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I downloaded the Ubuntu 12.10 installer from Ubuntu website. However, I find that it is not an iso image and I am unable to create a live CD (or DVD) from it. I could not find any help from Ubuntu website as well as internet. Please help.
PS - My OS is Windows XP. The Ubuntu installer I downloaded from Ubuntu website is a zip file. I unzipped the file and it has a wubi file.
PS - Thanks. I could create a Live CD. 1) First I tried to do it in my laptop which has Win 7. It was showing the Ubuntu installer as a zip file and could not able to burn it in to a DVD. At that time I raised the question. 2) Later I copied the installer in my desktop which has Win XP. There the installer is shown as an ISO file and I burnt it in to a DVD and created the Live CD. This is working nicely in the the desktop. 3) I tried to run the Live Cd in my Laptop which is an AMD machine, the system does not boot up. 4) In my office desktop which has Win 7 the Ubuntu installer is showing as an ISO file. My questions are as follows: A) Why the Ubuntu installer file is showing differently in different machines? B) Why the Live CD is not working in my Laptop?


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Now you are talking. The clothes have graduated! Ann is wearing my precious blue organdy May Fete dress. And I have I believe Elizabeth's chambray skirt, which I loved.Visits from married siblings were so delightful for me, especially when babies became part of the picture.
Ah, those were the days.
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Murray, Ky. --- In a game that wasn't decided until the final minutes, Tennessee State came away with an impressive, 67-61, road victory over Murray State Monday night in the CFSB Center.
Tennessee State trailed by nearly double-digits in the second half but battled from behind to get back in the game. The Lady Tigers outscored the Racers 7-1 to close out the contest.
With the win TSU improved to 10-12 and 6-5 in the OVC while Murray State fell to 15-8 (7-4 OVC).
Kesi Hess led TSU with 19 points and just missed a double-double with nine rebounds while Simone Hopes (16) and Jasmin Shuler (12) also registered double-digits.
Erika Sisk had 29 points to lead Murray State followed by Kelsey Dirks' 12. Jessica Winfrey added 11 rebounds.
The teams played to an 11-11 deadlock in the first half before the Lady Tigers used a 7-0 run to go ahead, 18-11. Later TSU went on top, 25-14, behind buckets from Kesi Hess and Simone Hopes with 7:54 on the clock.
The Lady Tigers, however, went without a score for the next seven minutes as the Racers reeled off 13 unanswered points to take a, 27-25, lead going into the halftime break.
The second half was a battle that featured several ties and lead changes through the first ten minutes of play. With the game knotted at 41-all, Murray State scored seven unanswered to take a, 48-41, lead. Rachel Allen knocked down a three-pointer from the top of the key to cut into the lead but the Racers increased their advantage to 54-46 a few possessions later.
The Lady Tigers, however, continued to fight. With just over five minutes left to play, Kesi Hess buried a three-pointer to spark a 10-2 run that would pull the Lady Tigers even, 56-56, with the Racers.
With 2:22 left in the game TSU went ahead, 63-61, when Kesi Hess buried her fifth triple of the game. Both teams missed their next shot attempts before a trailing Murray State was forced to foul. With 19.6 on the clock, Hess made two free-throws to make the score, 65-61, in favor of TSU.
Murray State came up empty on its next trip down the floor. Meanwhile, Destiney Gaston connected on a pair of freebies to ice the game.
Tennessee State shot 37.9 percent (25-of-66) from the field including 33.3 percent from three-point range while Murray State went 22-of-62 (35.5 percent) from the field and 5-of-16 (31.3 percent) from long range.
TSU outrebounded MSU, 47-38, and held the advantage in bench scoring, 11-4, and points in the paint, 32-30.
The Lady Tigers return to action on Saturday, Feb. 16 against Belmont in the Play4Kay Pink-Out game. All fans are encouraged to wear pink. Game time is slated for 7 p.m. in the Gentry Center.


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Deep brain stimulation (DBS) uses electrical stimulation to treat neurological conditions such as Parkinson disease (PD), essential tremor, and multiple sclerosis. DBS is used to treat movement problems such as tremors, stiffness, difficulty in walking, and slowed movement. While it does not cure these conditions, DBS can ease symptoms and decrease the amount of medicine you need.
Movement-related symptoms of PD and other neurological conditions are caused by faulty electrical signals in the areas of the brain that control movement. DBS does not damage brain tissue. Instead, it blocks the faulty signals that cause tremors and other movement symptoms.
DBS is done by placing an electrode inside the brain. The electrode is connected to a very small neurostimulator (electrical generator) implanted in your chest or abdomen. Electric current is delivered from the neurostimulator to the electrode in the targeted area of brain tissue responsible for symptoms.
DBS may be an option for certain people with neurological conditions when medicines have become less effective or when side effects of the medicines interfere with daily activities.
One of the main uses of DBS is to treat symptoms of Parkinson disease. It can help when medicines become less effective, or when movement problems or side effects worsen.
DBS may also be used to treat:
Your healthcare provider may have other reasons to recommend DBS.
Not all people with these conditions are good candidates for DBS. Talk with a neurologist who specializes in movement disorders to determine if you are a good candidate for DBS.
As with any surgical procedure, complications can occur. Possible complications include:
Side effects that may occur after the surgery include:
There may be other risks, depending on your specific medical condition. Be sure to discuss any concerns with your healthcare provider before the procedure.
DBS requires a commitment to participate in evaluations, procedures, and consultations before and after the procedure. DBS is usually only available in large medical centers. If you do not live close to a medical center that offers DBS procedures, you may need to spend significant time traveling. The procedure and associated appointments can be expensive. It is also important for you to have realistic expectations. Although DBS can improve symptoms, it will not cure the condition.
Before DBS, you will have assessments to determine whether this is a good option for you. You will need tests to evaluate memory and thinking. A psychiatrist may examine you to determine if you have a condition such as depression or anxiety that requires treatment before the DBS procedure.
Ask your healthcare provider about what you might need to do in the days and weeks before your procedure, such as if there are any special dietary or medicine restrictions.
Implantation of a DBS lead generally requires a hospital stay of a day or longer. Procedures may vary depending on your condition and your healthcare provider's practices. The lead and neurostimulator may be implanted at the same time, or the neurostimulator may be implanted in a separate procedure after the lead is implanted. Talk with your healthcare provider about what you will experience during your procedure.
Generally, surgery for DBS follows this process:
This may or may not be done at the same time the electrode is placed.
Programming the neurostimulator is a process that occurs over time. You will likely return several times for adjustments to the settings. Your medicines may also be adjusted. The goal is control your symptoms with the most appropriate amount of electrical stimulation and medicine.
Once your "best" settings have been determined, you will need to return periodically for checkups. Your healthcare provider will determine your follow-up schedule based on your particular situation.
You will be given a magnet to turn the neurostimulator on or off under conditions prescribed by your healthcare provider.
The neurostimulator is powered by a long-lasting battery that generally lasts 3 to 5 years. When the battery starts to wear out, the neurostimulator will be replaced with a new one in an outpatient procedure.
You will be watched for complications, such as seizures. In general, the hospital stay after a DBS procedure is 24 hours; however, you may stay longer if complications develop. Before you are discharged from the hospital, arrangements will be made for a follow-up visit with your healthcare provider. He or she will also give you instructions for home care.
Once you are home, it's important to keep the incisions clean and dry. Your healthcare provider will give you specific bathing instructions. If stitches were used, they will be removed during a follow-up office visit. If adhesive strips are used, they should be kept dry and generally will fall off within a few days.
Consider these precautions. Discuss the following in detail with your healthcare provider:
DBS can help improve symptoms of tremors, stiffness, slowness, and movement problems. It can also help with medicine therapy by decreasing the dose needed. Decreasing the dose of medicine can ease side effects of long-term medicine use. Many people continue to have improvements in their symptoms for several years after the procedure. They are able to do basic activities, such as eating, toileting, and dressing. Memory, thinking, and mood may or may not be affected. Many neurological conditions are progressive, so later complications can develop. If these complications develop, the gains obtained from DBS may eventually be lost.
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Lake Tahoe & Reno
Visitors to Reno have come to expect the unexpected
The biggest misconception about Reno is probably its location. Television commentators, scenes and dialogue in movies, even some of Nevada's lore suggests that Reno and Las Vegas are next-door neighbors, related by the desert and a proclivity for casinos.
Reno, Nevada
Regional Highlights
One of the more unexpected aspects of Reno and the surrounding area is the number and variety of annual festivals and events.
From the comedies performed at the Lake Tahoe Shakespeare Festival to the awe-inspiring speed of the Reno National Championship Air Races, students have a lot to look forward to.
Nestled at the base of the Sierra Nevada, Reno is closer to cities such as Sacramento and San Francisco than Las Vegas. In contrast to Las Vegas, Reno offers its residents an invigorating taste of all four seasons. Channeling the crystal waters of Lake Tahoe, the Truckee River runs leisurely through downtown Reno. Numerous mountain ranges rise ruggedly from the desert basin, providing stunning views and unmatched sunsets. When you breathe the crisp mountain air and smell the hint of sagebrush on the breeze, you'll know you're in Reno.
Reno, the "The Biggest Little City in the World," and sister city, Sparks, combine for a population of close to 400,000. Reno offers a favorable quality of life that has been recognized by numerous national sources, including Forbes magazine. Reno's population enjoys an array of cultural activities, including museums, numerous theatre companies, a symphony, ballet and opera. There are several major venues for concerts, sporting events and other live performances, including Lawlor Events Center on campus and the Reno Events Center, located less than a 10-minute walk from campus.
An outdoor mecca
Visitors have called Reno one of the country's true outdoor meccas, and for good reason. Within a one-hour drive of Reno are 15 world-class skiing and snowboarding resorts, Lake Tahoe, hundreds of mountain biking and hiking trails including the 165-mile Tahoe Rim Trail, and the Truckee River, which runs from the California state line through downtown Reno, where one of country's top outdoor whitewater kayak parks is located.
Reno's sister city, Sparks, is home to several special events that draw thousands of attendees to the area in the summer and fall. Lake Tahoe, which can be accessed from Reno from two different major highways, has been selected on numerous occasions as one of the nation's most popular destinations.
Jewel of the Sierra
Known as the "jewel of the Sierra" for its clear blue water and panorama of surrounding mountains, Lake Tahoe, with its 6,229-foot elevation, is the highest lake of its size in the U.S. Located beyond Donner Summit on Interstate 80 is California's state capital, Sacramento, less than two hours from Reno, as well as the San Francisco Bay Area, which is less than four hours from Reno.


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This track has a lovely piano rhythm, it's a easy listening song that will compliment any romantic story, or any positive, inspirational media projects.
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Panasonic TXP42ST50B & SCHTB550EBK
The display alternately shows images for the left and right eyes. The left and right lenses of the eyewear open and close in sync with this display timing to show separate images to the left and right eyes. By repeating this action at high speed, the brain perceives 3D images. And because this method displays FULL HD 3D images just as they are, both eyes receive 3D images in high, fullHD quality.This original Panasonic technology detects image movements like the human eye, and optimises the drive accordingly. By achieving instantaneously powerful light emission rather than finely divided emission, it reduces the afterimages that cause blurring. As a result, fast movement is reproduced with excellent clarity.


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My Beauty Diary make some lovely face masks and they've released some rather cute limited edition masks to celebrate the Taipei International Flora Expo (like the Chelsea flower show?!).
There's 5 type to choose from and I purchased 2:
1. Japanese Hydrangea Mask – Oil Control & Soothing
2. French White Lily Mask – Whitening & Soothing
3. Formosa White Phalaenopsis Mask – Whitening & Nourishing
4. Peruvian Sunflower Mask – High Moisturizing
5. Vienna Black Tulip Mask – Refining & Softening
I went for Peruvian Sunflower, just because I want to own something with Peruvian in it and Vienna Black Tulip because I like tulips. Yeah…I makes sense like that.
You get 5 in each box and I repeat these are LIMITED EDITION. My Beauty Diary masks are usually more food based (chocolate, sake, yoghurt, apple etc.) so flower based ones are unusual.
I've had various My Beauty Diary masks before – some are great, some are just ok, some give me allergic reactions! I also really like FaceQ masks.
Both of these masks are lovely – no allergic reactions and both left my skin feeling refreshed and hydated. Black tulip left my skin looking brighter. The cats like smelling these masks.
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One thing I do in the cold weather is put these sheet masks (whilst they are still in the packet!) into some warm water and let it warm up for a bit so it's a sooooottthiinnngggg treatment. Nice and toasty!
I'd definitely recommend these masks, especially if you like flowery scents. Buy these from Alphabeautyuk on eBay, I paid about £8 for these with shipping.


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David Beckham visits troops in Afghanistan
Now, lots of harsh words are spoken about footballers – some of it true (yes you, Ashley Cole!) and some of it not so true. But David Beckham's recent visit to Afghanistan showed what a true gent he is. He's always struck me as more grounded than people seem to think, and he certainly comes across like that here.
Solidarity Poland 1981
This is a section of the BBC Documentary series The Cold War that looks at the Solidarity Movement in 1980's Poland. It also focuses on Pope John Paul II and Lech Walesa. I can remember watching this in College for A-Level History. There has always been something tragic about Polish history that has fascinated me.
Black Label Society – In This River (Live)
I spent many years of my youth listening to this band. Zakk Wylde has to be the greatest heavy metal guitarist out there, and this is his tribute to Dimebag Darrell of Pantera, who was murdered onstage in 2005. Its a very emotional song and means a lot to me too.


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Canadiens unload Cole to the Stars.
Erik Cole has been traded to the Stars.
Erik Cole's contract traded to the Stars for UFA Michael Ryder.
Canadiens acquire Michael Ryder from Dallas.
Stars and Canadiens swap scorers.
There are a number of ways to spin this trade depending on your perspective. I was somewhat disappointed to hear about the trade and then learn more about it from the one-tracked crew at RDS. The tack they took was certainly to denigrate the player on the way out. I see little need for that.
They implicated Cole in disturbances in team chemistry (strange given the winning ways) and stated assuredly that he was a mere shadow of his former self (the former self that played his heart out as the player of the season only 10 months ago). I could spend a whole article criticising RDS and the ever-so-simple Benoit Brunet (still on TV?), but I've given them more attention than they deserve already.
There'll be time to examine what was lost in Cole and what was gained in Ryder, but for now, I wish to suggest the reasons I think as to why the trade might have been made.
1) Corey Perry
Bergevin was left with a difficult salary situation that he didn't make immediate moves to improve. Had he not bought out Gomez, this team would be over next year's cap, so even with that move the GM and team had little room to maneuver in what could be one of the more interesting summers (lower cap after meaning moves from others). I cite Corey Perry as a one example of a player that could become available on July 1. When a player the likes of Corey Perry becomes available, teams are wise to make preparations to be in the running. Cole's salary wasn't massive and it wasn't an overpayment, but it was after all $4.5 million on the books. Ryder's after this year will be nil. The flexibility that could be gained to make summer pursuits either is a prime suspect for me as to the reasoning and timing for this trade.
2) 2014-15
I'm going to give Bergevin a little credit here. Though he talks about the PP now, he can't be disclosing an entire reasoning in the statements of last night. While a valiant commitment to a continuation of this good start is the right thing to do, the wise thing to do is stick with the strategic plan that was set after the planning sessions prior to the season.
Any GM taking over the last-place outfit of last season would have been foolhardy to envisage or count on a turnaround 6 weeks into his new tenure. My feeling, based on the moves that reveal long-term intentions, is that Bergevin has the year 2014 very much in mind in his strategic rebuilding efforts. 2014 will be the year that several key contracts come off the books, including the captain and most of the defensive corps. If flexibility for this summer lends to intrigue, flexibility in that summer will be a necessity. Cole's contract, with an expiration date of one summer later was out of step with this plan, and one cannot be sure that an opportunity to have him waive his right to denial would present itself again.
Strategically, one building this team really does have to be looking past the age of Gionta to start thinking Cups. By that time, questions of Subban's poise and maturity will be resolved and Carey Price will be in full prime. The current rookies will have experience under their belt and one can only hope that they will be joined in their exuberance by the likes of Collberg, Kristo and others.
3) Dallas called
I'm going to fly in David Archambault's face here and suggest that this doesn't feel like Bergevin was looking to unload Erik Cole. I would not be in the least surprised if this trade was instigated by Joe Nieuwendyk out his desire to pursue his own strategic vision. He was in a very different predicament with several forwards set to come off the books in the summer and the prospect of an extremely young core to remain. It makes sense to me that he would be seeking a player like Cole that could bridge a couple of extra years should negotiations with all his free agents get difficult. What's more, he very much needed the leverage to hold over his free agents -- that he does have enough players to ice two NHL-ready lines.
So, if Dallas called, I'd suggest they called about Cole specifically. And that the choice to make the call during a slow period for Cole was not coincidence. In such a situation, the leverage is with the seller (at least until he reveals his wishes) and Bergevin appears to have done OK in gaining a younger, Montreal-ready player with a record for scoring 30 goals a season. My bone of contention if this was the scenario is that Bergevin should have held on for Jagr (aka Plekanec's soulmate).
4) Fixing the PP
This is low on the list. I'm sorry to those who take GMs at face value, but get real. First of all, the Canadiens PP is not ailing. Second of all, the Canadiens PP is not ailing. No, it is not as high-flying as it should be with Andrei Markov running things. But this is because it takes time to resolve the tampering that a fidgety coach couldn't resist. The Canadiens can count on two truly dangerous point units and the passes they provide the forwards could have easily been (and were) put in by Erik Cole.
The tenuous story here is that Bergevin is really worried about replacing Rene Bourque, who had been thriving on the PP early on, and so sought a sniper with a similar release and tendency. It's possible, but not my favourite option. I can see why this is the story given to the press (who can't grasp planning for next Wednesday, let alone 2014-15), and I can understand that this is a consequence of the move. I don't buy it as motive.
5) Getting rid of Erik Cole
This has to be very low on the list. If it is not, beware the years ahead with this GM as he would have waited only days before following in the tracks of his ousted predecessors. It simply makes no sense to seek to unload a player who a year ago was the engine of a team and in this season was a contributing member (if not always on the scoresheet) to a first place team. Question those who come up with this as the primary rationale.


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There have been so many bad Corvette Stingray retro-modern rebodies it was becoming increasingly impossible to imagine a good one. Until now. Coachbuilder Rossi is developing the Rossi SixtySix, an homage to the Split Window that looks absolutely stunning.
Built upon the modern 6.0-liter C6 Corvette's chassis, the SixtySix is the work of Rossi Motor Company, based out in Irvine, California. The car will be see limited production with a new hand-built body over the Corvette chassis featuring design cues heavily based on the 60's 'Vettes, including those fabulous view-blocking split windows. The car uses the standard roll hoop, top, front and side glass, but everything else is new with an aggressive but polished look — just look at the center high-mounted stop light mounted vertically on the window bar, nice.
The SixtySix also addresses the C6's time-worn complaint of a sub-par interior with an all-new cockpit while under the hood the car gets a nice 20 HP bump over stock to 450 HP. Prices are expected to start at around $130,000 but supplies have not been announced. An awfully hefty sum to pay just to ape a nearly 50-year-old design. (Tip of the hat to Andrew)


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Friends of Lebanon must be commended for organising the celebration of this seminal day by this event. On 24th May 2008, around 250 people crammed in to the Old Cinema at the University of Westminster to mark Liberation Day and watch the UK premiere of Carol Mansour's documentary "A Summer Not to Forget" which shows graphically the human cost of the Israeli war on Lebanon. Featured below are all the speeches from the day (most in streaming video as well as downloadable audio).
Brenda Heard introduced 'Friends of Lebanon' and spoke of the concept of 'resistance' and what it means to different people.
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Emma Nicholson has a good history of supporting humanitarian causes in the region. She has championed the cause of the Marsh Arabs who were facing extermination at Saddams hands, though it was wrong to use them to justify an invasion of Iraq. She has visited Iran to discover for her self Iran's democratic process and institutions set up to defend the rights of its minorities and she has reported on these at a time when it would have been so easy to keep quiet as Europe falls in line behind the US in demonising Iran in preparation for a possible attack on Iran. As a result she has been targeted by the MKO (an Iranian terrorist organisation / cult opposed to the Islamic Republic, once armed by Saddam and now supported by the neocons). Following the July 2006 war on Lebanon she visited Lebanon and condemned the EU's "deplorable silence and inaction in the face of a slaughter of the innocents". It was unfortunate then that her speech here on Liberation Day was rather disappointing. For example, forgetting the EUs betrayal of Lebanon she claimed that the EU was supporting Lebanon in her hour of need!
Carol Mansour Lebanese/Palestinian filmmaker, director of "A Summer Not to Forget" - a documentary of the July 2006 war on Lebanon.
This film was an opportunity for me to find my voice and to resist as a non-partisan Lebanese citizen. I made it as a tool to learn from, and not repeat our mistakes as a collective global community.
For full details of the film, including how to buy it, please visit www.fwdprod.com.
Dr Abdul Rahman Bizri, Mayor of Saida (Sidon) in Lebanon. Regarding Liberation Day:
The first act of our future President, General Suleiman, will be to restore the holiday on the day of liberation of the south of Lebanon. Its unfortunate that the Prime Minister Siniora government did not think it worth while to have a liberation day in Lebanon.. maybe they don't think that liberation from israeli occupation is important..
On the media portrayal of the current problems in Lebanon as sectarian:
If you look at the international media, many want us to think that there was some sort of a sectarian struggle in Lebanon. Many want to express the conflict in sectarian terms, which means that its a Sunni verses a Shia issue. Well this is definitely not true. And as a good example of that - well I'm a Muslim and I'm a Sunni and I am the Mayor of one of the largest Sunni cities and I'm here really to speak on behalf of the Resistance. The Resistance is for all Lebanese and the issue is never really a sectarian issue, and was never a sectarian issue. Its simply an argument between two different political points of view. One political point of view, which the so-called current majority in parliament holds - they believe that Lebanon should be part of what we call the package of the new Middle-East that is now being promoted by the americans and the so-called moderate Arabs. Others in Lebanon believe that the only way for Lebanon to become again a leading country in the Middle-East and the Arab world is to regain back its pride, and the only way we can have our pride and have our sovereignty, and be sovereign and be masters of our own fate is by dropping the saying that the strengths of Lebanon's lies in its weakness. Its definitely not true, the strength of Lebanon lies in its resistance and the ability of its people to live together.
In his discussion of the history of the resistance to Israel he mentions the Islamic Revolution:
Very important factor was the Iranian Revolution, when the Iranian Revolution succeeded and Iran became an Islamic country. In the past when the pan-Arab attitude wanted to consider Jerusalem and Palestine as a pan-Arab issue, the response from many Arab regimes was - no this is an Islamic issue, its not a pan-Arab issue. When Iran came in to the arena again, became part of this formula, the Iranians said that Jerusalem is also very important for us, and when the Iranians want to give Jerusalem a religious magnitude many of the Arab countries said - no forget about it, its not an Islamic issue, its an Arab issue!
On the Resistance and its methods to victory:
When you fight a superior force, the only way to get some leverage is by resorting to unconventional means ie guerrilla style warfare. Neutralizing the effect of more abundant equipment and significantly advanced weapons needs better human commitment - this can only be achieved by believing in the righteousness and justfulness of our cause. In the case of the Lebanese Resistance, mainly Hizbullah, the first encounters with the occupying army were martyr type operations. However with time Hizbullah was able to mount very well planned and perfectly executed operations. And in fact the last few years before the liberation of the south of Lebanon, the casualty numbers definitely (showed) that the occupying soldiers were losing much more than the mujahedeen of Hizbullah. As a result the israeli casualties were much higher, and ultimately the occupying army and their collaborators were forced to withdraw and flee from the country, and this is what we are celebrating today.
On the arms of Hizbullah and the current crisis in Lebanon:
They say why Hizbullah - a Shia group has arms, why not the Sunnis have arms, why not the Christians have arms? First of all Hizbullah arms were only targeted against Israel. Hizbullah is the only armed group in Lebanon that was never involved up until recently in any internal problems. Why did Hizbullah use its arms recently? I will tell you. In modern warfare the most important thing is not the front, its the command and control centre. And its not a secret that in 2006 even before declaring the seization of hostilities, the command for the last rocket launched by Hizbullah was given directly from the commander in chief then. And this was really the reason why, among many other reasons, why Hizbullah did not lose the war and in fact won this confrontation. Because they kept their command and control centre, and when the current Lebanese government tried to interfere with the command and control of Hizbullah arms this was some sort of a declaration of war on the arms of Hizbullah, and this is why Hizbullah had to resort to arms to protect the arms of the Resistance.
George Galloway Respect MP
The Arab League had met that day - this corpse called the Arab League had had electricity coursed through it so that it could get to its feet to have an emergency meeting about the presence of a few hundred Lebanese gunmen on the streets of Lebanon whilst they can say and do nothing about the one million gunmen occupying Palestine for 60 years! Are Hizbullah expected to lay down their arms when the Arab camp is in such a powerless condition that it can meet to discuss gunman in Hambra Street but not gunman surrounding Al-Aqsa from which the Prophet ascended to heaven?
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Everywhere I go in the Arab world I hear the chatter from those who wish to divide the Arabs and the Muslims even more than they are already divided. We are told that there is an Iranian, Syrian, Shiite, Hizbullah conspiracy against the Arab world. Well there is a conspiracy in the Arab world alright, but its an American Israeli conspiracy. And I appeal on this platform as i do on all platforms to the Sunni Muslims of the Arab world not to be fooled again by those who wish to throw sand in their eyes, to divide them from other Muslims, from other Arabs on the basis of confession, this in an Arab world already hopelessly divided to the point of mediocrity and impetus by the mini-states.. I don't know what the outcome of this campaign will be, I hope that it fails, but if it succeeds you will face another hundred years like the hundred years through which you have just passed and everyone should know it.


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When Ash and his friends arrived at the Grapefruit Islands, they discovered that a Snorlax was eating every grapefruit in the orchards. Eventually, the group, with help from Jigglypuff, managed to stop Snorlax and Ash as well managed to catch it.
Snorlax remained on Ash's team right up until the Orange League final, where it had to be switched with one of Ash's Tauros because it would not wake up. After Ash won the Orange League, he left Snorlax at Prof. Oak's lab on a permanent basis, as he could no longer fuel its large appetite.
In Ring Masters, Ash used Snorlax in the Sumo Conference and it ended up winning. Later on, in Better Eight Than Never, Ash used Snorlax against Clair's Kingdra and it won the battle. During the Johto League, Ash used Snorlax in his battle against his long-term rival Gary Oak. Snorlax defeated Gary's Nidoqueen and Arcanine before being defeated by Gary's Scizor. Snorlax was also used in Ash's next battle against Harrison and defeated his Steelix and Hypno, but was knocked out by Harrison's Houndoom.
Upon Ash's return from Hoenn, along with May and Max, Snorlax made fast friends with May's Munchlax, possibly because of their evolutionary relation. In Wheel of Frontier, Ash used Snorlax in his battle against Greta. Snorlax managed to defeat her Hariyama with an Ice Punch attack and her Medicham with Body Slam.
Snorlax reappeared in An Old Family Blend, where it had gone missing from its Poké Ball, like Ash's other Pokémon. Snorlax was found in the kitchen eating food. Ash tried to use it to battle Team Rocket, but it refused to wake up and accidentally tipped over Team Rocket's mechanic. Snorlax was shown defeating an unknown Trainer's Grumpig with Body Slam during the Sinnoh League.
Snorlax will reappear at the lab with all of Ash's other Pokemon in an upcoming episode of Best Wishes Season 2.
Known Attacks EditEdit
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|Snack Attack
|Mega Kick
|Snack Attack
|Mega Punch
|Bound For Trouble
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|Pokémon Food Fight!
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|Better Eight Than Never
|The Right Place and the Right Mime
|Wheel of Frontier
|Wheel of Frontier
|+ indicates this Pokémon used this move recently.*
- indicates this Pokémon normally can't use this move.
Trivia EditEdit
- Snorlax's Poké Ball is the only one of Ash's to break.
- Snorlax is the only Pokémon Ash caught in the Orange Archipelago who he still possesses.
- In Pokémon Food Fight!, Misty says, "That is if you can ever get him to wake up", but only in the dub. Another instance of gender confirmation in the dub was in Playing with Fire!, when Professor Oak says "Snorlax's Hyper Beam was sent back to him at double the power."
- In Wheel Of Frontier, Snorlax's Harden was erroneously named Protect in the Japanese version of the anime. The error was carried on into the dub.


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Brasilia, capital of Brazil
The Brazilian Congress
Brasilia is not only a planned city. It is a planned capital.
Brasilia, the capital of Brazil, was inaugurated on April 22nd 1960, in the central area of the country.
Just five years earlier, the area resembled a desert, with no people, scarce water, few animals and plants.
President Juscelino Kubitschek, who took office as President in 1956, invited the best Brazilian architects and urbanists to present projects for the new capital.
Oscar Niemeyer, today one of the most famous world's architects, combined straight and rounded shapes to create innovative architectural masterpieces. Lucio Costa, reknowned Brazilian urbanist, devised a lay-out combining beautiness, simplicity and functionality.
Visit the pages below to see how Brasilia has become such a special place!
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» World Cup 2014 in Brasilia. Seven matches will be staged in Brasilia.
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Revolutionise Digital Advertising Measurement via bespoke Cookies and Pixels
Presupuesto £20-250 GBP
I want to do nothing short of revolutionising how digital advertising is measured.
Currently advertising success is measured based on attribution models that are determined beforehand to estimate how much of the sales are attributable to each channel.
I want to move towards a control vs experimental condition design instead. The details of how it would work are as follows:
I need a way to create a tracking pixel that can store a few variables of information in form of a cookie in a browser.
That pixel would be attached to the ad in the ad server (I know how to do this in the Doubleclick products) and would fire once the ad is served.
As the ad is served the pixel creates a Unique user ID in a cookie on the browser of the user as well was at least 1 piece of information (for now): Was the ad in view (i.e. actually able to be seen) or not.
Those users that were targeted and served the ad but the ad was not in view would be excluded from further advertising and serve as the control group.
The second part of this system would be to place a pixel on the sales page of the advertising client which reads the cookies of the user.
This way we can measure a proper baseline of users who were not exposed to the ad (due to semi random selection) and those that were exposed to the ad and if there is any real uplift in likelihood of conversion.
This gets rid of the need to preemptively guess the mechanisms of conversion (did people click on the ad, when in the journey did they click on the ad or see the ad) and would simply measure true uplift between two groups that are identical besides the exposure to the ad.
This is as close as I can think to a proper experimental setup without incurring the prohibitive costs of serving placebo ads to part of the user group.
I have experience with Advertising in my day to day role and understand the DoubleClick tech stack well.
The coder must be able to set up a server from scratch and more importantly design the two pixels that can be placed in the ad and on the landing page.
Due to industry connections I can trial the product swiftly.
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Report warns of global food insecurity
as climate change destroys fisheries
According to this Guardian article, ocean acidification and climate change are destroying fisheries, hitting the Persian Gulf, Libya, and Pakistan particularly hard.
Low-income countries ... were viewed as high risk. So were small island states that depend heavily on coral reef fisheries and on conches, oysters, clams and other shellfish.
About 1 billion people depend on seafood as their main source of protein. But some of those countries most dependent on fishing are expected to lose up to 40% of their fish catch by the middle of the century.
For those of us in the States, this isn't just Somebody Else's Problem: "America is expected to lose about 12% of its catch potential by mid-century, the report said."
... the first effects of climate change and the changing ocean chemistry are already evident, however, in Kenya ... and on the US Pacific coast which has seen a die-off of oyster beds in Oregon.
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Thinking that the US will ONLY lose 12% of its catch potential is unduly optimistic, in my view. With other countries literally starving there will be a desperate scramble to deplete all fish no matter where they're found.
The US King Salmon catch has already collapsed.
The fisheries have already been destroyed, since the 1980s on the Grand Banks of Newfoundland, since the Middle Ages in the "banks" off Europe, and in the Med since the 90s.
Global change is simply an additional drop in the bucket... but that's just a drop, while the "bucket" is human population. What has really killed the oceans is human consumption... which is directly related to human numbers.
Climate change is but a distraction in the true requirements to recreate a sustainable planet. Once in political hands, the climate change debate becomes an economical debate. It will do nothing to change the situation. The Homo sapiens on todays' planet will never achieve reduced energy consumption. We need to reduce humans and reduce our technological output.
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Climate change is but a distraction in the true requirements to recreate a sustainable planet. Once in political hands, the climate change debate becomes an economical debate.
I wouldn't say "but a distraction" as if it's trivial and easily dismissed. While Climate Change is a symptom of our shortfall from "the true requirements to recreate a sustainable planet", it's most urgent.
Your point that it's easily converted into an economic debate in the political arena is well taken. I think our ultimate answer will include rethinking economics to include a second competing "currency", rights to bear children. Only when population size is translated in terms of an economic coin, a second value to balance against "filthy lucre" will global economic systems be ready to integrate it. Once we have lotteries, futures, and trading in birth rights, that elephant in the room won't seem so scary.
Fishermen are beginning to worry about ocean acidification.
In the past five years, the fact that human-generated carbon emissions are making the ocean more acidic has become an urgent cause of concern to the fishing industry and scientists.
... last year, a team of researchers led by Oregon State University professor George Waldbusser found that the pH in the lower part of the Chesapeake Bay is declining at a rate that's three times faster than the open Pacific Ocean, partly because of increased nutrient runoff from farming and other activities.
Oyster farmers off the coasts of Washington and Oregon were the first to see how ocean acidification threatened their business.
A new study predicts the loss of coral reefs, essential to many fish.
Limiting climate change to two degrees C won't save most coral reefs, according to new, state-of-the-art research.
About 70 percent of corals are projected to suffer from long-term degradation by 2030 with two degrees C of warming, the first comprehensive global survey reported Sunday in the journal Nature Climate Change.
The planet will get far hotter than two degrees C based on current commitments by countries to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions, mainly from burning oil, gas and coal. Humanity is on course to heat up the atmosphere an average of three and even four degrees C, according to the Climate Action Tracker, an international scientific monitor. Those temperature levels are what most scientists consider "catastrophic".
Coral reefs are considered by many to be one of the life-support systems essential for human survival. For more than 2.6 billion people, seafood is the main source of protein. Corals act as the nurseries and habitat for many fish species, and are vital for up to 33 percent of all ocean species, according to the World Conservation Union (IUCN). [emphasis mine]
Deeper CO2 Cuts Needed to Save Corals
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A "new" study?????? ROFLMAO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The oceans are practically dead! relative to what they were just a couple of centuries ago.
It's not only fish supplies which are disappearing.
UN warns of looming worldwide food crisis in 2013
• Global grain reserves hit critically low levels
• Extreme weather means climate 'is no longer reliable'
• Rising food prices threaten disaster and unrest
A Zimbabwean peasant farmer in a crop of maize destroyed by drought. One expert warns: 'The geopolitics of food is fast overshadowing the geopolitics of oil.' Photograph: Howard Burditt/Reuters
World grain reserves are so dangerously low that severe weather in the United States or other food-exporting countries could trigger a major hunger crisis next year, the United Nations has warned.
The figures come as one of the world's leading environmentalists issued a warning that the global food supply system could collapse at any point, leaving hundreds of millions more people hungry, sparking widespread riots and bringing down governments. In a shocking new assessment of the prospects of meeting food needs, Lester Brown, president of the Earth policy research centre in Washington, says that the climate is no longer reliable and the demands for food are growing so fast that a breakdown is inevitable, unless urgent action is taken.
"Food shortages undermined earlier civilisations. We are on the same path. Each country is now fending for itself. The world is living one year to the next," he writes in a new book.
According to Brown, we are seeing the start of a food supply breakdown with a dash by speculators to "grab" millions of square miles of cheap farmland, the doubling of international food prices in a decade, and the dramatic rundown of countries' food reserves.
Here's a nice summary of what's destroying fisheries in chart form.
Ocean animals shrink ten times faster as temperature rises than land animals.
Warming Temperatures Cause Aquatic Animals to Shrink the Most
Warmer temperatures cause greater reduction in the adult sizes of aquatic animals than in land-dwellers in a new study by scientists from Queen Mary, University of London and the University of Liverpool.
... the body size of marine and freshwater species are affected disproportionately by warmer temperatures. This could have implications for aquatic food webs and the production of food by aquaculture.
"Aquatic animals shrink 10 times more than land-dwellers in species the size of large insects or small fish. While animals in water decrease in size by 5 percent for every degree Celsius of warming, similarly sized species on land shrink, on average, by just half a percent."
The research also demonstrates that the most likely cause of this difference in size is due to the much lower availability of oxygen in water than in air.
"Given that fish and other aquatic organisms provide 3 billion people with at least 15 percent of their animal protein intake, our work highlights the importance of understanding how warming in the future will affect ocean, lake and river dwelling species."
Caribbean sardine collapse linked to climate change
The collapse of sardine fisheries in the southern Caribbean during the past decade may have been driven by global climate change, according to a study.
The sardine, Sardinella aurita, feeds on plankton but since 2005 plankton levels in the Caribbean have reduced significantly, which, coupled with overfishing, may have contributed to the collapse of these fisheries. They have plummeted by as much as 87%, the study says.
The research team said the decreasing levels of plankton production are the result of a reduction in ocean upwelling, whereby nutrients crucial for plankton production are brought from the sea's floor to the surface. The drop in upwelling has, in turn, been driven by changes in wind patterns and wind strength, themselves driven by global climate change.
... water temperature has increased by 1.1C [since 1996] – a very slight increase, slow but steady." The temperature increase contributes to the stratification of the sea, further limiting the upwelling and thus reducing plankton production.
The Venezuelan sardine catch has dropped from about 200,000 tonnes in 2004 to less than 40,000 tonnes today, Lodeiros said, adding: "The same goes for other areas ...
New data on past and future changes to fish catches from climate change.
'Fish Thermometer' Reveal Impact of Climate Change
... scientists at the University of British Columbia say warmer global temperatures have been affecting the world's ocea... for some 40 years.
They used known temperature preferences of fish and other marine species as a sort of "thermometer" to gauge the extent of the change, and they saw a gradual migration of fish species away from the equator into cooler, deeper waters.
The researchers analyzed data from global fisheries from 1970 to 2006 and found the catch was increasingly dominated by warm-water species.
... while boats off the northeastern coast of the U.S. were catching new species typically found closer to the tropics, "in the tropics, climate change meant fewer marine species and reduced catches, with serious implications for food security." [emphasis mine]
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Schools are hyper-vigilant about safety. In many instances, that's a good thing, but sometimes administrators take things too far. Case in point: a Georgia mom and army vet Tanya Mount has been banned from her daughter's school because she posted a photo of her gun permit on Facebook. Apparently, the fact she had a permit frightened the school's principal. Regardless of what you feel about the right to bear arms, there is a bigger, scarier issue at play here.
More from The Stir: Mom Punishes Daughter Via Facebook & People Freak Out (VIDEO)
This mom is being punished for doing something completely within her rights to do. As far as we can tell from reports, she had never displayed any aggression, violence, or rage at the school or to staff. She was even a regular volunteer, spending time on the playground with her special needs daughter. She did nothing illegal. She did nothing wrong.
The principal, who was reportedly uncomfortable with Mount being a former soldier who could carry a gun, told her to stop helping out at the school and go home to focus on "grownup" things. This mom says she was made to feel like a criminal -- and unfairly so.
So does this mean a school can ban any parent who does something they don't like? What if we all started getting banned from our kids' schools based on what we put on Facebook? It's outrageous. So if someone simply doesn't agree with you, they can have a parent prohibited from stepping onto school grounds. What's next? This could open the door to all kinds of unjust persecutions. What's to stop someone from petitioning to have a person banned for their political stance or how they feel about some other hot-button issue? What's especially upsetting about Mount's situation is that she fought for the freedoms and rights of the very people who are doing this to her. The entire situation is an abuse of power. It makes no sense. AT. ALL.
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Agriculture Secretary Mike Johanns released a summary of the more than 4,000 comments made at the Farm Bill Forums USDA held in 48 states last year. (Louisiana and Mississippi were skipped because of the hurricanes, according to the secretary.)
The summary is impressive both from the number of hours Johanns and other USDA officials sat and listened to people talk about the farm bill — 66 hours for Johanns — and the breadth and depth of the information it contains.
USDA personnel spent months analyzing the hundreds of pages of transcripts compiled from the 52 listening sessions. From those, they compiled 41 summary papers that contain background information on their topics and the opinions and suggestions expressed.
The summary paper for the direct and counter-cyclical program, for example, runs five pages that include tables listing payment rates for the two segments of the DCP program and how much the federal government spent on those for each commodity in 2003, 2004 and 2005.
The papers are a treasure trove for policy wonks and ag journalists who might not be able to find the target price for oats or that USDA made $69.13 million in direct payments to peanut farmers in 2005 in their filing systems.
The USDA analysts acknowledged that many commentators said they support the current DCP and its continuation in the next farm bill. But they also said "others maintained that the current commodity support program fuels overproduction, lowers market prices, increases taxpayer support and damages rural communities."
The detailed suggestions include a perennial complaint from farmers: Crop yields established 20 years ago under the 1985 farm bill are not representative of today's conditions.
"I said at the outset of our nationwide tour that I hoped for an open, honest exchange of ideas about future farm policy, and thousands of people responded to that request with thoughtful, candid comments," said Johanns. "My direction is to be open and transparent about the analysis phase of our farm bill preparations."
The next step for USDA is to "glean" from the summary papers a number of themes for further study. An analysis of each theme, to be led by Keith Collins, USDA's chief economist, will be posted on the USDA Web site when it is completed.
Johanns said the latter will contain factual, unbiased information. That would be good news to supporters of the current farm bill who have heard Johanns criticize the 2002 legislation more often than not in recent months.
Speaking of toeing the administration line, the March 29 announcement that Josh Bolten would succeed Andrew Card as White House chief of staff was not necessarily good news for farmers. Bolten, who was director of the Office of Management and Budget, reportedly has been an ardent critic of farm spending in the administration.
Broadening his circle of influence in the White House can only mean that extending the current law or its provisions will become more difficult.
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Meet Akeel, a photographer, sports fanatic and Project Live Your Life winner from Brooklyn, NY, currently featured in American Eagle Outfitters Spring Break 2014 campaign. Read on to learn more about Akeel and his experience on an AEO photo shoot.
You're from Brooklyn, NY- what do you heart about your city?
I definitely heart the different cultures and people that I see every day. NYC is a huge melting pot and I learn something new every day.
Have you ever been to Miami? What about this city inspires you?
I've only been to Miami once before. The whole laid-back and chill environment of this city inspires mem as well as the art that I saw at Wynwood Walls.
You enjoy photography. What is your favorite thing to capture behind the lens?
Living in NYC, I love capturing pictures of tourists, but my favorite thing to photograph are the streets and skyscrapers in the city.
You're a sports fanatic- what sports do you enjoy most?
I love soccer, baseball, volleyball and track.
Who is your favorite athlete?
My favorite athlete would probably have to be Cristiano Ronaldo. He's one of the best soccer players right now.
You also enjoy reading. What have you read recently that you really enjoyed?
I have recently read a series called Eragon and The Black Tattoo by Sam Enthoven.
Favorite book of all time?
Harry Potter.
What author inspires you?
J.K. Rowling inspires me because her writing not only is interesting, but it brings out my imagination and keeps me a kid at heart.
Cooking is another passion of yours. What is your specialty?
Italian food. I love making pasta, chicken parmigiana and pizza to name a few. I also make a mean bowl of cereal!
What is your motivation behind your drawing in the mural?
The art I saw around me at Wyndwood Walls and New York City were a big motivation behind my drawing.
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How many things can you make from an old red sweater? Well, here are two. Two up-cycled neck warmers aka scarflettes!
Remember my post from a few weeks ago?
I was so smitten with this scarflette.
Click here to see how Cheri over at I am Momma, Hear Me Roar made it.
Up cycled Scarflette at I Am Momma, Hear Me Roar
She is so creative and she is a much cuter model than me. :)
I made these two and used some crocheted flowers that I picked up at an Arts and Craft show a few weeks ago.
I have been on the hunt for weeks looking for the gigantic buttons.
I finally found them at a new specialty sewing store here in Greensboro called Sew Heavenly.
I think it's the gigantic buttons that makes these so cute.
This one I sewed the buttons on in a different spot. I love how it is asymmetrical.
And I love how the one part of it folds down like a mini collar.
And I still have some of that sweater leftover. I'll have a couple more things to show you in the next few days.
Stay tuned!
I am adding this post to Tales from Bloggeritaville for Thrifty Thursday.
And I am adding to Transformation Thursday over at The Shabby Chic Cottage.


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Rumors around the Infotainment Supernetway indicate that Universal is looking into adding a Lord of the Rings/Hobbit-inspired section to their Universal Studios theme parks, which would instantly be the new nerdiest place on Earth. Supposedly talks are far enough along that the Tolkien Estate people have already talked with J.K. Rowling to see how she felt Universal treated Harry Potter in making The Wizarding World of Harry Potter, and she gave them a big thumbs up.
Seeing as the Tolkien Estate technically approved the Denny's Hobbit menu, I can't imagine them saying "no" to this deal, assuming it's true. So I figure it'd be better to spend my time trying to come up with ideas for the park.
• Wack-a-Hobbit
• The One Ring Toss
• The Forest River Barrel Flume
ª The Two Towers Drop
• YOU SHALL NOT PASS!!! ...if you are under four feet tall, as you are too short for this ride
• The Bumper Cars of Moria
• Tilt-a-Wormtongue
• Gollum's Tunnel of Love
• "One does not simply walk into Mordor! The line starts here."
I'll take cash or check, Universal! Just email me!
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IN Catholic Priest Calls Red HRC Equality Symbol "Mark Of The Beast"
Father John Hollowell of Brazil, Indiana has deemed the red equality symbol seen on social network profiles around the world as "the mark of the beast," and an attempt to support his persecution, torture and imprisonment.
He's got that a bit backward, doesn't he?
Writes the Catholic priest in a blog titled "Mark of the Beast" that has received a frightening amount of supportive comments:
I just want you to know that if this is your sign then you are actively supporting my persecution, torture, imprisonment, etc.
Interesting that the "=" sign today turned red and went viral because the symbol for the movement was blue with a yellow = before today. It's as if the "redefining marriage" movement is now out for blood, and I believe they will soon begin seeking to slake their thirst.
(You can read the rest of Hollowell's tired and extremely-bigoted slippery slope piece against the HRC symbol here.)
You need to look no further than recent news reports to see who's really out for blood, Mr. Hollowell; anti-LGBT violence is on the rise yet again, and we have bigoted religious "leaders' like yourself to thank for fueling the flames of homophobic hostility. The true "mark of the beast" is the blood that's on your hands for so rigorously ignoring the tenets of Christian faith to speak not from a place of spirituality but from a place of hatred and hostility.


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The Project on Human Development in Chicago Neighborhoods (PHDCN) was a large-scale, interdisciplinary study of how families, schools, and neighborhoods affect child and adolescent development. One component of the PHDCN was the Longitudinal Cohort Study, which was a series of coordinated longitudinal studies that followed over 6,000 randomly selected children, adolescents, and young adults, and their primary caregivers over time to examine the changing circumstances of their lives, as well as the personal characteristics, that might lead them toward or away from a variety of antisocial behaviors. Numerous measures were administered to respondents to gauge various aspects of human development, including individual differences, as well as family, peer, and school influences. One of the measures that composed the Longitudinal Cohort Study was the Young Adult Self Report (YASR). The YASR protocol, a self-administered survey, was first developed by Thomas M. Achenbach and has been a widely used measure for evaluating subjects between the ages of 18 and 30 with respect to their functioning in social relationships, level of mental, emotional and physical health, substance use and abuse, as well as tendencies toward anti-social and criminal behavior. The PHDCN version of the Young Adult Self Report provided a thorough self assessment of the respondents belonging to Cohort 18 of the Longitudinal Cohort Study and scored each respondent based on his or her level of psychological and behavioral functioning.
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Access to these data is restricted. Users interested in obtaining these data must complete a Restricted Data Use Agreement, specify the reasons for the request, and obtain IRB approval or notice of exemption for their research.
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(1) The Murray Research Center conducted the initial data and documentation processing for this collection. (2) At present, only a restricted version of the data is available (see RESTRICTIONS field). A downloadable version of the data is slated to be available in the near future.
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Project on Human Development in Chicago Neighborhoods
The Project on Human Development in Chicago Neighborhoods (PHDCN) was a large-scale, interdisciplinary study of how families, schools, and neighborhoods affect child and adolescent development. It was designed to advance the understanding of the developmental pathways of both positive and negative human social behaviors. In particular, the project examined the causes and pathways of juvenile delinquency, adult crime, substance abuse, and violence. At the same time, the project provided a detailed look at the environments in which these social behaviors took place by collecting substantial amounts of data about urban Chicago, including its people, institutions, and resources.
Longitudinal Cohort Study
One component of the PHDCN was the Longitudinal Cohort Study, which was a series of coordinated longitudinal studies that followed over 6,000 randomly selected children, adolescents, and young adults, and their primary caregivers over time to examine the changing circumstances of their lives, as well as the personal characteristics, that might lead them toward or away from a variety of antisocial behaviors. The age cohorts include birth (0), 3, 6, 9, 12, 15, and 18 years. Numerous measures were administered to respondents to gauge various aspects of human development, including individual differences, as well as family, peer, and school influences.
Young Adult Self Report (YASR)
The data files contain information from the Young Adult Self Report (YASR) protocol. The YASR was an extension of the Youth Self-Report, designed to obtain a self perceived assessment for subjects between the ages of 18 and 30 in order to measure behavioral and emotional functioning. The widely used YASR has been shown in a variety of experiments to produce excellent results evaluating its respondents' levels of psychological and behavioral functioning. As a result, it proved to be the ideal instrument to evaluate the subjects belonging to Cohort 18 of the Longitudinal Cohort Study. The PHDCN YASR focused primarily on obtaining the information on specific aspects of the respondents' lives, such as interpersonal relationships and conflicts, tendencies toward various anti- social behaviors, and habits regarding nonmedical drug and alcohol consumption. The YASR also sought to identify personality traits and behaviors that might be classified as unusual. The goal of the YASR was to obtain an overall score for each respondent based on the answers provided that could be used to make observations and determinations regarding their psychological, emotional, and behavioral health and overall quality of life.
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Project on Human Development in Chicago Neighborhoods
The city of Chicago was selected as the research site for the PHDCN because of its extensive racial, ethnic, and social-class diversity. The project collapsed 847 census tracts in the city of Chicago into 343 neighborhood clusters (NCs) based upon seven groupings of racial/ethnic composition and three levels of socioeconomic status. The NCs were designed to be ecologically meaningful. They were composed of geographically contiguous census tracts, and geographic boundaries and knowledge of Chicago's neighborhoods were considered in the definition of the NCs. Each NC was comprised of approximately 8,000 people.
Longitudinal Cohort Study
For the Longitudinal Cohort Study, a stratified probability sample of 80 neighborhoods was selected. The 80 NCs were sampled from the 21 strata (seven racial/ethnic groups by three socioeconomic levels) with the goal of representing the 21 cells as equally as possible to eliminate the confounding between racial/ethnic mix and socioeconomic status. Once the 80 NCs were chosen, then block groups were selected at random within each of the sample neighborhoods. A complete listing of dwelling units was collected for all sampled block groups. Pregnant women, children, and young adults in seven age cohorts (birth, 3, 6, 9, 12, 15, and 18 years) were identified through in-person screening of approximately 40,000 dwelling units within the 80 NCs. The screening response rate was 80 percent. Children within six months of the birthday that qualified them for the sample were selected for inclusion in the Longitudinal Cohort Study. A total of 8,347 participants were identified through the screening. Of the eligible study participants, 6,228 were interviewed.
For all cohorts except 0 and 18, primary caregivers as well as the child were interviewed. The primary caregiver was the person found to spend the most time taking care of the child. Separate research assistants administered the primary caregiver interviews and the child interviews. The primary method of data collection was face-to-face interviewing, although participants who refused to complete the personal interview were administered a phone interview. Interviews were conducted in Spanish, English, and Polish. In Wave 1 the complete protocol was translated into Spanish and Polish. An interpreter was hired for participants who spoke a language other than English, Spanish, or Polish. Depending on the age and wave of data collection, participants were paid between $5 and $20 per interview. Other incentives, such as free passes to museums, the aquarium, and monthly drawing prizes were also included.
Interview protocols included a wide range of questions. For example, some questions assessed impulse control and sensation-seeking traits, cognitive and language development, leisure activities, delinquency and substance abuse, friends' activities, and self-perception, attitudes, and values. Caregivers were also interviewed about family structure, parent characteristics, parent-child relationships, parent discipline styles, family mental health, and family history of criminal behavior and drug use.
Young Adult Self Report (YASR)
Completed between 1994 and 1995, the Young Adult Self Report was completed by the subjects belonging to Cohort 18 of the PHDCN Longitudinal Cohort Study. The PHDCN version of the Young Adult Self Report consisted of 138 questions, some with multiple parts, and was designed to obtain information corresponding to several aspects of the respondents' psychological and behavioral functioning. Because of the potentially sensitive nature of much of the information sought by the YASR, the fact that the YASR was self-administered was important for ensuring that the respondents would feel comfortable responding honestly, without the inhibitions and fear of judgment that might have been present had the measure been administered by an interviewer. Respondents were asked to rate themselves on how truthfully each statement characterized their behaviors, thoughts, and actions. Respondents rated themselves on nine different facets of psychological and behavioral functioning. For example, the YASR attempted to record information indicating whether or not the respondents could be characterized by having internalized problems. To achieve this, subjects were asked if they believed statements such as "I feel lonely" or "I am shy" to be true of themselves. The response format for the majority of questions was 0 = not true, 1 = somewhat true, and 2 = very true. Multiple responses were not permitted. Questions regarding the respondents' substance use and abuse during the previous six months followed the response format 0 = no, 1 = yes. Further questions pertaining to substance use and abuse were posed in an open-ended fashion and sought to gain specific information regarding the frequency of alcohol and nonmedical drug use and abuse.
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Stratified probability sample.
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Children, adolescents, young adults, and their primary caregivers, living in the city of Chicago in 1994.
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In addition to the variables containing the responses to the YASR, there are nine scale variables that score each respondent with respect to the different syndromes that the YASR attempted to identify. Thus, each respondent received a withdrawn score, somatic problems score, anxious/depressed score, show-off problems score, delinquent behavior score, aggressive behavior score, strange behavior score, internalizing score, and externalizing score. The internalizing score variable is a combination of the anxious/depressed score and the withdrawn score, while the externalizing score is composed of the delinquent behavior score and the aggressive behavior score. A tenth variable contains the respondent's total YASR score, which is simply the sum of the other nine scores. Higher scores suggest the presence of behavioral and emotional problems. As such, lower scores are more desirable. Lastly, there are a number of administrative variables to record identification numbers for respondents and the interviewers, as well as the time and date that the respondent completed the YASR.
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The overall response rate for Wave 1 of the Longitudinal Cohort Study was 75 percent or 6,228 participants. The response rates by cohort were:
- 76.2 percent (1,269) for Cohort 0
- 76.6 percent (1,003) for Cohort 3
- 75.0 percent (980) for Cohort 6
- 75.9 percent (828) for Cohort 9
- 74.3 percent (820) for Cohort 12
- 71.6 percent (696) for Cohort 15
- 70.3 percent (632) for Cohort 18
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- Earls, Felton J., Jeanne Brooks-Gunn, Stephen W. Raudenbush, and Robert J. Sampson. Project on Human Development in Chicago Neighborhoods (PHDCN): Young Adult Self Report, Wave 1, 1994-1995. ICPSR13606-v1. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2005-07-08. http://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR13606.v1
2006-03-01 Data were moved to restricted access. The metadata record was changed accordingly.
2005-07-08 ICPSR data undergo a confidentiality review and are altered when necessary to limit the risk of disclosure. ICPSR also routinely creates ready-to-go data files along with setups in the major statistical software formats as well as standard codebooks to accompany the data. In addition to these procedures, ICPSR performed the following processing steps for this data collection:
- Created online analysis version with question text.
- Performed recodes and/or calculated derived variables.
- Checked for undocumented or out-of-range codes.
The public-use data files in this collection are available for access by the general public. Access does not require affiliation with an ICPSR member institution.
- The citation of this study may have changed due to the new version control system that has been implemented.
This dataset is maintained and distributed by the National Archive of Criminal Justice Data (NACJD), the criminal justice archive within ICPSR. NACJD is primarily sponsored by three agencies within the U.S. Department of Justice: the Bureau of Justice Statistics, the National Institute of Justice, and the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention.


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