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The secret ingredient
It's a Sunday afternoon and I've got no idea what's for dinner. The supplies from the week's earlier grocery trip have dwindled. What's left? A bit of mashed potato. A head of cauliflower. A couple of pieces of breakfast sausage. Some wilting spinach. What to do?
Here's what to do: Hit the web. My current favorite resource (and recipe sites are like rock songs, your favorite can change with each new album) is Tasty Kitchen*, billed as a "happy cooking community." Community. Hmm.
I pop onto the site, enter the few ingredients (read: leftovers) I have on hand, and then hit search. What does it bring me? A bunch of recipes, most containing one or more of the ingredients I listed. I choose one, and--supper dish dilemma solved. How did we ever know what to cook before? (And for that matter, how did we ever resolve Trivial Pursuit disputes? But perhaps this is only a problem in my family.)
Twenty years ago, when I was learning to cook, solving the "secret ingredient" challenge was fairly simple. My mom has an enormous book, a mish-mash of typewritten and hand-written, cut-outs and index cards, all stuffed in a ring-binder, organized in loose sections--"desserts," "casseroles," "veggies." But more importantly, Mom had her own mental index--one look in the pantry and she'd mentally calculate. Leftover chicken? One onion, half a pepper, and a cup or two of peas? Ding! Chicken Curry. But that was experience bourne of a dozen years of regular meal-making--and it was limited to her collection of recipes.
Now, my search still involves a mental search through my own ring-binder, but when that comes up empty--or I want something outside my expertise--the solution is simple. And that never would have happened without the wildfire popularity of blogging and the many online, open, community-based conversations that revolve around food--already-prepared or preparing it, photographing it, analyzing and reviewing it.
Why such interest? I have a few guesses.
Everybody's a critic
Everyone who's ever read a food critic's column with regularity (and a shout out here to my local food critic, Greg Cox, who I follow faithfully) imagines the critic's job is a savory one. "What I wouldn't give..." we say, "...for a job like that." As the saying goes, everyone's a critic. Anyone who eats--and that's everyone--knows what they like and they don't. Anyone who cooks, knows what they like to make, and what other people like to eat.
Good recipes--like a lot of things--are something we're usually happy to share. We take our most delicious creations to potlucks and barbecues, and the greatest compliment is being asked for the recipe. We share other food knowledge too--the same way a critic does--recommending spots with great food and service, or warning friends against places that aren't making the grade.
There have always been formal groups of food enthusiasts--supper clubs, recipe swaps, the good old-fashioned church cookbook. But, like your personal recipe collection, those are limited by access and volume. You can only buy so many cookbooks, and printed books are hard to search. (Protip: Post-it Notes. Color coordinated tabs for your cookbooks.) And now, anybody with a internet connection and a stove can be the world's next food blogger. There are recipes everywhere. But what happens after that?
Crowd-sourcing the cookbook
Two things happened. One, the internet grew up. Simple text applications gave way to tools with more complex functions and even simpler interfaces. Setting up a multi-user blog, a discussion board, or a library of searchable data became ridiculously easy. And two: the once-isolated blogs--the ones started to share info with just a handful of friends--began to cross-pollinate. Successful blogs linked to other blogs, making them successful too. As their hosts added features--comments, discussions, contests, polls--people began to identify themselves and identify with others. They worked together to create both networks and aggregates. And these joint projects, like Tasty Kitchen, contain far more information than a single-sourced project.
And cooks like Ree Hammond (better known as "Pioneer Woman") ended up blog big-shots by offering very simple things. Good recipes, with concise instructions, fantastic pictures, and the occasional video.
Wait--pictures and video?
Crowd-sourcing and technology brought diversity and volume, as well as the ability to manage it. But technology also has other benefits over Mom's cookbook**. If you take a good tour of the most popular food communities online, you'll find that they have a lot in common. The recipes are good, of course, and the instructions clear. But they also all have at least some element of multimedia--whether it's dozens of prep shots (far more than you could fit in a printed book) or video instructions.
Technology allows for massive geographic and ethic diversity, the use of mixed media, shared ownership, and collaborative effort. All things that strengthen and enrich communities and produce more diverse results with nearly-infinate depth--the great benefits of crowd-sourcing.
But what about... copyright?
One of the things that's assumed--in all this recipe swapping and sharing--is that the recipes used aren't under copyright. One of the dangers of very open communities is that they can be tainted by works used without license. Recipes that are published in books or even by websites that have restrictive copyrights shouldn't be republished or repurposed.
The US Copyright office defines what kinds of works constitute copyrightable recipes:
"Mere listings of ingredients as in recipes, formulas, compounds, or prescriptions are not subject to copyright protection. However, when a recipe or formula is accompanied by substantial literary expression in the form of an explanation or directions, or when there is a combination of recipes, as in a cookbook, there may be a basis for copyright protection.
"Protection under the copyright law (title 17 of the U.S. Code, section 102) extends only to "original works of authorship" that are fixed in a tangible form (a copy). "Original" means merely that the author produced the work by his own intellectual effort, as distinguished from copying an existing work. Copyright protection may extend to a description, explanation, or illustration, assuming that the requirements of the copyright law are met.
"Copyright protects only the particular manner of an author's expression in literary, artistic, or musical form. Copyright protection does not extend to names, titles, short phrases, ideas, systems, or methods."
(Source: US Copyright office, http://www.copyright.gov/fls/fl122.html)
But, much like with software, the code doesn't answer questions about how much of a recipe constitutes the work, or what qualifies as "substantial" expression. Add to this the nature of recipe swaps and you might never realize Great Aunt Ida's Potato Gratin is really a recipe originally from an Alton Brown cookbook.
Keep on cooking
So, what to do? Well, if you're someone who runs a cooking blog, or participates in a cooking community, make sure your contributions are unencumbered and copyright-free.
You can even go a step further, and license your original contributions through Creative Commons (we'd suggest BY-NC-SA at least), thus protecting their sharability, now and in the derivative future.
Support blogs that provide original content from real people; check carefully when you see cooking or recipe contests crop up. Many encourage you to submit original works, but the second you do, they become property of the contest sponsor--often a corporation or commercial interest. Competitions like Food52--which sounds like a promising, open recipe contest at first review--is really just a clever cover for a publishing company that wants to put together a recipe book without having to pay any actual authors.
But, take heart--those kinds of sites seem to be the vast minority, and they're usually easily identified. Take a peek at their T&Cs, or the legal language around their submission guidelines. Don't be tempted by the promise of "prizes" or "getting published"--you already possess the power to publish yourself and the prizes aren't usually that great anyways.
Oh, and one more thing--open source innovation doesn't just extend to the cooking blog. SourceForge has more than one "recipe organizer"--just like my mom's big binder--that brings the ease of use of the web apps to your very own collection.
Man, what a great time to be a geek in the kitchen!
* Tasty Kitchen is an offshoot of a popular blog run by a lady known to her fans as "Pioneer Woman." If the name sounds familiar it's probably because you've seen her in other places--her face, family, and Oklahoma-ranch life have decorated the pages of magazines, been on TV, and recently she released her first cookbook. She's not the first--nor the last--blogger to get picked up by a publishing house, or find commercial sponsorship for what was, at the outset, a hobby. Other popular blogs--on many topics--garner their owners "real" credibility: Donal Skehan's Good Mood Food Blog became the Good Mood Food Book, Heather Armstrong's sarcastic blog Dooce paved the way to two books (so far) and a host of advertising opportunities, and there's the perennial holiday gift favorite Postsecret. Bakerella made it onto Martha Stewart and behind-the-scenes at Betty Crocker. Even niche topics--like Jennifer McCann's Vegan Lunchbox (which contains simple directions for wholesome, healthy vegan and allergen-sensitive bento-box-like lunches for children) make it into book form, and garner the interest of readers and subscribers. Bottom line--many food enthusiasts online are every bit as qualified as their published counterparts--in many cases, they're one and the very same.
** Mom, I'm not dissing The Cookbook. Please still leave it to me in your will. Please?
Tasty Kitchen:
Tastecasting (Crowdsourcing)
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Both types contain the following information: student name, address, Excelsior College student identification number and the last four digits of the U.S. Social Security Number, day and month of birth date, most recent degree program, most recent degree program major or concentration (if applicable), date of most recent enrollment, date of degree conferral(s) (for graduates only), sources of credit, amount of credit awarded, grades, Excelsior College GPA, overall GPA and academic honors (if applicable – Excelsior College transcripts for Associate in Science nursing students will include only the Overall GPA).
Official Excelsior College transcripts will remain permanently on file in the student's Student Information System (SIS) record. Only one Excelsior College transcript will be maintained for each student. All individuals who have earned credit toward a Excelsior College degree or who have established a OneTranscript® (formerly known as Credit Bank) record may request that official transcripts be forwarded to themselves or third parties or may request student copies. No transcripts can be sent without the written authorization and signature of the student.
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Students who wish to obtain a transcript for their own records or personal use should request a student copy of the transcript.
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[first published March 2, 2005] Cheers were loud and hopeful when the United Nations passed the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide in 1948. Here was the world body of practically all sovereign countries agreeing that genocide was a crime against humanity, and that its perpetrators should be tried and punished. Thereafter, the Convention was ignored for almost five decades.
Finally, the UN has taken action against genocide, as well as crimes against humanity, although sometimes half-heartedly. It has set up tribunals to try perpetrators of the genocides in Rwanda and Yugoslavia (Bosnia), has agreed with Cambodia on setting up a joint tribunal to try those Khmer Rouge responsible for murdering millions of Cambodians, and has negotiated with Sierra Leone a Special Court to try perpetrators of crimes against humanity during its ten-year civil war.
Such tribunals or courts are one reason the UN's record is not entirely negative. But, and this is a very crucial but, the UN has ignored or paid nominal attention to the mass murders by most other thugs, such as those who rule Burma, Iran, Syria, Sudan, and North Korea. Although with the murderers still in power a formal Tribunal may be impossible or impractical in these cases, at least they could be thoroughly investigated in the light of some of its own reports, and sanctions taken against them.
One of the most telling cases is the mass murders, and government created famine in North Korea. The country is one vast prison in which hundreds of thousands have been murdered in the last decade, and possibly three million have been starved to death. With regard to the ruling thugs responsible, and Kim Jong Il, the chief thug among them, the UN is like the three monkeys that see no evil, hear no evil, and speak no evil.
Similarly with the Taliban of Afghanistan, who when they controlled the country were systematically murdering their own people, repressing all their human rights, and enslaving (this is not hyperbole—the proper word is enslaving) all woman. The UN sat on its hands despite the written reports it received from its officials in the country pointing out that the murders were ordered or approved by Mullah Omar, the Taliban ruler. Just consider the Taliban murder of 178 people in the Yakaolang district of north-central Afghanistan, where UN officials had evidence that Omar was in contact with the Taliban troops doing the democide. One UN official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, exclaimed that, "These are the same type of war crimes as were committed in Bosnia and should be prosecuted in international courts." Out of frustration that the UN was doing nothing to stop the Taliban, staff members leaked their reports to the public.
Then, consider Rwanda, in which during four months of 1994 about 800,000 people were murdered in a systematic genocide organized by the Hutu government, and carried out against the Tutsi minority by its troops, police, and specially trained death squads. In 1999, an independent report, commissioned by Secretary-General Kofi Annan, and headed by former Swedish Prime Minister Ingvar Carlsson, condemned the UN's reluctance to accept evidence of genocide, and reluctance to act once the genocide was undeniable.
Perhaps the most famous case, although the genocide involved a much lower number of murdered–around 8,000 Muslim men and boys–was in Srebrenica, Bosnia, during the Bosnian war of 1995. Another UN commissioned report on this asserted that the UN peacekeepers stood by while Serb troops massacred those to whom the UN had promised protection. The UN had refused to reinforce their peacekeepers with enough troops, and even then severely restricted the action of those that were there.
Presently, there are a civil war and mass murders in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. And again, UN peacekeepers are under armed, under manned, and over restricted by rules of engagement. Some three million Congolese have been killed so far, but all UN peacekeepers have done is stand by and watch them being murdered. In response, the UN Security Council voted to deploy an additional French led 1,400 soldiers to Bunia, the capital. But, their mandate was temporarily confined to Bunia–they could not leave it to protect refugees in neighboring areas where most of the killing was taking place. As this killing escalated, the UN deployed a new force of 3,000 Pakistani and Bangladesh troops with permission to prevent killing and violence across the whole Ituri region–3,000 UN peacekeepers across a region over twice the size of Albania.
There is also Russia's Moslem Chechnya in which Russian troops and agents have carried out a campaign of democide, torture, and war crimes. In 2000 and 2001, the Human Rights Commission noted Russian abuses there and asked that the Russian government investigate them, and cooperate with UN human rights monitors. At no cost to itself from the UN, Russia has ignored these resolutions and in 2003, a similar resolution failed to get enough votes.
Then there was Saddam Hussein's mass murder, those of Iran's Ayatollahs, the terrorist genocide bombing of Israeli Jews, and further back in time, Stalin's post World War II murders, those of the new communist thug regimes of Eastern Europe, and then Mao Tse-tung's massive extermination of "land lords," "antirevolutionaries," and "rightists," . . . Enough. Why beat a dead horse? Simply, the thugs in the UN usually have had their way on this, as with so many other political questions. Millions, tens of millions, have thus been murdered SINCE THE UN WAS CREATED. But, for virtually all these poor souls, it was as though no UN existed.
Too sad.
However, international relations are undergoing a revolutionary change that is silently preventing democide regardless of the UN. In jumps and leaps, this is the buildup of democracies, which now amount to about 121, with about 89 of them liberal democracies. As this number has grown, violence in international relations and democide has sharply declined. More on this at another time.
Link of Note
WORLD WAR II" (5/98) By R.J. Rummel
In this article, I point out that since 1945, when the UN was created, and up to the end of the century, about 80,000,000 people have been murdered in cold blood by one regime or another, around thirteen times the number of Jews murdered in the Holocaust . Most of this democide has been done for political reasons (reasons of state or power), but also much of it has been outright genocide (the killing of people by virtue of their ethnicity, race, religion, or nationality. About 87 percent of these murders were done by communist regimes—it was death by Marxism (see my commentary on this here).


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In another episode of Expanded Universe literature, taking place at the end of the Clone Wars, there is news that Dark Warning includes our favorite "remorseless up-and-comer."
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The Last of the Jedi series continues to explore the dark times: the era when holding a lightsaber was a death sentence, the time when the Empire spreads inexorably across a galaxy weary from the Clone Wars.
As the second book of the series begins a fugitive Obi-Wan Kenobi, accompanied by a fellow escapee from the Emperor's purge, must avoid bounty hunters including the remorseless up-and-comer, Boba Fett. Their voyages bring them to a war-torn world that refuses to accept Imperial control or that the Clone Wars are over. This planet may have been the last stand of several Jedi warriors. Tantalized by this opportunity to track down clues as to their surviving brethren, Obi-Wan enters this fray, offering his guidance to a rag-tag army determined to repulse the unstoppable Empire.
Dark Warning is by Jude Watson, with cover art by John Van Fleet. It is scheduled for publication this August from Scholastic Inc.


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The world of academic publishing has got to be a case study in scholarly symbiotic relationships waiting to happen. (Or, for the cynical, a study on parasitic relationships.)
On the one hand, you have the faculty who need to get published in order to maintain their steady progress through the tenure process (for those lucky enough to get tenure, but that's another story). In writing their papers, they need to have access to other scholarly work in order to support/contrast/argue against so as to build upon established and accepted works. The faculty rely on the library to procure these sources, whether through subscription (most likely) or article requests (a different sort of expense from my understanding). The faculty get their sources, write their papers, and get them published in whatever journal they can get accepted to.
On the other hand, you have the journal providers. They have gone out and made the deals necessary to be the owners or distributors for these journals. These providers want to put their subscriptions into the hands of the greatest number of institutions for both basic revenue reasons and the idea of building a scholarly following. (I might just be engaged in wishful thinking, but I would imagine that part of their mindset would be something like this.) The more subscribers they have, the greater chance that their papers will be cited, the more citations means that there will be a greater demand for that journal as time goes by, therefore the more potential future subscriptions could result. Their relationship with the library is crucial to getting the information and data into the hands of the faculty.
Does it sound right so far? Faculty need the journals for both research and publishing for advancement; the journals need people to submit papers, subscribe to their content, and increase the academic reputation of their holdings. Everyone gets something out of it so everyone is happy; it's a (relatively) balanced scholarly ecosystem.
Unless, like any real ecosystem, you change one of the variables. Like raising subscription prices. Or making exclusive deals. Or restricting or limiting access. Or writing licensing agreements that are not research friendly. There are possibly a few things that I'm missing that my readers will be happy to point out, but you get the drift.
It is hardly a surprise that there is a movement towards open access; it's a natural reaction towards a change in the scholarly environment. Because when "you have to have it" meets "we can't afford it" or "it's unreasonable to get it", something has to give.
I'm going to be following this closely since it creates a remarkable dilemma. Will it create a slowing effect on the pace of academic research, thus depriving these journals of the quantity and quality of papers they need to continue? Will faculty seek alternatives that defy the traditional scholarly order and looks towards open access or shared research consortiums? How much can either side afford to give in order to continue their respective work?
I look forward to any comments or insights on this one. Because from my vantage point on the outside, it doesn't look like a healthy environment.
I want to acknowledge these posts since inspired me to write this little ditty:
Meredith Farkas, Faculty inertia and change in scholarly publishing
Barbara Fister, Breaking News: Academic Journals are Really Expensive!
If you don't subscribe to them in your respective reader, you really should.


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The Oklahoma City Zoo welcomed a Madagascar flat-tailed tortoise hatching last week. Although the baby turtle will not be on display at the zoo, the birth marks a significant step in preserving a critically endangered species.
In the wild, Madagascar flat-tailed tortoises inhabit the closed-canopy, dry forests of Madagascar. They are highly threatened by habitat loss, due to agricultural and highway development, mining, and petroleum exploration.
The turtle birth was part of the Association of Zoos and Aquarium's Species Survival Plan. For more information, see The Oklahoman.


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As leaders in our industry, we hold ourselves to the highest standard of professional behavior. The SGS Code of Integrity defines the main principles of professional integrity for the SGS Group and is an expression of the values that are shared throughout our organization, our businesses and our affiliates.
We are committed to a culture where issues of integrity and professional ethics can be raised and discussed openly. Guidance and support is available to help employees and other stakeholders acting on behalf of, or representing, our organization to understand the Code and to help them make the right decision when faced with an ethical dilemma.
SGS was the first inspection company to implement a global integrity training program for its employees. Our SGS Group compliance program, based on our SGS Code of Integrity, exists to ensure that the highest standards of integrity are applied to all our business activities worldwide, in accordance with international best practice.
Our Annual Integrity Training Program acts as a periodic refresher of the principles of the Code and is conducted by each supervisor and manager with responsibility for staff. A record of participation is kept to ensure that all staff complete the training each year. Specific integrity training sessions for supervisors and managers are also conducted.
The Annual Integrity Training is supplemented by an interactive E-learning program, which integrates the general principles contained in the Code into our different SGS businesses. Available on the Internet in English, French, Spanish Chinese and Korean, it is used as a permanent training too, especially for use by our new employees as part of their induction.
The Chief Compliance Officer is responsible for implementing procedures governing the ethical behavior of our employees and consultants, and for conducting investigations on alleged staff misconduct. He also sets the standards of integrity that we expect of our business partners. Reports on suspected violations of the Code can be submitted, or advice obtained, by calling the Integrity Helpline or by filing a written report online or sending it by fax or mail.
The Professional Conduct Committee ensures implementation of the Code of Integrity within our organization and advises management on all issues of business ethics. It also approves agreements for the procurement or development of business opportunities with intermediaries.
The Professional Conduct Committee consists of four members:
- Chairman of the Board of Directors: P. Kalantzis
- Chief Executive: F. Ng
- Board Member: S.R. du Pasquier
- Chief Compliance Officer: O. Merkt
Maintaining our professional integrity in our dealings with clients, colleagues, suppliers and in the communities where we do business is the only way to protect our reputation in the marketplace. It is the shared responsibility of each and every SGS employee.


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Will Gordon's $20 Bourbon Battle: Wild Turkey 81 vs. Four Roses
Pull up a stool next to your drinking buddy Will.
Today is my wife's birthday, which would be my favorite day of the year if it fell during a more reasonable month. It's hard to be unabashedly enthusiastic about any day with a high temperature of 28 degrees, but it helps when the day in question is spent celebrating the existence of your favorite person. It helps further when the celebration is centered on eating and drinking and giving gifts of pickles and skirts.
The pickles were easy to choose, because although we've yet to discuss whether either of us intends to have children or save for retirement, we settled the pickle score on our first date: Ours will always be a sour house, and if any nontraditional flavors are introduced, they will be of the smoky or spicy variety. The skirt-picking process was a fair bit more fraught.
I am a very poorly dressed man, even by work-at-home-writer standards, because I am a slob but also because men's clothes tend to come in two basic flavors: too boring or too flashy. So at my current gender, I don't even bother to try. But I'm sure I would make for a smartly dressed lady, because women's fashion is so much more interesting. If female me spent time thinking about, shopping for, and keeping mustard stains off of her clothes, she would be rewarded with the chance to look stunning or sexy or sophisticated, or at least purple or pink or for christ's sake even yellow. The best a man can generally aim for is to clean-khaki his way into looking probably not homeless. Not worth the buttons and zippers, I say.
Emily does a very nice job of dressing herself, but when it's my turn to pick out her clothes I tend to favor things a bit more flamboyant than her usual wardrobe. What I'm saying is that I try to outfit my wife like a backup dancer in a Motley Crue video. It's a good look for her, but alas an impractical one for a 9 to 5er who spends more time riding city buses and sitting in office chairs than writhing on Camaro hoods and dancing on bars. While it's fair to speculate that the problem is more in her lifestyle choices than my fashion choices, it is, after all, her birthday, and an inappropriate gift is worse than no gift at all.
That's why I had to find the best possible $20 bourbon to give my friend Panda as thanks for giving Emily a CD full of what I'm told are really nice photos of our wedding. I haven't looked at the pictures yet, because I tend to be much more handsome in my mind than on my computer screen, but I'll trust Emily's claim that we owe Panda a favor, and since I don't know his skirt size or pickle preference, bourbon seems the safest bet.
Wild Turkey 81
I've never loved a Wild Turkey product, but the new 81 proofer has been well received by the whiskey press, so I thought it was worth investigating. The 81 is a blend of 6-, 7-, and 8-year-old whiskies, which makes it older than most of its price peers. The marketing folks say the extended barrel time allows it to evolve into "the perfect mixin' whiskey," but I found it to have plenty enough character to stand alone. The nose is assertive yet nuanced, and it paints an accurate picture of a bourbon that is far more compelling than I remember from past encounters with Turkey. It opens with a spicy lemon note that gives way to a long stretch of caramel before small doses of honey and orange show up on the finish.
Four Roses Yellow Label
The Four Roses Distillery uses two different mash bills and five distinct yeast strains to produce hits such as the Small Batch and Single Barrel, and the budget-friendly Yellow Label is a blend that can include all 10 of the house recipes. Four Roses bourbons are known to be more subtle than some of the competition, and at first sniff the Yellow Label comes across as subdued almost to the point of lethargy, with a faintly sweet smell that suggests vodka almost as much as it does whiskey.
But the flavor comes through big-time once you stop messing around with your nose and get your tongue in on the action. The first impression is of elegant caramel with just a bit of vanilla and not much by way of other barrel flavors; mint, apple, and cinnamon notes emerge with time and persist through the surprisingly long, rich finish. As much as I liked the Wild Turkey 81, the Panda will be getting a bottle of Four Roses Yellow Label tonight—if he shows up to Emily's birthday party before we get too thirsty.
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Felix Geisendorfer has a quick little sorting example posted today showing on way to sort a multi-dimensional array.
Quick challenge, lets say you have an array and you want to iterate through your products by [the key of each subarray in $products] Product.ordering ASC. Whats the fastest way to do this?
His solution involves using an array_flip call on the extracted information (using Set::extract), ordering it with ksort and pushing the values back into the $product array in the right order.
Check out the comments for more examples including ones that make use of array_multisort.


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2013 AAU Junior Olympic Games in the News
The AAU Junior Olympic Games attract nation-wide competition in the various sports every year. With that nation-wide competition comes media exposure from many different areas of the country. From newspapers, to news broadcasts, to internet blogs the hard work and dedication of these young athletes is publicized. An internet search of the keywords "2013 AAU Junior Olympic Games" generates 1,610 different hits. Below is a list of some of the sports and athletes that were highlighted:
· Detroit News: (Photo Gallery): http://apps.detroitnews.com/apps/multimedia/gallery.php?id=16426
· Track and Field: The Oakland Press: Ex-NFL quarterback Cunningham has success with youth club in Nevada:
· Sport Stacking: Local 4's Steve and Sandra learn Speed Stacking (video):
Gymnastics: Detroit News: Girl, 6, learns the ABCs of gymnastics routine at the AAU Junior Olympic Games: http://www.detroitnews.com/article/20130801/SPORTS07/308010037
· Wrestling: ABC Action News, WXYZ (video): Team Michigan competes in AAU Junior Olympic Games: http://www.wxyz.com/dpp/sports/team-michigan-competes-in-aau-junior-olympic-games
· Track and Field: WPSD Local 6 (video): Local AAU track stars make trip to Junior Olympics: http://www.wpsdlocal6.com/news/local/Local-AAU-track-stars-make-the-trip-to-Junior-Olympics-217193271.html
· Track and Field: The Oakland Press: AAU Junior Olympic Games in Full Swing around Metro Detroit:
· Field Hockey: Newsplex.com: Ballard Excited for Junior Olympics Opportunity (video): http://www.newsplex.com/sports/headlines/Ballard-Excited-for-Junior-Olympics-Opportunity-216065371.html?ref=371
· Track and Field: Courier Post: Sicklerville 'Miracle Baby' becomes Champion: http://www.courierpostonline.com/article/20130730/NEWS01/307300028/Sicklerville-miracle-baby-becomes-champion


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Electronics Production | September 28, 2007
Atlas Copco transfer from the UK to Hungary
Atlas Copco has decided to establish a factory for assembly of pneumatic power tools in Hungary. Designed to strengthen the long-term competitiveness of its Industrial Technique business area, the step includes a proposal to transfer assembly from Hemel Hempstead, Great Britain.
"This is part of our strategy to increase sourcing from Eastern Europe and Asia," says Fredrik Möller, Business Area President, Atlas Copco Industrial Technique. "By establishing production in Hungary, we are lowering our cost base and safeguarding our future growth prospects." The factory, located close to Budapest, will become fully operational during the first quarter of 2008. A consultation process will be initiated in Hemel Hempstead, where Atlas Copco primarily produces pneumatic tools for the automotive and general industry under the CP Desoutter brands. The measures are expected to affect approximately 85 employees. The factory currently employs almost 200 people. Costs related to the proposed move amount to slightly less than MEUR 5. "We regret the unfortunate situation this change will represent for our employees in Hemel Hempstead, and the company will take every reasonable action to assist those affected in achieving alternative employment either within or outside the Atlas Copco Group," Möller says. Great Britain is an important market for Atlas Copco and the changes will not have any effect on the marketing, sales and service of CP Desoutter products. Möller says: "This reorganization will give us the efficiencies of production and administration to be able to operate in the market with a greater competitive edge and to further develop the range and quality of products to the benefit of our customers."
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Escaped inmate back in custody
An inmate who escaped while in the custody of a Milwaukee County Corrections Officer at Columbia St. Mary's Hospital late Wednesday morning has been found.
Keyon Westlan, 30, was found in the ceiling of the medical commons building and cancer center across the street from the main hospital and was taken back into custody.
The inmate was being taken to a medical appointment at Columbia St. Mary's Hospital at 2311 N. Prospect Ave. when he escaped from custody Wednesday.
A Sheriff's Office representative said Westlan was not handcuffed at the time in order to use the restroom. He then assaulted the correctional officer and ran.
WISN 12 News reporter Kent Wainscott spoke with a hospital employee who saw the escape as it was happening.
"I was going into the driveway to pick up a patient. This guy in a hospital gown and pants, he was running out of the hospital. I nearly hit the guy. I looked. I was on the phone with our dispatcher. I said, 'You've got an escaped patient or something.' I saw the deputy chasing him, so we high-tailed it in the driveway. They chased him over to the cancer center They got him in a bathroom. He was up in one of the ceiling tiles," witness Chuck Leitermann said.
Westlan had crawled into a space above ceiling tiles from a bathroom and then hid in an opening between walls.
He was being held on drug charges.
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If there's one thing Vegas is never short of, it's people trying to sell you drugs. Now, I've been to Vegas a few times before, but this time it was different. And I think it's because I was wearing my Kangol hat.
I didn't think it would make any difference either, but during last week's trip to Sin City, two things happened:
1) I wore my brand new wool Kangol hat, and...
2) I was approached by more drug dealers than ever before in my LIFE!
It was the strangest thing. For example, on our first night in town, my friend Danny and I decided to walk up and down the strip. (The people watching was fantastic.) Throughout the evening we crossed over several bridges on which I noticed various types of people shouting drug code words such "Nuggets," "Doses," "X" and "Blow."
And they were all staring right at me!
Although I've always chosen not to use drugs, I've certainly had my share of exposure to the sales thereof. But not like this. Not this much!
Still, by far the most intrusive and strange offer came from a young kid at the foot of the escalator by the Aladdin. I noticed him standing up against a pole on the sidewalk, minding his own business. To my surprise, he didn't approach me or shout something like "Hey Scott, need some crack?" However, at the exact moment Danny and I passed him by, he quickly sidled up to me, stuck his head in my face and yelled, "CHRONIC CHRONIC CHRNOIC!!"
Feel free to check out the Online Street Slang Drug Dictionary to learn what that means.
Have you ever noticed a change in approachability due to clothing?
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The Surveillance Studies Centre and The New Transparency Project
Dr. David Lyon, Professor in the Department of Sociology and Director of the Surveillance Studies Centre, leans in to make his point: "You know, we need to talk about surveillance and privacy. We need to talk about it in our schools, in our organizations, on campus. We need to say, 'Do you know what happens to personal data here? Do you care?' People's life chances and the choices they can make in life are affected by surveillance."
Lyon has been talking with me for a good hour or so, unveiling a world that most of us ignore in our day-to-day lives, but which is present and persistent in nearly everything we do. We live in a surveilled society where personal information is routinely collected, sorted and classified, often without our knowledge.
I reflect on my own habits. I tend to think of my own personal data as something I keep in my wallet, or type at the top of a private tax form. But listening to Dr. Lyon, a much richer landscape of personal information emerges. I begin to realize that every day I scatter little bits of myself around a digital world. As I walk to my office, my cell phone is not only broadcasting my location, but the trail is being logged. I browse the web, send email, and post to a social media site. All these data can be retrieved, sorted and classified in ways about which I am completely ignorant.
Dr. Lyon had this same kind of revelation over two decades ago while writing a book about the myths and realities of an emerging information society. As a professor and scholar in sociology and history, he was intensely curious about how the modern society came about, and its key moments of transformation. Looking at the interplay between cultural beliefs and the technologies that develop in that culture led him to look critically at the so-called "information society." While writing his first book on the subject (The Information Society: Issues and Illusions, 1988), Lyon saw a developing interplay between organizations and institutions that collect personal data and emerging digital technologies.
"When I was writing the chapter on government collection of personal data, I thought to myself, 'Oh my goodness, this chapter speaks to me about a whole world of things that I don't really understand all that well.' And that really set me on a course that I've been on ever since."
Lyon's course initially led to the creation of the Surveillance Project at Queen's with his colleague Dr. Elia Zureik (emeritus). The Project received provisional centre status as the Surveillance Studies Centre in 2009 (official status in 2012). The Centre works across disciplines, with involvement from the School of Business, the Faculty of Law, the School of Computing plus other departments in the Social Sciences and Humanities, such as Film and Media.
The complexity of the field under study can't be understated, particularly as surveillance is a continually developing target. It is a dynamic system, where society responds to, and drives, the use of new technologies in the field of surveillance.
The main interest of the Centre is to study the trends in surveillance – the context in which new technologies will arise, in addition to the details of this-or-that technology or internet platform. By understanding the trends, the Centre hopes to inform policy and legislation. For the last five years, the group has been working on a major project, called The New Transparency, including a report, Transparent Lives: Surveillance in Canada, which is nearing completion.
"It's a great network of scholars around the country and around the world," Lyon beams. "It's wonderful to be with people who are both totally intellectually engaged with really difficult problems that are also politically contentious, and where there's a demand that one thinks ethically about these kinds of issues."
A case in point is the recent abandonment of Bill C-30 where the government sought to change how police and other law enforcement officials could gain access to personal online data from telecom and internet service provider (ISP) companies without a warrant. Lyon shakes his head and remarks, "The degree of unaccountability and lack of oversight in that process was astonishing."
So in response, at a New Transparency workshop, the implications of the legislation were discussed, and out of that came a public campaign – led by OpenMedia.ca, but informed, among others, by the academic research of Lyon and his colleagues. "I think I'm correct in thinking that one of the reasons that the government pulled right back on Bill C-30 was because of the extent of interest raised on the issue by the campaign."
Social Sorting
The challenges of surveillance in society go well beyond the traditional tensions of police, state and the privacy of citizens. "We're all involved in this," Lyon remarks. "We're part of an increasingly surveillant context." The Internet gives us an amazing amount of information about one another. Every time you check up on a new acquaintance or job applicant through social media, you are conducting surveillance of a sort. We associate ourselves with some people, but not with others, and thus sort ourselves in very powerful ways. But when our self-sorting is exploited through the algorithms and in the databases of huge organizations, the sorting machine thus created affects us in ways we are not aware of. Social sorting has been around for ages – we size people up, judge their clothing, their neighbourhood, their accents, where they fit into our conception of society. But the sheer power of databases, and the algorithms created to sort people into groups based on those data, puts modern social sorting on a completely different plane. "The search engine of Facebook is becoming the kind of model of how to do this because, unlike Google, Facebook is relationship based. And so the clustering is being done by us as we choose friends. So, in a sense, we are "friending" those who will betray us to the world." How data are sorted and categorized have very real implications as people are socially sorted in profiles and groups. This is done on you without your knowledge, and without any way to change it. A simple example is how companies choose to locate retail services near more affluent communities and avoid poorer ones. A more poignant situation is how one ends up on a no-fly list and one's powerlessness to do anything about it.
Social sorting is often done with the best intentions. When certain books or albums are recommended to you on Amazon, it is often quite useful and welcome. But the consequences can also be as negative as they are unintentional. Krystle Maki is a PhD student doing pioneering work on how the use of sorting by Ontario's welfare system is leading to discrimination against women on welfare as a group.
Lyon is visibly impressed by the students and colleagues who work in this field: "I don't think anyone that we know in our Centre or in our larger national and international networks is interested in surveillance in a dispassionate way. I mean, it is intellectually fascinating, but most people who are engaged in it are concerned about issues of privacy or civil liberties or human rights."
Another PhD student at the Centre, Özgün Topak, is studying the effects of surveillance along the Greek and Turkish borders, and the experiences of migrants dealing with frankly inhumane policy. "Law is far, far behind what's happening in the field. There are crucial issues to do with just basic social justice that are raised by surveillance today."
The issues surrounding social sorting involve a move from the acts of the individual to the perceived risks of the profiled group. Moreover, you may not know how you got into a group, or why you are now under suspicion, or how to disassociate yourself from a particular group."A Kafka understanding of this world is in some ways better than the Orwellian metaphors because it gives that sense of the experience of surveillance. You don't know why you're being called. You don't know how you got on a list. You don't know what the criteria were that classified you in a particular way. You don't know how to get out of it. You don't know what the consequences are for you or your family. It's very Kafkaesque in that sense."
And this is perhaps the crux of the work being done at the Surveillance Studies Centre: there is an emerging surveilled context that certainly affects, and perhaps even distorts society, and democracy, and freedoms. And it isn't a conspiracy, or the result of bad intentions, nor always a negative thing, but it is a context and a dynamic that demands our full attention if we are to maintain the type of society we enjoy today.
The Risk of Risk Assessment
Lyon makes an insightful contrast to the risk mitigation associated with climate change policy. Climate research is based on analyzing and modeling data in order to predict likely outcomes. Those outcomes are risk, and it makes perfect sense to act early on that, before all the data are in, whether it is reducing greenhouse gas emissions, or redesigning infrastructure to deal with new frequencies of extreme weather.
This is something most people accept as a reasonable course of action, and to not act at all in the face of the risks would be negligent. But when the same thinking is applied to the analysis of human data, and the profiling of groups based on potential social risks, then problems arise. Acting early, with incomplete data, means compromising due process and the presumption of innocence, things in the current security-surveillance climate that, Lyon says, we can no longer take for granted in Canada.
Lyon questions the underlying assumptions about how we evaluate risks from the data: "Our risk analysis is based upon very sophisticated analysis of statistics combined with very sophisticated software. But the belief in them and their power and efficacy also have to be considered. The algorithms themselves have to be calibrated in some way.
Watching the Watchers
How are they calibrated? Who makes them in the first place? Who constructs them and how does that effect the way that they are calibrated?" In climate change, the data surveilled are physical things like water, heat and geography, but in surveillance, the data are about people – about one another. To assess risk and act on that understanding has very different consequences. Our conversation turns to the Steven Spielberg film, Minority Report (2002). "In some ways, Minority Report was a very important movie because it came out simultaneously with the after effects of 9/11. The notion of 'pre-crime' in the movie is so close to pre-emptive surveillance. And that's precisely where the civil liberties and human rights potential violations become most likely." The extraordinary rendition of Maher Arar, whose personal data were mishandled, and whose personal associations had flagged him as a risk, is a case in point.
The New Transparency Project
Lyon points out that in Canada, we are much better off than many other countries in that we have a Privacy Commission, something that is the envy of other states. Even while the laws it works under struggle to keep up with the changing state of surveillance, nonetheless it offers citizens a direct method to address privacy concerns and violations. To its credit, the Commission has won privacy cases against Facebook and Google. The New Transparency Project hopes to build on these positive trends through rigorous research and assessment of surveillance. The report is nearing completion of its first draft. "It is a gargantuan task," Lyon remarks. But the Project is also far more than a report. The Centre, conscious of its identity as a publicly supported institution, plans to launch broad public outreach alongside the publication so that citizens can begin to think critically about these issues and help determine appropriate responses. As Lyon concludes our talk, I recall his mention of his early academic focus on the development of modern
society and how it is connected to cultural beliefs, and I realize that through this research he is engaged directly in that dynamic, at this precise moment in history."I feel that it's a moral obligation to bring the intellectual content of my work in line with my deepest commitments and the things that I really believe about human beings and about the world, and what is truly important about a life worth living. And I discovered that among my students and colleagues, there are many people who are asking the same questions."


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Salaam and Greetings of Peace:
I am experimenting with reading poetry on YouTube. Here is the first attempt, a recital of Believe Not in Astrologers. The poem is also posted below the video.
Believe Not in Astrologers
Believe not in astrologers
Who tell fortunes by the stars
Nor in dark-eyed women in black silk robes
Who turn the Tarot cards
Believe not in the witch's curse
Nor in sorcery of any kind
The shaman seeks to steal your purse
And the voodoo man to steal your mind
Believe not in Satanic spell
Seek not solace in the Gypsy's ball
Planets will not the future tell
Nor black magicks one lost soul recall
Believe instead in Love, my friend
For by its harmony the world endures
Without certainty, perhaps, yet without end
As proof, the moon ensures
Believe in courage and desire
Leave the mystery in life, my love
Be gladly warmed by mortal fire
Embrace the eagle and the dove
For this I know by my heart's blood
What we may be may not be told
Yet each of us, though born apart
May each the others heart enfold
Before this crystal truth, let each spirit, naked, stand
That human hope and laughter are bought with human tears
Yet we may walk in starlight, hand in hand
And live, and love, and have no fear
– Irving Karchmar, 1986
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breast-fed babies get the best possible nutrition,
they sometimes require certain vitamin or nutritional supplements to maintain
or improve their health. Children younger than 1 year of age may benefit from a vitamin D supplement. Talk with your doctor about how much and what sources of vitamin D are
right for your child.
Rickets is a rare condition that can develop when too
little vitamin D is absorbed.
After 4 months of age, your baby will probably not get enough iron from breast milk alone. Your doctor may prescribe a liquid iron supplement until your baby gets enough iron from iron-fortified formulas or foods high in iron. Breast-fed babies born prematurely may be prescribed a liquid iron supplement by 1 month of age.
In rare situations, babies breast-fed by
mothers who are strict vegans (vegetarians who do not eat eggs, cheese, or
milk) may need a vitamin B12 supplement.
Other Works ConsultedAmerican Academy of Pediatrics (2010). Diagnosis and prevention of iron deficiency and iron-deficiency anemia in infants and young children (0–3 years of age). Pediatrics, 126(5): 1040–1050. Available online: http://pediatrics.aappublications.org/cgi/content/full/126/5/1040.
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The wait is over! We are pleased to announce Duffey's Sports Grill is now open. We are very excited to share with you our
We are grateful for all our guests, staff and suppliers who have supported us during these unprecedented times. Our number one priority is the safety of everyone that patronizes our facility. We are making every effort to adhere to and exceed Provincial and Worksafe BC requirements to ensure a safe environment and dining experience for our guests and our staff.
Only online reservations will be accepted at this time.
Upon arrival you will be asked for your confirmation. No walk ins at this time. We would highly recommend you make your reservation online as we have limited staff answering the phones. Online reservations will close 2 hours before your requested time. Reservations within 2 hours, please call reception at
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All public health guidelines will be followed per Dr. Henry and Fraser Health. This include a maximum of 6 people per reservation including children and infants. There will be no exceptions to this policy. We request you to keep your table stay to 1.5 hours.
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Those not following these policies will be escorted from the facility without a refund given
All tee times must be booked online. A credit card will be required to secure your booking and will be used to process payment upon check in. There is only one payment per booked tee time. Any adjustments or discounts will also be applied to this credit card. If you cancel your tee time within 24 hours or no show for your reservation the full amount of the tee time will be charged to your card. Within 24 hours your tee time is non-refundable and non-changeable
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When reduced groups are permitted you must still book for 4 people but we can reduce your group to 2 or 3 people in the Golf Shop upon arrival (minimum 2 people, no exceptions, all no shows will be charged) For your safety and the safety of our staff we will not pair you up with another group. Unfortunately, at this time we are unable to accommodate walk ins. If you book a time for a foursome before 3:30pm you cannot reduce your numbers (no exceptions).
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Our grass tee deck is now open for guests that have a pre-paid reservation only (weather depending). If you plan to hit a warm up bucket of balls you can now arrive 45 minutes prior to your tee time. Range balls are available for purchase at the Golf shop or Ridge kiosk.
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Jazz Girl wrote:So, I was thinking this morning about Carlisle and Edward and Bella. During my musings, something occured to me and I want to get some folks opinions about this.
Knowing what we know about the newborn phase and how Carlisle was as a newborn, do you think it is possible that Carlisle did in fact have a "gift" and that it was the kind of enhanced super self control that people often discuss in relation to Bella?
Ok, I have to comment on this. I don't think that Carlisle's gift was self-control but compassion. It says that he was raised to hate vampires, his father was big into the anti-vampire movement that was going on (to put it in modern terms lol). I think that the reason he resisted drinking human blood in the first place was that he had been made to believe that vampires were evil and he was in fact trying to kill himself through starvation. (If I remember correctly there are also other examples of how he tried to kill himself.) Once he realized that he could live off of the blood of animals I think it was his compassion that enabled him to keep from drinking the blood of humans and not any "super self-control".


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Maine sportsman's group offers no endorsements in 2nd District and Senate races
AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) � The largest hunting and fishing advocacy group in Maine is endorsing Republican Jon Courtney in the 1st Congressional District race, but isn't endorsing anybody in the 2nd District or Senate races.
The Sportsman's Alliance of Maine interviewed Democratic U.S. Rep. Mike Michaud and his 2nd District Republican challenger, Kevin Raye, as well as Republican Charlie Summers and independent Angus King in the Senate race.
SAM Executive Director David Trahan said the alliance's board of directors decided that Michaud, Raye, Summers and King were all "friends" of the alliance and decided to not give an endorsement in those races.
For the 1st District race, the board endorsed GOP candidate Jon Courtney, who is running against Democratic incumbent Chellie Pingree. Trahan said Pingree did not respond to the alliance's questionnaire.


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Colo. movie theater shooting suspect to enter insanity plea
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DENVER The man accused in the deadly Colorado theater shootings wants to change his plea to not guilty by reason of insanity, his lawyers said Tuesday.
Attorneys for James Holmes said in a court filing they plan to formally ask for the change of plea at a May 13 hearing.
- University on defense after documents show psychiatrist warned of Holmes threat
- Prosecutors to seek death penalty against James Holmes
- Prosecutors reject Colo. shooting suspect's plea offer
The insanity plea was widely expected given the compelling evidence against Holmes, who is accused of opening fire July 20 in a crowded theater in the Denver suburb of Aurora. Twelve people were killed and 70 injured.
But his lawyers delayed entering an insanity plea for weeks, saying Colorado's insanity and death penalty laws overlapped in a way that could severely and unconstitutionally hamper his defense if he did plead insanity.
The defense has asked both judges who have presided over the case to rule on the constitutionality of the laws. Both judges refused, saying the question was speculative because Holmes hadn't entered an insanity plea. That left Holmes' lawyers with no choice but to enter the insanity plea, then seek a ruling on the constitutionality question.
Holmes, 25, is charged with multiple counts of murder and attempted murder.
A judge in the case previously entered a standard not guilty plea for him. If a judge accepts the new plea, Holmes would be sent to the state mental hospital, where doctors would determine whether he was insane at the time of the shootings.
If the doctors do determine that Holmes was insane, a jury could still find him guilty.
Colorado law defines insanity as the inability to distinguish right from wrong, caused by a diseased or defective mind. The law specifically excludes depravity, "moral obliquity" or passion caused by anger or hatred from being considered insanity.
Prosecutors are seeking the death penalty. They declined to comment Tuesday.
Holmes' attorneys have said in court hearings and written in court documents that Holmes is mentally ill. He was being seen by a psychiatrist before the attack at a midnight screening of the latest Batman movie. Prosecutors say Holmes spent months buying guns and thousands of rounds of ammunition, donned police-style body armor and opened fire in the crowded theater.
Last month, prosecutors filed a court document listing aggravating factors they plan to raise in a possible death penalty phase of the trial. The factors included the death of 6-year-old Veronica Moser-Sullivan, the youngest of dead.
Prosecutors also said in the filing that the slayings were "especially heinous, cruel or depraved."


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Banned Books Week September 25 – October 2, 2010
Everyone knows that librarians are tough, gritty, rogue characters who will fight to the death in defense of the First Amendment. But did you know that the last week of September, librarians and readers everywhere celebrate the freedom to read? That's right folks, September 25th marks the first day of Banned Book Week, a national event where we commemorate and celebrate books that have been challenged or banned by bookstores, schools, and libraries across the nation. Some famous banned books you may have heard of include J.D. Salinger's Catcher in the Rye, To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, the Twilight series by Stephanie Meyer, and even Dav Pilkey's Captain Underpants series.
Banned Books Week began in 1982 as a response to a sudden increase in the number of book challenges happening across the country. The ALA defines a challenge as an attempt to remove or restrict materials, and a ban as the removal of those materials. While book challenges may come from a sincere and well-meaning attempt to protect readers from content that may be deemed too sexual, violent, profane, or offensive, the line between protection and censorship is a fine one. The ALA states that only parents have the rights and responsibility to restrict what their own children read, so libraries fight censorship by refusing to ban books.
So what can you do to celebrate Banned Books Week? You can come to the Monroe Library and see our display of banned books, check out the American Library Association's list of frequently challenged books, or find a Banned Books event either local or online. For more information, visit the American Library Association's Banned and Challenged Books page and Banned Books Week.
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Pachetul Spa Standard
Spa package Standard
Unfortunately the Castle spa is closed till 30.08. due to the current situation regarding covid-19
Spa package STANDARD is recommended to those looking for relaxation in the heart of the spa town. The package includes, among other things, 3-hour programs in the Castle Spa with access to unique thermomineral swimming pool, each with 3 therapeutic and relaxation procedures, during which you can retrieve lost life energy and get rid of stress. The package can be booked for a minimum stay of 7 and more nights.
The package includes
- Accommodation in selected room type including rich breakfast, alternatively half board or full board can be added to the package
- Initial medical examination with drinking cure prescription (Monday to Friday 8am to 2pm depending on availability, needs to be booked in advance)
- 9 treatments, 3 entrances to the Castle spa per week (or proportionally).
- Free use of thermomineral pool with Karlovy Vary spring water within each program in the Castle Spa
- Bathrobes and slippers in the room
- Special cup for drinking the mineral springs of Karlovy Vary with detailed information about each hot spring
- Welcome drink Becherovka in the room after arrival
- Mineral water in the room after arrival
To find out prices for your chosen dates and to book, please use our reservation system.


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That's the message sent loud and clear by nearly every autism organization (in the media spotlight: TACA, Autism Speaks, et al.) these days. They don't care what you were like as a child, what your struggles were, or the issues you face now. If you are able to speak to reporters or blog or live independently or hold down a job, they don't need you. Rather, they'd prefer you just shut up and go away.
Oh, but wait...but they do need you. Sometimes, at least.
A lot of the comments from the ABC piece were, as expected, the same regurgitated message we hear lately. The idea that those with Asperger's (or that are "high/er functioning" as they put it) can't possibly be on the same journey as those with classic autism. Don't listen to them. That's not the autism my child has! Those people have no right to speak for the autism community! And yet, it's amazing who they do want to represent the "autism moms" of the world. It's also interesting to see how these people determine what "high functioning" is and what it isn't. It's also curious to learn their criteria, if they have any, for "Autism Recovery."
This group (typically the anti-vaccine and pro-cure folks) presumes that an individual living with Asperger's has not faced any struggles. That they don't have sensory issues, meltdowns, social or communication issues. Basically, in their eyes, they have no business being on the autism spectrum (hello?!). They apparently have never been bullied, don't have problems at school, have no trouble living independently, and all can easily find jobs. Anyone who knows an Aspie or someone who is (as others would classify as being) "higher functioning," can attest, this is not the case. Not to mention, the now-Aspie adults who were previously diagnosed with classic autism as a child. Unless those individuals can be used to further sell their "cures" and you agree to be exploited, labeled "recovered," they don't want to hear from you.
They treat us parents who find joy in our autistic children in the same manner. We are crazy, foolish, and even sometimes seen as harming our children. Really--harming them by not injecting them and not forcing supplements down their throats. Harming them by not subjecting our children to needless and harmful chelation and a myriad of other "treatments." Harming our kids by letting them know we respect and love them? We parents who are not suffering, we are a major inconvenience for these organizations. The parents and autistics who believe in and promote neurodiversity, are even described as being "radical."
Neurodiversity is about real civil (and human) rights. People all along the spectrum are being abused, discriminated against, and are not given equal protection. Many have to fight (and sometimes lose) in order to get the right to an education, to work, and even to participate in our culture--and that is the entire spectrum.
It's interesting to me--those who are seeking a cure (and are disgusted by acceptance or "neurodiversity"), are very quick to use the "1 in 150" stats, and employ them to make a case that there is indeed an "autism epidemic." Yet, they continually discredit adult autistics. When autistics speak, they are the first people to dispute what is being said.
The "1 in 150" includes the entire spectrum. You can't pick and choose how you interpret that number (the one that points to an "epidemic"). You can't use a certain subset of autistics only when they, as a number or statistic, suit your needs.
I had drafted this last week just following the Neurodiversity segment on TV. I read Joy of Autism last night, where this myth along with others are brought to our attention:
4. Biomed autism advocates like Jenny McCarthy's TACA group need and use "higher-functioning" autistic people in their statistics to try to prove there is an "epidemic" on the one hand, while stating on the other that they are not "severe" enough to speak for autistic people.
These myths really need to be addressed by all of us, and especially by groups like TACA, Autism Speaks, and so forth.


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