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Post subject: Notions I (pertaining to the Genetic Circle)
Since the kind members of the forum have allowed that I publish some things here, I take the liberty to go on thinking about the genetic circle, the start point of thought in its being-like exposure to thinking its way out of a cardboard box, so to speak. Today, the one thing I want to mention in passing, before the start, is that discussion is almost extinct in our universities. Whereas even in the time of Strauss there was still a kind of collegiate debate and fixing of camps, today everything is only a matter of vapid politeness and empty colloquies. So, the no-holds-barred of the forum is rather to be excused, and, indeed, commended. One must express ones opinions in contradistinction to the ceremony that reigns in present day intellectual life.
By notions I understand something that is not even a concept, and only a primary musing. A musing which is concerned with essential matters, but not more than a musing.
(One must also not be too afraid of being regarded as mystical, or something like that. For one is guided by a supreme sobriety, which ventures more, under the smallest spot of perfection.)
Notions I (pertaining to the Genetic Circle):
The tone of the world, how to take it? The seriousness with which we take the issues we approach as thinkers is something like a mood. A mood is a way of being attentive. The tone in which problems of a final aim in the things, in history, in what one is exposed to as ones self, as ones surroundings, is harlequin in its variegation.
The tone in which we tackle a problem is something like the way we reach out to it and first encounter it. We experience this tone only by the way, primarily we are absorbed in its normalcy. Or, better, in its naturalness. The tone is like the personality of the people we know. It
them. Yet tone is not rigid and changeless, rarely one becomes aware that tone is not natural. Tone can become the greatest of all problematic things to which one sets oneself the task of looking to with constant glance. One looks and looks, with the resolution that sees further than what is given in nature, as the way it is. The way it is mocks this look, finding it surprising, it fixes its forces of disdain upon such resolution. The resolution is only a pointing which brings the look to the again and again of its thought that something is there to be won from tone.
The mood, although it goes beyond the self, seems to be ones own mood. It comes and goes. But perhaps the tone is something different than the mood? In a subject matter their is something like a ranking. Already, in the thirties, I believe, the word in english, virtue, had become absurd, ridiculous. A new translation was suggested of the Greek arete, excellence, excelling, the supreme. The tone is more historial than the mere mood. The mood is a basic reaching out to the things from the bodily being, from the being that is bodily, from the hands and the things that take up what is there impromptu and without effort, with consideration as a kind of awareness, but with the felicity of what is known.
Tone is not the censure of those people who uphold the most normal, the most regular standards of the city or place of life. It is not the thing that hovers in the background like a taboo. It is not primarily a matter of the proper and improper, of the law abiding and the law breaking, or of the responsible and the feckless. It is almost no matter of praise and blame. It seems almost visable when pointed out, but it is occluded by the fact that there is nothing quite like what, e.g., virtue must have been in the ages when the higher clergy ruled the world with the sword. The age of the first Crusades for instance. I dont imply that the matter is a matter of military power, but I want to say precisely, only pointing to that time, how was it with the sound of the word virtue then? Allow the notion that the power was connected to it, not only not stand in abeyance, as a hypothesis that haunts us, be put aside. For it is not first to be thought as a matter of social construction or anything like that. It was misleading to go to that age, speaking of martial power. Yet, such misleading paths can possibly be our guides, provisionally, when we can do no better, and when we keep harrowed glance at the danger, groping to find what is peculiar to the historiality, and to dispense with the conceit of social causality.
It can be seen that the way we are proceeding can only guide us if we feel our way, for we never have sensed this historiality properly yet. Mood which is itself sometimes more testy, and more fed up with the beings about it, has some kind of alternation, or transactions, with this tonality of historiality. These are only our gropings, and all that sustains them is the driving force of what we draw towards in the reaching out, by the thing that nature suppresses like clockwork. The hegemony of regularity and the hypnotic power mock whatever is thoughtful. Thoughtfulness is what settles itself like a stone that the hypnotic flow of the routinization rushes over under the concealing name life. Life, nature, time. They all say the same thing. The cycles of the moon, the drifting of high clouds, the cold and the break of light that slowly dawns on one as an invisible space, as day. Between the high backdrop of azure, and the ground with its houses and useful things, trees and streets with their sidewalks, there stands a great invisible opening. But, again and again this can not be adequately taken up other than as life.
Because, already, there is the possibility of grasping what is necessarily grasped, the thinking of what comes open as the space of the invisible, since one must say something, space, we call it, and think space as what is there, it can be genetically taken up in another manner. What is considered is not necessary, except that it must be considered, but not in the manner in which it is considered. What is always coursing by as the possibility of slipping into the rush of the time, as if leaping into it newly prepared by what has been resolutely established in its consideration (but not deliberation, not higher reasoning), can always toss itself into the stream thus not changing it (not only, or as a primary reason for its manner of leaping) but in order to take up what is not yet there as the historicity ground, as the not only this or that animal, but the coming into ultimate transfigurations, as of inorganic matter in its first simple impulsive drive coming to grasp the sensorium and breaking into the art of considered existence, and coming over and above the world thus hatched from instinct and born out in the world of deliberation and decision into the unborn.
In fact, in such becoming lost in the ecstatic self-possibility, which it seems to me can not be treated as self fantasy but, in the light of what is must be taken seriously, one will have intoxicated oneself beyond the thought of the simple historicity. Still, such reflections must always be taken up, provided the discipline of the thinker does not get away from the thinker. One will then not lose oneself in the rushing over of the thoughtfulness as one does in the rushing over of the routinization of the natural. The natural which is perhaps a specific determination of the charging forward of the human cosmos or ordering of the space of the invisible.
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In knocking down the federal Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) and effectively doing the same to California's Prop. 8 ban on same-sex marriage, has the US Supreme Court made it inevitable that gay marriage one day will be legal nationwide?
Read literally, the two decisions don't go that far. But many analysts and legal experts – prominent conservatives among them – believe that to be true, including Associate Justice Antonin Scalia, who wrote an angry rebuttal to the 5-4 majority's decision on DOMA.
Exactly ten years earlier, Justice Scalia had done the same thing in the high court's landmark ruling striking down an anti-sodomy law in Texas, which affirmed the right of gay couples to have consensual sex.
Following on from the majority's ruling in that case, he wrote (again in dissent), "What justification could there possibly be for denying the benefits of marriage to homosexual couples?"
Scalia meant that as a fearful warning, but it turns out that his prediction can only be seen as correct, as this week's rulings show. And again this time, the most strident conservative voice on the Supreme Court is forecasting the same kind of result, in this case as it relates to the 35 states that prohibit same-sex marriage in their constitutions or state laws.
"By formally declaring anyone opposed to same-sex marriage an enemy of human decency, the majority arms well every challenger to a state law restricting marriage to its traditional definition," Scalia wrote in his DOMA dissent.
In his majority opinion, Justice Anthony Kennedy did not use the phrase "enemy of human decency." But he wrote that DOMA "places same-sex couples in an unstable position of being in a second-tier marriage" and "humiliates tens of thousands of children now being raised by same-sex couples."
The law's "principal purpose is to impose inequality," Justice Kennedy wrote, and he said it had been motivated by "a bare congressional desire to harm a politically unpopular group."
Such language, writes Dominic Perella, a Washington lawyer who has argued many cases before federal courts, "draws a detailed road map for courts to hold that same-sex marriage is a constitutional right nationwide."
Beyond invalidating DOMA, Mr. Perella writes in a column for MSNBC, "Justice Kennedy's majority opinion went much further – it offered passage after passage that reads like it was lifted straight from an opinion holding that same-sex marriage is a constitutional right."
Jonathan Rauch of the Brookings Institution doesn't go that far, but he sees something very consequential about the court's decisions in DOMA and California's Prop. 8 in any case. "The rulings will have a modest effect on legal doctrine but a major effect on cultural momentum," he writes.
"As a practical matter, although not doctrinally, the court seems to imply that a law discriminating against gays – whether by excluding them from marriage or, implicitly, by doing something else – is presumed guilty of being based on animus until proven innocent, and so its constitutionality is going to be suspect," Mr. Rauch writes.
"California … is a big change all by itself," he writes. "The state is so big that it takes the percentage of Americans living in gay-marriage states up to 30 percent, from 18 percent. Soon, when Illinois or a few other states come in, more than a third of the country, by population, will allow gay marriage. If that is not mainstream, nothing is."
Conservative columnist Charles Krauthammer of the Washington Post foresees the same eventual outcome.
In a column this week about DOMA headlined "Nationalized gay marriage, now inevitable," Mr. Krauthammer writes: "If discriminating (regarding federal benefits) between a gay couple and a straight couple is prohibited in New York where gay marriage is legal, by what logic is discrimination permitted in Texas, where a gay couple is prevented from marrying in the first place? Which is exactly where the majority's second rationale leads – nationalizing gay marriage…."
"This is certainly why David Boies, the lead attorney in the companion Proposition 8 case, was so jubilant when he came out onto the courthouse steps after the ruling," Krauthammer writes. "He understood immediately that once the court finds it unconstitutional to discriminate between gay and straight couples, nationalizing gay marriage is just one step away."
Although it could have waited up to 25 days, the Ninth US Circuit Court of Appeals on Friday lifted its hold on gay marriages in California while the US Supreme Court considered the case. Within minutes officials were performing same-sex marriages in San Francisco, Los Angeles, and other cities and towns around the state.

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This Means War: Film Review
Some films have certain scenes that need to be redone, but on This Means War the whole picture should have been sent back for a reshoot. This perfectly dreadful romantic action comedy manages to embarrass its three eminently attractive leading players in every scene, making this an automatic candidate for whatever raspberries or golden turkeys or other dubious awards may be given in future for the films of 2012. It's an eye-roller from start to finish, although the promise of a sexy competition between two CIA hunks for the attention of a man-starved honey might attract some misguided souls. Originally set to open on Valentine's Day, which falls on a Tuesday this year, the Fox release has been hastily rescheduled simply to sneak on Feb. 14 and legitimately bow three days later.
PHOTOS: Movie Stills From 'This Means War'
There is more than a hint of kinship between the eventually violent rivalry that develops here when best buds FDR Foster (Chris Pine) and Tuck (Tom Hardy) both court the very available Lauren (Reese Witherspoon) and the competitive relationship of Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie in Mr. and Mrs. Smith, a fact that might have something to do with the contributions of screenwriter Simon Kinberg to both films (this one was co-written by Timothy Dowling). The more elegant ladykiller FDR and brawnier but less refined Tuck are best mates and at first think they can handle the contest, but when it seems Lauren likes them both equally, the claws come out.
From the opening sequence, set atop a Hong Kong skyscraper, in which the two CIA ops stymie an elaborate robbery attempted by Eurotrash crim Heinrich (a scowling Til Schweiger), the action is staged in a manner that is both implausible and incoherent, although perhaps the latter deficiency is deliberate so as to disguise the former shortcoming. In either event, you can't buy what you're looking at for an instant, a problem that unrelievedly permeates the subsequent 90 minutes.
In fact, it gets worse right away, in embarrassing scenes in which the beautiful Lauren runs into an old flame and his fiancee on the street in Los Angeles and pretends she's off to meet her (nonexistent) boyfriend for lunch, then immediately encounters the couple again when she's alone at a sushi bar. Surely a composed and confident 30-something professional woman like her would no longer act like a silly teenager in such a situation.
PHOTOS: 'This Means War' Premiere
To cure Lauren's condition, her so-called best friend Trish (Chelsea Handler) registers her with an online dating site, which is where she comes to Tuck's attention. For his part, FDR tries to pick her up in a giant video store (does such a thing still exist?), but Lauren gives him an initial heave-ho after an argument over the relative merits of Hitchcock films — he having recommended The Lady Vanishes and she insisting upon the superiority of the director's later American films.
Romantic comedies have always generated fantasies of opulent lifestyles for characters with little else to do than pursue their amorous activities, but what the director known as McG puts onscreen in this regard is ludicrously beyond the pale: FDR's apartment, which includes a babe-equipped swimming pool as a ceiling, is insanely extravagant (on a government salary), and the dates to which the boys treat Lauren include a private trapeze session, an exclusive peek at Klimt masterpieces and an outing to a paintball commando park where Lauren uproariously splats Tuck in the crotch with green paint.
Topping things off are two ineptly conceived and choreographed action scenes: In the first, the guys start an all-out fight in a restaurant full of people, but when they finish it's empty, even of staff or authorities who might want to take them to task for their destruction; the second is a car chase, climaxing on a dead-end freeway ramp, that doesn't cut together properly at all, not to mention that what goes on makes no sense from the villain's point of view.
At the center of things, presumably, is Lauren's decision of which man to choose. Her confidant is written in to provide a sounding board and goad her into action, but Handler has been photographed to look practically like Lauren's mom and appears entirely at a loss; the "actress" barely even makes eye contact with Witherspoon and has no sense of creating a character.
The one thing Trish does suggest is for Lauren to give both guys a test drive. But such a move would have pushed the film dangerously into Jules and Jim territory, which might have been the one move that could have provided This Means War with some genuine edge and interest but also would have made Lauren too loose a woman for a mass consumption movie such as this. No risk, no gain.
The three leads do look awfully good doing very stupid things and all will survive to star another day. The sooner this one recedes into the rear-view mirror the better for all concerned.


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Ed Note: Many fossils from the periods discussed and the Solnhofen locality are currently on display in Archaeopteryx: Icon of Evolution. Join a live online discussion about the latest research into the title fossil with paleontologist Pete Larson on June 17.
Intelligent Design – For Jurassic Fish
|Louis Agassiz
Right now, in the 21st Century, the "Intelligent Design" is the latest development in arguments about Creation versus Evolution. Bur it's not a new idea. The Father of Fossil Fish Science, Louis Agassiz, used Intelligent Design to explain Solnhofen sharks and bony fish in the 1840's and 1850's.
Here's how Agassiz laid out the argument:
Expert Engineering in Fins and Jaws
Fish today have bodies that fit their environment. Bottom-living sharks and rays have flat bodies. Fins and teeth are "designed" to crush clams and crustaceans these predators find hiding in the sea bottom. In the open sea water, fast-swimming mackerel have thin scales, plump, streamlined bodies, and tall, narrow tail fins that seem 'designed' to catch small fish in fast attacks.
Jurassic Fish Were Built For their World
Each and every slice of geological time had fish shaped just right to fit their ancient habitats. The Solnhofen Gyrodus had the deep body ideal for hovering in quiet water near a reef. It carried incredibly strong teeth, dental tools that let the fish bite off chunks of coral and snatch clams embedded in the reef.
In Every Period, Fish Habitats Were Balanced
Each extinct habitat was balanced by precisely the right sort of predators and prey. Gyrodus pruned the reef, eating away excess algae, crabs and coral growth. That way the reef stayed healthy and no species became over-abundant. The aggressive reef predator Aspidorhynchus hunted the Gyrodus and kept its numbers down to just the right levels – not too rare, not too common. The big, fast teleost predators, like Thrissops, did their job in keeping Aspidorhynchus numbers in check."
According to Jurassic Intelligent Design, the entire Solnhofen reef ecosystem was crafted by an unseen Creative mind that planned every detail.
Serial Creation, Agassiz's view of Creation was not static. The entire World Ecosystem was revolutionized by change every million years or so. At the end of the Jurassic, many fish species went extinct. New species appeared. More extinctions and more waves of new species appeared at the end of the Cretaceous. More and more extinction-replacements occurred all through the next Period, the Tertiary.
These revolutions were necessary because the World Climate changed fundamentally. Jurassic seas were tropical and Jurassic lands were as steamy as hot-houses. But the climate got cooler in later Periods. The fish that were perfectly designed for the Jurassic were not optimized for the Tertiary Period. Each new wave of extinction and replacement was required to maintain the exquisite balance in reef and coral-biter, coral-biters and Apex Predators.
The Theory of Natural Selection
|Charles Darwin
Darwin and the Perfect Fish
Charles Darwin too was worried about perfectly designed fish. He recognized the extraordinary adaptations in predators that let them catch prey and the delicate balance among species in most habitats. But Darwin argued that natural processes could make ecosystems perfect, or nearly so. His theory had only a few simple steps:
All jaws and fins and bodies vary in all species
When a naturalist studied hundreds of specimens of Gyrodus or a living species, jaws and teeth and fins varied within the the species. Studies of domestic animals – Darwin liked pigeons – proved that much of the variation was genetic. Breed a tall pigeon female with a tall male and the chicks were, on average, tall. Breed a bigger than average goldfish with another big goldfish, and their young will be bigger than average.
Variations Pop Up All the Time
In 1859, when he wrote "The Origin of Species", Darwin didn't know where variations came from. The understanding of genes wouldn't come until after 1900. But Darwin did know that new genetic variations arose in every population.
Nature is Cruel and Most Individuals Die Young
A big reef fish might spawn a hundred youngsters each summer. Few would live beyond six months. Only 1% or less would survive to breed. That's the basic calculus of ecosystems.
Nature "Selects" the Genetically Fortunate
If a fish or wild pigeon hatches out with just the right genes, it gets an advantage. It can live longer, grow faster, and reproduce earlier than its relatives. Generation after generation, the lucky genes accumulate. In a thousand generations, a fish or bird species can be transformed.
Natural Selection Works All the Time to Keep Systems Nearly Perfect
Nature keeps selecting the lucky genes and keeps most of the species ideally "designed" most of the time. That's how Jurassic predators were kept fine-tuned to their prey. When climate changed abruptly, old species died out and new ones evolved.


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"Freedom from Want" is one in a series of Four Freedoms oil paintings created in 1943 by Norman Rockwell and made famous when they were printed in the Saturday Evening Post that same year.
He was inspired to paint the series based on President Franklin Delano Roosevelt's State of the Union speech on Jan. 6, 1941, one month after the U.S. entered World War II.
…In the future days, which we seek to make secure, we look forward to a world founded upon four essential human freedoms.
The first is freedom of speech and expression — everywhere in the world.
The second is freedom of every person to worship God in his own way — everywhere in the world.
The third is freedom from want, which, translated into world terms, means economic understandings which will secure to every nation a healthy peacetime life for its inhabitants — everywhere in the world.
The fourth is freedom from fear, which, translated into world terms, means a world-wide reduction of armaments to such a point and in such a thorough fashion that no nation will be in a position to commit an act of physical aggression against any neighbor — anywhere in the world.
That is no vision of a distant millennium. It is a definite basis for a kind of world attainable in our own time and generation. That kind of world is the very antithesis of the so-called "new order" of tyranny which the dictators seek to create with the crash of a bomb.
To that new order we oppose the greater conception — the moral order. A good society is able to face schemes of world domination and foreign revolutions alike without fear.
Since the beginning of our American history we have been engaged in change, in a perpetual, peaceful revolution, a revolution which goes on steadily, quietly, adjusting itself to changing conditions without the concentration camp or the quicklime in the ditch. The world order which we seek is the cooperation of free countries, working together in a friendly, civilized society.
This nation has placed its destiny in the hands and heads and hearts of its millions of free men and women, and its faith in freedom under the guidance of God. Freedom means the supremacy of human rights everywhere. Our support goes to those who struggle to gain those rights and keep them. Our strength is our unity of purpose.
To that high concept there can be no end save victory.


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"Girls" star Zosia Mamet has launched a campaign on Kickstarter.com to fund her debut music video.
The actress and her sister Clara perform as The Cabin Sisters, and the siblings are seeking fan donations to cover the costs of the promo for their track "Bleak Love."
The pair is looking to raise at least $32,000 for the video by June 9, and they are offering rewards such as T-shirts and lyric sheets to donors.
A post on the fundraising page reads, "Your support for this project will be the backbone to a body of excited filmmakers, producers and musicians all making something from nothing. We have a wonderful concept from a bright young director that includes beautiful gowns, statues, a large opulent loft space, extensive make-up, saturated tones needing anamorphic lens (for those technically inclined).
"We also have those folks who are good enough to work for free that we are trying to travel and feed. It is an expensive proposition when all is said and done, but we have a realistic budget that we know we can make work. So, please please join us in the fight against heartbreak!"


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Grief graffiti spray-painted on Pelham school now criminal probe
Pelham police say vandals wrote messages in honor of student
Messages of condolences spray-painted on a Pelham school in remembrance of a classmate who died over the weekend have turned into a criminal investigation.
Vandals spray-painted the graffiti in memory of Pelham High School student Zach Andrews on the masonry over the top of all the windows on one side of the school, according to the Lowell Sun.
Acting superintendent Amanda Lecaroz said those responsible for the graffiti will face punishment.
Police said they are hoping surveillance-camera footage will help identify the vandals, the newspaper reported.
Andrews, 16, died Saturday at a Boston hospital after a battle with an untreatable form of pneumonia.
Lecaroz said he understands the spray-painters wanted to express their grief, "but there are appropriate ways to do that and inappropriate ways."


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With Barker Gone, Gophers Move On, Again
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) - Minnesota's football program has grown accustomed to setbacks. That also means the Gophers have plenty of experience with learning how to move on.
The departure of leading receiver A.J. Barker, who angrily quit the team on Sunday by an email to coach Jerry Kill that he took public on his personal blog, was a surprise to the players he left behind. As they returned to practice on Tuesday in preparation for their last regular season game, they sounded unfazed by the potential distraction. Those made available to the media expressed confidence anew in Kill's style and leadership.
The Gophers (6-5, 2-5 Big Ten) have already secured a spot in a bowl game, but they'd like to improve their Big Ten standing. They host Michigan State on Saturday, the last home game for 15 seniors.
Copyright 2012 by The Associated Press. All rights reserved. Material may not be redistributed.


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A brief walkthrough of the Editors' Choice, Best of Year, and CES Editors' Choice awards programs.
In order to help you, the readers, make the most informed decision about what to buy, Reviewed has created the Editors' Choice, the Best of Year, and the CES Editors' Choice awards programs.
The purpose of these programs is to identify and promote those products that we feel stand out from the pack. We understand that there is no such thing as a "perfect product" for everyone, so we select winners across a wide spectrum of prices and types.
It's important to note that the score that a product receives is separate from the Editors' Choice and Best of Year awards. There is no threshold score that must be met. Our scoring methodology is a complex and exacting process, but it doesn't tell the whole story. Some lower scoring products might still be considered great values – or even "best in class" – and therefore deserve an award.
Both the Editors' Choice and Best of Year awards can be identified by little blue badges bearing the name of the award. You'll see these badges in various places on the Reviewed website, in the USA TODAY newspaper, on usatoday.com, and even in retail stores.
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The Reviewed Editors' Choice badges are usually awarded as soon as a review is published. Roughly 20-25% of all products we review will win an Editors' Choice badge – however, there is no specific quota for award counts. Because Reviewed leans towards reviewing higher-end products, and because we can only review a portion of all products on the market, only 5-10% of products available to consumers in a given category will win an award.
We think of Editors' Choice winners as the products we would happily recommend to friends and family. Products are awarded across the price spectrum, so you may see Editors' Choice badges on very expensive and high-scoring products, as well as medium- and lower-priced products with lower scores.
In order to win an Editors' Choice award, the product must first be nominated by the editor of the product category, based on the recommendations of the staff writer who tested the product and wrote the review. The nomination is then presented to the Reviewed Editorial Board, which debates the merits of the product. A two-thirds majority vote from the board is required to clinch an award.
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The Reviewed Best of Year badges are awarded annually in the beginning of November to help guide you through a busy holiday shopping season. The Reviewed Editorial Board, along with senior editorial staff, gathers to debate long and hard about the all the reviews published in that calendar year.
In order to generate great picks for every type of consumer, we create a number of sub-categories. For example, there's a "Best Washing Machine of the Year" award, but there's also a "Best Top Load Washer" and "Best Front Load Washer," a "Best High End Washer" and a "Best Value." This ensures that we are providing consumers with a number of recommendations in every category so that you can find not only the best of the best, but the best product for your needs.
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In January 2014, Reviewed created the CES Editors' Choice program, which identifies the best products that premiere at the annual Consumer Electronics Show. The program was created in partnership with the Consumer Electronics Association (CEA), the organizing body of the CES show. Any product making its US debut at CES is eligible to be nominated. Products that were particularly innovative or striking in their technology, design, or value are given strong consideration.
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GOP Blocks Bill to Give Hunters More Land Access
WASHINGTON (AP) - A wide-ranging bill to give hunters and fishermen more access to public lands has stalled in the Senate after Republicans said it spends too much money.
Republicans supported opening lands for outdoorsmen and many other provisions in the bill sponsored by Democratic Sen. Jon Tester, but GOP senators blocked the legislation Monday evening on a mostly party-line vote after Senate Budget Committee's top Republican Jeff Sessions of Alabama, objected to spending on conservation programs included in the bill.
The sportsmen's bill would increase land access and allow hunters to bring home as trophies 41 polar bears killed in Canada before the government started protecting polar bears as a threatened species. The legislation would also exclude ammunition and tackle from federal environmental laws that regulate lead and protect animal habitat.
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Ah yes, the old 9-3 in the scorecard (or the incongruous "J. Beckett grounded out to right" in the play-by-play).
It's just the perfect series of events. A slow pitcher, a sharp line drive, Carlos Beltran playing shallow and with a strong arm. Beckett looked like he was running hard. It's not like the frustrated L.A. media would irrationally go go after their high-priced import with a penchant for slacking, as the season quickly slips away. They'd never accuse him of not hustling...right?


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I got a call the other day from a university researcher looking for information about the beef-packing industry. She said she was helping to put together a feasibility study for a producer group that wanted to build a packing plant that would process about 100 cattle/day. I provided some information about the size of the industry and number of plants. I also felt it might be of value to mention the difficulties of entering the business.
First, I told her that in my 35 years of covering the industry worldwide, I had seen dozens of feasibility studies eat up millions of dollars of taxpayers' money, with hardly any new plants coming out of the studies. What was going to be different about this plant?
I next told her that North American cattle numbers are shrinking and are likely to do so for several years. Yet there's already over-capacity in U.S. and Canadian beef processing. The result is that existing packers will compete even more strongly for every available animal, be it grain-fed, grass-fed or a cull cow.
Escalating costs. Then I told how the cost of building even a small plant has escalated in recent years. Steel and concrete prices have doubled over the past five years. I told her how equipment costs had increased, and how food safety has dramatically increased the cost of processing.
The biggest plants 20 years ago could slaughter and fabricate an animal for $60. Now the best do it for $150 or higher. JBS Swift is proud of the fact its processing costs have fallen to $164 from $212/head when it acquired Swift in July 2008. I told her that a small plant, without economies of scale, might have total processing costs of $250/head.
Let's assume the plant gets off the drawing board. Who is going to lend anyone $10-$20 million to build a beef plant under current financial circumstances? If it's all state money, then taxpayers should be up in arms. Without giving away the location, it wouldn't be a question of bringing jobs to an area that needs them. So what would be the rationale to use public money? What private investor would risk millions of dollars? Lack of equity has been an issue for the meatpacking industry for 20 years. That's why JBS's investment in the U.S. is so important.
Then I asked her how the owners of the new plant would be able to compete with other packers in the region. How would the new venture attract people experienced and talented enough to start up and successfully operate a new plant? Would the plant have fabrication and rendering departments? If not, it would automatically be at a disadvantage.
Next, how would the new venture differentiate its beef to avoid being trampled on in the marketplace by other regional packers and the Big Boys who churn out commodity beef with the efficiency of Toyota? How would the venture make enough money to pay the interest on its debt?
The big question is: "Why?" For the life of me, I don't know why producers want to build or own packing plants. There's an inherent conflict right away. Producers want to get the most for their cattle. Packers want to pay as little as possible for them.
I have seen producer-owned meat companies fail in New Zealand, Australia and in the United Kingdom. They have largely failed in the U.S. and in Canada.
Alberta producers and cattle feeders poured millions of dollars into a new plant near Edmonton called Ranchers Beef. The plant lasted a few months before it closed. Other smaller plants in Canada that popped up in the aftermath of BSE have also failed.
U.S. Premium Beef (USPB) is the most successful producer group to enter the U.S. packing industry because it aligned with an existing packer. It took a minority interest in Farmland National Beef. Both were cooperatives so there was a mutual understanding of how to balance producer expectations with commercial reality.
USPB eventually became National's majority owner. Even then, it realized that the risk of owning just a beef packer is considerable. So it accepted JBS's offer to buy all of National. The reality is, succeeding in beef processing at any level is difficult and will get even tougher. New entrants, be warned.


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Time/Date: Thursday July 16th, 2009, 11:00 AM.
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Web search providers often include search services for domain-specific subcollections, called verticals, such as news, images, videos, job postings, company summaries, and artist profiles. We address the problem of vertical selection, predicting relevant verticals (if any) for queries issued to a search engine's main web search page. In contrast to prior collection selection tasks, vertical selection is associated with unique resources that can inform the classification decision. We focus on three sources of evidence: (1) the query string, from which features are derived independent of external resources, (2) logs of queries previously issued to the vertical directly by users, and (3) corpora representative of vertical content. These sources of evidence are integrated as features in a classification-based approach. We make use of and compare against prior work in federated search and retrieval effectiveness prediction. Our evaluation focuses on 18 different verticals, which differ in terms of semantics, media type, size, and level of query traffic. An in-depth error analysis reveals unique challenges across different verticals and provides insight into vertical selection for future work.
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Work begins on Dellinger Hall renovation
Thursday, May 16, 2013 2:00 AM
Pittsburg, KS
Late last week, hundreds of Pitt State students moved out of their rooms in Dellinger Hall. By Monday, construction fencing was up, part of a street was closed and workers were busy on a major renovation of the university's largest residence hall.
With the exit of the students, the clock began ticking, according to Lindell Haverstic, project architect in PSU's Office of Facilities Planning.
"Work started on May 13 and is scheduled to be done on Aug. 9," Haverstic said.
It is an ambitious project with a tight deadline because Move-In Day for the fall semester is Aug. 17 and classes begin on Aug. 19.
The Dellinger Hall renovation is the largest piece of a multi-year residence hall improvement plan at PSU. When it is complete, every residence hall room on campus will have been remodeled. Previously, the university completed renovations of Bowen, Tanner, Trout and Trout Annex. Each was done over the summer months. After Dellinger Hall, the only residence halls still to be renovated will be Nation and Mitchell Annex. That work is slated for the summer of 2014.
Dellinger Hall is larger than any of the residence halls previously renovated and the scope of the project is more extensive. In the weeks ahead, workers will replace finishes in student rooms, corridors, lounges and stairs. They will renovate and expand bathrooms, add a new lounge, office and laundry. They will install new mechanical systems and switchgear, new windows and a sprinkler system.
The cost of the project is just under $5 million and is being paid for by bonds. The construction manager is J.E. Dunn.
Dellinger Hall was built in 1966 at a cost of $1.5 million. It was named in honor of Oris Polk Dellinger, former head of the Biology Department and dean of the college and graduate school. Dellinger played a key role in the university's struggle to separate itself from the State Normal School in Emporia. The Kansas Board of Regents offered Dellinger the presidency of the Manual Training Normal School in Hays if he would abandon Principal Russ in the highly politicized battle for independence, but he declined. Dellinger served PSU, known in the early years as the State Manual Normal Training School, from 1909 until 1947. After his retirement from the university, he served several terms in the Kansas Senate. Dellinger died in 1957.


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'A Christmas Carol' begins tonight
November 6, 2009
To kick off the holiday season, the Loyola University New Orleans Department of Theatre Arts and Dance will present a modern version of the Victorian gothic production of "A Christmas Carol," adapted by Neil Bartlett, which honors Dickens' original language. Loyola Theatre will also collaborate with Second Harvest Food Bank of Greater New Orleans and Acadiana during select performances to fight hunger.
"A Christmas Carol" will run Nov. 6, 7, 12, 13, and 14, at 7 p.m., and Nov. 8, at 2 p.m., in Marquette Theatre, located on the second floor and accessible from the outdoor stairway of Loyola's Marquette Hall. The performances on Sunday, Nov. 8 and Thursday, Nov. 12, will be Loyola Theatre's Second Harvest Donation Days.
For walk-up ticket sales only, any Loyola student, faculty or staff member who brings an approved canned good will receive a $2 discount on the original ticket price, and Loyola will donate an additional $2 per sale to Second Harvest. This offer is redeemable for one canned good per ticket; no additional discounts will be given to those who bring more than one canned good.
Tickets are $12 for general admission and $8 for students, seniors, children and Loyola faculty and staff. Tickets can be purchased online at www.montage.loyno.edu or by calling the Loyola Box Office at 504-865-2074. Tickets will also be available at the door 30 minutes prior to the performance while quantities last.
In this production, director Artemis Preeshl examines how societal addiction to technology can render one isolated from direct human contact.
"This fast-paced production features a vivacious and chameleon-like cast that cleverly morphs from one character to another," said Preeshl. "The cast animates not only the characters, but also the environment and objects."
Bartlett's adaptation of "A Christmas Carol" is the only published version of the play to exclusively use Dickens' original language. In the play's introduction, Bartlett explains why this adaptation is unique.
"The first decision I took when making this piece was to do this great story without the sentimental upholstery that drags our ideas of the Dickensian down into theatrical cliché," said Bartlett. "I wanted to do it using Dickens' words and nothing but."
"It is full of the warmth of families together cultivating divine virtues of faith, hope and charity," said Preeshl. "Yes, it is a classic Christmas story, but it is also a ghost story. It is, more than ever, about the value of love and human connection."
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Confession time:
I didn't "make up" the original recipe for these cookies, but because I simply cannot cook anything as written these change up each and every time I bake them. They are consistently great no matter what I've tweaked because of mood, ingredient availability, inspiration, general laziness… So I'm posting it in here.
Also because Heather asked for the recipe
This is what I put in the last batch, I'll put some options & hints the end.
But first a cookie secret:
Like many cookies, these get better if you make the dough overnight-36 hours ahead of time. There now my secret is out, I make the dough, saran wrap the bowl & leave it in the fridge til I have time to bake. The sugars & spices marry together with the butter = magic.
Makes about 3 dozen
375° & rack in middle position
(2) cookie sheets w/parchment paper
1/2 C mix of ginger sugar, turbinado & superfine sugars in a flat bowl for rolling
2-1/4 C flour
1 tsp baking soda
1 tsp salt
1-1/2 tsp cinnamon
2 tsp ginger
1/2 tsp cloves
1/4 tsp allspice
1/4 tsp black pepper
1/4 tsp chinese 5 spice
1/4 tsp cardamon
3/4 C softened butter (1-1/2 sticks)
1/3 C sugar
1/3 C dark brown sugar (packed)
1 large egg yolk
1-1/2 tsp bourbon vanilla
1/2 C dark molasses
Whisk the flour, soda, salt, pepper & spices and set aside.
Beat butter and sugars on med speed until light & fluffy, about 5 min. Beat in vanilla & yolk until combined, beat in molasses, about 30 sec each addition, scraping bowl & beaters as needed.
Add flour mixture and beat on low until combined, about another 30 seconds, it will be a soft & sticky dough. At this point I scrape the dough into a lump in the bowl, cover & put in fridge til later. That's not necessary, you can go straight to baking at this point.
Wet hands with cold water and roll rounded tablespoons of dough into balls, then roll balls in the sugar mixture to coat. Place about 2″ apart on the parchment, these will spread out.
Bake 1 cookie sheet at a time until edges are set but the centers are still soft & underdone 10-12 min. Don't overcook!!! Let them set on sheet another 10 min. they will flatten, crack and wrinkle with a crispy outside & chewy middle. Transfer to rack to cool if you can wait, or eat warm.
Rolling sugar:
I've used regular ol' granulated, superfine, turbinado, demerara, ginger sugar or orange sugar.
I've used fresh grated ginger or orange zest in the dough sugar. Also varied spices and amounts. Include? curry powder, nutmeg, chai spice, chili powder, pumpkin spice, different types of vanilla, and substituted rum for part of vanilla.
Glaze cooled cookies with rum & powdered sugar.
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A little bit of season 3 news is dribbling out in fits and starts, and this time we've a bit of news regarding directors for season 3. Contrary to an earlier interview, director and co-executive producer Alan Taylor—who directed "The Prince of Winterfell" and "Valar Morghulis" this season—will not be returning to direct for season 3.
We heard about this a couple of months ago, with the suggestion at the time being that the interview item that suggested otherwise perhaps being a misstatement or misunderstanding by the interviewer (given that that detail is not a direct quote), but it seems that it's now okay to say as much. Taylor's simply too busy with Thor 2—which I believe starts filming in August—and at a guess, that's going to likely rule him out for filming next season as well, as post-production on that will still be under way ahead of its scheduled November 2013 release date. Theoretically they could squeeze in an episode for him at the end of the shooting schedule, presuming it keeps the typical
On the other hand, we have learned that taking up the reins of final episode direction will be David Nutter, who will apparently be set to film the last two episodes of season 3 with the help of cinematographer Robert McLachlan according to this report. Nutter directed "The Old Gods and the New" and "A Man Without Honor" this season.
On a separate note, yes, the Creative Cow piece mentions Morocco as a shooting location. As you'll recall, Morocco was the location of the pilot shoot before it was reshot in Malta. I'd guess this is an error on their part, although it's not impossible that the site has that news from McLachlan himself, perhaps, if he or his representatives were the source for their story. That said, Iceland is definitely on the schedule this season… but will it be on the schedule for the last two episodes of the season? It's not impossible they'll have moved the story back to the southern regions of the lands beyond the Wall, which were represented by the forests of Northern Ireland.
So, is it impossible Morocco may be on board this year? Not entirely. Could be an error, or could be a hint of where they may largely be shooting Daenerys's next story. I'm told David and Dan are basically hard to get a hold of because they're busy scouting locations, for what that's worth…


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You see, it's very easy to associate CO2 with temperatures in a "naive" way. It's also very easy to associate the number of pirates with temperatures this way. In fact, you can associate any two trends in this manner.
I suggested removing the trends from the data, and then comparing the resulting detrended series. I explained it a little differently back then, but that's what it amounts to. Since that time I have learned this is called detrended cross-correlation analysis.
There were a number of criticisms of my analysis posted in comments. I didn't find any of them very convincing, to be honest, but they can be addressed as follows.
- Instead of using northern-hemisphere land temperatures, I will use global sea-surface temperatures (HadSST2 data set.) The criticism was that fluctuations of CO2 emissions could be associated with (i.e. confounded by) fluctuations of the urban heat island effect. I think that's a bit of a stretch, and this sort of objection has been addressed elsewhere, but I thought I would simply use sea-surface temperatures to eliminate the potential confound altogether.
- Instead of using cumulative CO2 emissions, I will use an ice core-based CO2 reconstruction from Etheridge et al. (1998), combined with Mauna Loa CO2 data. I will use Mauna Loa data only for 1979 onwards, and I will adjust it by subtracting 0.996 ppmv from each data point. There's an excellent match between the Etheridge et al. data and Mauna Loa data for the years 1958 to 1978, but there's a tiny offset of 0.996 ppmv between the two.
- I will use the logarithm of the CO2 concentration. This is theoretically more accurate. The equilibrium temperature of the planet depends on the concentration of green house gases, logarithmically. That's why climate scientists talk about sensitivity to CO2 doubling.
I will start by posting a graph of the original sea surface temperature (SST) and (logarithm of) CO2 series. This is Figure 1.
I said we would remove the trend from the series. What exactly is the trend, you might ask. There are many ways to model a trend. We could use a straight line, but then you could say that the series are not linear. The wobbles around each of the linear trends might also coincide. A polynomial trendline can model trends that are not linear. A 2nd-order polynomial trendline might be enough. I went straight for the cubic or 3rd-order polynomial trendline, which gives a slightly better fit. Those are the yellow lines that you see in Figure 1.
To detrend a series, you simply subtract the trendline from the series. The result of the operation can be seen in Figure 2 below.
The scales are a little different, but you should be able to tell, visually, how Figure 2 is obtained from Figure 1.
I added a vertical dashed brown line around the year 1890. I suspect data is simply wrong prior to 1890, for no other reason than the fact that it doesn't look good visually. I will analyze both the entire range (1850-2008) and the shorter one (1890-2008). Curiously, I had previously found something similar in a comparison of SSTs and named storms, but I assumed the storm data was the one in error.
Obviously, changes in CO2 won't be reflected in temperature fluctuations instantaneously. It takes time for heat to be trapped. Or to put in more technical terms, CO2 is logarithmically proportional to the equilibrium temperature. So there should be a lag.
Looking at the whole series, a statistically significant association between the detrended series starts to become significant with a lag of 6 years. The best lag (based on correlation coefficient) is 15 years. At a lag of 15 years, the association is significant with 99.997% confidence.
In my previous analysis I had found a lag of 10 years was the best lag, not 15. Interestingly, a lag of 10 years is exactly the best lag in the current analysis if I only consider data starting at 1890. In my estimation, 10 years is the true best lag, and this is completely justifiable theoretically by other means.
When you look at data from 1890 onwards, even a lag of zero will result in a statistically significant association. With a lag of 10 years, the association is significant with 99.99996% confidence. I think it's worth looking at a graphical representation of this association: the following scatter chart (Figure 3.)
In Figure 3, each dot represents a year. The graph tells us that the higher the detrended CO2 concentration in a given year, the higher the detrended sea-surface temperature, 10 years later. We can also calculate the 95% confidence interval of the slope of the trend, which is 13.7 to 29.7 in this case.
Given the methodology used, and the direction of the lag, this result can't be anything but indicative of a causal association between CO2 and sea-surface temperatures.
The association can't be explained by:
- Coincidence.- Because we removed series trends, and because the associations are highly significant, mere-chance coincidences are exceedingly improbable.
- Correlation is not causation.- For the same reasons, because of the lag, and because there appear to be no confounds, the only plausible explanation for the correlation is causation in this case.
- Urban heat island.- The urban heat island effect should not be relevant to sea-surface temperatures.
- Error and bias.- Errors would tend to hinder the analysis rather than help, just like we see with the data prior to 1890. Any systematic bias should be taken care of by the detrending step.
- Conspiracy.- It would be preposterous to suppose that someone doctored the data sets (in just the right manner) anticipating this type of analysis several years in advance.
- Assorted Non-sequiturs.- Arguments such as "Al Gore sucks" can be dismissed off-hand.


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LITTLE ROCK — The state House speaker-designate said Friday he is optimistic that renewing funding for the so-called private option will be less difficult next year than it was this year.
LITTLE ROCK — The state House speaker-designate said Friday he is optimistic that renewing funding for the so-called private option will be less difficult next year than it was this year.
"If it's working, and if the membership is all in agreement that it is working, hopefully they're going to get their questions answered, be able to have their input as we go into it, and we won't see as much drama as we may have in the past," Rep. Jeremy Gillam, R-Judsonia, said during a panel discussion on the private option at the Governor's Mansion.
The Political Animals club sponsored the program two days after the Legislature officially ended the fiscal session and after House members elected Gillam speaker-elect. Also participating were House Minority Leader Greg Leding, D-Fayetteville, and Sens. Linda Chesterfield, D-Little Rock, and David Sanders, R-Little Rock, all supporters of the program that uses federal Medicaid money to subsidize private health insurance for low-income Arkansans.
A second round of federal funding for the private option received legislative approval during the fiscal session after much debate, particularly in the House, where it failed four times before passing on the fifth vote.
Reporters asked Gillam on Friday how he would measure whether the program is working.
"The enrollment number is going to be significant, but I think the overall goal of this was to create a path in which we saw costs controlled, also the number of folks that were involved in the traditional Medicaid program, those rolls declining and shifting over," he said. "I think there's multiple components to it, but I think those will be some that I think the membership will be looking at."
At this point "I think all the evidence is showing that it's progressing according to plan," he said.
By mid-March, 221,309 Arkansans had applied for the private option and 144,358 had been found eligible, according to the state Department of Human Services. Among those found eligible, 104,649 had completed the process of enrolling in private plans and another 14,338 had been determined to be better served in traditional Medicaid.
During Friday's panel discussion, the speakers talked about the origin of the program, which was conceived as an alternative to the federal Affordable Care Act's proposal that states expand their Medicaid rolls, and the impact it has had on the nation.
Sanders noted that Iowa has modeled its approach on Arkansas', the governor of Pennsylvania is pursuing a similar plan and the governor of Utah has proposed following Arkansas' lead.
"Even if we were to walk away from it, the innovation has been embraced," he said.
The federal government will pay the full cost of the program for the first three years, after which the state's share of the cost will increase gradually to 10 percent. Opponents have expressed concerns about the program's impact on the national debt and the state's ability to pay its eventual 10 percent share of the cost.
During a question-and-answer period Friday, an audience member said she was disappointed that the Legislature obtained a waiver allowing it not to provide non-emergency medical transportation to participants in the private option.
Sanders said the Legislature last year obtained a one-year waiver on transportation, but instead of seeking to renew the waiver this year, the Legislature chose to seek a waiver allowing the state to develop its own transportation plan.
"This population really doesn't need it," he said. "These are folks who are working poor. Many or most of them have access to transportation."
Chesterfield said she was "extremely disappointed" when the Legislature opted out of providing non-emergency transportation. She said low-income families often have a single car shared between two or more people, so obtaining transportation for a doctor's visit can be a problem.
"The question became: Do you throw out the baby with the bathwater?" she said.


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Taking on the Holidays: The Challenge for Interfaith Families
Friday, December 9, 2011
With the start of every winter holiday season come the mainstays of American Christmas: the toy commercials, 24-hour holiday radio stations, Christmas trees and photos with Santa. Amidst it all, families of minority cultures and religions often struggle to establish themselves in the pervasiveness of secularized Christmas. But some of the most challenged are interfaith families, in which each parent was raised in a different religious or cultural tradition, says Philip Cunningham, Ph.D., professor of theology at Saint Joseph's University in Philadelphia.
"Interfaith households have the additional task of determining how and what to teach their children from each of their respective traditions, or to choose one or the other as the primary tradition," says Cunningham. "During the holidays especially, maintaining a balance between the two, or focusing on one without completely sacrificing the other, can be complicated."
To navigate seasonal celebrations more smoothly, Cunningham, the director of Saint Joseph's Institute for Jewish-Catholic Relations gives these tips, particularly for the families that prioritize having a rich religious or cultural life:
• Convey an accurate understanding of each tradition that the parents represent. Though parents may choose to raise their children in only one of their religious or cultural traditions, it is key to show how and why the other tradition is important to the second parent, as well as members of the children's communities.
• Focus on the religious or cultural importance of the holiday, not the commercialized aspects. Emphasizing the significance of each celebration within its respective tradition may deepen children's understanding of why they may celebrate differently than their peers or parents. Avoiding commercialized traditions, or giving them less emphasis, can alleviate feelings that they're missing out on the more dominant holiday.
• Handle religious teaching, and celebrating, as a team. Especially when raising a family within only one parent's tradition, sharing the responsibility of teaching about their religion shows the importance of family and togetherness – themes common to most, if not all, traditions. Participation of the parent outside of the tradition can also relieve the children of any feelings that they are choosing one parent over the other.
• Be aware that different holidays have varying degrees of importance in their respective communities. In the United States, a laudable effort to be sensitive to minority communities sometimes leads to including mention of their winter customs at civic events. The Christian majority should understand, though, that while Christmas is one of the two most important Christian observances – the other being Easter – the festivals of other communities, even if celebrated around the same time, may not be so central to them. For instance, although Jewish people celebrate Hanukkah, the Feast of Lights, during the Christmas season, it is a fairly minor festival on the Jewish calendar, being far less significant than Yom Kippur, Rosh Hashanah, or Passover.
• Be sensitive to children's concerns. Even with a full understanding of their interfaith lifestyle, they may find themselves in situations in which peer pressure is potent. Be aware that kids want to get along with other kids and that this may mean encouraging them to be aware of stereotypes and when, and how, to handle those situations without sacrificing their peer relationships.
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Talking of the piece as 'an Everest', Maestro Pappano looked at the nuances of the score, from the tempestuous opening scene in which Otello returns home in a raging storm. Maestro Pappano moved on to talk about the music that accompanies the introduction of the various characters, including Desdemona. Extracts of the score were sung by soprano Alexandra Deshorties.
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Slate recently published a badly misinformed piece about Sweden's voucher program, which I addressed here. One of the other responses to the Slate piece was written by Swedish economist Tino Sanandaji for NRO. Sanandaji did an excellent job of showing that the voucher program cannot plausibly explain Sweden's test score decline and usefully explored some of the more likely causes.
Though I agree with much of what Sanandaji wrote, his piece occasionally endorses heavier regulation of the program for reasons that are either not apparent or inconsistent with the evidence. For instance, he rightly observes that the Swedish government requires universities to accept high school grades as a key admissions criterion but does not permit them to take into account differential grading practices across high schools. This, he notes, puts significant external pressure on high schools to inflate grades. But despite acknowledging this, he later refers to "other problems caused by the [voucher/school choice] reform … such as grade inflation," implying that this "corruption" is "caused by the lack of [state] control."
And yet the evidence he presents points to the opposite conclusion: that grade inflation is particularly problematic in Sweden because of imprudent government intrusion into university admissions policy. Consider as a contrast the case of the United States, where universities are free to take high schools' grading practices into account during admissions. We still have differential grade inflation across high schools, but it is less of a concern because universities can adjust for it. As the head of admissions at Brandeis University has observed, "It's really not that hard [for colleges] to evaluate a school bearing in mind the differences in grading and weighting processes they employ." In the absence of government meddling, high schools cannot secure admission to good colleges for their students simply by giving them all A's.
Still more puzzling is Sanandaji's criticism that "some private schools broke the rules to cherry-pick students." This is curious because Sanandaji defends free markets on a number of other occasions, and a hallmark of free markets is that they rely on mutually voluntary exchange. So, naturally, schools in a relatively free marketplace want to enroll students they think they can successfully serve, just as families seek schools they believe can successfully serve them.
This does not mean that all private schools in a relatively free market will seek to serve only high-scoring or well-behaved students. In the United States, where the vast majority of private schools are free to admit students based on any criteria they like, many exist specifically to serve difficult-to-educate students that the typical public school is not well-equipped to teach. A study conducted in the mid-1990s found that public school districts were sending hundreds of thousands of students to the private sector for just that reason. Do some other private schools focus on serving high-performing students? Of course. But the largest share seem to place little or no emphasis on students' prior academic performance, based on survey data from Arizona that I analyzed several years ago.


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Chinese President Hu Jintao is seen speaking at the opening of the 18th Communist Party Congress on a television in a subway train in Shanghai on Nov. 8.
BEIJING -- I arrived in Beijing for what the Global Times, a Chinese newspaper, described as "one of the biggest political events in history."
"Are you watching?" I asked my driver on the way in from the airport. He looked at me and laughed. "Why would I watch that?" he replied.
A little later I settled down in my hotel bar over a glass of Great Wall cabernet sauvignon. "Are you watching the Congress?" I asked my server. Again that quizzical look. "Oh, I don't care about that," she replied, before slipping behind the bar and resuming whatever she was doing on her mobile phone, which judging by her concentration she did care about very much.
The 18th Congress of the Communist Party of China (CPC) has begun with great pomp and ceremony in the Great Hall of the People on Tiananmen Square. It is important -- a once-in-a-decade leadership change at a time when the country is facing enormous challenges, from a faltering economy to rampant corruption that goes to the core of the party.
China launches once-in-a-decade changing of guard
But among many Chinese, away from the stuffy heart of this city (from which carrier pigeons have been banned, incidentally, as a security precaution), the meeting might as well be taking place on the moon, among green aliens with spiky heads.
That's how relevant it seems to them.
The official media has given it blanket coverage, while at the same time trying to limit discussion in China's vibrant social media -- slowing internet speeds and even blocking the Chinese translation for the 18th Congress from search engines.
Aside from the pigeon ban, taxis are required to keep their back windows locked, presumably to prevent the distribution of subversive pamphlets, and tiny remote-controlled aircraft have been outlawed.
24 hours after President Barack Obama was re-elected to the White House, the world's other major power, China, began the very different process of choosing its new leader. It happens once every ten years, and lasts just a week. And in case there was any doubt, the ruling Communist Party began by pledging never to have Western democracy. NBC's Angus Walker reports.
Still, the party "will continue to inject vigor to national politics," declared the Global Times at the weekend.
"Vigor" isn't the first world that comes to mind when you see the line up of gray men (you'll be hard pressed to find many woman near the top of the CPC) in gray suites, gathering mostly to dutifully endorse decisions already made.
Throwback: China's ex-president flexes power broker muscle in Beijing
Much of the proceedings are behind closed doors and the main qualification for advancement in the party is to not the rock the boat. Opinions are dangerous; flamboyance can be fatal to a career in the CPC.
Diego Azubel / EPA
The party is expected to use the highly orchestrated event to persuade the nation's 1.3 billion people that it can provide another 10 years of economic growth and social stability while curbing corruption and nepotism.
The report from the retiring party boss and head of state, Hu Jintao, which kicked off the Congress, hailed as a masterpiece by Chinese newspapers, was of such length and mind-boggling tedium that initially it left analysts struggling to figure what precisely whether it was reformist, reactionary, liberal or conservative.
Probably all of the above.
Just ahead of Congress, I had embarked on a journey across the Beijing to test opinion. It was hardly scientific, but I figured I'd at least get a sense of what ordinary Chinese were thinking.
I started by bike in the narrow alleyways around the surviving hutongs in an older part of the city.
Here the residents are older too, and a question from a foreigner about the Communist Party, produces an embarrassed wave of the hand, or provokes a speedy retreat behind closed doors. Ordinary Chinese of a certain age have seen how capricious and brutal the party can be and know better than to openly discuss politics with a foreigner.
Despite deadly week, Communist Party says Tibetans 'feel very happy'
An exception was an elderly man who stood bold upright and recited how China's new leaders would build a strong and prosperous country. But what of Xi Jinping, the man soon to be anointed leader. What does he stand for, how exactly will he do that, I asked. The door swung open and he too was gone.
I approached a man barbecuing some skewered lamb. He claimed not to understand my interpreter, though did I detect an extra touch of aggression with those skewers at the mention of the party?
I then took a taxi figuring that cabbies everywhere have an opinion. But not this one, shaking his head, waving his hand, and probably wishing his wheezing vehicle had an ejector seat. I pressed on. I know what President Obama listens to on his iPod, I explained, and what Mitt Romney has for breakfast. Did he think Xi Jinping has an iPod?
At that he just burst out laughing, and laughed, and laughed, until he dropped me at a Beijing university, where my luck changed.
While the candidates are scrutinized and skewered by the media in the U.S., China's new leader Xi Jinping remains a man of mystery among his citizens. NBC's Ian Williams reports
Here almost all the youngsters I met had heard of Xi, but professed to know hardly anything about him. What does he stand for? Two young women looked blankly at each other. "We don't know," they said in unison, as if this was the most stupid question they'd ever heard. Does Xi have kids? I asked another couple. "I don't know," said one. "And I don't care." said the other.
Another young man looked puzzled. "But we don't vote," he said, which I guess goes to the heart of the matter. Why should we care, he seemed to be saying, what's this process got to do with us?
Perhaps out of desperation, I did what a lot of Beijingers are doing these days and went to a fortune teller. He rumbled me immediately, and declared that he didn't do politics, and that his crystal ball certainly didn't stretch to the Communist Party. "I don't know and I don't care," he declared.
The party, at least its more perceptive members, do seem to recognize the challenges they -- and China -- face. But the prescription for these ills appears to be more of the same. Its still a brave and lonely voice that will call for greater openness, transparency and accountability.
CNBC's Michelle Caruso-Cabrera reports on China's selection of new leaders to meet public calls for better government and give the economy a boost.
The congress will end with the unveiling of the new leadership. Yet in spite of acres of fevered analysis from China-watchers, the reality is that we know virtually nothing about what Xi Jinping thinks about anything, let alone the secretive process by which he was selected.
Is he another grey and cautious techocrat or a closet reformer? Take your pick. We can all be experts in the face of the party's secrecy.
Embassy ballots give Chinese a taste of democracy ahead of power transfer
On paper at least the Communist Party has 82 million members, but only a tiny clique make the real decisions, and there is an enormous gulf -- vast and growing -- between them and the people it is supposed to represent, a gulf filled increasingly with cynicism and distrust.
Peter Parks / AFP - Getty Images
President Hu Jintao, seen on a television in a motorcycle repair shop in Shanghai, called for stepped-up political reform and a revamped economic model as the Communist Party opened a historic congress to usher in a new slate of leaders.
China has changed dramatically since the party last changed its leaders a decade ago -- from the economy to the thriving social media that's such a thorn in the side of the leadership, and where the timing of the leadership change, so soon after the raucous U.S. election has provoked many an uncomfortable (for the party) comparison.
The dynamism elsewhere in China is in stark contrast with the ossified spectacle on display this week in the Great Hall. Those carrier pigeons are the least of the party's problems.


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