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In this activity, students create a scale model depicting the vertical distance from Earth's surface to various features and objects, including Earth's atmospheric layers, the Van Allen Radiation Belts, and geocentric satellites. Students also... (View More) compare the vertical distances to these features and objects with distances from their classroom to other common points on the ground. Includes background science information; student reading, handouts and worksheet; teacher information; and suggested extensions and adaptations for students with vision impairment. (View Less)
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This is a collection of mathematics problems relating to the moons of the solar system. Learners will use simple proportional relationships and work with fractions to study the relative sizes of the larger moons in our solar system, and explore how... (View More) temperatures change from place to place using the Celsius and Kelvin scales. (View Less)
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This collection of activities is based on a weekly series of space science mathematics problems distributed during the 2012-2013 school year. They were intended for students looking for additional challenges in the math and physical science... (View More) curriculum in grades 5 through 12. The problems were created to be authentic glimpses of modern science and engineering issues, often involving actual research data. The problems were designed to be one-pagers with a Teacher's Guide and Answer Key as a second page. (View Less)
The lessons in this book focus on scale and proportion as mathematical topics, using the 5E instructional cycle. Students explore lunar images, and a number of hands-on activities are also provided to allow students to create and explore... (View More) scale-models for spacecraft and lunar craters. (View Less)
In this field activity, students observe clouds, and are introduced to dichotomous key to classify cloud types. Students also make weather observations of current weather and record and track changes in weather over time. Materials/equipment needed... (View More) include weather instruments (thermometers and barometers) and graph paper. A student self-assessment rubric, vocabulary linked to an on-line glossary, a list of elementary level trade books on weather, and teacher notes and class management suggestions are provided. This hands-on activity is related to NASA CERES Students' Cloud Observations Online (S'COOL) project. (View Less)
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This is a lesson which gives students the opportunity to imagine they are scientists, provides them with a basic understanding of aurora and helps them to use creative methods in their observations. First, students will study the scientific aspect... (View More) of the aurora. They will also look at images of the aurora (both pictures and illustrations) and describe what they think of when they see them. These descriptions can be stored in the student portfolios as they will be useful in future lessons. Includes teacher notes and instructions, student workshops and an online, animated story, and related teacher resources on aurora. This is lesson three of a collection of five activities that can be used individually or as a sequence; concludes with a KWL (Know/Want-to-know/Learned) assessment activity. (View Less)
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This lesson introduces students to myths about the auroras in different cultures. The class will read a story relating to legends of the aurora and share their reactions to the story. The teacher must select and obtain one or more books from a list... (View More) provided. For homework, students will create their own myth regarding the aurora. This is lesson two of a collection of five activities that can be used individually or as a sequence; concludes with a KWL (Know/Want-to-know/Learned) assessment activity. (View Less)
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Students are introduced to classification through progressive activities. Initially, the teacher models the task by classifying buttons. Students then devise a classification scheme for paper clips. Subsequent activities use objects brought from... (View More) home or the playground by students. The objects are assigned to two categories: natural or human-made, then classified as solid, liquid, gas or a combination. Simple bar graphs are used throughout to compare classification data. (View Less)
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This is a lesson about society and space exploration. Learners will survey the public about their different opinions about space exploration and the use of robotics in space exploration. Then they will represent and analyze the results. This is... (View More) lesson 5 of 16 in the MarsBots learning module. (View Less)
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This is an activity about satellite size. Learners will calculate the volume of the IMAGE (Imager for Magnetopause-to-Aurora Global Exploration) satellite, the first satellite mission to image the Earth's magnetosphere. They will then determine the... (View More) effect of doubling and tripling the satellite dimensions on the satellite's mass and cost. This is the first activity in the Solar Storms and You: Exploring Satellite Design educator guide. (View Less)


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A view of the hidden parts around the inner sections around the city centre of Manchester UK. How you perceive these derelict sites could be a sort of morbid fascination, or logically analysing the modes and functionally of the remaining fragments of architecture. This blog is the stage 1 of 'Urban Exploration' but i have to emphasise, if you visit these places and tempted to gain access..I wouldnt advise it unless you seek permission from the appropriate authorities.
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- Derelict Mansion House on Vine St
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- Salford
- Angel Meadows before the CoOP building
- Rochdale Gas Works
- Red Bank tunnels nr Millow St
- Hulme St , Back of Whitworth St
- Derelict flats off Oldham Road, Newton Heath.,Manc...
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- Northern Quarter
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- Barnes Hospital
- Gorton Demolition 2014
- WW II sites
- Blackley Pike Fold Lane WW2
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Federal Panel Backs CT Scans for Lung Cancer
A key U.S. medical panel for the first time endorsed annual CT scans to detect lung cancer in current and former smokers. Tom Burton reports.
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... I ... influential US medical panels that he uses annual C T scans to detect lung cancer and I and former smokers ... closer to the FDA before Tom Horton he joins us ... right now from Washington DC Tom thank you so much for being here with this ... I was a little bit about the specific task force why there's so much influence and specifically why what they're basing their recommendations on ... well first on of all they're called the U S preventive services task Force there are appointed by the health and human services Department ... and they're the one entity ... even though they're outside private doctors of the one entity ... that can ... sell ... insurers ... what they have to pay for under the new ... Affordable Care Act that goes into effect this fall ... tell it in terms of what they're recommending a specific player recommend or could they concluded that about twenty percent of lung cancer deaths ... might be avoided through early detection and trading and treatment ... I how what kind of a study did they do what was the baseline of subjects in their study in terms of their age and how ... how how frequently they smoked ... you know that this is a study that they themselves didn't do it but it was a study that was sponsored by the National cancer Institute ... was done by lots of hospitals are on United States more than fifty thousand people ... and they look to people between fifty five and seventy nine ... and they look to people who had ... what they call thirty pack years the smoking what that means is pack a day for thirty years ... were to be two packs a day for fifteen years ... these are people were pretty heavy smokers for a long time ... and they had to dance in these current smokers ... or former smokers within the past fifteen years ... those of the people in whom ... it's now being recommended that they get ... to screen by C T ... and and knitted noting with this upscale knowing that they might've been able to prevent some twenty thousand apps ... I annually with the screening I mean does a pretty strong numbers yet ... there is another group I with the National cancer Institute away seemed ... a little bit of caution in terms of moving ahead with its annual C T screening that were Tom took us through that was their their rationale for that ... well that that this other group is not specifically criticizing the idea of C T screening for lung cancer ... what they're simply saying is ... there's probably too much screening in general there's too much catching early disease that might not know her ... and kill people or become clinically meaningful ... they're actually suggesting that the word cancers overuse when it's a tiny Nigel that may never have ... clinical consequence ... they are not specifically criticizing ... this particular study were this particular finding in fact one of the people of in that group that you're talking about that that's kind of skeptical ... he is specifically endorsing ... of ... it ... the use of CDs and not in former smokers Asustek aged over Welch ... from Dartmouth Medical school who has a great skeptic of screening that in this instance in this group of people ... he thinks is appropriate ... RI Tom Burton very interesting on both sides of the thanks so much for being with us appreciate that ... thank you ...


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Hey all,
I know there have been many threads about terrorism, wars, Iraq, etc. And I know this is in the first place a security forum. I decided to post my question in a new thread because it doesn't really fit in another one. Also it's more clear to have one separate thread again.
My question is to all Antionline members who are for an American war against Iraq. What are your motivations to justify the war ? And what prove you have for all your reasons, motivations, opinions, etc ?
I'm (you could probably judge that from my question) against that war and any other war. I don't want to sail into one big flameing jungle. Please only respond if you have something to say. The antipoint system is for the flaming part.
I'm not on any of both sites... not USA, not Iraq. I just want to have a clear view on why people think a war should be. I only heard views from a few people who are for a war, the main reasons were oil and terrorism. But judgeing from many (dutch) newspapers, most American people agree with a war, so there should be many on these forums to.
I'd like to discuss these things here. Wheter or not there is going to be a war. My purpose is not to overrule all who don't share my opinion. I just would like some kind of debate on views, everyone keeping his selfrespect etc.
Hope you people can clear those things up for me and for anyone else that's interested.


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The one & only time that I have ever been "read" I was at a conference at a hotel in Dallas. I worked at Presbyterian Hospital of Dallas at the time & as being a supervisor I was required to go to this luncheon/conference. We were seated at very large round tables in this large ballroom. My sister in law (at the time) worked with me & she also was a supervisor. There were approximately 15 people seated at our table with only 3 or 4 chairs empty at the time. We were all sitting there talking & drinking tea when this lady that apparently was an aquaintance of a number of the ladies at the table, walks up & speaks to a couple of them. The only person that I knew at this event was my sister in law. After having a short conversation across the table with these 2 ladies she looked at me & asked me if she could talk to me. I said yes & she sat down. She proceeded to tell me that she was a person that could "read" people & she didn't want to offend me but she was told to come & "read" me. Needless to say I was VERY excited but I tried not to show it & I agreed to talk to her. She was almost 100% about the things that she told me. I have never had the experience of having another reading again, but, I think if I could find that woman...I would LOVE to hear what she has to say about the rest of my life. It was really something that I needed at that time in my life too & I have been forever thankful for her having the courage to come up to me & tell me the things that she did. This happened almost 20 years ago now. So I would have to say that my experience was WAYYYY pleasurable!!
most readings are supposed to be uplifting to the subject. this was what you experienced. a need was known and the person you needed to hear from got through to you. people don't realize just how much they are helped from the opther side. a simple conversation with a stranger can be a great comfort, give a solution to a big problem, and even be a warning of something not really wanted, but which is coming. from long detailed readings, to something as simple smile at a critical moment in your life from a stranger can generate great things later even without a "psychic" having given a reading. a simple decision to stop at a store, or a car not starting easily can bring about, or prevent tragedy. it depends on what is in the person's best interest, and sometimes is a repayment for some past deed, or a way to learn a hard lesson, and spirit is always involved in some way. they want to help, but there are also those who seek to hurt. psychics may have a better understanding, but have the problems as everyone else does. whether you consider it good or bad, lucky or unlucky, you will learn the lesson you are being taught, whether you choose to learn it now, or if you have to try to learn it another time.


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The "scary barn" is no more.
On Thursday, Aug. 22, a demolition company razed the familiar wooden structure looming over the Bridgewater-Raynham Regional High School football field.
"It had to be done. It was a classic example of an attractive nuisance," B-R School Committee Chairman Patricia Riley said.
The "scary barn" is no more.
On Thursday, Aug. 22, a demolition company razed the familiar wooden structure looming over the Bridgewater-Raynham Regional High School football field.
"It had to be done. It was a classic example of an attractive nuisance," B-R School Committee Chairman Patricia Riley said.
The dilapidated barn — once referred to as "the scary barn" by school board member Susan Prewandowski — stood on a five-acre parcel that also contained two houses and a smaller building. All of those structures were demolished last week, B-R Director of Business Services Kathleen Macedo said Monday.
They were in disrepair, open to the elements and detracted from the value of the property rather than adding to it, Macedo said.
The parcel was part of the Pawlowski Farm, purchased by the school district in 2003 as the site of the new high school at 415 Center St. for $3.5 million.
But ownership of that portion of the property did not revert to the school district until six months after the death of previous owner Genevieve Pawlowski, according to the assessors' office. Pawlowski, a prominent Bridgewater resident, died on Jan. 26, 2009.
The school board voted late last year to look into selling the property off Swift Avenue but subsequently opted to hold onto it.
The appraisal was in the $200,000 to $300,000 range, Macedo said.
"It's more valuable to us as a property than its dollar value would have brought," Riley said.
The district has no plans for the land at this time. But Riley said it is a tremendous asset to the district to own a large piece of property adjacent to the high school should some future need, such as additional fields or something unforeseeable, arise.
J.R. Vinagro Corp. of Johnston, R.I., the low bidder, performed the demolition work and will also be cleaning up the site and installing a roadway to connect the high school property to Swift Avenue, at a total cost of $103,606, Macedo said.
Retired Bridgewater Building Inspector David Moore said the Pawlowski family had an active dairy and vegetable farm on the property until a decade or two ago.
There was an unresolved mystery attached to the old barn.
Moore told the Independent in 2011, the structure bears a striking resemblance to the barn on the Swift Premium sausage package. And there are intriguing tidbits that back up that theory, in addition to the name of the roadway that ran past it.
Inside, there was a big pulley wheel with a rope that would have been used to lift slaughtered animals up for butchering. And the sausage company has deep roots in Massachusetts. According its website, Swift & Company was founded on Cape Cod in 1855.
But even if the theory were true, Moore said, the barn was not historically significant architecturally. It was also beyond salvaging, Riley said.
In fact, school board member David Clapham inquired in July about possible reuse of the beams in the restoration of the stone building at the Bridgewater Iron Works.
But Superintendent Jacqueline Forbes said she directed B-R Director of Grounds and Maintenance Al Baroncelli to look into selling those beams a couple of years ago and was told they were too far gone.
"Restored barn beams could be worth a fortune, but they had so much damage, they have no value. They're full of wood-boring insects and are a liability," Forbes said in July.
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"One of the tests of leadership is the ability to recognize a problem before it becomes an emergency." --Arnold Glasgow.
There's no getting around it: pushing paper is a dull task on the very best of days. Today, with the massive amount of information coming from the Internet and other electronic sources, managing the paper flow can seem almost overwhelming. And not a few in the business world -- trucking included -- express no small amount of exasperation in dealing with it.
Yet paperwork (still a catch-all phrase despite information's more electronic profile nowadays) is still vital -- especially in trucking. Just look outside our industry for a minute: the District of Columbia lost over $44 million over a seven year period to an employee in the tax department who siphoned off that money by giving bogus refund checks to family and friends. How does this happen? Lax administration. You can't take $44 million without leaving a paper trail ... but you need to be looking at the paper trail to notice a problem.
Switch back to trucking. Meeting hours of service (HOS) rules requires a huge devotion to paperwork. Whether you agree with the rules or not, one thing is for certain though: if that paperwork isn't in order, for the driver or for the companyas a whole, all kinds of trouble will be coming your way. That's why many fleets have top administrative folks keeping tabs on all their HOS information.
I'm going to let Dr. Jerry Osteryoung at Florida State University's college of business take it from here: he's got some good insight into the reasons why administration is a necessary task your company -- be it a one or 500 truck carrier -- needs to be good at.
"Administration of a business is one of those things that every entrepreneur and business owner must deal with over and over. Keeping books, maintaining proper documentation, paying bills and taxes, selecting vendors and finding insurance carriers are just a few of these tasks. While many wish they did not have to deal with them, administrative tasks cannot be avoided. Despite the fact that administration is neither a fun nor a necessarily high-payoff activity, it is critical to the success of any business.
When running a business, the devil is in the details. Therefore, administration is just one of those things that cannot be avoided. You just cannot make intelligent decisions about important parts of your business without a clear understanding of their ramifications. In many cases, however, many in business feel as if it is more important that they be out selling or doing something that is more productive. They do not want to 'waste' time on these administrative functions.
As a result, I have frequently seen many entrepreneusr relegating very important decisions to very low skill-level employees. Unfortunately, I have also witnessed the tragic errors of doing so. These errors have included failing to arrange the proper insurance for company vehicles and skipping an employee's background check with dire consequences.
These administrative functions are both important and frequently urgent. Sure, ask an employee to do some of the background work, but the ultimate decision must be yours. While you rarely see a positive return on making a correct decision, the costs of making an incorrect decision are so very high. It is just too dangerous to trust these types of decisions to workers without the appropriate background.
Most successful entrepreneurs spend 20% to 25% of their time on administration. For small and start-up businesses, administration can seem even more time consuming. However, it is just the cost of doing business, and over time, it will get better.
Entrepreneurs who simply cannot devote the necessary time to administrative functions should either hire outside consultants or enlist people they trust to help make these decisions. One savvy accountant suggested that the administrative tasks be shared by other people in the organization - assuming of course, that there are appropriate checks and balances.
These functions are absolutely critical to the success of your business and are just too important not to warrant adequate amounts of your time. By devoting the appropriate time and energy to this part of your business, you will allow the business to grow to the next level."


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"I wished I'd have taken an extra breath before walking onto the Coliseum stage in Manila last week. The 11,000 strong audience was the largest ever to attend one of our headlining "intimate" acoustic performances. I can't think of a room as grand or recall a crowd as excited.
According to astrology and the calculations shared with me about my human design, I have a gate open that can't help but feel and feed the needs of others. Such as, if there's a person in the room who isn't enjoying the party, I will bring myself down to their level to empathize with them, or make it my mission to see they enjoy the party. I've been know to flee physically or mentally because the pressure of their unhappiness becomes mine and is too much to bear.
I took the stage in Manila with that gate open, experiencing the very level of excitement and anticipation the crowd was conjuring. 11 thousand pairs of eyes and ears all directed at us, which tricked me into thinking the experience of 11 thousand was on my shoulders. Consumed with thought while playing songs I hadn't attempted in years, I slipped in and out of consciousness wondering if the essence of the songs were being received all the way at the top of the arena. I would bounce back and forth between the support of the lyrics reminding me that I won't worry my life away, and the future conversations I would have with my agent and management to please not book me in rooms built for sport. My music at heart is made up of mellow, lyric driven compositions. That is especially obvious on this acoustic tour and I simply haven't the tools to keep a Coliseum quiet.
However, keeping a Coliseum at bay is a made-up demand. By the sound of the crowd at the end of the show, no one noticed what was going on in my head. The audience would have accepted anything I gave them as they did with my inaudible and apparently invisible shortcomings that night. Don't let your mind stop you from having a good time right?
The experience in Taipei a few nights later was the complete opposite, not just because of the beautiful theatre or well tuned sound system or the smaller crowd of 3500, but largely due to our taking one extra breath to be in the moment just before we walked onstage. That changed everything. Of course, the lessons from the Manila show were weighing heavy on my mind and I knew what I did and didn't want to do onstage regardless of how the audience would react. The final backstage hour before the show was just as hectic if not more than in Manila, but by taking that extra breath, I realigned myself and seemed to have closed the aforementioned gate, protecting my heart and stomach, giving me absolute freedom to express what I wished to express that night, making it a far more magical experience in the end. One of my gurus recently asked me put more silence in the show. I remembered that only after playing in Manila where I thought I needed to keep something happening at all times. Taipei was the first place I got to practice that intentional silence and wouldn't you know it, the audience slipped neatly into my pocket, or in a coma. Either way. It was golden.
All tours usually begin with a warm-up show and in this case our warm-up show was viewed by 11,000 people. No big deal. I don't mean to undermine their experience by suggesting in this blog that I didn't give my best performance. About 20 minutes into the show I woke up and told the crowd what was going on. That moment became the breath I needed. And by the end of the show I had grown so comfortable in my skin that I mentioned it in the improvisation leading into I'm Yours. The response in the Philippines has been overwhelming and I look forward to getting back there again soon.
Also, be sure to check out MTV Exit: a rad campaign to End Exploitation and Human Trafficking. MTV abroad is wise to have hosted more than 30 concerts on this topic and I got to participate in one while in Manila as well as visit and perform at a rehabilitation shelter for girls rescued from trafficking. The migratory region of southeast Asia is especially susceptible to this epidemic where humans, mostly young girls, are kidnapped, bought and sold to be servants or sex slaves. CNN has recently joined the fight too, placing their watchful eye on the modern day slavery issue. Visit any of these sights to learn more:
Photos of the 11,000 Jason Mraz screaming fans in Manila:
I know he got too stressed during the concert, thinking how to keep his audience happy, as if it is an artist's responsibility. Yes, it may be true for someone on stage performing, but I want to assure you Mr.A-Z, that each crowd is different, and in this case, Filipinos are really loud and enthusiastic, because we all love you. So whatever you do on stage, we'll embrace it with all our heart, even if you messed up some of the lyrics... LOL...
What i'm saying is,"Lift your head, baby, don't be scared, of the things that could go wrong along the way... Don't let it bring you down, and turn your face into a frown, you'll get along with a little prayer and song..." (I got that from Eraserheads' song "With A Smile.") Have faith in us, your Filipino fans. ^_^
Again, we're very much eager to see you on stage again next year! Thank you for that wonderful night, a perfect way to end my birthday month! I'll assure you, I had a blast! ^_^
If you want to see what happened to me that night, read my previous post: LOVING MR.A-Z.
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Can Twitter just pull themselves from France altogether? China blocks sites all the time.
Twitter has been ordered by a tribunal in France to name the anonymous twits who tweeted anti-Semitic bile. The social network was sued by the Union of French Jewish Students to make it to reveal the identities of those behind the vile messages, which were pulled from the website in October. Twitter said it obeyed the laws of …
Not that I agree with most of this, but most countries have some kind of restrictions on any of those. In the UK you can not be a police officer and a fascist, if you want a visa to visit the US of A you must state you're not a communist, in France you can not say you hate Jews... What is considered private or allowed in the spirit free speech varies wildly depending on where you are. Opinions on such matters differ, like in so many other liberties (drinking age, voting age, consensual sex age, expressing one's sexual orientation – when not conforming to the norm –, etc.).
It's the world we live in, deal with it! (i.e., try to change it if you don't agree with what's going on, but accept that others may think differently)
For instance, calling to hurt or to murder someone cannot be covered by free speech.
Any freedom has a limit defined by the law, because the Individual lives in a society and his/her freedom is
limited by the others' freedom. It is fair when the law is voted by the People or People's representative democratically elected.
Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen, article 11. : The free communication of ideas and opinions is one of the most precious of the rights of man. Every citizen may, accordingly, speak, write, and print with freedom, but shall be responsible for such abuses of this freedom as shall be defined by law.
If Twitter has no offices or servers in France, then yes it can ignore French courts. In the US, the Constitution guarantees the right to Free Speech. In the EU and most of the rest of the world, there is no right to Free Speech. The likelihood that a US Court would directly uphold th French Court's ruling is zero. On the other hand, the plaintiffs can try to sue in a US Court, which if they were really interested in anything other than publicity, they would have done rather than engage in that masterbatory suit in France.
Anti Semitic comments are technically not racist. Jews choose to be Jews, they are not "born" Jews. Jewishness is merely passed on through religious indoctrination from a very young age. For example I could be Jewish but I could also be English white man or an American black man. Jews are not a race. Just as Christians are not a race and neither are Muslims. They are just groups of people who follow a type of religion.
mrweekender, whilst what you say is correct about Judaism, the religion, there is also a Jewish ethnicity.
Of course, all such ethnic boundaries are arbitrary, it just depends where we draw the line. We could have 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 10, 20, or 100 races.
Biblically speaking anti Semitic comments would be comments that are derogatory to the descendants of Shem (one of Noahs three sons). Amongst the Semites are the Jewish people, through the lineage back to Isaac and his father Abraham, as are the arabs through the Ishmael, Abraham's other son.
So, a comment directed at a Jewish person could really only be anti Semitic if that Jewish person could trace their line back successfully to show that they were actually Semitic.
"Biblically speaking anti Semitic comments would be comments that are derogatory to the descendants of Shem (one of Noahs three sons). Amongst the Semites are the Jewish people, through the lineage back to Isaac and his father Abraham, as are the arabs through the Ishmael, Abraham's other son. a comment directed at a Jewish person could really only be anti Semitic if that Jewish person could trace their line back successfully to show that they were actually Semitic."
The word is used to mean anyone who has any kind of enmity or antipathy towards Jews. What you or other poorly educated etymologists think the word "should" mean, is irrelevant. Words mean what they mean.
If you want denotations and etymologies to correspond, there will be many words in the language that will need new meanings, and many new words will be required for things which currently have words of "incorrect etymology".
Here's a new word for you: "semantics".
Weekender, I think you might find that you've got it backwards. Being Jewish is being part of a nation as well as having certain beliefs. The latter you may choose not to follow, but the former is with you for life and not your decision.
"Weekender, I think you might find that you've got it backwards. Being Jewish is being part of a nation as well as having certain beliefs. The latter you may choose not to follow, but the former is with you for life and not your decision."
Indeed. I once dated an Israeli girl who was Jewish by race but not Jewish by religion. I know many Americans who also consider themselves Jewish by race but not religion
"I once dated an Israeli girl who was Jewish by race but not Jewish by religion."
Yep. I consider myself Jewish, but am not religious - though I respect Judaism as part of my cultural history.
I also figure that if I'm Jewish enough to be cornered in school and threatened for 'killing Jesus', and if I'm Jewish enough to have a right to Israeli citizenship if I want, and if I'm Jewish enough that I would have been hauled off to the gas chambers, then I'm damn well Jewish enough, and anybody who tries to tell me otherwise can roll it up tight.
Another fine example of how the world has changed. We live in this huge global villages ( what a horrible phrase! ), where politcal boundaries mean less and less each day. We traverse more countires boundaries in a morning browsing session than our forebears would have in a lifetime.
We're already seeing the dismantling of such things as the Swiss finanical laws on privacy and anonymity, forced by the 24/7/365 connected, online world where you can't hide behind a country's laws because the world and their dog already know you're there.
The laws and legalities need ugrent update to allow us to quickly and efficiently stamp on the same old bugbears of old, such as hate crime in this case.
"hate" is not a crime.
In some circumstances, what was said and shown could be considered satire - albeit many may find it distasteful.
"Jews talk about The Holocaust, which is wrong, they had A holocaust, admittedly it was the best one, but the native American Indians and the Australian Aboriginees may have a claim on holocaust as well."
Jim Jeffries
Actually, in French (and most european) law the court is part of the goverTment. You're presumably thinking in terms of adversarial separation of powers, a very anglo-saxon idea that just never caught on amongst the continentals.
This has odd results. English courts can set and overturn law by precedent because they function in opposition to the legislature and the executive, whilst Courts in France can't (having no ability to set precedent in the first place), because they acknowledge the supremacy of the legislative assembly and executive power. They function as an arm of government, implementing and enforcing the law. They can overturn law, but the law can simply be restated by the legislature, whereas an English court setting a precedent in an area of law can often force the legislature to abandon future attempts to craft law in that area as the courts would simply deny their legitimacy based on prior precedent.
Of course this all ignores the point the original poster was trying to make, and that he would have made much better if he had replaced "the government" with "the state". Courts form part of the apparatus of The State, along with the legislature, executive, armed forces, police and various other bits and bobs. The State, in this case represented by the Courts, is becoming more oppressive and thus more like the stasi. Though the better comparison would be the entire state apparatus of the GDR rather than just its internal security enforcement branch.
"[...a very anglo-saxon idea that just never caught on amongst the continentals."
Yes, that Montesquieu was such a fine British chap, pip pip, and all that.
Actually, you're conflating separation of powers with common law. The latter certainly isn't a prerequisite of the former, and the inability of the courts to set precedents does not make them "parts of the government" in the context of their independence, and it does not even necessarily mean that no judicial structure has an ability to shoot down a law that has been put forward by the legislative or executive branch.
Whether the courts are "part of the government" depends on what you understand as the "government". AFAIR, in British English that refers chiefly to the executive branch.
"Twitter said it obeyed the laws of the countries it operates in, but insisted that only a US judge could order it to squeal."
Ok, lets take this apart:
If a court of law in a country orders you to hand the information and you fail to do so (saying only US courts can), then you are in contempt of court, which is an offence, ergo, you are not "obeying the laws of the country".
So let me amend.
"Twitter said it obeyed the laws of the countries it operates in, except where it suits us for either financial or propaganda purposes.
I operate several websites in the UK.
If a US court decides to instruct me to do something, because of something on those websites, I'll write back a nice letter pointing out that they do not have jurisdiction.
If, and when, an EU or UK court does the same, I will comply 100% fully with the law.
At no time is it illegal to not comply with a foreign court's ruling that lacks jurisdiction. Otherwise, quite literally, some court in the Middle East, say, could sentence a Brit for being gay even if they never stepped foot in the country that the court is in, and even if the offence is perfectly legal in Britain.
The question really is who has jurisdiction? And what portion of Twitter can be told what to do by a French court? Because even if they have "twitter.fr", for example, the chances are that the server and the data have never, ever been deployed in France and that not one Twitter employee has ever set foot in the country on business. In that case, about the worst they could do is threaten certain Twitter CEO's that they might be arrested on entry to France (which would result in a very interesting case should it ever come to court, but would likely be thrown out before it even started because of the laws on jurisdiction), and maybe confiscate the domain name.
Even if you HAVE jurisdiction over some entity - say, Twitter France Ltd or whatever - then that jurisdiction is only over them, not their US parent. You can fine them. You can sanction them. But what you can't do is make the US data holders do anything. Most probably they would get the US data holders to at least filter the material from France, but equally they could just dissolve the French company because it can't comply (and wouldn't want to annoy the French courts) and have done with it.
Jurisdiction in the modern era is really, really complicated in terms of knock-on effects, but also really, really simple in terms of the law. I'm not in France, so I can't commit a crime which comes under French jurisdiction. It's not quite so simple electronically, but you can't "fine" someone electronically either - you have to take it to a court.
The Supreme Court of Outer Mongolia can send me all the legal demands they like. Until they go to a British court and get the correct paperwork (e.g. extradition, etc.), they have no jurisdiction over me. The worst they can do is freeze my Monogolian assets (none), stop me entering the country or arrest me on entry, or apply to a British court. And the trial at the British court will almost certainly be more costly and difficult than whatever they are sending me letters for.
The British court is the only one with jurisdiction over me at the moment. However, if I was - say - committing fraud or hacking into the Whitehouse, I quite reasonably expect to see an application for extradition come through to a British court. With companies, who can't be "extradited", that's much harder. And with crimes that aren't crimes in other jurisdictions, that's even harder. And when there's no legal presence in a particular country at all, that's even harder.
The big question really is: What does the French court and the prosecutor expect to achieve, and would it harm Twitter's international image not to comply more than it would to comply?
A better approach is to just ignore the court order without any response. If you send a letter back (or any other communication) a lot of judges will assume that you are acknowledging the court order and then defying it. At that point they may decide to take offence and escalate the whole matter. Something similar to this happened to Spamhaus as I remember.
"Something similar to this happened to Spamhaus as I remember."
It did, but it initially moved to move the case to higher US courts, which was the mistake (i.e. recognising any sort of US jurisdiction by asking them to move it to a more appropriate US court). To quote Wikipedia:
"The court, presided over by Judge Charles Kocoras, proceeded with the case against Spamhaus without considering the international jurisdiction issue, prompting British MP Derek Wyatt to call for the judge to be suspended from office."
"Spamhaus subsequently announced that it would ignore the judgement because default judgements issued by U.S. courts without a trial "have no validity in the U.K. and cannot be enforced under the British legal system".
And though it went through several rounds, the damages supposedly awarded at each stage were never really collectable. In the end, the suit resulted in a $3 (yes, three dollar) judgement, with costs to be met by the other side.
But if you start from the very beginning saying "You have no jurisdiction", you are not recognising the court jurisdiction at all. As always, such things are best handled by a lawyer, anyway.
Link to Twitter France is https://twitter.com/twitter_fr - the server comes up with a US IP address. Guess the French court is in for a surprise.
Would also be interested in finding out how they intend to levy the find if Twitter ignore them; after all if Twitter have no assets in France then there is not much the court can do.
With RIGHTS comes RESPONSIBILITIES
Freedom of speech was introduced to prevent oppression - it is NOT a licence to say anything you want without consequence (despite what some people think).
Free speech allows you to defend your own position, it does not give you the right to attack and oppress others. There is a grey area between justifiable criticism and attack, which is why we have courts to weigh the arguments. A court in a respected country has issued a ruling that there is a case to answer - Twitter should release the requested details to the authorities so the alleged perpetrators can be given a fair trial.
If you believe in freedom of speech, then you should stand behind anything you say. If you need to hide, you probably shouldn't be saying it.
"If you need to hide, you probably shouldn't be saying it."
You can't be serious.
There are a number of legitimate reasons why a person might need to hide his identity while exercising free speech, speech that a government finds embarassing being just one of the more obvious ones.
I really can't understand the reason for someone downvoting your post. It is perfect common sense that although you do have the right to free speech it should be tempered with a social responsibility to not act like a twat and use your so called "free speech" to abuse people from behind a mask of an anonymous username.
Walk into town see someone that looks like they have eaten far too many pies, your "free speech" means you can go and tell them, however common sense and social responsibility tell you that you cannot do that, without some kind of reprisal.
How, exactly, do words oppress someone?
The right to free speech is precisely what it says: the right to speak. You may exercise responsibility along with that right if you wish, but the right itself is nothing more or less than what it is: we have vocal cords, we can use them. It has no moral or ethical dimension, it is simply an acknowledgement of the natural state of the world. Codified in law, it becomes a requirement that the state not interfere with that right.
Free speech is one of the natural rights (or god-given rights if you're so inclined), also known as negative rights. A negative right has no requirement that others give up their rights to support yours. I can speak freely all day without anyone having to give up anything in order to support that right. No sacrifice of another's rights must be made to grant me my freedom of speech.
I don't disagree with you entirely. The only bit I do disagree with is "You may exercise responsibility along with that right if you wish" as you can see from the excerpt below from Article 19 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. So in one sense you "May" exercise responsibility along with that right, but if you don't then you can't really expect to not get held accountable. Like you (seem to be using a proper name ;-) ) I use my actual name when posting here as I have no problems with what I say being attributed to me. Yet so many people post as AC (it seems imho) just to say whatever they want!
The right to freedom of expression is recognized as a human right under Article 19 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and recognized in international human rights law in the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR). Article 19 of the ICCPR states that "[e]veryone shall have the right to hold opinions without interference" and "everyone shall have the right to freedom of expression; this right shall include freedom to seek, receive and impart information and ideas of all kinds, regardless of frontiers, either orally, in writing or in print, in the form of art, or through any other media of his choice". Article 19 goes on to say that the exercise of these rights carries "special duties and responsibilities" and may "therefore be subject to certain restrictions" when necessary "[f]or respect of the rights or reputation of others" or "[f]or the protection of national security or of public order (order public), or of public health or morals".


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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon is planning to join President Barack Obama for a visit of Ford Motor Co. facility near Kansas City.
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In October 2000 the Oklahoma City chapter of Exchange Clubs International declared me "Officer of the Year."
The United States Department of Justice gave me a Community Leadership award for helping the FBI investigate Asian Organized Crime, for volunteering to teach kids to say no to drugs at Camp DEFY (Drug Education for Youth), and for helping solve a cold case homicide.
I was on television, my picture in the Daily Oklahoman. Hailed a hero.
In November 2000, my colleagues declared me unfit to wear the uniform of a police officer.
I went from hero to zero in less than a month.
You see, I'd stumbled out of the closet, and suddenly, the whole world (or so it seemed) knew I was transgender.
Thus began an odyssey of self discovery, months of psychiatric evaluations, a gender transition, and by November 2001, I was living as a woman, working the streets of Oklahoma City.
The biggest police woman you'd ever seen. That was me, except I wasn't passing very well. People seemed confused.
So I figured, I'd give them as many cues as possible, let them know who I am. I bought a wig. I wore makeup and earrings, trying to look as feminine as possible in a police uniform. But, honestly, I only had marginal success, half the time they called me sir, half the time ma'am.
A friend of mine took me to a nail salon and bought me my first set of nails, two inches long and painted burgundy red. The next day on the street I stopped a woman in traffic. When she saw my hands she called me ma'am. I was delighted, and for the rest of the day, it was the same over and over again.
I believe my finger nails got me through the next week without citizens complaining about my appearance, something the department anticipated, I'm sure.
A month went by, and I was still working the street gaining more confidence every day. Though the public seemed to accept my new gender presentation, my peers at work were not convinced, voicing concerns about my safety, their safety. How would I react in a stressful situation?
I wanted desperately to prove myself, wanting to get into a big arrest, a fight, a pursuit - everything short of a shooting - anything that would test my mettle and show my colleagues I could still do the job.
I didn't have to wait long.
On a sunny afternoon in late November, I was looking for a stolen car in the Paseo, an artsy neighborhood north of downtown. I was talking to one of the residents at NW 26th and Dewey when I heard a drive-by shooting call come out over the police radio. The call described a blue Buick Regal, driven by a dark-skinned male wearing a white t-shirt. He'd driven by a business near NW 29th and Classen, only a half mile west, shooting a handgun. A man had been struck by one of the bullets.
I told dispatch I was enroute to the call, heading west on 26th where I saw a blue Buick Regal speeding south on the next cross street, Shartel Avenue, driven by a man matching the description of the drive-by shooter.
Before long, I was in pursuit, winding through the streets of the Paseo: east on 24th, north on Walker, west on 28th, back to going south on Shartel. From experience, I expected the driver to bail out of the car, run to the fences and disappear in the backyards, perhaps seeking a sympathetic friend who'd hide him. When he got back to 24th and Shartel he tried to make a turn down Guernsey Alley where he'd have a moment of obscurity, but he was going too fast and spun out of control, the car careening toward The Hippy Shop, an eclectic vintage goods store.
I stopped my car, coming out of the driver's seat with my weapon drawn. We stood behind our car doors, face to face, only ten yards apart. He fumbled to bring out his gun but dropped it on the ground, choosing to run instead of fight. He took off, just like I'd expected, vaulting a rickety stockade fence like an Olympic athlete. I ran after him, gaining on him until I reached the fence.
I grabbed the top and tried to lift myself over, but I broke a fingernail or two, maybe more. My whole hand hurt like I'd stuck my finger in a light socket. I belly-flopped over the fence, breaking the wood and falling on my face, a mouthful of dirt. As I got up, I saw the suspect disappear behind a garage half a block east.
I lost him.
Then, a funny thing happened. Well, not really funny. It's what should have happened. I heard at least half a dozen officers arriving in the area. All of them backing me. And I felt invigorated by the assurance of officer's who'd responded to my aid, people more concerned about professionalism than politics.
A local resident had called 911 and told the dispatcher she saw a strange man running through her backyard a block east of my location. I sprinted down the street where I saw a woman pointing at a garage near 23rd and Lee. One of my coworkers and I entered the ramshackle building, weapons drawn. We found the suspect collapsed on the ground, coughing, covered with dust and debris. He offered no resistance while I handcuffed him and lifted him to his feet.
I marched the suspect around the corner, down the block and toward my abandoned patrol car. To be sure, I was loaded with adrenaline, beating my chest in triumph like a big silverback, no ounce of femininity left in me. If I'd had a football I would have spiked it in the end zone.
Once I had the suspect safely locked in the back of my patrol car, I high-fived several officers. They patted me on the back, telling me I'd made a great catch.
One of my female colleagues looked at me and gave me a wrinkled smile.
"Hon, your hair," she said.
I panicked, looked at my reflection in the window of my patrol car. My wig had come loose, now sideways, looking like a dead raccoon had dropped on my head, languishing there. Worse than that, my makeup had melted, the water resistant mascara unable to resist my sweat, blackening my eyes, streaking down my cheeks.
Mortified, my triumph forgotten, I tried to clean up my appearance, straightening my wig, wiping my face with Baby Wipes.
The officers who'd gathered around the scene became silent, whispering to one another. My lieutenant approached me.
"Good job," he said. "Are you okay?"
I nodded. I was better than okay. I'd done it. I'd proved myself in a stressful situation.
"Are you hurt."
My right hand hurting, I held it up, four of the five nails torn to bits, a shambles, cracked to the quicks.
"I broke my nails."
My fellow officers did the best they could to smother their guffaws. The suspect in the back of my car sat there, shaking his head, glaring at me.
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Questions that will be discussed among panelists and with the audience will focus on looking at tags as a way of communicating information between users. Within a community, is it possible to decide whether to interpret a tag within the context of the document or just treat it as a primary key or keyword, and what are the feasible/required mechanisms that enable that decision?
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Betty says hello
Hello, everybody. My name is Betty. You know me here as Mrs Grumble. You may also know that I don't read this blog. That used to be true anyway but John left his laptop lying around and I clicked on the Dr G bookmark and have read the odd post. But that is all. I also found a picture of Belle de Jour on the desktop. For anybody who doesn't know, Belle de Jour is a trollop and what John is doing with a picture of her on his desktop I have no idea.
Anyway you may be wondering why I am posting here. It is actually the first time I have written anything on a blog. I do have a blog (can't do links yet) but John writes it for me. This time it is me writing for him. You see he has a problem. His Trust has told him that he cannot blog during the run up to the election. Perhaps this is tantamount to telling him that he can blog when there isn't an election. I really don't know. John doesn't quite know if they know who he is. Probably they do. He has been careful now for quite some time. There are many things that he does not tell you. They are all local things about which he knows most but can publish least. Perhaps that is OK. On the other hand perhaps in the interests of free speech it is not such a good thing. People should be free to criticise. Like Simon Singh. As I say, I can't do links but if you look at the shared items you will find John has put up quite a good article on this by a scientist called Brooke Magnanti. Weird name that. John says that he has read a lot of her work. He probably doesn't tell you here but at heart he is a scientist as well as a doctor.
Look I'm digressing. The point of this post is to tell you that John is not allowed to blog until after the election. Although I take little interest in blogging I actually think this is outrageous. Why shouldn't a doctor working in the health service keep a blog in the run up to an election? John tells me that some of his fellow bloggers are even putting up for parliament and they are still blogging.
Anyway I want John to keep his job. He tells me that things are getting very tough at work and he thinks a lot of people are going to lose their jobs. It won't be very soon. It takes time to work out how to shed staff. But he says it will happen whoever wins the election.


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01 January 2011
One Name Studies
As we start the year 2011, we are adding a new feature to this blog. There is now a section on one name studies. I am most happy to add the site of the Toledano family as the first. Hopefully this will help spread the word of the great work they are doing. If you know of any that should be featured here, please let us know.
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Grade 3 Spring Writing
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Have Child Tell Their Story
Have your child tell their story orally. If they can say it, they can write it.
Have Child Judge a Toy Collection
Have your child judge a collection of toys picking out which one is the best and then have your discuss why that toy is the best. Have your child rate the best in the toy collection and tell why.
Have Child Illustrate Stories
Have children draw pictures that match their stories. Have children label parts of their picture.
Stretch out Words
Have students stretch out words that are difficult to spell so they can hear all the sounds: Example: Stamp (st-am-p)
I Agree/Disagree
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Quote Experts
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Descriptive Words
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Students should include capital letters and correct punctuation within their writing.
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Your child's teacher is available to answer questions about your child's progress and what they are learning in class. Be sure to attend conferences, contact your child's teacher via email, notes, and/or phone calls. Attend school events (i.e., Open House, Parent Math Night, etc.), as well. Review any work that comes home (corrected papers, classwork or homework) to see what your child is working on in class. Keep the lines of communication open. Email or call the teacher when you have questions.
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Lionel Richie cancels Vegas show to help family evacuate from wildfires
Lionel Richie has canceled his performance of "Lionel Richie – All The Hits," scheduled for Wednesday night at The AXIS at Planet Hollywood Resort & Casino.
"Due to the devastating California Wildfires, and helping family evacuate to a safer place, I unfortunately have to cancel my show tonight. I look forward to returning to the stage this weekend and performing for my fans," said Richie.
Shows on Friday, Dec. 8, Saturday, Dec. 9, Wednesday, Dec. 13, Friday, Dec. 15 and Saturday, Dec. 16 will continue. Tickets are still available and may be purchased online or at the Planet Hollywood box office.
Lionel, Caesars Entertainment and Live Nation apologize for any inconvenience this causes ticket holders.
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Strictly as a note to myself, because I'll never remember this on its own …
That will convert a line of text to Title Case in vim, either on the line it's issued or over selected blocks.
vim has single-key case conversion anyway (the tilde key) but this might be the quickest way to arbitrarily switch everything to title case.
Not my discovery or idea; found by way of the Vim Tips Wiki.


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I was talking with a friend about Kevin Smith's Cop Out, a buddy-cop action-comedy starring Bruce Willis and Tracy Morgan, before its release last February. We seemed to agree that while we wanted it to be an enjoyable goof from one of our favorite comic filmmakers, it sure did look like the kind of terrible formulaic movie that we'd see a poster for on the wall of Morgan's dressing room on 30 Rock. "It'll be one or the other," I told him. Joke was on me. It's both.
Willis and Morgan are Jimmy and Paul, Brooklyn cops and partners for nine long years. When a bust goes awry, they're suspended without pay at the worst possible time--Jimmy's daughter (Michelle Trachtenberg) is about to have a very expensive wedding, and her smarmy stepdad (Jason Lee) would like nothing more than to pay the bill and humiliate Jimmy. He decides to sell his prize 1952 Andy Pafko baseball card in order to fund the nuptials, but that plan goes south when he's robbed by Dave (Seann William Scott). The partners track Dave down to get the card back, and end up fumbling their way into the drug-running activities of Poh Boy (Guillermo Diaz), and just might get their jobs back by making a big bust.
The tried-and-true conventions of the genre--the racially mismatched partners, one of them a motor-mouthed loose cannon; the stripping of the guns and badges; the rivalry with other detectives; the stumbling into a big case with their breaking-all-the-rules shenanigans; etc.--have been wheezy for well over a decade now, and the screenplay by Robb and Mark Cullen isn't some sort of post-modern riff or parody. Director Smith instead plays it as an affectionate homage to the '80s action comedies he grew up on--it's the kind of movie that could easily play on a double-bill with Fletch (dig that closing music), Beverly Hills Cop, or Running Scared, right down to the synthy Harold Faltermeyer score.
Those films, even the best of them, were disposable entertainments--sheer popcorn. By attempting to replicate them and just make a casual action-comedy, it could be argued that Smith is wasting his considerable talent on a glossy copy of throwaway pictures*. It's a credible argument, hampered only by the fact that, in spite of its derivative nature and frequently weak writing, Cop Out is a good-natured and genuinely likable movie. Some of the humor is strained, and the picture has trouble firing up its own engines in the opening scenes, but there are laughs to be had here--some of them from Morgan's over-the-top performance, some from Willis' unflappable (and finely-tuned) persona, some from Smith's infectious sense of a good time being had.
The film's misfortune is that it doesn't have a screenplay as smart as we've come to expect from Smith. The script, by TV writers Robb and Mark Cullen, is pretty dopey stuff, even by cop movie standards; it too often settles for cheap, easy vulgarity and lazy punch lines (even including, God forbid, a kid who kicks Morgan in the nuts). When Morgan and Willis, on a stakeout, discover that Dave enjoys, um, using the facilities when he's robbing a house, Morgan's long, dull riff about the power of his shits isn't funny, because it's the kind of material that expects us to think the mere mention of something scatological is funny in and of itself. It's not. Smith's screenplays (the good ones, at least), begin with the shit joke, and then take it somewhere unexpected. A scene like that (and similar ones scattered throughout Cop Out) leave us feeling like, mid-budget lark or not, the talented filmmaker is playing below his abilities.
For a good long while, the biggest knock against Smith as a filmmaker was for his perceived lack of visual style. But he's been making smooth, good-looking films since 2001's Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back, and longtime D.P. Dave Klein eagerly embraces the slick 80s action movie aesthetic. The 1080p VC-1 encode is sleek and film-like, but with enough grain and texture to capture the grit of the film's Brooklyn and Queens locations. Some of the nighttime scenes get a touch soft, and occasional interior scenes are somewhat flat. But color saturation is bright and attractive, details are tight and nicely rendered, and the overall visual presentation is workmanlike if not dazzling.
The DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 track is heavy on wisecracking dialogue, but the occasional chases and shoot-outs give the surround and LFE channels a chance to muscle up. Separation is occasionally weak, but the mixture of dialogue, effects, and Faltermeyer's kicky score is, for the most part, clean and well-modulated.
French, Spanish, and Portuguese 5.1 tracks are also available, as are English SDH, French, Spanish, and Portuguese subtitles.
Kevin Smith is known for taking full advantage of the possibilities of bonus features; since his first films were released on laserdisc, he's stuffed his titles with commentaries, deleted scenes, outtakes, and behind-the-scenes documentaries (often running as long or longer than the feature), frequently seeking to demystify the filmmaking process. So it's not surprising that he's a perfect match for their "Maximum Movie Mode" (here retitled "Maximum Comedy Mode" ), which allows him to combine all of those bonus elements into one smooth, fun package.
Smith is clearly having a blast, doing on-camera and voice-over commentary (and telling some great stories--the Willis "You don't know your lenses?!?" bit is priceless), bringing in a PA, popping up in the frame and marveling at the technology ("Isn't that amazing? Blu-ray magic!"), even popping up in a second frame to criticize his own long-windedness. He uses a red cop car "gumball" on the left side of the screen to stop the film for deleted scenes, and a blue "gumball" on the right for outtakes and alternate punch lines. The screen is split for behind-the-scenes footage, interviews, and storyboards, trivia pops up as on-screen text, and the viewer can stop the program entirely for brief "Focus Point" featurettes. Seann William Scott also pitches in, with occasional pop-ups called "Wisdom from the Shit Monster"; their debt to "Deep Thoughts by Jack Handey" is pretty obvious, but they're still mildly amusing.
Overall, the "Maximum Comedy Mode" is a terrific addition--it actually enriches the film and adds scores of laughs, and though it's certainly a longer way to watch the movie (the whole thing clocks in at 175 minutes), it's a recommended method for return visits.
The disc is also BD-Live enabled and comes with a second disc that includes both a standard-def DVD version and a digital copy for viewing on portable devices.
Cop Out marks Smith's first time directing a film he didn't write, and some will find that perplexing--he was always a writer first, and the first to cut down his skill at staging scenes and moving the camera. But it's a well-made, good-looking picture, and his shoot-outs and chase scenes are smoothly, professionally handled. There are complaints to be registered, but they're all intellectual ones; from the standpoint of goofy fun (which is all they're going for anyway), Smith and crew mostly bring it off.
Jason lives in New York. He holds an MA in Cultural Reporting and Criticism from NYU.


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4–8 April 2013 • Off–Campus • Monk James (Stevens)
During the first week of April, The Very Rev. Dr. Chad Hatfield, chancellor/CEO of St. Vladimir's Seminary and Monk James (Stevens), a second–year seminarian, flew to Fairbanks, AK to offer side–by–side retreats for University of Alaska students, and parishioners and guests of St. Herman Church [2], Orthodox Church in America (OCA), Diocese of Alaska. This northernmost Orthodox parish in North America consists of a diverse group: people of Russian, Yupik, and Aleut backgrounds; cradle and convert Christians; soldiers and families from Ft. Wainwright and Eielson Air Force Base; and university students.
Assisted by their host, The Rev. Isaac Farha, Fr. Chad and Monk James spoke for several days on the theme "Orthodox Christian Discipling: Back to the Basics." [3] Monk James, offered these dispatches and photos from the field.
Thursday, April 4
We arrived in Fairbanks and began our weekend by offering the Akathist to St. Herman at St. Herman Church. This Akathist is sung every Thursday evening throughout the Diocese of Alaska. Father Chad Hatfield and parish rector Fr. Isaac Farha concelebrated the service before the first installment of our weekend of lectures in an annual Lenten retreat hosted by the parish called "Orthodox Revive 2013."
Listen to an excerpt from the Akathist, with Fr. Chad and Fr. Isaac and the choir of St. Herman Church, on Soundcloud [4] or on Facebook [5].
Friday, April 5
The below–zero temperatures and snow are an interesting contrast to the spring weather we left behind in Yonkers, NY! Today Father Chad led a small discussion at a local book store and coffee shop, Gulliver's Books. He introduced the notion of Christian discipleship and discussed the setting for evangelism in North America.
In the evening, Fr. Chad served the Akathist to the Theotokos and gave another lecture on Mary and the church community, and the work of evangelization through baptism and renewal.
Saturday, April 6
This morning, I led a retreat with the University of Alaska at Fairbanks Orthodox Christian Fellowship (OCF) on the topic "The Joyful Christian Witness." I emphasized the importance of confession in manifesting the Risen Christ in the midst of a community.
Later we joined the faithful and Fr. Isaac for the Vigil for the Feast of the Annunciation, which on the Old Calendar fell on the Sunday of the Cross this year.
Retreat session three was offered by Fr. Chad, who spoke about a return to the beginning and Paradise which occurs in us through Holy Baptism, and how Orthodox Christians must be engaged in mission to fulfill this renewal. After the busy day, we enjoyed fellowship with St. Herman's parishioners.
Tweet: Here in AK where they observe the old–style calendar, the Feast of the Annunciation falls on the Sunday of the Cross, making for rich feast.
Sunday, April 7
During the Divine Liturgy this morning for the Sunday of the Cross, Fr. Chad was the homilist. After the service, he participated in a question and answer session, answering a wide variety of queries concerning the spiritual life, ritual and practice, and even some interesting theological questions about animals.
Then we enjoyed a quick diversion to the area north of Fairbanks to see the sights (a moose!).
Tweet: A moose came to visit during the our excursion!
Monday, April 8
We're traveling back to the Lower 48 today, and true Alaskan–style, we're departing in a "whiteout." For those of you unfamiliar with that term it's a heavy snow and fog combination that is so thick you can't see in front of you.
Father Chad summarized the trip this way: "What touched me deeply was the generosity of the people who expressed their appreciation for the way St. Vladimir's and SVS Press have made a lasting impact on their lives as Orthodox Christians. When small communities with many legitimate needs reach deep in their pockets to express their thankfulness, it sets an example of generosity worth emulating."
Tweet: Father Chad at the Fairbanks airport. That's snow out the window. Here's to not having the flight cancelled!


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LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - British singer-songwriter Ed Sheeran's scored his first top album on the weekly U.S. Billboard 200 chart on Wednesday as "x" easily lapped the competition selling 210,000 copies, according to figures from Nielsen SoundScan.
"x" is the 23-year-old's second album and sales have been helped by the success of the single "Sing," which was produced by Pharrell Williams and features the "Happy" singer as well.
The No. 2 album this week, "In the Lonely Hour" from fellow British singer-songwriter Sam Smith, sold 67,000 copies.
The last time two British solo artists were No. 1 and 2 on the U.S. album chart was in 1993, when albums by Eric Clapton and Sting were in the top spots, Billboard said.
Rapper G-Eazy's "These Things Happen" sold 46,000 copies to debut at No. 3 on the chart. Last week's top album, pop singer Lana Del Rey's "Ultraviolence," fell to fourth, while the soundtrack to the animated Disney film "Frozen" was fifth - its 28th consecutive week in the top five.
Two other new releases in the top 10 this week were rockers Mastodon's "Once More 'Round the Sun" at No. 6 and veteran jam-rock band Phish's "Fuego" at No. 7.
Sam Smith's song "Stay with Me" topped the digital songs chart with 211,000 downloads, beating out last week's top song "Rude" from Canadian reggae fusion band Magic! by 1,000 downloads.
Total album sales for the week ended June 29 were 4.3 million, a 14 percent decline compared with the same week last year, Billboard said. Overall year-to-date album sales are 120.9 million, a 15 percent decrease from the same period last year.
Reporting by Eric Kelsey; Editing by Mary Milliken and Lisa Shumaker