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Who's at Risk for Autism?
While it's hard to predict who's likely to get autism and how, certain people may be at greater risk.
Autism is a developmental disorder that typically appears before a child reaches the age of 3. Autism affects the development of a child's brain, resulting in impaired social functioning, interactions with others, and communication. While the causes of autism are not understood, there do seem to be certain groups of people at a greater risk for autism.
Autism: Looking for Risk Factors
Although the causes of autism are unknown, research has begun to identify possible autism risk factors.
"The primary known risk factor for autism is family history," says Rebecca Landa, PhD, director of the Kennedy Krieger Institute's Center for Autism and Related Disorders in Baltimore. "Family history of an autism spectrum disorder can increase the risk for an autism diagnosis."
Autism tends to run in families, and having one autistic child increases the risk of having another: Parents who have one autistic child have a 1 in 20 — or 5 percent — chance of having another child with autism.
"A younger sibling of a child with autism is 5 to 10 times more likely to have autism than a child in the general population," notes Landa. "Identical twins are also more likely to share autism than twins who do not share all the same genes."
According to Landa, these potential autism risk factors are currently being studied:
- Older fathers
- Extremely low birth weight
- Extremely premature birth
- Genetic mutations of unknown cause
Autism: Possible Causes
There are likely many different causes of autism rather than just one, and it's going to take considerable research to even begin to identify them. Now the most promising theories say that autism is probably caused by a genetic abnormality. The genetic factors are also probably tied to environmental factors, like exposure to toxins. The combination of genetic abnormalities and environmental factors is the most probable cause of autism that research has yet been able to identify.
Other signs of a genetic link to autism include an increased prevalence of chromosomal abnormalities, nervous system abnormalities, and language difficulties, which seem to be prevalent in families of autistic children.
Autism: Who Gets It
Despite how little is known about how autism happens, we do know a bit about who is at an increased risk for autism aside from those with a family history of the disorder.
Autism does affect boys more often than girls, says Landa. Boys are four to five times more likely than girls to have autism.
As far as ethnicity and race are concerned, autism doesn't discriminate. Autism seems to strike all groups.
"Autism is prevalent in all racial and ethnic groups," Landa says. "Beyond this, autism does not seem to impact one particular group more than another." Studies have also found that lifestyle, education, and income levels seem to have nothing to do with autism risk.
What all this means is that there is much more research that needs to be done about autism before risk factors can be fully identified: what causes autism, who's at risk for it, and whether and how it can be prevented.


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Mideast: A New America
September 25, 2012 by Sam Rolley
In an illustration of American foreign policy so elegantly simplified that even the most un-informed among American citizens can see that it is flawed, former President Bill Clinton explained on Sunday what destabilized Mideast countries like Libya need the most: Wal-Mart.
Amid the upheaval throughout the Arab world that has been – questionably — attributed to the discovery of an offensive anti-Muslim film produced by an American smut peddler, Muslim protesters have spoken out against the influence of Western culture. Anti-Western protests are phenomenon not uncommon throughout Arab nation-states for more than half a century.
Clinton, speaking to a gathering at the annual Clinton Global Initiative Summit, challenged Wal-Mart CEO Mike Duke, who was a panelist at the event. "If the new president of Libya asked you to open a store in Tripoli, would you consider it?"
Clinton's reasoning is that people simply want jobs, and giving those jobs would stabilize radicalism.
At the same conference, the former President's wife and current Secretary of State Hillary Clinton also had a message for countries in the process of restructuring.
"One of the issues I have been preaching about around the world is collecting taxes in an equitable manner, especially from the elites in every country," Clinton said. "It is a fact that around the world the elites of every country are making money. There are rich people everywhere, and yet they do not contribute to their growth of their own countries."
In essence, despite the idealistic lie that Americans are simply in the business of disseminating democracy throughout the world, it is not the sort of people-first democracy that is romanticized in American high-school textbooks. It is the "democracy" currently enjoyed by citizens of the United States, wherein government is run by elite banksters and corporate money movers via political affiliations. Those who do not have the connections to benefit from government manipulation are then taxed into oblivion, creating a corporate-political feudal system whereby all the players are on the same team.
This will be nothing new to Arab nation states, only the dictators will have a different, less blatant appearance. But, don't expect to see the Mideast States of America become a fluid reality any time before the war that will eliminate any dissent in the region.

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Your choice of frame starts with your lenses, as these affect your options for frames, appearance, comfort, and vision.
If you have a strong prescription, you can ask for high-index lenses to have lenses made thinner, which will give your lenses a nicer appearance.
Speak to your dispensing optician about your lifestyle and what coatings would benefit your vision. For example, protect your eyes from reflections or UV light, or to protect the lenses themselves from scratches, smudges, dust or water.
Think about a few key factors to help narrow down the right style for you:
What's your face shape? Round, oval, square, rectangular, heart-shaped or diamond-shaped. Skin, hair and eyes fall into 'cool' or 'warm' colour bases and lenses say a lot about the wearer; they add the finishing touches to a person's 'look'.
The outer rim of your frames should not extend beyond the end of your eyebrows to ensure the frames compliment your face shape.
The upper rim of your frames should follow the line of your eye brows to ensure a balanced aesthetic look.
The bottom rim of your frames shouldn't touch your cheeks as to avoid smudges on your lenses.
Keep your budget in mind when choosing your lenses. Styles and tastes may change so it is worth spending what you need to get the right lenses, before selecting a frame. Your eye health is the most important factor.
Your dispensing optician can guide you through the selection of frames to best suit your face, personality and budget.


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I am writing software in which I would like to be able to return the groups of numerals within a large number. For example, given a number 123,456,789, my software would return 123 then 456 then 789.
I would like to give each of the 3-digit sequences a proper name, but I cannot find what the correct one would be. Would it be groups? I thought about thousands, but that seems imprecise.
I should clarify that I know what to call each individual group (thousands, millions, etc.). What I don't know if there is a general term that applies to all the groups.


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This week has seen an eerie image of a human face in outer space, and a not so eerie image of human face in not so outer space. This post is something in between; the images might be mistaken for the surface of the Moon or that of Mars or some other surface in outer space. In actuality, they were all taken of this very Earth. This is the Outerland as imagined by photographer Allison Davies.
Allison Davies' images look timeless, as if they could have been taken yesterday, however her Outerland project took her the better part of a decade to complete. She began the series around 1998 and traveled to who knows exactly where in order to capture images of Earth that don't look like Earth.
Indeed, were it not for the text to go along with these images, one might imagine these photographs to be taken from robotic rovers on other planets, or more accurately, on Outerworlds. The only hint of their Earthly origin is the photographer herself dressed entirely in a white clean suit. In some cases, her presence makes the images even more other worldly.
It's that ambiguity that makes the whole series even more interesting. While the strange rock formations and colorful sand make for striking landscapes, the photographer's intentions are not made known. Even in her book, the images appear without any description. Are they supposed to be a kind of statement about global warming, or the future of international space exploration? The viewer has to come up with answers of his own.
While going through these photographs, it's easy to imagine them being taken on some other planet with their descriptive title being "Outerland". However, the more you look at them, you can't help but be amazed that they were all taken in different parts of this world. One image has the hot sands of an endless desert, another has the humid beginnings of a swampland, while another looks like the icy and windswept land of the Antarctic.
If you put all of those together, you get Earth. Even in her desolate places, this planet can still look hauntingly beautiful. The barren beauty of these images only accentuates how wonderfully diverse this world is. From her highest peaks to the deepest trenches, the Earth truly is the final frontier.
This is Allison Davies' website, although just like her Outerland images, there doesn't seem to be a whole lot going on there. There are some more space-like images of Earth on the Women in Photography website. For those who want a hard copy, you can order the Outerland book here.


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SICK, Minneapolis, MN, announced the launch of the CM12 capacitive sensor. The CM12, which is enclosed in an M12 threaded housing, is the only sensor on the market in this housing to offer a teach button, making it ideal for a variety of applications.
The two-point teach button – one for maximum sensitivity and one for normal operation – enable easy device setup. An additional teach option – dynamic teach – allows the sensor to 'learn' the target. In addition, flush and non-flush mounting options as well as automatic PNP/NPN detection are available in a single housing, reducing inventory stock and costs.
The CM12 also includes an integrated humidity compensation feature that reduces false trips and switching errors caused by sensitivity to water or humidity. With these intelligent functions and a long sensing range of up to 8 mm, the CM12 can be used for detection tasks in the commercial goods, machine building, and electronic and solar industries.


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115 Park Street North
Hamilton, Ontario
I was meeting CS (whom I use to tutor English) and suggested B&T Restaurant since I had a craving for nem nướng (Vietnamese pork meatballs). I decided to go all out and order a jackfruit shake ($3.45). The shakes are quite big so make sure you have a large appetite; it will fill you up!
Jackfruit Shake (#031).
CS ordered the My Tho Style Mixed Seafood with Transparent Noodle Soup ($5.95). She seemed to really enjoy it. It came with a shrimp fritter. I was amused that she saved it for last. I would have eating it quickly first!
My Tho Style Mixed Seafood with Transparent Noodle Soup (#119).
I knew exactly what I was going to order the Grilled Pork Meat Balls, Sugar Cane Shrimp & Spring Roll ($7.25). The meatballs was the best part even though I think they add red colouring. The sugar cane shrimp (chạo tôm) was very disappointing and I promised myself never to order it again. The spring rolls are not the best but I find spring rolls are the kind of food that is satisfying even though they're not the best!
Phở Bến Thành Restaurant
It was good enough to satisfy my craving for Vietnamese food until I get to California in April...!
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- Tobin & Leroy: Miami Heat Disrespected By ESPN Yet Again
- Zaslow & Amber: Either You're Anti-Semitic Or You're Dumb
- Tobin & Leroy: Kenny Smith Talks Heat, Bam and Shaq
- Zaslow & Amber: Cleveland A Better Sports Town Than Miami?
- Watch: Meyers Leonard Talks Bubble Life, His Health And Role
- Tobin and Leroy: Cant Hold Us Dowwwnnnn!
- Watch: Kelly Olynyk and Tyler Herro Discuss NBA Return
- Teams Are Shipping Their Actual Home Courts to Orlando Ahead of the NBA's Restart
- Zaslow & Amber: Best of Zas and Amber
- Watch: Duncan Robinson Discusses NBA Return With Media
- Tobin & Leroy: Should Miami Dolphins Trade For David Njoku?
- Tobin and Leroy: Within $200M of Mahomes? Plus Marlins That's a win That's a loss for all 60 games!
- Tobin and Leroy: Cant Hold Us Dowwwnnnn!
- Zaslow & Amber: Best of Zas and Amber
- Miami Dolphins Have Converted Their Hard Rock Stadium Into a Drive-In Movie Theater
- Tobin & Leroy: Davon Godchaux Joins The Show
- Tobin and Leroy: Chauxdown
- Tobin and Leroy: Thats a Win Thats a loss NBA restart edition! Cam or Tua?
- Tobin & Leroy: Flores Light-Years Better Than Bumass Gase
- Tobin and Leroy: Bum Adam Gase!
- Zaslow & Amber: Best of Zas and Amber
- Tobin and Leroy: Fourth of July Parlay
- Zaslow & Amber: No More Gator Bait
- Zaslow & Amber: Not Invited To Orlando?
- Zaslow & Amber: Why Would You Re-watch the '03 Fiesta Bowl?
- Zaslow & Amber: Expectations
- Zaslow & Amber: The Big Game Is Finally Here
- With Guests Omar Kelly, Ira Winderman, Andrew Ivins, and Alan Fertel
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Zaslow & Amber
Thursday, August 29th
Amber mentions that they're getting rid of pythons here in South Florida, Zaslow says snakes can get out of his life. Rolling Stones concert has been moved to Friday and moved the FSU-Boise St. game back to Tallahassee. This hurricane Dorian is just messing everyones plans up.


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Spanish spinach omelette
Nutrition and extra info
- Easily doubled / halved
- Vegetarian
Nutrition: per serving
- kcal209
- fat13g
- saturates3g
- carbs11g
- sugars2g
- fibre2g
- protein12g
- salt0.46g
- 400g bag spinach leaves
Used in almost every cuisine across the world, spinach is an enormously popular green vegetable…
- 3 tbsp olive oil
Olive oilol-iv oyl
Probably the most widely-used oil in cooking, olive oil is pressed from fresh olives. It's…
- 1 large onion, finely sliced
Onions are endlessly versatile and an essential ingredient in countless recipes. Native to Asia…
- 2 large potatoes, peeled and finely sliced
The world's favourite root vegetable, the potato comes in innumerable varieties. A member of…
- 10 eggs
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Tip the spinach into a large colander and bring a kettleful of water to the boil. Slowly pour the water over the spinach until wilted, then cool under cold water. Squeeze all the liquid out of the spinach and set aside.
Heat grill to high. Heat the oil in a non-stick frying pan and gently cook the onion and potato for about 10 mins until the potato is soft. While the onion is cooking, beat the eggs together in a large bowl and season with salt and pepper. Stir the spinach into the potatoes, then pour in the eggs and cook, stirring occasionally, until nearly set, then flash the omelette under the grill to set the top. Ease the omelette on to a plate, then flip over back into the pan. Finish cooking the omelette on the underside and turn out onto a board. Serve cut into wedges.
Recipe Tip
Got guests coming?A large omelette makes a great family supper as it keeps well at room temperature so everyone can cut portions as they come in.
Recipe Tip
Take it for lunchFor lunch the next day make omelette sandwiches – a delicacy in Spain. Spread ciabatta rolls with mayo and fill with the omelette and sliced tomato.


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COLUMBUS, Ohio – Andres Mendoza's penalty gave Columbus the lead and Eddie Gaven added an insurance score in stoppage time as the Crew defeated FC Dallas 2-0 on Friday before 14,549 fans in Crew Stadium.
William Hesmer had seven saves for his second straight shutout.
Columbus, already up a man because of a second caution to FCD's Jackson, took the lead in the 54th minute. Emmanuel Ekpo was the recipient of the infraction at the top of the box when he went shoulder-to-shoulder with George John as he dribbled toward goal. The play had a nice build up with Chad Marshall finding Mendoza. The Peruvian slipped the ball to Gaven, whose through ball sprung Ekpo on the right flank.
Mendoza then put the ball under the left arm of diving goalkeeper Kevin Hartman.
The game had taken a turn for the worse for Dallas just past the half-hour mark, when Jackson was called for a challenge on Dejan Rusmir and Gaven a minute apart for cautions to draw the automatic ejection in the 33rd minute.
It was the second red card in three games for FC Dallas following Brek Shea's dismissal in the opener.
Despite being down a goal and a man, FCD almost responded immediately in the 56th minute, when Jair Benitez took a free kick from 19 yards out. He bent the ball to the far post but Hesmer was there to punch the shot away.
More drama was added when forward Jeff Cunningham entered in the 61st minute for the Crew as he attempted to tie the MLS career goal mark against the club that did not renew his contract after the 2010 season.
He had a great opportunity in the 62nd after being led by Emilio Renteria. Cunningham was unmarked on the right side of the penalty area, but shot into the outside netting as Hartman covered the angle.
Cunningham is still one shy of Jaime Moreno's MLS career record 133 regular-season goals. Cunningham scored 33 of them in the past three seasons for FCD, including 11 in 2010 before he was acquired by the Crew in December's Re-Entry Draft. He had 62 goals in seven seasons for the Crew from 1998-2004 to tie Brian McBride for the franchise's all-time mark.
Gaven iced the game in the 91st minute off a feed from Robbie Rogers, who earned the Crew's first goal this year with a PK at D.C. United.
FCD were in search of points after collecting just a point from two home games to open the season, including a 2-0 loss to San Jose last week, but a slow start is not new. The MLS Cup finalists started 0-1-4 and were 2-2-5 after nine games last year before recording a 19-game unbeaten streak.
Midfielder Fabian Castillo, the 18-year-old Colombian international, made his first MLS start after playing 33 minutes in his debut last week vs. San Jose when he replaced Ricardo Villar.
Castillo showed his speed in the 19th minute by scooting around Rogers – no slouch in the speed department – and turning the corner on the left side of the box only to shoot into the side netting.
Forward Ruben Luna also made his first league start in his seventh appearance for FCD as Milton Rodriguez went to the bench.
Luna was dangerous in the first half with three shots on goal, including a pair of headers. The first came off a service from the left side by Castillo in the 28th minute and Luna two minutes later forced Hesmer into the second of his four saves before the break.
There were two other personnel changes for FCD coach Schellas Hyndman beginning with the return of converted midfielder Shea to the central defense after serving a one-game suspension. Zach Loyd went to the bench and Ugo Ihemelu replaced Jackson on the backline as the Brazilian moved into the midfield for Eric Alexander.
Columbus got an early offensive charge out of holding midfielder Rusmir, who drew fouls just outside the box around the 20-minute mark, but the Crew's restart woes continued. Rusmir shot the ball into the wall on the first and a Sebastian Miranda free kick was punched away by Hartman.
Their best chance came in the 28th minute, when Ekpo sent a rare left-footed cross to Rogers eight yards off goal for a header that sailed over the crossbar.
The Crew next head to Carson, Calif., to take on Chivas USA on April 9. Dallas, meanwhile, will host the Colorado Rapids in a rematch of the 2010 MLS Cup final on April 8.
Scoring Summary:
CLB -- Andres Mendoza 1 (penalty kick) 54
CLB -- Eddie Gaven 1 (Robbie Rogers 1) 91+
Misconduct Summary:
CLB -- Emmanuel Ekpo (caution; Reckless Foul) 20
DAL -- Jackson Goncalves (caution; Reckless Foul) 32
DAL -- Jackson Goncalves (caution; Reckless Tackle) 33
DAL -- Jackson Goncalves (ejection; Second Caution) 33
CLB -- Dejan Rusmir (caution; Reckless Foul) 42
CLB -- Kevin Burns (caution; Reckless Tackle) 88
FC Dallas -- Kevin Hartman, Ugo Ihemelu, Brek Shea, George John, Jair Benitez, Marvin Chavez (Zach Loyd 78), Daniel Hernandez, Jackson Goncalves, Fabian Castillo (Milton Rodriguez 78), David Ferreira, Ruben Luna.
Substitutes Not Used: Eric Alexander, Eric Avila, Andrew Jacobson, Ricardo Villar, Chris Seitz.
Columbus Crew -- William Hesmer, Sebastian Miranda, Julius James, Chad Marshall, Rich Balchan, Eddie Gaven, Dejan Rusmir (Emilio Renteria 46), Kevin Burns, Robbie Rogers, Emmanuel Ekpo (Dilly Duka 85), Andres Mendoza (Jeff Cunningham 61).
Substitutes Not Used: Josh Gardner, Tommy Heinemann, Andy Iro, Alex Riggs.
Referee: Jair Marrufo
Referee's Assistants: C.J. Morgante; Corey Rockwell
4th Official: Jasen Anno
Weather: Cloudy and 48 degrees
Attendance: 14,549


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This recipe has been a family favorite for many years. It comes from an index card taped in my oldest recipe notebook. It is written in my sister-in-law's pretty handwriting, from a time when we were both recently married and often shared recipes when we got together.
I don't make as many cookies at Christmastime as I used to. Some seasons go by without me giving a thought to these wonderful cookies, laced with some of my favorite flavors. Others go by without me being able to remember where I keep the recipe. This year after my husband specifically asked if I would make a batch of these and after I managed to put my hands on the recipe card he suggested I put it on my blog….for safe keeping.
If you like buttery-brown-sugar-sweetness married to the boldness of coffee and chocolate, you'll be glad he did!


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Bush family e-mails are hacked
A hacker has obtained e-mails from friends and family of former presidents George H.W. Bush and George W. Bush, putting them in the public domain.
Some of the e-mails contain catty comments about another former president, Bill Clinton, according to The Smoking Gun website:
"In a December 27 e-mail to his four siblings, Jeb Bush saluted his ailing father's 'kindness and good nature' and pointed to 'how kind he was with President Clinton and he helped restore his sordid reputation. A very tough thing to do but with kindness, dad probably helped Bill Clinton than anything he himself has done.'
"Bush, who wrote at a time his father was in intensive care (and amid media reports that the ex-president was on his death bed), added, 'Might be tough to say it that way in a eulogy with President 42 there.'"
Other e-mails also indicate that family members were thinking of a possible funeral when H.W. Bush was hospitalized last year.
Reports The Smoking Gun:
"In a December 26 e-mail to his siblings, George W. Bush wrote that he was 'thinking about eulogy' and solicited stories that best illustrated their father's sweet nature, favorite jokes, and acts of kindness. 'Hopefully I'm jumping the gun,' noted Bush, who added, 'But since the feeling is that you all would rather me speak than bubba, please help.'
"The mention of 'bubba' is apparently a reference to Clinton, whom Bush has referred to as a 'brother' due to his close relationship with George H. W. Bush."
The Smoking Gun also reports another hacked e-mail in which current White House senior adviser Valerie Jarrett forwarded a message to the ailing senior Bush from President Obama: "Michelle and I haven't wanted to impinge on you while you are recuperating, but please know that we are thinking of you and the entire family."


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Imagine running down a road forever. You're running down this road and everything looks nearly identical. There's some trees. Rocks. Bushes. Birds fly around. Every so often a dingo(…?!) on a motorbike tosses you a literal bone. That's all Taz-mania is. Forever. You run in a straight line—I guess you can go backward, but why would you?—trying to devour birds. If you stomach the number of birds the level requires, you may even get to run down a road with slightly different scenery. It's all roads.
Does this sound fun to you? It isn't. It's a Mode-7 abomination designed to hypnotize children into seeing the Tazmanian Devil when they close their eyes. Maybe he asks them to buy a Tweety Bird t-shirt. Maybe he asks them to eat their pets. I don't know. I'm not going to play this awful, awful game long enough to find out what the Devil wants.
I started aiming for oncoming traffic. To let the bus sweep me under and away from this nightmare. But the bus can't stop the Devil. It just slows him down. The Devil gets right back up and starts running again. He craves that bird flesh. He wants to crack those little bones in his teeth. He may fall in the middle of the road and start vomiting up everything he's eaten, but he'll never stop. He's going back for seconds, thirds, fourths…it's All You Can Eat on the open road, and the Devil is never full. He says he's stuffed, but HE LIES.
Maybe you love this game. Maybe you close your eyes and imagine yourself flying down that blocky road, mouth agape and claws reaching for the winged food all around you. Maybe you already let the Devil take you and you ain't noticed yet.
You got that Taz-mania.


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Chairman Levi Addresses ABA House of Delegates
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Remarks Prepared for Delivery by
Legal Services Corporation Board Chairman John G. Levi
ABA House of Delegates Meeting
Aug. 6, 2012
Good afternoon.
Thank you Linda for that warm introduction and I particularly want to thank you for giving me the opportunity to speak to the ABA's House of Delegates, your distinguished policy-making body that has been LSC's stalwart partner throughout the Corporation's 38-year history.
I also want to take a moment to thank your out-going president Bill Robinson for his outstanding service, his partnership with LSC, and his friendship.
And I want to welcome fellow-Chicagoan Laurel Bellows as she assumes her post, and I look forward to working closely with her this year.
I also want to recognize the important work the ABA does through its SCLAID committee, The Standing Committee on Pro Bono and Public Service, the Center for Pro Bono, and other entities in the access to justice community.
I am here today to talk about that community, the role LSC plays in it, the historic challenge now confronting it, and to ask for your help.
The Legal Services Corporation, as you probably know, is the single largest funder of civil legal aid for low-income Americans, providing federal grants to 134 non-profit legal aid organizations in every state.
LSC is headed by a bipartisan board whose 11 members are appointed by the President and confirmed by the Senate.
I have had the privilege of serving as the 10th Chairman of the LSC's Board for the past two-and-a-half years, and to work with our outstanding president Jim Sandman, who assumed that post 18 months ago.
I also want to acknowledge two other individuals who are here today – Jim's predecessor as LSC president, Helaine Barnett, who provided six years of stellar service to LSC and is a member of this House of Delegates….And my fellow board member, your former ABA president, the remarkable Robert Grey.
LSC's abiding mission is the preservation of a core American value – equal access to justice.
The legal aid programs funded by LSC are exemplary public-private partnerships, obtaining, on average, more than half of their financial support from non-federal sources together with extraordinary donations of time from private practitioners.
These programs help with civil matters that go to the very heart of their clients' safety and security – the core issues regularly confronted by clients of our programs year after year.
Our programs assist over two million people a year, helping women and children escape abusive relationships, families avert foreclosures, the elderly caught in consumer scams, and veterans struggling to get the benefits that we owe them.
Nearly three of four clients are women, and include Americans of all races, ethnic groups, and ages.
For many of the hundreds of thousands of clients who crowd LSC-funded offices each year, having a lawyer at their side is their lifeline to safety and subsistence.
This lifeline, however, is being stretched to the breaking point by a grim combination of forces – unprecedentedly high demand and sharply reduced resources:
The distressing facts are:
• The size of the population now eligible for civil legal assistance —Americans with incomes at or below 125 percent of the federal poverty line— has grown by nearly 10 million since our board took office two and a half years ago and is projected to be nearly 66 million this year. That is an all-time high.
• LSC's congressional appropriations have been reduced 17 percent since 2010 to just $348 million this year. In inflation-adjusted dollars that is an all-time low.
• Funding from other sources for LSC programs across the country has also dropped and combined funding for these programs from all sources fell from $960 million in 2010 to $878 million in 2012.
• Legal aid offices have closed, staff has been laid off, more people in need have been turned away. LSC-funded programs are projected to have eliminated nearly 1,500 positions from 2010 to 2012, more than a 15 percent reduction. And we know that legal service programs are forced to turn away over 50 percent of those seeking help because of inadequate resources.
As LSC programs struggle to meet the staggering demands of the last decade, they have been at the forefront of technological innovation on behalf of their clients and the civil legal system as a whole.
Working with just $40 million in special technology grants, LSC, our programs, and partners have built a network of websites stretching from coast to coast that delivers a wealth of legal information, self-help videos and automated forms to assist low-income individuals with their legal needs. These resources are accessed many thousands of times a day.
We are continually told by court administrators that our grantees' websites and on-line forms are invaluable to the orderly functioning of their courts, providing important assistance for the host of self-represented litigants flooding the courthouses every day seeking help.
Using one such technology grant, our program in Maine, Pine Tree Legal Assistance, developed the very first dedicated site, StatesideLegal.org, dealing specifically with veterans' issues for clients and lawyers across the nation.
Many of these innovations grew out of a technology summit LSC held in 1998, and in June we launched a new Tech Summit. We are confident that the 2012 Summit will also yield significant advancements in expanding access to justice.
Increasing pro bono can also help, and the ABA has played an important leadership role in this area.
Last year, LSC formed its own Pro Bono Task Force with nearly 60 leaders of the profession, including ABA leaders, to look for ways to measurably increase pro bono.
The task force presented its draft wide-ranging recommendations to our board 10 days ago and we look forward to finalizing and rolling out the full report in the coming weeks.
The general theme of the Task Force's recommendations is to reshape pro bono into a reliable, organized system that will effectively deploy increased and consistent pro bono to the core areas affecting low-income Americans.
But, more effective use of technology and increased pro bono are not enough without a well-supported infrastructure of well-funded, fully functioning clinics.
The combination of the significant underfunding of civil legal assistance together with the chronic underfunding of our state courts is seriously undermining America's commitment to provide justice for all.
As State Department Legal Advisor and former Yale Law Dean Harold Koh observed at our April White House Forum on the State of Civil Legal Assistance, the U.S. ranks 21st on access to justice for disadvantaged groups, 52nd in the world in terms of access to legal assistance, with striking deficits in poor people's use of and satisfaction with the justice system.
These alarming developments, if allowed to continue unchecked, pose a great risk to our democracy, as the Honorable Deannell Reece Tacha, the new Dean of the Pepperdine School of Law and the former Chief Judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit, said just a few months ago at a LSC board meeting:
"When the great majority of the individuals and small businesses of the nation no longer can, or believe they no longer can, get a lawyer, be represented effectively, go to court, settle their disputes in a fair and impartial way, and be treated like every other citizen, we quite simply, have lost the guiding principle of our republic—equal justice under law. When that goes, the rule of law goes, and when that goes, the great dreams of those patriots who founded and fought for this republic go with it—never to be reclaimed. Something must be done!"
We at LSC agree.
The cracks in our civil justice system may not be as visible as those in our bridges and highways, but they are just as real and, in my view, pose an even greater threat.
And because they are not as easy to see, we in the legal profession have a special responsibility to speak up and let the country know about the unacceptable risk now threatening one of the fundamental pillars of our wonderful country.
When my father, Edward Levi, ended his service as Attorney General of the United States in 1977, he reminded us in his farewell address to the Department of Justice that the values on which our country is founded "can never be won for all time—they must always be won anew."
My fellow lawyers, let us resolve that the promise of justice for all will be won anew.
Thank you so much.


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Elementary Teacher Education
Selected Elementary Teacher Education ResourcesZ. Hrepic, P. Adams, J. Zeller, N. Talbott, G. Taggart, and L. Young, Developing an Inquiry-Based Physical Science Course For Preservice Elementary Teachers, presented at the Physics Education Research Conference 2005, Salt Lake City, Utah, 2005.
S. Robinson, F. Goldberg, and V. Otero, Physics for Elementary Teachers: A New Curriculum, (2005).
P. Ashcraft, Modeling Aspects of Nature of Science to Preservice Elementary Teachers, presented at the Physics Education Research Conference 2006, Syracuse, New York, 2006.
More on Elementary Teacher Education »
A growing body of evidence suggests that students' early educational experience can profoundly influence their attitudes toward science and their decisions whether or not to pursue a science career. Elementary teachers cannot be expected to master physics concepts at the same level as a high school teacher who specializes in the field, but research has shown that carefully constructed semester-long curricula can significantly improve both elementary teachers' attitudes toward science and their ability to teach using inquiry.
Elementary Teacher Education Strategies
Consider developing or adapting a physics course for elementary teachers that employs an interactive learning curriculum. These courses are a great way to engage physics faculty in reformed pedagogy, and can be easily done by physics faculty with proper training. Examples include:
Physics and Everyday Thinking (PET) - a highly interactive, hands-on introductory course suitable for preservice elementary teachers; developed by Fred Goldberg at San Diego State University
Powerful Ideas in Physical Science (PIPS) - a six-volume inquiry-based curriculum from AAPT for future elementary teachers.
Physics by Inquiry (PbI) - a set of laboratory-based modules that provide a step-by-step introduction to physics and the physical sciences.
Towson University has prepared a resource folder for instructors of its field experience course.
Emphasize teaching by inquiry in courses for elementary students that include field experiences. Give your pre-service teachers the opportunity to practice and reflect on the style of teaching you want them to adopt.
Hire a Teacher-in-Residence (TIR) to work with future elementary teachers. The opportunity to learn from a master teacher is just as beneficial for future elementary teachers as it is for future high school teachers.


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Does anyone have experience with placing caches on AGFC Wildlife Management Areas or Lakes? I have emailed one individual on the AGFC geocaching page, but have not had much luck. What is their policy on cache placement?
Does anyone have experience with placing caches on AGFC Wildlife Management Areas or Lakes? I have emailed one individual on the AGFC geocaching page, but have not had much luck. What is their policy on cache placement?
I'm interested in this, too. When we called to get ours approved, they didn't have a clue what we were talking about. The lady just said, "Yeah, I guess it's ok, as long as it doesn't stay there forever."
Surely somebody knows more about this now, since the AGFC endorses geocaching on their web page. Another call might be in order...
I get my directions from above.
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After getting the run around for several days, I finally talked to someone who actually knew something at the commission. I spoke to John Day (223-6381) in the enforcement section. According to Mr. Day, a committee met on geocaching a while back. Thier conclusion was that the AGFC would not allow geocaches on AGFC Land. I asked what the reasoning was for not allowing geocaching. Mr. Day stated that the committee was concerned that people would venture into areas where a hunting season or permitted hunt was taking place. I asked if the AGFC allowed hiking on undeveloped trails (by non-hunters) on AGFC land. Mr. Day stated that hiking was allowed. I stated that it would not be much different than hikers and that it was everyone's responsibility to keep up with hunting seasons if they are in the woods whether on AGFC land or not. Mr. Day had no response. I also asked what regulation violators could be prosecuted under. According to Mr. Day, geocaches could be considered littering or as structures (AGFC prohibites any permanent structures). Mr. Day stated that to date the AGFC has no knowledge of any geocaches other than those placed by the AGFC. Mr. Day stated that they may allow geocaching under some circumstances but they would have to be placed in conjunction with the Education Outreach Program. He referred me to Lucy Moreland, Assistant Chief of Education Outreach (223-6433).
If anybody has caches on AGFC land you may want consider disabling it. This may be an issue that we as an organization could pursue with the AGFC. Maybe we could get them to institute a similar program as the State Parks. Although, I would like to see something a little less stringent.
Good point on the hikers, sounds like it hit a nerve. You should really follow up on this.
I have several geocaches out in the Delta National Forest. NF's in general have no rules on geocaching and our NF doesn't have any individual rules. As a matter of fact the Ranger and Biologist there were excited and the Biologist offered to help me find neat places to hide the cache.
We have an extensive hunting season here and during the time that Gun Season for Deer was open, not one geocacher went after my caches. Geocachers are not stupid and they won't take risks they find too risky.
On the other hand - I personally go after geocaches during hunting season, growing up hunting in a family full of hunters I trust hunters - but that's another story
I'm currently planning to start placing caches in our State WMA's - they have no policy. Actually - the ones I have in the DNF are in a WMA that's inside the Forest. I'm planning to hide some in areas that are stand alone WMA's.


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There's A LOT going on this weekend at PTC! Friday through Sunday, we are thrilled to present our 7th Annual Northern Writes Festival. Also on Saturday, we throw the doors open to Downtown Bangor's Kid Central Festival! Find more information and scheduling here:
Friday MAY 3
- 6PM KICK OFF RECEPTION (all invited)
- 7PM NEVERLAND STATION by Jack Rushton (Newbury, MA)
- 8PM PUDDING by Michael Tooher (Portland, ME)
Saturday MAY 4
- 2PM THE IMPORTANCE OF PLUMBERS by HG Andaleux (Holden, ME)
- 3PM MOM'S GIFT by Phil Olson (Newhall, CA)
- 5PM CAT AND MOUSE by Michael Wolfson (Valley Village, CA)
- 7PM A POSITION OF RELATIVE IMPORTANCE by Hal Borden (Philadelphia, PA)
Sunday MAY 5
12-1PM: Playwrights Pow-wow Brunch (event for local and visiting playwrights to interact)
- 1PM STOLEN GIRL by Elizabeth Searle (Arlington, MA)
- 2PM DUCK AND COVER by Mike Kimball (Portland, ME)
After each reading, audience members will have the chance to offer feedback and answer questions from and with the playwright.
Tickets are $10 for the entire weekend of readings. One may attend as few or as many events as they choose. As always, Penobscot Theatre full season subscribers are invited to attend all Northern Writes events as part of their subscription at no additional charge.
Northern Writes is made possible through generous funding from the Quimby Family Foundation.
Visit PTC at the Bangor Opera House for the Kid Central Festical! Come get your picture taken, from 10-Noon see our resident Magician's Show and from 12 -3 play theater games with out Teen Council Members. And make sure to get a summer camp brochure!


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Will the Armageddon of Biblical Prophecy Happen? – Part 3/3
There is no room for error in the Divine Plan. Says SaLuSa: "The grand plan for Man is perfect in its concept and whatever path you take, it will always lead to your goal." (1) Saul agrees:
"The divine plan continues to unfold precisely as intended, and as it must; nothing else is possible. Your awareness of it will increase and intensify as your energy frequency rises in preparation for leaving your illusory reality of fear, suffering, pain, and death." (2)
Moreover, everyone administering the plan is highly organized. According to SaLuSa:
"As you can imagine spiritual matters are highly organised, and progress is coordinated for Humankind so that as many souls as possible move into the Light. You are all acting out your roles for the benefit of the whole, and a game it may be, but one that is deadly serious. The emphasis is on getting you to awaken to your true selves, and taking responsibility for all you do. (3)
Mira the Pleiaidian puts the matter a slightly-different way: "Little by little the divine orchestration continues." (4) But the meaning is the same.
The Divine Edict is our grounds for ridding ourselves of fear, SaLuSa says,
"There is nothing to fear, your future is absolutely assured – and that is by Divine Decree. A Universal edict has been served on all creation that has responded by preparing in readiness for the great change to the higher dimensions.
"You have to be helped, which is why we are here in great numbers. Now you can see why we work incessantly with our allies, as we are keen to get started through direct contact with you. That is not far away now, but we shall choose our time well when it is most suitable for a successful open first contact." (5)
"Your glorious future is absolutely certain, and it is written into the plan decreed by the Creator." (6)
The galactics in turn take this plan and adapt it to the needs of the moment, informing their Earth allies of what is needed. Says SaLuSa:
"There will be a co-ordinated plan between our allies, and us of the Galactic Federation and events will follow quickly once they get started. At each stage we shall prepare you for what follows, as it is so important that our actions are clearly understood." (7)
The Master Planning Council has the authority and ability to dynamically alter the plan. Here is one example that Matthew points to:
"The master planning council in conjunction with spiritually evolved beings among you decided to reverse the order of two major parts of the plan. Originally it was thought that exposure of the dark ones' controlling hand in myriad worldly matters would arouse the sleepers and then there would be the revelation that newcomers from distant lands have come to help you clean up the mess your world is in.
"But awakening of the masses isn't happening as quickly as need be and time is of the essence, so it has been agreed to jolt the many sound sleepers with something that cannot miss getting everyone's attention—your governments acknowledging that other intelligent beings are in the universe." (8)
Here Mira the Pleiaidian tells us that the Master Planners are altering our future history:
"There will be some important parts of history that will be re-written. The past is being changed so that the future will be a positive one for all of you and for the Earth." (8)
In summary then, the Armageddon of Biblical Prophecy is not going to happen. The Divine Master Plan, as administered by the Master Planning Council, the spiritual hierarchy, and the galactics, will without error carry us into the Golden Age, through Ascension and beyond.
There is no reason to fear the dark forces or any other catastrophic scenario. If we do fear, we may bring unfortunate, negative consequences to ourselves through the Law of Attraction so part of our task is to stay out of fear.
(Back to Part 1.)
(1) SaLuSa, Oct. 21, 2009 at http://www.treeofthegoldenlight.com/First_Contact/Channeled_Messages_by_Mike_Quinsey.htm
(2) Saul, Sept. 6, 2009 at http://johnsmallman.wordpress.com
(3) SaLuSa, Aug. 14, 2009.
(4) Mira the Pleiadian, Aug. 8, 2009 at http://thegroundcrew.com/channeled_messages.htm
(5) SaLuSa, March 8, 2010.
(6) SaLuSa, Feb. 15, 2010.
(7) SaLuSa, Nov. 4, 2009.
(8) Matthew's Message, Oct. 19, 2009 at http://www.matthewbooks.com/mattsmessage.htm
(9) Mira of the Pleiadian High Council, Apr. 7, 2009.
(Back to Part 1.)


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Chicago Fire will be off the air for more than a month during the Winter Olympics, but the show's die-hard fans will still be able catch up with members of Firehouse 51.
NBC is producing four new webisodes that will premiere online at NBC.com during the Winter Olympics, TVGuide.com has learned.
TV's best and worst beards of sorrow
In the webisodes, which will debut on Feb. 11, Dawson's firefighter training is put to the test when a crisis erupts near Station 51 and she is the only one around to respond. The story chronologically follow the sophomore drama's recent episodes, in which Dawson (Monica Raymund) left her post as a paramedic to train to become a firefighter.
Raymund will appear in all four installments, and the first and last editions will also feature Joe Minoso (Cruz), Christian Stolte (Mouch), David Eigenberg (Hermann) and Pouch the dog.
Chicago Fire returns with new episodes on Tuesday, Feb. 25 at 10/9c on NBC. Are you excited for the webisodes?


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reading (mental process)
reading, process of mentally interpreting written symbols. Facility in reading is an essential factor in educational progress, and instruction in this basic skill is a primary purpose of elementary education. The ability to read was not considered important for most laymen until sometime after Johann Gutenberg's invention of the printing press (c.1450) and the Protestant Reformation, with its emphasis on individual interpretation of the Bible. Until that time reading was generally restricted to the clergy and certain members of the nobility. Although illiteracy is still a problem in many areas of the world, compulsory childhood education laws have assured that most citizens of advanced industrial nations can read.
Physiological and psychological studies suggest that the process of reading is based on a succession of quick eye movements, known as fixations, across the written line, each of which lasts for about a quarter of a second. In each fixation more than one word is perceived and interpreted, so that a skilled reader may take in more than three words per fixation when reading easy material. Depending on the rate of fixations and the difficulty of the material, an adult can read and understand anywhere from 200 to 1,000 words per minute.
There has been considerable difference of opinion about the best method of teaching children to read. By the end of the 20th cent. the educational concensus was largely that a combination of phonics, which emphasizes sound, and the whole-language method, which emphasizes meaning, is the most effective way to teach the skill. Most educators also agree on the importance of remedial work for students whose progress is impeded by impaired vision, faulty eye movements, developmental disabilities such as dyslexia, or personal handicaps resulting from poor teaching.
See G. Hildreth, Teaching Reading (1958); I. A. Richards, How to Read a Page (1959); G. Cuomo, Becoming a Better Reader (1960); H. Diack, Reading and the Psychology of Perception (1960); J. S. Chall, Learning to Read: The Great Debate (1967); M. Cox, The Challenge of Reading Failure (1968); M. J. Adler and C. Van Doren, How to Read a Book (rev. ed. 1972); M. C. Robeck and J. A. R. Wilson, Psychology of Reading (1974).


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Myanmar: Ethnic Minorities & Aung San Suu Kyi
By Lee Jay Walker
Tokyo Correspondent – THE SEOUL TIMES
|Aung San Suu Kyi
The current regime in Myanmar is clearly unconcerned about international opinion because daily persecution continues. This applies to the continuing persecution of many minorities, notably the Chin, Karen, Rohingya, Shan, and others. At the same time, the leading political figure in Myanmar, Aung San Suu Kyi, faces further confinement. However, the regime fears little because of power politics and geopolitical factors.
Another major concern in Myanmar is the systematic persecution of religious minorities and this especially applies to Christians and Muslims. Therefore, the Christian dominated Karen National Union (KNU) faces a joint military and Buddhist onslaught because the Democratic Karen Buddhist Army (DKBA) is a staunch ally of the regime.
Other Christian and Muslim minorities also face daily persecution. Therefore, like I reported in my last article called "Karen Christians face joint army and Buddhist onslaught," I will quote Benedict Rogers who is a human rights advocate and journalist.
Because Benedict Rogers (12 Dec, 2004) notified the British House of Commons about systematic persecution. He stated that "Christians among the Chin, Kachin, Karen and Karenni ethnic nationalities report serious religious discrimination and persecution, including the destruction of churches and Christian symbols. In Chin State, all crosses on mountain-tops have been destroyed and Christians have been forced to build Buddhist pagodas in their place. Church services have been disrupted, and Chin children from Christian families have been taken and placed in Buddhist monasteries, where they have been forced to become novice monks. The printing of the Bible is banned, and Christians in government service are denied promotion."
Muslims are also in dire straights because they have been persecuted for decades. Amnesty International, for example stated that "The Rohingyas' freedom of movement is severely restricted and the vast majority of them have effectively been denied Burma (Myanmar) citizenship. They are also subjected to various forms of extortion and arbitrary taxation; land confiscation; forced eviction and house destruction … "
The report continues that "In 1978 over 200,000 Rohingyas fled to Bangladesh, following the 'Nagamin' ('Dragon King') operation of the Burma (Myanmar) army. Officially this campaign aimed at "scrutinising each individual living in the state, designating citizens and foreigners in accordance with the law and taking actions against foreigners who have filtered into the country illegally." This military campaign directly targeted civilians, and resulted in widespread killings, rape and destruction of mosques and further religious persecution."
"During 1991-92 a new wave of over a quarter of a million Rohingyas fled to Bangladesh. They reported widespread forced labour, as well as summary executions, torture, and rape. Rohingyas were forced to work without pay by the Burma (Myanmar) army on infrastructure and economic projects, often under harsh conditions. Many other human rights violations occurred in the context of forced labour of Rohingya civilians by the security forces."
Therefore, many ethnic and religious minorities have been persecuted for decades and this is the real tragedy of Myanmar. After all, it would appear that regional nations are more concerned about economic trade and maintaining a regional consensus.
Yes, from time to time you hear disenting voices throughout the region but these are few and far. Also, for regional powers like China and India, they both understand the geopolitical importance of Myanmar and of course economic interests are also important. So it would appear that ethnic and religious minorities have little hope under the current political system in Myanmar.
Meanwhile, the most famous political figure in Myanmar faces fresh political charges in order to keep her under house arrest. However, Aung San Suu Kyi remains defiant despite her endless persecution and the "ray of hope remains."
Aung San Suu Kyi once stated that "It is not power that corrupts but fear. Fear of losing power corrupts those who wield it and fear of the scourge of power corrupts those who are subject to it."
Yet for the people who wield power in Myanmar, it is apparent that China and India, and others, are willing to play the geopolitical game. Therefore, despite the European Union and America taking a strong stance, it is clear that Myanmar can survive because of trading links with China, India, Singapore, South Korea, Thailand, and other nations.
Also, Aung San Suu Kyi understands that only an internal collapse or uprising will change the current status quo. Despite this, she remains loyal to non-violent action and "her weapon" is her firm democratic conviction.
However, just like the ethnic Christian and Muslim minorities, and others, it is clear that decades of struggle is zapping the energy out of many; so words of strength by Aung San Suu Kyi are badly needed. Yet the chains appear to be getting tighter so the future remains bleak.


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We know that presheaves of any category have enough projectives and that sheaves do not, why is this, and how does it effect our thinking?
This question was asked(and I found it very helpful) but I was hoping to get a better understanding of why.
I was thinking about the following construction(given during a course);
given an affine cover, we normally study the quasi-coherent sheaves, but in fact we could study the presheaves in the following sense:
Given an affine cover of X,
$Ker_2\left(\pi\right)\rightrightarrows^{p_1}_{p_2} U\rightarrow X$
then we can define $X_1:=Cok\left(p_1,p_2\right)$, a presheaf, to obtain refinements in presheaves where we have enough projectives and the quasi-coherent sheaves coincide. Specifically, if $X_1\xrightarrow{\varphi}X$ for a scheme $X$, s.t. $\mathcal{S}\left(\varphi\right)\in Isom$ for $\mathcal{S}(-)$ is the sheaffication functor, then for all affine covers $U_i\xrightarrow{u_i}X$ there exists a refinement $V_{ij}\xrightarrow{u_{ij}}U_i$ which factors through $\varphi$.
This hinges on the fact that $V_{ij}$ is representable and thus projective, a result of the fact that we are working with presheaves. In sheaves, we would lose these refinements. Additionally, these presheaves do not depend on the specific topology(at the cost of gluing).
In this setting, we lose projectives because we are applying the localization functor which is not exact(only right exact). However, I don't really understand this reason, and would like a more general answer.
A related appearance of this loss is in homological algebra. Sheaves do not have enough projectives, so we cannot always get projective resolutions. They do have injective resolutions, and this is related to the use of cohomology of sheaves rather than homology of sheaves. In paticular, in Rotman's Homological Algebra pg 314, he gives a footnote;
In The Theory of Sheaves, Swan writes "...if the base space X is not discrete, I know of no examples of projective sheaves except the zero sheaf." In Bredon, Sheaf Theory: on locally connected Hausdorff spaces without isolated points, the only projective sheaf is 0
addressing this situation.
In essence, my question is for a heuristic or geometric explanation of why we lose projectives when we pass from presheaves to sheaves.
Thanks in advance!


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"We ladies ,three senior citizens , have completed our canoe and fishing trip down Little Cypress Bayou from 134 to the Goverment Ditch ! Wild primitive and beautiful..." Little Cypress Bayou
"i was fishing on the north side of the lake on the bank under the bridge and landed a couple of 3 pounders, and one 8pounder on a zoom fluke...." Cypress Lake
"Boone creek is a slough that that feeds a swamp on Hwy164 between Doyline and Sibley. most of the creek is located on the ammunition plant and drys up often. Last summer..." Boone Creek
"Buffalo River is navigable and it is receiving a lot of pressure. With summer here, the smallmouths are active...." Little Crooked Creek
"Buffalo River is navigable and it is receiving a lot of pressure. With summer here, the smallmouths are active...." Crooked Creek
"Off the bridge and just under the overflow there were literally 20-30 people bass fishing with bobbers and worms and hauling in 5-10 good sized largemouths a piece. I..." Ivan Lake
"I put in at Blackwell Landing. I caught 12 from 6:30 to 7:30 the bite was on. blackgum pink belly jig. wind got up so came on out by 10am. water temp was 49.5 air temp..." Lake Erling
"Bass are good on bladed jigs and lipless crankbaits around cover near shallows. Crappie are fair on minnows in brush piles. Catfish are good on prepared bait...." Wright Patman Lake
"Bass are fair on black/blue flipping jigs and white bladed jigs near drop offs. White and yellow bass are fair on slabs. Catfish are fair on trotlines and cut bait...." Caddo Lake
"Me and my brother have been catching nice bass around the edges of the water on crawfish colored jig...." Black Bayou Lake
Tips, tactics, gear reviews for everything from bass and bluegills to stripers and bluefish - if it's fishing related, we cover it.
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Welcome to Reel Seafood Company
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The Best Albany NY Restaurant for Seafood
Welcome to Reel Seafood Company (formerly known as Real Seafood Company). We have been serving the freshest seafood cuisine to the Greater Capital District of New York for over 30 years and have consistently been rated the #1 seafood restaurant among other Albany restaurants by local voters.
Finest of Albany Restaurants
Our seafood is shipped in daily from the finest seafood purveyors and you'll know after your first bite that we mean fresh.
At the Albany restaurant, our executive chef has prepared a delectable cuisine of fresh seafood, quality meats, pasta dishes and homemade desserts.
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The Albany restaurant is located on Wolf Road in Colonie near the Albany International Airport, Colonie Center and Crossgates Mall. We can easily be accessed from Latham, Troy, Schenectady, Saratoga and the Greater Capital Region.
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Transcript of Kristen's interview:
It feels very good to see Kristen Stewart again. I've missed her. We're meeting at the little mews house where I'm living for the summer, about an hour outside London. Kristen seems relaxed and happy; she looks fantastic--not unusual for her--and better rested than the last time I saw her, at the end of the interminable two-movie shoot that dominated our lives for the past year. You may know me as the author of the Twilight series, but I'm also a producer of the movies, so Kristen and I have gotten to know each other very well while filming during the past three years. Now the series is close to being over, with Breaking Dawn in theaters this month and Breaking Dawn Part 2 coming out next fall.
Today she's in her usual jeans and a T-shirt, Chuck Taylors and a ponytail. Without any makeup, her skin is noticeably luminous. Her hair is dark, glossy and very long. I comment on the length, mentally counting the months since I've seen her; it's been less than four. Kristen laughs: The hair is not all hers. It's in place for her next movie, Snow White and the Huntsman.
We talk and talk, and as we speak, Kristen curls her legs under her, never entirely at rest, leaning forward when she's enthusiastic. She's animated and passionate about any project she believes in, yet she's wary of how she might be perceived. I hope that in this interview something is captured of the Kristen I know, the real girl rather than the movie star.
Stephenie Meyer: So we've finally split up after spending the last several years working together. And yet the first movie I go to do [Austenland, starring Kurt Russell], you follow me to the same studio. Are you stalking me?
Kristen Stewart: [Laughs] Yes, I really am. I'm trying to get into your next films.
SM: I remember when we were shooting the wedding scene in Breaking Dawn--I was losing it because we were so sleep-deprived at that point.
KS: Yeah, the last night… I was exhausted, and it's funny, Rob [Pattinson] was actually way more energetic than I was at the end of it.
SM: How emotional were you filming the final scenes?
KS: Even thinking about it now kind of freaks me out. On the final night of filming, I was literally pulling out my hair and crying and having to walk away for a second because my voice wasn't working anymore.
SM: It was a big moment. Being there, you could feel that … And I have to say, you embrace Bella so much.
KS: I like Bella so much. In order to play a part like that, you have to believe in every crazy decision that she makes.
SM: What kind of characters do you gravitate toward?
KS: It is such a gut instinct. I've yet to play anybody who I don't really love.
SM: I think you once wanted to direct. Do you still want to?
KS: Yeah, really, really badly. Me and Dakota [Fanning] were having this conversation the other day actually, and she also wants to do it really bad. It will happen, I think. I also really enjoy being an actor, so I'm fine. I mean, I'm not finished …
SM: Do you prefer working with male or female directors?
KS: I feel that everyone's so different that it's hard to say, "Girls are like this," because even the women I've worked with are all very different. But female directors are usually pretty remarkable because they have gone that extra step of saying, "No, I'm gonna direct the film. No, there's no one else."
SM: I know that publicity's not your favorite thing. Have you ever been misquoted?
KS: Yes, I have. It bugs me! False impressions are the worst! It definitely makes me watch my words. Even right now, I'm going, OK, how do you talk about this? And you've got to have a filter.
SM: What are you reading right now?
KS: My Snow White director just gave me a book on Joan of Arc. I'm mostly reading work things. And I've been foxing all of my English-dialect stuff!
SM: It must be hard to concentrate on your performance when you're so worried about the sound of your voice.
KS: It's weird. Especially considering that I've recently had so much experience speaking he way that I speak. Because this how Bella talks.
[Laughs.] God, imagine if I'd had to change my voice.
SM: Can you imagine how miserable you would have been? Now I feel kind of guilty, because that's exactly what we made Rob do.
KS: Yeah, actually, that's true. Completely. [Laughs.]
SM: How long did you have off after Breaking Dawn?
KS: It doesn't feel like I've had any time off. I should have just gone home and relaxed.
SM: It took a while before I could kind of step back and say, OK, it's over. [LAughs.] It's a long time to do one thing!
KS: And the experience of watching is always so strange. I watched this one with Taylor [Lautner] for the first time. It was really fun.
SM: Who can not like Taylor?
KS: No! I mean, definitely! And it's fun to watch it with him because we actually sit and watch it. Me and Taylor are actual Twilight fans, so we can sit there and be totally into it! Whereas I sit there with Rob… he likes it, but he has just such a different energy.
SM: Oh, Rob and Taylor have completely different energy! Watching it with Taylor, you feel afraid that you'll get ice down the back of your neck or a grape in your face.
KS: Totally.
SM: You always have to be on your guard with him.
KS: I've always just loved Jacob and Bella so much. Taylor is great in this one. Not to keep saying how great the movie is, but …
SM: Yeah, we threw a lot at you in this one! You have to die, you give birth screaming and--no big deal--get married for the first time.
KS: I know! Jesus!
SM: What did you do for your 21st birthday?
KS: I turned 21 the same weekend as our Breaking Dawn wrap party. So it was lucky because I had this blowout party with everyone, but I didn't have to feel like the birthday girl. I do feel older, I guess. It's amazing to realize that a lot of the insecurities I had when I was younger have pretty much disappeared.
SM: Your style is pretty basic. How would you describe it?
KS: I have a uniform of sorts--I will be comfortable in a certain hood of mine no matter what mood I am in. And there's nothing better than a new stack of white V-neck. For me, "changing" is either a new T-shirt. And I need pockets, 'cause if I carried a bag, I'd lose it purposely.
SM: You keep you romantic relationships pretty close to the vest. Do you have any relationship advice for Glamour readers?
KS: Hmm…good relationship advice for me tends to be being honest and knowing yourself. Don't be an asshole. That's my advice. Don't be mean. Don't take shit. Don't settle.
Thank you so much to strictlyrobsten for the transcript!
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Random stuff and Open Thread
(I actually wrote this post yesterday, and thought I'd published it. When I looked at my blog just now, though, I saw that it never got out of the draft phase. Still, there's enough interesting stuff in it that I'll publish today anyway.)
I discovered two things to help with my email: Boomerang and The Email Game. Thanks to these two, I reduced my email from 150 emails to 4 emails in 45 minutes, all while having fine and feeling in control. This is, naturally, very exciting. It's also interesting how turning a task into a game is so much more fun, even when you're basically going through the same motions you would in any event. I guess it's an example of good mind games. For other email advice, check out this article.
It can be a good thing when married men date. No, I'm not kidding. Read here and learn why.
Mollie Hemingway has noticed something very interesting about MSM movie reviewers' approach to movie violence: In 12 Years a Slave, violence is meaningful and important; in The Passion of the Christ, it's disgusting and overboard (their view, not mine). I've noticed a similar attitude towards cigarettes and birth control pills. Cigarettes have known health risks and are especially damaging in growing children. Leftists will do anything to destroy them and they cannot be sold to children. Birth control pills have known health risks (cancer, blood clots, strokes, etc.) and, while nobody has studied it, it's entirely reasonable to believe that pouring toxic hormone doses into young girls' bodies is not a good thing. Not only do Leftists approve of the Pill, though, they pass laws ensuring that parents, who are the people most likely to have their daughter's physical and emotional interests at heart, can have no say in the matter once their daughters are 12 or 13 years old. Parents know that a 12 or 13 year old girl, no matter how physically developed she is, is still a child.
Keith Koffler noticed that Obama just announced that he's going to violate the Constitution. Koffler is deeply offended, as all Americans should be. Republicans in Congress don't seem to care. Nor do Democrats, although they should care too because history has shown that they're unlikely to control the White House forever.
This story is slightly out-of-date, but it amused me. You remember, of course, when school kids all over America complained that they weren't getting enough calories thanks to Michelle Obama's interference with the menus, ostensibly to make them more healthy. The USDA has now backed off the new policy. Why? Because "more kids decided to brown-bag it and bring their own food to school." Why is this amusing? Because government food programs have always been premised on the fact that they are there to feed children whose families are too poor to feed them. This little USDA minuet exposes this reasoning for the lie it is. Federal food programs are there to exert further government control over young people.
If you need cheering up, or you'd like to know that there are other people in the world who, like you and me, love to dance but don't do it very well, check out this delightful video at Noisy Room.
I sometimes find the proliferation of New Age religions gin America both maddening and sad. The Left has driven so many lost souls away from traditional faith, which gave meaning and purpose to life, and given them nothing in return. They're now adrift and searching. Of course, sometimes once they're done searching what they find may be good for a laugh.
Someone who was there in the aftermath says that Lone Survivor is a good movie, but bemoans the fact that, being Hollywood, it couldn't resist gilding the lily. With a movie such as Lone Survivor, doing so somehow dishonors the dead. Mr. Bookworm likes to introduce movies such as Spielberg's Lincoln to the children with the phrase "This is history." He's always irked when I add, "It's not history. It's Hollywood's version of a true story."
Texas. Rep. Scott Turner definitely shows signs of being a rising star in the GOP. I'm just not going to give my heart away immediately. It's been broken too many times. I will however keep my eye on him and hope for the best:


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– USA, MA – QPID Health, which has committed to bringing clinical intelligence to healthcare providers to improve outcomes and lower costs, today announced a $12.3M Series B round of funding led by New York City-based New Leaf Venture Partners. The company will use the investment to meet the market demand for its clinical intelligence solution, which promotes cost-effective and high quality patient care by making it easy for clinicians get access to patient data stored in electronic health records (EHRs) and other backend data repositories. The QPID software, which sits on top of virtually any EHR, has proven that it can generate a strong ROI for hospitals and physician practices. QPID Health welcomes New Leaf's Managing Director Philippe Chambon to its board of directors.
Today's investment enables QPID to accelerate the growth of the company and support wider use of its proven software solution in leading hospitals and healthcare systems in the U.S. Current customers include Massachusetts General and Brigham & Women's Hospitals as well as other members of the Partners HealthCare system. Implementations in other leading medical centers across the country are under way.
"We are seeing high demand for the QPID solution because it provides a truly clinician-friendly interface that is built on the rich data in EHRs but is presented in a way that makes sense to users and eliminates the noise," said QPID Health CEO Mike Doyle. "Knowledge of the patient's relevant history – including diagnoses, procedures, test results and potential safety concerns – is essential for making choices that are good for the patient. Further, QPID's unique ability to activate complex guidelines and models in the moment, for the clinical trench, also helps hospitals eliminate waste and use resources wisely. Although health systems have invested millions of dollars in electronic health records, it's clear that more data does not mean more efficiency. With QPID, healthcare providers can optimize the value of the digital data that they've captured in EHRs because of our unique ability to aggregate the right information and deliver it at the right time."
Philippe Chambon, Managing Director of New Leaf Venture Partners, said: "QPID's solution addresses a major challenge for physicians who must access patient information at the point of care. This allows physicians to regain control of their workflow and facilitates their ability to interact with patients. QPID is the clear leader in this space and I am excited to work with the company as they rapidly advance their commercialization efforts."
In a scalable cloud-based architecture, QPID uses advanced concept-based natural language processing (NLP) to extract clinical intelligence from data stored in EHR systems and other clinical repositories. In 2013, its first year of commercial operation, the company supported a steadily growing user base, ending the year with 4,000 active clinical users, representing 2.96M clinical encounters and impacting 340,000 patients. In the first quarter of 2014 usage has grown to nearly 5,000 clinician users.
This financing round was led by New Leaf Venture Partners and supported by all investors who participated in the Series A round. The company previously raised a $4.4 million Series A round which closed in March 2013 from Cardinal Partners, Matrix Partners, the Massachusetts General Physicians Organization (MGPO) and Partners Innovation Fund.
About New Leaf Venture Partners
New Leaf Venture Partners is a leading healthcare technology venture firm. We invest broadly across healthcare-related information technology companies as well as both public and private biopharmaceutical companies.
New Leaf currently manages two funds: New Leaf Ventures I, L.P., and New Leaf Ventures II, L.P. (NLV-II), as well as the healthcare technology portfolio of the Sprout Group, one of the oldest U.S. venture capital fund groups. New Leaf's current active fund, NLV-II, has committed $80 million to companies in the healthcare IT sector and $270 million to firms in the biopharmaceutical sector.
About QPID Health
QPID Health's clinical intelligence software automatically delivers relevant patient information from electronic health records and other data sources into clinical and administrative workflows. With QPID, clinicians are more productive, patients benefit from decisions based on their complete health information, and hospitals gain cost efficiencies. The QPID solution was developed at Massachusetts General Hospital and usage spread virally throughout the Partners HealthCare system. QPID Health launched in late 2012 to bring the power of QPID to health systems nationwide. Investors include Cardinal Partners, Matrix Partners, Massachusetts General Physicians Organization, New Leaf Venture Partners, and Partners Innovation Fund.
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A CPR News review of more than 2,000 pages of emails, text messages and memoranda from the weeks before the coronavirus reached Colorado through the first days of the state's response found numerous instances of confusion, complacency and a lack of preparation. See a timeline of the early warnings and read how Colorado caught COVID-19.
CPR Classical's 10-week summer festival features a star-studded concert series of today's greatest performers and Colorado's own world-class festivals and musicians. We're providing a front row seat in your own home or your lawn to the best soundtrack for your summer.
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1. Start With Replacement Foods
There are so many options for new vegans to eat very similar to their current diet! For example, if you love a bagel and cream cheese every morning, don't drift too far from that when making the initial switch. Even after 5 years of eating completely vegan, I love to start my morning with fresh fruit and then a bagel or english muffin with Tofutti cream cheese (my favorite is the Garlic & Herb flavor). If you love spaghetti and meatballs at dinner, use vegan meatballs and you won't even notice the difference. You can also use Shirataki Tofu Noodles for a healthier and lower calorie option to traditional pasta. (Delish!)
2. Don't Deprive Yourself
If you're hungry…EAT! Stock up on fresh fruits and veggies for snacks and eat them throughout the day. My favorite snacks are clementines, apples, bananas, carrots with humus and celery with almond butter. I also keep dried mango slices (my personal preference are those from Trader Joe's) and Larabars handy if I'm in a pinch and don't have access to anything fresh. Keep vegan options everywhere (purse, office, car, gym bag) so you can mask hunger or cravings during your initial transition.
3. Drink Water And Then…Drink More Water
Your body is constantly trying to clean itself from the inside out, especially when you put nutritious and wholesome food inside of it. Water will help your body flush out the toxins from years of consuming animal products and other processed foods. Your body may also feel withdrawal symptoms from the lack of dairy and animal products, and water will help ease any of the symptoms you encounter.
4. Understand The Health Benefits
If you understand the science behind why eating vegan is dramatically better for your health, you are more likely to stick with it! Watch the documentary Forks Over Knives, read anything from Dr. Neal Barnard, or do your own research online. It has taken me years to fully understand the health benefits of veganism, and I am still learning things every day as new research is conducted, but once I learned to put aside the years of incorrect information I was fed through big corporations and great marketing campaigns, I was more enthusiastic about eating vegan for my health.
5. Stock Up On Easy Options For Mealtime
Vegan recipes do NOT have to be complex and take hours to cook. No one has that kind of time. Always keep your favorite salad ingredients handy, and Mexican food is always a great, easy option. I always keep my fridge stocked with tortillas, salsa, guacamole, refried beans, and ground-beef style crumbles for an easy meal. Additionally, I am certain to always have the ingredients for a "beef" potpie, a personal favorite.
6. Make A Few Big Meals
Eating vegan does not mean you can't continue to enjoy mealtime! If you make a few meals over the weekend that can be eaten throughout the week, you are more likely to continue the vegan transition with less hiccups. Try making a vegan chili with cornbread or curry lentils over rice or mashed potatoes.
7. Exercise
Physical activity is great for all lifestyles, and studies have shown that exercise increases your energy and improves your attitude. If it is a simple walk after dinner or a cycling class every morning before work, anything is better than nothing!
8. Don't Be Hard On Yourself
The transition to a completely vegan diet can be a tough one, so if you have a few mishaps, don't beat yourself up about it. It takes time to learn to read labels correctly and the withdrawal symptoms can be challenging for some people who have consumed excessive amounts of animal products for years. However, remember that you made a commitment to yourself for your health, and it is exactly that, a commitment.
9. Get Social
Your friends and family may not be into the vegan diet and they may be completely ignorant to the health reasons behind your transition, so find people who will support you and your journey to a healthier you! Twitter, Facebook and other social media sites are a great place to find others just like you, traveling on the same path for health.
10. Have A Positive Attitude
You are giving yourself a gift everyday you commit to eating vegan. The transition may be hard initially, but remember why you made the commitment to a vegan diet. Go into your new vegan diet with positivity, knowing what you are doing for your body, and believe that you can do it! If you believe, you will achieve!


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Complimentary tickets to the Property Investor Show 2010 @investor_show #propshow
Property Tribes forum and, Social Media Graffiti, are delighted to announce that we have partnered with The Property Investor Show 2010 to help create awareness of the show within the on-line investor/Landlord and property services communities.
The Property Investor Show & OPP Live returns to ExCeL London, 14-16 October 2010 featuring a combination of regular and new exhibitors - and 3 separate seminar/conference programmes. It is also set to feature a live property auction on Friday, 15th October!
Vanessa and I will be speaking about holiday lets and using social media for your property business during the seminar programme.
We will also be hosting the "Property Tribes Landlord Panel" on the Friday, which will take the form of an open forum/debate for Landlords to discuss issues of the moment. This will be broadcast on the social web via Twitter.
Any property tribes member booking a stand at the event will be eligible for the special offer of a FREE show guide advertisement. Please email: firstname.lastname@example.com for prices. Please quote "Property Tribes".
Tickets for the event are free and you can register for your e-tickets >>> here.
Further details for the show can be found >>> here.
The Property Investor Show is engaging with the investor community on Property Tribes forum, asking for feedback, suggestions for speakers etc. You can join the conversation and have your say >>> here.
Along with our speaker appearances, we will also have a stand at the show. We hope that many property friends will drop by and say "hello" and also support the Landlords Forum.
You can also follow show up-dates on Twitter @investor_show - with the #propshow hashtag.
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Facebook "flash" forum here.
This is THE must attend property event of the year where the property tribes gather. It's a great place for business, networking, and education, so we hope to see you there!


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Two good reads are out today about groups coalescing around and pushing back against issues previously thought to rest securely in the conservative camp.
In "This is How the NRA Ends," Alec MacGillis discusses how money and some very angry women are now poised to take down the not-so-formidable gun lobby:
At long last and against all expectations, a viable movement for gun regulation is emerging. It is a development that not only bodes ill for the gun lobby and its Republican patrons, but will also complicate matters for elements of the Democratic Party who have been content to accede to the status quo. The narrow defeat of the background-check bill, it turns out, was not the end of hopes for gun reform, but the beginning.
And in "What Democracy Lost in 2012," Bob Moser argues that voters may be finally fed up with super-PAC spending in places like North Carolina:
Looking for a fresh way to counter the influence of big money, Jonathan Soros and two fellow finance reformers dreamt up their group, Friends of Democracy, as a kind of anti-super PAC super PAC. The idea was to show that money–soaked incumbents who oppose campaign–finance reform can be beaten by challengers who support reform. The conventional wisdom has always been that even if Americans loathe the influence of money on our politics, they won't vote out their own member of Congress because of it. Hoping to prove that assumption wrong, Friends of Democracy raised $2.7 million to challenge eight House Republican incumbents and support progressives who championed election reform.
The results were stunning. In a year when Republicans fared well in House races, seven of the eight incumbents Friends of Democracy went after were toppled.
In a wretched year for democracy, Friends of Democracy's success was one hopeful sign that maybe—maybe—Americans were ready to act on their frustrations with big-money politics and partisan electioneering.