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1. Open Your Eyes THE INVISIBLE ARGUMENT A personal tale of unresisted persuasion Truth springs from argument among friends.--david hume It is early in the morning and my seventeen-year-old son eats breakfast, giving me a narrow window to use our sole bathroom. I wrap a towel around my waist and approach the sink, avoiding the grim sight in the mirror; as a writer, I don't have to shave every day. (Marketers despairingly call a consumer like me a "low self-monitor.") I do have my standards, though, and hygiene is one. I grab toothbrush and toothpaste. The tube is empty. The nearest replacement sits on a shelf in our freezing basement, and I'm not dressed for the part. "George!" I yell. "Who used all the toothpaste?" A sarcastic voice answers from the other side of the door. "That's not the point, is it, Dad?" George says. "The point is how we're going to keep this from happening again." He has me. I have told him countless times how the most productive arguments use the future tense, the language of choices and decisions. "You're right," I say. "You win. Now will you please get me some toothpaste?" "Sure." George retrieves a tube, happy that he beat his father at an argument. Or did he? Who got what he wanted? In reality, by conceding his point, I persuaded him. If I simply said, "Don't be a jerk and get me some toothpaste," George might stand there arguing. Instead I made him feel triumphant, triumph made him benevolent, and that got me exactly what I wanted. I achieved the height of persuasion: not just an agreement, but one that gets an audience--a teenaged one at that--to do my bidding. No, George, I win. The Matrix, Only Cooler What kind of father manipulates his own son? Oh, let's not call it manipulation. Call it instruction. Any parent should consider rhetoric, the art of argument, one of the essential R's. Rhetoric is the art of influence, friendship, and eloquence, of ready wit and irrefutable logic. And it harnesses the most powerful of social forces, argument. Whether you sense it or not, argument surrounds you. It plays with your emotions, changes your attitude, talks you into a decision, and goads you to buy things. Argument lies behind political labeling, advertising, jargon, voices, gestures, and guilt trips; it forms a real-life Matrix, the supreme software that drives our social lives. And rhetoric serves as argument's decoder. By teaching the tricks we use to persuade one another, the art of persuasion reveals the Matrix in all its manipulative glory. The ancients considered rhetoric the essential skill of leadership--knowledge so important that they placed it at the center of higher education. It taught them how to speak and write persuasively, produce something to say on every occasion, and make people like them when they spoke. After the ancient Greeks invented it, rhetoric helped create the world's first democracies. It trained Roman orators like Julius Caesar and Marcus Tullius Cicero and gave the Bible its finest language. It even inspired William Shakespeare. Every one of America's founders studied rhetoric, and they used its principles in writing the Constitution. Rhetoric faded in academia during the 1800s, when social scientists dismissed the notion that an individual could stand up to the inexorable forces of history. Who wants to teach leadership when academia doesn't believe in leaders? At the same time, English lit replaced the classics, and ancient thought fell out of vogue. Nonetheless, a few remarkable people continued to study the art. Daniel Webster picked up rhetoric at Dartmouth by joining a debating society, the United Fraternity, which had an impressive classical library and held weekly debates. Years later, the club changed its name to Alpha Delta and partied its way to immortalHeinrichs, Jay is the author of 'Thank You for Arguing What Aristotle, Lincoln, And Homer Simpson Can Teach Us About the Art of Persuasion', published 2007 under ISBN 9780307341440 and ISBN 0307341445.[read more]
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New: Court Rejects Chevron Appeal in Refinery Expansion Case
A state appeals court in San Francisco on Monday upheld a lower court decision that the environmental report for Chevron's Richmond refinery expansion project is inadequate under state environmental laws.
Last June, a Contra Costa County Superior Court judge ruled that the refinery's environmental impact report on the project was invalid because it failed to disclose whether the project would enable the refinery to process heavier crude oil.
The ruling was followed by an injunction ordering the refinery to stop construction on the project, and Chevron began laying off workers.
Chevron appealed the superior court ruling to the state Court of Appeal, but the appellate court upheld the lower court's decision Monday.
"Chevron is disappointed with the Court of Appeal's ruling," Chevron spokesman Brent Tippen said today. "We feel both the evidence and the law amply supported the adequacy of the EIR prepared by the city of Richmond for the renewal project."
The Richmond City Council narrowly approved the company's Energy and Hydrogen Renewal Project in 2008 and the company broke ground in 2009.
Soon after the project was approved, however, a group of community groups represented by the nonprofit law firm Earthjustice sued the city, claiming the environmental impact report did not adhere to rules of the California Environmental Quality Act.
Refinery officials claimed the project was an upgrade that would increase the refinery's flexibility to process a wider variety of crude oil and improve the plant's energy efficiency and reliability. They also said the project would reduce overall emissions at the plant and that the environmental review was sufficient.
The environmental groups Communities for a Better Environment, the West County Toxics Coalition and Asian Pacific Environmental Network, however, claimed that the upgrade was actually an expansion that would enable the refinery to process heavier crude oil, resulting in increased pollution in nearby communities and a higher risk of an explosion at the plant.
Tippen said today that the company believes that the project was properly analyzed and permitted.
"We are now reviewing the court's decision and will determine what is next to be done," Tippen said.
Earthjustice attorney Will Rostov said, "The court agrees that the people of Richmond have a right to know just how dirty the crude oil processed in this refinery will be."
"The court pointed out the legal deficiencies in Chevron's refinery expansion plan and tells Chevron the simple steps it needs to expand their refinery in a legal way that won't harm neighbors," he said.
"Asthma rates in Richmond are already twice the national average, said Richmond resident Kay Wallis, a health educator with the Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine at University of California, San Francisco. "For decades, Richmond families have paid a steep price for living near Chevron's refinery."
In addition to describing the grade of crude oil the project will allow the refinery to process, the court is also requiring Chevron to revise its environmental report to include specific and proven mitigation efforts it will take for any increase in greenhouse gas emissions before it can proceed with the project.


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Thanks for being patient with me, dear readers. New recipes and photos will be on the way soon. In the meantime, here's a little food for thought.
Several weeks ago, a friend brought an inspiring film to my attention. The film tells the story of Yoshi Masuda, whose singular devotion to coffee propelled him to pursue an unusual mission on Japan's devastated northeastern coast. Following last year's disaster, Masuda launched a mobile coffee operation, Hope Cafe, to provide victims with a hot cup of coffee, vintage gramophone tunes, and hopefully some semblance of normalcy and cheer. In the film, we see Masuda's sunny yellow VW van making its way across the gray, rubble-strewn coast, puncturing the motionless, ruined landscape with an unexpected jolt of color and movement. He sets up shop along roadsides, in parking lots, and inside makeshift tarpaulin tents. Throughout the film, the scope of the devastation is only hinted at, but these scenes tell us everything: places of public gathering have all but disappeared, and only scraps of space remain. Given the circumstances, it is easy to imagine that the total functionality of the Masuda's cafe – the impeccably conditioned van, the mechanical beauty of the coffee grinders and record players, and even Masuda's own ritualized, precise movements – bring some sense of order to a place where the frailty of human structures has been painfully and violently revealed.
Although Masuda clearly takes pleasure in sharing his passion with others, he also recognizes the limits of coffee's powers. Unlike food, coffee is not necessary to human survival; it is first and foremost a luxury, albeit one that is affordable, easily shared, and enjoyed by many. To this end, Masuda's view of his operation is humble; besides coffee, he offers survivors a chance to return to everyday pleasures: good company, laughter, and the warmth of a newly forged friendship. Entering the cafe, customers transition from the sensory deprivation wrought by grief into a positively enlivened space: lilting notes from Masuda's gramophone intermingle with the pleasingly rough sound of coffee beans in a manual grinder, a brightly painted red kettle offers a flash of color; watching the film, one can almost smell the heady, intoxicating aroma of freshly brewed coffee. With his perfect English, impeccably trimmed beard, eccentric glasses, and dandyish wardrobe, Masuda himself seems to bring a spark of frivolity to those whose lives have been reduced to the bare necessities of survival. Perhaps most importantly, Masuda's "customers" receive the assurance that they have not been forsaken, and that small fragments of pleasure can still be eked out of their fractured lives. Armed with this knowledge, one hopes, perhaps the painful process of putting together the pieces can become slightly more bearable.
Finally, the film offers a personal tale of disaster's regenerative possibilities. Through Masuda, we recognize how disaster forces us to question the purpose and significance of our daily actions. Faced with disaster, our first instinct is often to recoil in horror, thankful for our own safety. Next we give money, assuming this is the most useful way we can be of help. Unsurprisingly, these monetary gestures prove to be unsatisfying; as anyone who had ever given to charity soon realizes, the act is fraught with feelings of guilt, complacency, and denial. It is hard to argue with money's efficiency and speed, but Masuda shows us that any passion, no matter how seemingly insignificant or idiosyncratic, can offer far more transformative potential. Although we may not all be able to follow his example, we could certainly stand to learn from it.


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It is sort of here. The sun is shining but an underlying chill and the wind is still with us. This does not deter the Shopping on our Woodhaven Business Improvement District. They are out and shopping on our "Everything" Avenue, and this Saturday look for the clowns painting faces, giving out balloons and free goods to the children along our Jamaica Avenue.
At Forest Parkway Plaza we will have live music and our star of the day, the Easter Bunny taking free pictures with the children. Saturday, April 12, is our WBID "Spring Promotion" with music and clowns from 1 to 4 p.m. along the avenue.
Also, look for our staff members in their WBID hats distributing free quarters on our Woodhaven's Jamaica Avenue to parking cars, thanking them for shopping here by paying for their first 15 minutes on the parking meters.
So shop Woodhaven's Jamaica Avenue this Saturday and every day. This promotion is a gift to our shoppers from our Woodhaven Business Improvement District.
Earned sick time is now in effect in New York City. If you employ five or more people who work more than 80 hours a year you must provide them with up to five paid sick days annually. Employees get one hour of paid sick time for every 30 hours worked up to 40 hours or 5 days.
Companies with fewer than five employees must provide unpaid sick time. If you need any additional information on this law, please call our office at (718) 805-0202 or (718) 805-0760.
Mark your calendars for June 6 for our social event of the year, the "Spring is Here" Dinner Dance. Next week I will name our really deserving honorees. It is always a fun affair.
May God bless our leaders, may God bless our armed forces, may God bless our disabled veterans, and may God bless our America.


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February 14th, the day dedicated to celebrating love, is quickly approaching and whether you have romantic plans with your boo or are spending the night with your closest gal pals, you'll need an outfit to show your love spirit. I've put together two outfits to celebrate the season of love, no matter who you're celebrating with!
I'm a firm believer in getting dressed up when going on a Valentine's date with your boo because it is the DATE of all dates you go on throughout the year. Keeping that in mind, I decided that this LBD (little black dress) with a glamorous flare is the perfect look. By pairing this with the blush pink teddy coat, it will make you feel like you're ready to style and profile out on your love adventure. For accessories, I kept the jewelry to a minimum by wearing a nameplate necklace and some not-so-average hoops with the word 'love' inscribed in them. Plato's Closet is the perfect place to find fun accessories to upgrade your LBD!
For the babe who is spending this day with their best gal pals, you can keep it cute and casual by pairing some distressed girlfriend jeans and strappy, short pumps with a flannel shirt tied up and slightly off the shoulder. To add more of a feminine feel, you can use a velour scrunchy to tie your hair up, which also compliments the blush pink purse. Lastly, grab a leather jacket to wear over your shoulders to give this outfit that extra accessory piece.
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Maple Craft is a retail and wholesale company with a wide variety of craft party supplies to choose from. We have been providing the quality services and products to our customers since 1989. We are located in heart of downtown Los Angeles in the fashion district with a warehouse and showroom greater approximately 20,000 square feet. We carry more than 3000 different items and most of our merchandise is directly imported from our own factories.
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City led through Alvaro Negredo before goals from Thomas Muller and Mario Mandzukic turned the game around.
After a quiet opening Bayern should have taken the lead in the 29th minute, with Javi Martinez taking Arjen Robben's far-post cross away from his better-placed defensive colleague Dante.
City immediately went close against the run of play when Stevan Jovetic shimmied inside onto his right foot and lashed just wide.
Negredo missed out from crosses by Samir Nasri and James Milner late in the first half, both attempted headers bobbling harmlessly off his shoulder.
Another, more convincing, header after half-time was saved but Negredo opened his City account on the hour when he beat Martinez and fired inside the far post.
The lead lasted only five minutes, though, as Muller tucked away a penalty after Pablo Zabaleta was penalised for handball. The decision appeared extremely harsh, with Zabaleta beaten to a header and the ball rebounding off his trailing arm out of his field of vision.
And Mandzukic then stooped to head in Muller's cross and make it 2-1, just beating fellow City defender Jerome Boateng to the chance.
Edin Dzeko forced a late reaction save from Manuel Neuer but Bayern held on to win.
In the earlier third-place play-off, AC Milan beat Sao Paulo 1-0 thanks to Kingsley Boateng's goal early in the second half.
The Ghanaian teenager finished coolly after being picked out by Urby Emanuelson's long ball.


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Bucks win in Brooklyn
Jennings' 26 points pace Milwaukee
BROOKLYN — Brandon Jennings scored 26 points, Monta Ellis had 24 points and the Milwaukee Bucks withstood Brooklyn's fourth-quarter rally in a 97-88 victory over the Nets on Sunday night.
The Bucks led by 29 points with 6:59 left in the third quarter but Brooklyn got within six after Deron Williams found Kris Humphries open for an uncontested dunk.
Ellis' layup then made it 87-79 before the Nets called a timeout with 2:24 left in regulation.
On the ensuing play, Gerald Wallace lost his balance and the ball and Milwaukee's Larry Sanders made a reverse layup to extend the Bucks' lead to 10 points.
MarShon Brooks, who scored 14 points, then hit a 3-pointer to bring the Nets within seven but Marquis Daniels' hit a 3-pointer to put the game out of reach.
Williams had 18 points and eight assists and Wallace added 16 points and 16 rebounds for the Nets.


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Department of Human Evolution
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I am a PhD student in the IMPRS program at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in the Department of Human Evolution.
I am primarily interested in paleoecological and paleoethological studies using stable isotopes analysis. Through this method, valuable insights can be assessed on past phenomenon and on interactions between humans, animals and their respective environment. My past research projects, carried out at the National Museum of Natural History of Paris within the UMR 7209, focused on such topics on Late Pleistocene fossil-bearing sites in Southeast Asia, notably in Cambodia and Laos.
My doctoral research seeks to explore the use of new, "non-traditional" isotope systems, in Paleolithic food webs. To this end, Ca, Sr and Zn stable isotopes will be investigated as dietary and mobility tracers – the main component studied from such isotopes – thus offering a higher level of food traceability. The use of these non-traditional isotopes in archaeological researches can notably be used in context where collagen is no longer preserved and has already demonstrated its various promising results. Trophic level and more precise diet could thus be accessed for sites and periods where traditional stable isotopes would only offer a limited range of information.


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Club addresses importance of improving defense
TORONTO -- The Red Sox know they need to tighten things up defensively, which was one of the strengths of their 2013 World Series championship team.
After an uncharacteristic five-error performance in Thursday's series-ending loss to the Yankees, Boston has committed 19 errors, which is tied with Texas for the third-most in the American League.
"Most importantly for us is taking care of the ball," said right fielder and 2013 Gold Glove Award winnerShane Victorino. "I don't know the last time I've ever been a part of a game where five errors were made. If you give teams extra outs, especially like the Yankees, they are going to capitalize.
"We have to play good defense. For me, that's a very important part of the game. We have to protect the ball. That was the one thing we did so well last year, we played great defense. That's to me, the one part of our game that we are struggling with."
The five errors Boston committed against New York was the club's most in a game since April 2001 and the second time in the last three games it has allowed five unearned runs. Victorino said the sloppy defensive play puts added pressure on the pitching staff.
"Not taking care of the ball and giving team extra outs is how you expand innings," he said. "Taking care of the ball is important for minimizing pitch counts."
Last season the Red Sox made the fifth-fewest errors in the AL and advanced defensive metrics painted them as an above-average team. Along with Victorino, second baseman Dustin Pedroia also took home a Gold Glove Award. Additionally, Boston featured strong defenders such as shortstop Stephen Drew and center fielder Jacoby Ellsbury, both of whom are no longer on the team.
This year, meanwhile, advanced metrics line up with traditional statistics and view the Red Sox as a weaker club defensively.
Before Friday's game against the Blue Jays, the Red Sox, who entered the contest sitting in last place in the AL East, held a team meeting and the club's defensive play was addressed.
"Those are the things that were touched on," manager John Farrell said. "No one is proud of the way things unfolded [Thursday] night. That was an ugly game."


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Jobs, School Transformation Highlight Day Two of Annual Meeting
July 2, 2010
By Tim Walker
On Friday, one day before the RA officially begins, delegates awoke to the exciting news that the House of Representatives voted to approve funding that will save an estimated 138,000 educator jobs. NEA members went the distance, calling Congress in droves, adding to more than 60,000 calls made in the weeks leading up to the vote last night.
NEA President Dennis Van Roekel hailed the vote. "Today, as a direct result of educators' voices and efforts," Van Roekel said, "we are a step closer to making sure children do not have to bear the brunt of our nation's economic woes." The action now moves to the Senate. Visit Education Votes for more.
Over at the Essence Music Festival, NEA's Priority Schools Campaign is inviting attendees to get involved. Throughout the festival, which has been known to attract as many as 70,000 attendees from across the nation, the NEA booth is handing out pledge cards asking concertgoers to become involved in transforming priority schools in their communities. Learn more about NEA's Priority Schools Campaign.
The NEA Office of Minority Community Outreach hosted "The Emerging Majority: A Paradigm Shift," a panel discussion focusing on improving the academic performance of minority students. On the panel was Reverend Jesse Jackson; Henry Cisneros, former Secretary of the Department of Housing and Urban Development and current chairman of CityView; Hattie Kauffman, national news correspondent for CBS News Early Show; and Karen Narasaki, President and Executive Director of the Asian American Justice Center and Vice Chair of the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights.
The panel was moderated by Judge Glenda Hatchett, host of syndicated TV show "Judge Hatchett," the first African-American Chief Presiding Judge of a Georgia state court, and the department head of one of the largest juvenile court systems in the country.
The panelists agreed poverty was the fuel behind the educational problems that plague the minority population.
"We have one million homeless children in our country, roaming nomads who we expect to do well on tests," said Jackson. "And we're telling these shoeless children to race to the top? It's a contradiction in terms."
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So, I have some explaining to do.
No, they were not psychedelic mushrooms, and no, it wasn't a penicillin experiment, either.
Like many ventures gone terribly awry, my story begins with "So there's this website I saw...."
It was called Fungi Perfecti (no kidding, that's the name) which sells these "easy" mushroom growing kits. I looooove mushrooms. (No, I am not a hobbit. I am short though. *checks for hairy feet* Yep, definitely not a hobbit. But I love my Elevensies!)
So we bought this Pioppino mushroom kit. Apparently, you get this bowling ball size of sawdust and mushroom spores. I figured this would be a cinch. Humans don't have to try hard to grow fungus, I reasoned in my reasonable way. Just walk through a boy's locker room barefoot and let the itching begin. Or ignore a loaf of bread. Or let your shower get steamy and watch that black stuff accumulate.
Easy peasy, right?
So I dutifully misted this lump of brown matter (that sounds gross. It really looked like a dry stump). And I kept this little plastic humidity tent on it. And voila! Wittle baby Pioppino mushrooms started to grow, like this:
Dang. I'm good.
But then, oops. Busy me, I forgot to mist it. So then they dried out and looked like this:
And then, in order to make up for my poor watering habits, I over-misted, over-humidified, and basically doused the lump. And then they looked like this:
Now, the mushroom experiment, a horrific fungus-on-fungus violence of spore-ific proportions, is residing in our back yard.
I'm so embarrassed. I can't even grow a good fungus.


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|System: PS2, Xbox
|Review Rating Legend
|Dev: Frontier
|1.0 - 1.9 = Avoid
|4.0 - 4.4 = Great
|Pub: Lucas Arts
|2.0 - 2.4 = Poor
|4.5 - 4.9 = Must Buy
|Release: Nov 2006
|2.5 - 2.9 = Average
|5.0 = The Best
|Players: 1 - 4
|3.0 - 3.4 = Fair
|Review by Cole
|3.5 - 3.9 = Good
by Cole Smith
Some games just dont need a story, just as some movies would be better off without one also. Oftentimes the story is just a unifying thread, created to hold disparate elements together. Why is it that I can watch an hour-and-a-half of SNL without said storyline and enjoy it every bit as much as a movie? Thrillville is a little like SNL in that its a collection of different elements, in this case mini-games as opposed to a collection of unrelated sketches. There is a simple premise that could be called the device that works as this storyline but it doesnt feel the need to coddle you throughout the game with inane characters, bad dialog and incongruent plot twists. In Thrillville, you are the manager of a chain of Thrillville theme parks. Yes, there is an eccentric uncle in the mix but hes a businessman and not in any danger of being abducted by swamp monsters or whatever. Its just what is need, no more and no less.
Thrillville can be played as a party game with up to four player in which you can access the 20-plus mini-game and also experience the single-player mode in which you have a little more hands-on with the attractions and the business itself. This isnt an economic sim in the tradition of Roller Coaster Tycoon. It does share some similarities but you could think of this more as the arcade version. Its lighter and easier with more focus on creating and editing than micromanagement. The storyline is believable in that it makes you aware of the nature of the industry and the competition that lies in wait to steal your more successful ideas.
All of the mini-games relate to the amusement park theme. There are first-person shooting games in the form of shooting galleries. Go karts and bumper cars afford you some driving fun. Theres even a dungeon crawling game that is obviously inspired by Gauntlet. There are sports games and games that feel exactly like vintage videogames. The shooting games are my favorite which is a blessing since they do tend to reappear frequently with slight variations. The targets are actually quite intelligent as they duck, dodge and take cover. You get more points for headshots than you do for shooting off a limb. The mini-games vary in intensity and duration. Some are relatively short and others, like the shooting games and the dungeon crawl, are similar to levels in a regular videogame. All of the games are fun to some extent and can be played with your friends in the multi-player mode or against the AI in the story mode.
The business side of the game is divided into a series of challenges, or missions. You uncle Morty has left you in charge of five operational theme parks. Its your task to keep them running through various initiatives which include maintenance, the construction of new attractions, ensuring the paying guests are happy and the overall administration. You dont have to build the parks from scratch as they are already up and running. Youll start managing one park and unlock the other four as you successfully accomplish your goals.
Placing rides, attractions and food booths are important choices that youll have to make regarding the layout of your park. You have to consider the guests at all time and how they will respond. You want to make sure theyre never too far from anything such as food, water or washrooms. To entice new patrons youll want to offer new rides and attractions. This is all part of the construction and business missions. The Games mission involves playing mini-games, as does the maintenance mission. Youll play the main games against the guests which are controlled by the CPU with increasing levels of difficulty. Maintenance mini-games revolve around hiring and training staff to perform regular duties such as cleaning up puke and repairing broken down rides. Theres also a rhythm game for training the entertainer in which you press buttons in time to the beat while pushing the stick in the same direction as the onscreen arrows. Sure youve probably played rhythm games before but its nice to just have a taste of it and not have to play an entire game of this genre. The music is quite catchy and totally appropriate for a theme park. There are different tunes for each of the five parks.
To see how your efforts are being received by the public you can actually talk to your customers who will offer their opinions on things. Upon approaching a likely subject, a conversation tree will appear allowing you to choose from a number of topics such as science, entertainment and food. No, you cant just bluntly ask them what they think, you have to finesse them first. Make some small talk and let them warm up to you as a friend. Theyll tell you what they like and what they dont like. This information is very valuable to fulfill your business goals. You can also eavesdrop on some of your guests random conversations as they traipse through your park. The instigated conversations are limited and after a while youll end up having the same conversations over and over, but you can usually get to the point a little faster once you know what to ask.
Once you unlock the other parks you can visit them with a push of the button. Each park has a well-detailed map that allows you to access any area or mission in an instant. Graphically the parks are a little on the low-res side, opting for more of a cartoon format than realism. The character models arent very good looking and the closer you get, the worse they look. However, the game is solid technically. There are no bugs or glitches. Everything runs smoothly including the coasters that you design and construct which you can also ride. The cutscenes feature your uncle Morty pontificating about the industry and expounding his wacky personal opinions and suggestions not unlike a real eccentric tycoon. The dialog is well acted and quite humorous. The music is perfect for this game and maintains a consistently light and upbeat mood. Its hard to be in a bad mood when youre in Thrillville.
Cole Smith
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"Bleeding Kansas" was the moniker for our state during the mid-nineteenth century when guerrilla warfare raged between forces for and against slavery, until Kansas was accepted into the Union as a slave-free state in 1861. That disposition not to yield to evil is seen in the Wichita community's reaction to the announced opening of a new abortion clinic at the location of the infamous late-term clinic of George Tiller.
Since the death of Tiller in May 2009, a national push to re-open his abortion clinic has been led by the abortion advocacy group, Trust Women, headed by Julie Burkhart. Burkhart was a Tiller employee who ran his PAC (political action committee) from 2002-2009.
Yesterday, the Associated Press covered Burkhart's announcement that the South Wind Women's Center (SWWC) is "expected to open in the next few months with one full-time and two part-time doctors amid heightened security and community outreach efforts." SWWC "will offer prenatal, obstetrical and gynecological health care services as well as abortions" and "has contracted with the doctors and has hired most of the other nine or ten people it plans to employ."
Interestingly, no physician names were divulged, nor whether they are state-licensed, or reside in Kansas.
Kansas abortion clinics are either local physician offices or single-day surgery centers licensed by the state health department (KDHE). A public records request last week showed no official clinic application is yet on file with KDHE for the SWWC location, possibly because the names of the facility's physicians would have to be revealed.
The AP report indicated remodeling is scheduled for the clinic to meet the abortion facility standards Kansas passed in 2011. Those licensing and inspection standards –similar to what other states have passed–were long sought by Kansas pro-lifers and were signed into law in the first term of Gov. Sam Brownback. However, the standards are not in force due to litigation by another abortion clinic in suburban Kansas City.
In a "virtual chat" online at the Trust Women website this fall, SWWC services were touted as medical (pill) abortions, and fertility and transgender services. Burkhart continues to try to erase this community's memory of the Tiller location as the home of an actual onsite crematorium for unborn children destroyed up through the third trimester.
Kansans for Life (KFL) contends that reopening the place as an abortion clinic would disturb what has become a quiet, residential area. The KFL citizen petition drive–urging city officials to rezone the area– is well on its way to exceeding the goal of securing 20,000 signatures. "As Wichitans we know that when an abortion clinic opens in a neighborhood everything changes," said David Gittrich, KFL development director. "Abortions means taxis and traffic, police cars and ambulances, barricades and signs. People who support abortion – and people who believe every abortion kills an innocent baby – come to demonstrate."


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A Muslim convert pleaded guilty Thursday to threatening "South Park" creators Matt Stone and Trey Parker for depicting the Prophet Muhammad in a bear suit on their show.
Brooklyn native Younus Abdullah Mohammad, whose real name is Jesse Curtis Morton, was charged in a Virginia federal court for conspiracy and using the Internet to communicate threats.
"He's acknowledged he broke the law, and it's just for him to face punishment," Morton's lawyer, James Hundley told the Associated Press. "He admitted crossing the line, though he was trying very hard not to."
Morton and one of his website co-operators, Zachary Adam Chesser, responded to the April 2010 "South Park" episode by using their now-defunct website to post threats. Morton and Chesser "predicted" that Stone and Parker would end up murdered like Theo Van Gogh, a Dutch filmmaker who was murdered in 2004 for making a movie insulting to Islam. Chesser posted the address to "South Park" network Comedy Central, along with a photo of Van Gogh's corpse and a suggestion that readers visit Stone and Parker.
One month after the April 2010 "South Park" aired, Chesser was arrested for terrorism and sentences to 25 years in prison. This prompted Morton to flee the US for Morocco, where he was arrested and remained in custody.
Revolution Muslim also served as an outlet for al-Qaida propaganda, which included instructions on how to make a bomb and a message from al-Qaida cleric Anwar al-Awlaki calling for the assassination of Molly Nelson, a cartoonist who had proposed "Everybody Draw Muhammad Day" after the 2010 "South Park" episode controversy.
A spokeswoman at Comedy Central declined comment on the guilty plea Thursday.
Man Pleads Guilty For Threatening "South Park" Creators Over Muhammad Episode
Jesse Curtis Morton admitted that he used his website to rail against people he believed to be enemies of Islam
A Muslim convert pleaded guilty Thursday to threatening "South Park" creators Matt Stone and Trey Parker for depicting the Prophet Muhammad in a bear suit on their show.


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By Walter Geiger
Imagine, if you will.
It is the early 1960s.
You're a successful young businessman who has already served five years on the Board of Regents of the University System of Georgia. You have begun what will be a seven-term stint in the Georgia House of Representatives where you will soon become chairman of its most powerful committee.
A man of courage and principle
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Graduate Council Meeting
October 28, 2002
I. The meeting was called to order at 2:35 p.m.
Voting members and alternates present were: G. Alter, J. Belcher, G. Bernhardt, J. Brandeberry, A. Burton, A. Chamberlain, D. Cole, J. Coleman, B. Farmer, J. Flach, J. Gomez-Cambronero,
M. Kazimierczuk, I. Leffak, S. McConnell, D. Miller, D. Orenstein, C. Phillips, L. Ream,
J. Rudisill, E. Self, J. Talbott, J. Thomas (Chair), M. Wheatly
Non-voting alternates present were: G. Malicki, B. Mathies, T. McKee, C. Ryan, L. Winfrey
Non-voting attendees were: S. Foster, J. Kimble, J. McAlearney, J. Sayer, R. Schuster, W. Sellers
II. It was moved and seconded that the minutes of the May 13, 2002 meeting be approved as written. Motion carried unanimously.
III. Election of Secretary
It was moved and seconded that David Orenstein be appointed secretary of the Graduate Council for
2002-03. Motion carried unanimously.
IV. Report of the Dean (J. Thomas)
The three standing committees of the Graduate Council are: Policies Committee (C. Ryan, chair); Membership Committee (R. Grubbs, chair); and Student Affairs Committee (committee has yet to meet for academic year 2002-03).
The Fall, 2002 enrollment report indicates an increase of over twelve percent in both total headcount and graduate credit hours (GCH) (3,616 total headcount, an increase of395 students, and 22,338 GCH, an increase of2,445 GCH).
Graduate Student Support: Of the l ,565 full-time graduate students, 543 are graduate assistants, nine are Graduate Council Scholars, and 181 receive Graduate Tuition Scholarships (only). Of the 543 graduate assistantships, 330 are university-funded, 158 are grant funded, and 56 are split between grant and university funded. Graduate Council Scholars receive a tuition remission and a $12,000 yearly stipend
(a $2,000/year increase since the inception of the program). Presently, there are five students in their first year of the program and four students in their second year of the program.
The seventh annual Thesis/Dissertation Preparation Workshop is scheduled for Wednesday, November 13, 2002. Students and faculty members are invited.
J. Sayer, Faculty President, reported on several Faculty Senate issues and current topics:
a. The Senate Executive Committee has appointed Dean Thomas as Chair of Graduate Council for 2002-03 per the new Faculty Constitution.
b. The Senate, at its October meeting, approved the new General Education program to begin
Fall Quarter, 2003.
c. Also beginning Fall Quarter, 2003, there will be a new classroom schedule arranged to provide four class hours per week for four credit hour courses. The schedule begins at 8:30a.m. each
d. An intensive study of the effectiveness of the Writing Across the Curriculum (WAC) Program (now in its seventh year) is underway and a report should be forthcoming by the end of Winter Quarter, 2003.
e. The search has started for a new WSU Provost; the chair of the search committee is
G. Bernhardt. V. Committee Reports
• Policies Committee (C. Ryan)
a. The Policies Committee approved a Program Development Plan for a Master of Public Health, developed by the Division of Health Systems Management in the Department of Community Health.
L. Winfrey requested that a representative from the School of Professional Psychology be added to the
advisory committee for program development. This was agreed to by the program director. It was moved and seconded that the Program Development Plan be approved; the motion passed unanimously. The Senate and WSU Trustees will be informed, and the Program Development Plan will be sent to the OBR for review by RACGS.
b. The Policies Committee approved a proposal for a graduate certificate program in Health Care Management, proposed jointly by the Raj Soin College of Business and the School of Medicine. Following discussion, it was moved and seconded that the proposal be approved by the Council; the motion passed unanimously.
c. The Policies Committee also approved a proposal for a graduate certificate program in School Nursing. It was moved and seconded that the proposal for this new certificate be approved; the motion passed unanimously.
d. The Policies Committee approved a modification to the Course Repeat Policy. The modification changes the ability of a student to request a course repeat grade (which cancels the previous grade) if the previous grade was issued as a sanction due to a violation of the University Academic Integrity Policy. (The student can retake the course, but not as a repeat; the new grade will be averaged into the graduate GPA.) It was moved and seconded that the change to the policy be approved; motion passed unanimously.
• Membership Committee (A. Chamberlain)
The Committee brought forward one nomination for full graduate faculty membership and one nomination for adjunct full graduate faculty membership.
The full member nominee is:
Michael Raymer, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, College of Engineering and
Computer Science
The adjunct full member nominee is:
Joseph Shang, Department of Mechanical and Materials Engineering, College of Engineering and
Computer Science
It was moved and seconded that the nominees be approved; the motion passed unanimously. VI. Research Report (W. Sellers)
There were 537 external awards for 2002-03 totaling approximately $41 million, which is down from the previous two years. However, awards for the current year exceed last year at this time. For 2002-03, the School of Medicine led the campus in the number of awards received (118), and with a total award amount exceeding $17 million.
The Research Challenge Early Start/Augmentation competition is ongoing and the Research Challenge Major Collaboration Grant competition will again be conducted during Winter Quarter. The Research Council Research Incentive Program will also be offered during Winter Quarter.
Vll. Old Business (J. Thomas)
The Graduate Council approved the Electronic Theses and Dissertations (ETD) initiative for WSU in fall
1999 and the first WSU ETD's were submitted to OhioLINK in 2000. WSU began well, but participation
has declined since then. At present, there are seven WSU ETD's on deposit with OhioLINK. J. Thomas
asked the Council members to encourage faculty and students in their colleges to consider submitting theses and dissertations in the ETD format, in an effort to promote the sharing and dissemination of WSU scholarship through this new medium. As participation increases, facility and training needs will become clearer. At some point in the future, a policy requiring mandatory ETD submission will be initiated.
Vlll. New Business (J. Thomas)
The university committee for Strategic Planning has been formed and R. Sweeney, RSCoB, has been appointed chair. The School of Graduate Studies and Research and Sponsored Programs will develop unit plans. The Policies Committee will be asked to serve as the sounding board for graduate matters. M. Wheatly stated that the colleges could input their strategic planning items that involve graduate education and/or graduate programs to J. Thomas for coordination.
IX. There being no further business, the meeting was adjourned at 3:20p.m.
David Orenstein
Secretary, Graduate Council