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The FLQ is best known for the 1970 October Crisis. The Crisis was the first occasion in the history of Canada that its citizens were deprived of their rights and freedoms during peace time. Yet several researchers, including Frédéric Goily and Donald Ipperciel, have highlighted the ultimate failure of the group, despite the attention that it received: apart from some radicals inspired by the example of former colonies that liberated themselves through armed struggle, the FLQ never succeeded in taking hold within the union movement or gained the popular support they had anticipated. Over the years, the organization recruited at most a hundred or so agitators.
Precursors of the FLQ
Several revolutionary independence movements preceded the formation of the FLQ. Of these, the Réseau de résistance (RR) advocated vandalism as a means of protest. Another group, the Comité de libération nationale, created in 1962, preached violence as a way to achieve political ends. This group started to form cells within the Rassemblement pour l'Indépendance Nationale (RIN), a precursor of the Parti Québécois, and within the Action socialiste pour l'indépendance du Québec (ASIQ), a sovereignty movement founded in 1960 by a Communist Party militant. The FLQ was formed by the more radical elements of the Comité de libération nationale and the RR.
A Belgian working for Québec independence
The movement was founded in March 1963 by two Québécois, Raymond Villeneuve and Gabriel Hudon, and a Belgian, Georges Schoeters, who was an admirer of the Algerian revolutionaries and of Che Guevara in Cuba. Québec was undergoing a period of profound change (industrial expansion, modernization of the state) at the time, but the creation of the FLQ was also stimulated by international factors such as the decolonization of Algeria, and the organization forged links with other groups around the world. Two members travelled to the north of Jordan to train alongside Palestinian guerrillas. Pierre Vallières, the author of the book Nègres blancs d'Amérique, joined the FLQ in 1965 and is generally considered the "philosopher" behind the organization. The symbols that the group adopted demonstrated its members' belief that they were the heirs of the Patriotes, the country's first francophone rebels: a green, white and red flag with the figure of a habitant armed for the revolution.
The Beginnings of Violence
In 1963, underground FLQ activists (some of whom were arrested) placed bombs in mailboxes in three federal armories and in Westmount, a wealthy upper-middle-class anglophone area of Montréal. Their objective was the complete destruction of the influence and symbols of English colonialism. Sergeant-Major Walter Leja, of the Canadian Armed Forces, was seriously injured when he tried to neutralize one of the bombs.
Within the FLQ, two wings emerged to supply the group with weapons and money. Gabriel Hudon's younger brother, Robert, established the Armée de libération du Québec (ALQ) and François Schirm, a Hungarian and former member of the French ForeignLegion, founded the Armée révolutionnaire du Québec (ARQ).
In 1964, Schirm and four other members of the ARQ stole approximately $50,000 in cash and military equipment and committed an armed robbery at International Firearms. During the robbery, a member of the ARQ killed the company vice-president and another employee was killed by the police, who mistook him for one of the thieves. The five ARQ members were arrested and convicted. Schirm and Edmond Guénette, the shooter, received the death penalty; two were sentenced to life imprisonment, and the other ARQ member was sentenced to 20 years in prison. These sentences provoked outrage within the FLQ.
Political Attacks Intensify
From 1965 to 1967, the FLQ associated itself with the activities of striking workers, without, however, succeeding in infiltrating the unions. It was involved in over 200 bombings between 1963 and 1970, and in 1968 it began using larger and more powerful bombs, setting them off at a federal government bookstore, at McGill University, at the residence of Jean Drapeau and the provincial Department of Labour, and, in February 1969, at the Montreal Stock Exchange, where 27 people were injured. In the fall of 1969, the movement split into two distinct cells: the South Shore gang, which became the Chenier cell, led by Paul Rose, and the Liberation cell, under Jacques Lanctôt. Montréal-based, both cells boasted about 12 members. As of 1970, more than 20 FLQ members were in prison.
The October Crisis
In the fall of 1970 (see October Crisis), the FLQ took British trade commissioner James Cross hostage. The FLQ demanded the release of 23 prisoners whom it called "political prisoners" as well as the publication of their manifesto, a plane to take them to Cuba or Algeria, and half a million dollars. They gave the government 24 hours to comply with their demands. The government rejected the ultimatum but indicated that it was ready to negotiate.
Five days after the first hostage-taking, the Chenier cell kidnapped Pierre Laporte, the Minister of Immigration, Manpower and Labour. Under the War Measures Act, more than 450 people were arrested, including 150 "suspected" FLQ members.
The following day, and one week after Pierre Laporte was taken hostage, his body was found in the trunk of a car. Paul Rose and Francis Simard were eventually sentenced to life imprisonment for the murder of Laporte. Bernard Lortie was convicted of kidnapping Laporte, and Jacques Rose was convicted as an accessory.
Of the Cross kidnappers, five fled to Cuba and then to France, and they eventually returned to Canada. One remained in Montréal but was arrested in 1980 and sentenced in 1981. Cut off from the political, military and popular support that had enabled it to survive, the movement ceased activities in 1971.
Paul Rose was paroled in 1982. He died on 14 March 2013 at 69 years of age, after working as a journalist and trade unionist.


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This splendid high quality wood and lacquer sake cup (guinomi in Japanese) features a hand-painted image of the Japanese Shinto luck god Hoteison. This god is a member of the group of seven luck gods called Shichifukujin. This sake cup was made during the mid to late Japanese Showa period (1926-1989) and is in very good condition with no chips, cracks or large scratches and only small marks from handling and use. The cup was acquired in the beautiful and historic city of Shizuoka, Japan near the foot of Mt. Fuji. Click here to see more sake cups!
In Japanese folklore the Shichifukujin are the seven gods of wealth, happiness and longevity. These famous gods (six male and one female) are frequently seen together in Japanese art, often in a boat sailing the seas of fortune. However, the individual gods actually hail from a variety of religious faiths including Buddhism and Taoism as well as Japan's native religion of Shinto. The gods are:
- Ebisu – Ebisu is Japan's god of fisherman and the morning sun. Ebisu is also sometimes regarded as the protector of small children, a role he shares with the Buddhist deity Jizo. Ebisu is also the only member of the Shichifukujin seven who is of Japanese origin.
- Daikokuten – Daikoku is the god of wealth, food and worldly success; and statues of this happy deity have for centuries been common fixtures of Japanese homes, particularly kitchens. Daikoku is also reputed to be Ebisu's father.
- Fukurokujin – Originating in Chinese Taoism this god is the symbol of wealth, happiness and longevity and is usually seen carrying a long staff or cane.
- Hoteison – A plump Zen Buddhist monk from China, usually seen with a bag in one hand and a fan in the other.
- Jurojin – The Taoist god of long life. This god is also usually seen carrying a staff in his hand.
- Benzaiten – The only female of the bunch. This goddess is from India and is the patron of music and culture. She is usually seen carrying an old fashioned Japanese biwa (a type of lute).
- Bishamonten – The warrior of the bunch. This god is originally from India and is charged with protecting people and their treasure. Bishamonten is usually depicted wearing armor.
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Sake has long been an important part of Japanese culture. In the past, sake was considered a very special item, reserved for only the most important occasions, such as weddings, birth celebrations and other auspicious events. Sake was considered a sacred drink, and accordingly the first glass poured was always offered to the gods before the remainder could be shared among the celebrants. Sake can be served either warm or cold and special sake flasks are used to both prepare and dispense this unique Japanese drink. Sake is warmed either by immersing the flask (already filled with sake of course) into warm water until the desired temperature is reached or through the use of a special sake kettle called a choshi. The latter method however, though common in old Japan, is today usually reserved for ceremonial events only. Over time, sake utensils, such as cups have developed their own ritual significance which is still evident in modern Japan. For example, it is today common at Japanese engagement parties for the man and woman to exchange sake cups as a sign of their mutual intent to marry. Very beautiful sake cups are also given away to celebrate the birth of a child, as these cherished items are considered symbolic of the significance of the new parent-child relationship. Though normally small in size, sake cups and flasks have long been used in Japan as a medium for the expression of art and calligraphy. Hand-painted cups and flasks are highly collectable both within and outside Japan and are eagerly sought after by collectors who value their utilitarian nature and artistic splendor.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama will take questions via Twitter on Monday on his the looming fiscal cliff and his efforts to extend tax cuts for Americans making less than $250,000 a year, his spokesman said.
Spokesman Jay Carney said Obama would take questions at 2 p.m. ET/1900 GMT under the hashtag #my2k.
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A new Data Mining for Social Media book has been released. Authored by Nitin Agarwal (University of Arkansas at Little Rock) and Huan Liu (Arizona State University), "This book offers a comprehensive overview of the various concepts and research issues about blogs or weblogs. It introduces techniques and approaches, tools and applications, and evaluation methodologies with examples and case studies".
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Table of Contents:
- Chapter 1: Modeling Blogosphere
- Chapter 2: Blog Clustering and Community Discovery
- Chapter 3: Influence and Trust
- Chapter 4: Spam Filtering in Blogosphere
- Chapter 5: Data Collection and Evaluation
- Appendix A: Tools in Blogosphere
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Experts in forensic accounting and financial analysis including business litigation matters, securities, marketing, accounting, statistics and management. Can include retail sales analysis, unfair trade practices and estimation of market shares. Statistics experts serve as expert witnesses and forensic consultants in British Columbia legal matters, and provide expert reports and testimony for judges, attorneys, lawyers, law firms, insurance companies and government agencies in Federal and state court trials and arbitrations in British Columbia.
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John Miller
Southlake, TX
Accomplished analytics consultant and expert witness with 20 years of practical industry experience. Creates original analyses/reports, reviews work of other experts, and testifies at depositions and court hearings. Actively participates in the global Data Science community as a speaker, writer, and recognized social media authority.
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I have been providing expert witness and litigation support services for over 30 years. I have issued opinions on the reasonableness of compensation loss of earnings federal and state tax challenges change-in-control provisions golden parachutes interpretation of employment and compensation agreements and opposing experts methodologies.
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Our expert witnesses and consultants provide services in economics, finance, statistics, valuation, and forensic accounting. Strategically located in Southern California, our firm enjoys an international clientele. Visit our website at www.rule26.com for more information on how we can help address economics, statistics, finance, valuation, and forensic accounting issues you may face.
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Founded in 1979, Analysis & Inference, Inc. provides statistical consulting services for law firms, corporations and government agencies. Dr. William Fairley has frequently been retained as an expert consultant and witness.
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Dr. Mayer is an independent consultant and scholar that holds the position of Visiting Fellow, Program in Integrative Knowledge and Human Flourishing, Harvard University. He has been a full-time tenured professor with appointments in statistics, biostatistics, epidemiology, biomedical informatics, public health and medicine (psychiatry). He held various titles including Professor at Arizona State University, (Part-time) Professor, Bloomberg School of Public Health and School of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University, and Affiliated Professor of a Mayo Clinic/ASU joint program in Biomedical Informatics, and a member of the Research Staff at Mayo Clinic. He continues to do research and mentor young physicians and medical students while doing a limited amount of consulting in epidemiology, biostatistics, statistics, epidemiology and clinical trials. His consulting projects often focus on model development, execution and inferences. He is one of the few MD/PhD biostatistician-epidemiologists. He now resides in Dana Point, California. He has worked on a wide range of problems in a variety of specialties in Public Health and Medicine. The common component of most of these problems is that there is a data set to analyze or, more commonly, there are statistical studies to be reviewed and evaluated. These include clinical trials, observational studies, and statistical reviews such as meta-analyses. About a third of his consulting is for industry and interest groups outside of litigation. He prides himself on being able to communicate complex ideas in simple language. His primary interests are the evaluation of epidemiological and statistical data and models in a clinical, regulatory, or legal arena. Dr. Mayer has worked on problems in injury causation, drug development and evaluation, product liability, patent disputes, occupational and environmental exposures, and medical malpractice. He has worked on data and analyses in numerous specialties including toxicology, internal medicine (cardiology, endocrinology, etc.) Ob/Gyn, psychiatry, and surgery and has a preference towards problems that are complex.
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Henderson Auto Glass – What Should I know?
Simply put, this is glass that you would find in an automobile. Not too many know that in Henderson there are two major forms of auto glass. Each one is used on certain windows in the automobile. Both types of auto glass are more impact resistant and stronger than regular glass.
What Are the Different Kinds Of Windshield Replacement Henderson Services that are Available?
Laminated safety glass-this glass is generally used on a car's windshield. It is comprised of a couple of pieces of glass that has a slim layer of vinyl. The glass is then heated and pressed together in an autoclave, which is a type of oven. When this glass receives a tough impact it will shatter also but usually the shattered pieces will stick to the vinyl and not fall on the ground.
If the windshield just has a tiny vein or nick, the auto glass professional may be able to repair the tiny vein or nick to keep it from spreading further. The repair will generally take fewer than thirty minutes in Henderson. The vein or nick is cleaned thoroughly and dried. Resin is injected and a material like Mylar is used to hold it in place. The professional cures the resin by using an ultraviolet light.
Automotive Glass Replacement - How to Replace Car Glass
When there are windshield cracks the owner may be able to fix it themselves using a kit or have a professional auto glass technician do the job. The kit has all the tools that are necessary to fix the crack, including the resin. One thing to note is that these cracked windshield kits will only work on little holes or dings or thin small cracks. With larger cracks, they may not disappear no matter how many treatments are applied. For long or deep windshield cracks or ones that do not respond to treatment with the kit, should be taken to an auto glass repair shop to have the windshield replaced or fixed. When they look at it, they can tell you if it is repairable or needs to be replaced. Most insurance companies will take care of the repair or replacement.
• Once it has hardened you can remove the tool
• Check the crack to see if you need to repeat the treatment. If it is a deep crack, you may need to do it again.
• Once you are satisfied with the repair of the windshield cracks you should take a soft dry cloth and polish the area so the resin solution will match the glass around it as much as it can. If you were fixing a small crack it could become almost unrecognizable and appear new to the naked eye but if it is a large crack it could look slightly warped in the area where it was fixed.
Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEM) Versus Original Equipment Equivalent (OEE) - Auto Glass
Windshield replacement can be expensive, especially if your insurance company will not pay for it. Replacing your windshield is usually covered if you have comprehensive coverage, which is other than collision, on your policy. It is best to check with your insurance company first before setting up an appointment to have it replaced. If you do have to pay for the cost of windshield replacement there are several factors involved in the final cost, which could cost over two hundred dollars. When you take your car in to have the windshield replaced, the company will first decide if it can be repaired instead of replaced. Not every cracked or chipped windshield will require replacement.
There is another choice for windshield replacement glass that does not meet the same standards as OEM windshield glass but it is cheaper. This glass is called aftermarket glass. Other than the more expensive dealer glass, OEM tends to be most popular choice.
In today's world, you may be able to save the cost of having your car towed to the auto glass repair shop by having a mobile unit come to your home to replace your windshield. The replacement does not take long but it needs a couple of hours to set up before you can drive the vehicle.


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The Mail Online has pulled its recipes website after it was vandalised by Libyan cyber-hijackers.
The UK mid-market tabloid's content partner MyDish was defaced by "The Great Team" hacking crew on Monday in a hack recorded by defacement archive Zone-h here (warning: link auto plays mildly annoying music). The defacement is also recorded by the Wayback Machine at archive.org here.
The compromised site might easily have been used as a platform to serve up malicious code but it appears the hackers involved confined themselves to bragging about their conquest. The defacement message omits any political message and is characterised by a screen-cap of the benign Professor Dumbledore from the Harry Potter movies with the caption "I own this shit". The Great Team are a prolific defacement crew who have claimed the scalps of more than 2,100 websites over the last two years.
The MailOnline responded by updating the DNS so that recipes.dailymail.co.uk pointed to its own server rather than that of MyDish, through use of a server that handles redirects. The papers also removed the link to the recipe subdomain from its Health news tab - it was there earlier in December, but has since vanished. The recipe site had been previously advertised as "powered by MyDish".
El Reg was unable to find any evidence of the other subdomains being attacked. It appears that the compromise was restricted to recipes.dailymail.co.uk.
At the time of the hack, recipes.dailymail.co.uk resolved to the IP address 184.108.40.206, which is owned by web-hosting company Dark Group (dg.co.uk) and is also the same IP used to serve mydish.co.uk.
The site was run from IIS 6.0 web server software from servers running Windows 2003, according to Zone-h.
We invited both MyDish and the Daily Mail Group to comment on the security snafu on Friday morning but are yet to hear back from either party.
This isn't the first time recipes.dailymail.co.uk has been hacked. Last year, when it appears to have been a MyDish site served from Dark Group, it was defaced by the notorious Team Poison crew with a more political message (recorded by Zone-h here) criticising the Mail's stance on issues such as immigration. ®
Thanks to Reg reader Wyn for the tip.
We did hear back from Dark Group, however, who had this to say:
Dark Group provides this client with unmanaged dedicated and virtual servers, where we just look after the hardware, power and network. Our client has their own in-house technical team who manage the operating system and software.


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I appreciate the ability in BW to add my own user notes (chapter and/or verse), but I'm trying to figure out why I would use the "Editor" instead of the "User Notes." I suppose if I want to enter general information that is not linked to one single verse or chapter, I would use the Editor. (In which case, the Editor is really just General User Notes.)
So, how are you using the Editor (as compared to the User Notes)? What has been helpful to you? Thanks.


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- For the district in Grand Theft Auto IV, see The Exchange (GTA IV). For the mission in Grand Theft Auto III, see The Exchange (GTA III).
The Exchange is a mission in Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories given to protagonist Victor Vance by drug baron Ricardo Diaz from his mansion on Starfish Island, Vice City.
Victor Vance was ordered to steal some of Gonzalez' drugs by Diaz, and Diaz has made a deal with the DEA, sending his men to a meeting with the DEA. There, his men will give them 200 kg's of the cocaine and in return, the DEA will give them heavy guns. Victor and a goon drive to the meeting point at the car park in Downtown, but are ambushed by Gonzalez' goons, who kill one of Diaz's gang members on roof tops using Sniper Rifle's. Victor then clears out the place and kills all the enemies before the DEA arrive. When the deal is made, Victor drives the truck with the guns to Diaz's mansion while being chased by Gonzalez' men, but he manages to make it.
Mission objectives
In order to complete the mission the player must:
- Get into the van
- Take the drugs to the meeting point
- Take out the snipers before the DEA arrive
- Get into the truck
- Take the truck back to Diaz's
Post mission pager message
Gonzalez: Vic. My old friend. I'd appreciate your help one last time. Please... Please...
Upon completing the mission your rewarded $1,750 and unlock the mission Farewell to Arms.
- One of Diaz's goons uses the same face model as Marty Jay Williams.
- A glitch will occasionally render this mission uncompletable. After picking up the weapons truck, when Victor pulls out of the alleyway, one of Gonzalez's cars may spawn directly behind the truck and fire at it nonstop, causing it to catch fire and blow up within a few seconds.
- The name of this mission is the same name for the GTA III mission The Exchange.
- If you have a flamethrower and you set the Rumpo full of drugs or the Flatbed with 3 boxes of weapons on fire , Diaz's goon will run out of the car.
- At the cutscene one of Diaz's goons face and clothes is similar to Tommy Vercetti.
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Transfer news: Tottenham target Paulinho backed to shine in Premier League
Chelsea defender David Luiz has backed Paulinho to be a hit in the Premier League, saying "his game fits perfectly".
By Andres Garavaglia
Last Updated: 30/06/13 5:41pm
The Corinthians midfielder has been tipped to make a £17million move to Tottenham and Luiz feels he has all the qualities required to make his mark in England.
Paulinho has impressed during the Confederations Cup, scoring the winning goal in the semi-final success against Uruguay which booked the hosts a place in the final against Spain on Sunday.
And Luiz would be more than happy to come up against his international team-mate in domestic action next term.
"If he gets to play in England, he will definitely go far", he told Fifa.com.
"His game fits perfectly with the pace of English football.
"It's incredibly valuable to have someone like that in your side. Especially when the team (Brazil) is getting along together as well as ours is."
Paulinho, whose future is expected to be decided following the Confederations Cup, spoke about the key strengths of his game in the wake of the tense semi-final success against Uruguay.
He said: "It really is one of my qualities, moving into different areas of the field, picking up opponents as well as helping to attack.
"I try to help in every possible way and I'll try to keep on doing that, both for my club and the national side, because that's how I've always had success."


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There is currently a petition going at WhiteHouse.gov to designate May 20th as Macho Man Randy Savage Day. The petition reads:
"Macho Man Randy Savage was a national treasure loved by everyone who watched him on television or knew him personally. No matter if you knew him from Slim Jim commercials or his wrestling career, you felt a deep connection with Savage. Tragically, the world lost him on May 20, 2011. This petition is to set aside that day every year as a celebration and remembrance of the Macho Man's life and to keep his legacy alive for future generations to appreciate and enjoy."
The goal is to reach 100,000 signatures by April 04, 2013. Visit WhiteHouse.gov to give your support.


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Pop Star: Wendy in California
"These chocolate pops are all dressed up and ready to par-tay. These days, instead of bringing a casserole to pot lucks, I bring Bakerella-inspired cake pops. ….And I get lots of invitations! I'm really looking forward to the delivery of your book!" – Wendy
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The Eightfold Path
Posted by Kim Graae Munch in Buddhism, Rosicrucianism on March 18, 2009
The Eightfold Path
The Wheel of Dharma
1. Right View –
I view things from what appears to me outwardly.
Man attains this kind of knowledge about the world when he acquires a right view of things, a view that has nothing to do with sympathy or antipathy or preference of any sort. He must strive as best he can to acquire the right view of each thing, purely according to what presents itself to him outwardly. That is the first principle: the Right View of things.
2. Right Intent –
I judge in accordance with my right view.
3. Right Speech –
I give true expression of my right view and judgment.
4. Right Focus –
I let my right view, judgment, and speech become deed.
5. Right Alertness –
I act in my highest and best line of work.
6. Right Purpose –
I work steadily till right action becomes a habit in me.
7. Right Effort –
I link the present with the past and thus account for what I have already learned in previous lives.
8. Right Motivation –
I let the things of the world speak directly to me without partiality to views of other humans or my former incarnations.
Buddha – Mercury
This is the Eightfold Path, of which Buddha said to his disciples that if followed it would gradually lead to the extinction of the thirst for existence with its attendant suffering, and impart to the soul something that brings liberation from elements enslaving it from past lives.
Throat Chakra, the Sixteen Petaled Lotus
The Eightfold Path is connected to the Vishuddha, the throat Chakra or the Sixteen Petaled Lotus as Rudolf Steiner Calls the astral organ.
In "Knowledge of the Higher Worlds And Its Attainment" Rudolf Steiner goes more in depth with the Eightfold Path. The Initial words from the text about the Sixteen Petaled Lotus:
The organ in the vicinity of the larynx has sixteen petals or spokes; the one in the region of the heart twelve, and the one in the pit of the stomach ten.
Now certain activities of the soul are connected with the development of these organs, and anyone devoting himself to them in a certain definite way contributes something to the development of the corresponding organs. In the sixteen-petaled lotus, eight of its sixteen petals were developed in the remote past during an earlier stage of human evolution. Man himself contributed nothing to this development; he received them as a gift from nature, at a time when his consciousness was in a dull, dreamy condition. At that stage of human evolution they were in active use, but the manner of their activity was only compatible with that dull state of consciousness. As consciousness became clearer and brighter, the petals became obscured and ceased their activity. Man himself can now develop the remaining eight petals by means of conscious exercises, and thereby the whole lotus flower becomes luminous and mobile. The acquisition of certain faculties depends on the development of each one of the sixteen petals. Yet, as already shown, only eight can be consciously developed; the remainder then appear of their own accord.
The development proceeds in the following manner. The student must first apply himself with care and attention to certain functions of the soul hitherto exercised by him in a careless and inattentive manner. There are eight such functions …
[In Danish: "Hvordan når man til erkendelse af de højere verdener?" af Rudolf Steiner.]
I have made the presentation of Buddhas Eightfold Path from Rudolf Steiners lectures on The Gospel of Luke.
The goal was to make a short and simple description of the path, followed with references for deeper understanding of the why.
Se also the Twelf Petaled Lotus, Ahanhata, The Heart Chakra:
And the Six Petaled Lotus, Svadhistana, The Sacral Chakra:
Kristina Kaine has elaborated over the theme in "Eightfold Path of Buddha in the Gospel of St John".
A meditation for modern man: Meditation as contemplative inquiry : when knowing becomes love / Arthur Zajonc
See also The Noble Eightfold Path at Wikipedia.


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Thursday, April 26, 2012 | Posted by Brodd Family at 6:20 PM 1 comments
Easter Catch Up
Due to our almost unlimited supply of farm fresh eggs (Thanks Grandma and Grandpa), we haven't had to buy eggs at the grocery store for some time. Generally Easter time is when you buy a couple extra dozen eggs and let the kids make a mess of them... Well, we figured why not give the "good eggs" a shot at being dyed. Even with the darker shell, they turned out great.
Easter Day was spent at Grandma and Grandpa's and Sylvia was presented with her new chicken. This little chick will have a grey / purple color once it grows up. After a couple weeks of hard work, Sylvia decided to name her "Cinderella"
More new posts to come - we promise!
Tuesday, April 24, 2012 | Posted by Brodd Family at 5:32 PM 0 comments
Sunday Morning
Once she is busted, she asks Violet to smile for the camera. Her attempt is decent, but still with a somewhat shocked look.
Her big sister, on the other hand, knows exactly what to do when mom says "smile". Out comes the tongue! Hopefully she behaves better during her school pictures!
Friday, April 13, 2012 | Posted by Brodd Family at 6:55 PM 0 comments
Family Time
Kevin and Liz were spending some time with the girls last week. Well, it looks like Liz was spending time with Sylvia and Kevin was spending time with children's books and snuggling with a pug. I guess we all define baby-sitting differently!
Wednesday, April 11, 2012 | Posted by Brodd Family at 6:52 PM 0 comments
Cookie Monster
Somebody was trying to steal Sylvia's buck-a-roo cookies that Grandpa made...
Violet appears to be the guilty party.
Friday, April 6, 2012 | Posted by Brodd Family at 6:49 PM 0 comments
Hey Peeps!
Hello to all of my peeps out there. I just wanted to show you my sweet new teeth and my awesome mohawk.
Wednesday, April 4, 2012 | Posted by Brodd Family at 6:48 PM 0 comments
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Barkery: Dogs, kids-- one snack fits all
If you're a regular reader of this delectable column, you know that Dish doesn't make a habit of sniffing out stories about dog food. But this week's a little different, because the food purveyor in question Sammy Snacks makes treats which man, woman, and child can share with their best four-legged friends.
Or perhaps that should read the other way around, because Sammy Snacks, which opened its first retail store in the newly refurbished Gleason's Building on July 1, makes dog treats that also happen to be people-friendly. We're talking 100 percent natural, human-grade, fully inspected, granola-textured snacks in flavors like CranOat, Carob Chip, Garlic Cheese, and Virginia BBQ. Got you beggin' yet?
Owner-founder Pamela Peterson came up with the idea for Sammy Snacks when she and her husband, Miles, adopted Sam, a black lab puppy, in 1999.
"I was tremendously displeased with the quality of dog treats out there," Peterson told Dish. "No matter what we tempted him with during training, Sam always wanted our chocolate chip cookies."
So, with the guidance of a vet, Peterson came up with a nutritious carob-based treat that she could actually share with Sam. Other flavors followed, and by 2000 she was selling buckets of bones at the City Market and local food stores.
"You wouldn't believe all the things people would tell me they could get their dogs to do for these treats," Peterson says. Sammy Snacks have apparently been a big hit with toddlers since the beginning, too. "My nieces and nephews have grown up on my treats, and I know one woman who gives her kid two bones to get him to take a nap."
With the launch of her supersized new retail store, art gallery, and canine health educational center in Charlottesville's chic new warehouse district, Peterson is also launching Avery Snacks, a new line of "energy biscotti" for dogs and humans, named after her yellow lab. Perfect for long walks, or for lounging on a custom-made (by Alana's) dog bed filled with fragrant cedar chips.
And, lest you think that Sam and Avery subsist on healthy treats alone, you need to know that Sammy Snacks also makes a line of dry dog food. We're talking all human-grade ingredients: New Zealand grass-fed lamb, free range chicken, brown rice, anchovy fish meal, rosemary, flax, and Vitamin E.
"We've cleared up all of Sam and Avery's skin and digestive problems with this all-natural diet," Peterson says. But just in case you're tempted to nibble on some kibble, down, boy! At least for now, this good stuff is reserved for Rover.
As for Sammy's future neighbors, Dish knows of a local baker and City Market staple who's working out the final details on a lease two spaces over. And this time we're talking bakery- not barkery.
Franchise burritos filling in
The elegant Espresso Royale Caffé sign still adorns the facade of the historic Chancellor's drug store building on the Corner, but space has been sadly vacant for months. Summer-session students now crammed into Starbucks don't need a refresher, but for those who might: The Michigan-based company decided to close its Corner café/bar/pizzeria back in April, because of slow morning sales. Dish found out from real estate agent and manager Joe Aust that as of July 1, a new tenant holds the keys to this potentially profitable property.
"As soon as we were able to fill the space, we were happy to let ERC out of their lease," Aust tells Dish.
Aust confirmed our suspicion that Qdoba Mexican Grill, will soon be filling the Corner void. Pronounced cue-DOH-ba, this growing franchise offers house-made guacamole, signature burritos with cilantro-lime rice (Poblano Pesto, Chicken Molé, Grilled Vegetable), tacos, and taco salads. We'll keep you posted as the spicy details develop.


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It's been a long time since I worked on TextWidget at all, but since someone posted a question about it I decided to fix the issue and re-release the source. But since I didn't want to simply update the blog post I decided to give the project a proper home on google code: http://code.google.com/p/textwidget/
The project is really simple and meant as an easy way for you to create "text buttons" for your PyGame projects. It's not meant to be the definitive way to do this, just a simple solution for people that just want to drop a class in and have working "text buttons". It's LGPL so you can use it in whatever way you want. If you do decide to use it please drop me an email and let me know.
For more information on how to use the project please take a look at the initial blog post.


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A quick reminder to remember to set a place at the table for Superman tonight, the classic Miracle Monday tradition, as seen in this story from SUPERMAN #400 [1984] by Elliot S! Maggin and Klaus Janson.
Next year in Metropolis!
And if for some reason you've never read them, pick up Maggin's two Superman novels, LAST SON OF KRYPTON and MIRACLE MONDAY, or better yet, pester someone at DC to reprint them.
(Superman created by Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster)


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Temple Pura Ulun Danu Bratan is located at the Bedugul area. This temple is beautiful and surrounded by Bratan lake (not all parts of this temple is surrounded by lake). And weather here is cooler than other part of Bali, a nice place to visit.
some praying ceremony was going on..
A nice place to take wedding photos too..
A lovely couple ...
Buyan and Tamblingan Lakes
After Temple Pura Ulun Danu, we were heading to Buyan and Tamblingan Lakes. These two lakes just located next right to each other, separated by a small trail of rain forrest in between. The weather here is cool and nice, a relaxing stop to take some photos.
There were several look out area along the hilly road..
Strawberry farm
Before reached Temple Pura Ulun Danu, we first stopped at this Strawberry farm.
But there were no strawberries to pick at that time..


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Last weekend, Robert came home with cool news: This Friday is the Science Olympiad. I don't yet know the parameters of this hootenanny, but it's not at his school, so there are probably a bunch of schools involved. And my not-so-little boy has been chosen to represent his school's fourth grade.
Killer, right?
When he told me about it, he was psyched. He presented the permission slip proudly and liked his team's chances. "We've got a lot of areas of expertise covered," he said. "We've got this girl who, like, knows EVERY bone in the body."
This morning, he tried to back out of it. He got nervous and squirrelly, and DID NOT WANT TO TALK ABOUT IT.
And I think I can relate.
When I was in fifth grade, we had a schoolwide spelling tournament. Each classroom had its own bee, and the winners advanced to the Big Event in the auditorium, in front of the whole school.
It was a peripatetic time, schoolwise. My third school in three years. So when they announced this spellapalooza, I saw an opportunity. I was a good speller, and whipping these chumps would be the best way to announce my presence with authority. It was in the bag.
In the first round, Mrs. Baker went down the rows of the classroom, giving each kid a word to spell. The words began with successive letters of the alphabet; since I was fifth in my row, I was going to get an E word. I mentally ticked off possibilities while the kids in front of me spelled "ahead," "basic," "candid," and "doorknob."
Two-syllable words! How quaint. Whatcha got for me, Ms. B? Bring it on!
My word was "ecru."
My heart seized. Eck-what? I asked her to repeat it, and it sounded as much like Martian talk the second time.
What the hell kind of word is that?
I hemmed and stammered. I asked all the bullshit stalling questions I could think of. Mrs. Baker sounded it out for me deliberately, as if thinking "Goddammit, this word is way too hard, maybe because fifth graders don't spend all that much time DISTINGUISHING KHAKI FROM OATMEAL."
I gave it my best shot. "E-C-R-E-W?"
And the boy destined to wear the school's supreme spelling laurel had crapped out on the first word. I was devastated and incredulous. How could this happen? I'm SMART!
By now, I hope you've read Po Bronson's piece about how it's much better to extol effort rather than intellect. After I read it, I related to all of it. People told me I was smart all the time when I was a kid, because that was the accepted wisdom. Praise-and-inspire, youcandoit!
Now we can see the downside of all that acclaim--apart from all the self-inflated gasbags who derive such pride from their Aristotelian insights into the Real Housewives ouevre. Being told you're smart creates pressure to perform, to keep up the image. Because if you're ever exposed as the dolt you really are (or think yourself to be), especially in the crucible of early-onset tweenhood, your life is finished.
I've tried to remember all this, but calling him smart is still a reflex I have to catch. But even if his parents can rein in the brainpraise, he still hears it from other sources (teachers, classmates, etc.). Kids have been calling him a nerd for years, and he's only recently discovered how to supplant shame with pride.
But still, here he is. Chosen by his peers to compete in front of a large forum, and scared to death that he'll debunk his rep.
I'm not sure what to do yet, apart from not let him back out of it. I think I'll try telling him about my spelling fiasco, and hope to convey to him that winning is great, but endeavoring is the real victory.
I don't remember if I could have absorbed a message like that when I was 10. But then, he's a lot smarter than I am.


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It feels good to be back! After a break for summer, then drama stirring every time I was ready to jump back in, I was afraid I might just hang up my blogger hat. The idea to start a blog for some of the adventures with the kiddos has sparked the desire to fully jump back in the YA blogging world too. I can't let drama get me down from about what I'm passionate!
Instead of trying to do a FULL recap from NOVEMBER until now, I'll just let my reading speak for itself and start back with recaps next week. I will recount as best as I can remember on books I've gotten. No hope on library books except for what I have on hand now though. I will still include books I get/read with the kiddos, but there will no longer be Tot Time Thursday reviews/posts. All things children's lit, homeschooling, etc will be over on our new blog Voyages of the Backyard Explorers!
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Completed: (Starting in November til today)
Perfect Ruin by Lauren DeStefano
Burning Kingdoms by Lauren DeStefano
No Intention of Dying by Lauren DeStefano
The Orphan Queen by Jodi Meadows
The Winner's Curse by Marie Rutkoski
The Winner's Crime by Marie Rutkoski
The Red Tent by Anita Diamant
The Strange Case of Finley Jayne by Kady Cross
The Girl in the Steel Corset by Kady Cross
The Girl in the Clockwork Collar by Kady Cross
The Dark Discovery of Jack Dandy by Kady Cross
Die Once More by Amy Plum
The Madman's Daughter by Megan Shepherd
Her Dark Curiosity by Megan Shepherd
A Cold Legacy by Megan Shepherd
The Start of Me and You by Emery Lord
The Girl of Fire and Thorns by Rae Carson
The Crown of Embers by Rae Carson
Red Queen by Victoria Aveyard
The 5th Wave by Rick Yancey
The Bitter Kingdom by Rae Carson
Artemis Fowl by Eoin Colfer
Artemis Fowl: The Arctic Incident by Eoin Colfer
Gilt by Katherine Longshore
The Eternity Code by Eoin Colfer
Artemis Fowl: The Opal Deception by Eoin Colfer
Artemis Fowl: The Lost Colony by Eoin Colfer
The Time Paradox by Eoin Colfer
Tarnish by Katherine Longshore
Brazen by Katherine Longshore
Artemis Fowl: The Graphic Novel
Read with the Kiddos
Ladybug Girl and the Dress-up Dilemma
City Adventures #1: Help Is On The Way! (Lego Reader)
Ten Rules of Being a Superhero (Christy Ottaviano Books)
Bitty Baby and Me
What Is a Princess? (Disney Princess) (Step into Reading)
Scuffy the Tugboat and His Adventures Down the River
Tiny Toons Adventure: Happy Birthday, Babs!
Luke Goes to Bat
The Gingerbread Kid Goes to School (Penguin Young Readers, L2)
Potty (Leslie Patricelli board books)
Dinosaurs Before Dark (Magic Tree House, No. 1)
On the Night You Were Born
The Knight at Dawn (Magic Tree House, No. 2)
A Perfectly Messed-Up Story
Murray's First Book of Words (Sesame Street First Board Books)
Currently Reading:
Maid of Secrets by Jennifer McGowan
Mummies in the Morning (Magic Tree House, No. 3)
Pirates Past Noon (Magic Tree House, No. 4)
New to Our Shelves:
From My OTSP Secret Sisters (last round and current round)
Catching Jordan by Miranda Kenneally
Lola and the Boy Next Door by Stephanie Perkins
The Archived by Victoria Schwab
The Girl in the Steel Corset by Kady Cross
The Girl in the Clockwork Collar by Kady Cross
The Goddess Test by Aimee Carter
Goddess Interrupted by Aimee Carter
The Goddess Inheritance by Aimee Carter
Twisted Fate
The Last Apprentice (Revenge of the Witch)
The Other Queen by Philippa Gregory
The Lady of the Rivers: A Novel (The Cousins War)
The White Queen (The Cousins' War)
The Red Queen (The Cousin's War)
This Shattered World: A Starbound Novel
From Mary:
Vampire Academy (Vampire Academy, Book 1)
A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J Maas
Uninvited by Sophie Jordan
Giveaways/Book Swaps/ARCs
Maid of Wonder by Jennifer McGowan
Pushing the Limits by Katie McGarry
Bloodlines by Richelle Mead
Let the Sky Fall
Fairest: The Lunar Chronicles: Levana's Story
Rebel Angels (The Gemma Doyle Trilogy Book #2)
Extraction by Stephanie Diaz
Rebellion by Stephanie Diaz
Artemis Fowl: The Graphic Novel
The Artemis Fowl #2: Arctic Incident Graphic Novel 1st (first) Edition by Colfer, Eoin (2009)
Artemis Fowl The Eternity Code Graphic Novel
Artemis Fowl: The Opal Deception Graphic Novel (Artemis Fowl (Graphic Novels))
Captive (The Blackcoat Rebellion)
Maid of Secrets (Maids of Honor)
Tarnish by Katherine Longshore
Brazen by Katherine Longshore
Gilt by Katherine Longshore
Gilt by Katherine Longshore
The Orphan Queen by Jodi Meadows
Maid of Secrets (Maids of Honor)
Maid of Deception (Maids of Honor)
Origin by Jessica Khoury
Juliet Immortal
Venom (Secrets of the Eternal Rose)
The Scorpio Races
Red Riding Hood
Playing Dirty by Jennifer Echols
Pawn (The Blackcoat Rebellion)
The Girl of Fire and Thorns
How've you been lately? Read anything good recently? Have you checked out our new blog extension yet? Tot Time Thursday now has its own blog at Voyages of the Backyard Explorers!


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ann1096 — Announcement
Science in School Issue 17 Now Available
10 December 2010
The latest issue of Science in School, a free science education journal, is now available. The many exciting articles in this issue cover topics such as the science of humour, the phenomenon of supercooling, experiments at the nanoscale and a classroom project for transmitting music by laser. ESO's own Dr J (a.k.a. Dr Joe Liske), star of the ESOcast and Hubblecast video podcasts, talks in an article about his passion for astronomy, and his role in The Eye 3D, a 3D film about ESO's Very Large Telescope in the Chilean Atacama Desert.
Science in School is published by EIROforum, a collaboration between eight European intergovernmental scientific research organisations, of which ESO is a member. The journal addresses science teaching both across Europe and across disciplines: highlighting the best in teaching and cutting-edge research.
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Graduate Council Meeting
February 14, 2000
I. The meeting was called to order at 2:30 p.m.
Voting members and alternates present were: K. Ahmad, G. Bernhardt, B. Berra, J. Brandeberry, J. Dombrowski, J. Fulton, R.Fyffe, R. Grandhi, R. Grubbs, C. Hall, M. Kazimierczuk, R. Koerker, P. Martin, S. McConnell, S. Nelson, J. Ovington, J. Paietta, C. Scordo, E. Self, J. Thomas, L. VandeCreek, D. Weber, R.Weisman, A. Wendt
Non-voting alternates present were: R. Koubek, C. Ryan
Non-voting attendees were: E.Hern, J. Kimble, G. Malicki, V. Montavon, P. Seybold
II. It was moved and seconded that the minutes of the October 11, 1999 meeting be approved as written. Motion carried unanimously.
III. Report of the Dean (J. Thomas)
The Graduate Council Scholars program provides an annual stipend of $10,000 plus a four quarter tuition waiver. Five new awards are anticipated each year, and nominations may be submitted at any time. The Graduate Dean and the Student Affairs Committee Chair may select a maximum of three scholars. To be eligible for early selection, students must possess an undergraduate GPA of at least 3.5, score in the upper twenty-five percent on the required admission exam, or possess a GPA of 3.75. Remaining awards will be selected by the Student Affairs Committee when a pool of candidates is available, no later than June 1.
The Graduate Tuition Fellowship program is continuing with a limited budget. Currently there are about 185 students in the program, nearly 150 of them new this year. Allotments for new awards (1/2 the total) per college will be unchanged for next year.
The Graduate Student Excellence Awards Program and Reception is scheduled for Monday, May 15, 2000, at 5:00p.m., in the Formal Lounge, Student Union. Requests for nominations will be circulated the first week of March.
IV. Report on Education Graduate Program Revisions (G.Bernhardt)
Dean Bernhardt presented the Council with details of the changes in the graduate programs of the College of Education and Human Services. The current State of Ohio certification program will be changed to a licensure program. The current elementary and secondary categories are being changed to Early Childhood, Middle Childhood, and Adolescent. In September, 2002 the State will no longer issue any initial teacher certificates, only the new licenses.
Early Childhood students will still pursue a bachelor's degree in education in preparation for employment and eventual licensure. However, those students intending to be licensed at the Middle Childhood and Adolescent levels will pursue a content-based bachelor's degree followed by a one year master's degree (M.Ed).
To accommodate this, a number of new program concentrations and title changes have been submitted to the Policies Committee for review and approval.
V. Committee Reports
Policies Committee (P. Seybold)
The committee reviewed and approved the College of Education and Human Services program changes submitted in response to the state-level changes summarized by Dean Bernhardt. The Graduate School will work with the Registrar to implement the changes in regard to major numbers and program titles. A complete listing of the changes is available in the School of Graduate Studies.
The committee reviewed and approved a new concentration in Modern Languages in the M.Ed. Classroom Teacher program. The intent is to provide a degree program to allow language teachers to advance their knowledge of the language they teach. The program will include 24 hours of coursework in modern foreign languages and 24 hours in education. The program is offered in collaboration with the Department of Modern Languages.
The committee reviewed and approved a new School Nurse concentration in the Master of Science in Nursing program. This program is supported by the College of Education and Human Services and is congruent with the school nurse licensure program offered jointly by the two colleges. It will be the only school nurse degree program in the area.
The committee reviewed and recommends approval for a new Master of Science program in Pharmacology & Toxicology. The committee is acting upon the recommendation of a Reading Committee, chaired by C. Ryan, which examined the proposal for the degree in detail. The Reading Committee found it to be a strong proposal, and the few recommended changes have already been made. The proposal was moved and seconded and approved unanimously. The proposal next goes to the Faculty Senate, the WSU Board of Trustees, then to the Ohio Board of Regents. Copies of the full proposal are available in the Graduate Dean's office and will be made available in the Faculty Office for Faculty Senate review. An Executive Summary is attached to these minutes.
The committee considered and recommends a policy on use of the "M" grade, namely:
The satisfactory ("M") grade will be assigned only to courses that are of a continuing nature such as research and thesis courses. Normally the course number of these courses ends in -_99, such as 799, 899, or 999. The M grade will be removed from the grading format of all non-sequence courses. The School of Graduate Studies and the Registrar's office will insure that requests for M grades within the grading format will be confined to continuing courses.
The motivation for the policy is that several faculty, as well as the Graduate School, had noted instances in which the M grade was used inappropriately in place of an I grade for non-continuing courses. During discussion, it was emphasized that the motion applies to graduate courses only. The use of the M grade for undergraduate courses was unclear, and C. Holdcraft will follow up on this with the Registrar. The above policy was moved, seconded, and passed unanimously.
Student Affairs Committee (J. Fulton)
The committee reviewed one petition for waiver of the 33 hour residency requirement. The petition was denied.
The next meeting of the committee will be to interview candidates and select nominees for the Ohio Board of Regents Graduate and Professional Fellowship Program. This is a two year, $3500 award to a student pursuing advanced studies in an Ohio university. Nominally, there is one award per Ohio undergraduate institution, public and private.
Membership Committee (E. Self)
The Committee brought forward five nominations for full graduate faculty status and two nominations for adjunct full graduate faculty status. These were moved, seconded, and approved unanimously by the Council.
The five new full members are:
Jeffrey Allen School of Professional Psychology
Craig Harvey Biomedical, Industrial & Human Factors Engineering/E&CS
Frances Quek Computer Science & Engineering/E&CS
Robert Rando School of Professional Psychology
Javier Stern Pharmacology & Toxicology/SoM
The two new adjunct full members are:
Robert Ewing Electrical Engineering/E&CS
John Rossi Pharmacology & Toxicology/SoM
The chair also mentioned that the committee was reviewing college and departmental procedures for nomination of full members of the graduate faculty.
VI. Research Report (E. Hern)
Fiscal year-to-date figures reveal a 40 percent increase in sponsored projects award dollars. Since the number of awards is nearly flat, the increase represents an increase in award size. While the magnitude of the increase may not be sustained, it is still good news of strong faculty productivity.
VII. Old Business, New Business, Announcements and Adjournment
There being no further business, the meeting was adjourned at 3:15 p.m.
Submitted by,
Robert Fyffe
Secretary, Graduate Council
Master of Science in Pharmacology & Toxicology
A new degree program is proposed in Pharmacology and Toxicology that will lead to a Master of Science degree in Pharmacology and Toxicology and will prepare students for careers in industry, government, education, and research organizations or for further professional training. The program will be offered in by the Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, School of Medicine, in close cooperation with the U.S. Air Force and Navy Toxicology Laboratories located at Wright-Patterson AFB.
This degree program differs from any other undergraduate major or masters level program currently offered at Wright State University both conceptually and with respect to employment and career options. While some of the concepts inherent to pharmacology and toxicology are introduced in courses offered by the biology and chemistry departments, these presentations have an environmental toxicology and medicinal chemistry focus, respectively, in preparation for distinctly different career paths than is the goal of our program. Furthermore, our program will provide a comprehensive introduction to the broad range of theoretical concepts that comprise the discipline, providing both historical context and state of the art technical approaches to solving pharmacological and toxicological problems. This goal of providing students with a career-oriented yet theoretically based education will be accomplished within the core curriculum through the combination of text and literature based lectures complemented by laboratory instruction and journal club type seminars.
The curriculum will be organized largely around existing coursework in the Pharmacology and Toxicology Department and related disciplines. One new course is proposed (Research Techniques). The M.S. degree will require a research-based thesis with oral thesis defense. A total of 50-quarter credit hours will be required. Of these credits, a minimum of 22-24 hours must be in didactic course work and the remaining 26-28 hours may be in special topics, research and seminars. PHA 990 (Seminar) is required each academic year quarter. Seminar topics will be offered by individual faculty every quarter.
The program will include two tracks for student specialization: Pharmacology or Toxicology.
Common core course requirements would include:
Research Techniques (PHA 700 - 2 Cr.)
Biostatistics (STT 664 - 4 Cr.)
Principles of Biokinetics I (PHA 710 - 4 Cr.)
Principles of Biodynamics II (PHA 750 - 4 Cr.)
Seminar (PHA 990 - 3 Cr.)
Total: 17 Cr.
Toxicology specialization would also include:
Molecular Toxicology (PHA 751 - 4 Cr.)
Total: 4 Cr. + Electives
Pharmacology specialization would also include:
Molecular Pharmacology (PHA 879 - 4 Cr.)
Total: 4 Cr. + Electives
Elective courses are currently available in Biological Sciences and Chemistry, as well as Pharmacology and Toxicology.


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Doctors and nurses from Boston hospitals are rushing to typhoon-devastated sections of the Philippines to aid survivors who for more than a week have faced a scarcity of food and drinking water; little protection from sun, wind, and rain; and, in many cases, no access to health care.
Dr. Hilarie Cranmer, director of disaster response for Massachusetts General Hospital's Center for Global Health and a veteran of disaster sites, said they would encounter bleak scenes.
"The team is going to be facing horrible conditions," Cranmer said . "It's going to be a prolonged, protracted recovery effort over the next few months."
The seven-member team departed Sunday morning, and another MGH team made up of as many as 60 doctors and nurses is expected to leave within the next two weeks, hospital officials said. Already, six doctors from Beth Israel Deaconness Medical Center have arrived in the island nation devastated by Typhoon Haiyan on Nov. 8.
According to figures released Sunday by the Philippines' National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council, nearly 4,000 people died and more than 18,000 were injured in the typhoon.
Dr. Gregory Ciottone, director of Beth Israel's Disaster Medicine Training Program, said Sunday that the program has partnered with Global Rapid Rescue and Relief and sent two doctors to the devastated city of Tacloban, one of the hardest-hit areas in the nation of 106 million residents.
In Tacloban, the doctors expect to help the Philippine government reopen a deserted hospital.
A second team of four Beth Israel doctors was traveling Sunday from the capital city of Manila to Cebu, where many injured Filipinos from rural areas are being brought, Ciottone said. A third group of doctors is expected to fly to the Philippines later in the week, he said.
MGH is working with two international aid organizations to provide relief. Through its partnership with the International Medical Corps, it sent a team Sunday that includes two doctors, four nurses, and a pharmacist to Cebu for a 21-day deployment, Cranmer, MGH's director of disaster response said.
Cranmer, who has provided disaster relief following Hurricanes Rita and Katrina, the 2004 Indonesian tsunami, and the Haitian earthquake of 2010, said the team's pharmacist, Carmela Berlin, and one physician, Dr. Roberto Coganda, are Filipino-Americans who speak Tagalog, the most common language of the Philippines, as well as other dialects.
"They're great because they're helping not just with medical support but with logistics [and] giving language lessons" to other medical personnel, she said.
MGH is also working with the humanitarian organization Project HOPE (Health Opportunities for People Everywhere) and the US Navy to assemble a team of up to 60 physicians, nurses, and social workers that will leave Boston close to Thanksgiving, according to Jeanette Ives Erickson, the hospital's chief nurse.
Frederick Gerber, director for special programs and operations for Project HOPE, said Sunday that the organization was planning multiple three-week rotations of medical professionals recruited from MGH and other US hospitals.
He said a Project HOPE assessment team was on the ground in the Philippines to determine the best locations and timing to maximize their efforts.
"They're seeing a lack of food, a lack of drinking water," Gerber said. "They're running out of fuel. . . . The standard things you would see in any natural disaster."
Filipino doctors and nurses are torn between their professional duties and concerns about their own families, he said. Support from their American counterparts will allow them time to look after relatives.
Adding to the medical needs is the insufficient number of functioning hospitals to care for those with injuries, infections, or communicable diseases.
"A lot of their health facilities are damaged, unsafe to work in," he said. "A lot of those have been abandoned; some haven't."
Ciottone, the Beth Israel disaster medicine specialist, said that after any natural catastrophe, there is a first wave of injuries caused by the incident, followed by a wave of illness caused by lack of sanitary conditions and access to care. Those with chronic conditions, such as diabetes, may have no access to the treatments that make their illnesses controllable.
Erickson, the MGH nurse, said doctors and nurses are also needed to provide everyday medical care, including maternity care.
"Babies will continue to be born, and we hope that is a role that we can play . . . to bring new life into the world," she said.
Ciottone said medical professionals and aid workers have learned from missteps in previous relief efforts and are increasingly well-trained and coordinated.
"Each time we do this . . . we try to look back and see how we could do it better," Ciottone said. "I think the world is making steady progress on that. I think it's better almost every time."
Jeremy C. Fox can be reached at email@example.com. Follow him on Twitter @jeremycfox.


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SEATTLE (AP) — Justin Smoak doubled in a pair of runs off Tampa Bay reliever Joel Peralta in the eighth inning and the Seattle Mariners rallied for a 6-4 victory over the Rays on Friday night.
The Rays' lead was cut to two games over the Cleveland Indians and Baltimore Orioles in the race for the second wild-card berth in the American League.
After tying the game in the top of the eighth, the Rays couldn't keep the Mariners from going ahead.
Kyle Seager hit a fly ball off Peralta (2-6) deep into the gap in left-center.
Though center fielder Desmond Jennings got in position for the play, the ball caromed off the heel of his glove and fell to the turf allowing Seager to reach second base on the error.
Kendrys Morales walked before Smoak's fly down the right field line just missed the glove of a diving Wil Myers. Seager and pinch runner Abraham Almonte scored to give the Mariners a 6-4 lead.
Carter Capps (3-3) picked up the victory in relief.
Danny Farquhar pitched a scoreless ninth to earn his 13th save.
Brad Miller doubled to lead off the game for Seattle and scored on a sacrifice fly by Seager to the Mariners a 1-0 lead.
The Rays tied it in the second inning. Delmon Young crushed a solo home run off Mariners starter Hisashi Iwakuma to left-center field.
Ben Zobrist and Evan Longoria each singled with two outs in the third inning and Matt Joyce drew a walk to load the bases.
A wild pitch allowed Zobrist to score from third to give Tampa Bay a 2-1 lead. Iwakuma managed to work out of the jam by getting Young to ground out to second to end the inning.
Seattle retook the lead in the bottom half of the inning. Nick Franklin reached on a fielder's choice and stole second base.
Franklin Gutierrez singled up the middle past the outstretched gloves of Alex Cobb to drive in Franklin and tie it. Gutierrez added a stolen base to get into scoring position for Seager, who delivered an RBI single to give the Mariners a 3-2 lead.
Raul Ibanez hit his 27th home run off Cobb to lead off the fourth inning and extend the Mariners' lead.
Cobb allowed four runs and seven hits in six innings for Tampa Bay. He struck out five and walked one.
The Rays closed the gap in the sixth inning. Young doubled and the Mariners elected to walk Myers to bring Jose Molina to the plate. Molina answered with a single that scored Young and chased Iwakuma from the game.
Iwakuma allowed three runs and eight hits with five strikeouts over 5 2-3 innings for Seattle.
A base running mistake cost the Rays a chance to take the lead in the eighth inning. James Loney drew a leadoff walk and Myers followed with a single.
Sean Rodriguez came on to pinch run for Loney, but was picked off by Capps at second. The mistake cost Tampa Bay a run as Luke Scott doubled to left-center field to score Myers from first.
Capps walked Jennings and Zobrist to load the bases, but induced a ground out from Longoria to get out of the jam and keep the game tied at 4-4.
Notes: Tampa Bay manager Joe Maddon said the Rays rotation for their upcoming series with the Boston Red Sox will consist of David Price, Alex Cobb and Jeremy Hellickson. Both Hellickson and Chris Archer will get an extra day of rest before their next start. Archer will start against Minnesota. … Raul Ibanez is just the third player in major league history to hit at least 27 home runs in a season at 41 years of age or older. Only Ted Williams (29 home runs, 41 years old) and Barry Bonds (28 home runs, 42 years old) have hit more.
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After today's 6 IP/6 K/6 BB outing, Andre Rienzo already has 25 walks in 42.2 innings. Last year Rienzo issued 32 walks in 101.0 innings. Please cut down the walks Andre!
Rienzo is one of the subjects Buddy Bell addressed today. See posts by J.J. Stankevitz, Mark Primiano (U-God) & Jim Margalus, and Scott Reifert.


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June 16, 1918
Dear Mother and Father:
I wrote you a letter a week ago but as we have been on the move since it is probable that it was not forwarded for a few days.
The day after I wrote you last we got word to pack up and move. It is a big job to move a whole hospital but we got it done in a couple of hours. We traveled about twenty four hours. We didn't go so very far but troop trains don't travel very fast and we went a rather round about way. We had better luck as to accomodations this trip. The officers had first class compartments, the sergeants had second class and the privates, third class. We were as comfortable as on any American train. As we got nearer the front we began to realize that the war was getting close. A good part of the trip was through country that had been occupied by the Germans in 191^. We saw very little of ruins, probably because they had been repaired since or that there wasn't much damage done. Our route was just about along the line of the furthest advance of the Germans. Of course they don't occupy that ground now. Many of the fields had a number of graves in them which were marked by wooden crosses.
Our present situation is a very good one and we think we are practically permanently located here. We are on the estate of some countess whose name I do not know. She lives in Paris now but has been here a couple of times this week to see what we were doing with her place. There is a fine old chateau and beautiful grounds. The house is not well arranged for hospital wards so it is used for operating rooms, offices and quarters for some of the officers. We are in small tents around the edge of the grounds and have about twenty-five ward tents up now. When we are all fixed we may have room for a thousand patients. We haven't all of our operating equipment yet and so have not really begun to work. There is a small hospital attached to us called a Mobile Hospital and they have all their equipment so they have been doing some operating. Last night we got our first taste of what is coming. We got word in the evening that some gassed men were being sent to us. I stayed up all night with eight men to take the men from the ambulances and put them in the ward and in four hours we received nearly four hundred. They were sent to us from another hospital so they had been treated and there was nothing for us to do but keep them warm and quiet and feed them.
We have over a hundred wounded patients but they are taken care of at present in the Mobile Hospital so I don't see them. When we are fixed to do operating we will be rushed with wounded patients. We have five wounded German prisoners. They receive the same care and treatment that our men do and I guess they hardly know what to make of it. They are surprised to be treated so well. One or two of them are in pretty bad shape but even at that I guess they are glad to be here.
Most of our patients are Marines and I guess the Marine Corps has been doing good work at the front. We hear reports of American successes which I suppose are comparatively small but they are encouraging. We can realize that we are close to the front. At night we can see the flashes from the guns and rockets. We can hear them plainly although they are several miles away. There is hardly a minute of the day that we can't hear the hum of an aeroplane. Some days they are more numerous than others. The second day we were here we often saw five or six up at the same time. A couple of days ago a German plane wandered over this far but a couple of miles from here the anti-aircraft guns got him. We are so used to the planes by now that we don't look at them anymore. Our patients say that at the front the German planes do whatever they want to unmolested. We hope that all those planes that the U.S. is said to be building will soon be in service.
Since beginning this letter two days ago I have been put in charge of two wards. I have the officers ward and a ward for enlisted men. None of them were very seriously wounded. Most of them had been operated upon at the Mobile Hospital and then were sent to my ward to be sent on to a base hospital. They are all gone this morning. Two of the officers were suffering from shell shock which is a mental and physical derangement caused by exposure to shell fire. One lieutenant thought he was still in the trenches and was talking to his men and giving orders. We don't keep patients very long. As soon as they are able to be moved they are sent back to a base hospital to recover. A good many expect to be sent home when they are well as they are not fit for further service. Some of the men have been over here a year and they would give a leg to get back home.
It is surprising, though, how cheerful most of the men are in spite of their injuries and hardships they have gone through. Some are anxious to get back to the trenches while others are terror stricken at the thought of going back again. They have a pretty hard time of it, all right, while they are in the trenches. They are all hungry when they get here and something to eat and a bed look pretty good to them.
A representative of the YMCA comes around every day or two and gives the patients a piece of chocolate and some cigarettes. There is a small building on the grounds that used to be the servants' quarters. When the French soldiers were camped here it was used for a YMCA and I understand that the Y is going to open it again for us. There is a good piano up there and Sgt. Fontaine and I have been using it in the evenings when we had time.
We have about forty female nurses with us now. I have a nurse and tow men in each of my wards. The nurse tends to the dressing of the wounds and the men do the other work that has to be done. The work is not so awfully hard but the days are long and wearisome.
We get the American papers from Paris every day. We are vitally interested in the news from the Chteau Thierry region. So far the news has been very favorable. A few days ago the papers told of an air raid on Paris. Some of our men who were up saw the search lights from the city as they tried to find the aeroplanes and shoot them down.
On account of our moving around no mail has gotten to us yet but I understand that we may get some soon. Everybody is anxious to hear from home. It is six weeks now since we left New York and that is a pretty long time to be without word from home. I hope you didn't have to wait that long for a letter from me.
It looks as though we were not going to get paid till next month, we will ge two months pay in one. I understand that after we are here six months we are entitled to a weeks furlough. The American soldiers are not supposed to go to Paries. There are other cities which have been made the official recreation places. They have American theatres and have Americanized the towns so that the men can get along as well as at home. I would like to get into Paris sometime but I don't know how it can be done. I hope to be able to arrange a little time now and then for practice but it is rather hard to do so. The ward work is not hard but your are expected to be on duty almost all the time. Perhaps when we get going a little while I can manage for an hour or so a day.
I want this letter to get off today so I will close now. I suppose you will have had one or more letters from me by now and that you have been writing me right along so that there will be several of them when they do get here. I will write as often as I can, at least once a week. I will try to write to my friends now and then but I may not be anble to do very much in that way.
Give my best regards to all.
Love from
PS. I think this is the fourth letter I have sent.
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Posted by Editor on 12/31/02
Class of 2023
Courtesy Tanya Dubnicoff
Kurt and Erica have a baby boy - Jeremy Christopher Innes! Born December 26th weighing in at 8lbs 1.5oz. The parents are doing fine resting at home.
Hamilton 2010 Update
We understand that numerous people have responded to our editorial regarding the lack of track cycling in the 2010 Hamilton Commonwealth Games proposal by sending letters to Minister Sheila Copps and others (see Daily News December 18/02 Noon EST - Hamilton 2010-A Commentary). The Australian web magazine CyclingNews.com reprinted the article, so international interest in the issue is growing. Chuck Bonnaffon (a longtime Ontario track activist) has been particularly active, and has solicited a response from the President of the Scottish Cyclists' Union:
Thank you for passing on the terrible news that Hamilton (Canada) does not have the foresight to include Track Cycling in its bid for the Commonwealth Games of 2010. If Scotland had thought that way in 1970 we would not have had World Track Champions in Chris Hoy and Craig MacLean in 2002.
Could you please pass on my comments on the decision that Hamilton is about to make to whoever has the most say in this important decision as I fear that if track cycling is not included in their bid, the bid will have no support from Scottish and British bodies.
"Cycling in its track format is one of the purist sports ever to be included in the Games as it has very little to do with chance, the element in road racing that can eliminate great champions from ever figuring in results. If a track rider can do the time then only a rider who can do a better time will beat them.
Scotland counted its cycling facilities as all the roads that existed in the land and used them for time trials, road races and all things cycling for many years. The" kinder garden" of the sport in Scotland was the road time trials that encouraged young riders into the sport with their parents blessing. Things have changed.
As roads became busier and traffic calming and control systems disrupted traditional courses and routes, the young riders were not allowed by their parents to compete on roads that were perceived as dangerous and unsafe for their children. The numbers coming into the sport in Scotland and Britain in general is tumbling as a result.
The Scottish Cyclists' Union (SCU) have been lobbying for some years now for traffic free cycling facilities so that this trend can be reversed and the need for a cycle velodrome (of the indoor variety) comes top of the list.
To say that after the games, Hamilton would be left with a "White Elephant" is a huge admission of defeat in marketing what could produce, at worst, a wonderful facility to get kids into sport and at best, a spring board for success at World, Commonwealth and Olympic levels.
Currently Glasgow and Edinburgh are both competing for funding to allow them to build an indoor velodrome in Scotland and we as the cycle sport authority in Scotland are backing both bids. Furthermore, since the UCI have endorsed track racing as a winter sport, more and more covered velodromes will be required to hold the World Cup and Championship events as well as provide training facilities for the elite riders prior to these events.
The SCU do not see a covered velodrome as purely a facility for the few elite riders we have, no we see the facility as a very important means of allowing school children and adults into one of the healthiest sports available to all.
Finally I was shocked to read that Canada was not included as one of the "powerhouse cycling nations" as we always regarded Canada as a force to be reckoned with at any Games.
Please reconsider your bid sports and include track cycling for the 2010 Games, not because Scotland is good at it, but because it is a sport worthy of inclusion"
Yours sincerely,
Ian Sinclair,
Scottish Cyclists' Union
If you have not yet sent a response to the parties listed in the editorial, we urge you to do so.
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Founded in 2009, Culture Days is a non-profit organization dedicated to building a national network of cultural connections devoted to providing Canadians with opportunities to participate in, and appreciate, all forms of arts and culture. MIA joins this collaborative initiative with our 3rd annual Inuit Art Identification Clinic. Members of the public are invited to bring in a piece of Inuit art from their personal collection to have it verbally appraised by a panel of experts.
MIA is pleased to welcome back the wonderful Blandina Makkik for her second year on our all-star panel of Inuit art specialists. Blandina is an excellent addition to the panel with her keen eye for spotting signatures and her intimate knowledge of Inuktitut. You won't want to miss the opportunity to have such an experienced professional examine your own precious artworks!
Blandina Makkik was born and raised in Igloolik on the northwestern coast off Baffin Island, Nunavut. Previous to joining the team at the Craft Ontario Shop, she served as a Land Claims Implementation Advisor for the Government of Nunavut. She has also worked as an Advisor for the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade where she traveled extensively throughout the Circumpolar world.
From 1985 to 1991, Blandina was the Senior Producer for Inuit Broadcasting and developed the first children's television programming available in Inuktitut. The program, Takuginai (Look and Learn) won numerous awards internationally. Blandina joined Craft Ontario in 2005.
She has her International Baccalaureate from Lester B. Pearson College of The Pacific and has also attended Trent University, McGill University and St. Francis Xavier University.


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Steve Ballmer has served as Microsoft's CEO and most enthusiastic pitchman. His decision to step down within the next 12 months is industry-shaking news.
As one of the founding employees of the company, Ballmer is nearly as synonymous with Microsoft as Bill Gates is. But during Ballmer's tenure, the company routinely referred to as "the software giant" has lost much of its stature. Microsoft's value has more than halved, going from just over $600 billion to just under $270 billion. Google has largely replicated the functionality of Microsoft's Office productivity software and made it available online at no cost to consumers and a competitive price for business. Windows Phone is at a market-share high, but that's still only four percent of the market. The Xbox One was unveiled in May but ahead of its rumored November release the company has had to make several adjustments to mollify gamers upset by the initial news there'd be an always-on Internet requirement and would need Kinect to operate. Even with those changes, the game console will be fighting Sony's PlayStation 4 for attention with just about half the number of subscribers.
In its 41 years, Microsoft has had only two CEOs: company founder Gates and Ballmer. Losing a CEO who is as defining a personality as both Ballmer and Gates were could either give the company a boost with the promise of new blood, or shake investor confidence. The only large tech company in recent memory to experience a comparable change is rival Apple with Tim Cook succeeding Steve Jobs.
The committee to select Ballmer's replacement includes Gates, the board's Lead Independent Director John Thompson, Audit Committee Chairman Chuck Noski, and Compensation Committee Chairman Steve Luczo. While they have a year to decide, PCMag is putting up some likely (and some unlikely) candidates they may consider. No matter if you agree or disagree, cast your vote in the poll at the end.


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By Barack Obama
No issue is more important than restoring economic security for families in the wake of the greatest economic crisis since the Great Depression. And that begins with making sure everyone who wants a job has one. But it also means addressing challenges that are unique to women's economic security — challenges that have been around since long before the recession hit.
Thanks to some of the steps we've taken, we're making progress to increase women's economic security through all stages of life — from young women furthering their education and beginning their careers, to working women who create jobs and provide for their families, to seniors in retirement or getting ready for retirement.
These aren't just matters of policy. They're personal. I grew up the son of a single mom who struggled to put herself through school, but she earned her education, and made sure that my sister and I earned ours. When my mom needed help, my grandmother stepped up. She had a high school education, but eventually became vice president at the local bank — before hitting the glass ceiling. Once Michelle and I had our girls, we gave it our all to balance raising a family and chasing our careers — something that could be very difficult on her when I was gone a lot. Like a lot of parents, we both wished there were a machine that would let us be in two places at once.
And as a father, one of the highlights of my day is asking my daughters about theirs. Their hopes and their futures are what drive me when I step into the Oval Office. Every decision I make is all about making sure they and all our children grow up in a country where more opportunities are open to them than were ever open to us.
That's what's at the heart of all our efforts — and we've got to realize that these are not just women's issues, they're economic issues that impact all of us.
Women are not an interest group. Women are half of this country and its workforce. When women make less than men for the same work, families have to get by with less and businesses have customers with less to spend. When a job doesn't offer family leave to care for a new baby or sick leave to care for an ailing parent, that burdens men, too. When an insurance plan denies women coverage because of a pre-existing condition, that puts a strain on emergency rooms and drives up the cost of care for everyone.
Women are a growing number of breadwinners in their households, but they're still earning just 77 cents for every dollar a man does — even less for African-American or Latina women. Closing this pay gap — ending this pay discrimination — is about far more than simple fairness; it's about strengthening families, communities and our entire economy.
That's why the first bill I signed into law was the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act to make it easier for women to demand equal pay for equal work. And, we're pushing to give women more tools to fight pay discrimination and encouraging companies to make workplaces more flexible — so women don't have to choose between being a good employee or a good mom.
Nearly 30 percent of small-business owners are women, generating $1.2 trillion a year. More women should be able to create jobs, which is why we've extended more than 16,000 new loans worth $4.5 billion to women-owned businesses and cut taxes for small businesses 17 times.
We are also helping prepare more women for the jobs of today and tomorrow. Women account for just 25 percent of the workforce in science and technical fields. To grow these numbers, our education reform prioritizes science, technology, engineering and math education. It rewards states that take specific steps to involve underrepresented groups such as girls. We've also made higher education more affordable for 2.3 million more young women through increased Pell grants.
The policies we've put in place have started to take hold, but at this make-or-break moment for the middle class, we've got more to do.
And as long as I have the privilege of being your president, we're going to keep opening doors of opportunity for all who are willing to work for it.
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Oy. You've surely seen the headlines by now: Women in charge have less sex! Too bossy to make love: Women who make all the decisions at home pay the price in passion!
The message is clear: The stronger the lady, the less likely she is to get laid.
The thing is, though, that's not exactly the case. The flurry of salacious news items all refer to a recent study out of John Hopkins University, which found that, of the women surveyed–women from six African countries–the more decisions they were responsible for, the less often they had sex. But the bit that gets left out of the headlines is, according to study co-author Carrie Muntifering, in places such as the countries where the study was conducted, this is likely a good thing, indicating more control over their sex lives.
What grates is the way such results are parlayed in our neck of the woods — where, in fact, more equality has been shown to be associated with more nookie, not less — as though women had better absolve themselves of any decision-making power, lest those decisions become the only form of action they can count on getting. And look at the judgment in some of that language: Bossy? Seriously? (And when you click on that one, the top of your browser will read: Desperate Housewives. Nope, not kidding.) Even leaving the (admittedly obnoxious) semantics aside, you gotta wonder: why is our first instinct to take a study like this–one that, for all intents and purposes, has precious little to do with us–and spin it in such a way as to strike the greatest amount of fear possible into our collective hearts? It's all yet another way in which women are led to question the way we're living, to worry over being too fill-in-the-blank and not fill-in-the-other-blank enough, and yet another way in which we're faced with the false dichotomy that refuses to die: successful or sexy, ladies, not both.
Interestingly, the same day my inbox was assaulted with these headlines, I came across a couple more, about Iris Krasnow's new book, "The Secret Lives of Wives: Women Share What It Really Takes To Stay Married." For her book, Krasnow interviewed 200 women, and found that
The happiest wives have a sense of purpose and passion in work and causes outside of the home. Wives who counted on a spouse for fulfillment and sustenance were often angry and lonely.
Huh. What do you know? Independent women have happier relationships? There's a headline I'd love to see.


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