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"The good thing is, these guys know it and they're anxious to get to work tomorrow. To a man, they said that tonight. They can't wait to go to work tomorrow." OSU coach Urban Meyer
"They're changing the line of scrimmage against some very good defensive lines." Meyer, on his offensive line
"It's the great state of Ohio's football team. Come enjoy your players, because they're playing hard for you." Meyer
"My chance to get the ball. I'm going to try to make something happen with it." OSU QB Braxton Miller
"Man, the fans were electric. When the defense was out there, they were just so loud. That's what I think was bothering the offense for Nebraska a little bit." Miller
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0: First downs by Ohio State in the first quarter.
9-for-9: Red-zone scoring by Nebraska and Ohio State through three quarters.
11: Saturday was Ohio State's 11th night game in Ohio Stadium history. Continued...
15: Consecutive red-zone scores by the Buckeyes heading into Saturday.
51: Game-time temperature.
242: Total yards by OSU in the second quarter after having 17 in the first quarter.
1956: The last time Nebraska played at Ohio Stadium prior to Saturday night.
106,102: Attendance, an Ohio Stadium record.
Final four fantastic
OSU's men's basketball team, which advanced to the 2012 Final Four, was recognized between the first and second quarters and received their Final Four rings. A video of highlights from the season was shown on the scoreboard.
The loudest applause came for guard Aaron Craft.
History honored
Members of the 1972 OSU team were honored on Saturday. Continued...
The 1972 Buckeyes went 9-2 overall and 7-1 in the Big Ten to win a share of the conference title. It was the first of a league-record six straight Big Ten titles (outright and shared).
Among the standouts on the team were captains Richard Galbos and George Hasanohrl, and All-Americans Randy Gradishar and John Hicks.
Eventual two-time Heisman Trophy winner Archie Griffin was a freshman.
Osborne recognized
Ohio State honored retiring Nebraska athletic director and longtime coach Tom Osborne with a video tribute before the game. Osborne, 75, won 255 games, 13 conference titles and three national championships as the Cornhuskers' coach from 1973-1997.
Homecoming No. 91
Ohio State celebrated its 91st homecoming game on Saturday.
During pregame ceremonies, Aliza Bruchs (from Brookville) was announced as the 2012 homecoming queen, while Anooj Bhandari (from Westlake) was named king.
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Obtaining an assessment of your child's special educational needs (statementing)
Some children will not have their needs met through joint planning and funding initiatives. Some may have needs over and above any joint initiative that is in place. For these children, and for children where all the needs have not yet been identified and drawn together, a very good way forward is to assess formally with a view to drawing up a Statement of Special Educational Need.
The process of assessing and meeting special educational needs (SEN) is governed by a Code of Practice. This must be considered by Local Authorities (LAs) and schools as they set out to meet needs and they must not do less than is set out in this code. This is available free of charge from the Department for Children, Schools and Families.
Local authorities will send you a leaflet or booklet telling you how they identify and meet SEN in your area. They will also tell you the name of a local Parent Partnership scheme where you can get free confidential advice and support for all stages of assessing and meeting SEN.
The following is a simplified guide focusing on how you can influence the outcome of an assessment and ensure that your child's needs are identified. Remember you cannot meet a need if it has not been identified. For more detailed information you may wish to read the Code of Practice yourself or ask a local Parent Partnership scheme to explain it more fully.
Starting the statementing process
1. You can request a formal assessment of your child's special educational needs at any time.
2. You need to write to your Local Authority (LA) to ask them to formally assess your child's needs (sample letter attached as Appendix A).
3. The LA has six weeks to decide whether or not to assess and should then write to you to tell you if they are going to assess or not.
4. If they decide not to assess they should explain why and this may satisfy you. If it doesn't you can challenge this through the First Tier Special Educational Needs and Disabilities Tribunal (SENDisT). The LA must tell you how you can do this and the local Parent Partnership (PP) scheme should be able to support you.
5. If they decide to assess you will be asked to tell them all about your child. You will want to tell them about your concerns and about all the good things your child can do.
- You can tell them what people you would like them to get reports from such as Playgroup, Portage, Sure Start, School for Parents or therapists.
- You can tell them if your child is sleepy in the mornings or afternoons so that they can assess when she is feeling wide awake.
- You can tell them when you would or would not be available for assessments or any appointments the child has.
- If more things occur to you as the assessment progresses you can send the LA additional information or reports that you may have and they may not have access to.
6. If they assess you will be asked to attend assessments with medical and educational professionals. You will want to think about what to ask these people in order to help you understand what they are doing.
When you attend assessments
An assessment may be carried out by a psychologist, doctor or therapist. You can use the following tips when meeting with any professionals and whether or not the assessment is for a statement or not.
Ask the assessor:
- What he/she is trying to find out about your child.
- How does he/she plan to go about it. (Perhaps the assessor will show you the test materials, the room or explain the sequence of actions.)
- After the assessment ask what he or she found out and what affect that is likely to have on your child's learning in school.
- Follow this up with questions about how the needs can be met.
- Will your child need special equipment?
- Will there be a need for extra staff?
- Will staff need training?
If possible, write the answers down and agree these with the assessor before you leave. Ask the assessor to send you a copy of the report at the same time as s/he sends it to the LA. You have to request this. They will normally only send these reports to the LA and you may not see them for several months!
The report has been commissioned by the LA and you have no absolute right to see it prior to the LA sending it to you but it is good practice to do so.
When you get the reports
- Read them through.
- Check them against your memory or the notes you made.
- Does the report say the things you talked to the assessor about?
- Does the report mention the equipment; staff or training you talked about?
If the report is not what you expected contact the assessor and ask to meet him or her and talk it through. Someone from a parent partnership scheme may be able to go with you.
Once you have a good report you will be able to ask the Local Authority how the needs identified will be met whether or not a statement is produced. Schools already receive money to support special education but the LA has the responsibility for ensuring that your child's needs are met, either directly when there is a statement or indirectly where the needs are being met through School / Early Years Action.
Once the LA has the reports
Once the LA has all the reports they will decide whether to make a statement or not.
If they think the school can meet the needs without a statement they will issue a Note in Lieu. This looks like a statement and some parents have not understood that it is not a statement. The best way to make sure that you know what you have been given is to check it out with your local Parent Partnership scheme.
If you are not happy with the Note in Lieu you can challenge the decision not to statement through the First Tier (SEN and Disabilities Tribunal).
If the LA thinks they need to oversee your child's education they will issue a Proposed Statement. This will arrive with a note setting out time limits for you to challenge the contents. You will be asked to name a school. If you have already agreed a school this is easy otherwise you may need to seek support. At this stage you can ask them to make changes to the contents of the statement. You should put your concerns in writing and be prepared to meet with the LA to talk things through.
If you are happy with the contents the LA will automatically issue a Final Statement naming a school. If this is the school you want then this is great but if this is not the school you want or if the LA has not made the changes you wanted you can challenge this through the First Tier Tribunal (SENDisT).
Description of the Statement
The statement is in six parts:
1. Details of the child – address, name, date of birth
2. Educational Needs – this is everything that the child has as part of his learning need or disability. Basically everything that causes concern. Concerns could be that he is very bright but won't be able to write things down or could be about mobility, hearing, attention and so on.
3. Educational Provision in two parts setting out the aims of the provision then what provision is to be made. It is important to check in this section that the needs are really detailed in the same way as in the reports. Phrases like "access to" and "regular" may have little value if you need to enforce provision. Speech and language therapy should normally be placed in this section. Aids and equipment should also be either detailed here or how the child will get these should be detailed.
4. Placement – this will normally be a mainstream school but may not be the school of choice. If you have requested a particular mainstream or special school and do not get it named you will need to seek support to challenge this with the authority.
5. Non – Educational Needs - detail everything that is not educational, for example health needs. If the child has transport needs that are in excess of what is normally provided in your area this sould be detailed here.
6. Non-Educational Provision – how the non-educational needs will be met.
Following the above sections which make up the actual statement you should have attached all the reports submitted by the professionals.
The statement should always detail what is expected to happen for the child. It is not acceptable to write that a school should follow the advice set out in one of the reports without actually detailing a summary of that advice.
Please note that only the first four sections can be challenged at the First Tier (SEN and Disabilities Tribunal.)
What you can do when you get the statement
How will you know if the statement is a good one?
- Read the reports.
- Check what the reports recommend.
- Check if these appear in the statement. Remember that everything your child should have in school to support his or her education should be in Section 3 Educational Provision.
- Get support from a local Parent Partnership scheme.
If the statement does not reflect the reports, is vague, names a different school or has put vital therapies in Non-Educational Provision, you should do the following:
- Seek support.
- Ask the LA to give you information about going to First Tier Tribunal (SENDisT) to challenge their decision.
- Make sure you have grounds to challenge the decision for example if you don't like the school but it would actually meet the child's needs you will have a very poor chance of a successful challenge. However if the educational psychologist has written that your child should be assessed for a computer to support his or her learning and that has not been written in you have a very good chance of getting that changed. PP schemes should help you.
- Gather information from the reports and from any additional reports you may have or that you don't think the LA has properly considered.
What else is there other than Tribunal?
- Talk to the LA officer with the support of the PP scheme.
- Ask if an independent mediation service can support these discussions.
Neither of these avenues will prevent you from going to the First Tier Tribunal (SENDisT) providing you register your objection to the statement within two months of getting the Final Statement. You can register your objections with the First Tier Tribunal (SENDisT) and still pursue other ways forward.
Most statements set out clearly what the child's needs are and what will be done to meet them. Some parents, however, do not realise they do not have a good enough statement until the time limit has passed and the child fails to make progress or is not getting the sort of provision the parent thought they would get. Local Authorities want to help your child succeed and will usually be very willing to talk through any concerns you may have.
Annual reviews
Some of you will already have a statement and will be concerned about annual reviews. These are a legal requirement and should take place at least once a year. They should review progress against the targets in the statement and decide one of three things:
1. The child has attained all the targets and no longer requires a statement.
2. The child's needs have changed and the statement needs to be modified.
3. The child still needs the provision set out in the statement.
The annual review will recommend one of these to the local education authority. If the annual review recommends either that the statement should finish or that it should change the LA has to consider that and decide whether to do anything about it. If the LA decides to finish the statement they will tell the parents in writing and also tell them that they can appeal this through the tribunal as before.
If the LA decides to change the statement they will issue an amended statement and again they will tell the parents in writing that they can object to the statement and the amendments. If the LA decides to change the statement the whole statement can be appealed.
For example:
- The LA decides to change the statement by naming a different school.
- The parents don't want that school and they also want other changes to the statement based on new evidence. They may want a different type of school and they want equipment that has been recommended but not written into the new statement.
- The parents go to tribunal to appeal both to the school and to the fact that the recommended equipment has not been include in the amended statement.
However, if the LA takes the third course of action and decides not to amend the statement there is no way to go back to tribunal even if changes have been suggested and recommended to the LA. In 2009 it was suggested that the right to appeal about no change to the statement would be given to parents but to date (May 2010) this has not gone through.
In this case the parents would have to request a re-assessment to try to get the changes incorporated into a brand new statement.
APPENDIX A Sample letter
To LA Pupil Support Office
Dear Sir/Madam,
I am writing to request that you make a formal assessment/re-assessment of my son/daughter ………….. (state name and date of birth), who attends …………. (state - school or pre school group).
I understand that you have six weeks to consider my request and hope that the following will help you:
(Describe here any concerns and any reports you may have).
I believe these show that our child has needs over and above those usually met at this stage of education and that the LA will need to fully assess the extent of need in order to make adequate educational provision.
I expect to hear from you before ………….. (insert date six weeks and three working days from date of this letter). Should you decide not to assess I hope you will provide me with information to allow me to take my appeal to the First Tier Tribunal (SEN and Disabilities}.
I would also like to have the phone number and contact details of a parent partnership group that provides independent parental advice.
Yours faithfully,
Statementing: further information
The following organisations may be useful in providing advice and information on all aspects of special education and statementing.
Advisory Centre for Education
Tel: 0808 800 5793 (Advice 2–5pm)
Fax: 020 7354 9069
Email: email@example.com
(only for those that cannot access telephones due to a disability)
Website: www.ace-ed.org.uk
Offers guidance to parents and other on all aspects of school education. Various publications.
Network 81
Tel: 0845 077 4055
Email: firstname.lastname@example.com
Web: www.network81.org
Network 81 is a national network of parents working towards properly resourced inclusive education for children with special educational needs.
Alliance for Inclusive Education
Tel: 020 7737 6030
Fax: 020 7735 3828
Email: email@example.com
Website: www.allfie.org.uk
Aims to end compulsory segregation of children with disabilities or learning difficulties from mainstream schools and communities. Membership, newsletter and publications.
Centre for Studies on Inclusive Education (CSIE)
Tel: 0117 328 4007
Fax: 0117 328 4005
Email: email@example.com
Website: www.csie.org.uk
CSIE works towards inclusive education for all children. It provides help and support for children who have disabilities or learning difficulties and who wish to remain in mainstream education.
Gabbitas Educational Consultants Ltd
Tel: 020 7734 0161
Fax: 020 7437 1764
Website: www.gabbitas.co.uk
GES produces a guide to special education needs education in the UK with details of over 2,000 educational establishments with provision for special needs.
Independent Panel for Special Education Advice
Tel: 0800 0184016 (advice line) (Mon to Fri 10am – 4pm, plus Mon to Thurs evenings 7pm – 9pm)
Tribunal Help Line: 0845 602 9579 Mon, Wed and Thurs 10.00 – 1.00pm
Website: www.ipsea.org.uk
Advice for parents which may include problems with LEA over assessment or statements and help with appealing to the Special Educational Needs Tribunal.
Parents Partnership Services
Parent Partnership Services (PPS) are statutory services offering information, advice and support to parents and carers of children and young people with special educational needs (SEN). PPS have a role in making sure that parents' views are heard and understood and that these views inform local policy and practice. For more information please have a look on their website or call them on or call on 020 7843 6058.
National Parent Partnership Network (NPPN) website: www.parentpartnership.org.uk
Direct Gov Website
This website has update information about statementing, your local Parents Partnership Service and a booklet on SEN and resources related to special educational needs.
Teacher Net
This website has information about special educational needs, assessment and useful links about SEN. They have also a guide for parents and carers on The Special Educational Needs.
Improving the quality of statements of special educational needs: Good practice in writing statements
This is updated document (published in March 2010) on statements of special educational needs.
Contact Scope Response for information, advice and support on cerebral palsy and disability issues.
This information was last reviewed February 2011.
© We are happy for you to make copies of any part of this document. However, we would be grateful if you would attach an acknowledgement of the source to any copies.


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Good questions. I've made several posts about A.I. and the Singularity here myself. And since you're bringing up morality again, {i.e., right & wrong,} you may find this discussion thread interesting:
I'm not sure that I can extrapolate recognition to prejudice. A computer recognizing a cat is an awesome step, but it is no different than us being able to tell species or people apart. In fact, labels are an essential part of humans being able to function on a high level. Simply labeling something doesn't mean that we have a prejudice towards it however, and I don't think it will be any different for computers.
I label you Michael, and I don't have any prejudice towards you. All we have seen is that computers might be able to see you and know you are Michael, and that doesn't inspire any fear in me. Emotion is the prerequisite for prejudice, and that is a long way off for computers if it is even going to happen. I don't honestly think computers will ever have emotions, especially if they are super intelligent. Why would any race of machines with hyper intelligence want to be burdened with emotional error?
In my experience, pure logic only works with extremely precise terms. If a computer (machine) were to become hyper intelligent it would most likely program itself to allow for increasing levels of precision as it evolved. So, if we extrapolate from that we can come to a sound assumption that computers would generalize very little and that this generalization would decrease with time as they evolved.
The biggest fear I have (if fear is the word for it) is that these severely logical machines would consider us to be defective, or that we would seem like unimportant forms of life to it as bugs do to us. We have very little concern for the bugs we step on when we walk through our yards, so what is to say that they wouldn't show the same disregard for us in their operations?
An excellent film on topics such as this is the documentary "The Singularity is Near" featuring Ray Kurtweil. The book with the same title is also excellent reading if you want to know the view of a renowned engineer on the topic. Both the film and the book made excellent sense to me.
There would have to be generalization somewhat. You don't store individual copies of facial details on people in programming/development if you can help it... if you do, you do it because it must be explicit (video games realtime processing). Our brains definitely don't store copies of surface details, facial characteristics. We store symbols, which are reconstructed when needed... the brain's 'memory' is a big compressed heap of information.
>Labels and categories are arbitrary creations and will always be fallible to the experience
>of the observer. I also don't mean to say labels are bad and we shouldn't use them but by
>assuming our language and semantics are the actual things we describe we run into
>failures that lead to prejudice
By all means we should use labels and stereotypes to identify a cat. They are a human construct, and computers have no real need to go without labels and stereotypes if you imagine a scenario such as identifying a generic threat in a (military research context) conflict. You don't need to know who specifically is shooting, or what their DNA is, because there is only a HUMAN need in a HUMAN world for such identifications. Granted, it is a human fascination to have the power to know more.. but it's not going to see actual need until cases where you are scouring the lands for the next Bin Laden. If our society becomes that advanced, surely we don't need such weapons of war in the first place.
I think you are basing the premise of your argument on an incorrect assumption that the computers of the future will have any lack of processing power or storage. More precise is always better and these computers will have trillions of terabytes of storage, and computational power far beyond what we even comprehend now. The problem when having a discussion like this is that humans do tend to generalize and assume. Here you assume that computer technology will even remotely reflect current technology or our human brains, both of which I disagree with strongly.
Nano computing will bring about a revolution in computing. The way these machines are programmed, concerns about processing power, storage, etc... will be a thing of the past. It will be more than possible to store every unique feature of every thing, animal or person that this machine experiences.
In fact computers are much more likely to label everything and do so precisely. If you've written software you know that computers are very specific, so specific in fact that if you make a mistake in labeling things for the computer your software will crash.
In my personal opinion computers of the future (sentient ones) will most likely label things ala OOP (Object Oriented Programming) using progressive levels of specificity. Similar to that of the tree of life we use now to classify species, except that the computer will narrow it all the way down to individual people.
On the question of if computers will begin to stereotype, I think that's going to be something we will have to wait and see. Personally, I feel like the new form of life will be much more likely to look at the entire human race as below itself, instead of a single group.
Sure, I have a near-future bias, because I talk with the premise of my insights being relevant right now. I see lots of things for the future, but it's not helpful to talk about the future past a certain point because our projections are waaay, way off. Think about how many times our sci-fi has been badly accurate, in predicting a human aspect of computers. Furthermore things like globalization (internet; interconnected society) and what changes society make to 'what it means to be human' will affect what computing will be used for, most primarily. It's difficult, oh, very difficult for the type of understanding I'm trying to get... but it's the most interesting I think.
Software won't crash in the future if there's abundant computing power- propreitary code rarely crashes today. If we link up all computers to solve each others' crash problems that's a fundamental failsafe for generic computer systems. You could have software services for finding bugs in runtime software..
OOP is just a human thing. Because of human memory. In fact the way we program software today is so blind... I'm really having to try to reinvent it on an application level, myself. In all likelihood computers of the knowledge level you're talking about will have information that humans can't or aren't suited to, hold. So each time there is just a spoken query on whatever you want to know. Another way would be direct transfer of knowledge (running programs in the matrix) and with a brain chip of sorts this is possible... but I really think it's pointless speculating that far into science's future without being able to accurately pull things together to form a coherent possible future glimpse of the world.
Supremacy.. ah, yeah that's a really interesting discussion.. it's important to teach AI to have human morality I think, but of course as an intelligent species we haven't even confronted the fundamentals of our own consciousness and how we can be conscious of things on different levels... to be able to direct the learning or philosophy of an intelligent AI. What kind of life philosophy do you teach it when it's truly aware in a human-like sense? Will robots without feelings all suicide? Interesting stuff.
Kinda related: there's this part at the end of the film Moon..
>If an AI system creates labels to define its world the way humans do, wouldnt it fall into the same stereotypes
>and presumtious thoughts that plague mankind?
It will fall into using the same stereotypes and presumptions that it effectively has become adjusted to or 'learned' to use. Bear in mind it's just one individual with a lot of knowledge, which is immediately unnatural in human terms considering the breadth of what it has been shown i.e. cats in all countries in small detail, rather than the alternative.
If it becomes a human intelligence (the ideal) then yeah it's fine to judge a man dressed in a bear costume as a bear if it's lifelike. The problem (in performance or ability of the AI) is the line between machine accuracy and human cognition/thought/reasoning which is a different kind of system fundamentally to image matching.
>Granted an AI may eventually have more processing power than a man and make predictions more
>accurately, but percieving reality is always a gamble. Nothing is ever 100% right?
Humans are incredibly biased when it comes to reality. Take a look at examples like anxiety. It's unrealistic behaviour. Reality is complex, humans are not.. so we must make guesses about everything. You aren't sure that you won't fall when you walk. You just assume. So again: the problem is the fundamental difference of the nature of how the conclusion is reached. Image matching just happens to be an effective way of using current technology (read: hardware availability) to solve a human problem.
A long way to go of course before this would be a concern. Hopefully before that time good, practical use will come of it. There should be no fear of this in my opinion because to truly determine the difference between right and wrong requires that same self-awareness that Athene describes, which providing to a computer is a challenge I don't even think Google is up to.
Our minds have been conditioned over unimaginable time to discern what is right and wrong, informed by that inheritance as well as our own experiences. What we typically find is that our personal and conscious understanding of what is right or wrong gets us into many troubles. We learn quickly and adapt but what never seems to change from about the time we were able to exercise our cognitive skills is that rare experience of a "self-evident" truth. That cozy, righteous feeling that leaves no room for doubt that the experience comes from the place in ourselves that is our opening to the real self that is untouched by our conditioning. How can we "know" this? Can Google re-create that phenomenon?
In the near future I guess AI will certainly make our iPhones better.
this can also be a discussion about what an AI is. i think about AI as a true individual, able to have it`s own perspective, but it seems like the thing google made is more like impressive programing than AI.
What do you think should be meant by the word AI?
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I travel around this country speaking about the need for the United States to support a balanced foreign policy toward the Israel-Palestine conflict. At these events, inevitably I encounter staunch defenders of Israel's military occupation of Palestine who refuse to question the morality of Israel's policy of denying people their fundamental human rights to live in freedom and dignity. It is difficult to encounter people who view Palestinians as being less deserving of universally recognized human rights than others. Nor- mally, I just take these types of statements to be representative of a hate-filled fringe, refute them, and move on.
However, Adam Cherrill's remarks, delivered in response to an address I gave at the University of Arizona, were different. Cherrill, manager of business development at Ratheon, stated on November 18, "To qualify for self-determination, a people must show some kind of national identity…. What political organizations, social institutions, literature, art, religion, or private correspondence express any ties between the Palestinian people to the Land of Israel?"
Cherrill is a person of considerable clout—the program manager for Raytheon's joint marketing of the Black Sparrow ballistic target missile with the Israeli weapons manufacturer Rafael. Why would Raytheon—one of the largest U.S. weapons makers, employing 77,500 people worldwide and generating $16.9 billion in revenues in 2001—place an ideologue of the expansionist notion of "Greater Israel" in such a prominent position in the U.S.-Israeli military relationship? What does it say for U.S. foreign policy to have an American responsible for marketing Israeli missiles who believes "Israel has a far stronger claim to Judea and Samaria, which is considered the West Bank, than the Arabs?"
The answers to these questions become clear when one examines the business perks that Raytheon and other defense contractors enjoy from U.S foreign policy, which bankrolls Israel's military occupation of Palestine. For FY2003, Congress has earmarked more than $2.1 billion for Israel in foreign military financing. Israel will use this money to purchase the American-made weapons it needs to entrench its military occupation of the West Bank and Gaza Strip and the U.S. arms industry will get a lump- sum of guaranteed business—a sweetheart deal for all involved.
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But the export of weapons to Israel can take place only if Congress is willing to turn a blind eye to the U.S. Arms Export Control Act, which bans such weapons from being used against civilians. Unfortunately, Israel has used U.S.-provided weapons on several occasions to kill innocent Palestinian civilians. The most egregious example of this happened in July 2002 when F-16s reduced to rubble an apartment building in Gaza City, killing 17 Palestinians civilians in what Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon termed "a great success." Even White House spokesperson Ari Fleischer admitted that it was "a deliberate attack against a building in which civilians were known to be located." However, to admit that Israel is in violation of this law would jeopardize future U.S. arms exports to Israel and present the defense industry with a nightmarish scenario in which their $2 billion yearly subsidy would dry up.
To prevent this from happening was one reason why the defense industry doled out a whopping $13 million in total contributions in the 2002 election cycle, according to the Center for Responsive Politics. Raytheon Co. PAC alone gave $523,725 of hush money to federal candidates. It is no coincidence that stalwarts of the deadly U.S.-Israeli military relationship—such as Martin Frost ($4,000), Dick Gephardt ($3,000), Jane Harman ($12,500), Anne Northup ($6,000), Ed Pastor ($8,000), and Mitch McConnell ($6,000)—were rewarded quite handsomely by Raytheon for turning a blind eye and acting unaccountably, while the few brave members of Congress who have called into question Israel's violations of the U.S. Arms Export Control Act—Robert Byrd, John Conyers, John Dingell, and Nick Rahall—received zero.
Of course, Israel is not the sole determinant in how the defense industry dishes out its hush money. But the $2 billion subsidy that it receives from the American taxpayer isn't exactly chump change either and creates interests that are surely worth protecting.
Joshua Ruebner is co-founder of Jews for Peace in Palestine and Israel (JPPI) and former analyst of Middle East Affairs for Congressional Research Service.
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MEDIA - The 15th annual Allied Media Conference will be held June 20-23, in Detroit.
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IWW - The North American Work People's College will take place July 12-16 at Mesaba Co-op Park in northern Minnesota. The event will bring together Wobblies from branches across the continent to learn new skills and build One Big Union.
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CHILDREN'S DEFENSE - July 15-19, join clergy, seminarians, Christian educators, young adult leaders and other faith-based advocates for children at CDF Haley Farm in Clinton, Tennessee, for five days of spiritual renewal, networking, movement building workshops, and continuing education about the urgent needs of children at the 19th annual Proctor Institute for Child Advocacy Ministry.
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MEN - The 38th National Conference on Men & Masculinity: Forging Justice: Creating Safe, Equal and Accountable Communities, presented in partnership with HAVEN, will be held in Detroit, MI, August 8-10.
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COMMUNITIES - The Communities Conference is a networking and learning opportunity for co-operative or communal lifestyles, with workshops, events and entertainment; scheduled for August 30-September 2 at the Twin Oaks Community in Louisa, Virginia.
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I saw these in a magazine in a different color and had to have them for Zumba. Where I take class the floors are wood and I get kind of stuck when I try to pivot or turn (I was wearing cross-trainers) and these shoes actually help me turn! I have gotten tons of compliments in the gym on the colors, especially the soles.
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I'm a Zumba instructor, and I typically tell people to avoid "dance sneakers," which have traditionally been thick, split-sole style dance shoes not really intended for aerobic exercise, so I bought these figuring I'd likely need to send them back. Initially, they were very slippery (I teach on a wood floor), but after a few wears, they are absolutely perfect. They grip when they need to grip and slip when they need to slip. They don't offer arch support, and the sole is relatively thin - but this is ideal for my foot. I'm very happy with this purchase!
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I own several pairs of Bloch sneakers. I use them for Zumba classes. I always am looking for a cute, hip pair of shoes for class. These are very comfortable and appear wider than other styles in the toe area. I love the multi colors and especially the sole. These were comfortable right out of the box. I am so happy that Bloch continues to add new styles. I normally buy 1 1/2 sizes up but I think 1 size up in this style is fine.
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These shoes have become my favorite Zumba shoes with a little breaking-in, even though the first few times I had to be careful as the bottoms are so slick. They are great for turning and twisting the foot, but a little challenging on side stepping. We dance on a smooth wood floor. Because of previous comments, I ordered a size 9½ (I wear between an 8½ and a 9) and the fit is perfect for me. I love the purple/green color, too.
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With what feels like half of Queensland suffering badly from multiple flood events, don't forget about the Etheridge Shire.
Graziers there are hurting badly from drought.
The Northern Gulf Resource Management Group has issued "The North West Queensland Wildfires Report - Response and Recovery 2012 - 2013" and the numbers are down right scary.
Try to picture 5,565,737 hectares of burnt grazing land covering no less than 216 properties.
About 50 properties were helped with food and public donations since October, from sources like the Etheridge Shire Council, the Tablelands Regional Council and Atherton Rotary.
But the Gulf NRN report states at least 2,500 cows and calves were "destroyed humanely" because of a lack of food and more acurate numbers of stock losses would become clearer after April's muster.
Etheridge Shire's Mayor Will Attwood said his council will now look to alleviate pressure on land owners by focusing firstly on rates.
"Rate payers are still expecting (the council) to perform services, roads and all those sorts of things but it makes it very tough to try and collect rates from people who have lost most of their heard.
"I can't come up with any definitive plan at this stage but i'm certainly very aware that most of our graziers are hurting," said Cr Attwood.
Cr Attwood said the level of mental health support has been good, but it needs to continue.
"There were people who were struggling while the fires were on and we've had people and assistance from community services - the properties are quite isolated and it was just good to have someone to talk to and to explain to people what it meant to have their whole property burnt out," said Cr Attwood.
The owner of Abingdon Downs, Campbell Keough lost about 90% of his 1.1 million hectares, (pictured above) but says the Etheridge Shire is still viable grazing land.
But Mr Keough said there certain parts of the wet season he misses seeing each day.
"Nice white brahmans, seeing a waterhole full, cattle in good order, fires are all out and getting the car bogged every now and then," said Mr Keough.
A forum organised by the Northern Gulf Resource Management Group will be held on the 19th and 20th of March at Bedrock Villiage, Mt Surprise.
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Over the weekend, I played a whole bunch, and there was a moment on Sunday where I was like "okay, make some more Aces of Spades to donate to get a bunch of iMG to buy another x1 Quoin upgrade... so why?" I can speed up the rate I get iMG, or currants or whatever, but after the first couple of times cycling an iMG or energy or currant engine, I find myself wondering why I'm doing it.
The rash of updates recently has been interesting - worth logging in to check them out. But there's no real transition of play - nothing I can accumulate and say to myself "I did that." I log in, I play for 15 minutes, or a couple of hours, and at the end I know I'll just need to do it again. All these upgrade cards I'm buying, or expansions to my house and street ... they're not *going* anywhere.
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This is just me ranting about a theory I have. Art will come of this shortly.
We're seeing a lot of crime solving dramas on TV these days. There's always been a few, certainly, but the trend has been growing for awhile now. Off the top of my head, there's the CSI and Law & Order franchises, Monk, Castle, Bones, Psyche, Criminal Minds, Pushing Daisies, Dexter, Bored to Death, Sherlock, Cold Case, the list goes on. It's gotten to the point where people feel like they feel informed about the justice system from television, and prosecutors now have to compensate for a jury's expectations of evidence that they get from television.
I wonder why people like these shows so much. I think some of the appeal has something to do with seeing criminal offenders brought to justice. It's very rare to see an episode of these shows where a bad guy gets away, or simply no suspect is identified. Which is closer to reality, but I don't think this is just about criminals. In the last decade, we've had the potential to be more informed than ever before about all the problems in our lives and in our culture, and civilization itself. These major problems in our culture are endlessly explored and explained in every media format. But when we have all of this data, it overwhelms us. It's rarely the case that the unemployment rates or the fate of the space program or debt reduction has a villain that we can apprehend and put away forever. Scandals are everywhere, but more often than not we see no guilty party. We had a president steal an election, his underlings broke the cover of a CIA agent, white collar criminals stole billions of dollars and ruined people's lives, two wars began with no sign of ending, our economy collapsed, our education system continued to lag behind, we still have no energy strategy, all of this – and there are no bad guys being punished. The problems are systemic, not just deeply complex but wide, there's so much data to process. The dilemmas are simply too big to comprehend, much less actually solve. But we wish it could be like Scooby Doo, where all the bank collapses are because of old Mr Beaton, dressed up as a robot scarecrow. Take him away!
It's harder to understand all of the data we have because there's so much of it, and we have trouble prioritizing good information over the bad. We're struggling to deal with the notion that we don't really have "facts" anymore. We'd like to have them, but no matter what your position, there's all this other information that disagree with your conclusion, and they're "facts" too. It's a fact that Barack Obama was born in Kenya and smuggled into the country. And Paul Revere rode through town firing warning shots at the British telling them they wouldn't take our guns and freedoms. It's a fact now. No matter that we have birth certificates and actual history documented by historians that contradict these ridiculous ideas. We have people who cling to these ideas as truth. To them, this is reality. They have their own information to back it up.
We have people, frequently labeled as experts, declaring the legitimacy of almost any arrivable conclusion. The media, especially television, reduces credibility of an expert to a title bar beneath a talking head, but when every expert is equally credible, every expert on every side is just as good as any other. But these different experts all have different facts, so we pick a news outlet that has a narrative we like and we decide that their facts are the best. I want to believe that ethanol is a good idea, so only the facts that fit this worldview presented by my preferred experts will make it past my media filters. We will only read the websites or watch the news shows that give facts that conform to my world view. This filtering is how we cope with the flood of information we have access to, but which we cannot process or comprehend, to make a purely objective conclusion. Reality is now determined by Colbert's "truthiness," by gut instinct and bias and the inclination of previously held belief.
With this new subjective reality, how can we be expected to fix our economy? It's a fact now that the New Deal was a terrible idea and didn't work. The budget deficit only matters if your political party is in the minority. Tax cuts for the rich will cause money to trickle down to the lower classes any day now, just you wait. The debate for a solution is rich and complex, but we have our experts to guide us. Unfortunately, when we tout our evidence and present our experts, they are refuted by all the other contradicting facts and experts, and no one's mind changes. Facts are now based on opinions, and we cannot assert the strength of one opinion over another. Eventually, we shrug and retreat, maintaining our bias, and our filtered information, and conclude that the opposition is simply clueless and doesn't understand because they have bad facts.
But when we want entertainment, we want to escape this problem, so we want a fantasy about a dilemma that will be solved, quickly, definitively and without compromise. So we want to watch a TV show where someone commits a crime, but smart people uncover all the facts and evidence, they discover the truth, track down the guilty party and catch them. And the villain goes away forever, never to return. There's no parole or tax loops or bribes or presidential pardons on CSI to let the villain escape. Justice actually gets served – on television, anyway.


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a fat water cow the ballet chick from fantasia
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a fat woman "damn she a hippopotamus"
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A really cool Opotamus. Q: Is a hippopotamus a hippopotamus or just a really cool opotamus?
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An over sized dinosaur-like pig creature. Hippopotami live in African rivers, but also frequent the lush woodlands of Africa. They have a rough, tough outer skin layer that some say resembles the scales of a reptile and many rows of sharp, pointy teeth that they use to eviscerate each other for exclusive rights to rough, rowdy Hippo sex.
Their primary contribution to the environment is taking shits in the river, but the natives of Africa could easily take on this job, making these ugly fuckers basically redundant and useless. Yo watch out for that badass Hippopotamus, he'll eviscerate you.
I'm not too worried, it's just a fat pig, it can't catch me. |
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Often mispronounced as hip-hop anonymous Me: I went to Africa and I was killed by the wrath of a hip-hop Anonymous.
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I read from the news that a special Swatch watch to commemorate Corazon Aquino will be released on 25 January 2010. Designed by Jaime Zobel (just like GK268) and is limited to 801 pieces.
Additional info and photos (and corrections) are welcome.
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Would like to know more about that! The news is here:
http://www.inquirer.net/specialreports/coryaquino/view.php?db=1&article=20091010-229380 Pictures? Many many doubles on http://www.mach-4.nl/swatch/hp_forsale.htm!
im from the philippines here corys swatch watch will be available Jan 25, 2010 on her birthday limited to 801 not numbered there is a reservation of P3000.00 philippine peso and the total price of the watches P8100.00 philippine pesos
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^thanks for the price info.
any photos or description of how it look like? i want to get one.. too bad i'm from baguio pa. |
Philippine Pesos 8,100 equals US Dollar 177 or Euro 123. That is quite expensive for a Gents Swatch!
Before ordering for that price I really need more info like pictures, the packaging, tags, code and confirmation of the limitation. Can you arrange that? Many many doubles on http://www.mach-4.nl/swatch/hp_forsale.htm!
Here's what I found out after googling:
The Cory Aquino Swatch Limited Edition comes in a unique package—a book on Aquino titled "A Woman Dressed in Sunshine" containing a touching introduction by Teddyboy Locsin and photos of Aquino through historic and personal moments. Source: Inquirer Still no photos.. I'm wondering why. |
swatch store here they have the picture of 2 swatch watches ill post the watches and the packaging when they are available in the store jan25,2010
can you just describe it then?
so you mean, the PhP 8001 is for 2 watches? |
PHP8100.00 for two watches ill try to get a copy today
i heard there will be two release dates - 25 Jan and 8 Feb. i don't know why there's two thought. i only managed to be on the second batch since the first one has already been pre-sold out. i haven't seen any pics, but someone's sending me the preview photos soon. i will post it here asap. this is quite exciting!
"Nothing succeeds like excess." - Oscar Wilde. http://deluxeduck.livejournal.com
here are the watches this only photocopy and i took pictures of the watches XLarge and a regular gents i get my watches jan25,2010
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these is the strap
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hmmm.. same dial design as the centennial watch
though some difference on the 'sun', the cory watch has thicker rays, and the sun is placed somewhat lower. I'm guessing it's only the strap that differentiate it? |
i see.... it will be a reissue with a special strap. i thought it would be a completely new design. but it still looks good, i would still want a set. i hope the packaging's fantastic.
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they told me that the watches comes with a book about pres cory aquino
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- Deppen homestead 1862 said...
decisions~ decisions~ great idea to pick out the colors~ really liking coco~
Teresa - January 29, 2012 at 9:05 AM
- Linda @ A La Carte said...
Nice way to see your colors! I have voted each day for Caleb and will continue...he is a cutie!! hugs, Linda
- January 29, 2012 at 11:09 AM
- NanaDiana said...
I was lucky enough to get one of those charts sent to me with my paint. It does help, doesn't it?
I am headed over to vote for Caleb. xo Diana - January 29, 2012 at 12:03 PM
- Diane Cayton-Hakey said...
They're all such great colors. I don't think I could choose just one if I had to.
- January 29, 2012 at 12:08 PM
- Ms. A said...
Can't wait to see the reveal!
- January 29, 2012 at 2:26 PM
- ~from my front porch in the mountains~ said...
I am getting ready to have my great-granmother's 1922 White (brand) sewing machine made over. A friend who does furniture restoration is doing it. Here is a link with my exact sewing machine (!) in Annie Sloan paint! Now if I could only make up my mind....!
Cannot wait to see your finished project :)
Going to vote for Caleb now!
xo, misha - January 29, 2012 at 3:18 PM
- ❁Velma ~Down Our Country Road❁ said...
Decisions, decisions!! Good idea to have the paint samples in front of you to help you decide.
I'm voting for Caleb!! He's so doggone cute! Makes you just want to smother him with kisses, which I'm sure you have done a time or two. ;) - January 29, 2012 at 8:48 PM
- Heaven's Walk said...
You smart, girl, you! What a fantastic idea! I'll be doing this in my basement!! ;)
xoxo laurie - January 29, 2012 at 9:45 PM
- janet said...
Morning Connie,
Great idea and very handy. Looking forward to the next refurbish. Not even a hint?????
Just tried to vote for Caleb again and it won't let me????
janet xox
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Keep little explorers entertained at the table with puzzles and games. �Excelente!
Help Dora and Boots find their way to the gymnastics show!
Print these o-fish-al placemats for some fin-tastic mealtime fun!