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Venturing down San Pablo Avenue under Interstate 580, one could not have the vibrant colors that transformed a dreary wall in one of the highest crime areas in Oakland into a mural that reflects hope and possibility.
This is the first of the Oakland Super Heroes Mural Project, which is West Oakland and Emeryville's first large-scale mural revitalization and beautification project.
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In 1992, Kokomon and Aeeshah moved into the building where AHC is currently located, a former crack house that even the local residents thought it insane to undertake. But 21 years later, that location is now an oasis for transformation and possibility for all who enter.
"Our vision was to create a community center where children and their families can come here for healing and drumming," Kokomon said. One of AHC's biggest advocates is Emeryville Mayor Kurt Brinkman.
"I got involved when I was on the school board in Emeryville, 40 percent of Emeryville students actually come from West Oakland. When you see the violence that occurs in both Oakland and Emeryville, if kids are to learn they can't have violence in their life," Brinkman said.
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Overcoming a slow start and three big turnovers, Arizona (8-5) recovered an onside kick in the last minute, setting up Scott's 2-yard toss to Tyler Slavin with 19 seconds left.
Arizona trailed 21-0 in the first quarter and was down 45-28 entering the final period. Scott threw for 382 yards and marched his team back into the game despite two earlier interceptions.
The nation's rushing leader, Ka'Deem Carey, gained 172 yards for the Wildcats and but fell short of becoming only the 16th running back in NCAA history to reach 2,000 yards in a season.
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Police Pursuit Advocates: What can we learn?
Throughout the years, law enforcement has had it's share of anti-police activists and fringe groups that make it their mission to rebut actions of LE and to hamper potential progress. The presence of these groups is nothing new. With the advent of the Internet, the presence has not only grown but has also given a public voice to groups and individuals that would not normally have the means to speak out.
As a thirteen-year veteran of law enforcement, I am too familiar with some of the destruction certain groups and individuals can cause to the morale of a police department. Around the Country, it is all too common to see police administrators and politicians bow down to a group without a vital reason. I, like many other officers, have become hardened and weary about individuals and groups that carry a negative attitude about a profession that I care deeply about. My attitude changed a few years ago.
As my career progressed, I found a real purpose in trying to make the lives of officers safer as it related to driving and police pursuits. As the Internet became an important aspect in training, I began the development of a web site in early 2003. That is when the hardened attitude that I developed about advocates took a positive turn.
As I was conducting research, I ran across an Internet ad titled: "Hot Pursuit and how it can go horribly wrong." You can imagine what my initial thoughts were. The last thing I needed to see was another cop hater. I could have easily left the ad but fortunately I looked at the site and stumbled on a number of goals that Pursuit Watch had. Strangely enough the ideas of the moderator looked much like mine. Mandatory training, strict laws for eluding suspects, and adequate pursuit policies were just some of the goals. The likeness of what this citizen was saying and what I strived for, changed my attitude from that day forward.
Jim Phillips
The LE Profession is a tight knit group. Outsiders are rarely accepted as part of the group and citizens that want to change police practices are often seen as obstructionists and troublemakers. When I saw the Pursuit Watch web site and subsequently spoke to the owner, Jim Phillips, I didn't see a troublemaker. I saw a man that recognized a problem and was doing everything he could to fix that problem. It took incredible courage for Jim to do what he was doing. On December 13, 2001, a suspect that was engaged in a police pursuit killed Jim's daughter, Sarah.
I learned a lot of lessons from Jim Phillips. The most important is that the answers to problems are not always found within LE. Citizens and groups have a lot to offer and for LE to improve, we must listen. While it is true that some groups do not have good intentions, that is not true for every group. Jim Phillips has made an incredible impact on law enforcement safety. I am not ashamed to say that while I am an officer, this citizen has been able to do more than me. Through Jim's dogmatic approach to pursuit safety, several LE Agencies have improved on their pursuit policies and training. Jim died suddenly on February 3, 2006, of a heart attack. While my friend is now gone, there is no doubt that his impact on the safety of officers and citizens will be seen for years to come.
Candy Priano
Candy Priano is the driving force behind Kristie's Law. This proposed legislation seeks to standardize police pursuit policy in the State of California. There has been controversy surrounding the law and much of it has to do with the fact that an advocate is behind it rather than a LE association. Candy's daughter, Kristie, was killed during a police pursuit. Unthinkable tragedy led Candy Priano to the LE profession. Similar to Jim Phillips, the courage it took for Candy to do that should not be ignored.
I have been criticized in my association with advocates such as Candy and Jim. That hardened attitude used to be mine so I understand where that comes from. LE must come to the realization that ideas, concepts and change can come from passionate citizens. LE is bound to improve through the hard work of others. We may not always agree with advocates such as Jim and Candy but we cannot ignore their sacrifice and their ideas. Jim and Candy were just citizens that wanted to make a difference. Can you imagine what our profession could do if we all had that dedication?
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The best over-the-ear headphones (or incognito earbuds) for keeping outside noise where it belongs
Author TOM SAMILJAN
THAT THE PAIR sitting next to you have discovered that they're soul mates is undeniably heartwarming. But their scintillating repartee threatens to disturb your sleep or interfere with your ability to hear every word of the critical-plot-twist-revealing dialogue in the movie you're watching.
For reasons such as these, when I travel I bring one of two kinds of headphones — or sometimes both — that are designed to keep the din at a distance: active noise-canceling and passive noise-isolating. The former is an over-the-ear style combining a soundproof casing with battery-powered technology that creates inverse sound waves to help negate ambient noise. The latter are classic earbuds, which minimize outside noise by simply sealing up your ears with rubber tips. These can be bunched up into your hand and stored in your pocket, making them ideal for anyone who doesn't want an overstuffed carry-on (but also making them easier to lose).
Which headphones actually do a better job of blocking out intrusive noise? More important, which make music, movies and phone calls sound the best? After spending the past year with about 15 different pairs on dozens of flights, I settled on some favorites.
First up: the high-end Bose QuietComfort 15 noise-canceling headphones ($300, bose.com). With clear, defined midrange and bass, these over-the-ear beauties sound every bit as good as most standard headphones do — a claim that can't be made about all noise-canceling models, which often end up overcompensating and muffling the overall sound. The QC 15 is noticeably better at eliminating outside noise while preserving interior sound quality, no matter how hushed the dialogue or music might be. The cushioning around the earcups is substantial, which must have a lot to do with it.
The only other active noise-canceling product that can hold a candle to the Bose QC 15 is the Able Planet Clear Harmony ($350, ableplanet.com). These cans are slightly bulkier than Bose's, but I found their bass packed even more of a distortion-free punch. I just wish they looked nicer.
Looks aren't a problem with the Beats Studio headphones ($350, beatsbydre.com), which have a sleek one-piece design, a glossy, scratch-resistant finish and a bunch of hues to choose from. The noise canceling turned out to be less across-the-board precise than that of the Bose and Able Planet models, but the bass and midrange came through loud and clear.
If you're keen on a lower profile — as well as a lower price and a lighter load — your best bet is a pair of earbuds. I found the V-Moda Vibrato ($130, v-moda.com) to be competitive with the battery-powered noise-canceling models in terms of keeping out noise. Isolation aside, the bigger the rubber earpieces are, the bassier and boomier the sound, and few earbuds deliver low-range oomph better than the Vibratos. Given that they're playing directly inside your ear canal, the sound does tend to be dense, with none of the subtle separation offered by over-the-ear headphones, but if you don't mind sticking things in your ears (and not sharing your headphones), these more than do the trick. Another plus: The Kevlar-reinforced cords are tough to tangle.
Slightly more refined, the Klipsch Image X10i earbuds ($350, klipsch.com) may dial back the bass a tad, but they deliver more clarity in the midrange — making them my go-to earbuds for classical music, jazz and acoustic tunes.
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Municipal affairs lawyer and former Vancouver social planner and alderman Jonathan Baker can be a very witty guy. I once sought a legal opinion from him after then-Vancouver planning director Ray Spaxman suggested the zoning of a site might not be valid since the zoning line had been drawn accidentally. Baker responded that zoning is like pregnancy; it's a blessed event, whether accidental or not.
Baker was an outspoken alderman back in the late 1980s, when VLC Properties' Jack Poole first proposed building affordable rental apartments on city-owned land on Drake Street.
When Poole requested that council relax minimum unit size bylaws to permit apartments less than 320 square feet, Baker predicted these apartments would be little more than coffins for their residents. Twenty years after completion of 600 Drake Street, Concert Properties (formerly VLC Properties) reports that the building - in which 64 per cent of the suites are less than 320 square feet - has one of the lowest vacancy rates in its portfolio.
I thought of Baker at last month's Housing Affordability Symposium organized by the Canadian Home Builders' Association in collaboration with BC Housing and the provincial government. A panel was discussing housing for "millennials," those born after the early 1980s, and developer Charan Sethi of Tien Sher was at the podium telling the audience about Balance, his Surrey project that offers new condominiums priced from $109,900.
They will be Canada's smallest condos, in many instances less than 320 square feet. The pictures he presented illustrated careful attention to the detailed suite layouts; the kitchen area is small but functional with an under-counter washer/dryer. There are also plenty of built-in features and storage areas to maximize flexibility and livability.
Sethi told the audience that despite support from the City of Surrey, and evidence of significant demand from potential buyers, it was difficult to convince CMHC and financial institutions that they should finance the project. However, he persisted and eventually lenders came forward after being convinced there are many buyers willing to trade off living space for affordability and a brand new home. Soon, Balance will get underway, and I am confident it will sell well.
I realize that many people will agree with Baker and worry about the long-term health and social impacts of living in small spaces. This is by no means a new concern. Back in the 1960s, as a young architectural student in England, I learned about the Parker Morris housing standards, which established minimum room and unit sizes for government-funded public housing. When many British planners moved to Canada, they brought these and other minimum space standards with them and they have remained to this day for both social housing and market housing.
While I agree it is important to provide adequate living spaces to social housing tenants, especially families with children, I also think governments should allow smaller ownership units like those being offered in Balance. They can be particularly attractive to first-time buyers for whom neighbourhood cafes and restaurants are part of their living space.
However, in order to facilitate more "micro-suite" projects, I would recommend that municipalities consider a number of regulatory changes.
In addition to reconsidering minimum suite size bylaws, municipalities also need to revise their parking standards. Today, with the availability of numerous car-sharing programs, along with improved transit and cycling infrastructure, many people are choosing not to own a car. At Balance and an increasing number of condominium developments around Metro, it is not mandatory to buy a parking space with a unit, thus saving buyers tens of thousands of dollars.
Furthermore, at a time when we are trying to reduce greenhouse gases and traffic congestion, if anything, municipalities should be establishing maximum requirements, not minimum requirements.
The one exception is for visitor parking. Even if residents do not own cars, their visitors might. To avoid neighbourhood parking problems, it is important to ensure provision of adequate visitor parking, at least for the foreseeable future.
Municipalities also should reconsider how they establish the various permit fees charged to developers. Today, while some fees are based on building area or construction cost, most are calculated on a per-unit basis. This effectively penalizes developers and consumers of smaller suites. By calculating fees on overall building area, rather than the number of units, municipal governments can further encourage development of more affordable units.
The Housing Affordability Symposium featured both panel presentations and group discussions in a workshop setting. During these discussions, a number of participants suggested that another way to create more affordable housing is to reduce consumer expectations and demand more modest finishes and features in new homes.
For example, they asked whether new units always had to have granite and marble countertops and stainless steel appliances. Do two-bedroom apartments really need two bathrooms?
The reality is that my generation, and those who preceded me, rarely grew up in homes with granite and marble countertops. Similarly, many three-bedroom homes were less than 1,000 square feet with just one bathroom. Therefore, I find it ironic that at the same time as we decry the high cost of housing, it is difficult to find new homes with arborite countertops, or new houses less than 1,000 square feet.
I hope municipal governments will start to make the necessary changes to facilitate the development of smaller and more modest homes around Metro. And don't worry, they won't be like coffins!
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I want to restore my system to original factory state, and I have the Rescue and Recovery discs I made when I first obtained the laptop. I put the disk labeled "Rescue and Recovery Startup disk" into DVD drive and start system. When ThinkPad logo appears, I touch the blue ThinkVantage button. When the system prompts me to press any key to boot from CD or DVD, I do so, and Rescue and Recovery program starts. After the Rescue & Recovery Program is loaded, I click "Launch Advanced Rescue and Recovery." Then I click "Restore Your System." Based on the Rescue and Recovery Help documents, I expect to see three options:
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ThinkPad can also be put to factory contents without the recovery discs if the restore partition is available on the system. Take the CD out, restart your system and press the ThinkVantage button on boot, thereafter follow instructions from step 5:- http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/document.do?sitestyle=lenovo&lndocid=MIGR-70803
Re recovery discs, is it possible that you created rescue media (backup) of your system instead of recovery discs? Go to the BIOS and set optical drive as first boot device, put the startup recovery disc in, press F10 to save the settings and exit, don't press ThinkVantage button on boot, instead let it boot itself from the CD, once you're in, look for the third option.
Let us know how things go.
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Thanks for your reply Maliha!
Two things:
In response to your question about the type of discs I made, I believe I made rescue discs. However, the behavior I enounter when I use them is not exactly the same as that described in the document you directed me to (http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/document.do?sitestyle=lenovo&lndocid=MIGR-70803?). Please allow me to describe the behavior I encounter when I use the disc labeled Rescue and Recovery Startup Disc to access Rescue and Recovery. When I do so, I see the screens depicted in Steps 4 through 7 (Post-2008 Media) in the document you directed me to. At Step 8 is where the behavior of my system differs from that shown in the document. The screen displayed (Step 8) is exactly the same on my system as it is in the document, except there is no radio button at the bottom left that says "Factory Recovery."
Also, I believe you suggested that I could access Rescue and recovery by pressing the ThinkVantage button at startup, but doing so only slightly modifies the startup sequence. When I press the ThinkVantage button, the system displays a black screen with a blinking cursor in the upper left corner for about ten seconds, but then Windows starts normally. By the way, I believe the recovery partition is available. The evidence I have of this is that I can see in Disk Management a 1.17 Gb partition labeled SYSTEM_DRV.
Thanks for your assistance so far, and I'm grateful for any further assistance you or anyone else may be able to provide!
Hi again,
A couple more details:
First, the machine type is 2847-9YU, if that's relevant. Model SL510.
Second, I read another post on a related topic that you responded to, and you said, "Partitioning HDD on SL cripples the ability to use service partition [been there done that]". I did create a partition some time ago, but I have since deleted it. I never deleted the service partition (or, at least, the partition I think is called the service partition, which is a 1.17 GB partition labeled SYSTEM_DRV). I see in the same post you directed the questioner to a page with instructions for recovering the corrupt boot sector, which gave instruction for XP and Vista. If you recommend taking the same action, do you have instructions that are relevent to a Windows 7 system?
Thanks again!
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Hi again,
A couple more details:
I see in the same post you directed the questioner to a page with instructions for recovering the corrupt boot sector, which gave instruction for XP and Vista. If you recommend taking the same action, do you have instructions that are relevent to a Windows 7 system?
Thanks again!
No, it won't help as the recovery repair media doesn't support Win 7, however, lenovo does say that if you reinstall rescue and recovery 4.3, it could re-enable F11 function. Give it a shot.
"This package does not support Rescue and Recovery version 4.3 which is for Windows 7 operating system. If you encounter the problem in Windows 7, please re-install Rescue and Recovery 4.3. It could also re-enable the F11 function."
Keep us informed.
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jjkite, a belated welcome to the forum,
when you boot from the R&R startup disc is there an option at the very bottom of the left column, (sometimes almost invisible), to switch to the advanced mode or similar? If there is which option are you then offered to recover your system?
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Thanks for the welcome, Andy, and, yes, the link for advanced recovery options is present. However, following it only leads to options to restore from backup.
It's actually a moot issue at this point because I went ahead and ordered a set of recovery discs from Lenovo, and I went ahead and restored my system to factory content using those disks. Sadly, doing so did not fix the problem I was certain it would fix. The problem I wanted to fix was with the keyboard and hot keys. I think I'll start a new thread about it instead of opening the issue here. Thanks for your support!
Thanks for your support. Finally, I got frustrated and decided to order restore discs from Lenovo. Using them, I did a factory restore with no problems.
May I ask where did you Order the Factory Restore CD's From?
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May I ask where did you Order the Factory Restore CD's From?
Hi and welcome to the forum!
You can order from lenovo:- http://support.lenovo.com/en_US/detail.page?&LegacyDocID=MIGR-4M7HWZ#purchase
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Bring Reading Rainbow Back for Every Child, Everywhere.
LeVar Burton has a fantastic Kickstarter project running to bring back Reading Rainbow to make it available on multiple internet connected platforms and free to classrooms in need. The team is using multiple infographics to help explain the project and the support the funding campaign goal of raising $5,000,000.
Hi. LeVar Burton here. You may know me as Kunta Kinte, from ROOTS, or Geordi La Forge, from Star Trek: The Next Generation.
You also may have grown up with me on Reading Rainbow.
It was my mother who taught me that, by picking up a book, I could "go anywhere" and "be anything." Ever since Reading Rainbow began in 1983, I have dedicated myself to fostering a love of reading in children, just as my mother did for me.
Over the past year, I have watched Kickstarter bring communities together to support artists and inventors. Again and again, I have been inspired by watching like-minded people team up to accomplish impossible dreams, and to change the world.
Now, I am hoping you will join me on my mission: to bring Reading Rainbow back for every child, everywhere.
The infographic design above could be improved with the knowledge that people may share the infographic image without the rest of the text and information from the kickstarter page. It should be able to stand alone as an independent asset with a title, and the URL for readers to find their way back to the original infographic on the Kickstarter campaign landing page.
The visualizations help make a huge amount of information about the project easily accessible and understandable to the audience. Take for example this simple illustration of the platforms they would like to reach. Visualizing the multiple devices and operating systems makes the goal super easy to understand.
I think this is an incredibly worthy project, and I hope you join me in contributing:
The way Kickstarter works, contributors at different gift amount levels can earn different types of swag merchandise and benefits. This project is particularly complicated with 24 different funding levels with different swag. Although mostly text, the visual lists of funding levels help potential contributors choose their amounts. However, visualizing the swag and benefits with illustrations, icons or photos would have been more helpful.
Infographics for the higher levels of contributions and rewards included images, but simple icons for bumper stickers and coffee mugs would make the first list easier to understand.
Infographics have helped make the campaign a huge success, and also made it easier for people to share through social media.


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haaayes wrote:This is a really long shot but my grandma won't stop going on about some horror movie she's never been able to find again about a little doll (she said it was like a voodoo doll, i always imagined like a blair witchy kind of 'doll') that kept trying to kill the people that bought it. At one point she says they put it in the oven and you think its over but then you hear the music and it attacks them again (inb4 'every horror movie ever')
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College rankings, it seems, are everywhere.
College rankings, it seems, are everywhere.
There�s the Princeton Review, for one. Then there�s the one compiled by U.S. News and World Report. Don�t forget Forbes. It has one, too. Then, of course, there�s Rugg�s Recommendations, Wall Street Journal Recruiter and something known as College Prowler.
By browsing such listings potential students � but most likely their parents � can get the skinny on everything from best college bargains to where the big parties are and almost anything else in-between.
Now, President Barack Obama wants to get in on this crowded ratings game.
Last week, the president proposed a plan that he believes would make higher education �a better bargain.� A rating system factoring graduation rates and job placement for students isn�t without merit on its face. But its long-term impact could serve to damage great universities while also harming students who are most at-risk for not going to college at all.
The latter would be bitter irony indeed. The at-risk students are the ones the proposal most aims to help.
Obama�s proposal includes some strong elements, especially a public rating system for colleges that will help students make thoughtful choices about which schools are best for them. By using the system, families will have access to clear information, consistent from school to school, about the full costs, availability of financial aid, graduation rates and the earnings of alumni. They�ll discover that a higher tuition price isn�t necessarily the best indicator of career success.
The ratings might persuade colleges to hold the line on prices as newly informed families are empowered to make cost-benefit decisions. Right now, people can make a better-informed consumer decision about a $20 coffee maker than a $200,000 college education.
Where the president�s proposal veers into reductionism, though, is by tying the availability of financial aid to those ratings. Students would find federal financial help such as Pell grants easier to obtain at schools with higher graduation rates and postgraduate salaries, among other factors. The president also will pressure states to tie their funding of public colleges and universities to the ratings.
Such financial schemes could backfire on students who already face the biggest obstacles to a college education. It�s not hard for schools to lower their dropout rates. The cheap and easy way to accomplish this is by accepting the students most likely to graduate � the demographics of students at high risk of dropping out are well known � and lowering academic standards so that almost no one flunks. That�s not good for anyone.
The United States didn�t develop its great universities by reducing higher education to mere equations. It�s not that simple.
The wise course if for government to stay out of the ratings game and leave it to the private analysts already flooding the market.


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On Friday, May 2, the Ohio University community received a Save the Date invitation to the Sept. 10 event, "Your Passport to The OHIO Guarantee," and the following message from Renea Morris, executive director of University Communications and Marketing.
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Sexism in sport never seems to go away
Posted by Nic Heath on January 26, 2011
Sexism in sport never seems to go away.
Three members of the Sky Sports football commentary team in the UK have been taken off air for a variety of actions deemed unacceptable by management – perhaps a saving grace in the story.
Andy Gray, "the face of Sky Sports' football coverage for the past two decades", has been fired for offensive behaviour directed at colleague Charlotte Jackson (a harsher penalty than that given to our very own Sam Newman in a similar incident).
Gray's colleague Richard Keys "had been reprimanded and removed from duty on Monday for making derogatory comments about lineswoman Sian Massey, former referee Wendy Toms and West Ham executive Karren Brady", while another member of the Sky Sports football team, Andy Burton, was taken off air on Tuesday for his comments about a female official.
Closer to home, this week Network Ten ended the 'two-year experiment' that saw Kelli Underwood commentate top-level AFL for television. Underwood was the first woman to call football on Australian television.
Underwood has not been completely cut away. She will commentate netball and the AFL boundary-line for Ten and football for ABC. To Underwood's credit, she has put on a brave face, telling "I was the first to do it but hope I am not the last. I would say to every girl out there you should go for it."
That said she has faced an uphill battle trying to be accepted as a football commentator, polling as 'most annoying commentator' in the Herald Sun Footy Fans survey last year.
It is dispiriting that schoolyard notions of women in sport – like whether we can understand the offside rule, or call a match – still have currency in certain circles.
Lately women have been making short work of the glass ceiling, particularly in politics. Only last week Lara Giddings became Tasmania's first female premier. A look at Crikey's Friday editorial – a series of sexist headlines pertaining to stories about female politicians – shows all is not quite as it should be, yet*. But with most of the top positions of power in eastern seaboard filled by women at present, a sense of hope seems warranted.
In Australia and overseas, sport offers a less positive outlook.
*For more on the topic read Amber Jamieson's interviews with Cheryl Kernot, Natasha Stott-Despoja and Fran Bailey at Crikey.
One Response to "Sexism in sport never seems to go away"
February 4, 2011 at 5:08 am
Hmm. Having played Australian Rules football for a long time and followed the game my whole life I find this one of particular interest (although being overseas for a while, have not followed this case too closely).
Some statements I would make regarding this. Do you know the fundamental, underlying reason why her two year trial was not continued? You make no mention of any specific reason, but strongly imply it was just because she's female.
Secondly, like any other business, TV stations are commercial entities whose first priority is the bottom line (i.e. ratings). I do not know the deliberations TV stations go through to assess their line ups, but surely it is possible, they will consider which commentators combine to deliver the best overall TV performance? For example, if they considered her performance, or popularity with viewers and if she is not considered one of the best 'performing' commentators then likely any other commercial decision, they might look elsewhere.
With regard to the "most annoying" poll, she is not the only commentator ever mentioned – for example, a great percentage of AFL fans find Robert Walls highly annoying. And specifically, just because she was voted most annoying, does not necessarily mean it was because she is female – can you directly quote any source which shows this to be the case?


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Atelier d'architecture autogérée (aaa - Studio for Self-managed Architecture) is a practice based in Paris co-founded by architects, Constantin Petcou and Doina Petrescu in 2001. aaa acts as a platform for collaborative research and action on the city and much of their work is carried out with other specialists, artists, researchers and institutional partners such as universities, arts organisations and NGOs, as well as the eventual users of their spaces. Whilst the founding members of aaa remain, the practice operates as a collaborative network that forms around each project.
aaa's projects are experiments in the temporary reuse of leftover urban space through the setting up of an enabling infrastructure that is slowly taken over by local residents and transformed into self-managed spaces. Ecobox consists of a series of gardens made from recycled materials, in the La Chapelle area of northern Paris, for which they also produced a number of mobile furniture elements working with students and designers. These included cooking, media and workshop stations that can be moved around and out of the garden as needed. Over the five years (2001 - 2006) that aaa were actively involved in its day-to-day running, Ecobox became a venue for cultural, social and economic activities, initiated by them and local residents; for example, Stalker/Osservatorio Nomade organised a workshop and installation as part of their collaborative project 'Via Egnatia', whilst a group of residents ran a monthly market and others set up a small food business making use of the cooking module. It is at the level of this activation of social interest and action that AAA's practice is most successful; they act as curators and enablers whilst at the same time leaving enough room for others to take over responsibility, to the point that residents campaigned for another site when the garden was finally evicted from its original location.
Their most recent project, Passage 56, is the transformation of a disused passageway, located in a Parisian neighbourhood noted for its density and cultural diversity, into a productive garden that minimises its ecological footprint through recycling, composting and use of solar panels. By means of a continuous participative process, the project was drawn up and constructed with minimal cost, using recycled materials collected by the residents themselves. It was carried out in collaboration with a local organisation running youth training programmes in eco-construction and was partly commissioned by local government, fulfilling one of aaa's stated aims to influence local policy towards the reuse and development of leftover spaces in the city. The Passage 56 project reinforces the idea that public space does not need to culminate in the idea of the physical construction of a designed object but is continuously developed as a social, cultural and political production. Here, the client does not precede the intervention but gradually emerges in the group of people who manage it, offering proof that everyday ecological practice can transform present spatial and social relations in a dense and culturally diverse metropolis.
AAA and PEPRAV (eds.), UrbanACT (Montrouge: Moutot Imprimeurs, 2007).
Peter Blundell Jones, Doina Petrescu and Jeremy Till (eds.), Architecture and Participation (Abingdon: Spon Press, 2007).
Constantin Petcou and Doina Petrescu, 'Au Rez de Chausee de la Ville', Multitudes, 2005, http://multitudes.samizdat.net/Multitudes-20-Spring-2005.html.
Doina Petrescu, 'How to make a community as well as the space for it', Re-public: Reimagining Democracy, 2007, http://www.re-public.gr/en/?p=60 [accessed 10 May 2010].
Doina Petrescu (ed.), Altering Practices: Feminist Politics and Poetics of Space (London: Routledge, 2007).
'Platforme Européene de Recherche et d'Action sur la Ville / European Platform for Research and Action on the City', www.peprav.net [accessed 10 May 2010].
Sebastian Niemann, 'AAA', Architecture d'Aujourd'hui, 2007.
Ruth Morrow, 'ECObox. Mobile devices and urban tactics', Domus, (2007): 50-53.
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David was at Kroger's, the one down off Chapman Highway.
I was outside working in the garden off the front porch. It was a nice size one, with large wide seat railings, banisters really, that stretched the entire exterior of the front half of the house. It was hot in Knoxville, as it always was in August, but you get used to it. Born in Midland, Texas, raised in Arizona for a while, and having spent the last half decade in western and now eastern Tennessee, I definitely was used to hot, but not necessarily happy about it. Sweating, digging or cutting, or maybe weeding (I hate weeding), and probably drinking a bottle of cheap beer, I got up to go inside and answer the phone.
At that first moment, when you know, it's like a little light get's turned on. Not a flame, or a spark, but a little light. One that doesn't ever get turned off. It's always there, like a nightlight, an old one, with a clear incandescent bulb the size of my thumb. The moment was the split second the voice on the now defunct princess phone beside the bed said, "Hello, can I speak to Randall Stringer?"
Two things immediately turned on that light that still glows in my mind. One, the word "hello," because it was a bit formal for the South, no matter who was calling, and as long as they had that slow Southeastern drawl, casual and lazy, "hello" was a formal call. Second, they used my first name, which only teachers, police and -- in this case -- strangers would use.
I was on the side of the bed, facing the living room, and for the moments that passed right then, while they were saying their assorted "we'd like to speak to Randall ... should come in and see us ... here in the office, etc.," I sat there and said to myself, "I wish they had called while David was here ... why couldn't they call when I wasn't alone?"
I told them I didn't need to come in to the "office." I knew that if the news were different, I would have been told on the phone something like, "Good news!" Or, "Hi, can I please speak to Randall?" (Note the word "Hi.")
I sat on the side of the bed, hung up the receiver and started crying. Slow, alone tears, the kind that you don't have any drama with. Why drama with no one to see? Minutes passed, David came home and I cried for a long time. Decades.
In 1984, testing positive was a death sentence. When I finally did make it into the office, someone, some counselor or caseworker provided my prognosis. "Let's see, you're 21, so that means, approximately eight years. So you could live to see 30!"
Thirty came and went, and so did 40 and now 50. So everyone was wrong, including myself. I have lived to die for over 30 years, and now face the battle for my soul.
Meth addiction has the same strange and debilitating prognosis as HIV, in a way. Only, you see yourself taking your life like you are the virus, slowly, deliberately removing your ability to fend off the world, through the removal of all material things (jobs, friends, homes, fortunes, futures), but you continue to live the life anyway. With a strong, proud, misplaced bravado, you scream, "So what, I'll prove them all wrong."
The addiction also has the same tilted, prolonged and deadly public stigma that HIV did in the '80s (and still today to be honest). A public stoning of looks, smirks, shunning and dismissing and, finally, just ignoring. There are an estimated 40,000 teens with meth addiction in N.Y., and because of this stigma, most of them face a huge probability of HIV diagnosis, illness and probably death. They refuse to go to get tested and treated because of public health employees treating them as if they were walking scabs, not to be touched, recognized as human or treated with compassion.
And so for those of us suffering from the gay virus of the 2010s, the same cyclical process of vortex to vertex swirl begins and ends. I hope the prognosis this time is as wrong as that day that summer of 1984. I fear the combined viral impact may be the last battle my body and mind could take on.
I hope though, that unlike the boy who sat on the front porch that summer thinking life was over, I can make this man today stand up and say that life has only just begun.
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Abused democracy fails the cause of liberty.
Statistics tell that your correspondent's life will soon rate as being a long one. The blame does not rest upon the systems that made him their subject. There were years of unfreedom, first under the Nazis, then under Stalin. Thereafter, irrespective of formal education and the ensuing brain damage, then as the result of some reflection, this writer remains uncertain about a fundamental matter. Is freedom a natural, therefore instinctively strived for, condition of mankind? Or could servitude be imbedded in our genes? The latter case would make liberty a lucky escape from our natural condition.
Numerous thinkers have raised this question. For centuries since the Enlightenment, we have tended to give a dogmatic response confirming a cultural-consensus. Every era created by the unfolding of cultures has its prejudices. The inevitability of freedom might be one of these.
Our time's accepted, and therefore hardly challenged icon, is "individualism". In its decadent form, it reassures that it is right to "do your own thing" – as long as it is easy. You may act without giving much thought to the impact on others. What counts is the display of uniqueness. That implies that you need to do something that causes attention and that makes you to appear to be different from the equally conforming crowd. Genuine creative originality, to design a new chip, come up with a new product, evolve a new cure, or to write something memorable, is an ability that most of us lack. If this absence of creative originality fits the individual case, then something is to be displayed that will at least shock through its eccentricity. Such as the display, a green Mohawk cut, or a pierced tongue – a few years ago that would have rated as a crime against humanity. Or perhaps perform, as did the Russian rock band "Pussy Riot", a black mass in a cathedral. Whatever might draws attention is OK. For some, that escalates to shooting kids to become famous and noticed. Do others do this? No. Can others accomplish that? No. Therefore, doing it, you become unique and memorable.
The attitude is that "I am doing my thing and, therefore, I may not be judged as that disrespects my identity". This idea, and the esteem of mere eccentricity, overlooks its costs. These threaten freedom and raise questions regarding our destiny to be free.
Increasingly, freedom is understood to mean that we are free to commit our person, our community and our state to causes of convenience while ignoring the consequences of the choice. "Do it if it makes you feel good" reflects an important attitude. It suggests that not only is there a freedom to choose wrongly, but that doing so comes with an exemption from the outcome. Cutting the tie between an action and its calculable effect reflects the expectation of a world that is free of consequences. The attitude that "nothing can happen to me" became a mantra. It expresses a right to claim immunity from individual actions of choice.
The implied not caring encouraged by the expectation that others will bear the caused burdens, is the virus that destroys civilizations. Past civilizations, regardless of subsequent excusing wordings, such as in "the conquest by… ", were seldom wiped out by outsiders alone. Even in the case of the "outgunned" Incas and Mayas, internal decay expressed through shortsightedness and irresponsibility had contributed to their fall. (Those that regard everything far away and remote in time to be irrelevant shall skip the rest of this paragraph. The case is presented because the reader is unlikely to have related prejudices. In 1526 the medieval European great power, Hungary, at that time three times its current size, again confronted the Ottoman Empire, a genuine world power. After having resisted the Muslim Turks for decades, the Magyars were crushed in this round. Why? About a half of the realm's armies did not show up on the battlefield. Their commander underestimated the foe and wished to weaken the Monarch to ascend the throne. This thinking divorced of reality had destroyed the country.)
In our time, too, bad decisions, based on lack of information, disinformation, and illusions, as well as a lack of concern for the public realm, flow into political decisions. This can happen not for the want of information that could serve as the source of rational decisions. Not being able to know, apply only to the times prior to universally available media. This leaves shortsighted stupidity as our main enemy.
Formally universal suffrage has replaced decision making by elites. However, this has not resulted in a qualitative improvement of decisions. Perhaps we should conclude that gullibility is a universal trait. That being so, our age of total communication has extrapolated the symptoms. The internet and "participation" through TV have not generated the wisdom commensurate with total information. More data volume has rather functioned as carelessly used mixer that whips up the juice of idiocy. That resulted in a spread of droplets to besmirch the scene.
Our fair elections illustrate the irrationality of voters. Nobel Prize committees that make awards in the "soft" categories confirm the thesis. The same goes for government policies. The Arab Spring becomes a hot draught thanks to voters that pander away their new freedoms. These ignore what they could know and the centuries of evidence created by ruling retrogrades that are now organized as Islamists. The Euro-zone is practicing crisis management by having the national banks buy with freshly printed money the bonds of hopelessly indebted governments. Then the damaged goods are declared to be sound collateral. Unemployment is combated by make believe. The credulous are assured that jobs that provide unneeded government services are secure and that this miracle creates "growth" that will stabilize the economy.
Pakistan's Islamists can convince the public that the schoolgirl that they assassinated is not only unhurt but also a participant of an anti-Muslim conspiracy against the Upright. But is this not matched by the widely credited thesis that the 9/11 attack was an Israeli-American (by insinuation there is no difference) action? And what about the logistical miracle that the Jews were warned to avoid the Twin Towers that day?
The Thirties demonstrate that formal democracy is not an antidote of tyranny. Repeatedly, applied democracy has failed the cause of liberty. Complacency and lack of commitment, paired with negligent ignorance, causes a turn-away from public affairs. In want of interested citizens to act as the volunteer militia of political life, democracy is shrunk to a periodic ritual. It is performed by the uninformed that act on last minute trivia when they vote. As the result, the duped put the power to govern into the hands of elites. These are in the best case cynical –as expressed by "vox populi, vox Rindfieh" /the people's voice is the voice of cattle/. However, this is not the worst-case alternative. That is achieved when the remote elitist rulers begin to believe the stories they feed to their hoodwinked followers.


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By Chuck Pleiness @wingsfrontman
DETROIT – It may be a year late, but the Winter Classic will indeed be coming to the Big House in Ann Arbor on New Year's Day.
The league made it official Sunday morning prior to the Wings' game against the St. Louis Blues at Joe Louis Arena.
The game, which will still take place between Original Six rivals Detroit and the Toronto Maple Leafs, was originally scheduled to be played this year, but an extended NHL lockout cancelled all planned Winter Classic festivities.
'We expected to play it this year, but we didn't,' Wings captain Henrik Zetterberg said. 'I think when we come back after the summer there will probably be a lot of hype about it again.
'I just remember how I felt when they announced it,' Zetterberg continued. 'When I went to the Big House (last year) and went on the field for the press conference there. It was real exciting. It will be a great game and it will be a division game now as well. So it's a big game with a lot of people and it will be a lot of fun.'
The Wings and Leafs will indeed be division rivals next year when the game is played after Detroit moves to the Eastern Conference once this season ends.
'It's going to be different because last time was probably the only time we would have faced each other,' Wings goalie Jimmy Howard said. 'Moving to the East next year, we're going to see them a lot, I'm sure there's going to be a lot more meaning to that game.'
A crowd of at least 105,000 is expected, which would stand as the world record for attendance at a hockey game.
NHL commissioner Gary Bettman was joined at Sunday's announcement by Wings general manager Ken Holland, Maple Leafs president Tom Anselmi, along with former Wings Kris Draper and Mickey Redmond. Toronto alumni Darryl Sittler, Lanny McDonald and Wendel Clark were also there.
The Winter Classic's festivities might include two alumni games on New Year's Eve at Comerica Park in Detroit, along with American Hockey League, college, high school and youth hockey games over a two-week period leading up to the Winter Classic.
No Wings have formally committed for next year's game, but Holland said the club is hoping their alumni team will include the Russian Five – Sergei Fedorov, Slava Fetisov, Igor Larionov, Slava Kozlov and Vladimir Konstantinov, -- along with Steve Yzerman and Nicklas Lidstrom.
'The Winter Classic has been outstanding but it seems the alumni game has picked up steam here over the last couple of years with alumni wanting to be involved in it,' Draper said. 'It's special to be able to do it in downtown Detroit.'
The league also unveiled the jerseys that will be worn.
'They're pretty cool and I'm looking forward to getting a chance to wear them,' Howard said. 'They're different. It's red, but instead of the white, it's an off-white color numbers and lettering. It has that older style look to it.'
'I like it,' Zetterberg said. 'Of course it's different than what we usually wear, but I saw (Pavel) Dastyuk wearing it and he looked really good. It's pretty cool.
'I'll say they look old school,' Zetterberg added. 'They're an older kind of jersey. It's still the winged wheel, but it looks different. Same red, but I only saw it once a couple of days ago.'
This will be the sixth time the Winter Classic has been played and second time the Wings have played in one.
Detroit faced the Chicago Blackhawks in 2009 at Wrigley Field before a crowd of 40,818. The Wings beat their hosts 6-4.
This will be Toronto's first Winter Classic.
The HBO series '24/7' will also follow both teams as it leads up to the Winter Classic, airing in December.
Ins and outs Riley Sheahan played in his first game of the season for the Wings, replacing Jordin Tootoo in the lineup.
'He was OK, but he's going to get a trip to the minors (Monday),' Wings coach Mike Babcock said. 'He's going to be a player for us, but he's got to get quicker and he's got to have more pace to his game. When you're ready and you come here, you show you're ready. When you're not quite, then you're going to get caught.'
Sheahan had just under seven minutes of ice time playing on the fourth line.
Babcock also kept intact the six defensemen he employed in Friday's win at Colorado.
'I don't know 100 percent for sure why I did it, but we won the game (at Colorado) and I liked it,' Babcock said. 'We had seven coming this morning, but when I got here and talked to the coaches again, we decided to go with the same six. I thought they played good and we didn't give up very much. We've got a few days now. We'll look at it and get retooled to go again.'
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VANCOUVER, British Columbia, March 1 (UPI) -- Some 41,000 Canadian school teachers in British Columbia have voted to stage a 3-day strike beginning Monday, their union announced Thursday.
Talks between the provincial government and the B.C. Teachers Federation broke down this week and a vote Wednesday showed 87 percent of the union members support a strike, the Canadian Broadcasting Corp. reported.
The teacher's contract expired in June and the Labor Relations Board ruled this week the union can only stage a 3-day strike and walkout one day per week after that, the Sun News Network said.
Meanwhile, the provincial government introduced legislation Tuesday to prevent teacher strikes, but the bill won't be through the legislative process in time to prevent next week's job action, the CBC said.
Earlier this week, union President Susan Lambert told a news conference the dispute has been long in the making.
"Teachers are determined and united in their opposition to … the bullying tactics of a provincial government that has deliberately underfunded public education for a decade," she said.
The CBC said various student groups were planning their own protests Friday over the disruption the labor dispute was causing.


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Deadspin's Better State of Living Conversation series is brought to you with the support of State FarmTM. Today, fantasy sports expert John Paulsen is live in the comments to answer all your questions about fantasy hoops.
There is a battle brewing in fantasy sports between season-long games and daily (or weekly) games. For football, the season-long format makes a lot of sense due to the repetitive timeline of the NFL season (games, waivers, set lineup, rinse & repeat). But for the NBA, MLB and NHL, the daily format is especially attractive for a few reasons:
You don't have to manage your team every day.
Some NBA, MLB and NHL leagues require daily lineups/waivers and that can be too much for the casual fantasy owner. Daily fantasy allows owners to play on their terms. Have a rough day at work and don't have time to set your lineup? No harm, no foul — the game will still be there tomorrow. And since there is no draft to attend, you can set your lineup whenever it's convenient.
You're not stuck with underperforming or injured players.
Anyone who has Andrew Bynum or Eric Gordon knows what I'm talking about. Sure, your daily fantasy lineup could be derailed for a night by a surprise pre-game or in-game injury, but the next day you can start fresh with a new lineup. A bad (or injured) second round pick won't haunt you for an entire season.
Want a particular stud? You can have him — for a price.
Typical daily fantasy games give owners a salary cap that they can spend on several different players to set their lineups. That means if you want LeBron James or Kevin Durant, you can have them, but you'll have to sacrifice salary elsewhere. Should you go with a lineup that features several studs along with several cheap players? Or should you go with a balanced lineup that features solid, low-upside players across the board. These are the decisions you'll have to make as a daily fantasy owner.
Here's a quick look at the process:
This the draft screen for "World B Free," which is DraftDay's daily freeroll. The payout isn't huge, but there's no entry fee, so it's a great way to get your feet wet and see how you do.
The list of players is on the right along with each player's price. You start with $100,000 to spend. I started my lineup with three Spurs — Tim Duncan, Tony Parker and Stephen Jackson — due to their good matchup with the Nuggets at home. The site shows that I have about $65K to spend, or an average of $10,858 per remaining player. Once the lineup is complete, all that's left is to see how you do.
Scoring is fairly straightforward, with one point for each point scored, rebound, assist, and three-pointer made, and two points for each steal and block. Players are penalized 0.25 points for each missed field goal, 0.5 points for each missed free throw and one point for each turnover.
Alas, I didn't win the freeroll, but at least I can draft an entirely new roster tomorrow. That's the beautiful thing about daily fantasy sports.
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As it has for the last seven years, New York remembers the 2,993 people killed in the terror attacks of 9/11 2001.
First there is a moment of silence at 8:46, the time when the first jet slammed into the North Tower. Then, church bells toll throughout the city, an apt reminder of a day when many Americans went to houses of worship to pray.
Forty-seven minutes later comes a second moment of silence for when the South Tower was struck.
Names of the victims are read by family members and volunteers. Then the ceremony ends with taps, the haunting bugle call.
"It's goose-bump time for a lot of us; tears for others," says Doug Muzzio, a professor at Baruch College, City University.
At the ceremony, which takes place Friday at the site of the former towers, the Obama administration will be represented by Vice President Joe Biden and his wife, Dr. Jill Biden, as well as Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano.
But many New Yorkers – while respecting the day – are pretty much back to normal, says Mr. Muzzio. "Time does heal wounds," he says.
For example, like other New Yorkers, he no longer freezes when he hears sirens. On 9/11, scores of fire trucks – sirens blaring – and hundreds of police cars headed for lower Manhattan.
Now, New Yorkers have become used to the police surges when 10 or 20 police cars weave through the streets with the sirens on. "And when there is an international incident, it evokes some of that feeling," says Muzzio, whose office is close to the New York Armory where relatives posted photos of their loved ones, hoping that someone knew of a hospital or a stranger's home where they might have gone or been taken.
In yet other ways, the city is back to normal. Immediately after 9/11, the city suffered a drop in tourist visits. But lured by a weaker dollar and New York's marketing, it has recovered. Even with the recession, the city is still expecting 44.7 million visitors, about a 5 percent decline over last year.
Lower Manhattan itself is also continuing to recover, says Kathryn Wylde, president and CEO of the Partnership for New York City, a select group of CEOs who try to work with city government and labor for development purposes.
"We have more retail and double the residential development that we had before 9/11," says Ms. Wylde. "It's the strongest community we've had in a century."
However, work on the World Trade Center site itself has been slow. "It's still a hole in the ground," complains Muzzio, blaming "a lack of leadership and direction from the top."
But the city has learned it has to be patient, Wylde says, because of health and environmental reasons. For example, it has taken over three years to tear down the former Deutsche Bank building, which is close to the site, because of asbestos issues.
"The politics of the site created unrealistic expectations for the general public," she says. "In terms of what it takes to build a huge, complicated project in the city, this is fast."
The most important date, she says, will be the 10th anniversary of 9/11. "We've always thought of the 10th anniversary as the time to see the September 11 Memorial & Museum done, and some sense the site is near completion."
On Thursday, the Memorial design was unveiled. Steven Davis of Davis Brody Bond Aedas, the architect, described the design of the museum as "the synthesis of a variety of experiences and will mediate between our memories and the realities of the events of 9/11."
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In the beginning there was the word
… and the word was 4 bits, because the first microprocessor Intel 4004, produced in 1971, was 4-bit. We will repeatedly return to the processors, its characteristics and evolution in this blog, but let me introduce myself.
My name is Pavel Semjanov and more than 15 years I practice the computer security and work at St. Petersburg Technical University. šThe cryptography, particularly its practical application in various computer systems, became one of my hobbies from the very beginning. Another my hobby closely connected with work became the software developing for analysis of cryptographic system vulnerability and mainly password cracking (or in other words, password recovery).


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Monday, April 5, 2010
Muffin Tin Monday - puzzle pieces for Autism
There was not an assigned theme for MTM this week.
Across the top row she has: apple slices, organic yogurt covered raisins, strawberries.
The bottom row: homemade puzzle-shaped cheese crackers, egg salad sandwich on whole wheat bread, cucumber slices.
The homemade crackers (recipe post here) are made using my Lunch Punch puzzle cutters. It is Autism Awareness Month afterall. :)
The puzzle shaped crackers came out beautifully, the pieces can be connected and everything! :)
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- Lisa said... [Reply to comment]
Love the puzzle crackers! Great tin!!
- April 5, 2010 at 1:30 PM
- The Planet Pink said... [Reply to comment]
Cool crackers!
- April 5, 2010 at 1:32 PM
- varunner said... [Reply to comment]
Puzzle cookie cutters!! Brilliant :-) My 3 yr old is generously offering his cucumbers to yours...
- April 5, 2010 at 1:57 PM
- BranFlakes said... [Reply to comment]
Those puzzle pieces are AWESOME!
- April 5, 2010 at 1:57 PM
- legendswife said... [Reply to comment]
I love the cracker idea. Thanks for the link:)
God Bless
- April 5, 2010 at 2:36 PM
- kathy said... [Reply to comment]
Love the cracker and the tin... I love little compartments since it forces you to diversify your menu and add fruit and veggies.
- April 5, 2010 at 4:15 PM
- w said... [Reply to comment]
the puzzle crackers are amazing! great tin!
- April 5, 2010 at 4:17 PM
- Susan B. said... [Reply to comment]
cool puzzle crackers!
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- Kristie Clower said... [Reply to comment]
fancy fancy. i love those homemade crackers.
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- The Robbins Zoo said... [Reply to comment]
Awesome crackers! :o)
- April 6, 2010 at 10:37 AM
- Shannon said... [Reply to comment]
Melissa, do you make the "Baby Bam" the Emeril recipe calls for? I'd love to try making crackers, but that is a ton of spices to set aside for one recipe.
- April 20, 2010 at 5:50 PM
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I have made the Baby Bam seasoning mix before and liked the results. This time I used "Emeril's Essense" because I already had it in the pantry. The second batch I made I used a mix of paprika, garlic salt, garlic powder and pepper and chili powder. On some I added a sprinkle of garlic salt to the top after the egg wash, and on another batch I added in some creole seasoning too. I liked them all. The kids didn't like the one with creole (though they like it on everything else I use it for!), but I think that one was my favorite.
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London's Westminster Council has come up with a drastic plan to help end the UK's growing obesity problem: cutting benefits for any obese person who refuses to exercise.
Under the proposals, doctors would be able to "prescribe" exercise such as swimming or fitness classes. Those who refused to attend penalized. Smart cards would used to monitor attendance.
The plan is described in detail in a report titled "A Dose of Localism: The Role of Councils in Public Health".
The hope is that by fighting obesity the UK's taxpayer funded health service can save £5 billion ($8.12 billion). The report was created as public health responsibility shifts from the NHS to local government later this year.
Reaction to the plan seems to be leaning on the negative side. British Medical Association GP committee chairman Dr Lawrence Buckman told the BBC that the plans were "some of the silliest things I've heard in a long time".
"When I was first told about this I thought it was a joke," Dr Buckman said.
Alex Thomson, chief executive think-tank Localis believes that the concept simply wouldn't work. "Even if you check into the pool how will they know if you just sit and have a latte in the café instead?" Thomson told the Telegraph.
Finally, over at the New Statesman, Martha Gill points to some analysis that explains why punishing fat people just doesn't work.
"Part of the problem is that a great deal of those who have problems with their weight are not cheerfully waiting for sufficient motivation to become thinner," Gill writes. "They are unhappy with their size already, which can make the problem worse - compulsive eating is a common reaction to stress."