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A new paper by Andre Oboler (CIE's Director), along with Prof Gerald Steinberg (head of NGO Monitor) and Rephael Stern has been published by the Journal of Information Technology and Politics. The full length academic article, "The Framing of Political NGOs in Wikipedia through Criticism Elimination", introduces the concept of criticism elimination, a type of information removal that has been used by anti-Israel activists to control the message and frame issues in Wikipedia articles.
Criticism elimination facilitates a new form of gatekeeping, and the article demonstrates how this was systematically done to remove criticism of NGOs actions in relation to the Arab-Israeli conflict. The article also categorizes the editors responsible for the behavior into four types. Mitigation approaches to criticism elimination are also suggested.
- Wikipedia's approach has, however, raised concerns (Lichtenstein, 2008) that are traditionally reserved for the mass media. For instance, the media has long acted as a gatekeeper, selecting and framing issues in what was perceived to be the public interest (Williams & Delli Carpini, 2004). The management of public discourse through framing raises significant political implications…
- The presence of politically motivated framing (rather than the expected NPOV), as well as gatekeepers, sanctioned or de facto, has serious implications for the understanding of content production in Wikipedia.
- The problem in subjective areas is that Wikipedia articles can be dominated. Sunstein (2006) notes that the last editor "can appoint himself as sovereign" (p. 158) destroying, rather than aggregating, content. Stacy Schiff (2006), writing in The New Yorker, noted that more frequent editors generally get their way. Articles or entire topic areas can be framed with a particular view by users with knowledge, determination, and power within the system.
- By dominating articles and topic areas, Wikipedia can be used as a platform for political propaganda. Paul Murphy (2008) called Wikipedia "an early and illustrative warning of the collapse from informed social networking to propaganda." He explained that "sub-groups of the general community … are now using Wikipedia as a marketing tool for their viewpoints." He called it "fundamentally inappropriate in a site nominally dedicated to the provision of objective information." He raises a concern that those with an agenda will be more dedicated to getting their point across than casual users, thereby allowing them to dominate.
- Framing can occur though gatekeeping (Lewin, 1947), a theory of how items are "selected" or "rejected." … [it] is "the process by which selections are made in media work, especially decisions whether or not to admit a particular news story to pass through the 'gates' of a news medium" (McQuail, 1994, p. 213). Social responsibility theory (Peterson, 1956) saw the public as passive and easily manipulated and the media as "information gatekeepers who represented the public's interest" (Williams & Delli Carpini, 2004, p. 63).
- Wikipedia's dominance raises concerns about its own effect, or that of dominant editors, in framing information and acting as gatekeepers…. In Wikipedia, a culture (Schiff, 2006) with power structures, guidelines, and policies has developed to prevent this. These policies include NPOV, which states that articles should be "written from a neutral point of view, representing significant views fairly, proportionately, and without bias" (Wikipedia, 2008c)… In practice, however, the top 1 percent of posters jointly contribute about half of Wikipedia's edits (Wilson, 2008). The power of the elite gives them a default gatekeeping role. Their strength in authority, time commitment, and knowledge of Wikipedia can easily overwhelm, and thus eliminate, the contributions of others.
The experiment
We use an in vivo experiment in the form of an observational study with predefined variables and multiple "sites" (articles in this case), making this a field study as per Basili's (1996) classification scheme for experimentation in software engineering. As Wikipedia records all interactions within the system, we use content analysis on stored data as a form of observation.
- 16 NGO articles were used in this study, all edits to these articles were reviewed
- 627 edits relating to criticism were extracted
- Of the 16 NGO articles, nine were included in WikiProject Palestine (and their criticism sections were heavily revised to eliminate criticis
We reviewed how the edits changed the nature of the article, and specifically whether they removed relevant sourced information. We reviewed the over all impact on the article, and the over all editing behavior of the editors found doing such criticism elimination. We did this both for numeric results and for a more in-depth qualitative review.
Summary of Results
Four of the NGO entries examined (including the UK-based charity Christian Aid and the Israeli NGO Hamoked) had sourced criticism sections completely or almost entirely deleted. In both cases, all discussion on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict was removed (twice in the case of Christian Aid).
In total, 89 editors removed criticism, and 61 of these used registered user names. There are four prominent users removing criticism from multiple NGOs; 16 users removing criticism multiple times from one or more NGOs, in addition to making revisions in other NGO entries; and 26 users with low-edit counts focused on NGOs.
Qualitative analysis revealed 4 types of users who removed criticism:
A campaigner is a Wikipedia editor working towards a larger goal. He or she edits across a range of NGO articles and other articles. In the NGO articles examined here, campaigners usually removed sourced criticism. Some campaigners are members of WikiProject Palestine. Others appear to edit articles in the project without being members.
An advocate editor is concerned almost entirely with one page or a very limited topic. In the case of our research, the focus would be a particular NGO. One hypothesis is that advocates may be members, supporters, or staff of the NGO. These editors are using Wikipedia for a purpose unrelated to the advancement of the encyclopedia, and instead they remove criticism in order to frame their targets in the best possible light.
The lobbyists are editors who work within a broad scope of articles across Wikipedia, yet focus on only one NGO. They differ from advocates, because they contribute in other places, and from campaigners, because their actions do not appear to be part of a general campaign. These editors may attempt to remove or reduce criticism or set very high standards for the inclusions of criticism. As they become more involved in Wikipedia, their use of Wikipedia's internal policies and guidelines to achieve their goals becomes more sophisticated.
Casual editors are visitors to Wikipedia who only edit articles on occasion. Spread across many topics, their edits show no unified agenda. Their attention is divided and, very often, thinly spread. These users may remove information that conflicts with their conceptual model on the justification that it is out of place.
Examples of each type of editor and the changes they made can be seen in the full paper.
The paper may be cited as: Andre Oboler, Gerald Steinberg and Rephael Stern, "The Framing of Political NGOs in Wikipedia through Criticism Elimination", Journal of Information Technology & Politics, Volume 7, Issue 4 October 2010 , pages 284 – 299.
The published, Routledge (Taylor and Francis), have made the article a sample for the Journal. As a result the article is online and may be downloaded or read online for free.


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Within less than a week of launching, Facebook's newest app Poke has plummeted from the number one spot in the Apple App Store to number 36.
It seems to be because loyal Snapchat users are totally bashing the app in the reviews.
Poke and Snapchat let you send self-destructing photos and videos to friends. Snapchat came first, and Facebook copied the idea with Poke.
Here's what a few of the reviews say:
- "Stolen. Use snapchat!"
- "Facebook is lame for doing this"
- "Facebook just pulled a Google+. Not only is this app a blatant ripoff of Snapchat, it is not even a decent attempt. Every aspect of Snapchat is intuitive and easy to use. This is clunky and frustrating. Terrible."
- "This is exactly like Snapchat but a Facebook version. This should be copyright infringement."
- "Wow Zuckerberg way to rip off snapchat. Be original, you seem to have a habit of stealing other people's ideas."
But not everyone dislikes the app. Some actually say Poke is a better version of Snapchat.
"You guys are all just butthurt because snapchat is the same thing," one user wrote in a review. "In my opinion, poke is way better. the layout is easier to use and makes far more sense...all snapchat users should upgrade to this..."
At the time of publication, the majority of Facebook Poke reviews are either five stars or one star, which goes to show that people either absolutely love it or think it's a total ripoff of Snapchat.
In the meantime, Snapchat is sitting comfortably at the number four spot in the App Store.
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Life of Pi was as good as dead.
The film adaptation of Yann Martel's 2001 novel, about a young boy stranded at sea with a ferocious Bengal tiger, had been on the shelf for a long time. 20th Century Fox had already approached three directors, who tried and failed to get an adaptation onscreen before bowing out.
The last best hope was Ang Lee, but while the Brokeback Mountain and Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon director spent eight months developing the project, it was the executives at Fox who began to have second thoughts.
This would not be a cheap movie — the budget was estimated around $120 million, and when the studio took a hard look at the project, they realized they had no idea what they were getting in to.
That's when Elizabeth Gabler, President of Fox 2000 Pictures, called Lee to tell him that it was off. Fox was backing out, and he was welcome to shop the project elsewhere.
It wasn't the last time he would have to fight for Life of Pi. Here, in an article originally published as the Oscar contender hit theaters, is how he brought this epic tale of survival back to life, over, and over again.
For more stories behind this year's top TV and movie moments, click here for EW.com's Best of 2012: Behind the Scenes coverage.
For Elizabeth Gabler, calling Lee to tell him that her company couldn't do the project was more than business as usual. She says she desperately wanted this movie to get made.
Gabler had been one of the project's biggest champions alongside producer Gil Netter. It was a risk, but that's what she liked about it. "I'm one of those people who's always looking for something new," says Gabler. "I feel like we can always subsist on sequels and things we've seen before, and that's great – I think everybody needs something that they can feel really comfortable with."
"But once in a while, there's something that comes out and people say 'that was a new experience for me.' And the idea of this young man and this animal on this boat alone, trying to survive in the world, was something that I thought could reach all audiences around the world," she added.
When she made that difficult phone call, she expected Lee to say something along the lines of "thanks, I'll take my little project and go around and see who wants to pay for it." Instead, he said he was getting on a plane to Los Angeles to talk to her.
He arrived willing to compromise on the budget (sources at the studio said the film ended up with an $85 million pricetag) but he brought a lot more than that. He'd already prepared a pre-visualization of the crucial shipwreck sequence, edited and scored, and a taped audition of Suraj Sharma – the first-time actor that would ultimately be cast as Pi.
Gabler says "it personalized who Pi was. We knew he had found this actor. And he wasn't even an actor, he was just a boy from India. But seeing him read those scenes and that monologue that you see at the end when he's in the hospital. It was impossible to say no."
Life of Pi was back on track.
The struggles didn't end there, and Gabler described the entire experience as similar to being in the storm that sends the ship Pi was traveling on with his family to the bottom of the ocean — a metaphor echoed by many who worked on the film. It wasn't that the movie was out-of-control, it was just immensely complicated and pushed nearly everyone involved to the breaking point. "For a production, it was amazingly planned. We were on schedule and we were on budget, despite everyone just killing themselves under insurmountable odds," Gabler said.
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WALTHAM, Mass., April 2, 2014 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- BG Medicine, Inc. (Nasdaq:BGMD), the developer of the BGM Galectin-3® Test, today announced that it intends to offer and sell shares of its common stock in an underwritten public offering. BG Medicine also expects to grant the underwriters a 30-day option to purchase additional shares of common stock to cover over-allotments, if any. Lazard Capital Markets LLC is acting as sole book-running manager for the offering. While the offering is expected to price before 9:30 am EDT on April 3, 2014, the offering is subject to market conditions, and there can be no assurance as to whether or when the offering may be completed, or as to the actual size or terms of the offering.
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By Paul Halpern, Chair, Pais Prize Selection Committee
Brush joins an impressive list of previous Pais Prize winners including Martin J. Klein (2005), John L. Heilbron (2006), Max Jammer (2007), and Gerald Holton (2008).
Born on 12 February 1935 in Bangor, Maine, Brush received a bachelor's degree in physics from Harvard University in 1955. A Rhodes Scholar, he pursued graduate study at Oxford University, earning a doctorate in theoretical physics in 1958. From 1959 to 1965, he worked as a researcher at the Lawrence Radiation Laboratory in Livermore, California, where he studied plasmas using Monte Carlo simulations and explored theories of viscosity. His discovery, using early computer simulations, that classical plasmas undergo phase transitions to solid states proved important for models of stellar and planetary structure.
Brush's interests soon turned to the history of science. He wrote a comprehensive history of molecular-lattice models in statistical physics, tracing their origins back to the work of Wilhelm Lenz and Ernst Ising in the 1920s. Entitled "History of the Lenz-Ising Model," his often-cited paper was published in Reviews of Modern Physics.
In the mid-1960s, Brush participated in developing the "Harvard Project Physics" course, in a program led by Holton, F. James Rutherford, and Fletcher Watson that was funded by the National Science Foundation and several private foundations. Designed for high-school students, this innovative curriculum used books, films, demonstrations and other materials to weave history and philosophy into the framework of physics education.
In 1968 Brush joined the faculty of the University of Maryland, where he was appointed Associate Professor in the History Department as well as at the Institute for Fluid Dynamics and Applied Mathematics (later the Institute for Physical Science and Technology). The University's first full-time historian of science, he became Professor in 1971 and Distinguished Professor of the History of Science in 1995.
In 1999 Brush was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship for a research project titled "A comparative study of theory evaluation in different sciences." Using case studies from astronomy, biology, chemistry and physics, he examined the standard assumption that scientific theories are accepted as a result of their successful prediction of new phenomena. On the contrary, he found, several important theories (such as quantum mechanics) became accepted for other reasons—for example, because they provided explanations of previously mysterious phenomena.
Brush has not shied away from provocative topics. In his 1974 paper, "Should the History of Science Be Rated X?" he examined issues involving the use of historical anecdote in teaching science. He wondered whether traditional presentations of scientists as objective, emotionless observers serving as the vanguard of progress contributed to public apprehensions about their role in modern life. Brush speculated that more realistic portrayals could improve popular appreciation and understanding of science. Indeed, his call for realism seems to have had an impact. Recent decades have witnessed a trend toward more nuanced biographies of scientists, depicting their personal struggles and doubts rather than just their triumphs and accomplishments.
The subjects of science education, science popularization, and the history of the introduction of scientific ideas have continued to serve as major themes in Brush's work. In 2001 he was awarded the Joseph Hazen Education Prize of the History of Science Society "in recognition of outstanding contributions to the teaching of the history of science."
A prolific researcher and writer, Brush has published more than 320 works, including books, book chapters, and articles. He authored four noted monographs on the history of science. In 1976 he published The Kind of Motion We Call Heat: A History of the Kinetic Theory of Gases in the 19th Century, a two-volume historical study of statistical physics and the properties of gases. This innovative history used referee reports and other unconventional sources to cast light on questions about the development of the field. For this book, he received the prestigious Pfizer Award of the History of Science Society.
Brush's other historical monographs include The Temperature of History: Phases of Science and Culture in the 19th Century (1978), Statistical Physics and the Atomic Theory of Matter from Boyle and Newton to Landau and Onsager (1983), and A History of Modern Planetary Physics, a three-volume set published in 1996. He is also the editor, translator, or co-author of ten other books about physical science and its development. With Holton, Brush co-authored an influential textbook (a revised edition of an earlier Holton work) that incorporated historical themes, Physics, the Human Adventure: From Copernicus to Einstein and Beyond.
Among his many other achievements, Brush served as President of the History of Science Society in 1990–1991, and was the founding Editor of the "History of Physics" newsletter. A Fellow of the American Physical Society, he helped organize the Forum on the History of Physics and has served on the APS Council. He has been a visiting researcher or faculty member at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, the University of California, Los Angeles, and the University of Minnesota. Upon retiring from the University of Maryland in 2006, he was named Distinguished University Professor Emeritus of the History of Science.
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The Eagles will hold a news conference this afternoon to talk about Joe Banner losing his key to the executive bathroom at One NovaCare Way.
Banner will be there. Owner Jeff Lurie will be there. General manager Howie Roseman will be there. And head coach/executive vice-president of football operations Andy Reid will be there.
The one thing you can most assuredly count on all of them telling us in no uncertain terms is that that Banner's decision to step down as club president has absolutely, positively nothing to do with him losing a power struggle to Reid this offseason.
Which means it had everything to do with him losing a power struggle to Reid.
When Reid was asked in late March at the NFL owners meetings about a report by the Los Angeles Times' Sam Farmer that he had threatened to quit if he wasn't given more control, Reid dismissed it by saying that he's had "final say for a number of years."
That was true and not true. Yes, Reid largely has had final say in personnel decisions since Banner and Lurie fired Tom Modrak back in 2001. But in his role as the team's salary cap wizard and chief contract negotiator, Banner had a great deal of influence over many of those personnel decisions.
Reid had grown weary of having a locker room full of players with bad attitudes because of the way they had been treated at the bargaining table. He felt a kinder, gentler approach was needed. At some point, probably right before Lurie announced in early January that Reid would be returning, I think Lurie came to the same conclusion.
"I was surprised by this move because Joe has been so close to Mr. Lurie and was seen as such a huge part of the Eagles' franchise from the time Mr. Lurie took over the team," agent Drew Rosenhaus said. "It's a stunning development. It's not something I ever anticipated happening just because he's been so integral."
Yet, Rosenhaus saw things changing this offseason. He negotiated new contracts with the Eagles for free agents DeSean Jackson and Evan Mathis and All-Pro running back LeSean McCoy. Banner wasn't really involved in any of those negotiations. Roseman was the Eagles' front man for all three negotiations, as he was for the contract extensions to right tackle Todd Herremans and defensive end Trent Cole.
"Howie really handled exclusively the negotiations for DeSean and Evan and LeSean," Rosenhaus said. "Joe wasn't directly involved in any of those discussions from the start of the offseason. I actually negotiated (undrafted free agent safety) Phillip Thomas's contract with Joe. I remember him calling and joking about the fact that he wanted to work on at least one deal with me this offseason."
Reid will never admit it publicly, but he believes letting Jackson go into last season without a new contract was a big reason why the Eagles missed the playoffs last season. The immature Jackson let his contract problems affect his play and also had a ripple effect on the players in the locker room. Reid made it clear at season's end that he wanted Jackson back. My sense is Banner felt the Eagles would be better off without him.
"We struggled up to this offseason really to get the club to work on an extension with DeSean," Rosenhaus said. "The team really wasn't aggressive as it related to DeSean's negotiations until this offseason.
"I don't know if there was a power struggle or not. There's no way for me to know that. But I do know that things changed in terms of the Eagles' approach to DeSean after the season."
Does Rosenhaus think the Eagles are better off with the kinder, gentler approach Roseman has brought to the bargaining table this offseason?
"I've always enjoyed working with Howie,'' he said. "He definitely is a general manager who wants to get deals done, who really has a lot of energy and has a positive approach towards negotiating that, in general, works really well.
"One of the reasons we've been successful in working out deals with Howie is that he's really a straight shooter and he works at it."
Both Roseman and Reid benefit tremendously from Banner's departure. It enables Roseman a chance to escape the shadow of his former mentor and make his own mark as a front-office executive.
For Reid, it means he finally is a Bill Belichick-like king. While chief executive officer Don Smolenski will take over the day-to-day operations of running the Eagles, this truly is Reid's ship now for as long as Lurie chooses to keep him around. Which could be just one more year. Or 10 more years, depending on what happens this season.
"There no longer is any doubt who the most powerful guy in the (Eagles) organization is," an executive with another NFC team said. "It's Andy Reid. And apparently, there wasn't room for both of them any longer."
Banner has long been acknowledged as one of the league's top salary cap managers. But with the new collective bargaining agreement, it no longer takes an Einstein to manage the cap.
"I just don't know what Joe brought to the table anymore,'' another agent said. "In terms of scouting and personnel, you get that with Howie. In terms of negotiations and managing the cap, between Howie and a guy like (manager of football administration) Jake Rosenberg, where is his value at this point? Especially if he's not on the same page as the head coach."


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Hi There,
I hope this is a legitimate site and forum! I'm starting a new position in RI next week, so I need to find a new partner. I don't know my rating (sorry!), but I casually play and am looking for a hitting partner. I can get kind of competitive when we play a few sets. Singles/Doubles/Canadien... I'm in (must be sometime around the typical 9-5, so early morning or early evening and weekends when there's an open window).
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hi Jimmy,
I don't know my rating either. I love tennis, i love hitting the balls. so if you want, maybe we can give it a try. I live in West Warwick. I don't work so I am relatively reflexible with time to play.
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I am new in this country, although have lived here for about 2 years, but i still have not found a partner to play.
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National Aquarium's Education Department has announced a new workshop adventure, Costa Rica: Showcase of Conservation!
Join our Director of Education at the National Aquarium in Washington, DC, Bill Simpkins, for a 9-day excursion (July 9-18, 2013) as he transforms the vibrant and diverse ecosystems of this Central American treasure into a classroom.
Each educator on the tour will receive a certificate of completion for the hours spent in "classroom" activities for verification and credit, if accepted by their school. Non-educators interested in joining the group are also welcome!
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- A visit to Tortuguero National Park
- 3 nights of participating in the Sea Turtle Conservancy's Turtle Tagging Program
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- Learning about the National Aquarium's conservation initiatives in Costa Rica
- Discussions on the ecosystems visited and how to incorporate them into curriculum
- Lesson plans and activities on sea turtles, rain forests, cloud forests, volcanoes and hot springs
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Can a 'Billionaires' ETF Help You Trade Like Buffett?
Marketwatch's Charles Jaffe joins MoneyBeat and says that while Direxion's new iBillionaire Index ETF (which opens Friday) sounds like a good idea, but investors might want to hold off on pressing the gas pedal.
This transcript has been automatically generated and may not be 100% accurate.
... been been been been been ... that is the local Warren Warren Buffett ... a new ETF promises to LBO ... Mr. average Joe trained like Warren Buffett and other Titans of the market ... isn't just a gimmick MarketWatch's Chuck Jaffe investigated ... he is here with his thoughts on this one shot hell are you ... I don't look as this kind of reminded me of the day as I wrote stupid investment the week ... on ninth but on Friday on hollowed hello to old sneering ... at an okay so it's play with his new t ETF is and and what was to take on it ... well it's the iBillionaire Index ETF is now a new find opening today from direction so it's ... the direction iBillionaire UT Index ETF ticker symbol ibid L a and ... and the idea here is that new tune can invest like a billionaire ... which would be true if you had a billion dollars ... because otherwise you can invest like an ordinary guy and what this does is ... it is a fund that based on an index that tracks the thirteen F filings of twenty billion or so ... Warren Buffett George Soros David Einhorn coral Icahn ... and John Paulson lots of other names that you probably know ... and it puts together thirty stocks ... that ... are an equal weighted so each one holds three point three percent of the index ... and its names car only like Apple and Google in Micra soft and ... pay ... that doesn't sound like a rich guys portfolio that sounds like I'm that any bodies portfolio ... so that's my problem with that is that you know that you could argue that the Dow Jones industrial average is an index put together ... really at the end by a committee of three one of them being a newspaper editor so we know that that is that Mr. a great idea ... but this is basically an accident ahead to call it something else to say it's the thirty stocks that rich guys like in ... that ... sounds awful idea what the data ... yet that did the Dow is not really do your towards maximizing profits ... the talented out is obviously geared towards ... being a reflection of the economy this is an investment fund ... but you know I ... don't own family terrible investments ... well they don't ... when I don't know that you get a lot of benefit ... from investing cortical like a billionaire ... and the billionaires in question they are not actually going hey let me go by thirty stocks idle equalweight them that's not how they are doing it ... they're just making plays in these individual stocks according to thirteen F filings ... so to not really investing like a billionaire just buying same stocks ... I mean years ago I had a cat to pick an index of stocks and the fact that you have crossover with the cat ... well ... you know you can say you're investing Nike Khater Mike axis mortgagee or whatever might have been but that doesn't actually make it so ... in this case it may be a fine idea there's another fun ... the guru the Global X guru fund ... that is the one easy seventy five hedge fund managers and it follows an honor system ... basically ... I was the Number one Fund in its peer group in two thousand thirteen but it's also dead last in its peer group year to date ... I'm not sure that you expect from Drew's I think it takes a long time to prove it ... so until his fund is more than marketing height ... it's just marketing ... I realized ... quickly gets this whole IPO of ... is there any way that I ... came to market the play to market accounting gimmicks all attributes the scheme that these plants that so they are busy in there anyway or is it really is a matter of you all it's just cut its stake ... to fundamental trading ... well ... this is just another way of saying all what's more guys know what that's what you wanted to go find smart mutual fund manager and ... put your money in this one ... they all look smart guys on it he's got his own money in the fund is most ... good fund managers didn't hear their along for the ride so I don't know that any different then backed ... it says package different


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NCAA roundup: Indiana takes season opener
BLOOMINGTON, Ind. Cody Zeller and Christian Watford gave Bryant a rude welcome to big-time college basketball
The 7-foot center had 18 points and 10 rebounds, while Watford added 15 points and 15 rebounds to lead No. 1 Indiana past the Bulldogs 97-54 on Friday night.
Indiana, which has its first No. 1 ranking in 33 years, has now won 15 consecutive season openers and 28 straight home openers.
Bryant, a school from Rhode Island, was playing its first game as a full-time Division I member, and it marked the first time the school had ever faced America's No. 1 team.
The Northeastern Conference member was overmatched. While Alex Francis finished with 15 points and Frankie Dobbs has 12, the Bulldogs had no answers for Indiana's front-line duo.
Zeller, a national player of the year candidate, had 12 points and five rebounds in the first half despite missing 4 of 6 from the free throw line, and he was such a big mismatch inside that Bryant's two tallest players Andrew Scocca and Vlad Kondratyev combined for seven fouls less than 16 minutes in.
NEW YORK Junior guard Jarrod Polson scored 10 points and made the clinching free throws with 7.7 seconds to play as Kentucky held off a furious second-half rally by Maryland.
Kyle Wiltjer led Kentucky with 19 points in the second game of the Barclays Center Classic, the first college basketball games played in the new arena in Brooklyn. Archie Goodwin had 16 points for the defending national champions.
Seven-foot-1 sophomore Alex Len led Maryland with 23 points and 12 rebounds, both career highs. His rare three-point play he made the first free throw then rebounded his own miss of the second brought the Terrapins within 70-69 with 8.9 seconds left.
Polson was fouled with 7.7 seconds left and made two free throws for a 72-69 lead.
Maryland's Pe'Shon Howard missed the final shot but it was only a 2-point attempt.
ANN ARBOR, Mich. Tim Hardaway Jr. scored 25 points, surpassing 1,000 for his career in Michigan's win over Slippery Rock.
Trey Burke added 21 points for the Wolverines and freshman Glenn Robinson III had 10 points and eight rebounds. Michigan led 44-30 at halftime and had little difficulty in its season opener against a Division II opponent.
In an odd arrangement, the game counted toward Michigan's record but was considered an exhibition for Slippery Rock. Devin Taylor led the visitors with 14 points.
Hardaway made all five of his 3-point attempts, and the Wolverines went 12 of 19 from beyond the arc in their highest-scoring game since 2007.
Michigan entered with its highest preseason ranking since 1993.
RALEIGH, N.C. Richard Howell had 16 points and 10 rebounds to help North Carolina State beat Miami (Ohio) in the season opener for both teams.
Lorenzo Brown added 15 points, six rebounds and seven assists for the Wolfpack, who scored the game's first 10 points and led by 19 at halftime en route to an easy win that kicked off a season of high expectations.
N.C. State did nothing to diminish fan excitement that had built since being named the preseason Atlantic Coast Conference favorite for the first time in nearly four decades, shooting 61 percent and leading by 43 points for its 19th straight season-opening victory.
Allen Roberts scored 16 points for Miami, which shot 22 percent in the first half and finished at 32 percent in the first game under new coach John Cooper.
LAWRENCE, Kan. Ben McLemore had nine points, 12 rebounds and five assists in his Kansas debut, helping the Jayhawks pulled away from pesky Southeast Missouri State.
Jeff Withey finished with 17 points and 12 rebounds, and freshman Perry Ellis added 15 points and eight boards for the Jayhawks, who have won 40 straight season openers at Allen Fieldhouse.
This one was a bit tougher than expected.
The Redhawks managed to close within six midway through the second half, but Kansas slowly extended the lead behind its slew of freshmen to put the game away.
Nick Niemczyk finished with 14 points for the Redhawks, who have lost seven straight season openers, all on the road, and remain winless in six tries against Big 12 schools.
DURHAM, N.C. Mason Plumlee had 19 points and 14 rebounds to lead Duke to the win over Georgia State.
Seth Curry added 15 points and surprise starter Tyler Thornton had 13 for the Blue Devils.
They shot 51 percent while holding the Panthers to 37 percent and keeping them without a field goal for 5 minutes during a run early in the second half that propelled them to their 31st straight home-opening victory.
Next up for Duke: A showdown with third-ranked defending national champion Kentucky in Atlanta on Tuesday night.
Devonta White had 19 points and R.J. Hunter scored 14 to lead Georgia State, which never got closer than 12 points in the second half and turned it over 16 times.
CHAPEL HILL, N.C. James Michael McAdoo set career highs with 26 points and 14 rebounds to help North Carolina beat Gardner-Webb.
McAdoo shot 10 of 20 from the field in the first game of the season for both teams. Dexter Strickland added 13 points for the Tar Heels, who improved to 91-12 in openers.
North Carolina overcame 18 turnovers, 1-of-12 shooting from 3-point range and a 9-of-19 mark at the free throw line to win for the 80th time in its last 82 home openers.
Donta Harper and Max Landis scored 13 points each to lead Gardner-Webb, which dropped to 0-16 against ACC competition. Mike Byron added 10 for the Bulldogs.
North Carolina took its biggest lead at 57-39 midway through the second half. The Bulldogs cut the deficit to 63-54 with 4:55 remaining before the Tar Heels answered with an 8-0 run.
No. 13 UCLA 86, INDIANA STATE 59
LOS ANGELES Jordan Adams scored 21 points in his college debut and UCLA defeated Indiana State in its season opener shortly after finding out star recruit Shabazz Muhammad was ruled ineligible by the NCAA.
Adams, the school's first-ever signee out of vaunted Oak Hill Academy in Virginia, was 7 of 12 from the floor and had eight rebounds off the bench for the Bruins (1-0). Travis Wear added 17 points and his twin brother David Wear had 13 points and 10 rebounds.
The long-awaited decision about Muhammad overshadowed the first game in new Pauley Pavilion, which opened after an 18-month, $132 million renovation. He watched the game from the bench dressed in a blue UCLA sweat suit along with a crowd of 13,513 287 short of a sellout.
RAMSTEIN AIR BASE, Germany Shabazz Napier scored 25 points and UConn upset Michigan State in the Armed Forces Classic, Kevin Ollie's first game as the Huskies' head coach.
UConn led most of the way and by as many as 16 points in the first half of the game, which was played in a hangar at the United States' Ramstein Air Base in Germany.
Keith Appling scored 17 points and Branden Dawson had 15 points for Michigan State.
Gary Harris scored to pull the Spartans to 62-60, but Denzel Valentine and Appling each missed a shot in the last minute that would have tied the game, forcing Michigan State to foul.
Napier hit four free throws in the final 13 seconds to seal the win.
This marks the first season someone other than Jim Calhoun has been UConn's head coach since Dom Perno coached his final game in 1986.
OMAHA, Neb. Doug McDermott had 21 points and 11 rebounds to lead Creighton to a season-opening victory over North Texas.
About a dozen NBA scouts were on hand to watch McDermott, the returning first-team All-American, and North Texas' Tony Mitchell, projected as a possible lottery pick if he turns pro after this season.
Mitchell finished with 18 points and seven rebounds.
Creighton led 39-25 at halftime and opened the second half on a 14-5 run, with Avery Dingman making back-to-back 3-pointers to stretch the lead to 53-30.
Austin Chatman added 11 points and reserve Avery Dingman had 10 for the Bluejays, who have won 39 straight November regular-season home games.
WACO, Texas Baylor freshman center Isaiah Austin scored 22 points in 17 minutes before spraining his right ankle, and Corey Jefferson had 26 points for the Baylor in a season-opening victory over Lehigh.
The 7-foot-1 Austin, a McDonald's All-American considered one of the nation's top freshmen, went to the ground after making a turnaround jumper with about 16 minutes left. He apparently stepped on somebody else's foot coming down.
Austin was 10-of-12 shooting, including three dunks and two 3-pointers. Austin was helped off the floor but returned to the bench before the end of the game.
Preseason AP All-American C.J. McCollum had 36 points for the Mountain Hawks, who as a No. 15 seed in last season's NCAA tournament upset Duke.
SPOKANE, Wash. Freshman Przemek Karnowski scored 22 points to lead Gonzaga over Southern Utah in the season opener for both teams.
Karnowski, a highly touted 7-foot-1 center from Poland, led six players in double figures. Guy Landry Edi scored a career-high 16 points, Sam Dower had 15, Elias Harris and David Stockton had 12 apiece and Kevin Pangos added 10.
Jackson Stevenett led Southern Utah with 29 points on 11-of-15 shooting. Waded Collie added 10 points for the Thunderbirds.
Gonzaga, which was never threatened after halftime, opened the second half with a 12-2 run and allowed only one Southern Utah field goal in the first 5 minutes. A free throw by Gary Bell Jr. gave the Bulldogs their biggest lead of the night at 83-45 with 7:47 left.
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. Antoine Allen hit four 3-pointers and scored 21 points to lead South Alabama to a season-opening upset of Florida State.
Augustine Rubit added 12 points and Mychal Ammons had 11 points and 11 rebounds for South Alabama, which shot 9 of 15 from 3-point range.
Terry Whisnant and Montay Brandon had 11 points apiece for the Seminoles, the defending Atlantic Coast Conference champions. Senior guard Michael Snaer had 10 points at halftime but was held scoreless in the second half. He shot 2 of 11 in the game. Terrance Shannon returned from a shoulder injury to score 10 points for Florida State.
Florida State, which had 17 turnovers and just nine assists, had won 11 straight season openers.


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Tim York wrote: In the "fun" category fall typically, to name only reds, Beaujolais, Dolcetto, young Loire CabFranc from sandy soils, SW French delights like Fronton and Marcillac, lighter examples from the Rhône, Languedoc, Roussilon, Tuscany, Montepulciano d'A and so on.
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Mark Lipton wrote:Tim York wrote: In the "fun" category fall typically, to name only reds, Beaujolais, Dolcetto, young Loire CabFranc from sandy soils, SW French delights like Fronton and Marcillac, lighter examples from the Rhône, Languedoc, Roussilon, Tuscany, Montepulciano d'A and so on.
Tim, I also have increasingly dipped into such wines, labeled by an importer acquaintance as "glou-glou" wines. Do you feel that even the best examples of Marcillac can be labeled as vins de soif? I love Marcillac, but my bottles of Causse Marines (now, sadly, no longer made) and Dom. du Cros are pretty big and seem to demand time in the cellar. And do tell about Fronton. Whose do you like?
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Andrew Bair wrote:Hi Tom - Thank you for the article. I actually read it last week, but was so busy then that I never got to comment on it until now.
As someone who really enjoys Dolcetto - after Nebbiolo, of course, it's my second favorite Piedmontese grape, even above Barbera - I've read the hype for Dogliani for a number of years now, and have yet to be convinced of its superiority over Alba for Dolcetto. Are there some very good producers in Dogliani? - Absolutely - see Anna Maria (not Marziano) Abbona, Chionetti, and Einaudi. Chionetti would make my top 5 Dolcetto producers; Einaudi and Cascina Corte would both be close behind. Then again, I also wonder if Dogliani producers simply take the Dolcetto grape more seriously than a lot of producers do in other DOC(G)s. Unlike much of Piedmont, Dogliani doesn't have any particular reputation for Nebbiolo, so its better producers are putting their best efforts into their Dolcetti.
There are certainly some impressive Dolcettos from Alba as well, however. I was really surprised that Eric Asimov didn't like the Roagna more, for example, because I think that it is one of the best.Besides, it only costs in the mid-teens -how can you go wrong? A number of others like Cappellano, Giacosa, and Massolino make excellent Dolcetti d'Alba. The best that I have had from anywhere is Brovia's Solatio Brovia, although one could just as easily say that it is atypical since it is a late harvested version. It's certainly not a Dolcetto that you rush out and drink within a couple of years of the vintage. I had a 2000 Solatio last year that was showing great, yet had the stuff to last for another decade or maybe two. (I've yet to try Poderi Colla's Bricco del Drago, which actually has some Nebbiolo in it; apparently, it is every as serious and ageworthy as the Solatio Brovia.)
Diano d'Alba is another DOCG trying to make a name for its Dolcetti, but they are hard to find in the US. The only one that I've had, from Bricco Maiolica, was very nice. I have also read that Ovada used to be more highly regarded for Dolcetto, but the one Dolcetto d'Ovada that I have encountered was quite mediocre. The Aldo Contero Dolcetto Masante that Eric mentions is labeled as Langhe DOC.
One Dolcetto that I actually happen to think is overrated is that of Roberto Voerzio. Then again, I find Voerzio's wines to be generally too ripe and internationally styled for my liking.
Wed Mar 22, 2006 2:18 pm
Tim York wrote:Mark, the Fronton estate whose wines I love quaffing is Château la Colombière and specifically its cuvée Vinum. Here are my notes on its range from a tasting in November 2011 -
Château La Colombière, Fronton, near Toulouse
This estate, run by the pleasant young Cauvin couple, uses biodynamic methods http://www.chateaulacolombiere.com/english/ . The principle grape variety in Fronton is Négrette but other varieties including Cabernet Sauvignon and Syrah are authorised in a blend. Of the wines shown here, all AOC Fronton, only Réserve included 20% of Cabernets, both Sauvignon and franc.
I loved Vinum 2010 (€6) for its exuberant savoury and tangy fruit, earthiness, lively acidity and hints of old lace; I bought some; 15.5/20+++. Réserve 2010 (€7) was smoother and more civilised but still showed a lot of Négrette character; 15.5/20++. Coste Rouge 2009 (€10) was deeper and more structured and complex showing attractive fruit impregnated with cassis and leather notes; this one should improve with ageing; 16/20 now.
I recently had the Vinum 2011 and thought it showed less grip than the 2010, though the fruit was delicious.
Marcillac Lo Sang de Païs 2009 – Domaine du Cros, Philippe Teulier was the wine which opened my eyes to that appellation about 18 months ago. I didn't think that it needed any more time but perhaps like Colombière he makes other tougher cuvées.
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as far as I know, Liturgies with Consecration are forbidden on the Great and Holy Lent leading up to Pascha, except on Saturday and Sunday, nativity fast is less strict and you can have Liturgies with consecration everyday of the week.
Vespers is often doubled for Vigils - once done at it's normal time (so as not to break the daily routine, and the intended time of the service), and once again as part of the festal Vigil.
These vespers are two separate services (Little Vespers and Great Vespers) with different rubrics and different hymnography so it really isn't doubling up on a service.
as an aside: I sort of doubt the part of the priest placing a part of the bread for proskomede because this is a Byzantine practise not a western practise at all unless someone would want to prove or propose that the West had this tradition until it died out or suddenly stopped @ 1054...highly unlikely.
and questioning an elder is tanatamount to sin i dare say.
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General Teaching Projects in South Africa by Brian Vedder
I am currently at the University of Vermont in the United States studying to become a High School English teacher. I got the idea to travel abroad during my summer months from a presentation regarding a different program during a Psychology class of mine. One of their destination options was South Africa. Immediately, I knew that was the location I wanted to volunteer and teach abroad in. I yearned to travel to the most remote, differential location possible. The financial requirements for this volunteer organisation proved much too steep; I then stumbled upon Projects Abroad.
Though it took months and months of preparation, multiple changes in programs and flights, and many scholarships, eventually, I found myself on the twenty-hour set of flights to Cape Town, South Africa. Prior to this trip, I had never left the country; I was preparing for one of the biggest culture shocks of my life. I had no idea what the classroom dynamics, academic curricula, reward and punishment systems, or types of entertainment would be for these children. In addition, I had barely any teaching experience, outside of a few service-learning classes back at the University of Vermont. Regardless, I had an attitude and a dedication to give these children the most of my teaching abilities.
My Teaching Placement
The school I taught at, Hyde Park Primary, was one of the most enlightening institutions I had ever encountered. The mornings were hectic; students filtered in and out of the yards playing with footballs, tennis balls, skipping ropes and each other. Despite the cold, bitter beginnings to the day, students had ecstatic smiles and constant laughter in these minutes before classes. The second I whip out the camera to catch a few shots, students sprint to my general area, shouting "Mr. Vedder, take a picture, take a picture!". It seems that many of the students do not receive the attention they require at home or in the classroom, immediately responding to the emotional availability of the Project Abroad mentors.
My classroom teacher gave me insight into the home lives of some of these students; many suffer from parental neglect, food and financial struggles, encounters with gangs, violence and drugs. Coming from such a sheltered home environment, I had never considered these sorts of external factors when designing lesson plans. Understanding where some of my students will have to go home to is crucial to comprehending what sort of tactics will work in the classroom. After the bell rings, students automatically begin filing into respective classroom lines in front of the classrooms. Morning prayers ensue, and five minutes later, students separate into their rooms. This, alone, was a drastically different start to the school day than anything I had experienced in the United States.
The curriculum focuses on English and Mathematics, leaving Social Studies and Science on the backburner. Teachers teach to the state exams, trying to ensure that their classes can meet the high expectations that few students in Hyde Park Primary can reach. The academic intensity of the classrooms reaches far beyond anything experienced in my American classrooms. A large portion of my time spent in South African schools involved inspiring, motivating and encouraging these students. In the chaotic educational environment, I found that, sometimes, these students lost the reason for pushing themselves academically. Project Abroad volunteers, coming in with excitement, emotion and determination, were ideal for this aspect.
South Africa was the solidifying experience for my pedagogical aspirations. I knew, completing my four weeks abroad, that this was the exact field for me. Each student in my sixth grade classroom had a special spot in my heart, even the ones that gave me headaches on the day. When other professors were absent, I would take on those classes for the day. This became the most challenging aspect of my teaching placement in South Africa. Teenagers at Hyde Park Primary knew that I was not the most experienced, prepared instructor and, at times, took advantage of that. Although this gave me the most strife and self-reflective confusion, these are the moments that triggered my pedagogical characteristics the most.
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Without a doubt, these short few weeks spent in South Africa was the most transforming, educational experience of my life. I will never forget my students, my classroom, my fantastic teacher, the country of South Africa, my teaching blunders and moments of strength, and the tension of departing from my comfort zone. This is my first trip of many; I must throw myself at international opportunities and continue putting myself in demanding, academic circumstances to grow as an educator.
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(C) An underpayment may occur because of any change in an assistance group's situation which increases the level of assistance for which he is eligible.
(D) An underpayment is caused by an error on the part of the assistance group or an error on the part of the CDHS. Underpayments and overpayments generally have the same causes. These causes are given in rule 5101:1-25-32 of the Administrative Code.
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JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (AP) — A 19-year-old accused of traveling to the Middle East to train with terrorists raised the suspicions of people at a Florida mosque when he started talking to other teens about violence.
Parvez Ahmed, the board secretary at the Islamic Center in Jacksonville, said Friday that Shelton Bell talked to other kids about jihad and the civil war in Syria. The other kids' parents became concerned.
Ahmed says mosque leaders consulted their attorney and then notified law enforcement because they were concerned about Bell's statements.
A federal grand jury indicted Bell, on charges of conspiring and attempting to provide material support to terrorists. He is being held at the county jail in Jacksonville on unrelated state charges.
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I got read through almost the entire certificate before encountering anything that struck me as out of the ordinary.
Vincent was born on 21 Feb 1909, at 85 "Luquere" Street, the family home. His parents were Michael Mulcahy (occupation: Liquors) and Mary Madigan. Michael, 49, was born in Ireland, and Mary, 40, was born in Brooklyn, NY. Mary had had 19 previous children and currently had 10 living.
|Birth Certificate of Vincent Mulcahy, 21 Feb 1909
19 previous children?! Could that possibly be accurate?
I know it's possible - larger families have certainly existed - but I had really never had any indication that the Mulcahys had lost any children at all, much less 50% of them. I had spent all these years thinking about how fortunate - or healthy, or wealthy, or otherwise privileged - this family had been that all their children had apparently survived to adulthood. Could I have been so wrong?
I always thought that the family's 100% survival rate was a bit unusual, so I wouldn't have been surprised to have a found a between-the-censuses baby somewhere. I aim to cultivate an open mindedness to new information, but *10* babies who had escaped my notice? This was stretching even my already-open mind. It was time to a trip back to review the records in my file, and see if I'd missed something or if this was inconsistent with the existing data.
The Mulcahys first appear as a family in the 1892 NYS Census. Prior to that, Mary was always enumerated with her parents, Mathew and Margaret (Sullivan) Madigan.
|Mulcahy, 1892 NYS Census
|Mulcahy, 1905 NYS Census
|Mulcahy, 1910 US Census
|Mulcahy, 1915 NYS Census
If it's not, Mary Mulcahy gave birth to a lot of babies who died young, and all 10 of them were between-the censuses babies. This is especially difficult to achieve considering that between NYS and federal census records, the family is enumerated almost every 5 years. There is, of course, a substantial enough gap between 1892 and 1905 to allow for plenty of babies to be born, but that gap seems to be pretty well filled by surviving children, born every 2 years or so. There are a couple of gaps large enough to be filled by other children, particularly between Mathew and Joseph (4 years), and then later a slightly smaller gap between John and Gerard (3 years). That suggests the possibility of at least a couple of children who didn't make it to the next census enumeration, but it doesn't seem to allow for 10. And yet, the number 19 is very clearly written on the birth certificate, isn't it?
If the number 19 is, in fact, a mistake for the number 9, one of 2 things is possible. Either Dr. Welty simply was wrong about how many living children the Mulcahys had (my guess is that 9 noisy, excited kids can sound an awful lot like 10 . . . or 30), or there actually was a child living in February 1909 who had died by the time the census was enumerated in 1910. I don't know why that child wouldn't have been included in the Mulcahys own count of how many children Mary had given birth to (the enumerator records "9" for both "mother of how many children" and "number of children still living), but 1 baby seems easier to miss than 10. Of course, searching the Italian Genealogy Group archives doesn't show death records for any probable Mulcahy children between 1909 and 1910.
So where does this very long, very detailed analysis leave me? As much as I hoped that this close look at the available documentation would give me an answer, it has not. The birth certificate is the only evidence of a high infant mortality rate in this family, but I'm not comfortable disregarding it entirely. The other evidence indicates a total of 9 children, but that "other evidence" is strictly census data, not always an accurate and in-depth look at a family's circumstances.
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Angela Carella: Gun advocate: Sandy Hook shows it's time to arm
A moment in Monday's legislative hearing on gun control illustrates the intractability of the debate, even in Connecticut, home of Sandy Hook.
It happened while Neil Heslin, father of 6-year-old Jesse Lewis, who was among the 20 first-graders killed with an assault rifle in their classrooms on Dec. 14, addressed the state Legislature's gun-violence task force in Hartford.
The audience included hundreds of gun-rights supporters wearing yellow buttons that read, "Another responsible gun owner." At one point during tearful testimony, holding a photo of himself with Jesse, Heslin asked why anyone has to own an assault weapon that can fire dozens of bullets in seconds.
He looked over his shoulder at the audience. There was silence. "I don't think one person can answer that," Heslin said.
Then came the replies. "The Second Amendment," someone called out. "Our rights should not be infringed," called another.
Media outlets across the country characterized it as heckling. But Richard Burgess, president of Connecticut Carry, a group that works to protect gun rights in the state, said it was not.
"I watched it from the next room. I didn't see heckling," Burgess said. "The father turned around and engaged the audience. It was a man pouring his heart out and asking for an answer. A few said, `The Second Amendment.' A reasonable mind can argue about whether that was the right thing to do, but they didn't shout."
He questions why Heslin addressed the crowd, Burgess said.
"He made it sound like our owning firearms is what gets children killed. It was very disrespectful," Burgess said. "The reason we own firearms is to protect our loved ones. It's a divisive, emotional issue, but I didn't see anger coming back from the crowd. I hope the father at some point can come to understand why other people choose this way to protect themselves."
About 1,500 gun-rights advocates went to the hearing, Burgess said, and Connecticut Carry turned out some of them. Others were members of the Connecticut Citizens Defense League and the Coalition of Connecticut Sportsmen.
A reported total of 2,000 people showed up for the hearing.
Burgess, an electrical engineer and software developer, formed Connecticut Carry, based in North Branford, 13 months ago. The group has about 470 members and is not affiliated with the National Rifle Association, though they sometimes work together, Burgess said.
According to his website, Burgess got involved with gun rights after he said he was wrongfully arrested in 2010 for carrying an unconcealed firearm. He now has a civil rights lawsuit against the Wallingford Police Department in federal court, Burgess said.
In Connecticut, someone with a pistol permit may carry it openly or concealed. It has to be that way, Burgess said.
"You have a basic right to defend yourself," he said. "It's a natural tenet."
The work of Connecticut Carry is to "promote the right to bear arms," Burgess said. "We want to help people toward that goal by educating them about permit applications, background checks, legal questions and actions involving litigation. The concept is that anybody who wishes may be armed in whatever manner they choose."
That includes assault weapons such as the Bushmaster AR-15 semiautomatic rifle that 20-year-old Adam Lanza used to kill his mother in her bed and 20 first-graders and six educators at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown.
Each child was shot multiple times. Veronique Pozner has said her 6-year-old son, Noah, was shot 11 times, his mouth and a hand blown away.
All the more reason for citizens to arm themselves, Burgess said.
"I don't think it's difficult to understand. I carry a firearm precisely because I understand what being shot will do to me. I choose not to be a victim of that. If that time comes, I will be able to defend myself," Burgess said. "That's why we are so passionate about this issue. To say that we don't understand what that violence does is silly. This happened in a school, a gun-free zone. Nobody was armed. So how did that work?"
In written testimony, he submitted to the legislative task force for Monday's hearing, Burgess explained the lesson that should be taken from Sandy Hook.
"All of the proposed bills so far have at least one theme in common. They seek to disarm people, the exact opposite of what the Legislature should be striving for in the wake of such an obvious realization for so many that evil does indeed exist, and sometimes it preys on the most helpless and defenseless members of our society," Burgess wrote. "Bad people sometimes do bad things. And good people should always have the right to defend themselves with superior tools."
He's glad the legislative task force is examining the mental health care system and school safety, Burgess said. Other issues, such as whether teachers should be armed, must be decided by each community, he said.
"We do not advocate the arming of teachers. But teachers should not be disarmed if they choose to be armed," he said. "If the law says we trust them to be armed around their own kids, armed in public, which it does, we should trust them to be armed in school, too."
Monday's was the second of four hearings to be held by the task force, formed to create proposals that would prevent another Sandy Hook shooting. The group must submit recommendations to legislative leaders by Feb. 15.
Mass shootings are horrific but rare, and no reason to limit guns, Burgess said.
"Millions of people are carrying concealed firearms all the time" in the United States, Burgess said. "Where is all the bloodshed? Using a fringe statistic to say why we do not have the lawful right to defend ourselves is dishonest."
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Just in time for Memorial Day BBQ's I'm happy to pass on my families homemade ice cream recipe. It seems that this delicious dessert only gets made on holidays and special occasions, but its simple to make and requires little prep time so I made it for an NBA Playoff party at my house!
- 1 1/2 cups sugar
- 1 tbsp vanilla
- 1 quart whipping cream
- 4 eggs (beaten)
- 3/4 gallon milk
- 12 lbs crushed ice
- 2 cups ice cream rock salt
Start by combining the sugar and vanilla in the base of an ice cream machine.
Then add the whipping cream.
Next, heat 2 cups of milk slowly over low heat. Add the beaten eggs once the milk is warm, but not hot enough to cook the eggs.
Whisk together well.
Leave mixture over low heat for 2-3 minutes, making sure the mixture does not become too hot and cook the eggs.
Next, add the mixture to the ice cream machine base.
Finally, add the milk. Most ice cream machines have a "fill line" inside the base. If yours does not, stick with my measurement, if it does fill milk to that line.
Stir everything together then place the base into the machine. Surround the base with ice and rock salt. Start with approximately 4-6 lbs ice and 1/2 cup rock salt.
Be sure to place the machine inside a sink or outside on a patio where the ice can melt off.
Also, remember to keep filling the machine with ice and rock salt so that the ice cream will continue to freeze quickly.
As soon as the machine stops, the ice cream is ready!
Got my Thunder napkins and it's time to serve!
Don't mind that it slightly melted while trying to get the "perfect shot" on my balcony as the sun was setting!
Happy Memorial Day Weekend and Thunder Up!
♣ Vegetarian Option: This recipe is vegetarian. (I'm working on a Vegan ice cream made with Coconut milk, look for the recipe soon!)
♦ Gluten Free Option: This recipe is gluten-free!


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The Real Battle: Permission vs. Innovation; Lawyers vs. Innovators
from the which-one-works-better deptTim Lee points us to a really interesting blog post by Dave Alpert, which looks at the Uber dispute in Washington DC as the conflict of two modes of thinking: the permission model favored by lawyers and politicians vs. the innovation model favored by techies and entrepreneurs (and, yes, that's a generalization which does not apply across the board). The post goes way beyond just the Uber dispute to talk about patents, and how they turn a permissionless innovation system into the opposite. The whole thing is great, but here's a quick snippet:
But there is still a culture gap here. Specifically, there are two ways of thinking about how business meets law: the permission model and the innovation model. In one, there's some gatekeeper that has set out a list of things you can do and things you can't. If you want to do something different that nobody has done, you can get permission from that gatekeeper to allow it, if it has enough merit and/or you have enough influence. In the other, you can do what you want, unless it's so harmful that someone takes action to stop you...We've seen (and made) similar arguments in the past about the difference between gatekeeping and innovation, but Alpert's writeup lays it out quite nicely and is a worthwhile read. Check it out.
[...] Patents turn an innovation system into a permission system by carving up the space of possible things you could do but haven't yet, and giving them to anyone who comes along and pays a fee to grab that piece of idea land. Patents don't stop someone from building a product, but they do force them to check with everyone who has patents in the area first and get their permission.
That impedes someone from building a better website that effectively competes with an existing one. It even stops organizations like transit agencies from doing the mostly-obvious, like letting riders track trains and buses in real time, because a "patent troll" has the patent and wants to extract money from anyone stepping nearby.
A number of technology/
policy/ economics writers, like Tim Lee, have been talking about the destructive effects of patents for some time, but running into resistance from an interesting quarter: lawyers. It seems that most lawyers, accustomed to the world of law where everything is set up with a rule, find the permission system of patents more familiar and comfortable than the innovation model. The problem is, familiar doesn't mean good; patents are slowing down Silicon Valley and favoring large, established companies.
It certainly explains the general clash between entrepreneurs and innovators and any regulatory body they seem to come up against. It's not just a disagreement about the best way to handle things, it's a conflict of totally different paradigms. That can make for much louder clashes and much more confusion. But not much actual innovation.
Part of this really may just be a hammer/nail problem. Politicians have a single real tool: regulation. So that's the tool they always use, in the belief that it will lead to innovation. But, innovation doesn't work by following rules, but by ripping apart the rulebook, and showing that the rules don't make sense. It goes beyond just a clash of cultures to a fundamentally different view of how innovation works.
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The iPhone 5 launched back in September 2012 and in smartphones, half a year can be a long time. Since then we've seen the Google LG Nexus 4 launch, the Nokia Lumia 920 hit, the BlackBerry Z10 start to roll out internationally, and now the new king of the spec sheet, the announcement of the all-new HTC One.
One look at the spec showdown above should tell you the most important thing you need to know -- we're lucky enough to live in a time when every platform has a fantastic flagship phone. If not more than one. And that's good for all of us.
The second, more unbelievable thing is that the HTC One vs. iPhone 5 vs. Google LG Nexus 4 vs. BlackBerry Z10 vs. Nokia Lumia 920 specs show us we still haven't reached a plateaux. HTC has a 1080p at 468ppi and a camera that's getting it's priorities straight, putting pixel size over pixel count, something dedicated camera manufacturers figured out years ago.
And 2013 is just getting started! We still have the Samsung Galaxy S4, the BlackBerry Q10, whatever else Nokia is cooking up, and the iPhone 5s, or whatever Apple calls their next phone, to look forward to.
It's a great, great time to be a gadget lover, but for today, it's a great time to give HTC some kudos for once again raising the already ridiculously high bar being set for smart phones.


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I'm going to have a fine time figuring out which passages each of these is referencing. A fine time.
The verses behind these marriage definitions can be found in this video, Lewal: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OFkeKKszXTw
A little over the top, sorry bad pun, but I liked it!
Thanks Heather
I might get 'hell ' for this on FB...hehehe
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I know Pete and John are more likely to trade down then trade up, but I believe the depth on our roster is to the point where we can afford to lose a few picks rather then try to accumulate more. Obviously they wouldnt do this for just anybody but if they see somebody they really like, and can move into position somewhat responsibly, I think its possible.
For the sake of the argument, its got to be someone who might be available in the late teens, i definatly dont see them doing so drastic to jump into the top 10 or anything like that.
A few guys I would jump up for if they slip into the late teens range:
Tavon Austin
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