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Surge in New Charter Schools Worries N.C. Educators
Limits on charters eased by new laws
If the next round of 2014-15 charter school applications are approved in North Carolina, the state could double the number of charters in operation there within three years.
A 2011 overhaul of the state's charter school law by a Republican-controlled legislature lifted the 100-school cap on charters and relaxed laws controlling how the publicly financed but independently run schools can operate.
The change has raised some concerns among district officials about the quality of the new charters that have been approved and the impact the new schools could have on traditional schools.
The tensions come after a separate law, passed last year, dissolved the former charter school board and created a new advisory board made up of charter supporters. It also removed districts' right to submit impact statements with charter school applications. The changes created an environment viewed as more charter-friendly.
North Carolina currently has 127 charter schools in operation. The state approved eight new charter schools in 2012-13 and 23 this school year. The state school board recently approved the opening of 26 new charter schools for next school year, and the state's newly created Charter School Advisory Board has announced that it will consider putting 62 other charter applications on the runway toward state approval for opening in the 2014-15.
"We're still at the beginning of this next phase of growth in North Carolina," said Nina Rees, the president and chief executive officer of the Washington-based National Alliance for Public Charter Schools.
Lifting the Cap
The rapid growth of charters in North Carolina isn't unusual, although the number that open after a cap has been lifted varies from state to state, said Ms. Rees. In states that lift caps but still have restrictive laws—such as Alaska and Iowa—the growth has been slower, she noted. The dramatic growth of charter schools in Michigan after the cap was lifted parallels what is happening in North Carolina.
In that state, a new law mandates that a new advisory board's members must have demonstrated "a commitment to charter schools as a strategy for strengthening public education." The goal was to give the board more independence from the state education department. The new board operates in an advisory function only; the state board of education still has the final say on approval of charter schools.
Heath E. Morrison, the superintendent of the 142,000-student Charlotte-Mecklenburg district, is among those who are wary about the sudden influx of charters in North Carolina. He said he supported lifting the 100-school cap, but does not support other changes to the charter school laws, such as only requiring half of the teaching staff to be certified and freeing charter schools from providing transportation or meal services.
Districts' right to submit statements of impact that the charter school would have on the community also was abolished by the law that created the new advisory board.
"My concern is not the loss of funding or parents choosing; it's about allowing charter schools to operate like private schools that are being funded through public funds," Mr. Morrison said.
'Economic Divide'
Bill Anderson, the executive director for MeckEd, a nonprofit nonpartisan education advocacy group in the Charlotte-Mecklenburg district, said the changes in the charter school laws are especially detrimental for disadvantaged students.
"Poor kids, kids who need transportation or food services, they're not going to be enrolling in these lotteries," he said. "It's become a racial and economic divide."
Ten of the newly approved charters are slated to open next school year within the district's borders.
Eddie Goodall, the executive director of the North Carolina Public Charter Schools Association, said that not providing transportation to charter schools isn't an attempt to shut out low-income students, but rather reflects the financial limitations of charter schools.
"We don't have a nice, tight attendance zone that we can limit our bus service. Some charters have enrollment from up to 11 counties, so that's very challenging from a cost standpoint," he said.
He also noted that charter schools do not receive funds for facilities, forcing them to spend a portion of their operating budgets on capital costs and furthering the need for new charters to tighten their belts in other areas.
Joel Medley, the director of the state education department's charter schools office, stressed that the state is committed to ensuring that only high-quality charters are approved. Even after the state board grants final approval to charters, they are monitored for any red flags before they open, he said.
The state is also set to launch a new voucher program in 2014, which allows low-income students to attend private schools with public funds.
Both developments have motivated public school leaders to come together in protest of the changes, said Chrissy Pearson, a spokeswoman for the Durham district.
"All of us are truly beginning to feel like we, as a system, are being attacked and that our teachers, in particular, are being left behind with these legislative changes," she said.
Vol. 33, Issue 19, Page 7Published in Print: January 29, 2014, as Surge in Charter Schools Stirs Concerns in North Carolina
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Indonesia: Spiritual leader of Jemaah Islamiyah (JI) gets reduced sentence
Murad Makhmudov and Lee Jay Walker
Modern Tokyo Times
The radical Sunni Islamic cleric, Abu Bakar Ba'asyir, who is the spiritual leader of Jemaah Islamiyah, will feel relieved after his sentence was reduced from 15 years to 9 years. Ba'asyir will be hoping that a further appeal will also work in his favor and this crafty spiritual leader is not one to underestimate because in the past he overcame many obstacles.
In March this year he received a 15 year sentence for allegedly supporting radical Sunni Islamists in Aceh. According to the court decision Islamists in Aceh were intent on spreading a violent campaign in order to see the implementation of Sharia Islamic law. However, just like in the past, Ba'asyir denies all charges of inciting hatred and encouraging Sunni Islamic terrorism.
Indonesia is the largest mainly Muslim nation in the world in terms of population but not everything is what it appears. This applies to the rapid growth of Christianity which is between 10% and 13% of the population according to various statistics. The official line was that Christianity was just below 10% over a decade ago but more "closet Christians" are coming out because of the growing strength of Christianity in many parts of Indonesia.
Ba'asyir and many conservative and radical Muslims are concerned about this. Therefore, one way to stem the tide and to clampdown on the Christian faith is to introduce Islamic Sharia law and then Muslim apostates would face the death penalty.
However, mainstream Islam in Indonesia is more moderate and many Muslims support a secular notion and that all Indonesians are equal. Yet, in recent times money from nations like Saudi Arabia began to spread the message of conservative Islam and you have had many attacks against Christians and Ahmaddiya Muslims.
Ba'asyir was born in 1938 and during his lifetime you have had many political changes and the gradual growth of conservative Islam meant that more people were open to his thinking. Also, Sunni Islamic funding from conservative nations in the Gulf meant that new opportunities and funding became available for religious leaders, individuals, and radical organizations.
Ba'asyir and Abdullah Sungkar opened a boarding school in 1972 in order to preach to the next generation about the need to implement Islamic Sharia law in Indonesia. In time both individuals would flee to Malaysia because the Suharto regime was in no mood to bow down to Islamists.
In 1999 Ba'asyir returned to Indonesia and clearly he and Sungkar had gained from their exile in Malaysia. This applies to meeting leading Islamists and learning a more composed way of spreading radical Sunni Islam.
Ba'asyir and Sungkar both became involved (some say founded but Ba'asyir plays with words) with Jemaah Islamiyah (JI) which was a lose patchwork of various radical Islamic organizations. The main goal was to create a super-Islamic state which would incorporate Indonesia, Malaysia, the southern Philippines, Brunei, and Singapore (some Islamists would also include southern Thailand and Cambodia).
The vastness of this region and the mass complexity is a wonder to behold, however, in the wrong hands it could become a nightmare. After all, you have a very diverse mix of ethnic and religious groups and you already have religious bouts of violence between Christians and Muslims in parts of Indonesia and the southern Philippines. More recently, tensions have erupted between Muslims and Buddhists in southern Thailand. Also, passions often run high in Malaysia which is the most diverse nation in the region when it comes to religion and the Shia faith is illegal in so-called moderate Malaysia.
Ba'asyir can't be ignored or brushed aside so easily because JI have been involved in many terrorist attacks and have embroiled themselves in communal violence against Christians. Also, when tensions were at their highest many years ago between Christians and Muslims, you had many Sunni Islamic organizations like JI and Laskar Jihad who supported jihad. More alarming, he often plays around with words and distances himself when needed. Therefore, Ba'asyir and terrorist organizations like Laskar Jihad (Laskar Jihad disbanded but was used by elements of the military in West Papua and can be formed easily via many fronts) can melt away from the scene and then come back either through a new organization or during times of severe tensions.
Walid Phares, author of "The War of Ideas: Jihadism against Democracy" and other books, stated "We all know that the process to become a Jihadist, is long and tenuous. It needs a Salafi-Wahabi environment to be produced. The question in Indonesia is this: Who is producing the "ideological culture" out of which Jama'ah Islamiah came from? What are the structural webs that produced Laskar Mujahidin (or Laskar e Jihad), or Laskar Jundullah or even the Sulawesi-based Mujahedeen KOMPAK?"
Walid Phares sums up this complexity by stating that "…the Jihadi "Laskars" around the archipelago are projecting themselves as the "protectors" of the territorial unity of "Muslim Indonesia." Hence their action against non-Muslims, including in Poso, the Celebes, etc is projected as "in the interest of the nation." They are trying to emulate Hassan Turabi's strategy in Sudan: the defense of Islam's lands."
These comments by Walid Phares were stated several years ago and many radical Sunni Islamic organizations change their operational styles or disband and then come back under a different name. This game is also part and parcel of Ba'asyir
Given this, JI moved easily between supporting Muslims during communal violence against Christians in Maluku and Poso in Indonesia; and then to targeting economic and Western interests throughout the region. At the same time you had inter-links between JI, Al-Qaeda, MILF (Moro Islamic Liberation Front), Abu Sayyaf and other Islamic organizations.
However, it must be stated that JI isn't on the same wavelength when it applies to Abu Sayyaf and what is termed Al-Qaeda. Also, MILF in the Philippines is much more moderate, despite being deadly, than Al-Qaeda/Abu Sayyaf and clearly their focus is on their homeland and powerbase. International Sunni Islamic jihad is not on the agenda of all Islamists and JI works within "a means to an end" but not on the inter-Muslim bloodletting of Al-Qaeda.
This is not meant to downplay JI because they have been responsible for many deadly deeds and this applies to killing 15 people in 2000 after an attack against the Jakarta Stock Exchange. Also, in the same year many Christians were killed during Christmas Eve bombing in Indonesia. They have also spread their terror to the Philippines with several attacks and an attack was thwarted in Singapore by intelligence agents. Other notable attacks apply to the 2002 Bali bombings and two hotels were attacked in Jakarta in 2009.
Returning back to Ba'asyir he stated in 2002 that "If non-believers have weapons capacity, the funding, then they will go to war against Islam. In the Koran Allah has said they will always wage war against you, they will always attack you as long as they have the capacity." He further stated that "The government of Indonesia right now is being directed by America to service its needs and the primary need of America is to bury Islam particularly in Indonesia."
Ba'asyir also stated "…Hence our religion Islam, our nation and our country is currently being threatened by foreign races with all manner of libels, with the bombings in Bali, with explosions everywhere, all of those are the plots of non-believers whose aims are to weaken and profane the believers of Islam."
Therefore, Ba'asyir is somehow trying to claim that the Bali bombings were done by non-Muslims and this is similar to the September 11th conspiracy theory. However, this is clearly ridiculous and Osama Bin Laden and other brutal killers don't play the "conspiracy game" when it comes to denial. In many ways JI is much more dangerous than Al-Qaeda when it comes to a lasting legacy, ideology, and patience.
Irrespective if the organization JI exists in name isn't important because the ideology will remain within another organization. Also, Indonesia is a very powerful nation when it comes to geopolitics and the future of this nation will influence the religious pluralism of the entire region.
On page 166 and 167 of Zachary Abuza's book called Militant Islam in Southeast Asia, Crucible of Terror. Zachary Abuza comments that "Although Abu Bakar Ba'asyir was named by both Malaysia and Singapore as a prime suspect and a leader of Jemaah Islamiya network, he continued to live and preach openly until October 2002." He also told Zachary Abuza personally that "I am not a member of Al-Qaida, but I really respect the struggle of Osama Bin Laden, who has bravely represented the world's Muslims in their fight against the arrogant United States of America and their allies."
Yet what logic can be found in these words by Ba'asyir? After all, Al-Qaeda and the Taliban were involved in the massacres of thousands of Shia Muslims in Afghanistan. This was followed by countless numbers of terrorist attacks against Shia Muslims and other non-Sunni's in Iraq; and of course innocent Sunni Muslims have been killed by radical Sunni Islamists in many nations.
Islamic radicalism is a serious threat in Indonesia and in many other nations. However, Ba'asyir is not your usual radical Sunni Islamist leader because he is cunning and manipulates language when it suits. Therefore, it is very difficult for the authorities in Indonesia to pin Ba'asyir and not only this, he does have connections even if the trail leads to dust.
The saga will go on and Ba'asyir will continue to be loved by his supporters and hated by individuals who support religious pluralism. Whatever happens, it is doubtful that Ba'asyir will settle for his reduced sentence and it is also doubtful that he will reject Islamic jihad and terrorism within his heart.
However, the Aceh affair does remain open to interpretation because Ba'asyir isn't foolish nor naïve and if he believed that he would be held accountable – then the Ba'asyir that most people know, is an individual who likes to cover his angles.

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Thomas Jefferson Race pleaded guilty to three counts of forcible sodomy in Charlottesville Circuit Court today, but estimates that his victims could number as many as 37 over 18 years.
Race, 34, was arrested March 24, 2009, after his first victim, then a five-year-old boy, told police 20 years later of his babysitter's brutal assaults.
Probation officer Jeff Lenert told the court of Race's "euphoric recall" in describing his victims. "It was chilling," said Lenert.
Race was 15 years old when he first raped a young relative. The other victims in the plea agreement were between 8 and 11 years old, and 6 and 7 years old when they were assaulted, according to prosecutor Elizabeth Killeen.
She described Race as an animal torturer and his attacks on children "sadistic," involving bondage, whips and weapons, including a sword. And while his first assault occurred when he was a minor, she said, he went on to other victims when he was an adult. "It's not something he grows out of at 18 or 19," she noted."
The defendant said he went eight years without molesting children, self-medicating himself with porn and scotch.
Race apologized to his victims, one of whom testified in court. "I know what I've done," said Race. "It's horrible. I do have things I can offer society."
As thunder rolled outside the courtroom, Judge Edward Hogshire sentenced Race to 40 years on each of the three counts, with all but 11 years suspended on each charge.
"I don't think I"ve ever seen a case wth this level of potential damage to children," said the judge.
Killeen notes that there may be other victims who have not been identified, and she urges them to come forward to receive help.
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Wasabi, the same thing can be accomplished with castration.
Just sayin'.
I suspected I had something wrong there - thanks well now.
No way, Ken! I would much rather see how many days of a 12,045 day sentence in prison he can survive as a convicted child molestor. It's a whole lot worse than the death penalty. :)
Can you imagine 12,045 days in prison?
George, you need help and spellcheck.
Unbelievable, just 33 years. This guy should never see daylight again. I would lock him up with 10 male gorillas for life.
That sounds correct. 99 years, three of 33 each, served concurently as 33 years total - that is, if he survives a prison filled with men who do not like child molesters. He may not live very long.
Why waste tax payer dollars on putting this guy in jail for that long. Let him be sodomized in prison for a week or two, then hook him to the chair.
i agree with all you said and peace to you.
went to a christian school with this guy, you'd never though this of him ,but he always was the different one in the group .He always seemed to be the GOD fearing type. All I can say is,he should have done to him what he did to these innocent children and still be made to serve all that time in prison not just 99 years.My prayers go out to the families that are havingto deal with this after all this time including TJ's family.
Wasabi and boooo!...unfortunately their crimes are not about sex, it's about control...so castration will only push them to sodomize with other objects. The only solution to protecting the next potential victim (IMHO_ is to put him away where he will never get out. This type of behavior is sadly almost never rehabilitated.
Well Now.... I agree, when the victims are children, they are discounted. If he had attacked an adult, things would be drastically different. Oh, and if he had stolen money, he would have been put UNDER the jail....
33 years is probably not enough. At his release age, 67, he will have to be watched very closely.
all of my help comes from the lord not small minded people you keep playing the race game not good for your heart.
ââ?¬Å?I don't think I"ve ever seen a case with this level of potential damage to children," said the judge.
Yet, AMAZINGLY, the judge saw fit to suspend almost 75% of the sentences!!! 120 years is what you give somebody who has done "this level of potential damage to children," not 33. Of course, any sane and reasonable jurist would consider the damage to be quite real, not merely "potential."
Wow. WOW.
The hero of this story is the incredibly brave young man who came forward 20 years later. He has my respect, admiration, and empathy. HE stopped this monster, not the police or prosecutor or judge. Society owes HIM a huge debt of gratitude. I hope he gets every good thing in life that he deserves. I was molested by a close family friend and bravely told my mother when I was 10. I wasn't supposed to tell, because predators are masters at making their victims feel complicit and ashamed. I was just angry and confused. My mother told me to just ignore the dirty old man when he came around the house, which was often, and that I wasn't to ever say anything to my father. That betrayal was worse than the molestation. That's when the shame set in, like I was just trying to cause trouble. This same man molested both of my sisters and several other young girls I knew and I'm sure many more I didn't know. Many adults knew what he was doing, but no one stopped him. Neither I, nor any of his other victims ever got ââ?¬Å?justice." This unrepentant pedophile lived free and clear, married, employed, respected in his community, welcomed into my family's home, until he died in his late 70's. I am 50 now and it's haunted every aspect of my life. While I have had to pay in every way for my molester's crimes, including therapy out of my own pocket, this piece of human detritus called Thomas Jefferson Race will receive room and board and health care and therapy on my and your and his victims' taxpayers' dime for 33 years. Disgraceful and disgusting. BTW, there is NO CURE, nor any effective treatment for pedophilia: aversion therapy; chemical or physical castration, etc. As someone else here posted, these Soulless Predatory Things never mellow and never lose the urge to violate. It's not about sex, it's about controlling someone's mind and body against their will and instilling shame. The last time I saw my molester was in the kitchen of my parents' home when I was 24. He was so crippled, he could barely walk. He still looked at me with the same predatory eyes as when I was 10. He looked at me like we shared an intimate, lovely secret. It made my skin crawl with disgust and fear. He was seeing the tender young girl he violated and smirking because he got away with it. All my rage and shame came flooding back. My father was chatting with him amiably as my mother prepared dinner, where my molester would be a guest of honor at the dinner table. I was able to flee my parents' home that night, unlike I could when I was a child. But that memory is burned into my PTSD brain forever.
Should get a bullet to the back of the head
This guy should be perscribed kazillion grams of anti libido drugs, & render him severly impotent that means NO SEX DRIVE.
this is what happens when the victims of a crime are children. surviving children are routinely discounted by judges in our criminal justice system. this court is not the only local court to do such a disservice to children victims of crimes.
if these children were instead adults, this man would not see the light of day again.
Would Judge Hogshire want this guy babysitting his grandchildren (or great-grandchildren) when he gets out at the age of 67? Or just hanging 'round the park where they play? 33 years for this guy is a disgrace. Lets hope that life in jail is as unpleasant for him as he's made it for his victims (x37+).
no guys, read the article:
"As thunder rolled outside the courtroom, Judge Edward Hogshire sentenced Race to 40 years on each of the three counts, with all but 11 years suspended on each charge."
You do not then multiply 33 by 3. 33 years is the total sentence.
put him in with ten white gorillas and county farmer mom to.
Most child molesters start at a young age. (early teens) A study of convicted child molesters in prison (after years of therapy)shows them molesting almost 3 times as many kids as they admitted to when they were first convicted......very sad.
George Steppe, you poor soul. The man's last name is "Race". This is not a story about someone's skin color, but a sexual predator whose last name is "Race". The very first sentence of the article spells out his name for you: "Thomas Jefferson Race".
Yes, God loves and forgives, but please, oh please, read a little before you comment.
And if you have read this far, I'll say it again: his LAST NAME is "Race".
never have time with race issues wont get me to heaven pink observer.
Have you had your child victimized by a pedophile? I have some news for you, sometimes they don't just sexually violate the child, they take pictures of the act and profit from that. If you dont think that warrants execution, your high.
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"Somebody!"ŠPhotoshop a pig-nose on this guy."
Why? A pig is an innocent animal that harms nobody and actually sustains millions of human lives, maybe even yours if you've ever eaten pork. Why insult pigs in that way by putting the image of their nose on a child molestor and animal torturer? Devil horns on top of his head might be a more fitting thing to add to this mug shot.
good enough for you to understand farmer why you make it to a race thing you knew what you saying.
sorry i said your mom forgive me.
There's no mention that the sentences are to be served concurrently. That means he's got a 99 year term, which I think is a somewhat typical life sentence that isn't technically a life sentence.
Please correct me if I've got something wrong here. Thanks.
Somebody!...Photoshop a pig-nose on this guy.
Thomas- Jefferson- Race... THAT"S "priceless."
wow my poor soul i tell you this i try hard everyday to do the will of god i dont care if blk white yellow or red god dont care i was writing back to county farmer you judge my soul when i love all people.
you miss understood me pink observer god will handle that thomas the dog jefferson race.
George steppe
take a step back from the holly water bro ... It was a mistake and an easy one to make when a person's last name is race . Its all good .
No harm no foul !
Now this guy is the EXACT reason this country has got to get serious about protecting our children from sexual predators . I cannot believe of all the petty legislation we have put to paper in this country we have not come up with a one strike federal law and NOTHING less . You sexually abuse a child and your off the streets for life . lets back off of some of the non violent petty reasons to lock people up and make room and money to keep animals like this freak out of society forever . I know I know I know we all scream about it all the time but nothing is happening . We just need to take a long hard look at our children , our neighbors kids your friends kids or your grandchildren and decide if one of them were sexually assaulted by this animal "race" would we accept that one strike is more than enough . I mean one strike is too many but we have to start somewhere .
How hard is it to pick 10 petty crimes on the books that cost million to enforce and reduce the charges and punishment and work on something that really matters like getting child predators off the street . The impact at what this man has done to these children will effect them for life and like a disease ultimately affect generations of kids whom turn into adults . Does that sound outlandish ? Harsh ? Think about how what has happened to these kids that will will affect them , future relationships and look and the impact unfold . The cost to society alone from the years it will take for this horror to heal if it ever does would cover the cost of putting this animal away for life . Even with that these animals would have to harm at least one child and get caught to try and eradicate these animals .
ONE strike for child predators is too many . It needs to stop at one !
I know we all have our pet peeves out there - but mines is when Christian people i.e., protestant, catholic, etc., do not capitalize GOD. To me, God is the ultimate proper noun.
thanks, stepping off the box now. . sorry
To bad sentence isn't longer. Research shows sex offenders do not mellow out and stop offending in their 60's like other aggressive offenders. They go on and on until they are physically incapable of catching, luring, or subduing their victims.
Well lets just say he's not worth the room and board
With regard to the length of the sentences and the suspension, I am curious about two things: first, isn't it often the case that significantly older offenders (generally violent) stop posing nearly the same risk of danger to the public? Second, given that the sentences are only suspended, it seems like they can be held over him for the rest of his life. Presumably, given his sex offender status, he'll be released into some kind of halfway house system where he is observed closely and the threat of a return to jail might be sufficient.
All this assumes that the 33 year sentence doesn't in itself wind up being a life sentence - I'm with GSOE, that's a LOT of days in prison, and prisons are not kind to sex offenders.
I'm really less interested in the blood lust vengeance so many of the comments seem to reflect than in mitigating/reducing the harm on society this guy poses. These types of offenders are not generally rehabilitated and society needs to protect itself from them - including protecting ourselves from the high costs of incarcerating (and providing health care for) an old man. We spend slightly more money on prisons than we do on higher education. I feel like a nice clean guilty plea and a minimum of judicial cost were well worth the sensible sentence Judge Hogshire handed down.
That is all the time he received.... They don't play that where I am from... Last case the guy received 196 years with no chance of parole... they need to give those sick perverts the death penalty... those poor kids have to leave with that sh*t forever.
Thank you for your testimonial.
Sadly, when it comes to child sex abuse, your experience is more the norm than cases where the perpetrator gets caught. For centuries society as a whole willfully turned a blind eye to these crimes and still allows these criminals to enjoy their freedom.
Mothers that bring forward their child's accusations are themselves made targets by our juvenile court system. Social workers that witness disclosures with police officers present are alleged to be unreliable witnesses. Child sex abuse perpetrators are very careful, as you point out. Physical evidence is extremely rare. In cases where the perpetrator contests the allegation, convictions are extremely rare. Judges are too easily fooled.
The last few decades have seen an awakening to the pervasiveness and seriousness of these crimes. Those that continue to discount the danger to society posed by these criminals should not be in positions of responsibility in our criminal justice system. Sadly, our local courts and prosecutors have yet to catch up to the rest of us and continue to discount children as victims.
It is through the testimony of adults such as yourself that have survived these ordeals that people are waking up to reality. You should be proud.


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Pew: Romney leads Obama among likely voters
A new poll, a different view.
Mitt Romney now leads President Obama by 4 percentage points among likely voters after a strong debate performance last week, according to polling by the Pew Research Center.
The GOP presidential nominee has a 49% to 45% edge, Pew says. Last month, Obama had an 8-point advantage among those most likely to vote in the Pew survey.
Registered voters by more than 3-to-1 -- or 66% to 20% -- said Romney did a better job than Obama in their first presidential debate last week in Denver. Romney was generally viewed as more aggressive and forceful in their debate on the economy and domestic issues, while Obama sometimes lacked focus.
The Pew poll has a different finding than Gallup's daily tracking poll. In a seven-day rolling average Oct. 1-7, Obama led Romney among registered voters, 49% to 45%, according to Gallup.
Gallup, however, found that Romney pulled even with Obama in two days of surveys taken Thursday and Friday after the debate. Obama apparently did better over the weekend after the jobless rate for September went below 8%, as reported on Friday.
USA TODAY's Martha T. Moore will have more on the latest polls in Tuesday's editions.


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No announcement has been made, but reports on Gov. Jerry Brown's budget proposal, scheduled for official release Monday, make it plain. This election belongs as much to the state's largest teachers' unions as it does to Brown.
Let's connect some dots.
-Core to the Brown plan is a special election in June that would give voters the choice of extending 2009 tax increases on income, sales and vehicles -- or cutting the education budget. Specifically, voters would be choosing between tax increases that would permit the state to fund the Prop 98 education guarantee or the suspension of Prop 98. Prop 98 was a 1988 ballot initiative written by and since protected by the California Teachers Assn., the state's largest teachers union. Brown wouldn't dare frame the election this way without the full-on support of CTA.
-Brown also seems to be reviving a number of proposals -- including the repurposing of money that voters had designated for early childhood education and mental health -- that were backed by the education lobby as part of a 2009 budget agreement. They were turned down by voters, but the education lobby is trying again here to get its hands on that money.
-Brown doesn't appear to have done any serious fundraising for an election, which is surprising if he's anticipating a June 2011 vote. Of course, he may not need to raise much money, since this election strategy seems predicated on the strong backing of teachers' unions, who presumably would provide whatever money needed for a campaign.
-Last week, Brown got rid of a majority of the state school board, replacing several critics of teachers' unions. The LA Times reported that the change was engineered with the California Teachers Association.
A political cynic would argue that Brown was helping out the teachers' unions at a time when he needs their help with a special election.


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During his one season as Ohio State's running back there were so many tackles that Maurice Clarett broke, and so many yards that he chased down. But the one thing Clarett never broke, the one thing he never chased down, was a relationship with his father.
During his one season as Ohio State's running back there were so many tackles that Maurice Clarett broke, and so many yards that he chased down. With the ball in his hands, nothing seemed impossible for Clarett.
He helped lead Ohio State to a national championship that one season. But the one thing Clarett never broke, the one thing he never chased down, was a relationship with his father.
Saturday night after the Heisman Trophy presentation, ESPN will air "Youngstown Boys" as part of its "30 for 30" series. The two-hour show is moving and gripping. Viewers will come away with an appreciation for what Clarett and his former head coach, Jim Tressel, went through to change the running back from the tough streets of Youngstown.
By the end of the documentary, directed by award-winning brothers Jeff and Michael Zimbalist ("The Two Escobars"), Clarett's raw emotion about never having, nor reconciling, his relationship with his father is evident.
"Tressel tried to provide some of the values fathers instill, but Tressel can never be his father," Clarett's mother, Michelle, said during the show. "We had the conversation before his dad passed away about him reaching out, about him getting some of those things answered that were unanswered. He did have (the phone number). He never reached out."
"Youngstown Boys" ends with Clarett in tears wondering about that relationship and talking about seeing his father in his casket. So many things were never answered.
The lack of a father figure, however, was both Clarett's motivating force on the field, and the same one that tugged him in the wrong direction off it.
Clarett, who served time in prison, is a motivational speaker. He genuinely appears to be happy with his life and who he has become. Just before going to prison, his girlfriend gave birth to their daughter.
The rise and fall of "Maurice the Beas," has been well documented. He was suspended for his sophomore season by the NCAA, he challenged the NFL's rule on draft eligibility and lost, he was charged with armed robbery and ultimately arrested by Columbus police with loaded weapons while he wore a bulletproof vest.
"To me, this is a story about a young man, football, a relationship with his coaches, his teammates, tough times, but hanging on to hope," Tressel said. "I'm anxious to see what he does in the next 50 years of his life. I don't know if I'll be there for all of it, but I'm anxious to see what he does ... to make a difference in other people's lives."
During his one season in Columbus, Clarett and Tressel spoke almost daily. Tressel was impressed by Clarett's mind and philosophical thinking. Even media who covered him then knew Clarett was a thinker.
Oftentimes, though, he made decisions based on emotion. Clarett admitted that was a mistake.
Tressel tried to be a male role model for a player who didn't have one. It would seem he would feel like a frustrated parent whose child doesn't listen to advice.
"Frustrated is an extreme word," Tressel said. "You get disappointed at times. You get concerned. Then you rethink how you'd like to get something across. ... I always tried to shower those moments of disappointment ... in hope.
"That's what's exciting about this film. While it's not the script any of us would have written, what's exciting is what lies ahead for this young man."
Ohio State fans expecting a "negative spin" on Clarett and Tressel's downfall will be disappointed. It isn't there.
The Zimbalists do a remarkable job of presenting information from interviews and facts from the time periods. The only person who is painted in a negative light is former Ohio State Athletic Director Andy Geiger. Clarett believes, as does Hall of Famer Jim Brown, that Geiger misled the OSU running back to exercise power.
To focus on that, though, would be to miss the big picture of the message in the film. A poignant moment comes when Michelle Clarett said she is just happy her son still is alive. She recalled the night he was arrested and talked on the phone with her son. He was drinking and told her he was going out in a shootout.
"There's just so much seen in him," Michelle Clarett said. "A lot of it's pleasing. Some is not pleasing. That's par for the course. We will work on it. But I still have him. I can touch him. I can pinch him ... I can be angry with him. He's still here."
Through it all, Clarett still is standing.
"Like most things in life that don't go right, everyone who had a part in it, had a hand in it not going right," Tressel said, perhaps in a nod to his own downfall as well. "Your goals are constantly revised according to circumstances. But your purpose, your real reason for being, that supersedes. Maybe that's why some of his goals didn't come to fruition. Maybe they were all leading to his greater purpose."


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(Reuters) - Barnes & Noble Inc's founder and largest shareholder on Tuesday suspended his plan to buy the bookseller's stores, dashing investor hopes for a deal as the company again reported poor quarterly results.
B&N shares fell 15 percent to $14.17, their lowest level since February, when Leonard Riggio, who is also chairman, said he planned to make an offer for B&N's retail business.
News of Riggio's change of heart came as the company reported a 10 percent decline in sales at its bookstores and bn.com website for the latest quarter, hurt by a drop in sales of Nook e-readers and tablets at its stores and the absence of a mega-bestseller like the "Fifty Shades of Grey" trilogy that boosted business last year.
A deal would have resulted in splitting stores off from B&N's Nook and college bookstore businesses.
Now, investors who were waiting for a deal are moving on.
"Right now, the issue is you've got a lot of short-term deal investors in the stock and there's no deal," said Maxim Group analyst John Tinker. Investors will now focus on business fundamentals instead, he said.
And those were weak - comparable sales fell at its college bookstore chain in the latest quarter, while the Nook unit's revenue fell 20 percent and Barnes & Noble's share of the U.S. ebooks market slipped.
Despite another quarter of losses, the company said its cash position was sound and its $1 billion credit facility nearly untouched. Its stores generate a lot of cash and are still very profitable.
The largest U.S. bookstore chain said it would still entertain offers for all or part of the company, and Riggio said he reserved the right to make another bid someday, but the focus now would be on a more "integrated" company.
"Nothing is taken off the table," B&N President Michael Huseby told Reuters. "We're at the point now where we're going to focus on operating the businesses to improve the value of each one."
This includes launching a new website next year with up-to-date technology to reverse an online sales slide and compete more forcefully with archrival Amazon.com Inc.
"Every publisher I've talked to fervently wants Barnes & Noble to retain its viability both at retail and in e-commerce," said Lorraine Shanley, co-founder of Market Partners International.
She said thousands of author readings the retailer hosts each year help lift book and author profiles.
B&N has said it still plans to close about 15 stores a year and could easily close more if needed: 442 leases out of 674 superstores are up for renewal within the next three years.
The company put itself up for sale in 2010, but the only offer came from Liberty Interactive. Liberty backed down from an initial $1 billion bid and instead bought $204 million of preferred shares convertible for $17 apiece in 2011.
Last year, Microsoft Corp took a 17.6 percent stake in Nook Media, and British publisher Pearson Plc bought 5 percent. Barnes & Noble owns the rest.
Riggio bought the original Barnes & Noble store in Manhattan in the 1970s and used it to launch a national chain of big-box stores. He holds nearly 30 percent of the company's stock.
The latest quarter was a tumultuous one.
William Lynch resigned as CEO on July 8, soon after the company announced a 34 percent quarterly revenue drop in its Nook digital business, a venture he spearheaded that has cost the company hundreds of millions of dollars. The company on Tuesday blamed those losses on overly optimistic projections in the past for the Nook.
Company executives said B&N has a 22 percent share of the U.S. e-books market, down from 27 percent in February.
B&N said in June it would no longer make new tablets unless it found a partner. An August Ipsos poll conducted for Reuters found that only 2 percent of those very or somewhat interested in purchasing a tablet in the upcoming holiday season were inclined toward a Nook, with Apple's Inc's iPad, Amazon's Kindle Fire and the Samsung Galaxy far ahead.
B&N hasn't given up on color and black-and-white e-readers: The company said on Tuesday it plans to release at least one new Nook device for the upcoming holiday season and that other products are in development.
Still, the chain has slashed prices on its Simple Touch e-readers, suggesting demand for the device was weak.
Sales of B&N's Nook device and e-books plunged 20.2 percent in the latest quarter, and same-store sales at its college chain fell 1.2 percent.
B&N reported a net loss of $87 million, or $1.56 per share, for the fiscal first quarter ended July 27, compared with a loss of $39.8 million, or 76 cents per share, a year earlier.
An adjusted loss of 86 cents per share, which excludes a valuation allowance against certain deferred tax assets, was narrower than the loss of 89 cents per share expected by analysts, according to Thomson Reuters I/B/E/S.
Revenue fell 8.5 percent to $1.33 billion, slightly better than the $1.32 billion analysts had expected.
B&N said it still expects retail comparable-store sales to be down by a high-single-digit percentage in the current fiscal year.
Reporting by Jessica Wohl in Chicago and Phil Wahba in New York; Editing by Gerald E. McCormick and John Wallace


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After his dream girl, fetching columnist Ninia (Kristine Hermosa), rejects rotund pastry chef Macky (Sam Milby), he hires personal trainer Aira (Toni Gonzaga) to help him shape up — and they soon fall for each other in this witty Filipino tale. To support her family, Aira takes a job abroad, and when she runs into Macky two years later, she finds a slim chick magnet — who's forced to choose between Ninia and Aira, who loved him unconditionally.
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Viacom Exec: 'Everyone Knows A Rogue Site When They See One'… Except He Doesn't
from the are-they-serious? deptThere's apparently a bit of a debate within the American Bar Association over its position on SOPA/PROTECT IP. As you can imagine there are lawyers on all sides of the debate. However, some folks involved in the copyright and trademark legislation committees put forth a motion for the group to "support" the proposed laws, leading to some pretty strong push-back from a lot of lawyers (including those who were involved in crafting the DMCA's safe harbors, who see the attempt by SOPA to undermine all of that work as pretty nefarious). Some of those involved in the debates have been sharing some of the back and forth, and among the discussions is an absolutely stunning email from Michael Fricklas, the general counsel of Viacom, and the driving force behind that company's billion dollar lawsuit against YouTube. Think of that as you read the following statement:
In the field, it's pretty easy to tell if you're using a domain that is dedicated to infringing material. If you choose to speak there, I suppose your speech is at risk until you choose to move it elsewhere. I don't think there is a first amendment right to speak on a site that is engaged in pervasive copyright infringement (assuming that there are plenty of places to speak).It's this single statement that, I think, encapsulates the key point of disagreement between those who support SOPA/PIPA and those who don't. Those on the "stronger enforcement" side always seem to assume a "you know it when you see it" definition of "dedicated to infringement." We hear this all the time when we talk about the possible unintended consequences of such laws or ICE's domain seizures or other attempts at greater, more draconian enforcement efforts. One group insists that "it's obvious" what's infringing and what's not. Sometimes they'll even point to a particular file, as if that "proves" that it's easy to tell what's infringing.
But reality isn't so simple. Let's take Fricklas and YouTube as an example, since he's so sure that "it's pretty easy to tell" when "you're using a domain that is dedicated to infringing material." After all, according to Fricklas' own lawsuit, YouTube qualifies. If SOPA were in place half a decade ago, Fricklas wouldn't have filed a lawsuit. He would have just declared YouTube as "dedicated to theft of U.S. property" under the definitions in the bill ("enabling" and "facilitating" infringement? check! did Youtube "avoid confirming a high probability of the use" of the site for infringement? perhaps. check!). Then he'd send notices that would have effectively killed YouTube, forbidding advertising or payment processors to do business with the site. While YouTube could counternotice, there's no requirement for ad providers or payment processors to ever take it back, and, in fact, the incentives are there for them to just avoid doing business with anyone accused.
So, Viacom gets to kill YouTube, because in Fricklas' mind, it's "it's pretty easy to tell" that YouTube is "dedicated to infringing material." There's just one problem. Back here, in reality, determining what is and what is not dedicated to infringing material is not so easy. It's so confusing, in fact, that Fricklas and his team realized just before the case started, that some of the videos they were suing over, claiming they were infringing... were actually uploaded by Viacom directly. You see, it turns out that it's not so easy to tell. And, perhaps, Fricklas believes that Viacom shouldn't have rights to free speech on platforms like YouTube, as he implies in his statement, but the law doesn't quite work that way. And that's why Viacom was soundly trounced in its lawsuit against YouTube.
The best legal ruling I've seen that does a wonderful job explaining this comes from an Australian court, rather than a US court. In the iiNet case, the judge explained:
Regardless of the actual quality of the evidence gathering of DtecNet, copyright infringement is not a straight 'yes' or 'no' question. The Court has had to examine a very significant quantity of technical and legal detail over dozens of pages in this judgment in order to determine whether iiNet users, and how often iiNet users, infringe copyright by use of the BitTorrent system. The respondent had no such guidance before these proceedings came to be heard. The respondent apparently did not properly understand how the evidence of infringements underlying the AFACT Notices was gathered. The respondent was understandably reluctant to allege copyright infringement and terminate based on that allegation. However, the reasonableness of terminating subscribers on the basis of non-payment of fees does not dictate that warning and termination on the basis of AFACT Notices was equally reasonable. Unlike an allegation of copyright infringement, the respondent did not need a third party to provide evidence that its subscribers had not paid their fees before taking action to terminate an account for such reason.Copyright infringement is not a straight yes or no question. It involves "a very significant quantity of technical and legal detail." It's easy for people to declare that "it's obvious." But the reality is that it's very rarely obvious. That's why there are supposed to be full on adversarial hearings to determine this kind of thing so that, as in the iiNet trial, all sides can be heard, rather than imposing a sort of death penalty based solely upon a one-sided accusation. Because, all too frequently, we discover that the "obvious" infringement in the accusation turns out to be anything but obvious.
We've already seen it in the US numerous times with ICE's itchy trigger finger. Remember how ICE seized a blog based on claims by the RIAA that it was "dedicated to infringement." Unfortunately, the evidence showed that every song used as "proof" of such infringement, was actually sent by authorized representatives (and one came from an artist who had no connection to the RIAA at all -- not that it stopped the RIAA from declaring it infringing).
What seems "obvious" is rarely as "obvious" as it seems.
But it's this stunningly hubristic belief that it's "obvious" and that the nuances and details of copyright law aren't important, that drives folks like Fricklas to support laws with tremendous unintended consequences. No one denies that there's no legal protection for infringement. But, we want to make sure that when we stamp out infringement that's all we're stamping out. Tragically, having folks like Fricklas telling us that "it's obvious" as to what's infringing and what's not and suggesting that we can trust them to always get it right is not particularly compelling, given their dreadful track record on the subject to date.
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Because I finally stopped bullshitting myself that I believed in "something out there", not anything portrayed in any of the religious texts, but "something". Anything to not have to think that scary A word.
Because the universe and everything in it, and everything we know about how it works, makes much more sense if there is no god than if there is one.
Because there is not and never has been any argument or "proof" of the existence of god(s), etc. that stood up to ANY honest, thorough, logical scrutiny. EVER. Not. Even. One. (And it's not as if believers haven't had *thousands* of years to come up with one, either.)
Because of all the good things that religion does, *not one* requires religion or belief in god in order to happen. I don't believe, yet I treat people ethically, I give to charity, I'm kind to animals. But there's plenty of evil things that religion does that are either a direct result of religion, or are justified or made worse by it: misogyny, homophobia, racism, war, etc.
Because "throughout history, every mystery ever solved has turned out to be NOT MAGIC." (Thank you, Tim Minchin.)
Because the whole notion of the universe being created by a perfect being is nonsensical and self-contradictory. Perfection means no lack of anything, ergo no reason to create anything. And supposing such a being *did* create a universe and us, how did it manage to screw up so royally on so many things? I mean, putting our airway and esophagus right next to each other with just a little valve to stop food going down the wrong way? Really? That's the best it can do? (True fact: I once damn near choked to death on an M&M. Not even a whole M&M, a fucking half-chewed fragment of an M&M. Tell me that's not a design flaw.)
Because, also supposing a perfect being created the universe and us, why would that supposedly perfect being give a flying fuck what we thought of it, or what we wanted? Ooh, what's that? It loves us? Then why doesn't it regrow amputated limbs? Why do kids die of cancer, etc.? Because their parents didn't grovel just right? Why is my best friend a prisoner of crippling pain leaving her barely able to walk while evil assholes get to run around completely healthy all their lives?
Because no one can agree on what this perfect creator being is, or what it looks like, or how it behaves, or what it wants. No one has seen it or heard it, so no one knows, and therefore they're all just guessing. Billy Graham is just guessing. The Pope is just guessing. Imams and ayatollahs are just guessing. Rabbis are just guessing. And they're all guessing based on their own culture and prejudices, not evidence.
Because "I feel it in my heart" sucks as an argument.
Because "if you believe and you're wrong you lose nothing, but if you don't believe and you're wrong you'll go to hell" sucks as an argument.
Because "god moves in mysterious ways/it's not for us to question/it's all for the best, we just can't see it yet" all suck as arguments.
Because if I tortured someone forever for not worshipping me — or actually for ANY reason — I'd be rightly considered a monster, a bully, an evil sick fuck… anything BUT a loving parent.
Because if any set of beliefs demands that you NEVER question it under ANY circumstances, that is a *huge* red flag that it is a shitty belief system that you should get away from as fast as you can.
Because reality matters, and I want to believe as many true things and disbelieve as many false things as I possibly can. Yet there are people in this world who *don't care*… and they are the majority. That to me is depressing beyond words. I can't even wrap my head around it.
There's more, but I think that about covers it for now.
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Matías Sánchez's debut in a substitute appearance at Vancouver on Saturday marked the sixth Black & Gold player to make their Crew debut this season. Sánchez joins Ryan Finley, Gláuber, Dominic Oduro, Agustin Viana and Tyson Wahl as new Crew players that have seen action for the club in 2013
Although the Crew wasn't able to pick up the full six points in the two-game road swing to open the year, the Crew has scored out-scored its opponents, 4-2, in two games this season. Four also represents the number of different players have scored for the Black & Gold (Higuain, Williams, Oduro, Arrieta).
A start on Saturday for Crew 'keeper Andy Gruenebaum would be his 30th career appearance (29th start) in front of the home crowd at Crew Stadium. Gruenebaum would become the third goalkeeper in club history to make 30 appearances at Crew Stadium, behind William Hesmer (66) and (now San Jose 'keeper) Jon Busch (46). Gruenebaum's 29 appearances at Crew Stadium enters Saturday tied Mark Dougherty for third on the club's list.
The Black & Gold are ranked fifth in MLS in scoring percentage after two games this season. The conversion rate of 14.8 percent (4 goals on 27 shots) through two games sits 6.5 percent higher than Saturday's opponent, San Jose, who has turned 24 shots into two goals (8.3 percent).
The Crew hosts San Jose on Saturday for the first of four Western Conference fixtures at Crew Stadium in 2013. Last season, the Crew secured points in four of the five home meetings against opponents from the West, posting a 3-1-1 mark in those five games. Overall, the Black & Gold were 4-2-3 in the nine out-of-conference meetings in 2012.


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Conversion of Solid Organic Wastes into Oil via Boettcherisca peregrine (Diptera: Sarcophagidae) Larvae and Optimization of Parameters for Biodiesel Production
Many saprophagous insect larvae fed on solid organic wastes (e.g., animal manure, food waste etc.) can be converted into insect oil and nutrition [5]. For example, black soldier fly (Hermetia illucens) larvae converted from organic wastes (cattle manure, pig manure, and chicken manure) can be used as a resource for biodiesel production [9]. This study indicates that Boettcherisca peregrine holds a high promise for converting solid organic wastes into an alternative feedstock for biodiesel production due to its high oil content (19.531.1%) and short production cycle (4 days). The yields of BPL converted from swine manure, GFR, and SRF reach to 10.7%, 12.6% and 9.9% respectively.


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Competing Visions of the Kingdom of Heaven on Earth Are Not Mutually Exclusive
In his Time magazine article, "Heaven Can't Wait," Jon Meacham contrasts two seemingly competing visions of heaven in contemporary Christianity. One prominent view envisions heaven as the ethereal place one goes when one dies. Images of winged angels, celestial music, golden thrones, pearly gates, and streets of gold variously occupy this vision of the hereafter. Heaven is conceived of as a future paradise of eternal rest filled with peace, light, and love. Everlasting life is seen as an eternal abode in the heavenly realm with God and the angels.
A second well-known view envisions heaven as how you live your life. This standpoint appeals to a younger generation motivated by causes and inspired by heaven to make a positive difference in the world. Guided by this outlook, these young evangelical Christians see themselves as agents of heaven on earth engaged in social justice and peacemaking. For this activist generation, heaven demands stewardship on earth in daily living.
According to New Testament scholar N.T. Wright, heaven is not a future destination but rather God's dimension in our ordinary life on the earth. For Wright, the hope of a new heaven and a new earth along with the New Jerusalem coming from God in the Book of Revelation should invite work in the world for justice. Wright emphasizes the biblical hope of the bodily resurrection and new creation in the New Testament.
Meacham asserts that early Christians did not understand heaven in the same way as those who now envision a heavenly paradise after death but rather envisioned heaven as a two-step process. First, the soul left the body to a place of rest and peace. Second, a bodily resurrection into a new heaven and a new earth would bring God's kingdom to earth. Meacham concludes that Christians have largely departed from these concrete beliefs about heaven by Jesus and his contemporaries. For Meacham, Wright and others are bringing this emphasis on the bodily resurrection and the New Jerusalem back to contemporary Christianity. The implication is an active Christianity bringing the Kingdom to earth.
Yet, these two competing visions of heaven and the hereafter need not be mutually exclusive. A vision of heavenly bliss and celestial paradise after death is a compelling way to describe what early Christians saw as the first — temporary — stage of heaven. Immediately after death one returns to God and enters paradise. Notwithstanding, the entire biblical account points to hope in a bodily resurrection and a new eternal life with God in the New Jerusalem. Life with God on earth will be exalted. According to the New Testament, heaven is not the final destination but rather a temporary holding place before the end of the world. One can easily hold these two visions of heaven in tension in one's faith.
Meacham implies, however, that one cannot believe in heaven as the eternal place of rest and vindication and also work for social justice as an imperative. Thus, according to some, the image of heaven as a future paradise pacifies Christians, most especially the poor and marginalized.
Critics of African American slave religion, for instance, argue that it was otherworldly, escapist, and compensatory. The black spirituals demonstrate the rich imagery of heaven and the hereafter in slave religion as release and vindication in another life. These images of heaven no doubt enabled black slaves to endure hardship and dehumanization. Yet, black slaves also believed in imminent liberation on earth as in the biblical Exodus. They hoped for concrete material and spiritual liberation from bondage in the now.
Rebellious black slave insurrectionist Nat Turner, for example, asserted that blacks should fight for the coming of the Kingdom of Heaven on earth through revolt. African American Christian slaves held in balance the hope of paradise in another life and the equally significant hope of heaven on earth. They were able to resist slavery in myriad ways by believing in the God of both the hereafter and the present. Thus, black slave religion was both otherworldly and this-worldly. Slaves embraced the hope of a heavenly paradise after death that would vindicate them and erase the pain of the present life. Yet, they also hoped in imminent liberation on earth and the belief that God would initiate a new era of peace and freedom for blacks here in America.
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The disposer died on Thursday. After performing manual rotations using a wrench, it still didn't re-start and I gave up. I tried again before going to bed and it started. I thought it was fixed. It was still running when I checked Friday morning.
Friday night, Gumby washed dishes then drained the sink after finishing, and water flowed out from the cabinet under the sink.
So here I am, on Saturday morning buying a new disposer. I spent the late morning/early afternoon installing the new disposer.
I still need to figure out what to do about the cabinet. The pressboard sagged; all the water-logged cabinet parts need to be replaced.


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An Unhappy Birthday for Social Security
Those who insist on blocking change to Social Security aren't doing future retirees any favors.
A sobering thought for Saturday, when Social Security reaches age 75: Most young Americans don't expect it to be around when they need it. The sobering truth is that they'll be right if policymakers don't make changes soon.
The good news is that this is one case where Washington seems to have gotten the message. Odds for a package of changes after President Obama's debt commission makes its report Dec. 1 are good. But a preemptive challenge to any change by those who claim they want to preserve Social Security poses a threat that will have to be overcome.
Social Security remains on solid footing today, but the demographics are not in its favor. Neither is the economy. This year, for the first time ever, the government will pay out more in benefits than it takes in through payroll taxes. The estimated deficit of $41 billion is due mostly to the high unemployment that has forced more people to tap benefits early -- at age 62 instead of full retirement age. In their annual report, the Social Security trustees projected a return to surplus next year, but within 10 years the deficits will be close to $100 billion annually, as the ratio of people paying into the system vs. people collecting benefits keeps falling, to about 2-1 by 2035, from 16-1 in 1950. While technically there is enough in the trust fund to last until 2037, the trust fund is really just an IOU, and the government will have to borrow -- adding to the overall deficit -- to meet its obligations to retirees. But as everyone knows, federal borrowing is already too high.
That's why it's certain that the debt commission will propose several changes to keep Social Security solvent for the long term -- at least another 75 years. And chances are, opponents won't be able to prevent Congress from acting. Once seen as the third rail of American politics, Social Security is now regarded as the low hanging fruit when it comes to reining in the debt, as Bill Bixby, head of the Concord Coalition, recently put it.
Fixing Social Security will certainly be easier than seriously slowing the growth in health care costs to save Medicare and Medicaid, deciding on tax reforms or cutting defense programs. But the fix won't come without considerable pain. According to the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, the demographics produce a Social Security gap of 1.92% of taxable payroll over the next 75 years. So if the payroll tax were increased by that amount, the gap would close. But that's an untenable step.
More likely is a smaller tax hike combined with a higher retirement age and smaller benefits, with means testing applied to both the tax hike and the benefit cut.
An almost sure bet is upping the normal retirement age to 68, which would close 25% of the 75-year projected gap. Some lifting of the cap on income subject to the payroll tax (say from $106,800 today to $200,000) is also likely.
More complicated -- and more controversial -- will be a lowering of anticipated benefit levels.Proposals for accomplishing that include increasing the number of years used to calculate benefits, from the 35 highest earning years to the 40 highest, and/or by changing the formula used to determine benefits and annual inflation adjustments so they track prices instead of wages, a slower rising approach.
Also possible: A program for private accounts as a supplement or carve out to Social Security, means testing of benefits based on wealth (not retirement income), incentives for working longer, changes in survivor and dependent benefits, expansion of the system to include exempt workers and many others.
It's worth stressing that none of these changes will affect the benefits being received by current retirees, although their future inflation increases could be. Those very close to retirement are also likely to be exempt from most of the changes.
Expect Congress to take up the debt commission's ideas next year, with Social Security reform more than likely by the end of 2012.


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Integrating Adobe Analytics and AEM allows you to track your web page activity:
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March 11 — Did you have any female ancestors who died young or from tragic or unexpected circumstances? Describe and how did this affect the family?
My grandmother Anna Lee Pulskamp Creeden died at the age of 24 on December 2, 1934 in Celina, OH a few days after giving birth to my father.
My great-grandparents Charles and Anna Creeden raised my father and he lived with them until he went to college. My grandfather relocated to Dayton, OH and while he was involved in my father's life, it was at a distance. My father lost touch with the Pulskamp side of the family when he moved away from Ohio. My grandmother had a twin sister Emma Lee that lived until 2001, so I'm sure many things would have been different if Anna Lee had lived her full life. Anna Lee's obituary is below.
Mrs. Robert Creeden succumbs to complications following childbirth
Body removed to home of her parents Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Pulskamp, North Walnut Street - Funeral Arranged For Wednesday Morning
Mrs. Anna Lee Pulskamp Creeden, wife of Robert Creeden of 325 South Walnut street, succumbed to complications following childbirth on Sunday at 12 o'clock at Gibbons hospital.
On November 21, the Creedens were made intensely happy by the arrival of a son, but that happiness has been turned to grief only 10 days later with the death of the beautiful young mother. She died well fortified with the last sacraments of the Catholic Church.
Mrs. Creeden was born in Celina the twin daughter of Mr. and Mrs. George Pulskamp, June 11, 1910 and had reached the age of 24 years.
On December 27, 1930, she became the bride of Robert Creeden the only son of Postmaster and Mrs. Charles Creeden and they were indeed a happy couple.
Mrs. Creeden was a devout Catholic, a member of the Daughters of Isabella and Auxiliary to the Knights of St. John.
Surviving are her grief stricken husband, the 10 day old son, Robert Jr., her parents, Mr. and Mrs. George Pulskamp, her twin sister, Emma Lee, the wife of Clarence Art, her sisters Marie, the wife of Ben Rapien of St. Bernard; Antoinette, the wife of Robert B. English of Southgate, Kentucky, three brothers, Andreas of Sebastian; Hugh and George Jr., at home, and a host of other relatives and friends.
The body has been removed to the home of her parents at 623 North Walnut street, where it will lie in state until the time of the funeral, Wednesday morning at 9 o'clock at the Church of the Immaculate Conception.
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The show starts with a moan, as the deathly face bursts to life, revealing actor John Forkner, the narrator of our tale. With perfect pomp and a dash of sardonic wit, he opens a large book to read this legendary Christmas tale of Scrooge. Holding the pages open toward the audience so we can see vivid projections of moving images, Forkner recites.
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Android's biggest problem continues to be fragmentation. Particularly when you have a huge UI change, like in Android 4.0 ICS, it's important to get as many devices as you can on the update to avoid customer confusion and developer frustration. Even the Nexus S 4G, Sprint's iteration of the "Pure Google" phone, just got the latest update a bare month ago, a full six months after the software was first released. With many legacy devices not even getting ICS, this fragmentation is only going to grow. As you can see in the chart above, the various iteration of 4.0 total up to just under 5%, with Gingerbread 2.3.3 taking the…ahem…cake, at just under 64%. Interestingly enough, while Android 4.0 has a pretty low percentage of platform share, it still beats out Android 3.0 Honeycomb, which stands cumulatively at just over 3%. Given how few phones are currently out running Ice Cream Sandwich, this offers a sad bit of commentary on how the last generation of Android tablets sold overall.
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Child Care Aware®of America's quality child care campaign kicks off another year today on the journey for affordable, safe, quality child care for all children. How are we doing? What markers have we achieved to date?
The Child Care and Development Block Grant (CCDBG), the federal law that allocates funds to states to help families afford child care and to assist states in improving the quality of child care, marked another year without reauthorization (the enactment of legislation that reviews current law and makes improvements where necessary). It's been 16 years since the last reauthorization. That's too long. Hopefully, 2013 will ring the reauthorization bell. Noteworthy for sure: The Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Subcommittee on Children and Families held three child care hearings in the 112th Congress:
- (July 2012) CCDBG Reauthorization: Helping to Meet the Child Care Needs of American Families. You can watch the webcast and read the testimony here.
- (September 2011) Examining Quality and Safety in Child Care: Giving Working Families Security, Confidence and Peace of Mind. You can watch the webcast and read the testimony here.
- (June 2011) Getting the Most Bang for the Buck: Quality Early Education and Care. You can watch the webcast and read the testimony here.
Hearings lay the groundwork for reauthorization. Thank you Senate HELP Committee Senators and staff for the work that you do. Thank you also to the many parents, advocates, child care providers, and early childhood experts for your dedication and commitment to quality child care that helped make Senate hearings possible in our nation's capital.
Short of national legislation, much progress has been made throughout the states. Child Care Aware® of America has released six child care licensing studies since 2007. The "We Can Do Better" series, which scores and ranks states based on their state child care center laws and regulations, was first released in March of 2007 and updated in 2009 and 2011. The report will be updated again in April of 2013. The "Leaving Children to Chance" series, which scores and ranks states based on their state small family child care home laws and regulations, was first released in March of 2008 and updated in 2010 and 2012. In reviewing our most recent reports with the initial reports when we first began on this journey, it is clear that states are making strides to improve the quality of child care.
- Background Checks: Screening out those who have a violent history of offenses (such as assault and battery, sex offenses, homicide, etc.) is key to promoting the safety of children in child care. When we began our studies, only a handful of states required a comprehensive background check: a check of federal and state records using fingerprints, a check of the state child abuse registry and a check of the sex offender registry. Today, 13 states require a comprehensive background check for those working in child care centers (AK, CO, HI, ID, IL, MS, NH, NJ, NC, SC, SD, TN and WA). In addition, 11 states require a comprehensive background check for small family child care home providers (AK, CO, FL, HI, IL, NH, NC, SC, TN, WA and WV).
- Health & Safety Requirements: When we began looking at state health and safety requirements for child care, only 8 states met each of 10 health and safety requirements recommended by pediatric experts. Today, 33 states met all 10 health and safety standards recommended by pediatric experts for child care centers. Also notable for child care centers, an additional 10 states met 9 of 10 health and safety standards. Far fewer, but still progress when measured against our first report, 15 states met all 10 health and safety standards recommended by pediatric experts for small family child care homes. Also notable for small family child care homes, 34 states met 9 of 10 health standards and 32 states met 9 of 10 safety standards.
- Child Development: When we began looking at state required activities compared to developmental domains (i.e., social, emotional, physical, language/literacy, cognitive and cultural domains), only 13 states required activities in child care centers within each of the domains; 10 states had no requirements for activities in child care centers related to developmental domains. Today, 22 states require activities in child care centers within all 6 developmental domains; 3 states have no required activities in child care centers related to developmental domains (AL, CA, ID). For small family child care homes, today 8 states require activities in all developmental domains (AZ, DE, GA, KS, MI, TN, WA and WV).
- Inspections: When we began looking at state monitoring or oversight practices, only a handful of states conducted regular inspections and few posted inspection results on the internet for easy parent access. Today, 5 states conduct inspections of child care centers less than once per year (AL, CA, ID, MN, and VT). Progress has been made but still too many states – 24 – conduct inspections of small family child care homes less than once per year. More than half the states post inspection reports on the internet so that parents can make informed decisions when selecting child care.
Progress has been made. Numerous states have made important improvements to ensure that children are safe and in child care settings that promote their healthy development. However, much work remains at the national level to enact CCDBG reauthorization and within the states.
Thank you state child care administrators, parents, advocates, child care providers, child care experts and all those who work every day to ensure that progress toward quality child care is being made. We're on the road, we've had some success.
With the start of 2013, our campaign continues. Keep up the good work. Progress can't be made without you – and, together we can make a difference. Nearly 11 million children in child care are depending upon you. Make 2013 a banner year!


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Vancouver Sun wine expert Anthony Gismondi's news from the wine and food world, recommended B.C. wine of the week, and a wine to add to your cellar.
Anthony Gismondi: B.C. wine of the week, wine to cellar and calendar items
CedarCreek Estate Winery has opened two of its three new spectacular buildings on the winery grounds in Kelowna.
The Tasting Room for visitors in now open, as is Home Block Restaurant. The third building — for club members, VIP tastings and offices — will open in the spring of 2020.
The Tasting Room will offer several levels of wine tastings allowing you to explore at your pace all the wines of CedarCreek. Sure to be an early favourite is the Silt & Stone Experience featuring two amazing old blocks of Pinot Noir planted in the early 1990s, as well as vintage variation between the 2012 and 2016 Pinot Noirs.
Metres away general manager Michael Ziff (St Lawrence, Chambar, Alabaster) and chef Neil Taylor (Cibo, Espana, The Fat Badger) are killing it at Home Block. Since I have never used the phrase world-class, and I travel the world, I'm going to use it to describe what has gone on at CedarCreek.
If you are in Kelowna, It is a must stop (5445 Lakeshore Road). More information at cedarcreek.bc.ca.
• Early reports from Bill Jones at Deerholme Farm, Vancouver Island point to a bumper crop of mushrooms in 2019.
Chanterelles and lobster mushrooms in the Cowichan with a broader selection to the west and north of the island, including some porcini in the higher altitudes, have Jones excited and planning a series of mushroom dinners that will sell out quickly.
First up is an Italian Mushroom Feast (Sept. 28), highlighted by risotto with milk braised pork hock and porcini mushrooms. A Duck and Mushroom Dinner (Oct. 19) features duck ragu, smoked sweet onion and wild mushroom polenta, and braised kale; at the Pine Mushroom Dinner (Nov. 9), the appetizer is pine mushroom and spot prawn gyoza.
Price is $100 per person plus tax. Two more identical dinners for the holidays are Truffle Dinner I (Dec. 14, $125) or Truffle Dinner II (Dec. 21, $125). Menu highlights include truffled beef tenderloin, squash and sage purée, Bordelaise sauce, seasonal vegetables and sweet potato soup with crisp tortilla, mushroom salsa and truffle sour cream.
For complete menu info and reservations, visit deerholme.com or contact the farm directly by email at email@example.com.
B.C. wine of the week
LaStella Espressivo 2016, Okanagan Valley
$39.99 | 90/100
Espressivo is a Tuscan-inspired (Bolgheri) red blend of Cabernet Sauvignon mix with Merlot, Cabernet Franc, and Sangiovese, all picked from the home south Okanagan vineyard on the Osoyoos West Bench. After 20 months in Slavonian and French oak barrels, puncheons, and botti the 2016 Espressivo expresses ripe, soft, plump fruit, with plush plum, blackberry jam and mild baking spices. It's ready to drink with the likes of rabbit or roasted mushrooms or cellar it through 2020. Impressive.
Wine for the cellar
Ruffino Tenuta Greppone Mazzi Brunello di Montalcino 2013, Tuscany, Italy
$55.99 | 92/100
Greppone is like stepping back in time in Brunello, offering up a nose of worn leather, tobacco, and tar with classic dried cherries. The attack is fresh and intense, but it carries its weight effortlessly across the palate with red fruits and more tobacco and earthy notes before finishing long with a tug of tannins that suggests it will have more to give down the road. A sleeper you can try now with grilled meats and mushroom dishes, but it would best to wait through 2023 and beyond. Good value.
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