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Did Phil Robertson pave the way for a free speech rebellion amongst the most unlikely people?
As everyone in the world now knows, Phil Robertson said in a magazine interview that he didn't understand the attraction of gay sex. Even worse, he added that, while he wouldn't presume to judge sexual behavior (or, rather, misbehavior), he had no doubt that God will do some judging. His words created a thought-police firestorm. Leading the charge was GLAAD, formerly known as the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation.
It's important to understand that GLAAD is not an advocacy group for LGBTQ rights. Advocacy groups are valued players in a free society. GLAAD is, instead, a thuggish organization that works by destroying people's livelihoods if they fall afoul of its party line. Robert Oscar Lopez describes how GLAAD uses its tactics of blackmail and intimidation against anyone who suggests that there are downsides to the gay lifestyle or to the social and political agenda the gay lobby pushes. One doesn't have to agree with Lopez to be shocked at GLAAD's truly McCarthy-esque tactics. So again, the problem isn't what GLAAD stands for; the problem is its bullying.
As part of its mission to purge people guilty of anything it deems a thought-crime, GLAAD monitors American speech for any statements about gay and lesbians. If this speech isn't unabashed cheer-leading about the LGBTQ lifestyle, GLAAD instantly declares it "hate speech." Then, instead of countering this so-called "hate speech" with more speech, GLAAD leads the charge to destroy the speaker. Up until last year, when GLAAD attacked a high-profile person or institution, its efforts resulted in one response and one response alone: craven retreat and abject apologies from the speaker.
Phil Robertson, however, refused to play GLAAD's game, even when his employer, A&E, immediately caved and fired Phil. Ranking his God higher than GLAAD's outrage, he didn't even bother to mumble an apology for the fact that someone had hurt feelings. Instead, he stood firm and his family backed him up. It was A&E, rather than Robertson, who was forced to back down.
The Phil Robertson episode marked the first time that anyone in the public eye refused to let a Leftist thought-control organization bully him. At the time, I wondered whether, by doing so, Robertson would inspire others to take a stand — and perhaps he did. In first month of 2013, two stars have stood up to Leftist censors.
The first one to do so was Liam Payne, who belongs to the massively successful pop group One Direction. He sent out a tweet saying "@williebosshog huge love to you/your family huge respect for your business prosperities and the family values you still all behold. big fan" GLAAD and its media followers (meaning everyone in the MSM) predictably moved in for the kill, essentially telling Payne that his career was at stake for daring to support the homophobic Robertson clan.
Payne launched an aggressive counterattack against the media for trying to police his speech (slight language alert):
Being a fan of someones show and the way they still hold a family together doesnt mean i am ok with all they say.
— Liam Payne (@Real_Liam_Payne) January 18, 2014
Oh my god can someone literally not be a fan if a show without bring labeled WTf I bought dinner the other day it made a news story — Liam Payne (@Real_Liam_Payne) January 19, 2014
I can't do anything without being judged u try that and write about it
— Liam Payne (@Real_Liam_Payne) January 19, 2014
And I know I'm playing into your hands writing these tweets but I'm sick of stupid stories it's time you all grow up
— Liam Payne (@Real_Liam_Payne) January 19, 2014
And write about things that actually matter not what im gunna have for dinner tomorrow or who I'm a fan if real stories
— Liam Payne (@Real_Liam_Payne) January 19, 2014
Look at this shit I never said any if that write about something real for once there's plenty of issues In the world pic.twitter.com/FDsqtyr5Ht
— Liam Payne (@Real_Liam_Payne) January 19, 2014
I just watched a show and I liked it as most people do stop sitting in my twitter and do your research #lazyjournos
— Liam Payne (@Real_Liam_Payne) January 19, 2014
All those tweets are aimed at journalists and bloggers not fans
— Liam Payne (@Real_Liam_Payne) January 19, 2014
Sick of all this bull il be back again when the freedom of speech law is back and people don't believe to much into the bulls#!t they read
— Liam Payne (@Real_Liam_Payne) January 19, 2014
As you can see, Payne's fight with the thought police happened almost two weeks ago. So far as I know, his career continues to thrive.
Just this past week, yet another superstar found herself in the speech police's cross hairs. This time, the target was Scarlett Johansson, the voluptuous blonde actress who signed on to become a spokeswoman for SodaStream. SodaStream is a very successful Israeli company that has a factory in a West Bank settlement. It employs Palestinians and Israeli's alike, paying them equal wages, providing good working conditions, and creating an environment within which Jews and Palestinians can see each other as people, not stereotypes. This is an especially good deal for the Palestinian workers, who usually live in heinous economic circumstances, even as their leaders squirrel away in private accounts the billions in foreign aid that the world's nations send annually to the Palestinians.
Naturally, the Left can't have that. You see, for all its talk, the Left has no interest in seeing Palestinians have a decent quality of life. Instead, the Left shares with the radical Islamists the goal of seeing Israel — a capitalist liberal democracy — wiped from the face of the earth. The best way to achieve this is to keep Palestinians living in execrable conditions so as to stoke rage against Israelis.
Put another way, keeping the Palestinian masses in the ghetto is a win for everyone except the Israelis and the Palestinians: the Arab leaders in surrounding nations get to have an excuse for the fact that their people are the impoverished residents of tyrannical rulers; the mullahs and imams get to maintain their control by directing credulous Muslims to engage in an endless Holy War against the Jews; and the Left gets to continue its efforts to destroy the sole liberal democracy in a medieval, tyrannical region.
Enter Oxfam. I learned about Oxfam when I was living in England back in the early 1980s. As a student, I had no money, so my friends told me to check out Oxfam for things I needed. I therefore went to an Oxfam shop, prepared to find that it was something like a Goodwill or Salvation Army store. I didn't make it past the front door, which was liberally decorated with pro-PLO literature. That is, it was supporting, not just the Palestinians, but the terrorist arm of the Palestinians. I never went near an Oxfam's again.
Scarlett Johansson, however, probably didn't realize that Oxfam has always supported terrorists. When she agreed to be an Oxfam representative, she was probably responding to its claim that it works to empower poor people around the world:
One person in three in the world lives in poverty. Oxfam is determined to change that world by mobilizing the power of people against poverty.
Around the globe, Oxfam works to find practical, innovative ways for people to lift themselves out of poverty and thrive. We save lives and help rebuild livelihoods when crisis strikes. And we campaign so that the voices of the poor influence the local and global decisions that affect them.
We work directly with communities and we seek to influence the powerful to ensure that poor people can improve their lives and livelihoods and have a say in decisions that affect them.
In all we do, Oxfam works with partner organizations and alongside vulnerable women and men to end the injustices that cause poverty.
What Scarlett Johansson just discovered, though, is that when it comes to Israel and the Palestinians, Oxfam does not work "to find practical, innovative ways for people to lift themselves out of poverty and thrive." Instead, its anti-Israel, antisemitic ideological bias is so overwhelming, that it works overtime to keep the Palestinians mired deep in poverty, rather than allowing them to achieve economic success through work with an ideologically liberal Israeli corporation.
In the normal course of things — i.e., in the pre-Phil Robertson days — once the speech and thought police got on her case, Johansson should have been expected to break her contract with Israel and go crawling back to Oxfam. She didn't, though. Instead, she made a public statement disassociating herself from Oxfam:
While I never intended on being the face of any social or political movement, distinction, separation or stance as part of my affiliation with SodaStream, given the amount of noise surrounding that decision, I'd like to clear the air.
I remain a supporter of economic cooperation and social interaction between a democratic Israel and Palestine. SodaStream is a company that is not only committed to the environment but to building a bridge to peace between Israel and Palestine, supporting neighbors working alongside each other, receiving equal pay, equal benefits and equal rights. That is what is happening in their Ma'ale Adumim factory every working day. As part of my efforts as an Ambassador for Oxfam, I have witnessed first-hand that progress is made when communities join together and work alongside one another and feel proud of the outcome of that work in the quality of their product and work environment, in the pay they bring home to their families and in the benefits they equally receive.
I believe in conscious consumerism and transparency and I trust that the consumer will make their own educated choice that is right for them. I stand behind the SodaStream product and am proud of the work that I have accomplished at Oxfam as an Ambassador for over 8 years. Even though it is a side effect of representing SodaStream, I am happy that light is being shed on this issue in hopes that a greater number of voices will contribute to the conversation of a peaceful two state solution in the near future.
Major kudos to Johansson for resisting the coercive pressure from the Left. It turns out that there's a beautiful personality behind that beautiful face.
Did Phil Robertson's refusal to back down to GLAAD have anything to do with Payne's and Johansson's willingness to withstand pressure from GLAAD and Oxfam? I don't know. I just know that sixty years ago, it took just one speech to destroy the apparently unlimited power that Sen. Joseph McCarthy had wielded for so many years in the United States Senate:


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Letter, S. [Sara Robinson] to "My own dear Husband" [Charles Robinson]
Author: Robinson, Sara T. L. (Sara Tappan Lawrence), 1827-1911
Date: April 29, 1860
From Lawrence, Sara Robinson wrote a mostly personal letter to her husband upon her return from a visit to the KC area (Quindaro, etc.)--apparently to see Charles Robinson before his departure for the East.
Location of Original: KSHS Call Number: Charles & Sara Robinson Collection, # 488, Box 1, Folder 8
Item Number: 101187 Number of images: 4
Keywords: Kansas City, Kansas Territory; Lawrence, Kansas Territory; Quindaro, Kansas Territory; Robinson, Charles, 1818-1894; Robinson, Sara T. L. (Sara Tappan Lawrence), 1827-1911
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Article by: Will Brown Photo by: Tabithia Ross
The East Georgia Sate College Lady Bobcats softball team fell short of the expectations many set for them early in the season, but they put together a very good season that continues to build on the early success of the program.
The Lady Bobcats end the year with an overall record of 25-17 and 8-8 in the conference after going 1-2 in the GCAA conference tournament.
It was a tale of two seasons almost for the Lady Bobcats, who started off as the best team in the conference, going 7-1 in their first eight conference, then going 1-7 in their last eight before the tournament. The Lady Bobcats had an up-and-down year at the plate, but were consistently great from a pitching standpoint.
Laura Cardell hit .301 on the season with six homers, 15 RBI, 31 runs scored, and 11 stolen bases on the season. Brinsley Screws finished with an average of .309 with five homers, 26 RBI, 26 runs scored, and 16 stolen bases. Both players finished up their Bobcat careers as two of the program's best offensive players.
Brittany Middleton was the dominant force in the circle once again for the Lady Bobcats, going 10-7 on the season with an ERA of 1.63 in 116 innings pitched. She goes down as possibly the best pitcher in program history after a fantastic freshman year in 2012. Transfer Mallory Riner went 7-3 with an ERA of 2.90 in 99 innings pitched. Courtney Jenkins finished her freshman year with 1-2 record and two saves while posting an ERA of 2.00 in 49 innings pitched.
The Lady Bobcats will return a strong nucleus of players for the 2014 season and should be right back in the conference title race.


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The 2013 Bodies of Work Festival of Disability Arts and Culture Opening Celebration is generously hosted by the City of Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events. The celebration takes place Wednesday, May 15, 6-8:30pm, at the Chicago Cultural Center, 78 E Randolph Street, Preston Bradley Hall. The evening's honoree is Chicago playwright, Susan Nussbaum. A panel discussion, "Framing the Festival: A Critical Discussion on Disability Art and Culture" will address some of the history, trends, and cultural contexts of disability art in general, as well as specific representational and narrative strategies being presented at the BOW festival. The reception includes light refreshments and is free and open to the public.
On May 17 & 18 at 6pm, MOMENTA will collaborate, once again, with Access Living, to present Counter Balance IV (SEE THIS) -- an evening of integrated dance, poetry, and spoken word that expores the intersection of disability diversity and art. FREE ADMISSION!
Counter Balance is part of the 2013 Bodies of Work Festival and features Alice Sheppard, Baraka de Soleil, Lisa Bufano, Pennie Brinson, Tony Serra and Momenta Dancers Anita Kenney, Deborah Goodman, Ginger Lane and Kris Lenzo.
Personal Assistants, Sign Language Interpreters and Narrative Description will be provided. Seating is limited. RSVP encouraged:
Read on for dates, times, and place, and the descriptions of the more than forty opportunities (including Counter Balance)to experience the very best, cutting-edge disability arts and culture.
For even more information about Bodies of Work, the Festival, and its programs visit their website at (CLICK HERE) Bodies of Work (BOW) Festival is a an eleven day, multi-venue Chicago event featuring visual and performing arts that highlight the work of artists with disabilities. The festival celebrates national and international artists with disabilities who are creating today's cutting-edge theater, dance, literature, poetry, spoken word, film, and visual/performance art. It takes place at some of Chicago's most recognized cultural institutions, and includes free public panels and talks in conjunction with many of the events.
BOW Festival perceives disability art as playing a key role in articulating what disability means personally, politically, and aesthetically. Artists involved in the disability arts and culture movement consider their bodily, sensory, cognitive, and neurological differences as wellsprings of creativity that provide unique perspectives of the world. The movement is intimately tied to and has grown up alongside the disability civil rights movement, and the urgency and vibrancy shared by both are present in the beautiful and challenging work showcased in this festival.
"We are particularly excited about this year's festival because of its focus on professional artists with disabilities whose work illuminates important issues and emerging aesthetics of our community as well as the larger arts community," said Carrie Sandahl, Bodies of Work Director and Professor in the Department of Disability and Human Development at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Bodies of Work: A Network of Disability Art and Culture is part of the Department of Disability and Human Development at University of Illinois at Chicago.
Eleven cultural/academic institutions and community groups are participating: Access Living's Disability Arts and Culture Project, Jane Addams Hull-House Museum, Hyde Park Art Center, Reva and David Logan Center for the Arts at the University of Chicago, Lookingglass Theatre, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Poetry Foundation, Raven Theatre, Victory Gardens Theater, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine and Woman Made Gallery. The 2013 Festival partners include all presenting venues plus Momenta Dance Company, University of Illinois at Chicago, and the Chicago Cultural Center. All venues are wheelchair-accessible and have accessible restrooms. Many performances include audio description, word-for-word captioning, and/or sign-language interpretation.
BOW is a network of artists and organizations formed in 2002 that explore and celebrate the contributions of artists with disabilities and the contemporary contexts of disabled lives. With thought-provoking programs of disability arts and culture, BOW serves as a catalyst to illuminate the disability experience in new and unexpected ways. The organization also provides a forum for on-going programs that honor and explore the accomplishments of local, national and international artists. It offers information to cultural venues about providing access and accommodations for both artists and audiences with disabilities.
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Facebook's new privacy tools have started to roll out.
The social network touted them last week. They should make it easier to control who sees what you post, but you won't be able to remove your profile from searches.
Facebook is dropping the feature because only a low percentage of users take advantage of it. Now, the only way to hide on the social network is to block each individual user from finding you.
But new Privacy Shortcuts should make it easier to keep tabs on your profile. Options include: Who can see my stuff? Who can contact me? How do I stop someone from bothering me?
Before, you had to navigate multiple pages to adjust Timeline settings, so bringing it all together in one place should simplify things.
App permissions have also changed.
Changing its own privacy policy
Facebook also outed a new feature that lets you drag and drop images straight into the social network. Which should make it even simpler to upload snaps. Though it could be dangerous this time of year, what with all the Christmas parties happening.
Facebook itself is looking to enact new privacy policies, which will change how it shares your data. It also wants to stop letting you comment on planned policy changes.
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Bitter, sour, spicy, sweet and smokey — Smokin' Hops was designed for those of us that like to live life on the edge.
Mezcal fills the mouth and nose with hints of smoke, while fresh serrano chiles tingle the tongue. The mouth slightly puckers from the combination of fresh lemon and hop bitterness. And then all is calmed by the crisp and refreshing carbonation of the beer.
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S.E.E.D. Vegan Food & Beer Festival
August 14, 2016 @ 3:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Home Brewed Events and EatYourPHL are proud to present S.E.E.D., a new vegan craft food and beer festival on August 14th from 3pm to 6pm at the Sugarhouse Casino event center. The food and beer community in Philadelphia is one of the best in America and the time has come to feature the flourishing vegan food scene in the city. S.E.E.D., Sustainable Everyday Edibles and Drinkables, will be the area's first fully vegan food and beer festival, an inclusive and sustainable experience that everyone can enjoy – vegans, vegetarians, and omnivores alike. Please join us in helping plant the S.E.E.D.
A portion of the proceeds will benefit the Humane League of Philadelphia, working toward reducing animal suffering by inspiring change at all levels.
Your general admission ticket will get you three hours of vegan food samples from some of Philadelphia's best restaurants, as well as plenty of beer samples from over 20 breweries. Accompanying the food and beer will be a vegan marketplace with vendors selling their best vegan goods.
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Rare Ferrari crashes on I-95 in Stamford
STAMFORD -- A New York man driving a rare Ferrari Enzo owned by a Cuban-born multimillionaire lost control of the $600,000-plus car while getting onto Interstate 95 at Exit 7 in Stamford on Monday morning.
The driver and passenger appear to be technicians for Miller Motorcars, the Greenwich-based ultra-luxury car dealership. The driver suffered a minor cut, and the passenger was unhurt.
The car, however, was heavily damaged in the center of the right side of the car, State Police Lt. J. Paul Vance said.
Enzos are one of -- if not the -- most expensive of the Ferraris. Only about 399 of them were built, which can drive up the price to more than $2 million on the used car market. Even just a model of the car retails for more than $6,000 on the Ferrari online store.
The crash occurred Monday at 8:45 a.m. as the car was entering I-95 northbound at exit 7. The 650-horsepower car began to fishtail as it traveled up the northbound entrance ramp, struck a bridge wall on the right, spun around across all three lanes and smashed into the center divider. It slid along the Jersey barrier backward before stopping in the median facing south, Vance said.
The driver, Leonardo G. Garcia, 40, of New Rochelle, N.Y., suffered a minor cut to the right side of his head and was taken to Stamford Hospital, according to a state police report. He was issued a ticket for failing to drive in an established lane. The passenger, Daniel Palchik, 31, of Greenwich, was uninjured.
The Greenwich-based Miller Motorcars website lists a Leonardo Garcia as a Ferrari technician, and a Daniel Palchik as an Aston Martin technician. Palchik's work email address is listed on Lexis/Nexis as being a Miller Motorcars address.
A receptionist at Miller Motorcars initially hung up when an Advocate reporter called to inquire about the crash. In a subsequent call, the receptionist said she would check with her supervisor, and then said the dealership "had nothing to say" about the crash.
Miller Motorcars also has a dealership and shop on Magee Avenue in Stamford. Calls to that outlet were not answered.
The car's owner, Michael Fux, of New Jersey, is known as having revolutionized the mattresses industry with memory foam, and made much of his fortune with two companies he founded -- Sleep Innovations, and Comfort Revolution, according to Forbes magazine. He came to the United States from Cuba with his family as a child in 1958, settling in Newark, N.J., where they started with nothing, according to a 2012 profile of Fux in BedTimes, a mattress industry trade publication. Today Fux (pronounced "fyooks") is a philanthropist and a prominent exotic car collector who frequently shows his automobiles at the world's most prestigious car shows, including the Pebble Beach Concours d'Elegance.
Named after the founder of the Ferrari supercar company in Italy, the Enzo is also one of the fastest Ferraris, with a top speed of 218 mph.


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Roger Ebert is down, but his spirits are high.
"Yes, fracture. But no surgery needed. Details follow. :)," the famed film critic tweeted Thursday after his wife broke the news--also via Twitter--that he was hospitalized with a broken hip.
In her tweet, Chaz Ebert attributed the fracture to "tricky disco dance moves" and wrote that her husband of 20 years was already asking for his computer and would "probably tweet."
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News from around the country and around the globe
What did the National Board of Review Awards tell us about the 2013 Oscar race?
She knows her guy like a book, doesn't she?
And he must have been typing away right up until his accident, as his latest review, of the Jessica Biel-Gerard Butler romance Playing for Keeps, was posted on his Chicago Sun-Times movie page just today.
Though still a prolific writer (and tweeter), Ebert now communicates via an audio computer program after losing his ability to speak himself following multiple surgeries to combat papillary thyroid cancer.
We look forward to reading Ebert's reviews of these movies from the future!


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It is only after much thought and with a heavy heart that I have decided to end this blog.
I have come to the realization that I will never be able to access my blog from work again, and my personal life lately has left little to no time for wandering the Internet.
On top of all that, my heart just isn't in it anymore, and it isn't fair to either myself or to the few readers who are left, to simply fill this space with fluff and only the rare "meat and potatoes" type of posting that used to be a hallmark of this blog.
So this is the end.
I will try to visit you all, my dear friends, when time and opportunity allow.
In the meantime, be well and know that I will keep you all in my thoughts and prayers.


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This post shares the video from a talk presented on June 20 2012 by Dr
Lyndon Walker (see Meetup page).
The talk was titled "Getting staRted with R: An accelerated primer".
To quote the outline of the talk :
R is a brilliant piece of software but learning it by yourself, particularly
if you have not used command line software before, can be daunting. This
presentation is aimed at introducing beginner to intermediate users of R to
some of the basic features of the program (through to programming a basic
function). Experienced R users are also encouraged to attend to help share
their knowledge and help the first-timers.
This presentation will be interactive, so if you are able to bring a laptop
with R ( http://cran.r-project.org/ ) already installed this will help you
participate (but is not mandatory). Two other handy pieces of software are
the R Studio development interface ( http://rstudio.org/ ) and the Tinn-R
text editor ( http://sourceforge.net/projects/tinn-r/ ), both of which help
you to organise and save your R code.
Lyndon Walker has been using R for nearly half his life. He studied and worked
at the UniveRsity of Auckland, the birthplace of R, and is currently a Senior
Lecturer in Applied Statistics at Swinburne University of Technology in
- Slides from the talk can be seen here in Prezi
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God Bless America: A 9-11 Tribute from Herman Cain is probably about the most tasteless thing we've seen so far in the run-up to the Republican presidential candidate nomination, and there have been some doozies.
I'm not sure what he's trying to do here. His ghoulish gospel singing is terrifying enough without draping it over scenes of planes repeatedly crashing into the World Trade Center, the Pentagon devastation, and the shrieks and cries of horrified onlookers.
Replaying the deaths of thousands of American terror victims in a campaign-produced video is not a tribute. It's exploitation.
Herman Cain is apparently without a soul.


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Uwe Boll has a made a good movie. Let that sink in for a moment. After years of earning a reputation as a prolific hack, butchering countless adaptations of video games, Boll took an interesting detour for the serious with the film "Tunnel Rats" telling the little known story of US Soldiers in Vietnam tasked with clearing VC tunnels and "Stoic" a film recounting a true story of horrific abuse in a prison. While I have not seen the latter, I did bear witness to the former and ultimately found Boll guilty of torpedoing his own production with some heavy-handed moral outrage and unfocused exploitation. Imagine my horror and curiosity when I heard Boll intended to make a movie about the genocide in Darfur. Now imagine a world in which Uwe Boll not only made a good movie, but an important one.
"Attack on Darfur" is a remarkable piece of filmmaking, yet far from a masterpiece. Utilizing the "unscripted" approach to shooting he employed in "Tunnel Rats" and "Stoic," Boll assembles a cast of B (and C)-stars in the roles of journalists attached to an AU Captain (Hakeem Kae-Kazim). If "Attack on Darfur" is truly unscripted or even loosely scripted, the cast does a mostly remarkable job of playing their roles convincingly. The standouts include Billy Zane, Matt Frewer, and David O'Hara. Kristanna Loken, her then-husband Noah Danby, and Edward Furlong, do admirably, but at time feel stilted in their performances, with Danby basically silent and Furlong emerging as the weak link in the movie, still as annoying as he was 18 years ago in his feature-film debut in "Terminator 2."
Boll's film has three, distinct acts, each growing darker and darker, as he shows the horrors of an all too real genocide with no pulled punches. The film is best described as a primitive Schindler's List meets documentary with the subtlety of a Paul Verhoeven movie; I'll give Verhoeven credit for not having to place a title card at the end of his movies hammering home the message. We are introduced to the people of the last remaining village in the immediate area, as the reporters document the past abuses and learn the history of the conflict. Boll brilliantly casts real refugees from the area and shoots in rural South Africa, with the village set itself constructed with help from those who lived in them. The most convincing performances in the movie come from these people as they tell horrific first hand accounts and unsettling stories of rape and genocide by the hands of the Janjaweed, Arab Islamic fundamentalists, who in the words of a brutal commander chillingly played by Sammy Sheik, seek to wipe out black Africans from Sudan.
Boll treats these scenes with care and is uncharacteristically restrained, lulling viewers into a manipulative but emotionally needed sense of security. When the eventual confrontation between the reporters and the Janjaweed raiding party occurs, Boll unleashes the flames of Hell. Our protagonists escape with their lives, but not before witnessing a child executed and an infant viciously thrown to the ground. This brief sequence alone should speak volumes to the ruthless nature of the Janjaweed, but as the reporters travel back to their own camp, Boll's second act unfolds in horrific fashion. The best comparison I can make to the destruction of the village is that of the opening scenes in the most recent "Rambo" film. Boll is even more unrestrained than Stallone, showing mass executions, rapes, infanticide, and psychological torture. The big difference here, is Boll's intention isn't to exploit these atrocities for no other reason to watch a PTSD afflicted Vietnam Vet annihilate an entire Burmese army with a 50-caliber mounted machine gun; Boll shows us these atrocities because they are real and largely unknown to Western audiences outside the blanket term "genocide (or conflict) in Darfur." That term doesn't begin to describe the horrors these people are subjected to and by the end of the film, if you aren't furious that this continues to occur, I honestly don't know what to say.
Where "Attack on Darfur" does stray into sketchy ground, is the final act where one reporter, played by the underrated David O'Hara, cannot go back to his safe Western life and idly stand by; he chooses to leave the group, determined to do something, even if his death is the obvious outcome. Aided by the equally emotionally conflicted AU Captain (who Boll sets up as wanting to act, but bound by political red-tape) and Noah Danby's character, the trio turn a brutal, near docudrama into what I feared to be a "Rambo" knockoff. Boll satisfies the audience's urge to see some of these genocidal madmen killed, but the ultimate outcome is very much grounded in reality. I feel in Boll's own clumsy way, his final act here is meant to drive home the stark reality that no matter how loudly one small group yells about the atrocities, it's going to take more than a small few to make a difference.
"Attack on Darfur" is a film I strongly recommend watching at least once, especially if like me, you only understood the conflict via the chilling, but vague word "genocide." There's a good number of things Boll could have done to make the film better than it turned out to be (a script would have only made things better and the third act could have been a little tighter) and his uncompromising portrayal of violence may cause some to argue he's being exploitative, but I defend its usage here. If we can sit by and watch a film like "Rambo" which uses the same atrocities as filler or "Hotel Rwanda" which sanitizes similar events to a PG-13 level melodrama, then there is nothing wrong with hearing those fortunate enough to escape the fates of their characters tell their own stories and show us the grim outcome of those who have become nothing more than a number in a death toll.
The 2.40:1 anamorphic widescreen transfer is incredibly breathtaking in close-ups, sporting a strong level of detail and vivid, lifelike colors. In medium and long shots, detail takes hit for the worse and some edge enhancement pops up. Longer shots also suffer from more muted colors and the digital nature of the cinematography results in some digital noise.
The Audio
The English Dolby Digital 5.1 audio track picks up dialogue with crystal clear clarity, even when some characters have thick accents. The surrounds open up in the second act with the aural aspect of the massacre engulfing the viewer and never letting them get a clear lock on where gunfire, screams, and explosions are focused.
The Extras
The two extras are a commentary featuring Boll, which is better left alone, as Boll manages to breakout some of that classic humility, which is a kind way of saying he's more than a bit full of himself. Rather than just take the deserved praise for the film he's made, he remains in full shill mode, just like he's known for on his lesser works and as a result could cheapen the impact of the film, despite it obvious coming from a good place in his heart.
Final Thoughts
"Attack on Darfur" is not a film you'll want to revisit, but one you must see at least once. Uwe Boll proves in his own clumsy way, an earnest filmmaker lurks beneath the cocky persona that has made a career of bad movies and mockery of critics. This is a story of a very real, very current modern day genocide that needs to be more than an anecdote for news reporters and the "cause du jour" of Hollywood celebrities. Rent It.


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A briefing for Members of Congress and their staff on the need to pass the Preservation of Antibiotics for Medical Treatment Act (PAMTA), hosted by the Animal Welfare Institute, the ASPCA, and The Humane Society of the United States. A veterinarian and farmers will discuss the negative impacts of the misuse of antibiotics on animals and the need for action.
Michael Blackwell, DVM, MPH: Previously dean of the College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Tennessee; deputy director for the FDA's Center for Veterinary Medicine; vice chair of the Pew Commission on Industrial Farm Animal Production; chief of staff of the Office of the Surgeon General of the United States; and a veterinarian in private practice, Blackwell is president and CEO of Blackwell Consulting, LLC and administrator of the Young-Williams Animal Center in Knoxville, Tenn.
Will Witherspoon: Linebacker for the Tennessee Titans. Witherspoon raises grass-fed cattle at the Shire Gate Farm, an Animal Welfare Approved certified farm, using sustainable techniques that nearly eliminate the need for antibiotics.
Frank Reese: Raises heritage poultry on pasture in Kansas as part of the Good Shepherd Poultry Ranch cooperative. Reese does not administer sub-therapeutic antibiotics.
Tuesday, July 24, 2012; 9:30 a.m. to 11 a.m.
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An estimated 80 percent of all antimicrobials sold in the United States today are being used to counteract the consequences of confining farm animals in overcrowded, stressful and unsanitary conditions, as well as to speed the animals' growth. A direct link has been demonstrated between this use and the development of antibiotic-resistant bacteria "superbugs" that affect the health of both animals and people.
The Preservation of Antibiotics for Medical Treatment Act (PAMTA) was introduced in the House by Rep. Louise Slaughter, D-N.Y., Congress's only microbiologist, and in the Senate by Sens. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., and Susan Collins, R-Maine. PAMTA would phase out the routine non-therapeutic use of antibiotics in farm animals to promote growth and prevent diseases associated with poor animal husbandry systems, in order to maintain the effectiveness of these drugs for treating sick people and animals.
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(Pocket-lint) - As well as showing off its super-fast battery charging system, Japanese mobile carrier DoCoMo also used CEATEC 2011 as a launch pad for its range of three smartphone smart jackets.
And when we say smart, we really mean quirky. And when we say quirky, we actually mean pointless.
Maybe that's a bit harsh as we're sure there are plenty of people out there who are going to want to measure their body mass index and muscle ratio using a phone case, right?
This fitness option, which works via four electrodes on the sides combined with your personal data (age, sex, weight, height etc.) that you add before hand, also lets you store your and your friends and families' body statistics, and chart them against each other.
Like a game, but with much more hurtful outcomes.
There's also a safety model which measures radiation in the air, using semi-conductor sensors; which we'll concede actually does have a purpose, in Japan especially at the moment.
Finally is the ladies model. Yep, that's what it's called. This pink flavour measure UV rays in the air and also lets you map results so you know the safest place to get a tan. It also works as a breathalyser, measuring the alcohol units in your breath.
- Samsung Galaxy Note 20, What3Words CEO, and Withings Sleep Analyzer reviewed - Pocket-lint podcast ep. 65
But we saved the best until last. It also smells your breath to let you know if you know if you're rocking a funky twang. This was the aspect that Pocket-lint had a go at – there was no way we were going anywhere near the alcohol measuring app.
The result? A low odour reading of 1, of course. Pocket-lint is always minty fresh.
Only in Japan eh? You couldn't imagine O2 coming up with a range of smartphone accessories such as these could you now?


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* indicates a new selection Preface Chapter 1 PREHISTORY AND NEAR EASTERN CIVILIZATIONS Selections from The Code of Hammurabi Selections from The Epic of Gilgamesh Ishtar and Gilgamesh, and the Death of Enkidu The Search for Everlasting Life The Story of the Flood ENHEDUANNA, The Exaltation of Inanna The Dispute of a Man with His Soul The Story of Sinuhe the Egyptian The Great Hymn to the Aten Chapter 2 AEGEAN CIVILIZATION: The Minoans, the Mycenaeans, and the Greeks of the Archaic Age HOMER, Selections from the Iliad Book 1 Book 6 Book 22 *Book 24* HOMER, Selections from the Odyssey Book 9 *Book 23* SAPPHO, Poems "I" "II" "Let's Not Pretend" Chapter 3 CLASSICAL GREEK CIVILIZATION: The Hellenic Age SOPHOCLES, Oedipus the King THUCYDIDES, Selection from History of the Peloponnesian War Book II Pericles' Funeral Oration Second Year of the War. The Plague and Its Effects PLATO, Selections from The Republic Book V Book VII PLATO, Selection from Phaedo ARISTOTLE, Selections from Poetics and Politics Poetics A Description of Tragedy Reversal, Discovery, and Calamity Tragic Action Fear and Pity The Characters of Tragedy Politics Book I Chapter 4 CLASSICAL GREEK CIVILIZATION: The Hellenistic Age THEOCRITUS, Selection from the Idylls *Aeschines and Thyonicus* EPICURUS, "Letter to Menoeceus" Chapter 5 ROMAN CIVILIZATION: The Pre-Christian Centuries *CICERO, Selection from On the Republic* *"The Dream of Scipio"* CATULLUS, Poems "5" "22" "51" "72" VERGIL, Selections from the Aeneid Book I Book VI HORACE, Selections from Odes and Satires Ode II.16 Ode III.6 Satire I.9 OVID, Selections from Metamorphoses Book I Book IV JUVENAL, Satire III *MARCUS AURELIUS, Selection from Meditations* Chapter 6 JUDAISM AND THE RISE OF CHRISTIANITY Selections from the Holy Scriptures (The Jewish Bible) Genesis Exodus Amos Psalms Job Ecclesiastes Selections from The Revised Standard Version of the Holy Bible The Gospel According to Matthew Sermon on the Mount 1 Corinthians TERTULLIAN, Selections from The Apparel of Women Book One Book Two Chapter 7 LATE ROMAN CIVILIZATION ST. AUGUSTINE, Selections from Confessions and The City of God Confessions, Book VIII The City of God, Book XIV The City of God, Book XV The City of God, Book XIX EUSEBIUS, Selections from The History of the Church The Neronian Persecution, in Which Paul and Peter Died The Destruction of the Churches Ordeals Endured in the Persecution: God's Glorious Martyrs Victory of Constantine; the Benefits He conferred on His Subjects ANNA COMNENA, Selection from The Alexiad *Book XIV BOETHIUS, Selection from the Consolation of Philosophy *Book III EINHARD, Selection from The Life of Charlemagne *Book III *Selection from Beowulf *HROSVITHA, Selection from Abraham Chapter 8 THE WORLD OF ISLAM Selections from the Qur'an *The Exordium* The Prophets Light *Clots of Blood* *The Table* *IBN KHALDUN, Selections from the Muqaddimah* *Selection from The Arabian Nights* *The Story of the Merchant and Demon* *The First Old Man's Tale* *The Second Old Man's Tale* *RUMI, Selections from the Masnavi* *I Have Five Things to Say* *The Food Sack* *The Grasses* *A Man and a Woman Arguing* *Zikr* *The Core of Masculinity* *Put This Design in Your Carpet* Chapter 9 THE HIGH MIDDLE AGES: The Christian Centuries Selections from the Song of Roland CHRETIEN DE TROYES, Selection from Arthurian Romances Lancelot MARIE DE FRANCE, Lanval ST. THOMAS AQUINAS, Selection from Summa Theologica Fifth Article DANTE ALIGHIERI, Selections from The Divine Comedy Inferno, Canto I Inferno, Canto III Inferno, Canto V Inferno, Canto XXXIV HILDEGARD OF BINGEN, Selections from Scivias (May You Know or Know the Ways) Chapter 10 THE LATE MIDDLE AGES, 1300-1500 PETRARCH, Selections from the Canzoniere "3" "132" "134" *PETRARCH, Selection from "Letter to Posterity"* GIOVANNI BOCCACCIO, Selections from The Decameron Introduction First Day, Third Story GEOFFREY CHAUCER, Selections from The Canterbury Tales The General Prologue (in Middle English) The Prologue The Wife of Bath's Tale CHRISTINE DE PIZAN, Selections from The Book of the City of Ladies Book I Book II Chapter 11 THE EARLY RENAISSANCE: RETURN TO CLASSICAL ROOTS, 1400-1494 GIOVANNI PICO DELLA MIRANDOLA, Selections from On the Dignity of Man LEON BATTISTA ALBERTI, Selection from On Painting Book II Chapter 12 THE HIGH RENAISSANCE AND EARLY MANNERISM, 1494-1564 GASPARA STAMPA, Poems "3" "43" "98" "104" "151" BALDASSARE CASTIGLIONE, Selections from The Book of the Courtier Book I Book III NICCOLO MACHIAVELLI, Selections from The Prince Chapter XV Chapter XVI Chapter XVII Credits IndexMatthews, Roy T. is the author of 'Readings in the Western Humanities ' with ISBN 9780073136394 and ISBN 0073136395.[read more]
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Greg Zeschuk co-founded BioWare in 1995 and left it in September, after seeing his studio deliver Mass Effect, Baldur's Gate and some of video gaming's most notable series over the better part of two decades. What's he doing in his retirement? Well, he's drinking beer.
And producing videos about beer and brewing, and the people who make and enjoy beer. This is the second video in Zeschuk's series "The Beer Diaries," which in addition to featuring interviews and documentary shorts will also deliver apps and other beer-related interactive experiences at some point in the future. Zeschuk's starting with the craft-brewing community of Austin, Texas, but as he says in this interview, he hopes "The Beer Diaries" may someday take a bigger scope.
"Being in video games was really cool," he said (Zeschuk also was a physician, specializing in geriatrics, before founding BioWare). "I flew all over the world, talked to people, saw a lot of amazing things. I kind of want to do that for beer," he says.


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Drink Your Watermelon: 5 Great Recipes for Summer Sipping
All the recipes you need for cocktails, juice blends, milkshakes and more.
Eating watermelon isn't that far off from drinking watermelon: this fruit is pretty juicy stuff. Which means it's also pretty easy to turn your favorite hot-pink summer treat into something sippable. Watermelon has a great affinity for tart lime and delicately flavored spirits; here are a few of our favorite recipes for summer watermelon drinks.
Fresh Watermelon Margaritas
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Back away from the bottled mix! It is so easy to make fresh fruit margaritas at home, and so much more delicious than anything that comes pre-packaged. This naturally pink drink starts with seedless watermelon, whirled in a blender with tart lime, tequila, and a pinch of salt. Instead of triple sec, this margarita has a touch of sweetness and delicate floral flavor from elderflower liqueur.
Watermelon Limeade
This refreshing booze-free drink is as simple as can be: watermelon, lime, and a little agave nectar. It's guaranteed to be the prettiest drink at the barbecue, and if anyone wants to spike it, they can easily add a little gin to their cup.
Fresh Watermelon Sangria
You can make sangria all year, but summer versions have a way of being more fun, since you have access to all sorts of fresh fruit. If you've already made a classic white or red sangria, consider offering this unusual variation alongside it. This one's juicy with fresh watermelon and lots of lime, and the rum and Cointreau give it a bit of tropical flavor.
Ever sprinkled watermelon or cantaloupe with a little salt? It really brings out the flavor. That's one reason we like the spicy chili rim on this drink: it's both sweet and salty, elevating the flavors of cocktail with every sip. This simple cocktail is a good place to use your favorite silver tequila. Here are a few we love.
Fresh Watermelon and Cucumber Juice
Summer parties in the sun tend to leave us dehydrated in the morning. Here's a cure: the juice from fresh watermelon and cooling cucumbers, plus a little mint to brighten it up. Pour a tall glass, put your feet up, and think of it as a little spa experience right at home.
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An investigation to determine what's killing dolphins in Virginia is getting help from a Smithsonian museum scientist.
Charley Potter with the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History dealt with the nation's largest dolphin die-off in 1987.
More than 100 dolphin corpses have washed ashore in Virginia this year. Potter tells The Virginian-Pilot that he's concerned that a majority of the dolphins has been juvenile males. He says many are in seemingly good body condition.
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Not To Be Overlooked In SOPA: Massive Expansion Of Copyright Maximalist Diplomatic Corp
from the regulatory-capture deptRegulatory capture is defined pretty simply as:
In economics, regulatory capture occurs when a state regulatory agency created to act in the public interest instead advances the commercial or special interests that dominate the industry or sector it is charged with regulating.As is noted, this is a form of economic failure, because it creates (sometimes massive) negative externalities, in terms of inefficiencies and costs to the public. While we've covered the many, many horrific parts of the E-PARASITE Act (since renamed SOPA), there are always more problems lurking. One section that has received almost no attention at all is the final section of the bill, Section 205.
The simplest way to describe this section is that it's the creation of the entertainment industry's own copyright police force within the diplomatic core. It's pure regulatory capture. The entire section is about massively extending US bureaucracy, in the form of a diplomatic force of copyright maximalists, whose sole job it will be to travel the world and push for more and more draconian copyright enforcement in the interest of the US entertainment industry. It's pretty scary just how blatant this kind of regulatory capture is. Nowhere in the bill does it talk about more effective copyright policy. Instead, it requires "aggressive support for enforcement action" throughout the world, in the interest of a few US companies. We already have IP attaches and the USTR going around the globe pushing the interests of Hollywood, against the interests of the public. Do we really want more of that?
This is a problem, especially considering just how much evidence there is that over-aggressive copyright enforcement and ever expansive copyright law has actually been quite harmful for culture. If the role were to support more effective copyright law, that would be sensible. But it's not. Instead, it's just creating a new bureaucratic role to send copyright maximalists around the globe, employed by the US government, but whose sole purpose would be to do the bidding of a few US companies.
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Vermin: A Short Story by Allison M. Dickson: FREE eBook Edition For A Limited Time Only!Brian's Note: Reader Jeff R recommended this FREE horror short story, but I don't know how long it'll stay free, so grab your copy while your can. I don't know about you, but I'm always willing to check out a free short story about an infamous mansion with big pest problems.
Someone has purchased the infamous Martindale mansion, long abandoned following an unspeakable murder. And it has a pest problem. A very big pest problem.
Originally published on Reflection's Edge.com, Vermin is a classic horror story designed to get under your skin. Read it with the lights on. And a can of Raid.
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In child abuse cases, penalty depends on whether it's charged as a misdemeanour or a felony. This is determined by the nature of the offense and the injuries inflicted on the kid. Felony charges include child abuse resulting in a distressing condition with punishments under Penal Code Section 273d, which includes imprisonment for 2, 4 or 6 years. Under California Penal Code Section 273ab, in case the abuse leads to a death of a child, suffering from permanent paralysis or entering a coma state, the defendant may be condemned to a penalty from 25 years to life imprisonment in state prison.
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Michael Helling has done his homework on what's hot in precision farming. He's worked for the last 10 years in Trimble's Agriculture Division and currently serves as marketing director.
"Precision agriculture is an arena that is constantly evolving as new technologies emerge," Helling says. "With land availability decreasing, and the world's population continuing to increase, farmers are feeling the pressure to increase crop yields."
Farm Industry News recently asked Helling to identify a few of the recent trends he sees as shaping this industry. Here's what he said.
Water management. "This is becoming a huge issue for farmers, whether it's draining excess water from their field or making sure they are making efficient use of their irrigation efforts, especially in arid regions," Helling says. "With Trimble's FieldLevel II and WM-Drain, a farmer can begin preparing his field as soon as he is ready to address his water management issues.
"FieldLevel II streamlines the survey, design and grading steps required for land-leveling projects and has been proven to improve yields by 25 percent and reduce water usage by 30 percent. WM-Drain connects the survey, analysis, design, installation and mapping steps in surface and sub-surface drainage projects, and ensures optimal 3-D drain placement, which improves crop yields by controlling ponding, optimizing root depth, maximizing planting season, and minimizing nutrient loss."
Wireless communications. "Having a connected farm, with seamless info flow between office, vehicles and handheld computers, is becoming an increasingly important option for farmers," Helling continues. "It saves farmers time, increases efficiency and ensures better decision making. Trimble offers an integrated operations management solution called Connected Farm that provides information exchange across the entire farm.
Connected Farm provides wireless data transfer between the office and field, vehicle-to-vehicle information sharing, and vehicle tracking. With Connected Farm's Vehicle Sync, multiple vehicles operating in the same field can share real-time wireless data, including guidance lines, coverage mapping, point/area/line features, as well as the vehicle icons of other operating units within a field. Trimble's Connected Farm Web portal provides up-to-date fleet management information, a virtual dashboard of selected equipment information, fuel usage, engine reporting, performance analysis, and geo-fences to guard against theft or provide alerts when vehicle operators enter non-farming zones."
Crop sensors. Crop sensors provide farmers with a more efficient and precise way to manage their inputs, such as fertilizer. The GreenSeeker crop sensor measures the health of a crop by calculating its NDVI (Normalized Differential Vegetation Index) and uses that information to determine how much fertilizer should be applied to various areas of a field, resulting in a more efficient use of the input. Trimble's GreenSeeker crop sensor provides a more accurate way for farmers to apply the crop's fertilizer needs and thereby lessen environmental implications, while improving profitability."


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In what can only be one of the more bizarre cases against a famed music mogul, a woman in Los Angeles has slapped Diddy for a $1 trillion lawsuit, claiming that he fathered her child and was somehow responsible for the 9/11 attacks.
The story only gets more absurd from there. The New York Post reports that this woman, Valerie Joyce Wilson Turks, claimed that Diddy, his ex-girlfriend Kim Porter, and LAPD brutality victim Rodney King were schemers behind the fall of the World Trade Center.
But that's not all. Turks also claimed that Diddy injured her children. "[They] knocked down the WTC and then they all came and knocked my children down," wrote Turks in the court papers. She's asking for $900 billion in child support (the final $100 billion is for a "loss of income").
Local news from across Southern California
And still, the saga continues. Turks claimed that she and the 41-year-old Sean Combs once went out, and that they have a child together, 23-year-old Cornelius Wilson.
The complaint goes on to read that Diddy stole a poker chip worth "100 zillions of dollars."
A hearing is set for January 31st, though a Los Angeles judge refused to grant Turks a restraining order against Diddy. If this isn't inspiration for the next big song, we don't know what is.
Selected Reading: New York Post, Hollywood Reporter


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Lindenwood University's Social Work Program has achieved a key accreditation from the Council on Social Work Education as the culmination of a process that spanned more than four years.
Carla Mueller, dean of the Lindenwood School of Human Services, said the Social Work Program was launched in 1998 and became a candidate for CSWE accreditation in 2005. This was followed by four site visits by teams from the council in the fall of 2005, 2006, 2007 and 2008, as well as submission of a 510-page report that covered everything about the program and how it fits within Lindenwood University.
CSWE has been accrediting social work education programs since 1974; currently 400 programs throughout the United States have completed the stringent evaluation process and hold accreditation from the council.
"Each social work program is required to articulate its unique approach to social work education," Mueller said. "At Lindenwood, our themes are cultural diversity, critical thinking, communication skills, values and ethics, and populations at risk."
As a result of the accreditation, Lindenwood students in the program will enjoy advanced standing in master of social work programs and will be able to enter two-year master's programs anywhere from a semester to a full year ahead when they attend full-time.
"This makes the Lindenwood undergraduate program a combination of an undergraduate program and graduate program at the same time," Mueller said. "Our graduates are also eligible for state licensure because of the accreditation."
For more information about the Lindenwood University Social Work Program, call Mueller at 636-949-4731.
Lindenwood University, founded in 1827, is an independent liberal arts university offering 84 undergraduate degree programs and 37 graduate programs in diverse areas of study¬ in traditional and accelerated formats. Lindenwood operates a residential campus in historic St. Charles, as well as 10 extended sites throughout the St. Louis metropolitan area.


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For much of the night, it seemed like Super Bowl XLVII would be remembered as the night the lights went out in New Orleans. But it will also be remembered for Ravens quarterback Joe Flacco, who responded to questions about whether he's an elite QB by winning the Super Bowl MVP.
The 34-minute power outage in the third quarter at the Superdome may have been the most surreal moment in the history of our country's biggest spectacle. With the Ravens up 28-6 at that point and doing absolutely nothing wrong, it seemed like the only thing anyone would be talking about was who to blame for a embarrassment of epic proportions for the league and the city.
We'll never forget seeing the stadium going dark, but the way the game unfolded from that point guarantees that we'll be thinking of it for a lot more than the blackout. The Ravens' 34-31 win was chockful of storylines that will make for good fodder in our football-less future.
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The 49ers rattled off 17 points in just over four minutes after the blackout, their offense finally coming to life after a sloppy first half that featured two turnovers. What looked like the first Super Bowl rout in a long time turned into an incredible game. A bad punt and a Ray Rice fumble helped the 49ers turn the tables.
Colin Kaepernick fulfilled the hype during the second half comeback, finishing the day with 302 passing yards and rushing for 62 yards and a touchdown to nearly bring the 49ers all the way back. The delay from the blackout might have sapped some energy from the Ravens' legs, but we've seen Kaepernick do this enough in his first 10 games to know that it can't take all the blame.
One of the things we'll wonder about the most is why Jim Harbaugh chose not to have his quarterback run on any of the team's four plays inside the Ravens' 7-yard line as with time running out in the fourth quarter. Kaepernick wound up throwing incomplete to Michael Crabtree on fourth down as Harbaugh screamed for a holding flag that would not come.
Debating whether or not that was a foul could take a whole blackout, but Harbaugh's usage of Kaepernick is a more interesting question. Harbaugh chose not to run Kaepernick on a two-point conversion earlier in the fourth and Ravens safety Ed Reed blew up the play with an unmolested rush into the backfield to force an incompletion.
Kaepernick's ability to make plays with his feet helped the 49ers get back into the game and the coach will have plenty of people wondering why he didn't let him do it in some of the biggest spots.
John Harbaugh won't have to answer any such questions.
Joe Flacco's been doubted an awful lot over the years, but the team put the game into his hands on a crucial third-and-one with 6:30 to play and a two-point lead to protect. Flacco audibled into a pass and found Anquan Boldin, who fought off good coverage to catch the ball and keep the drive alive long enough for a field goal that proved essential.
It wasn't the greatest throw you'll ever see. Neither was the 56-yard lollipop to Jacoby Jones for a second quarter touchdown. Flacco made them and two other touchdown passes without throwing an interception for the fourth time in four playoff tries, though, and that counts for a lot.
There are things to pick apart about Flacco, but at some point you have to surrender to the record and his is sparkling. Five playoff trips, three trips to the AFC title game and, now, a Super Bowl MVP earned when it looked like the lights had gone out on the Ravens when they went out in the dome.
That's what you want when you talk about a franchise quarterback and it's why Flacco is going to cash in handsomely when the Ravens sign the impending free agent before he can even speak to another team.
There will still be those that argue Flacco isn't elite, but it's a moot point when you're a winner, and that's pretty much the final word on the referendum about Flacco's standing in the league.
On a night when Ray Lewis went out a winner, Kaepernick made us wonder what he'll do for an encore and the biggest show in America was plunged into darkness, Flacco's confirmation wound up as the biggest story of all.
Josh Alper is also a writer for Pro Football Talk. You can follow him on Twitter.


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ONLINE LEARNING ALGORITHMS FOR NETWORK OPTIMIZATION WITH UNKNOWN VARIABLES by Yi Gai A Dissertation Presented to the FACULTY OF THE USC GRADUATE SCHOOL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY (ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING) December 2012 Copyright 2012 Yi Gai
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|The formulations and theories of multi-armed bandit (MAB) problems provide fundamental tools for optimal sequential decision making and learning in uncertain environments. They have been widely applied to resource allocation, scheduling, and routing in communication networks, particularly in recent years, as the field is seeing an increasing focus on adaptive online learning algorithms to enhance system performance in stochastic, dynamic, and distributed environments. This dissertation addresses several key problems in this domain. ❧ Our first focus is about MAB with linear rewards. As they are fundamentally about combinatorial optimization in unknown environments, one would indeed expect to find even broader use of multi-armed bandits. However, a barrier to their wider application in practice has been the limitation of the basic formulation and corresponding policies, which generally treat each arm as an independent entity. They are inadequate to deal with many combinatorial problems of practical interest in which there are large numbers of arms. In such settings, it is important to consider and exploit any structure in terms of dependencies between the arms. In this dissertation, we show that when the dependencies take a linear form, they can be handled tractably with algorithms that have provably good performance in terms of regret as well as storage and computation. We develop a new class of learning algorithms for different problem settings including i.i.d. rewards, rested Markovian rewards, and restless Markovian rewards, to improve the cost of learning, compared to prior work, for large-scale stochastic network optimization problems. ❧ We then consider the problem of optimal power allocation over parallel channels with stochastically time-varying gain-to-noise ratios for maximizing information rate (stochastic water-filling) with both linear and non-linear multi-armed bandit formulations and propose new efficient online learning algorithms for these. ❧ Finally, we focus on learning in decentralized settings. The desired objective is to develop decentralized online learning algorithms running at each user to make a selection among multiple choices, where there is no information exchange, such that the sum-throughput of all distributed users is maximized. We make two contributions in this problem. First, we consider the setting where the users have a prioritized ranking, such that it is desired for the K-th ranked user to learn to access the arm offering the K-th highest mean reward. For this problem, we present the first distributed algorithm that yields regret that is uniformly logarithmic over time without requiring any prior assumption about the mean rewards. Second, we consider the case when a fair access policy is required, i.e., it is desired for all users to experience the same mean reward. For this problem, we present a distributed algorithm that yields order-optimal regret scaling with respect to the number of users and arms, better than previously proposed algorithms in the literature.
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|ONLINE LEARNING ALGORITHMS FOR NETWORK OPTIMIZATION WITH UNKNOWN VARIABLES by Yi Gai A Dissertation Presented to the FACULTY OF THE USC GRADUATE SCHOOL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY (ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING) December 2012 Copyright 2012 Yi Gai