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Golden, Colo., Aug 17, 2013 / 01:04 pm (CNA).- There was an unusual meeting at the Vatican this summer when thousands of motorcycle enthusiasts rumbled into Rome for Harley-Davidson's 110th anniversary celebrations in Europe.
Four days of reveling in and around the Eternal City kicked off June 12 when brass from the Milwaukee-based motorcycle manufacturer had a chance to meet with Pope Francis at the Vatican. Among members of the select group was Golden, Colo., artist David Uhl.
Uhl, well-known for his talent in capturing motorcycle culture with a timeless Norman-Rockwell-style of painting, was asked to make an exclusive piece to present to Pope Francis.
This image was then used for a special Vatican postcard.
"I was humbled by the opportunity," he told the Denver Catholic Register during a conversation at his Golden studio July 30.
Uhl, 51, part of the Harley-Davidson organization since becoming their first licensed oil painter in 1998, received the request just a month before the event.
"The Vatican wants to commission a piece of art with us … so come up with something," he said, relaying the gist of the phone call.
Putting other projects on the back burner, he began work on it immediately.
"I wanted to use a motorcycle that's historic so you can't really place the piece," said Uhl, who has access to the Motor Company's entire photo archive for inspiration. "It could be 50s, late 40s, 70s; who knows, it's timeless."
He settled on a 1948 Harley-Davidson FL panhead, and then came up with the concept of a group of clergy coming upon the bike while walking through a wide open St. Peter's Square.
"(One of them) broke off from the gang to look at the bike," he said.
The story was simple; the canvas was complicated.
"You've got a cobblestone road, a (bike) with a really complex grouping of chrome, and then you've got St. Peter's Basilica with a thousand sculptures," he said. "How do I get all this in the same piece and keep it so your focal point doesn't get lost?"
Not only did he successfully manage the busyness, he did it in about a week, following more than two weeks of back and forth with Vatican officials.
Three weeks later, Uhl, with his wife and their two children, headed to Italy.
Following his regular weekly Wednesday audience June 12, Pope Francis took a short trip in the popemobile from St. Peter's Square to a neighboring courtyard where Uhl and the rest of the Harley contingency waited. Others presented the pontiff with a leather Freedom jacket and two classic motorcycles, then Uhl was up.
"'I'm humbled by this opportunity,' 'I can't believe I'm actually here,' 'thank you so much,'" Uhl vaguely recalled his own words and mentioned that the pope, while smiling, was quiet.
"We were told he wouldn't speak, that he understands English, but doesn't speak it very well."
Though he didn't say a word, it was clear to Uhl and rest of the group that Pope Francis was pleased with the painting as evidenced by his double-take before leaving.
"He turned back around and looked at the painting and nodded," Uhl shared. "Man, he loved it! I felt great about that, especially with all the art he's seen.
"Everyone came out of that meeting 10 feet high."
Pope Francis is a warm and radiant person, he said, and he considered the meeting a pivotal moment in his faith journey.
"For me, it's crazy full circle," said Uhl, the sixth of seven children raised in a devoutly Catholic family. "I went to Jesuit high school and he's a Jesuit, and now I'm looking back at the things I was doing in high school."
After attending St. John's Jesuit High School in Maumee, Ohio, Uhl sought out other faiths, studying as many religions as he could get his hands on: Buddhism, Hinduism and Shamanism, among others.
"I was born with an intense curiosity," he said. "I've always been that way."
That journey ultimately brought him back where he started.
"I left a lot of that because I wasn't capable of understanding it," he said. "Now in the context of other religions and the kernel of truth they have, it's brought me back to the Catholic faith.
"It's a massive foundation, and the older I get the more I draw on it."
While much of his work in the past decade-plus has been related to mechanical subjects, he hopes to paint more "from life" in the future."
I just want to be the best conduit I can be for God as it comes through my fingers," he said. "There's nothing better than seeing something that's holy and putting it on a canvas."
For more about Uhl, visit www.uhlstudios.com.
Posted with permission from Denver Catholic Register, official publication of the Archdiocese of Denver.

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In the Matter of DIANA L. WEBB, Respondent.
In a letter dated July 3, 1997, to the Clerk of the Appellate Courts, respondent Diana L. Webb, of Leavenworth, an attorney admitted to practice law in the state of Kansas, voluntarily surrendered her license to practice law in Kansas, pursuant to Supreme Court Rule 217 (1996 Kan. Ct. R. Annot. 223).
On August 22, 1996, respondent was indicted in the United States District Court for the Western District of Missouri for conspiracy to manufacture and distribute methamphetamine, a schedule II controlled substance, in violation of 21 U.S.C. § 841(a)(1) and (b)(1)(A) (1994) and 21 U.S.C. § 846 (1994).
This court, having examined the files of the office of the Disciplinary Administrator, finds that the surrender of respondent's license should be accepted and that respondent should be disbarred.
IT IS THEREFORE ORDERED that Diana L. Webb be and she is hereby disbarred from the practice of law in the State of Kansas and her license and privilege to practice law are hereby revoked.
IT IS FURTHER ORDERED that the Clerk of the Appellate Courts strike the name of Diana L. Webb from the roll of attorneys licensed to practice law in Kansas.
IT IS FURTHER ORDERED that this order shall be published in the Kansas Reports, that the costs herein shall be assessed to respondent, and that respondent forthwith shall comply with Supreme Court Rule 218 (1996 Kan. Ct. R. Annot. 226).
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This course studies the separation of powers set up in the Constitution, both between the three branches of federal government, as well as that between federal and state authority. It is important to know that Professor Asifa Quraishi-Landes's section uses the casebook titled Processes of Constitutional Decisionmaking (edited by Brest, Levinson, Balkin, Amar and Siegel), which takes an historical approach to understanding the U.S. Constitution and American constitutional law. As a result, the course is taught against the recurring theme that what constitutes a good or persuasive constitutional argument has changed and will continue to change over time. In class, students will explore how what the Constitution means is often intertwined with the question of how one chooses to interpret it, who is the person or institution performing this interpretation, and why the question is presented in the first place. To help students to go beyond the doctrinal rules of the law, Professor Quraishi-Landes uses several non- traditional techniques, including role plays (where students literally wear the hat of a past constitutional character), video supplements, internet streaming audio/video, and real life hypotheticals. She expects students to come to class prepared to articulate the relevant constitutional rulings as well as their own analyses of the issues. The goal is an interactive classroom environment that is demanding yet open and alive.


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The nation's premier environmental law moot court, a national competition with more than 70 law schools participating, will be held February 24-26, 2011, at Pace University in New York. If you're interested in environmental law, and want to participate in a competition that tests your skills in brief writing and oral argument, apply for a position on this year's team. Pace focuses its problems on current environmental law issues, such as regulation of greenhouse gases, and team members have the opportunity to network with Chicago-Kent PEEL alumni supporting the team. Applications for this year's team will be accepted from August 16 through August 27. Team meetings will be held in early September to prepare for the briefing portion of the competition (from October 4 through November 29) and oral argument practices will begin in January, lasting through competition.
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Fedora has developed Live CD USB DVD images for their GNU/Linux operating system. Since the image file systems are stored in the /LiveOS folder of the image, this is the name we'll use to reference the product.
This page shares some information about the LiveOS design that helps users take better advantage of their disc resources.
- livecd-iso-to-disk (Usage instructions are on the first pages.)
- FedoraLiveCD
- How to create and use a Live CD
- How to create and use Live USB
When a Live CD or Live DVD (a LiveOS image on read-only disc media) is booted, temporary storage is prepared for the system in RAM on each boot by /sbin/dmsquash-live-root in initrd0, the initial ram disk filesystem. An in-memory, copy-on-write, system overlay is used (see File Systems below).
The Fedora LiveOS system allows for persistent storage in 3 locations:
- An all-purpose, persistent overlay - a write-once, fixed-size file space that will save updates and changes to the LiveOS image (Activities, operating system changes, anything written in the LiveOS file space).
- Persistent home folder - a re-writable, re-sizable (with difficulty), uncompressed, optionally-encryptable, file space for anything that goes in the user's /home/ folder. A persistent home folder is an option that may be selected at the time of installation of the LiveOS image (although with some effort, one could manually create a home.img filesystem in /LiveOS/ and move the /home/ folder to it). This installation option is only available through the script, 'livecd-iso-to-disk'. The Windows and Fedora 'Live USB Creator' installers do not provide this option at present.
- Host device file space - this is the USB stick or SD card file system that is outside of the LiveOS file tree, but which is accessible through the /mnt/live or /run/initramfs/live (since Fedora 17) mount point of a booted LiveOS installation. There, one finds the boot configuration files and anything else one had on the device before loading the LiveOS image. One may save files here without consuming the other, limited file spaces. (This file space is limited by the device capacity).
The all-purpose, persistent overlay is needed for operating system changes and updates.
The file systems are prepared on each boot by the /etc/rc.d/init.d/livesys script.
Home filesystem
One may find many advantages to installing the LiveOS, with a persistent, home folder (using the --home-size-mb NN --delete-home options), which will hold all the user files and documents one wishes and, perhaps later, throw away—all without consuming the write-once overlay, which can be consumed very quickly (and overlay file space is not normally reusable).
Device filesystem
Additionally, keeping some storage space on the device disc outside of the LiveOS system will let you copy, carry, and delete large resource files, such as image.iso files, or anything you might want to use or share.
Installation options
Fedora 17 Live Desktop may be installed on a 1 GB USB device using the following options with livecd-iso-to-disk (on a single, terminal or console command line, even though the wiki may wrap the following text to accommodate your browser window size):
- ./livecd-iso-to-disk --reset-mbr --overlay-size-mb 200 --home-size-mb 140 --delete-home --unencrypted-home /path/to/source/iso/or/device /dev/sd?1
- where '?' in the final parameter represents the target bootable device node, such as sdb1 or sdc1, etc.
The above configuration would allow space for the home folder, the operating system, and a little on the device root.
But with a larger capacity device, one may allocate the resources to suit the anticipated use, as described above.
File Systems
The Fedora LiveOS uses the Device-mapper service of the Linux kernel to manage the file stores on the device. This is the same service that is used by Logical Volume Manager to provide disc partition services.
One limitation, mentioned above, is that the LiveOS persistent overlay is a write-once file space. This is related to its use of device mapper snapshots to combine a read-only file system image (copied from the compressed SquashFS.img on the read-only LiveCD or installation .iso file) with a Copy-on-write service that tracks only changed blocks of data in the snapshot (overlay) file and then re-referencing file pointers to the updated blocks.[1][2] Any changes to the operating system files are stored as differences from the base. As such, "deletions" of files are saved as additional difference references, and the originals are hidden. With this mechanism, physical storage space is consumed in the write-once file space rather than recovered.
Consumption of the space allocated for persistent storage in the snapshot overlay file may be tracked with the device mapper dmsetup status report.
Several developments in the LiveOS design may be considered to maximize the endurance of the LiveOS image.
Avoid persistent overlay consumption
- Use a persistent /home folder (discussed above).
- This is a very effective method to avoid consumption and will also make the user files more available for sharing and backup purposes.
- Move the root user's home to /home/root in a persistent home.img
- This would avoid some consumption, but would compromise the root user account if there was a boot problem and the /home folder was not mounted.
- Mount more folders onto temporary, in-memory filesystems (like /var/cache/yum, /var/tmp, & /tmp are now).
- /var/lib/NetworkManager (holds a timestamps file that is deleted and refreshed quite often, every 5 minutes)
- /var/log/audit (holds the SELinux audit.log that records a great many file accesses.)
- /var/spool/abrt (holds often large, error reports and core dumps). Users could be advised to act on any abrt reports in the current session or copy the reports to other permanent storage, such as in /home/ or external storage.
- there may be other good candidates...
Image recompression and overlay refreshment
The Device-mapper snapshot-merge target allows one to merge changes in a persistent snapshot into the original filesystem (See notes from Andrew Gilmore). In a LiveOS image the original filesystem is compressed within a read-only SquashFS image. If one has sufficient free disk space available (for example, 4.3 GiB of free space for Fedora 17 Live Desktop—typically on an attached hard drive—plus about 660 MiB or more, depending on additions of software or root filesystem files, of free space on the LiveOS device filesystem), one can copy (and uncompress) the original filesystem to a working folder, invoke the snapshot-merge Device-mapper target, delete the old SquashFS image, replace it with a recompressed version of the merged LiveOS snapshot, and reset the original snapshot overlay before rebooting the LiveOS device.
The following Bash script demonstrates the process where $1 is the working folder and $2 is the LiveOS device (such as /run/initramfs/livedev, for the currently booted LiveOS image):
#!/bin/bash # 2012-08-20 00:27:28 # Prepare working directory. TMPDIR=$1 mkdir $TMPDIR/LiveOS 2>/dev/null # Mount SquashFS, copy out the original root filesystem, unmount SquashFS. SRCMNT=$(mktemp -d /media/XXXXXX) mount $2 $SRCMNT SQUASHMNT=$(mktemp -d /media/XXXXXX) mount $SRCMNT/LiveOS/squashfs.img $SQUASHMNT if [[ -x /usr/bin/rsync ]]; then rsync --inplace --8-bit-output --progress $SQUASHMNT/LiveOS/ext3fs.img \ $TMPDIR/LiveOS else cp $SQUASHMNT/LiveOS/ext3fs.img $TMPDIR/LiveOS fi umount $SQUASHMNT # Prepare temporary devices for Device-mapper snapshot-merge. FSDEV=$(losetup -f --show $TMPDIR/LiveOS/ext3fs.img) OVDEV=$(losetup -f --show $SRCMNT/LiveOS/overlay-*) FS_SIZE=$(blockdev -q --getsz $FSDEV) # Invoke snapshot-merge target device. dmsetup create merged <<< "0 $FS_SIZE snapshot-merge $FSDEV $OVDEV P 8" # Wait for merge completion. while state=$(dmsetup status merged) state=${state#*snapshot-merge } meta=${state#* } alloc=${state%/*} [[ $alloc != $meta ]]; do printf '|' sleep 0.5 printf '\b/' sleep 0.5 printf '\b-' sleep 0.5 printf '\b\' sleep 0.5 done printf '\n' # Clean up from merge. dmsetup remove merged losetup -d $OVDEV $FSDEV # Replace SquashFS image rm $SRCMNT/LiveOS/squashfs.img mksquashfs $TMPDIR/LiveOS $SRCMNT/LiveOS/squashfs.img -comp xz -keep-as-directory # Reset overlay. dd if=/dev/zero of=$OVDEV bs=64k count=1 conv=notrunc,fsync # Clean up. sleep 2 losetup -d $OVDEV $FSDEV umount $SRCMNT rmdir $SQUASHMNT $SRCMNT
Overlay recovery
If one 'exhausts' the limited storage capacity of a LiveOS overlay, Device-mapper will mark the filesystem as 'Invalid', as shown by the dmsetup status command executed in Terminal or a console (if you haven't crashed):
# dmsetup status live-osimg-min: 0 8388608 snapshot 2464/2464 24 live-rw: 0 8388608 snapshot Invalid
The invalid bit is 00 at byte 5 of the overlay. You might try to recover the overlay by switching it to 01 with the following command line:
# echo $'\x01' | dd of=/path/to/overlay-file bs=1 count=1 seek=4 conv=notrunc
where /path/to/overlay may be /mnt/live/LiveOS/overlay-devicename-discUUID or
/media/devicename/LiveOS/overlay-devicename-discUUID for an attached device.
Follow this by registering the LiveOS image with Device-mapper:
# mount /media/devicename/LiveOS/squashfs.img /mnt/some_mountpoint # losetup /dev/loop1 /mnt/some_mountpoint/LiveOS/ext3fs.img -r # losetup /dev/loop2 /media/devicename/LiveOS/overlay-devicename-discUUID # dmsetup create devicename --table "0 8388608 snapshot 7:1 7:2 P 8"
- devicename in the last line may be any string.
- loop1 and loop2 (and the corresponding 7:1 7:2) may be any free loop devices; just substitute the appropriate numbers.
- 8388608 is the size of the ext3fs.img file in 512 byte units. This can be read by the following command:
# blockdev -q --getsz /dev/loop1
# dmsetup status
to check the the virtual filesystem has been configured.
Then try to repair any damage with the following command:
# e2fsck -f -y /dev/mapper/devicename
where devicename is the string you used in the dmsetup create command.
Run a second check,
# e2fsck -p /dev/mapper/devicename
to verify if the filesystem could be repaired. At this point you will want to enlarge the overlay, or backup or rebuild the image.
Remove the virtual filesystem registration,
# dmsetup remove devicename
Determine the size of the overlay file:
# blockdev -q --getsz /dev/loop2 # losetup -d /dev/loop2 # losetup -d /dev/loop1 # dd if=/dev/zero of=/path/to/overlay-file seek=overlay_size count=size_increase
where overlay_size and size_increase are now 512 byte units.
Once you have a working filesystem, you should proceed to merge your overlay into the original filesystem as describe above.
- See this dm-devel thread.


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|Serving as Storekeeper can apply towards Positions of Responsibility requirements for Star, Life, and Eagle.
The Storekeeper is the youth equipment manager of the Sea Scout ship.
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The Storekeeper is the equipment manager youth leader in its unit. Other equipment manager youth leaders are:
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- Storekeeper - Sea Scouting
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Modi reaches out to Mamata, says West Bengal progressing
Narendra Modi sided up with Mamata Banerjee saying that Bengal is progressing on the right path of development and also highlighted that non-UPA states are being discriminated against by the Centre. HT reports. Modi addresses Bengal Inckolkata Updated: Apr 09, 2013 17:05 IST
Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi sided up with Mamata Banerjee and said that Bengal is progressing on the right path of development and also highlighted that non-UPA states are being discriminated against by the Congress led central government.
His words echoed the Bengal chief minister's regular allegations against the Centre.
The statement came at a time when Banerjee is in Delhi with allegations of discrimination against Bengal. She is to meet Prime minister Manmohan Singh and others regarding what she calls 'state's due'.
"Congress dug holes in Gujarat. When we came to power it took us ten years to fill up those holes. In Bengal it was even worse. The Left dug big holes for 32 years. What a sight of destruction they left. That's why who the people have elected have to toil for years to fill up the holes. I believe now there is an initiative to fill up those holes. The state is progressing in the right direction and I hope people's dream will be fulfilled," said Modi, stating that he is not in Bengal to draw a comparison between the states but to learn.
Modi was addressing a programme organised by Indian Chamber of Commerce, MCC Chamber of Commerce and the Bharat Chamber of Commerce in Kolkata.
Modi stated that the central government has no right to discriminate against the state governments and everyone should rise up against it.
"There a kind of treatment for UPA states and a different kind of treatment for non-UPA states. It is natural that people in power in these states raise their voice against this. We cannot allow this," he said.
Modi stated that any state can have financial crunch.
"We had power to tolerate this discrimination. May be Bengal has less power to tolerate," said Modi.
"There a kind of treatment for UPA states and a different kind of treatment for non-UPA states. It is natural that people in power in these states raise their voice against this. We cannot allow this," he said.
He also stated that during BJP rule at the centre there was Left rule in Bengal. But there were no allegations of discrimination, despite ideological differences.
Modi also criticised UPAII's external policies including being silent on Bangladesh situation and allowing Italian under trials to visit their native country.
He said India's federal structure is being overlooked by the UPA.
"The UPA government doesn't even bother to open pending files and is not even worried about anything. UPA government is like an ailing man with an eye on the clock, not the calendar," he said.
Modi said the country's interest should be considered first while framing foreign policy.
"Despite India having played a key role in the birth of Bangladesh, no one is giving importance to Delhi in that country during the present crisis there," he claimed.
The government was being soft with Pakistan even after beheading of Indian soldiers, he said.
Highlights of Modi's speech:
* If we have to move ahead, Bengal will show us the way Modi in Kolkata
* Bengal is the state where the phrase 'don't look behind, look forward' was initiated
* It is important to recognise the strengths of West Bengal
* Bengal is the gateway to the development of north and northeast India
* For 32 years Bengal suffered from misgovernance, it will take time to resolve the issues
* I have not come with any political motive, have not come here to meet the CM. I do that only during elections
* There has been no development under the central government
* No constructive development taking place in eastern India
* UPA government is discriminating against non-UPA governments
* Central govt's performance depends on state govt's performance, but the Centre does not care about this
* It is time states raise their voice against discrimination by the central govt
* Economy's driving force depends on common man's purchasing power
* Per capita income does not improve unless we accept a growth model
* I want the farmers of our country to use modern technology and innovations
* PM yet to act on the panel report on reducing inflation even after a year
* Manufacturing, agriculture and services are three pillars of development
* There is a need for the government to intervene in agricultural sector beyond subsidies
* We do not have a realtime data of agricultural produce
* Gujarat is the only state where cataract operations are performed on cattle
* I've heard that all the excess grain that was rotting was sold to breweries
* Gujarat was never a tourist destination, Gujaratis are the best tourist
* Financial discipline is crucial. Today Gujarat is a revenue surplus state
* We have not increased any tax in the past 12 years, only stopped the leakage
* We have been successful in providing electricity to each and every village in Gujarat
* In most states, availability of power makes news, but in Gujarat power cuts are news
* The Gujarat electricity board was suffering major losses, but today Gujarat has surplus electricity
* Narendra Modi's 5F formula for industrial growth: Farm to Fibre, Fibre to Fabric, Fabric to Fashion, Fashion to Foreign
* There is lack of ideas with the Centre
(With inputs from IANS and PTI)
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By Steve Horn • Thursday, January 26, 2012 - 00:15
On January 16, the Los Angeles Times revealed that anti-science bills have been popping up over the past several years in statehouses across the U.S., mandating the teaching of climate change denial or "skepticism" as a credible "theoretical alternative" to human caused climate change came.
The L.A. Times' Neela Banerjee explained,
"Texas and Louisiana have introduced education standards that require educators to teach climate change denial as a valid scientific position. South Dakota and Utah passed resolutions denying climate change. Tennessee and Oklahoma also have introduced legislation to give climate change skeptics a place in the classroom."
What the excellent Times coverage missed is that key language in these anti-science bills all eminated from a single source: the American Legislative Exchange Council, or ALEC.
ALEC Exposed: No, Not Alec Baldwin*
In summer 2011, "ALEC Exposed," a project of the Center for Media and Democracy (CMD)**, taught those alarmed about the power that corporations wield in the American political sphere an important lesson: when bills with a similar DNA pop up in various statehouses nationwide, it's no coincidence.
Explaining the nature and origins of the project, CMD wrote, "[CMD] unveiled a trove of over 800 'model' bills and resolutions secretly voted on by corporations and politicians through the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC). These bills reveal the corporate collaboration reshaping our democracy, state by state."
CMD continued, "Before our publication of this trove of bills, it has been difficult to trace the numerous controversial and extreme provisions popping up in legislatures across the country directly to ALEC and its corporate underwriters."
CMD explained that ALEC conducts its operations in the most shadowy of manners (emphases mine):
"Through ALEC, behind closed doors, corporations hand state legislators the changes to the law they desire that directly benefit their bottom line. Along with legislators, corporations have membership in ALEC. Corporations sit on all nine ALEC task forces and vote with legislators to approve 'model' bills…Corporations fund almost all of ALEC's operations. Participating legislators, overwhelmingly conservative Republicans, then bring those proposals home and introduce them in statehouses across the land as their own brilliant ideas and important public policy innovations—without disclosing that corporations crafted and voted on the bills."
So, what is the name of the "model bill" this time around?
The Trojan Horse: The "Environmental Literacy Improvement Act"
The Trojan Horse in this case is an Orwellian titled model bill, the "Environmental Literacy Improvement Act."[PDF]
The bill was adopted by ALEC's Natural Resources Task Force, today known as the Energy, Environment and Agriculture Task Force, at ALEC's Spring Task Force Summit on May 5, 2000 – it was then approved by the full ALEC Board of Directors in June of 2000.
The bill's opening clause reads [PDF], "The purpose of this act is to enhance and improve the environmental literacy of students and citizens in the state by requiring that all environmental education programs and activities conducted by schools, universities, and agencies shall…"
Among other things, the bill stipulates that schools, universities and agencies should,
- "Provide a range of perspectives presented in a balanced manner."
- "Provide instruction in critical thinking so that students will be able to fairly and objectively evaluate scientific and economic controversies."
- "Be presented in language appropriate for education rather than for propagandizing."
- "Encourage students to explore different perspectives and form their own opinions."
- "Encourage an atmosphere of respect for different opinions and open-mindedness to new ideas."
- "Not be designed to change student behavior, attitudes or values."
- "Not include instruction in political action skills nor encourage political action activities."
How does this language compare with legislation passed or proposed in various states? A review is in order.
ALEC Bills: From Model to Reality
The "Environmental Literacy Improvement Act," or at minimum, the crucial language found within it, has been proposed in seven states, and passed in three states, Louisiana in 2008, Texas in 2009 and South Dakota in 2010.
In 2008, the Louisiana state legislature introduced and eventually passed S.B. 733, the Louisiana Science and Education Act. The bill was originally sponsored by four members of the Senate, three of whom are current dues paying members of ALEC: Sen. Ben Wayne Nevers, Sr. (D-12); Sen. Neil Riser (R-32); and Sen. Francis Thompson (D-34).
The three ALEC members received a total of $9,514 from the oil and gas industry in the 2008 and 2010 election cycles in campaign money combined, and the four of them together received $13,814 in campaign cash from the oil and gas industry, according to the National Institute on Money in State Politics' FollowTheMoney.org.
ALEC Model vs. S.B. 733
The Louisiana bill calls for, "an environment within public elementary and secondary schools that promotes critical thinking skills, logical analysis, and open and objective discussion of scientific theories being studied including…global warming…" The bill also calls for "instructional materials to help students understand, analyze, critique, and review scientific theories in an objective manner."
This bill mirrors the provisions of the ALEC bill which say that teachers should "provide instruction in critical thinking so that students will be able to fairly and objectively evaluate scientific…controversies," and mandates that "balanced and objective environmental education materials and programs will…be used."
South Dakota
In 2010, the South Dakota Legislative Assembly passed House Concurrent Resolution 1009, a non-binding resolution introduced by 33 members of the House of Representatives and 6 members of the Senate, 39 in total, and 12 of whom are current members of ALEC. The bill calls for "balanced teaching of global warming in the public schools of South Dakota."
The 12 members of ALEC who sponsored HCR 1009 received $1,900 from the oil and gas industry in the 2008 and 2010 election cycles combined, according to FollowTheMoney.org.
The bill mirrors the provision of the ALEC bill that call for the providing of "a range of perspectives presented in a balanced manner."
In 2010, the Kentucky state legislature proposed H.B. 397, the Kentucky Science Education and Intellectual Freedom Act, a bill that eventually failed to pass.
The bill was co-sponsored by two members of the Kentucky House of Representatives who were not members of ALEC, but one of whom, Tim Moore (R-26), took $3,000 from the oil and gas industry in the 2008 and 2010 campaign cycles combined, according to the National Institute on Money in State Politics.
ALEC Model vs. HB 397
Two key provisions of the H.B. 397 "encourage local district teachers and administrators to foster an environment promoting objective discussion of the advantages and disadvantages of scientific theories" and "allow teachers to use, as permitted by the local board of education, materials in addition to state-approved texts and instructional materials for discussion of scientific theories including…global warming…"
This bill mirrors major provisions of the ALEC model bill that say teachers should "provide instruction in critical thinking so that students will be able to fairly and objectively evaluate scientific…controversies," and mandates that "balanced and objective environmental education materials and programs will…be used."
New Mexico
In 2011, ALEC member, Rep. Thomas A. Anderson, introduced H.B. 302. In the 2008 and 2010 campaign cycles, he raised $2,650, according to the National Institute on Money in State Politics' campaign finance database.
ALEC Model vs. H.B. 302
H.B. 302 says that schools shall "not prohibit any teacher, when a controversial scientific topic is being taught in accordance with adopted standards and curricula, from informing students about relevant scientific information regarding either the scientific strengths or scientific weaknesses pertaining to that topic." One "controversial scientific topic" listed is the "causes of climate change."
This bill mirrors the provisions of the ALEC model bill which call for teaching "a range of perspectives presented in a balanced manner," teaching "different perspectives" to allow for students to "form their own opinions," and creating an "atmosphere of respect for different opinions and open-mindedness to new ideas."
Tennessee's House bill, H.B. 368, essentially a replica of the ALEC model bill, overwhelmly passed the House in April 2011, but its Senate-version cousin, S.B. 893, failed to pass. As the Los Angeles Times article makes clear, efforts to push the bill through are far from over.
Key clauses of that bill read,
- "[T]eachers shall be permitted to help students understand, analyze, critique, and review in an objective manner the scientific strengths and scientific weaknesses of existing scientific theories covered in the course being taught."
- "[P]ublic elementary and secondary schools…[should]…respond appropriately and respectfully to differences of opinion about controversial issues."
These excerpts match, almost to a "T," bullet points one, three and four of the ALEC model bill.
Nine of the 24 co-sponsors of the H.B. 368 are ALEC members, according to CMD's ALEC Members database.
In addition, these nine ALEC member co-sponsors received $8,695 in campaign contributions from the oil and gas industry combined in the 2008 and 2010 campaign cycles, according to FollowTheMoney.org. The other 15 sponsors of the bill, while not members of ALEC, received $10,400 in their campaign cofffers in the 2008 and 2010 campaign cycles combined.
S.B. 893, on the other hand, was sponsored by Sen. Bo Watson (R-11), a recipient of $1,800 in oil and gas industry money in the 2008 and 2010 election cycles combined.
Translation: between the 25 of them, on top of a model bill handed to them by corporate oil and gas industry lobbyists, they were also furnished with $20,895 in campaign cash by these industries with the expectation to do their legislative bidding.
Titled, the "Scientific Education and Academic Freedom Act," H.B. 1551 is also essentially a copycat of Tennessee's version of the ALEC model bill – it failed to pass. A Senate version of that bill, S.B. 320, was also proposed in 2009, but failed to pass through committee.
Key clauses of that bill read (emphases mine),
- "[T]eachers shall be permitted to help students understand, analyze, critique, and review in an objective manner the scientific strengths and scientific weaknesses of existing scientific theories pertinent to the course being taught."
- "[N]o student in any public school or institution shall be penalized in any way because the student may subscribe to a particular position on scientific theories."
Notice how the first bullet is exactly the same in both the Tennessee and Oklahoma bills – also notice how similar bullet number two is in both language and substance in both states' bills.
Rep. Sally Kern (R-84), sponsor of H.B. 1551, is a member of ALEC, according to CMD. She received $12,335 from the oil and gas industry in the 2008 and 2010 election cycles, in total, according to FollowTheMoney.org. Sen. Randy Brogdon (R-34), sponsor of S.B. 320, while not a member of ALEC, received $22,967 from the oil and gas industry while running and losing for Governor of Oklahoma in 2010, according to FollowTheMoney.org.
On the whole, sponsors and co-sponsors from the six states in which the ALEC bill was proposed were recipients of $44,409 in campaign money from the oil and gas industry, a miniscule down payment for some of the most lucrative corporations known in the history of mankind.
Texas, in this case, is a bit of a wild card. Rather than a bill proposed by a state legislature, in 2009, the Texas School Board passed an amendent calling for the "balanced" teaching of climate change, meaning both science and "skepticism."
The Austin Statesman explained,
"The State Board of Education…adopted standards on the teaching of global warming that appear to both question its existence and prod students to explore its implications.
Standards are used to guide textbook makers and teachers.
Language…instructed students to 'analyze and evaluate different views on the existence of global warming,'"…
This provision mirrors and is likely inspired by the ALEC model bill provision on global warming, which suggested science teachers should "Provide a range of perspectives presented in a balanced manner."
A Bill In the Corporate Polluter's Interest
The money paper trail for this ALEC model bill runs deep, to put it bluntly.
When the ALEC model bill was adopted in 2000 by ALEC's Natural Resources Task Force, the head of that committee was Sandy Liddy Bourne, who after that stint, became Director of Legislation and Policy for ALEC. She is now with the Heartland Institute as vice-president for policy strategy. In Sandy Liddy Bourne's bio on the Heartland website, she boasts that "Under her leadership, 20 percent of ALEC model bills were enacted by one state or more, up from 11 percent."
SourceWatch states that Liddy Bourne "…is the daughter of former Nixon aide and convicted Watergate criminal G. Gordon Liddy, who spent more than 52 months in prison for his part in the Watergate burglary…[and her] speech at the Heartland Institute's 2008 International Conference on Climate Change was titled, 'The Kyoto Legacy; The Progeny of a Carbon Cartel in the States."
The Heartland Institute was formerly heavily funded by ExxonMobil and Koch Industries, just like ALEC was at the time that Liddy Bourne's committee devised the "Environmental Literacy Improvement Act." These two corporations are infamous for their funding of climate change "skeptic" think tanks and front groups.
Today, the corporate polluter members of ALEC's Energy, Environment and Agriculture Task Force include representatives from American Electric Power, the Fraser Institute, the Cato Institute, the Competitive Enterprise Institute, the Institute for Energy Research, the Mackinac Center for Public Policy, the Heartland Institute, and the American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity, to name several.
Getting Them While They're Young: A Cynical Maneuver
In the United States, the politics of big-money backed disinformation campaigns have trumped climate science, and serves as the raison d'être for DeSmogBlog. Polluters with a financial interest in continuing to conduct business without any accountability for their global warming pollution have purposely sowed the seeds of confusion on an issue seen as completely uncontroversial among scientists.
Maneuvering to dupe schoolchildren is about as cynical as it gets. Neuroscience explains that young brains are like sponges, ready to soak in knowledge (and disinformation, for that matter), and thus, youth are an ideal target for the "merchants of doubt."
The corporations behind the writing and dissemination of this ALEC model bill, who are among the largest polluters in the world, would benefit handsomly from a legislative mandate to sow the seeds of confusion on climate science among schoolchildren.
Alas, at the very least, the identity of the Trojan Horse has been revealed: it's name is ALEC.
*Sorry Alec Baldwin, this isn't about you, please resume your Words With Friends. This ALEC is far more scandalous.
**Full Disclosure: At the time of the ALEC Exposed project's public release in mid-2011, Steve Horn was an employee of Center for Media and Democracy.
lara jorgensen replied on Permalink
Rio +20 Earth Summit drops Climate Change...
From Reuters;
"Jan 24 (Reuters) - Representatives from around the world gather in Rio in June to try to hammer out goals for sustainable development at a U.N. conference designed to avoid being tripped up by the intractable issue of climate change.
But there is concern in the lead-up to the conference, known as Rio+20 or the Earth Summit, that it risks ending up as all talk and little action.
In an attempt to avoid too much confrontation, the conference will focus not on climate change but on sustainable development - making sure economies can grow now without endangering resources and the environment for future generations."
Imo, this is also related to why 'balance' is now being taught in classrooms where environmental issues are concerned. What Desmog is calling 'anti-science' is the attempt by teachers to offset what is thought by many to be the wild claims made by Climate alarmists.
Common sense is finally taking hold.
What facts are you using? Seriously… you call me an alarmist while providing zero information yourself. Zero Nada Nothing, Zippo.
I have been hunting for a SINGLE fact disproving global warming for over a year now, and I have found NONE.
So please please please explain to me what makes you think all of our best and brightest are wrong. Maybe in the US they give out PHDs like lollipops but in Canada they do not.
Be specific and be concise in your evidence.
On the other note, I can see how they want to take Climate Change of the table simply becuase they don't want a bunch of oil mongers to take the whole conference off the rails. The oil companies sure make this a devisive issue.
"I can see how they want to take Climate Change of the table simply becuase they don't want a bunch of oil mongers to take the whole conference off the rails"
Really Oilman? Are you being serious? It's the 20th anniversary of the Rio Earth Summit and they are not going to be talking about Global Warming!
I imagine it has nothing to do with all the failed predictions from the likes of James Hansen et al, and maybe that the planet hasn't been warming for the past decade or more. No, that couldn't be it, right?
No that is not right
'…maybe that the planet hasn't been warming for the past decade or more.'
And your evidence for that is found where, exactly?
Those who make such claims are simply liars, or simpletons who believe the liars.
Snake-oil salesmen just love folk like you.
Where did you read that? What is your source?
I know I know… Fox Mulder told you….
If you're sooo right, why don't you show Hansen's Graph from your sources? Perhaps you could read his paper? Let me help you, here's Hansen for you…
And because the skeptics here don't like Skeptical Science… here's the original paper;
(I suppose its annoying for you to see this with all the original graphs….)
Imagine if American economists were that accurate? Imagine predicting global economic collapse… The US wouldn't be in the miserable shape its in now that's for sure.
[Hmm… I think the reason the deniers out there don't like Skeptical Science is that they do a good job of making this stuff understandable to people are not scientific. Therefore I must quote it more.]
Common sense?
If science relied upon common sense then we would still be trying to get our fire from lightning struck tinder.
Any attempt to get so called balance in the classroom is a straight out attempt to pollute young minds just as with creationism v. evolution for the evidence for anthropogenic driving of climate is overwhelming as this make clear:
ALEC are moving on this as their favoured tactics, until now, are faltering as the ever more desperate machinations of the likes of Patrick Michaels demonstrates. Check out at Skeptical Science (linked to above), Deltoid or Rabbet Run for his latest ducking and diving whilst uttering nonsense.
Your use of a term such as 'alarmist' betrays the pedigree of your info sources, or rather brainwashing.
The funny thing is...
…that they only really need one good solid fact. Yet they cannot find a single one at all.
Here's what the Conservative Harper Government says is happening.
chas rasper replied on Permalink
Nice to see the down-voters are out in force to rabidly squash any deviation from the status warming quo.
Fwiw, it's not up to poor Lara to prove anything if she doesn't agree with the CAGW religion. It's all on the high priests of climate themselves to prove that it is in fact happening, ok?
Please stop asking ordinary, free-thinking citizens to 'prove' why they are not buying in to the hype. And PLEASE stop using the SS website as your 'proof'! That place is second only to Climate Progress for the most irresponsible claims regarding anything climate related.
You sound very religious to me.
You aren't arguing about what you agree.
Agreeance implies facts. Since you can produce none… you are talking about your beliefs in a religious sense.
Which is fine, but it should be presented as such. Like the XFiles, God, Santa Clause, and the Tooth Fairy. You should own your beliefs. (That's what I believe anyways.)
"Santa Clause told me its all fine.", is certainly a stance I can accept and understand.
"I'm too lazy (pretty?) to do math, so I don't think any of this is real.", is certainly a stance I can accept and understand.
"I'm not smart enough to understand anything.", ditto.
I use Skeptical Science as proof for a reason. After painfully slowly debunking, multiple skeptic claims (by reading the original papers), Skeptical Science came up agreeing with me. It took a good 6 months before I came to realize they were parroting me, not the other way around. Even though I understand and can follow much sicence, its still painfully difficult to read and understand. Since then Skeptical Science has become something as a crutch for me.
The other reason I quote skeptical science is that in scientific circles it is common practice to reference your sources so others can see where you are getting your information from and\or refute it.
And another thing
It is Skeptical Science not SS. You make yourself look a jerk by using that shorthand.
Free thinking citizens can think what they like but they are not entitled to their own facts. That is why you detest Skeptical Science and Climate Progress - it is easier to shoot the messenger than defeat the scientific understanding by a fact based counter.
Here is evidence for the warming that you people try to say has not happened:
You cannot hand-wave evidence away and Skeptical Science provides study based evidence to support its arguments and refute those of the few poor scientists still trying to play down the issue to continue the delay on action - action already 15-20 years late. Time that humans and all other species on earth could ill afford.
Actually they don't like any sources.
I've noticed that right from the start. Deniers don't like you to present any sort of link. I remember the first time one got mad at me. "Well! If you're going to use the internet against me!"
Its about keeping people ignorant.
During the fall of apartheidt in South Africa, the ANC would attack and kill children who went to school. Presumeably the population is easier to control that way.
[PS. I have the BEST graph iPhone app…]
chas rasper replied on Permalink
Almost forgot.....
For those that haven't heard;
Rio +20 Drops Earth Summit drops Climate Change from it's agenda this year.
Ideological blinkers betrayed by
Your ideological blinkers are betrayed by your language, such as 'CAGW' and 'religion'.
A knowledge of anthropogenic climate change is based on fact and understanding, it is not a belief.
It is you guys that are trying to 'believe', or make others 'believe', that climate change is a hoax.
As at the link posted above there are hundreds of independent lines of evidence that global warming is real (have you noticed what is happening in polar regions and to the seasons - farmers have and those living above 60 degrees) and science of more than a century long tells us why.
If you have an argument that has not been rebutted here (and I suggest watching that video presented in the latest post):
then you have maybe something of value to say otherwise I would stop showing your ignorance or pretend ignorance because you are a fifth columnist for the pollution industries.
There is no longer any excuse for repeating the tired old mantra presented by you here.
chas rasper replied on Permalink
"No Need to Panic About Global Warming "
16 leading scientists contributed to an artlicle released today in the WSJ.
"Perhaps the most inconvenient fact is the lack of global warming for well over 10 years now. This is known to the warming establishment, as one can see from the 2009 "Climategate" email of climate scientist Kevin Trenberth: "The fact is that we can't account for the lack of warming at the moment and it is a travesty that we can't." But the warming is only missing if one believes computer models where so-called feedbacks involving water vapor and clouds greatly amplify the small effect of CO2.
The lack of warming for more than a decade—indeed, the smaller-than-predicted warming over the 22 years since the U.N.'s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) began issuing projections—suggests that computer models have greatly exaggerated how much warming additional CO2 can cause. Faced with this embarrassment, those promoting alarm have shifted their drumbeat from warming to weather extremes, to enable anything unusual that happens in our chaotic climate to be ascribed to CO2."
Of course, everyone here will deride the source saying the Wall Street Journal is owned by 'Big Oil' or something but please take the time to read the article. These are real scientists standing together against the vast spin machine that has taken over much of what some still call "Science". Many are still too afraid to go against the establishmnent, for fear of being blacklisted.
"Although the number of publicly dissenting scientists is growing, many young scientists furtively say that while they also have serious doubts about the global-warming message, they are afraid to speak up for fear of not being promoted—or worse. They have good reason to worry. In 2003, Dr. Chris de Freitas, the editor of the journal Climate Research, dared to publish a peer-reviewed article with the politically incorrect (but factually correct) conclusion that the recent warming is not unusual in the context of climate changes over the past thousand years. The international warming establishment quickly mounted a determined campaign to have Dr. de Freitas removed from his editorial job and fired from his university position. Fortunately, Dr. de Freitas was able to keep his university job.
This is not the way science is supposed to work, but we have seen it before—for example, in the frightening period when Trofim Lysenko hijacked biology in the Soviet Union. Soviet biologists who revealed that they believed in genes, which Lysenko maintained were a bourgeois fiction, were fired from their jobs. Many were sent to the gulag and some were condemned to death."
That article is text book Climate Denier.
This article is about 16 stupid illiterate scientists…
Presumably they can read and write can't they? All they need to do is publish a single fact… And there are crappy journals willing to do that… If its good… it would get read, and this whole global warming thing would blow over.
So, fact, you are quoting the dumbest scientists on earth.
Short Time Line.. standard tactic. When you look at the long time line its very very clear.
Claiming CO2 isn't danagerous in small quantities. I just wish everyone who agrees would put their money where their mouth is, and take two Arsenic pills and tell me how they feel in the morning.
Claiming CO2 helps plants grow. Ignorning the fact that Texas Farmers are appearently too stupid to grow plants while being awash in plant food. You need water and appropriate temperatures. Perhaps if Texas put a tarp over the entire state, and pumped in water from an external source, they could reproduce the conditions in hydroponic farms.
In any case. No links or facts are offered by that opinion piece. The only established fact is that they have found 16 scientists who cannot write.
David B. Benson replied on Permalink
Only one
There is only only science of climate, climatology. There are a variety of cranks each of how has his own bizarre idea which he defneds against climatology and all the other cranks.
Its rather more like the flat earthers than the creationists, although the latter also come in a variety of flavors; lotsa cranks around.


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A lot of people cook a turkey for Thanksgiving. A few people even raise their own. But I'm probably the only person in Addison County who has spent the past week giving her Thanksgiving turkey physical therapy.
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February 7, 1988
Daisy Lane Williams
Caddo- Funeral for Daisy Lane Williams, 93, of Caddo, who died Friday in a Durant hospital, will be at 2 p.m. Monday in the Caddo United Methodist Church with the Revs. Gina Teel, John Chand, and Bob Johnson officiating. Burial will be at 4:30 p.m. in Rose Hill Cemetery in Ardmore with the Rev. Argus Hamilton Jr. officiating under the direction of Coffey Funeral Home in Durant.
Born March 13, 1894 in Atoka County in Oklahoma Indian Territory, to Bartholomew and Frances Lane, she married Cowboy Pink Williams April 5, 1913 in Liberty, Okla. he died in 1976. She was a long-time resident of Bryan County, a member of the United Methodist Church of Caddo, the eastern Star, Caddo Music and Literary Club, and the Home Extension Club. Her husband was Lt. Governor of Oklahoma from 1955 to 1959 and state treasurer from 1962 to 1966.
Survivors include a son, Robert L. Williams of Ardmore; a daughter, Elaine Braly of Durant; four grandchildren and 10 great-grandchildren.
Memorials can be made to the United Methodist Church of Caddo.
December 1999
Enrollee Daisy Williams Saw Century of Changes
by Charlotte Braly Schuepbach, granddaughter
Daisy Lane Williams was an amazing woman whose 94 years witnessed many wondrous events in the history of her people, state and country. She was the granddaughter of Jincy James, who made the long, difficult trip on the Trail of Tears from Mississippi to Skullyville, Indian Territory in the 1830's. Jincy married Impson Jones in 1847. His brother was Wilson N. Jones, who became one of the wealthiest Choctaws and Principal Chief.
Jincy taught school. She gave birth to Frances on November 12, 1854 in Skullyvilles. When Frances was 20 she married a forty-year-old Irish immigrant named Bartholomew Lane who was a section foreman for the Missouri, Kansas, and Texas (the Katy) railroad. They lived north of Caddo.
Daisy, the ninth child of Frances and Bartholomew, was born in 1894. She bridged two different cultures, two different religions, two different ages in our country's development. She was born to a Choctaw mother who sang to her in her Indian tongue. In her later years, Daisy would sing Choctaw hymns to her won grandchildren. Daisy resembled her father in looks with auburn hair and sky blue eyes and ivory skin. She learned Gaelic form her father.
She learned of his homeland and of the hardships suffered here and of the beauty of the Emerald Isle. Daisy learned of the Methodist Church from her mother; Catholicism from her father. She learned tolerance and acceptance and understanding through love from both parents.
She was born in an age that saw families homesteading in covered wagons; she lived to see Neil Armstrong walk on the moon. She was born in the agrarian age when families depended on the land for life; she died in the industrial age when almost no families relied on the land for their well being.
She saw the Choctaw Nation cease and the state of Oklahoma emerge. She received her allotment near her family's farm north of Caddo.
She received her education at Murray State College in Tishomingo. She studied music, literature, Greek, and Latin. She lived with the family of William Murray who later became governor of Oklahoma. She also attended Oklahoma Presbyterian College in Durant. The pump organ that she played is still in the family. Daisy liked fashionable clothes so she would sew dresses copied from patterns taken from catalogs.
One afternoon as she was riding down the main street of Caddo, Douglas Williams, the owner of the furniture store, stopped Daisy. He said that he would trade his son James for the horse that Daisy was riding.
Daisy laughed and said that she would have to check James out first. She liked what she saw. he was a soft spoken man from South Carolina with blue eyes that danced as he talked. They married in 1912. They built a home on her Indian allotment north of Caddo. They had three children, Rose Elaine, Edward, and Robert.
In 1952, James Pinckney Williams (Cowboy Pink) was elected as Lieutenant Governor of Oklahoma. The couple moved to Oklahoma City. As wife of the Lt. Gov., Daisy entertained Eleanor Roosevelt, Bess Truman, Robert Kerr, Carl Albert, Sen. John F. Kennedy, John Wayne, among others.
Cowboy Pink Williams also served as State Treasurer. They returned to their ranch in 1966 after retiring from politics.
Daisy enjoyed traveling. She and her husband visited most of the states, Canada and Mexico. She visited Ireland four times seeking her father's family in the River Kenmare area. She was a member of the Caddo Music and Literary Club and the Civic and Cemetery Club. She leased her ranch to Reba McEntire early in the singer's career.
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We know you can't wait to get both your thumbs on the NGP; for now, you'll just have to talk about it, and other video games, in Kotaku's official forum.
We know you can't wait to get both your thumbs on the NGP; for now, you'll just have to talk about it, and other video games, in Kotaku's official forum.
Is your overconfidence your weakness? Or is it your faith in your friends? Find the answer inside Kotaku's official space for discussing all things video games.
This is Kotaku's official forum for you to talk about video games. This paragraph also is a palindrome. Emordnilap a si osla hpargarap siht. Semag oediv tuoba klat ot uoy rof murof laiciffo sukatok si siht.
This is Kotaku's official forum. This, apparently, is the official way we're introducing it this month. Feel free to talk about video games all you want in here.
Get what you wanted for Christmas? Get what you didn't want? More importantly, what did you give? If you gave or got a Nintendo 64, welcome to 1996! And to TAY, Kotaku's official open thread.
The Senate vote yesterday means we can all be openly TAY today. Video games - what's on your mind? You're entitled to both ask and tell.
Every kiss begins with Kay, and every week begins with TAY. Nothing captures the radiant luster of your video game conversation like our one-of-a-kind princess-cut open thread.
See, by pretending to give you permission to talk about video games, I give myself the illusion of authority over your conversation.
Because you've had enough fun in dead-end conversations with weird relatives and neighbors you only see once a year, we're gonna let you talk about games to your heart's content.
There's something about TAY that makes everybody horny. Everybody in this picture horny, anyway. Get it? Because ... they have ... horns on their ... never mind. You guys talk about games or somethin'.
It's Sunday at 8 a.m., your regularly-scheduled TAY-time. Remember to replace your divots and wash your balls.
Not sure that we should be making Infected jokes where the Columbian Exchange is involved. Blankets anyone? Too soon? It was 500 years ago.
Fleeing from the Cylon tyranny, the last battlestar, Kotaktica, leads a ragtag, fugitive fleet, on a lonely quest - a shining open thread known as TAY.
Time to talk about games, about play, about Our Gang! Man, I love Our Gang.
Talk about under-served demographics... and video games right here in our open forum.
Who's the thread that won't cop out when there's games to talk about ...? TAY!
Form feet and legs! Form arms and torso! I'll form the head, and you talk amongst yourselves! GO KOTAKU TAY FORCE! Quick, someone hum or beatbox the theme for me.
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You know what sucks about going to the internet for inspiration and workout routines? You can't escape bullshit fitspo blogs, websites, and "advice". I say bullshit because it's not fitspo (fitness inspiration), it's just fat hatred or worse, pro-ana or pro-mia (pro anorexia or pro bulimia) stuff woven into talk about fitness. It's frustrating when your goal isn't to lose weight but rather to make your body function better. That's all I want to do. I'm in my 30s now and that means things slow down a little and joints tighten up, and I don't want to be hobbling around right NOW because what will that mean in twenty years?
The problem, again, is that almost every single place I look online for new workout ideas, I'm overwhelmed with WOULD YOU RATHER WORKOUT OR WOULD YOU RATHER BE A BIG FAT FATTY and honestly, as a big fat fatty, that kind of hurts my feelings. Because you know what? I have a really awesome life. It's fulfilling and happy and more than I ever thought I'd achieve. The blanket assumption of fat = unhappy is annoying to many, many fat people. NEWSFLASH. We are not all miserable and hoping and praying that we'll one day find the silver bullet to our fatness. No. Some of us are just fat. Deal with it.
Today I found this winner of an image on Pinterest and it REALLY PISSED ME OFF. Both of those things fit into my busy schedule. And because both of those things fit into my schedule, and the schedules of other fatties like me, my BFF and I are going to start a new blog. For exercising fatties. There will be no bullshit diet talk. There will be no YOU SHOULD EXERCISE TO BE THIN. There will be MOVE YOUR BODY IN ANYWAY YOU CAN BECAUSE IT FEELS GOOD and EATING LOTS OF CALORIES IS INCREDIBLY IMPORTANT WHEN UNDERTAKING A DEMANDING WORKOUT REGIMEN. Because it is. OMG you guys it so is.
For years and years, I struggled with food. Being a woman, I was taught from a very young age that fat was not desirable or good in any way, shape, or form. It never came from my parents, a fact for which I am eternally grateful, but it came from pretty much every other source. Schoolmates, strangers, magazines. So I developed a really unhealthy relationship with food. I developed a really unhealthy obsession with not eating. Because one summer, I discovered that not eating worked really well at keeping the ol' poundage off. I spent a lot of time beating myself up because I caved to my hunger pangs like some sort of pansy and then not only did I eat, I binged, and thus began the starve-binge-starve-binge-starve-binge cycle.
And then one day, I had had enough. I had just finished that stupid Special K diet (I advise you to never, under any circumstance, undertake that diet. You are starving yourself and depriving your body of seriously needed nutrients.) and I was sick. My BFF knows more about this because she witnessed it as an outsider but I was sick. Physically, mentally, and emotionally. I had had enough. It took a lot of work, it took a lot of tears, but I finally started to separate my thoughts about food from the act of eating.
It's been years since that happened and it isn't easy. Still. I slip back into it, especially when I'm stressed out, but I'm better at catching myself and making myself eat when I'm hungry. I eat as intuitively as I'm able (like, I've been craving shrimp for like two weeks and have yet to partake in any UGH I WANT SHRIMP SO BADLY) and ignore as much dieting talk as I can. Because when I listen or when I let it bore its way into my psyche, I fall off the wagon. I start restricting. I start craving the headache and the dizziness and the little thrum of adrenaline that shoots through my veins. And I can't live like that.
So this is why we're starting the blog. To give people a break from the diet talk. To talk about how to realistically workout when your goal is movement and not weight loss. To talk about how you will be hungry A LOT ALL OF THE TIME when you workout everyday. To talk about how you need to eat when you get hungry because otherwise you're depriving your body of much-needed energy. Because it's been a challenge for me, undertaking a workout routine and dealing with the onslaught of hunger. More than anything, it has taught me that I have so much farther to go in my battle against my disordered thinking. I wasn't eating enough before. Most days I still don't eat enough. I'm working on it, but I think that's why our forthcoming blog is important. There are so many people like me who go online to find inspiration, help, or ideas, and they're met with all of this fake fitspo that does more harm than good. And in the meantime, if you're looking for someone to chat with about working out that doesn't have anything to do with weight loss, send me an email!


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Foundries and OSATs Driving Taiwan Investment
By Clark Tseng, senior manager, Market Analysis, SEMI Research and Statistics
For the semiconductor industry, 2012 started out with a mixed bag of results in the first quarter. Foundry and memory makers were mired in a market trough that continued from the weak second half of 2011, but they did see light at the end of the tunnel. Demand started to turn around in the late first quarter of 2012 and picked up fairly quickly in the second quarter. Still, concerns over macroeconomics softness and European sovereign-debt loom ahead. We expect market growth will vary quite a bit among industry different segments this year. Among all the segments, the foundry segment is expected to enjoy healthier growth boosted by strong demand from the mobile sectors and for smart devices. The memory segment is seeing mixed results as the NAND flash market expects modest growth while DRAM is still losing money but stabilizing after Elpida's bankruptcy.
For the Taiwan market, the capital equipment market is expected to reach about US$ 9 billion in 2012, an increase from the $8.5 billion spent in 2011. This is an improvement from outlooks issued earlier in the first quarter as foundries and OSAT players in Taiwan coincidentally raised their capital expenditure this year in view of a surge in demand. Investments from foundries are focusing on building advanced nodes capacities in order to meet strong demand for 28nm process. TSMC alone raised their capex from $6 billion to over $8 billion in 2012 just to catch up with the 28nm demands.
On the OSAT side, overall Taiwan backend equipment market is expected to be about $1.4 billion in 2012. Major OSATs such as ASE, SPIL and Powertech are speeding up their advanced packaging investment in Taiwan to fulfill increased demand from mobile devices.
We expect the investment momentum in Taiwan could continue into 2013 especially from foundries. Both TSMC and UMC have embarked on new multi-billion 300mm fab construction in the second quarter of this year in Tainan aiming to provide sufficient 28nm and below capacity in the years to come.
For semiconductor materials, worldwide semiconductor material market is forecasted grow to $49 billion in 2012, up from $48 billion in 2011. Taiwan has surpassed Japan as the largest material consumption market in the world in 2011 reaching $9.7 billion and is forecast to surpass $10 billion in 2012. Taiwan will also take lead in packaging material market with over $6 billion revenue.
In the past decade, foundry and DRAM were the two pillars of Taiwan semiconductor manufacturing industry that drew billions of investment. With the consolidation of DRAM industry, the focus now turns even more sharply to the foundry companies. In the longer run, memory sector will still play a key role in Taiwan semiconductor industry. The DRAM-centric production will gradually diversify into NAND/NOR flash and other types of memory production. With complete supply chain in place, Taiwan will still serve as an important manufacturing base for memory chips.
Some New Investment Highlights in Taiwan
Fab 12 Phase 6 - Under construction, production to start in 2013
Fab 14 Phase 5 - Broke ground in April 2012
Fab 15 Phase 3 - Under construction, production to start in 2013
Fab 12A P5/P6 - Broke ground in May 2012
Fab 12A P7/P8 - planned
New facilities under construction in Kaoshiung and ChungLi
Capacity expansion in Changhua facility
Accelerate logic IC assembly & testing investment
Acquired facility in Tainan for future expansion
Capacity expansion primary for Communication ICs and CMOS image sensors
HB-LED fab in Chunan - Groundbreaking expected in 2H 2012
For more information about the Taiwan market, participate in SEMICON Taiwan (www.semicontaiwan.org) from September 5-7 in Taipei.
This event will feature numerous theme pavilions focusing on Advanced Packaging/Test, LED, MEMS, Green Management, Secondary Market, Other Countries and more. Forums and programs include System in Package (SiP) Global Summit, IC Design Forum, CEO Forum, and more.
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Pavelski nets winner in third for Sharks
San Jose, CA – Joe Pavelski scored the winner late in the third period as the San Jose Sharks took a 2-1 decision over the Calgary Flames on Friday.
Dan Boyle scored the other goal while Antti Niemi made 23 stops for the Sharks, who have won seven straight games. With 46 points, the team moved a point ahead of Los Angeles for fourth place in the Western Conference.
"As a group, we're playing well," said Pavelski. "Everyone's contributing."
Mikael Backlund scored the lone goal of the game for the Flames, who have lost 12 straight games on the road. Miikka Kiprusoff stopped 39 shots in the loss.
The Sharks tied the game at 1-1 just 2:40 into the third period as Logan Couture sent a pass from the right boards to the slot where Boyle's short slap shot sailed past Kiprusoff.
"It's tough at the end of the game," said Kiprusoff. "I didn't get my leg out far enough."
In the latter stages of the third period, San Jose fought for the puck behind the Calgary net and got it out front. Pavelski eventually wrapped it in from the left side with 2:06 to play.
Calgary got Kiprusoff out of the net with 1 1/2 minutes left, but was unable to net the equalizer.
The only other goal of this game came with 2:05 to play in the first period while Calgary was on the power play as a right circle faceoff win saw Backlund eventually wrist the puck home from the top of the right circle to give the Flames a 1-0 lead.
Game Notes
San Jose hosts Dallas on Sunday ... Calgary continues its three-game road trip in Vancouver on Saturday ... San Jose took two of three from the Flames this season ... Calgary went 1-for-2 on the power play while San Jose was 0-for-3.


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The European Union and Cape Verde enter into a mobility partnership
Jacques Barrot, the Vice-President of the European Commission responsible for justice, freedom and security, Louis Michel, the Commissioner responsible for development policy, Dragutin Mate, the Slovenian Minister for Home Affairs and Livio Fernandes Lopes, the Minister for Home Affairs of the Republic of Cape Verde, today launched, in cooperation with the appropriate ministers of the Member States concerned (Spain, France, Luxembourg and Portugal) a mobility partnership between the European Union and Cape Verde, by signing a Joint Declaration in the margins of the Justice and Home Affairs Council.
Vice-President Barrot declared his support for such partnerships in the following terms: "Through these mobility partnerships, the European Union is taking practical steps towards managing migration in a coordinated and responsible fashion, which should better equip both the Union and its partners to meet the challenges posed by migration and to take full advantage of the opportunities it offers".
Mr Michel, the Commissioner responsible for development policy, declared,"In signing this Declaration, we are committing ourselves, together with Cape Verde, to stepping up our dialogue and our cooperation in the field of migration. I am thinking in particular of legal migration, strengthening the link between migration and development and the fight against illegal immigration. This Declaration is of great political significance. In initiating this pilot mobility partnership, we are paving the way for joint management of migration that is responsible, humane and beneficial to all."
Mobility partnerships, which are currently in a pilot phase, are new instruments designed to give practical expression to the partnership between the European Union and third countries so as to ensure the responsible joint management of migratory flows in the interests of the Union, its partners and the migrants themselves. Mobility partnerships should also be seen in the context of the implementation of the Global Approach developed by the European Union in the field of migration. The Republic of Cape Verde and the Republic of Moldova are the first two countries with which the Union is entering into such a commitment.
The partnership reflects Cape Verde's expectations, particularly as regards facilitation short stay for its nationals on European Union territory, and those of the European Union as regards combating illegal immigration and readmission.
The partnership provides for the setting up in Praia of a joint centre which will accept applications for short-stay visas, promoting improvements in the arrangements for the movement of people and legal migration, and building Cape Verde's capacity to manage migration, notably by developing a centre designed to implement measures for the information, integration and protection of migrants and returnees. There are also plans to improve the efficiency of workers' migration procedures and to develop job opportunities both in Cape Verde and abroad.
The partnership also provides for initiatives to maximise the benefits of migration for development and, in particular, to do more to enable the Cape Verdian diaspora to contribute to the development of its country of origin, notably by encouraging transfers of money and skills and facilitating circular migration and/or return, so as to mitigate the impact of the emigration of highly qualified individuals.
As regards combating illegal immigration, the partnership is designed to combat illegal migration and trafficking in human beings and to strengthen management of the borders and document security, notably by building Cape Verde's capacity in the field of maritime security, the use of new information and communication technologies and training in checking documents. Initiatives relating to border controls should also be facilitated by the establishment of an operational arrangement between Cape Verde and Frontex.
There will also be cooperation designed to help Cape Verde establish a system of asylum in line with international standards.
En décembre 2007, le Conseil de l'Union européenne a invité la Commission à engager, en collaboration avec les États membres et la Présidence, un dialogue avec le Cap Vert en vue de lancer un partenariat pilote pour la mobilité.
Il s'agit, pour l'Union européenne et le Cap Vert, de poursuivre et d'intensifier leur dialogue et leur coopération dans les dimensions essentielles qui fondent l'approche globale dans le domaine de la migration, à savoir une meilleure gestion des migrations légales, le renforcement du lien entre « migration » et « développement » et la lutte contre l'immigration illégale.
Les discussions engagées entre la Commission européenne, les Etats membres intéressés et la République du Cap Vert, ont abouti à une Déclaration d'intention, de nature politique, contenant en annexe une série d'initiatives concrètes proposées par les signataires, qui, mises en œuvre de façon concertée, donneront une expression concrète au partenariat. Frontex et la Fondation Européenne pour la Formation participent également au partenariat en leur qualité d'agences communautaires. Le partenariat est basé sur le dialogue et la réciprocité et demeure ouvert à toute nouvelle initiative supplémentaire ainsi qu'à tout Etat Membre souhaitant y participer.
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