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It's that time of the year! As Cannes is currently going, here's my first stab at predictions for the 89th Academy Awards. Ten years ago, The Departed won in the tightest Best Picture race (prior to the one early this year), Forest Whitaker and Helen Mirren steamrolled through critics and televised awards, an Idol reject named Jennifer Hudson took Oscar glory, and an overdue Martin Scorsese finally can call himself an Oscar winner.
This year, we might have Marty coming back again, the birth of a nation, Ang Lee at another shot to a Best Picture win, as well as Meryl Streep getting nod #20, and Oscar nominee Isabelle Huppert? Here's my take on the top six races.
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Like most Americans my age, I never got sherry. To me, it was what old ladies poured out of intricate cut-glass crystal decanters around four in the afternoon. Don't get me wrong: Day drinking is great, but I'm not an old lady. So I never bothered to learn about sherry. The sum of my sherry knowledge: (1) It is a Spanish fortified wine; (2) it tastes sweet; and (3) it is intended for sipping in tiny glassfuls.
All of that changed, however, in 2010. That's when I traveled to Andalusia in southern Spain, where the cities of Jerez, Sanlúcar de Barrameda and El Puerto de Santa María make up what's commonly referred to as the "sherry triangle." There, over the course of seven days, I studied the grapes used in sherry production and paired the end result with as much local cuisine as I could find—fresh shellfish, aged cheeses, dried sausages, fried almonds, smoked paprika.
It didn't take long for me to realize that I couldn't have been more wrong about sherry. There is, in fact, a lot to get about it. For starters, it is certainly not just for sipping. During a meal, whole bottles can easily be drained—especially lighter, drier styles such as fino, amontillado, palo cortado and oloroso. Their nutty, crisp apple flavors fit perfectly with the food I ate throughout my weeklong stay in Spain.
When I returned to Portland, I immediately wanted to put sherry in a cocktail, which I found had started to become a common impulse among my bartending brethren, who treated it as a secret handshake of sorts. One such bartender, Naren Young, beverage director at Empellón in New York City, gets sherry particularly right. His latest custom sherry cocktail, appropriately named Autumn, is the best use of this fortified wine I've tasted outside of Spain. It's also another example of why sherry should never be shortchanged again.
1½ oz. reposado tequila
¾ oz. amontillado sherry
¼ oz. Clear Creek pear eau de vie
¼ oz. maple syrup
2 dashes Angostura bitters
Stir ingredients with cracked ice and strain over fresh ice into an old fashioned glass. Garnish with a thin slice of apple.
Jeffrey Morgenthaler is the bar manager at Clyde Common, the acclaimed gastropub at the Ace Hotel in Portland, Oregon.
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China recently reformed its collective forest policy, allowing forest owners to grant management rights to outside enterprises. In a letter published last week in the journal Science, Li (Aster) Zhang and other CI scientists propose that "eco-compensation" would bring more income to local communities while protecting habitat for the giant panda (Ailuropoda melanoleuca ).
In early spring of 2010, my colleagues Russ Mittermeier, Biao Yang and I visited Changqing National Nature Reserve, one of the famous panda protected areas in Shanxi Province. There, we saw a young male panda in the wild. He was so shy, just showing his black-and-white coat for a couple of seconds before disappearing into the dense bamboo forest in front of us.
Beloved by the world for centuries, the panda once lived across large areas of China as well as parts of Vietnam and Myanmar. However, this magnificent creature is now confined to just 21,000 square kilometers (8,100 square miles) in a few isolated mountain forests in southwest China — an area smaller than El Salvador or the state of New Hampshire.
The Chinese government has made enormous strides to conserve the giant panda, including:
- Designating 63 panda reserves
- Upgrading threatened habitats by reforesting or restoring native forests, and limiting human access
- Increasing the number and conservation skills of forestry staff
- Strictly banning hunting of the species
- Pioneering captive breeding techniques
As a result of these efforts, the official count of giant pandas in the wild has increased from fewer than 1,000 in the late 1980s to nearly 1,600 today.
However, these achievements in giant panda conservation are now being jeopardized by recent tenure reform of China's 167 million hectares (413 million acres) of collective forest as we reported in the recent issue of Science.
Under China's current property law, the reform would enable collective forest owners to transfer the rights to their forest to outside private sector companies and timber enterprises. As a result, commercial logging, increased collection of firewood and non-timber forest products, unregulated tourism and certain types of industrial development may take place in collective forests at far higher levels than before.
These potential threats may cause deforestation, degradation or disturbance up to 345,700 hectares (more than 850,000 acres) of giant panda habitat, or 15% of what remains.
It's true that the reform policy may benefit individual farmers through income earned by selling their collective forest for commercial use. However, other compensation approaches could pay local people as much or more while preserving these key corridors of panda habitat.
Back in July 2011, I remember discussing these issues with Russ and Biao. We were concerned about how these reforms might impact China's panda population. The following year, Jonah Busch visited China and became involved, conducting an economic study to figure out how much "eco-compensation" funding would be needed to lease those collective forests for panda conservation.
China has spent more than US$ 100 billion on "eco-compensation" to buy back development rights from local communities in order to secure the continued provision of ecosystem services like freshwater provision and erosion prevention in Qinghai, Gansu, Inner Mongolia and some other provinces in southwest China. Under this system, communities sign long-term binding conservation agreements for forest habitat outside of existing reserves in exchange for monetary compensation from the government.
This system is already in practice in places like Kaihua in Zhejiang province, where the county government is paying landowners US$ 70 per hectare per year for 48 years to maintain 6,300 hectares (15,600 acres) of collective forest in Gutianshan National Nature Reserve.
Extending the eco-compensation program to giant panda habitat could reduce the threat that tenure reform poses to the giant panda while fulfilling the reform's goal of increasing local economic benefits. Based on a simple model of the relationship between habitat area and giant panda population, we estimated that US$ 240 million in effective eco-compensation payments could prevent a decline in the wild giant panda population from 1,596 to 1,378. An additional US$ 2.25 billion for effective eco-compensation and habitat restoration could increase the population to 2,234 — a jump that would cause the species to be downgraded from Endangered to Vulnerable under the IUCN Red List criteria.
We hope that our letter to Science will raise more public awareness about this issue, as well as convince the Chinese government that it is possible to benefit local communities without further endangering one of the country's most iconic species.
Li (Aster) Zhang is the technical director of CI-China.


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Well, that sucked.
Try again tomorrow.
P.S., dear Mac, please, try to never bring in Mesa with a four-plus lead. Throughout his career he's been combustible in non-save situations. I don't know why but it's predictable. If we need to get him some non-save work, bring him when he can't blow a huge lead.


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The gaming industry says the number of new UK projects on Kickstarter shows that the site has the potential to improve access to finance for games developers.
TIGA, the trade association representing the UK video games industry, also says it is indicative of a flourishing creative sector.
Companies such as TIGA members Blazing Griffin and Blitz Games Studios have been turning to the creative project website to generate funds.
Blazing Griffin is looking for £128,000 for its new game The Ship: Full Steam Ahead, which is a steampunk sequel to the popular 1920s-themed game The Ship (http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/709089895/the-ship-full-steam-ahead).
Blitz Games Studios announced it was looking for £350,000 of Kickstarter cash to produce a brand new Dizzy game called Dizzy Returns (http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/theolivertwins/dizzy-returns?ref=recently_launched).
Other major projects include a new Elite by Frontier Developments. A new Broken Sword reached far in excess of its £500,000 request which enabled Revolution Software to go further and announce a sequel to Beneath A Steel Sky.
More information about these projects can be found at http://www.kickstarter.com/pages/tiga Dr Richard Wilson, CEO of TIGA, said: "There is no doubt that Kickstarter is proving to be a popular path for an increasing number of developers. At a time when many of our members tell us they are struggling to persuade banks to lend them money, we have an alternative method of funding, packed with incentives for gamers, that engage them in the whole development process. Blazing Griffin's new game The Ship: Full Steam Ahead sounds terrific and Blitz's decision to produce Dizzy Returns will delight many. We hope that they both secure the support that they need."
Peter van der Watt, MD of Blazing Griffin, said: "We're delighted to be running a Kickstarter in the UK for The Ship: Full Steam Ahead. We hope that players of the original game and new players will enjoy the video and back this novel, steampunk first person shooter murder mystery game."
Nick Brown, TIGA board member, said: "I'm delighted to see these two projects launch on Kickstarter as they really do represent the creative flowering which we've come to expect both from TIGA members and UK developers more generally; incorporating new ideas and approaches whilst iterating on well-loved classics. I would very much like to see this as the tip of the iceberg however and a flavour of what we can expect to come as more UK developers take advantage of what TIGA, in collaboration with Kickstarter, can offer."


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I guess Israel's new emergency medical services will be homeopathic crystal based. I'll have to trade in my MDA jacket for one with a Red Crystal on it, and when G-d forbid I'm on the scene at an accident or terror attack - we'll have to use the new medical protocol:
Victim: moaning.
Jameel: Shalom Mr. Victim, I'll Jameel from Red Crystal of Israel's emergency response unit.
Victim: moans again.
Jameel; Don't worry - everything will be just fine. I've got my emergency homeopathic red crystal with me. If I wave it over you 3 times, I'll be able to restore your sacral energy to your body, and your body will heal itself.
Victim; still moaning.
Jameel: that's OK...now just sing John Lennon's "imagine" song to yourself, and everything will be fine. Have a nice day!
I guess this just comes in step with Iran's call to Europe to move the State of the Jews back to where in belongs; in Europe. I assume the RCI shouldn't have a problem with that either; they'll get even more international recognition, and more funding.
Final News Roundup, since this blog will probably only return on Monday:
You can be Orange or Blue when it comes to the disengagement. This IAF pilot had his own problem, and blamed the disengagement for his need to look into the women's showers on his base. He gets an "A" for creativity.
This is scary: YNET reports that the CIA visited the bomb site of the terror attack this week as the Sharon shopping mall in Netanya. The CIA wanted to "to draw lessons that could prove helpful for American troops in Iraq." Again, regardless of your political viewpoint on the US war on Iraq, everyone agrees that the US army will leave Iraq at some point. Does this mean that Israel will eventually leave Netanya as well?
For a country who's mainstream media is obsessed with secularism, its very odd that almost every Israeli newspaper wrote about Rav Quaduri's recent hospitalization for "weakness". When it comes to Kabbala, even the Israeli secularists will hedge their bets and believe in Rav Quaddri...after all, it can't hurt? Refuah Shelayma.


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use VM::EC2; my $ec2 = VM::EC2->new(...); my $gtwy = $ec2->describe_customer_gateways(-customer_gatway_id=>'cgw-12345678'); print $gtwy->ipAddress,"\n", $gtwy->state,"\n";
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Continuuity is launching the Continuuity Developer Suite 1.7 that supports batch processing, integrating MapReduce into the platform to provide developers with a broader set of workload capabilities.
Continuuity helps Java developers build applications that run with Hadoop and its HBase database. Those applications support real-time applications such as operational analytics. But CEO Jon Gray said some applications still require the batch-processing architecture of MapReduce.
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text: Back in 1995, when Newt Gingrich was Speaker of the House, we applied Sir Issac Newton's Three Laws of Motion to Speaker "Newton" Gingrich's political career. The results were groundbreaking. With Gingrich's recent sudden emergence as the front runner for the GOP Presidential nomination, we went back and took another look at our original presentation. We were stunned at how well our hypothesis held up and what little updating was required to once again scientifically and conclusively prove that Newt is an arrogant, two-faced buffoon. From MAD #336, June 1995 Writer-Artist: Al Jaffee .


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In the Fast Lane: For a change, it's a good time to be in IndyCar racing. Already riding high from the unification, then Graham Rahal's first victory, the series got its biggest boost yet with Danica Patrick's win late Saturday night at Motegi, Japan.
For a change, it's a good time to be in IndyCar racing. Already riding high from the unification, then Graham Rahal's first victory, the series got its biggest boost yet with Danica Patrick's win late Saturday night at Motegi, Japan. "It's great for Danica and the league," said Indy Racing League founder and Indianapolis Motor Speedway owner Tony George. "Everybody has been waiting for this day to arrive, and it finally has." Ticket sales are reportedly increased significantly for upcoming races, and sales of Patrick souvenirs and memorabilia are up 900 percent. Her souvenir company, MainGate, has announced it will have new gear for the Indianapolis 500 commemorating her win and will have three trailers at the track selling her merchandise. Patrick is delighted that the fallout from her win is helping the series overall. "You know, it's definitely been publicized, and people are finding out about it, and in turn, people are just finding out about IndyCar more," she said. "And so I think that there's a chain reaction, and a lot of people are affected. And it's not just about me; it's about finding out about the league, too. "I hope that it's growing and that's the idea. We are all working hard to do everything we can to capitalize on all of the great moments that happen with all of the different drivers in the league and I guess this week, it's me." Pit Crew Promotion AirTran Airways is running a contest in which the winner can be part of Patrick's pit crew for a race. Fans can enter and select the race of their choice at www.airtran.com. Good Omen The Caterpillar team is bringing the chassis which finished third at Talladega last fall and third at the Budweiser Shootout in February to the race at Talladega this weekend. "We know we've got a strong restrictor-plate package, so we're hoping for good things this weekend," said driver Dave Blaney. "These next couple of tracks are usually pretty good for this Caterpillar team, so we're hoping for good things during this next stretch of racing." Talladega is an impound race, meaning drivers must start the race with the car in the same configuration in which it was qualified. Blaney is outside the top 35 in owner points (37th) and must qualify for the race on time. NASCAR News - AJ Allmendinger is returning to the No. 84 Red Bull Toyota this weekend after a six-week absence during which Mike Skinner drove the car. Allmendinger has not qualified for a race this year. - Dale Earnhardt Jr., Kurt Busch and Brian Vickers took part in a Goodyear tire test earlier this week in Indianapolis. - Dollar General will be the new sponsor of the Nationwide Series race at Chicagoland Speedway the evening of July 11. - Max Papis will drive the No. 70 Haas Automation Chevrolet in the two Sprint Cup road races this season. Top 10 Young Jayce Van De Veer of Washington placed 10th Saturday in his exhibition race that was part of the St. Louis AMA Supercross. The 8-year-old got a tough starting spot and was third going into the first turn but came out 15th after being forced to the outside, said his father, Brad. "It was a great experience," Brad Van De Veer said. "He got to meet all the pros, and they treated him very well." Jane Miller is the Peoria Journal Star motorsports columnist. Write her at 1 News Plaza, Peoria, IL 61643, call (309) 686-3207 or e-mail firstname.lastname@example.com.


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Tencent Holdings's popular WeChat messaging application was down for a portion of users Monday morning, prompting a flurry of frustrated outbursts on social media in a sign of how many in the country have come to rely on the app for communication.
Tencent said on a verified account on Sina's Weibo microblogging platform that WeChat and some other Tencent services went down beginning around 8 a.m. Monday morning due to a malfunction with two optical cables in a server room.
This is the first major outage Tencent's WeChat has experienced since it transformed last year from a messaging application for leading-edge smartphone users to the de facto way to chat on a smartphone in China. The problem demonstrates both how challenging it can be to operate a massively growing online service in a country with almost 600 million Internet users, and just how reliant many in China are on the company's services.
In March, Tencent said it had 194 million monthly active users for the service inside China. In July, it said it has 70 million registered users outside the country.
By 11 a.m. the company said on its account that service to some users had already been restored, and its engineers were working to completely fix the problem.
"We are very sorry for the inconvenience! If we have new information we will promptly notify users. Thank you for your understanding."
If the response to Tencent's first Sina Weibo post about the outage was any indication, there was no shortage of inconvenience. Put up at 9:26 a.m., the post had already accumulated more than 16,000 comments and had been reposted more than 38,000 times by noon.
The outage is unlikely to chase away users, though repeated server problems or long repair times could impact the app's growth.
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On Sina Corp.'s Weibo microblog service, many users were relieved the problem didn't have to do with their phones or connections, but also angry at the time they spent figuring that out.
"I tried so freaking hard to log on to WeChat but failed. I thought somebody stole my account and asked for money from my friends," wrote one user under the handle Zhong Hua'er.
Another user complained about wasting money on data by re-downloading WeChat, and still another wrote: "WeChat you cheated my feelings. I worked on it the whole morning: restart, power off, download, unload, open the Internet access, close it...You need to compensate for the time that I wasted."
Still, the majority of the messages were filled with much weeping and gnashing of teeth, often in the form of rows of various melancholy emoticons.
Commenting on this, user Xiaomiao Laoba perhaps said it best: "The breakdown triggered so much online discussions….. It says we are already in a WeChat society."
[UPDATE 12:30 p.m.: Tencent said in a Sina Weibo post at 12:20 p.m. that local government construction work on a road led to the severing of two optical cables, ultimately causing the outage. It said it is cooperating with the relevant departments to replace the cables with new ones.]
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Shifting guidelines prompt calls for ROE reform
Posted : Monday Apr 23, 2012 12:57:34 EDT
The Afghan man captured on a grainy surveillance video was a known insurgent. And there he was — again — digging a hole for a homemade mine beneath a well-traveled dirt road in Helmand province.
Several Marines in a nearby combat outpost watched the video feed closely, but a decision on what to do fell to 1st Lt. Josh Waddell, executive officer of India Company, who was running the command post on the afternoon of Nov. 1 for 3rd Battalion, 7th Marines.
Waddell, 25, sprang into action, calling his battalion headquarters to get authorization — what military lawyers call "positive identification" — to launch a strike. From there, he hurriedly issued orders to ground patrol units, sniper teams and aircraft hovering nearby, coordinating a complex operation to kill or capture the enemy.
The insurgent was surrounded by a village full of women and children, so Waddell's decisions required the kind of nuanced judgment call that has become a hallmark requirement of today's often murky counterinsurgency missions.
Waddell opted against calling in the helicopter gunships. Instead, he ordered a sniper team to home in on the insurgent. The first sniper shot was high and off-target, sending the man sprinting across a patch of farmland. But other shots struck his leg and stomach. The man dropped and rolled into a ditch for cover.
Waddell had a split second to decide on his next move. And the choice he made — to fight rather than stand down — put him in one of the thorniest dilemmas faced by leaders in today's wars: the rules of engagement.
Drafted by lawyers and obsessively reviewed by senior commanders, the ROE govern when it's OK to shoot — and when it's not. But on the battlefield, confusion often reigns and leaders don't have time to seek a second opinion before ordering their troops to use deadly force.
After-action reviews of commander decisions have led to courts-martial, career-killing bad evals and hours of second guessing.
Restrictive ROE in Afghanistan have led to congressional inquiries and a move to create a special panel to decide whether a service member's actions were justified.
An order to fire
When Waddell saw some civilians hoist the wounded insurgent onto a nearby tractor, the young Marine saw a tactical retreat. He ordered his snipers to fire at the tractor's engine block, to disable it until a Marine foot patrol could arrive to detain the man.
What a lawyer later saw were civilians conducting a medical evacuation — and firing on them was a potential war crime.
Waddell ultimately ordered his snipers to cease fire after more civilians, including a child, gathered around the tractor.
In the end, the insurgent was found dead from his wounds. No civilians were injured.
Nevertheless, the incident made Waddell a target for months of investigations. His commander, Lt. Col. Seth Folsom, later said he acted "recklessly" and showed "poor judgment." Although Waddell did not break any international laws of war, he violated the "tactical directive in effect at the time."
The young officer was relieved from his job as company XO. Folsom later gave him a searing "unsatisfactory" on a fitness report, saying Waddell was "not recommended for promotion with his contemporaries."
Folsom did not respond to a request of comment.
Waddell believes the adverse fitness report will end his career. But he has few options. He has hired a high-profile attorney, Jeffrey Addicott, a retired judge advocate for Army Special Forces who runs the Center for Terrorism Law at the St. Mary's University School of Law in San Antonio.
Within the system, all he can do is appeal to the Board for Corrections of Naval Records, a tedious, time-consuming process.
"By the time the board meets and considers your case, it's too late. You're already hosed," Addicott said in an interview. "They've already transferred you to your next job — and you didn't get a good job and you're not getting promoted."
Senior military commanders say precise and appropriate rules of engagement are a crucial aspect of today's counterinsurgency-style, asymmetrical wars, in which the enemy blends easily into the civilian population. Commanders issue "tactical directives" to help clarify the intent of the rules.
Yet for many of the ground-level troops pulling triggers and authorizing real-time strikes, understanding today's nuanced and frequently shifting rules of engagement is a challenge — and a major career hurdle. At a time when the military is shrinking, one blemish in a personnel file can snuff out any chance of promotion.
These rules have evolved over the years. Seasoned troops with multiple deployments under their belt have seen a full range of ROE during the past decade.
Early in the Iraq War, troops were given broad discretion to use lethal force. But those aggressive ROE were later criticized for causing civilian casualties. Troops were told to use caution as counterinsurgency doctrines became popular among the American military leadership.
As winning hearts and minds of the local population became a central tenant of warfare, the pendulum swung and ROE tightened. The most restrictive in recent memory were imposed in Afghanistan under former Army Gen. Stanley McChrystal in 2009 and 2010.
Critics said those rules, which curtailed airstrikes, put the lives of U.S. troops at risk.
Nevertheless, those changes influenced military culture. Evidence suggests war fighters began to overcompensate — in some cases becoming exceptionally cautious.
For example, two Army officers were "severely reprimanded" in 2009 for repeatedly denying air and artillery support to a Marine company that was pinned down by more than 100 insurgents.
Not long after Army Gen. David Petraeus replaced McChrystal, Petraeus revised the ROE and issued arguably less restrictive rules for troops in Afghanistan.
Keeping up with those changing restrictions and interpreting the current commander's "tactical directive" can be a complex task. And some troops say it casts a shadow over the broader mission.
"You get the tail wagging the dog. It's no longer the mission that's critical; it's the ROE. Now guys think the ROE is the mission. Our mission is to not hurt anyone and make everyone happy," said retired Marine 1st Sgt. John Bernard, who faults the ROE for his Marine son's death in Afghanistan in 2009.
That often comes down to a choice between protecting their careers or their comrades in arms, he said — at moments when hesitation can lead to disaster.
Troops who run afoul of the ROE can face a range of reprimands, including nonjudicial punishment or even court-martial. But commanders are increasingly using more subtle administrative measures — fitness reports and performance evaluations — that can still adversely affect a career.
Greg Rinckey, a former Army JAG who specializes in military law in private practice, has handled many such cases in recent years. He said in some instances, troops may prefer a criminal charge to a bad fitness report.
"With a court-martial, you have the right to trial so you can prove your innocence," Rinckey said, but a fitness report is not as easy to respond to.
"Once it's in your file, your only option is to try to go to the board of [record] corrections, which can take at least 12 months."
By then, the lasting career damage may have already been done.
Congress gets involved
More than a decade after the start of the war in Afghanistan, some lawmakers on Capitol Hill are talking about protecting rank-and-file troops from restrictive or confusing ROE.
In an unusual move, they want to create "rules of engagement review boards," which would give troops the option of appealing adverse administrative actions related to ROE violations, such as being relieved of command.
Such boards "would help ensure upper ranks have a valid reason for alleging violations of ROE, and lower ranks would have the assurance that political bias did not play a role in the allegation," said Rep. Trent Franks, R-Ariz., a member of the House Armed Services Committee.
The proposal was inspired in part by the case of Waddell, whose father, Mark Waddell, a retired Navy SEAL commander, has aggressively sought to overturn the damaging fitness report his son received in January.
The Waddells have enlisted the help of Addicott and others. In addition to representing 1st Lt. Waddell in his appeal to the Board for Corrections of Naval Records, Addicott is also advising Franks on proposed legislation.
In an April 2 report to Congress, Addicott says ROE can lead troops "to do nothing for fear of violating" the rules. That confusion, along with preferential treatment, means not all violators are treated the same, he said.
"It is painfully apparent that rules of engagement have proven to be a source of injustice to service members in the field of combat," he said, "particularly … when the chain of command uses administrative punishment as a form of discipline, providing little recourse to the service member."
In an interview, Addicott said ROE review boards could be composed of three officers appointed by the theater commander. They would be outside a service member's immediate chain of command, but nevertheless a component of the military leadership.
"It would give an independent set of eyes to look over what happened," he said.
But some veterans advocates question the concept. "If you want to relieve someone of command in the U.S. military, you need to have a tremendous amount of evidence that there is some negligence," said Jon Soltz, an Iraq veteran and chairman of VoteVets.org, a veterans advocacy group.
Soltz suggested the concept Addicott supports would "undermine commanders on the ground," and added that he believes ROE are not a major concern among many veterans.
"We know what is right and wrong," he said.
Fighting for his career
Waddell is aggressively fighting his commanders' decision to fire him, a move he called a "soft kill" on his career.
In his formal response to the adverse fitness report, Waddell suggested the ROE are applied arbitrarily and inconsistently, and argued his understanding of his "commander's intent" was swayed in part by an aggressive strike his battalion authorized in late October, when he said a helicopter gunship sprayed nonprecision weapons into an Afghan village near civilians.
"A few days prior to this event, my battalion cleared a non-precision strike delivered from aircraft into enemy casualty-evacuation personnel within meters of an occupied civilian compound with rounds impacting within [the] compound," Waddell wrote.
That signaled to him the "level of risk the battalion was willing to assume," he said.
Waddell's father filed a formal complaint about that incident with U.S. Central Command.
A spokesman for Marine Corps Forces-Central Command said the matter was investigated and found to be "meritless."
Waddell's case was investigated for months and finally reviewed in January by Marine Brig. Gen. Lewis Craparotta, commander of 2nd Marine Division (Forward), based at Camp Leatherneck in Helmand province.
In the command investigation, Craparotta overturned a lower-level ruling that the insurgent on the tractor amounted to a "medical evacuation" and that the order to the sniper team violated the international laws of war. Still, Craparotta ruled that Waddell should have withheld fire based on risk to civilians in the area.
To be sure, Waddell faced a difficult task, the general said.
"First Lt. Waddell found himself in charge of a chaotic, complex and quickly developing situation. It began as a relatively simple engagement but evolved into a chaotic vehicle interdiction …to prevent the escape of an insurgent. It was further complicated by comingling of civilians and insurgents raising nuanced civilian casualty considerations," Craparotta wrote in the final endorsement of the command investigation.
In an addendum to Waddell's fitness report, Craparotta also said he did not agree with the recommendation that Waddell should not be considered for promotion with his peers.
"Anyone who has had to make split-second decisions in combat must recognize that judgment is not always perfect in those situations," he wrote. "We must be careful when we evaluate decisions that are made in combat when individuals have only seconds to react."
Nevertheless, Craparotta left untouched the decision by Waddell's battalion commander to relieve the first lieutenant of his XO position.
"This is the commander's prerogative," he wrote.
Staff writer Rick Maze contributed to this story.


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The Science program provides a broad view of science necessary to an understanding of the interrelationship among the sciences. Study includes the strengthening of each student's undergraduate preparation with a focus on the science curriculum for grades 5-12. All Candidates must either demonstrate their research potential by contributing an original work to a science discipline, or show their ability to interpret science by preparing a research paper.
Undergraduate teaching major in biology, chemistry, physics, earth science, physical science, or broad science. Satisfactory performance on any departmental qualifying examination which may be required. The science program advisory committee may require papers and/or a conference as evidence of the applicant's depth of understanding in the basic sciences.
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BIOL 6020 Biotechnology for Teachers (2 credits)
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Hybrids are seldom bought for emotional reasons, unless you're particularly emotional about paying extra money up front to save fuel over the years you own your car. But some hybrids, such as the new 2014 VW Jetta Hybrid, prove that at least hybrids don't have to look like a doorstop, which is one of the reasons it gets the win against the ubiquitous Toyota Prius in this Drive This, Not That matchup. It also wins from a drivability standpoint, with strong (for a hybrid) acceleration, decent handling and a gas powertrain that doesn't sound as droney as that of the Prius in the event that it comes on (it has an "E-drive" mode that allows you to drive on electricity alone up to 47 mph if you're really gentle on the gas for short distances).
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Teacher misconduct cases rising in Ohio
More social media, better reporting influence totals
Increasing use of social media and better reporting systems are believed to be among the reasons for the rising number of accusations of teacher misconduct in Ohio.
Ohio Department of Education records show the number of accusations have tripled since 2007. The problems have included lewd text messages, inappropriate Facebook posts, physical threats and sex acts with students.
Depending on the type of misconduct reported, a teacher's inappropriate behavior toward a student is classified by the state as a case of conduct unbecoming or a sexual offense.
The number of conduct-unbecoming cases reported to the state increased from 250 in 2007 to 754 in 2011. However, specific sexual offenses investigated by the education department's Office of Professional Conduct have decreased since 2008.
Experts told The Dayton Daily News for a story Thursday that social media has allowed teachers more access to students outside the classroom.
"Because of social media we find that students will text their teachers and send them emails," said John Holbrook, assistant academic director and secondary education field placement coordinator for the University of Cincinnati. "They don't often think this might not be an appropriate way to communicate with a student."
Conduct unbecoming can be crimes or misconduct involving minors, school children, or a criminal conviction or misconduct that negatively reflects upon the teaching profession.
Inappropriate relationships can develop because "many of these kids have emotional needs and maybe for the first time in their lives there is someone who cares about them," said Charles Russo, Panzer Chair in Education at the University of Dayton and adjunct professor at its law school.
"These people are predators who can recognize kids with emotional weaknesses," he said. "It's not only against the law, it's seriously harmful for a teacher to take advantage of students."
Experts recommend that teachers and coaches not socialize with students after the designated hours they are supposed to be around each other.
"It has potential to open doors for problems," said Tom Henderson, superintendent of Centerville schools near Dayton, where a former teacher and golf coach was indicted in January on charges of sexual battery involving a former student.


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Grubler was born in Flushing Hospital in Queens and grew up in Mill Basin, Brooklyn. He has a Bachelor's degree in speech and education, and a Master's degree from the historic preservation program at the University of Vermont.
He served as executive director at the Alice Austen House Museum in Staten Island, and is now vice president for the Administration of Grants with the Four Borough Neighborhood Preservation Alliance, which was founded eight years ago.
"We felt that city agencies were neglecting the boroughs other than Manhattan," Grubler said, citing the Landmarks Preservation Council as an example. "So we formed a group that would advocate for city agencies and other government entities to recognize the historical places in those boroughs."
The Queens Preservation Council also formed at the same time around eight years ago, of which Grubler is now the board chair.
The two organizations have had a major impact on protecting historic sites in Queens and the other three boroughs outside of Manhattan, particularly in the last five years, Grubler said.
"The nature of the neighborhoods in the other boroughs from Manhattan are very different," he said, for example, they don't have the high rises that are found in the city's center borough.
"There are a few bills passed on the state level that benefit homeowners and communities in low-rise neighborhoods that we've helped to push forward," he said.
One of his duties with the preservation councils is to testify at Landmarks hearings on behalf of the groups.
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As stated before, I am tired.
And the problem with being tired and blogging, is that it is hard. For me. Because before NaBloPoMo, I didn't write very much when so freaking tired. But I made this contractual obligation with myself, you see. And I was determined not to break it. Even if I type gibberish, which, upon looking back over the month of posts, apparently I felt at liberty to do. And again, here.
But the real crux (nice word, that) of the problem with being tired and blogging, is that I don't usually feel compelled to write and share something every single day. Some do.
Some things I write about are easy. Cupcakes are easy. Other things that I write about, I think about for a day or two. Or more. Like many who blog, I assume.
But the following 'Love Thursday' words? I wish I had more time to form them, to tell you more from my heart what I mean. But I am tired. And I am a slave to the contractual obligation to self.
Today I was working with a woman I do not know very well, but I do admire and respect her; she has years of working with babies and mamas, toddlers and parents. Between the classes, we were chatting, and it came to pass that I mentioned Bubbles was not my second child, but I had had another son. The statistics were quick to follow of course: Elijah, 13mos 11days, two and a half years ago, myriad of undiagnosable delays, undiagnosed growth disorder, mystery baby, very sweet, very interactive, died from....well, bronchitis. And tracheomalacia (if they're still listening). Yes, it is hard. Yes, our whole family still suffers. Umm....yes, and...umm...this little guy on my lap, Bubbles, see him? Well, yes, he is just what our family needed.
And her response was shocked and sweet and kindly and maternal and then she said,
"It must be easier though, now?"
"Easier?" I glanced at Bubbles. And at her. (?)
"Well, easier not to have to deal with all umm...that. all those...issues...I guess. Easier that way."
I said, "Well, it is my family's history. It just is. And the healing is a lifelong process."
I don't think I answered her question, but you know what? It was a stupid question. I have come to learn (and someday perhaps will accept) that people often say stupid things. Nice people, too. Stupid, stupid, stupid-ass things.
So I got over myself and was fine for the rest of the presentation. (Until later in the day when I was stuck on an entrance ramp with my car alarm going off every time I touched anything but that is really another story!)
But let me share something with you - to any of you who are left reading after the month of posting whether I had something to say or not - My son's death was not relief for me in any way. I did not feel released from his needs - I felt lost and without purpose for years.
His death was not and has not ever been anything grateful in our family. No, I don't sit around thinking, 'thank goodness we don't have to deal with a wheelchair!' Sometimes I sit around calculating how old he would be (3.8yrs, can you believe it?).
I have never, ever felt that my life was better because of his death. Honestly, I did worry often about who would take care of him if we died before he did. The thought would make me worried, scared, sad....and then angry at the world for shitting on him for being different.
But never did I feel that his death was a blessing. Some think that way. I do not.
If anything, and let me be perfectly, crystal clear about this, when you are the parent of a child who has more needs, different needs, special needs, quite often the response is to love that child just a little bit more than your other children (whom you would never, ever compare in the same realm). Because he needs you more. You bet he does. What with the world shitting on him and all. So don't be fooled into believing that some child's death was a 'blessing' or 'relief' for the family, just because he was living a different kind of life than yours.


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A group of Amarilla's friends put together a birthday celebration for her on her 81st Birthday. The picture below was in the possession of her grandson Keith B. MacDonald and also appeared in the newspaper article which was on the front page of the local paper.
Mrs. Amarilla Urton Founder of Pine R., Celebrates Birthday
A birthday has been arranged honoring Mrs. Amarilla Urton, founder of Pine River, on her eighty-first birthday to be held at her home Friday afternoon (today). A group of friends and old time acquaintances will gather on the memorable occasion and partake of a turkey dinner, which is being prepared by Mrs. Frank Shepard and Mrs. Katie Silk. The group will also present her with a purse of sliver in memory of her anniversary. As a fitting gesture to such a distinguished old lady, a short history of her colorful years during the early days of Pine River are related in the following paragraphs. The dates and facts were obtained by the editor thru the courtesy of a number of her friends.
Mrs. Amarilla Urton was born in Iowa County, Iowa on November 17, 1858, coming to Brainerd in 1877, where she was engaged as a seamstress. Here she met and married George Barclay on July 27, 1878. The young couple drove as far as Gull by team the first night and continued their trip the following day by tote-team to the territory now known as Pine River, where Mr. Barclay operated a trading-post on the river, here the property now used as a cemetery. The trading-post was built by Mr. Barclay and McNany in 1877. The following year, the store was moved to the site now occupied by the Round residence, this was really the first business place in the territory. In those days it was known as the trading-post as this was where the Indians brought their furs and exchanged them for supplies, this being the only business conducted at this time as the lumber-jacks had not yet arrived. Mr. Barclay then purchased three 40's from the federal government, the deed of which was signed by the President, received three years later which will give you some idea of the rapidity in which land deals were made in those days. Additional land was purchased by Mr. Barclay in this vicinity a short time later.
During all this time Mrs. Urton was the only white woman in the territory. For fourteen years the closest white people were at Gull Lake, which was a considerable distance in those days. One can well imagine the pioneering courage needed by a young woman to carry on in the face of all these obstacles. She spent many lonely years up here in the north, planning with her husband, the future of a town, never complaining and always doing her part in the struggle.
The second white woman to make her home here was Mrs. John Leef who arrived in 1895. Shortly after this time several pioneering settlers arrived and lumbering and timber work was in full swing. The railroad came through here in 1892, and was known as the "Brainerd Northern" running from Brainerd as far north as Hackensack which was then known as Laporte. Their main source of revenue being in hauling lumber.
The first post office was built previous to the advent of the railroad, by Mr. Barclay. Mail was delivered twice a week by stages, which traveled from Brained to the Leech Lake Agency. Four days were necessary to make one roundtrip.
The first shingled building in Pine River was the Barclay Hotel, operated by Mrs. Urton and her husband. The hotel was located on the lot across the street from the Farmers Supply store and was destroyed by fire several years ago. It was while engaged in this business that Mr. Barclay was killed while sitting in the lobby of the hotel in 1898. This was the first death recorded in the records of Cass county. Mrs. Urton later married the late George Urton.
Mrs. Urton took an active part in the building of the village donating the property now occupied by the railroad right-of-way, the Pine Ridge Cemetery, power-house site, two parks, the Lutheran and Methodist church sites and ten lots for the first school which was built in 1897. The first school teacher was Mrs. Peck. Abe White has the distinction of being the second station-agent in Pine River, coming here in 1900, and continuing in that capacity until two years ago when he retired.
The Urton residence was built in 1905 by Mr. Zigmund, father of Harris and Arthur Zigmund.
All in All, this grand old lady has had a colorful life, one that few have the privilege of experiencing. She has spent 61 years of her life here and is well past her allotted three score and ten, still has a keen mind and enjoys keeping posted on world affairs and the progress of Pine River, to which she gave the best years of her life.
It is only fitting and proper that the citizens of this community salute her as the founder and pioneer of this modern city which has developed far beyond her fondest dreams.
Friday, November 17, 1939, will no doubt be one of the most memorable days in her life as her friends gather to honor her on her 81st anniversary, bringing her the well-wishes of everyone, and the making a happy event by her already eventful life.
Source: The Pine River Journal, Pine River, Minnesota, Friday, Nov. 7, 1939, page 1 col. 4, with Picture.
The article is by far one of the best and pretty accurate regarding the life of Amarilla. It is my belief that she was probably born in Benton County, Iowa near Blairstown because that is where her father Daniel had his land at that time. He would move to Iowa County but that was not till after 1870.
I think it is very interesting that no mention is made of her children George Alexander Barclay and Grace Amarilla Barclay McDonald. Both children had died well before 1939, but there were descendants still living. They also don't mention Jefferson Dawes her 2nd husband, nor much about George Urton. I am sure they didn't have the room to really cover all the history.
It is too bad great-grandmother never wrote down her life story or her memories, it would have been wonderful to know her life in her own words.


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WEDNESDAY, June 27 (HealthDay News) -- Transplant surgeons plan to meet with U.S. Congressional staff members Wednesday to push for the repeal of a law that forbids HIV-positive patients from getting organ transplants from other HIV-positive people.
If the law is changed, patients infected with the AIDS-causing virus will have more organs available to them for transplantation, advocates say.
"We want to save lives of people with HIV who may otherwise die on the waiting list for organs," said Kimberly Crump, policy officer of the HIV Medical Association, a group of AIDS doctors and researchers.
Crump said the advocates hope to encourage lawmakers to sponsor a bill calling for the law's repeal.
However, hurdles exist. For instance, questions remain about the health risks of transplanting organs between HIV-positive patients, and research is needed to make sure such transplants are safe, experts say. And some transplant surgeons refuse to perform transplants on HIV-positive patients.
Specialists, including Dr. Dorry Segev, director of clinical transplant research at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, will discuss the special transplant needs of HIV-positive patients at the lunchtime meeting.
HIV-positive patients are vulnerable to a variety of diseases that can threaten their organs if their immune systems weaken. For example, they're susceptible to hepatitis B, which worsens faster in HIV-infected people than others and can lead to liver disease and the need for a liver transplant, explained Dr. Margaret Ragni, a professor of medicine at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center.
HIV-positive patients are also susceptible to developing kidney problems that require kidney transplants.
HIV-positive patients can receive organ transplants from people who aren't infected with HIV, but federal law banned transplants between HIV-positive patients in the 1980s during the AIDS crisis.
Ragni said medical officials have had a variety of concerns, including fears that the recipients may receive a stronger viral strain from a donor and get sicker, that HIV-related infections could be transmitted during the transplant, or that an organ from an HIV-positive donor may accidentally get transplanted into a patient who doesn't have the virus.
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Researchers estimate that changing the law could pave the way to saving the lives of 1,000 HIV-positive patients each year in the United States.
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Transplants between HIV-positive patients are still experimental, although promising research has been conducted in South Africa, Frassetto said.
Also, some transplant surgeons prefer not to treat HIV-positive patients, Frassetto said. "The transplant surgeons I work with say that some transplant groups don't want to transplant HIV patients," she said. "They don't want to be exposed to the blood and don't have the infrastructure in place to handle the complicated problems they get."
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James Young scored 25 points on 11-of-16 shooting and Julius Randle added 21 as the Blue squad cruised past the White 99-71 in Kentucky's Blue-White scrimmage on Tuesday night.
The public workout featuring the nation's top freshman class saw many of Kentucky's six McDonald's All-American recruits delight a crowd of 15,305 with highlight-variety plays. A series of nice drives highlighted Young's stellar night while Randle was strong inside on both ends; he had eight rebounds.
Aaron Harrison added 19 points and six assists for the Blue, which hit its first six shots en route to finishing 43 of 69 from the field (62 percent) and outrebounding the White 36-28. Dakari Johnson had 15 points and nine rebounds.
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Donald Douglas has news of PETA's savage attack on Katy Perry and her breasts. HATERS Gonna HATE!
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Animal rights group People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) recently slammed the use of animals in Perry's video, which features the 28 year-old singer hanging out with monkeys, elephants and tigers.
"Animals used for entertainment endure horrific cruelty and suffer from extreme confinement and violent training methods," a PETA spokesman said in a statement. "They often become stressed and anxious when hauled around and forced into unfamiliar or frightening situations."
Oh goodness.
I'm sure Ms. Perry's crew treated the animals well. Can't folks have a little fun savagery these days?
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All the characters and environments in Street Fighter IV are rendered as 3D models with polygons, similar to the Street Fighter EX sub-series Capcom produced with Arika. However, there are a couple of key differences. Art director and character designer Daigo Ikeno, who previously worked on Street Fighter III 3rd Strike, opted for non-photorealistic rendering to give them a hand-drawn look, with visual effects accented in calligraphic strokes, ink smudges and ink sprays during the fights.
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I know that everyone has already moved on to the September issues but I have only just picked up the August cover of Vogue Germany, which was an homage to Nicole Kidman. The Australian actress didn't just get two gorgeous covers, but also three incredible editorials inside that really shows off her model potential and various personalities.
We have the whimsical editorial shot by Camilla Akrans that shows Nicole wearing Dolce & Gabbana, Burberry Prorsum, Louis Vuitton and Valentino in a gorgeous outdoor setting. I just love how Camilla has shot this editorial, the soft lighting and the fuzziness to the images makes it romantic and magical and Nicole looks absolutely gorgeous styled by Nicole Knels and I love the loose curls in her hair.
Then we have the high-fashion editorial shot by Patrick Demarchelier, this is a powerful spread that unleashes Nicole's inner femme fatale and I love that the majority of the editorial is in black and white as it really suits the dramatic pieces by Rodarte, Yohji Yamamoto, Alexander McQueen, Prada and Haider Ackermann – plus did you spot that incredible studded Chanel glove?
For the final spread, Nicole gets sexy with the help of her pal, designer and stylist L'Wren Scott, who styled her in a check shirt and bra, while she frolicked in a field in a gorgeous editorial shot by Bruce Webber.
I don't think we see enough of Nicole Kidman in magazines and after seeing these gorgeous but very different editorials I don't understand why. There has been a transformation of the past few years with Nicole – not just in her editorials but also her red carpet looks and I am loving seeing her be a little more daring with fashion – she is so stunning.
Which editorial do you like the best? I think Camilla Akrans gets my vote as I just love the lighting, the setting and how beautiful Nicole looks.


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