on your desktop. If malware infects your computer, you're toast. Mr. Grossman stores his password file on an encrypted USB drive for which he has a long, complex password that he has memorized. He copies and pastes those passwords into accounts so that, in the event an attacker installs keystroke logging software on his computer, they cannot record the keystrokes to his password. Mr. Kocher takes a more old-fashioned approach: He keeps password hints, not the actual passwords, on a scrap of paper in his wallet. "I try to keep my most sensitive information off the Internet completely," Mr. Kocher said.
Password-protection software lets you store all your usernames and passwords in one place. Some programs will even create strong passwords for you and automatically log you in to sites as long as you provide one master password. LastPass, SplashData and AgileBits offer password management software for Windows, Macs and mobile devices. But consider yourself warned: Mr. Kocher said he did not use the software because even with encryption, it still lived on the computer itself. "If someone steals my computer, I've lost my passwords." Mr. Grossman said he did not trust the software because he didn't write it. Indeed, at a security conference in Amsterdam earlier this year, hackers demonstrated how easily the cryptography used by many popular mobile password managers could be cracked.
There is a limited set of answers to questions like "What is your favorite color?" and most answers to questions like "What middle school did you attend?" can be found on the Internet. Hackers use that information to reset your password and take control of your account. Earlier this year, a hacker claimed he was able to crack into Mitt Romney's Hotmail and Dropbox accounts using the name of his favorite pet. A better approach would be to enter a password hint that has nothing to do with the question itself. For example, if the security question asks for the name of the hospital in which you were born, your answer might be: "Your favorite song lyric."
Mr. Grossman makes a point of using different Web browsers for different activities. "Pick one browser for 'promiscuous' browsing: online forums, news sites, blogs - anything you don't consider important," he said. "When you're online banking or checking e-mail, fire up a secondary Web browser, then shut it down." That way, if your browser catches an infection when you accidentally stumble on an X-rated site, your bank account is not necessarily compromised. As for which browser to use for which activities, a study last year by Accuvant Labs of Web browsers - including Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome and Microsoft Internet Explorer - found that Chrome was the least susceptible to attacks.
"You are your e-mail address and your password," Mr. Kocher emphasized. Whenever possible, he will not register for online accounts using his real e-mail address. Instead he will use "throwaway" e-mail addresses, like those offered by 10minutemail.com. Users register and confirm an online account, which self-destructs 10 minutes later. Mr. Grossman said he often warned people to treat anything they typed or shared online as public record.
"At some point, you will get hacked - it's only a matter of time," warned Mr. Grossman. "If that's unacceptable to you, don't put it online."
By NICOLE PERLROTH Published: November 7, 2012 A version of this article appeared in print on November 8, 2012, on page B8 of the New York edition with the headline: How to Devise Passwords That Drive Hackers Away.


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Two men are dead after the motorcycles they were driving crashed head-on at the intersection of County Road 4 and County Road 61 in Gilmanton Township last Thursday, Aug. 30.
Benton County deputies were dispatched to the scene around 5 p.m. and both motorcyclists were pronounced dead.
Witnesses and a preliminary investigation indicates the motorcycle driven by Patrick Ogg, 52, of Foley was headed eastbound on County Road 4 and was attempting to pass other eastbound vehicles just prior to the collision. When Ogg's motorcycle entered the westbound lane to pass another vehicle, it crashed head-on with the westbound motorcycle driven by Larry Sorenson, 61, of West Union.
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If you file for Chapter 7 bankruptcy in Connecticut, you can protect some or all of your property with Connecticut's bankruptcy exemptions. The bankruptcy exemptions in Connecticut also play a role in Chapter 13 bankruptcy. Read on to learn about the property you can protect with Connecticut's bankruptcy exemptions.
For a general overview of bankruptcy exemptions, visit the Bankruptcy Exemption topic page.
Connecticut is one of the states that allow debtors to choose between the Connecticut exemptions and the federal bankruptcy exemptions. This means that you may examine both sets of exemptions and pick the exemptions that better protect your assets.
You must select either the Connecticut exemptions or the federal exemptions -- you may not use pick and choose from both. If you choose to use the Connecticut bankruptcy exemptions, you may also use any of the applicable federal non-bankruptcy exemptions. The federal non-bankruptcy exemptions protect items such as federal retirement accounts and military and veterans' benefits.
Married couples filing a joint bankruptcy in Connecticut may double the exemption amounts (except for the homestead exemption). This means that each spouse may claim the full exemption amount for any property in which the spouse has ownership interest. For example, if both spouses own a car and they file jointly, they can double the amount of the applicable exemption to protect that car's value.
Here are some of the most common exemptions available under Connecticut law. Unless otherwise indicated, all references are to the Connecticut General Statutes Annotated.
The homestead exemption protects equity in property that you use as your residence. In Connecticut, you can protect up to $75,000 of equity in real property, a co-op, or a manufactured home that you occupy at the time you file a bankruptcy. Spouses may double the homestead exemption. You can protect up to $125,000 of equity in your home from a creditor who holds a judgment against you for services provided by a hospital (if that claim arose after 1993). Conn. Gen Stat. Ann. §52-352a(e), §52-352b(t)
For more details about how the homestead exemption works in Connecticut, see The Connecticut Homestead Exemption.
You may exempt the following personal property:
Appliances, clothing, food, furniture, and bedding. Conn. Gen Stat. Ann. §52-352b(a)
Necessary health aids. Conn. Gen Stat. Ann. §52-352b(f)
Burial plot. Conn. Gen Stat. Ann. §52-352b(c)
Insurance proceeds for damaged exempt property. Conn. Gen Stat. Ann. §52-352b(q)
Residential and utility security deposits for one residence. Conn. Gen Stat. Ann. §52-352b(l)
Spendthrift trust funds necessary for you and your family's support. Conn. Gen Stat. Ann. §52-321(d)
Transfers to a licensed debt adjuster. Conn. Gen Stat. Ann. §52-352b(u)
Wedding and engagement rings. Conn. Gen Stat. Ann. §52-352b(k)
In Connecticut, you can exempt up to $13,500 in equity in your motor vehicle. Conn. Gen Stat. Ann. §52-352b(j)
Example. Joe owns a 2009 Honda Accord. His car is worth $13,000 and he owes the dealership $11,000, so he has $2,000 of equity in the car. If Joe files Chapter 7 bankruptcy in Connecticut, he can protect all of the equity in his car using the motor vehicle exemption.
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Public assistance. Conn. Gen Stat. Ann. §52-352b(d)
Crime victims' compensation. Conn. Gen Stat. Ann. §52-352b(o), §54-213
Military personnel arms, equipment, uniforms, and instruments. Conn. Gen Stat. Ann. §52-352b(i)
Social Security. Conn. Gen Stat. Ann. §52-352b(g)
Veterans' benefits. Conn. Gen Stat. Ann. §52-352b(g)
Workers' compensation. Conn. Gen Stat. Ann. §52-352b(g)
Tools of the Trade
Necessary tools, books, and farm animals. Conn. Gen Stat. Ann. §52-352b(b)
Farm partnership animals and livestock reasonably required to operate farm at which 50% or more of the partners are members of the same family. Conn. Gen Stat. Ann. §52-352d
$1,000 of any property. Conn. Gen Stat. Ann. §52-352b(r). (To learn more, see The Connecticut Wildcard Exemption.)
Alimony, to the extent that wages are exempt. Conn. Gen Stat. Ann. §52-352b(n)
Child support. Conn. Gen Stat. Ann. §52-352b(h)
75% of earned wages or 40 times the state or federal minimum wages, whichever is higher. Conn. Gen Stat. Ann. §52-352a(f)
This list includes some of the more commonly used Connecticut bankruptcy exemptions, but there are numerous other exemptions available to protect specific property. Additionally, Connecticut updates its exemptions periodically. You can verify the current exemption amounts at the website of the Connecticut General Assembly. To learn how to do this, see Nolo's Legal Research Center.


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|I had a Pearson 35 and I thought that it was good sailor. Most narrow beam CCA boats are initialy tender but firm up at 20 degrees. This is good because it increases the effective length of the waterline, increasing the hull speed. Personally, and I know the style well, I feel that Pearson 35 is the best of the type.
I do not have a huge amount of time on a Pearson 35 per se, but I have sailed on a number of keel/centerboarders of that era. Personally I like the concept of keel/centerboarders, they offer a nice compromise between reasonably good performance (for that era) and shallow draft. I have always figured when I get to be an even older fart I would probably buy a small Keel/Cb'er and explore the quiet shallower corners of the Chesapeake that I could not see from my fin keelers. Enough waxing poetic....
The Pearson 35 does not have as much overall stability as some of the better keel centerboard designs of that era, such as the Tartan 34 or Morgan 34's, but they do sail well in most mid-wind speed range conditions. They are less forgiving in heavier air.
They are generally sailed with large overlapping headsails (Genoa), and the condition and adjustment of the genoa makes a huge difference in how well the boat will sail in light to moderate conditions. The mainsails on these boats are typically reefed pretty early because like many boats of that era, they can develop some pretty severe weather helm at the upper end of the wind range. This can be partially offset by partially raising the centerboard a little which also may reduce heeling slightly at the price of greater leeway.
Unlike many short waterline boats of that era, my recollection is that these boats do not like to be sailed with quite as large heel angles, performing better at heel angles somewhere greater than modern boats but flatter than is ideal for most 1960's era designs.
Downwind, you can raise the board to reduce wetted surface and so improve performance and in some conditions reduce rolling. If I remember correctly, you will need to experiment with this since partially raising the board may increase directional stability at the price of being harder to steer through waves.
One thing that I found difficult was the goofy little wheel at the foward end of the cockpit set up on these boats. It puts the helmsman in a position where it is very hard to see the teletales and figure out what is happening. This is really annoying on a boat that depends so heavily on its headsail trim and angle of attack. Although rare, the tiller version of these boats are the way to go in all ways.
Good luck,
Google reviews of this boat and you'll find one by Jack Horner of BoatUS:
Who thinks the boat has "no bad habits" in heavy air.
So it would seem you can heel her as much as you want (whether that's a good idea for your crew or not), and she'll recover.
If you're asking how "stiff" she is, or what the heeling limit is mathematically (known as the AVS or angle of vanishing stability), I don't know.
Enjoy this classic boat.
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I have a Pearson 35 and the boat sails great. If youre not familiar with the Pearson 35 it is a centerboard with a 10 foot beam. I don't have alot of experience with the boat, and as the sailing season is close, I am trying to figure out how much heeling the boat can actually take.
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OBAMA Sarcarfices AMB Stevens to AL QUAEDA !!! WHY!!!
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#1 Nov 5, 2012
A report is circulating in the gray channels of military lore that OBAMA replaced AFRICA.COM General because he was willing and able to support AMB Stevens and the others at the ANNEX ...read the following....inquiring minds want and need the truth!!!!
check out this report on how Obama and thugs are hiding malfeance by Obama, Biden and Panetta.....The latest rumor making the rounds is that Barack Obama replaced General Carter Ham at AFRICOM after the general made a move to help the US security officials at the Benghazi consulate and annex. Ham was replaced by Gen. David Rodriquez on October 18.
Tiger Droppings reported:
The information I heard today was that General [Carter] Ham as head of Africom received the same e-mails the White House received requesting help/support as the attack was taking place. General Ham immediately had a rapid response unit ready and communicated to the Pentagon that he had a unit ready.
General Ham then received the order to stand down. His response was to screw it, he was going to help anyhow. Within 30 seconds to a minute after making the move to respond, his second in command apprehended General Ham and told him that he was now relieved of his command.
The story continues that now General Rodiguez would take General Hams place as the head of Africom.
Sure enough Obama nominated Gen. David Rodriguez to replace Gen. Carter Ham as commander of U.S. Africa Command
Why was it so important for the Obama machine to offer up for sarcarfice an American Ambassordor to the Al Quaeda in the MiddleEast?
#2 Nov 5, 2012
Employees to be laid off several weeks before Christmas!!! Obama's gift to the Middle Class!!!
#3 Nov 5, 2012
There was a price to be paid for by Obama and thugs to be able to get Bin Laden before the 2012 elections...... Obama has paid the down payment...Benghazi....soon he will sarcarfice Israel to the Russians and the northern Islamic tribes......for the rest of the bill. God is getting ready to punish Americans for electing that Islamic piece of dung to govern the USA and the soon to be enslaved free world!!!
#4 Nov 5, 2012
Obama is a traitor and a liar. He would kill his family to stay in power.
#5 Nov 6, 2012
Highly agree with you on that point.......his current family under islamic law being females makes them subserviant to him in all ways. Under Islamic law he can kill them or even sell them into slavery because he owns them...his woman and off-spring are chattel. The american soldiers and State Department personnel are Chattel also....Under GWB about 500 soldiers died in Iraq and Afghanstan from 2001 thru end of 2008.... Under Obama.... in less then 4 yrs over 1500 soldiers have died in Iraq and Afghanstan. Just like the national debt he has more then doubled the death rate by our volunteer soldiers and now he has started on career diplomats.....
#6 Nov 6, 2012
Stick a sock n it......it'll be good to have more tea-baggers laid off.
#7 Nov 6, 2012
So..God has told you this? Please provide the necessary proof of prophecy.
#8 Nov 6, 2012
Naaaaaaaw...he'd kill your family first. Tea-baggers are a menace to society.
#9 Nov 6, 2012
Lets wreck the American economy and just maybe God will have pity on us. Our debt will be around when Jesus returns for His sanctified souls....all tea-partiers are not welcomed into His Kingdom.
Since: Feb 10
#10 Nov 8, 2012
NObama has been doing just that for the last 4 years no-show.
NObama won, but America has lost nothead.
#11 Nov 10, 2012
How so? Seems hes got you white boys on the run. How is it that a black man scares you savages all the time?
#12 Nov 10, 2012
Obama's plan was to ALLOW THE ABASSADOR TO BE KIDNAPPED, THEN OBAMA WOULD LOOK LIKE A HERO WHEN HE GOT HIM RELEASED JUST BEFORE THE ELECTION! That would have removed any doubt about his reelection.
#13 Nov 10, 2012
OBAMA's Muslim "brothers" weren't supposed to kill the Ambassador, they were supposed to kidnap him, but were not under good control by their leaders and let their anger loose upon him killing him instead. IMO.
#14 Nov 11, 2012
Now that Petraues refused to be blackmailed by the President , Hilary refusing to place testifying into her schedule, and Panetta wanting out before Jan 20, 2013 their are not enough of the players to tell the truth on Benghazi....General Ham should be called to testify.... as to why his second in command placed him under house arrest and was relieved of duty.....I am betting that Hilary will pressure Obama to make her his Vice President, Biden will retire .... Panetta is stepping down because of Benghazi..... Robert Gibbs will become Sec of Def....Valerie Jarrett will become Sec of State....Susan Rice will fall on her sword and Alexrod will become the US AMB to the UN. We will never know for sure what really happened in Benghazi.
United States
#15 Nov 12, 2012
Very nice spin but, sir, these accusations simply are not true.
General Betray Us publicly admitted to fault not to have any other ambitious players seek to blackmail him as they had been, apparently. The definition of harassing e-mails can construed as soliciting information about Obama's Administration in regards to "anything juicy" which Eric Cantor, senator Virginia (R) had asked for, during the presidential campaign.
Most importantly, a field agent has a chain of command and it isn't to run around America, speaking to reporters or to a member of the intelligence committee. I'm almost certain that when General Colin Powell was advised of the plot, he endorsed Obama with gain in mind. His announcement was right in line with Cantor's notification of the questionable event. Approx. 2 weeks before the President was notified.
Taking us back to the Libya bombing or whatever it was. The CIA agents, in the field, should have been well aware of any plot. Especially, in Libya as they have been deeply embedded for the past 30 years. A former resident of Virginia, which was also a high ranking member of Ghadafi's administration went there to lead the rebellion. Unfortunately, another tribal leader, executed him, during a meeting. It made absolutely no sense for an American Embassy to be there anyways, due to the distant manner in which America assisted. In a war, enemy combatants atleast deserve to have a chance.
Honestly, I believe it was just some deceased Libyan's parent; otherwise, it wouldn't have flown under the CIA's radar. The nature of the attack, terroristic in nature but not a network. I don't agree with Obama's decision to remove Ghadafi; primarily due the relocation of Ghadafi's armies into bordering countries; especially Northern Mali. Whereas, Mali's army is ill-equipped to deal with any significant resistance.
United States
#16 Nov 12, 2012
There's a difference between something erupting out of necessity versus it being used as a political pawn. About like Mitt Romney's creation of the Tea Party Movement; weed-roots movement of Hatred. He failed to McCain and went nuts. No one with our country's best interest in mind, creates problems, so they can get a pat on the back. No one stages a republican preliminary with a bunch of misfits for himself to be compared to.
Sarah Palin was a threat to his nomination, he gives a bus tour, as soon as it is confirmed, her funding dries up and she isn't invited to the convention? Who planted Grover Norquist in Reagan's ear? Who didn't want UTAH to become a part of the Union? J. Edgar Hoover knew everything about anyone that had ambitions of entering the government, COINTELPRO, counter intelligence program.
In 2018, 50 years after George Romney made his attempt, the records become public. Let's see how Mutt swallows that pill. How hard did Mutt lobby The Mormon Church to admit Blacks in 1978? The Republican Party held him off as long as they could," Who are you? Go save the Olympics with your Trojan Horse Prophecy." What happened to the Tea Party candidates' funding? What happened to the Tea Party? Did they do their jobs for Mutt, to show Washington in need of a saviour? I thought they did.
In quiet little circles, us Jews, really wondered if HATRED was a valid campaign slogan; only thing it did was clearly identify "UNCLE TOMS" of several different varieties.
Republican Party's campaign was geared towards common values not common theory. Evangelical Christians have long forgotten about Joseph Smith's attempt to gain The White House, in which they killed him and his brother for suggesting it. Latter Day Saints didn't roll with the book of mormon as hard as THE UTAH MORMONS of the 1800's, that's why they circulate amongst us, like Boob McDonnell, Governor(R).
Bottomline, Romney set the perfect climate for his coming. I believe that Tea Party Crap was his downfall. If he would have let the government run as it was meant to in 2008, instead of voicing a very wrong and worthless opinion to everything Bush and Obama needed to do, then our economy would be better. Not only that revenue would have negated a mounting $16 trillion dollar deficit. I believe Obama's idea to wait on proposing a budget, until more republicans were in office, was honorable.
As far as the Tea Party's novice's? They were John Boehner's headache. Eric Cantor is a Jew and he never would have put is political career on the line, knowing what Nixon said, " You got to keep those Jews out of here." We aren't paranoid but White Hatred readily expressed as a means to gain the White House was crazy as hell.
United States
#17 Nov 12, 2012
Then the morning of the election, Join The KKK crap shows up on Democratic White voters' doorsteps? Who mailed out that list or was that just politics as usual? Not one yard with a Romney/Ryan= New Confederate Flag in it received one of those pamphlets.
The Office of Management and Budget classifies peope originally from Europe, the Middle East and North Africa as White and of course, Northern Asia and South West Asia. You people don't even know who in the hell White People are anymore. Let's not forget that Hispanics and/or Latinos are considered as part of the overall White count as well, most of the time.
Then you have to account for 39 million people living in the US are immigrants, like myself, who are those top earners or atleast professionals, managers and business owners that add up to making Whites' Statistics look good. Ragheads = Whites, Muslims = Whites. Perhaps, Europe will send you their poor and in 7 years, they'll be naturalized and might think like you.
Until then, see if you can the 877,000 babies White females abort per year and republicans might win the 2032 Presidential Election.
Since: Feb 10
#18 Nov 12, 2012
Slurp, you seem to have been drinking the same Kool-aid as nothead and her new boyfriend $hit4Brains.
Keep dreaming. The Republican party is going nowhere and will always stand against the wasteful "progressive" social programs.
The fools in the White House and Congress both claim a "mandate", "landslide" or an "overwhelming" victory.
NObama won by a whopping 2%, 51-49%. Congress has a 12% approval rating.
Neither is right. It was a miracle, nothing else.
Yes, NObama won, but America lost and will continue losing for at least another 4 years. Watch the national debt reach $22 Trillion by the end of the NObama administration.
nothead says she doesn't care because Jesus is coming and it won't matter.
I doubt she will be right about that any more than she has been for the last 2 years. Like NObama, her success rate with predictions is about 2%.
#20 Nov 12, 2012
There you go Sluepee making the Prsidential race about religion.... in 2008 when it was proven almost without doubt and then the apolizgy tour in 2009 by Prsident Obama cemented the fact that he was a fuking Muslim. But yet the main stream media refused to publish debate the fact..... Then you here just trashed the mormons right and left and made this a religious choice a muslim over a mormon for President of the United States. I also laugh at your take on Libya...could be like you stated but ever since the muslim brotherhood had been embolden by one of the many anti-christs that will rise in the end times Barrack Obama encouraged the Arab Spring uprisings and the over throw of governments friendly to the USA covertly if not outright openly. Because of Obama not Bush Turkey has gyarated towards Russia and Putin, Iraq was if not still in the process of buying 4 Billion dollars worth of weapons from Russia... so GWB lost 571 troops in the Mid-East from 2001 to 2008.... mostly in Iraq and now Obama baby has lost over 1600 US Troops in Afghanstan under the guise of Coalition troops..... The second to last biggest war foretold in the KJV of the bible stage has been rapidly set by that anti-christ Barrack Obama... if status quo had been maintained in the Middle East without the American covertly led pushed Arab Spring possibly the world would be here for another 50 plus years instead of just the few very few years left.
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#21 Nov 12, 2012
When Mitt organized other disgruntled republican politicians, mainly Jim Ryun, Kansas, father of Ned Ryun, founder and president of American Majority PAC to form the Tea Party's position, killing religious affiliation was the primary agenda.
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Young people crave self-esteem above sex: study
By Bernd Debusmann Jr
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Young people crave boosts to their self-esteem more than sex and money, according to a new study.
Researchers from Ohio State University and Brookhaven National Laboratory in Upton, New York found that college students rated receiving compliments, or doing well on a test, above such pleasurable activities such as sex, receiving a paycheck, seeing a friend, or eating their favorite food.
Brad Bushman, a professor of communication and psychology at Ohio State University, said the findings should raise red flags about the role of self-esteem in society.
"It wouldn't be correct to say that the study participants were addicted to self-esteem," said Bushman, who headed the research team. "But they were closer to being addicted to self-esteem than they were to being addicted to any other activity we studied."
He said he and his team were shocked by the findings.
"We purposely chose things that we thought college students love. Most of the participants were around 19. College students love drinking, they love sex. They are poor; they love money and getting a paycheck."
But experiences that boosted self-esteem trumped all other rewards, according to the study.
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Undefeated #1 featherweight contender Miguel Angel "Mikey" Garcia (30-0, 26 KOs) scored an eighth round TKO over former WBA featherweight champion Jonathan "Yoni" Barros (34-4-1, 17 KOs). A left hook dropped Barros and Barros told referee Robert Byrd he didn't want to continue. Time was 2:24.
Highly regarded super bantamweight prospect Jesse Magdaleno (12-0, 9 KOs) scored an impressive first round KO over Jose Silveira (12-9, 4 KOs). Magdaleno blasted Silveira to the deck with a rapid-fire barrage of punches at 2:59.
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Lightweight Terence Crawford (19-0) remained unbeaten while claiming his 15th knockout victim with a 6th round TKO over Sidney Siqueira (16-7-2). The end came in violent fashion as Crawford doubled and tripled up on his jab and cut loose a right hand and a left hook that sank Siqueira's battleship and Robert Byrd called the fight at the 2:47 mark.
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|July 11th, 2008, 03:06 PM
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[QUOTE=3-foot;1189509]America has a very distinct culture of its own.
I don't want anyone shunned either if they came here legally. I don't think people are blaming legal immigrants for anything, it's those who ignore our laws and come here illegally that are being blamed, and there are valid reasons for that.
I don't see a need/want to learn English or understand our culture, just the opposite. Some of that is our fault for allowing it to be so easy by having #2 for Spanish, etc., its political correctness and its wrong. At the same time they want us to understand their culture and language. Obama said it himself, WE should learn to speak Spanish, not THEY should learn English. Obama is wrong; the burden falls on the immigrant. (pander ... pander ...pander....)
Obama want's to turn the melting pot into a salad bowl.
It's part of the deal of coming to America. It's supposed to benefit the country not the immigrant. The deal is that you can come here to live, be free, pursue happiness. In return, you have to obey the laws, jump in the melting pot, and become a productive American citizen. American's speak English and wave old glory among other things. QUOTE]
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I'm all for getting a better control of illegal immigration. I just don't happen to think that refusing to attempt to communicate with anyone who has the misfortune of finding themselves on US soil without a full command of the English language is an effective means of preventing illegal immigrants from coming here. Nor do i think that deporting 12 million people is a good use of our resources.
And better idea, in my eyes, would be to go after the reason most of those illegals come here. Jobs. I'd like to see much harsher punishment for companies that hire illegals. Make the punishment harsh enough that most don't want to risk it and when the jobs dry up they'll go back where they came from and quit coming here.
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There is nothing wrong in learning a foreign language. In a global economy it is almost essential.
Now, in this speech, Obama mentioned Spanish. If you listen only to that, I can understand those that think he was saying that language was going to be the only one. I did not hear the whole speech, but from what I have read and heard, the Spanish reference on it's own was not the context of the comments. If you bother to listen a little longer you will hear him explain how people from Europe know many languages, not just their own. And that it is a shame that American children only know American English.
There are many languages we can teach our children. In Europe, the children start learning foreign languages at the same time they start formal instruction in their own. It does not detract from their native tounge, in fact it increases the understanding of the nuances.
Kids in Europe are taught those languages that will help them the most in their future. And no, it is not always English (not American). In my home town, just a few km's from the German border, the kids learn German as their second language because of proximity. In the coastal town they are more likely to learn English. This happens throughout Europe. By the time a child becomes a teen, they usually know 3 languages. Their own, the local choice and then English as a third if they have not already had it.
This is happening in all of the industrialized nations. Why do you think they are kicking our asses on the global stage?
But, here we bicker, because somebody mentions that we should learn......oh, excuse me......give in, to the foreigners. And then the conversation somehow goes to illegal immigration, maybe just to get the blood boiling in some.
Learning a second language has less to do with immigration and more to do with broadening a child's horizons and preparing them for the global markets they are inheriting from their elders.
But, that's OK, fight it all the way. Insult the idea. Link it to illegals. Do what ever you want. Guess what, the rest of the world is teaching their kids more than baseball, auto shop and home ec. The rest of the world is preparing their kids to do the jobs of the future.
Yes, there are foreign language classes in schools already, but the come late and do not teach enough.
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Learning a second language isn't what this is about. It's about allowing our culture to be hijacked by another. If you want your kids to know a second language, great, but you shouldn't be forced to know a second language to live in the US, we speak english here.
Here is some info in the group that Obama & McCain were talking to...
Read this and tell me that this isn't all about pandering to illegals, PLEASE!
National Council of La Raza (National Council of The Race)
15. "The Race" supports driver's licenses for illegal aliens.
14."The Race" demands in-state tuition discounts for illegal alien students that are not available to law-abiding U.S. citizens and law-abiding legal immigrants.
13. "The Race" vehemently opposes cooperative immigration enforcement efforts between local, state and federal authorities.
12. "The Race" opposes a secure fence on the southern border.
11. "The Race" joined the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee in a failed lawsuit attempt to prevent the feds from entering immigration information into a key national crime database -- and to prevent local police officers from accessing the data.
10. "The Race" opposed the state of Oklahoma's tough immigration-enforcement-first laws, which cut off welfare to illegal aliens, put teeth in employer sanctions and strengthened local-federal cooperation and information sharing.
9. "The Race" joined other open-borders, anti-assimilationists and sued to prevent Proposition 227, California's bilingual education reform ballot initiative, from becoming law.
8. "The Race" bitterly protested common-sense voter ID provisions as an "absolute disgrace
7. "The Race" has consistently opposed post-9/11 national security measures at every turn.
6. Former "Race" president Raul Yzaguirre, Hillary Clinton's Hispanic outreach adviser, said this: "U.S. English is to Hispanics as the Ku Klux Klan is to blacks." He was referring to U.S. English, the nation's oldest, largest citizens' action group dedicated to preserving the unifying role of the English language in the United States. "The Race" also pioneered Orwellian open-borders Newspeak and advised the Mexican government on how to lobby for illegal alien amnesty while avoiding the terms "illegal" and "amnesty."
5. "The Race" gives mainstream cover to a poisonous subset of ideological satellites, led by Movimiento Estudiantil Chicano de Aztlan, or Chicano Student Movement of Aztlan (MEChA). The late GOP Rep. Charlie Norwood rightly characterized the organization as "a radical racist group one of the most anti-American groups in the country, which has permeated U.S. campuses since the 1960s, and continues its push to carve a racist nation out of the American West."
4. "The Race" is currently leading a smear campaign against staunch immigration enforcement leaders and has called for TV and cable news networks to keep immigration enforcement proponents off the airwaves -- in addition to pushing for Fairness Doctrine policies to shut up their foes. The New York Times reported that current "Race" president Janet Murguia believes "hate speech" should "not be tolerated, even if such censorship were a violation of First Amendment rights."
3. "The Race" sponsors militant ethnic nationalist charter schools subsidized by your public tax dollars (at least $8 million in federal education grants). The schools include Aztlan Academy in Tucson, Ariz., the Mexicayotl Academy in Nogales, Ariz., Academia Cesar Chavez Charter School in St. Paul, Minn., and La Academia Semillas del Pueblo in Los Angeles, whose principal inveighed: "We don't want to drink from a White water fountain, we have our own wells and our natural reservoirs and our way of collecting rain in our aqueducts. We don't need a White water fountain ultimately the White way, the American way, the neo liberal, capitalist way of life will eventually lead to our own destruction."
2. "The Race" has perfected the art of the PC shakedown at taxpayer expense, pushing relentlessly to lower home loan standards for Hispanic borrowers, reaping millions in federal "mortgage counseling" grants, seeking special multimillion-dollar earmarks and partnering with banks that do business with illegal aliens.
1. "The Race" thrives on ethnic supremacy -- and the elite sheeple's unwillingness to call it what it is. As historian Victor Davis Hanson observes: "[The] organization's very nomenclature 'The National Council of La Raza' is hate speech to the core. Despite all the contortions of the group, Raza (as its Latin cognate suggests) reflects the meaning of 'race' in Spanish, not 'the people' -- and that's precisely why we don't hear of something like 'The National Council of the People,' which would not confer the buzz notion of ethnic, racial and tribal chauvinism."
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Your right, enforcing the current laws works very well. It's funny, a few states have started doing this and they had no need to deport. Once the reason for being there (jobs) was gone, they left on their own.
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My Friends Mom is a "boater" she came over from Germany as a child with her family... she is now in 50's so this isn't 100 years ago. Her parents made everyone learn English, German was not even allowed in the house, because there were American's now and English was it.
Even my Mom who moved here from Canada as a kid was put in speech class because of the way she pronounced things.
I hate to push 1 for English... Learn it or get out!
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At least for the last couple of years, this has been a great place to see BOTH A. carolinensis and A. sagrei. Curious as to how much longer the former persists at this site.
Also a great place for Nerodia clarkii!! Anoles can be thick along the fence line as you walk through the demonstration garden.


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Adolescents Born Preterm; Nurtured Beginnings
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|Preterm Birth
|Behavioral: Individualized Developmental Care in the NICU
|Study Type:
|Study Design:
|Allocation: Randomized
Intervention Model: Single Group Assignment
Masking: Double Blind (Participant, Investigator)
Primary Purpose: Prevention
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|Adolescents Born Preterm: Nurtured Beginnings
- Adolescent Cognitive Function [ Time Frame: At time of study ]
- Parent socioeconomic status [ Time Frame: From birth to time of study ]
- Parent cognitive function [ Time Frame: At time of study ]
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|December 2012
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Behavioral: Individualized Developmental Care in the NICU
Newborn Individualized Developmental Care and Assessment Program (NIDCAP) utilizes close observation of each infant's thresholds of moving from organization to disorganization and stress, as exhibited by the infant's behavior. Care and environment are then continuously and dynamically adjusted to increase the infant's self-regulation and organization and decrease the infant's stress. This individualized model of NICU care provides an opportunity to investigate the modifiability of very early born infants' brain function and structure and the possibility of reducing or altogether eliminating the disruption and disturbance of fetal brain development in the NICU.
Other Name: NIDCAP
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The study will test continued long-term intervention effectiveness into adolescence of very early born US preterm infants, who participated in a randomized Newborn Individualized Developmental Care and Assessment Program (NIDCAP) trial, conducted by the principal investigator, while the infants were cared for in the NICU for the first three months after their very premature births. All adolescents to be studied participated as newborns and were assigned either to control care (standard NICU care available at the time), or to experimental care (NIDCAP developmental care, with weekly bedside observations and with daily NIDCAP developmental specialist support to parents and staff), from NICU admission until 2 weeks (w) after expected full-term due date ('corrected' age [CA]).
The strongly brain-based theory underlying the approach to earliest intervention described here has been tested in several experimental studies, which are designed to investigate the effects of planned purposeful modification of experience for very early born infants, who spend the third trimester of gestation in the NICU. NIDCAP is based on an approach which utilizes close observation of each infant's thresholds of moving from organization to disorganization and stress, as exhibited by the infant's behavior. Care and environment are then continuously dynamically adjusted, with the goal to increase the infant's self-regulation and organization and decrease the infant's stress. This individualized model of NICU care provides an opportunity to investigate the modifiability of very early born infants' brain function and structure and the possibility of reducing or altogether eliminating the disruption and disturbance of fetal brain development in the NICU. The randomized scientific trials to date, conducted by the PI and by independent investigators at other settings after formal training show consistent significant neurobehavioral and neurophysiological improvements for the experimental groups across sites and studies.
All the adolescents to be studied were evaluated comprehensively at 2wCA and 9 months (m) CA in terms of not only the commonly measured demographic, medical background and severity of illness variables, but more importantly in terms of comprehensive neurobehavioral and EEG outcome measures, analogues of later developmental competence and disability.
The design of the current study of adolescents is that of a randomized controlled trial (RCT) with two parallel groups (control and experimental), with the question of the independent variable 'group effect' on two dependent measures (adolescent physical growth and cognitive development). In addition to group status, the contribution of four additional independent measures on outcome will also be evaluated: Parent socioeconomic status, parent cognitive function, adolescent physical function and adolescent psychosocial function. The outcome examiners will be blind to subject group status throughout. The design assures a true experimental test of the NICU intervention effects in adolescence.
The significance and importance of the study lays in the unique opportunity to evaluate comprehensively in adolescents the long-term neurodevelopment, learning and adaptive outcomes due to developmental care intervention received in the earliest stage of development. This will be the first study to test the long-term effectiveness of modification of experience in the NICU in a brain-protective, learning-enhancing model for very high-risk, very early-born preterm infants. The importance of the study lies in its potential to contribute significantly to the understanding of preterm brain development in relationship to long-term mental and adaptive functional outcomes in adolescence for the highly jeopardized and growing group of very preterm children. The results are expected to be of key importance in decision and policy development for the evidence-based targeting of sparse special education resources.
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|14 Years to 18 Years (Child, Adult)
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Inclusion Criteria (when recruited as newborns):
- Gestational age at birth ≤ 28 weeks
- Birth weight ≤ 1250 grams
- In need of mechanical ventilation for at least 24 of the first 48 hours
- Singleton
- Born at the study hospital
- Free of known genetic or acquired infections or abnormalities
- Mother living in the vicinity of the study hospital
- Mother comfortable with English
- Mother free of major physical and mental illnesses
Exclusion Criteria (when recruited as newborns):
- Gestational age at birth > 28 weeks
- Birth weight > 1250 grams
- No mechanical ventilation for the first 48 hours
- Multiple (twin, triplet)
- Not born at the study hospital
- Genetic or acquired infections or abnormalities
- Mother lived outside the vicinity of the study hospital
- Mother was not comfortable with English
- Mother had major physical and/or mental illnesses
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT00310869
|Contact: Heidelise Als, PhD
|United States, Massachusetts
|Children's Hospital Boston
|Boston, Massachusetts, United States, 02115
|Sub-Investigator: Gloria B. McAnulty, PhD
|Sub-Investigator: Frank Duffy, MD
|Sub-Investigator: Jane Bernstein, PhD
|Principal Investigator:
|Heidelise Als, PhD
|Boston Children's Hospital
|Responsible Party:
|Boston Children's Hospital
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
|NCT00310869 History of Changes
|Other Study ID Numbers:
|Study First Received:
|April 3, 2006
|Last Updated:
|October 3, 2011
Keywords provided by Boston Children's Hospital:
Preterm Birth
Developmental Care
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Premature Birth
Obstetric Labor, Premature
Obstetric Labor Complications
Pregnancy Complications
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