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Why The DOJ's Decision To Not Read Dzhokhar Tsarnaev His Miranda Rights Is A Terrible Idea
from the this-is-just-stupid dept
When Graham made his statement, many got up in arms, and argued that Graham was unfamiliar with the Constitution. While I more or less agree with the basics of that, much of that anger probably should have been directed at the Obama administration, which officially created an exception to the Miranda rules (unilaterally, without court approval) a few years back (apparently in October of 2010, though news about it only came out in March 2011).
And, indeed, after Dzhokhar was apprehended, the DOJ said that it was not reading him his Miranda Rights because it was invoking a "public safety exception" with the argument being that they needed to get him to talk to make sure the public wasn't in danger. As others have pointed out, this is a horrifically short sighted decision that can only backfire.
- Suspending basic rights and due process out of fear is exactly the kind of thing that people attacking the US want to see. Showing that we can't live up to our most basic rights and principles in the face of a terrorist attack gives those who hate us that much more incentive to keep going. It's not just a sign of weakness, but an encouragement for those who seek to undermine our society. In fact, it takes a step in that very direction by showing that the government is willing to throw out the rules and principles when it gets a little scared by a teenager.
- The slippery slope here is steep and extremely slick. There are no rules on when the DOJ can suddenly ignore Miranda. It gets to decide by itself. This is an organization with a long history of abusing its power, now allowed to wipe out one of the key protections for those they're arresting, whenever it sees fit. The whole point of the ruling in Miranda is that it should not be up to law enforcement. A person's rights are their rights.
- The part that really gets me: if anything, this opens up a really, really stupid line of defense for Dzokhar Tsarnaev if he ever faces a criminal trial. His lawyers will undoubtedly claim that the arrest and interrogation was unconstitutional due to the lack of (or delay in) Miranda rights. Why even open up that possibility of a defense for him?
- The guy has lived in the US for many years -- chances are he actually knows the fact that he has the right to refuse to speak. So, we're violating our principles, basic Constitutional due process, and opening up a massive opening for a defense, to avoid telling him something he likely already knows.


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Knysna Hope Spot
Knysna is one of the top holiday destinations in South Africa as well as the top ranked estuary. Knysna now stands in line to be chosen as one of only six international Hope Spots in South Africa and the only estuarine one in the world.
Hope Spots are places of importance that are critical to the health of our oceans. Areas like this are important for maintaining biodiversity and critical habitats. Like many other hope spots in the world, Knysna is already protected as a National Park, but with the support of Mission Blue and the Sustainable Seas Trust, the fundraising capabilities for existing and proposed projects will be enforced.
Knysna has great diversity both on land an in the estuary. From the Knysna Lourie in the Afromontane forest to the Knysna Seahorse that enjoys the only sustained population found in the estuary. Estuaries are essential areas for at least part of the breeding cycle for up to 80% of coastal fish species.
On the 7th of December 2014, Dr Sylvia Earle launched the Knysna Hope Spot and placed it on the international marine conservation map.
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HARTSVILLE, S.C. – The Coker College wrestling team will return to the friendly confines of the Timberlake-Lawton Gymnasium for a tri-match on Saturday (Jan. 11) against Brewton-Parker College and King University. Live coverage of all three matches will be available at www.cokercobras.com.
Ranked No. 14 in Region 2 according to the most recent NCAA Division II Regional Rankings, the Cobras are looking to stay undefeated in dual matches at home. So far this season they are 4-2 in dual matches. Leading the way for the Cobras will be Austin Akins. The 285-pound sophomore is currently ranked No. 6 in the region in his weight class. Akins is tied with Charlie Huff at the 133-pound division for the most wins (15) on the team.
Brewton-Parker is an NAIA school out of Mount Vernon, Ga. The Barons are 2-1 in dual matches this season. They defeated Darton State 20-19, lost to Belmont Abbey 30-12 and defeated Mercer 34-6.
King comes to Coker ranked No. 10 in Region 2. This will be the fist dual match of the season for the Tornado. At 133-pounds D'Marcus Spencer leads the way, the senior is ranked No. 4 in the region in his weight class.
The tri-match will begin at 10 a.m. with Coker taking on Brewton-Parker. At 11:30 a.m. Brewton-Parker and King will take the mat and finally Coker and King will do battle at 1 p.m. Tickets for the day can be purchased at the door. Cost is $5 for adults, $3 for students and, free for all Coker faculty, staff and students.


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Red Velvet Chocolate Chip Muffins
It's Labor Day Weekend. The official (but not really) end of summer.
A summer filled with memorable moments—some heartbreaking and some heartwarming.
Earthquakes, hurricanes, 5-day power outages, and monumental personal loss for many of my food blogger friends. Foodbloggers uniting in a way that helped bolster my faith in the goodness and charity of people. Many, many 8-second hugs.
There were many moments to cherish. The kid turned 21 and the beach house was filled with his twenty-something friends enjoying the surf, perfect weather and social scene. My husband and I spent time riding bikes, walking the beach, enjoying the sun and shore breezes.
Local travel took me to the Big Summer Potluck in rural Pennsylvania to spend a very cleansing weekend with friends—now more than just Twitter acquaintances—from across the country. I met up with some GF friends in Virginia and reacquainted myself with college buddies another weekend.
Doing all that and submerging myself in my day job consumed most of my waking minutes. So, needless to say, I neglected this blog and didn't experiment as much as usual with cooking and baking. Some of the dishes I did come up with never made it here. No time for photos and writing up recipes and thinking about what I might write.
Truth be told I needed to focus on some other things so no regrets. But, I did miss the community that having a blog can bring so I hope to return to sharing recipes—and life—with all of you more regularly now that things are calming down.
Red Velvet Chocolate Chip Muffins
I'm enjoying my third season as a Community Supported Garden member. We get bags of freshly harvested organic vegetables every two weeks. It all comes from a spectacular little farm in western New Jersey.
We've been getting lots of beets—they're a little on the small side. This week while the power was out as a result of Hurricane Irene I roasted the little babies on the grill. Scrubbed, wrapped in parchment, and then in foil they were roasted on the side with no flame with the grill cover closed. It took about as long as it takes in the oven—maybe 45-60 minutes. They were sweet and perfect. Some adorned my salad but I used a few for this recipe and was very pleased with how they turned out.
Now for the recipe…
Set the oven to 375 degrees. Prepare the muffin pan with liners. Makes about 12 cupcake-sized muffins.
Make a faux egg (flax gel) by whisking together:
1 tablespoon ground flax seeds
3 tablespoons warm water
In a large mixing bowl whisk together:
1 cup GF multi-blend flour (I tried out King Arthur's GF Flour Blend)
1 cup blanched almond flour (Honeyville)
1/2 cups organic coconut or cane sugar
1/3 cup cocoa powder
1½ teaspoons baking powder
½ teaspoon baking soda
½ teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon instant coffee granules (like Starbucks Via) - optional
In a 2-cup measuring cup whisk together:
½ cup milk (unsweetened almond, hemp or other non-dairy alternative)
¾ cups beet/applesauce puree*
1 teaspoon vanilla
1 teaspoon cider vinegar
Faux flax egg prepared earlier
1/3 cup grapeseed or other vegetable oil
Pour about half the wet mixture into the mixed dry ingredients and give it a few turns with a spoon or silicone spatula. Add the rest of the liquid and stir until combined.
Add to the batter and mix in:
½ cup Enjoy Life chocolate mini chips
Spoon into the paper liners filling them about ¾ full. Bake for 20-22 minutes or until a toothpick comes out clean. Cool and enjoy.
*I pureed three smallish roasted beets for this recipe. It did not quite come to ¾ cups of puree so I made up the difference with applesauce. You will probably need 3 or 4 medium sized beets to get ¾ cup of puree.
And, if you want to check out some other beet or muffin recipes try these:
Ruby Red Beet Cupcakes from Melissa at Gluten-Free for Good (GF and CF)
Apple Banana Carrot (ABC) Muffins from Shirley at Gluten-Free Easily (GF)
Hearty Maple Cinnamon Muffins from Alisa at Alisa Cooks (GF, CF, EF, and Vegan)
Pink Breakfast Bowl from Ricki at Diet, Dessert and Dogs (GF, CF, EF, Vegan and Sugar-Free)
Carrot Mini Muffins from Lillian at Lillian's Test Kitchen (GF and CF)
Beet and Orange Salad with Basil Vinaigrette from Alat at Tasty Eats at Home (GF, CF, EF, and Vegan)
Golden Beet, Persimmon and Pomegranate Salad from Tia at Glugle Gluten Free (GF, EF, and CF)
And a recipe that's not GF yet very interesting and begging for someone to make it GF!:
Asparagus Muffins with Cashew Cream from Cara at Cara's Cravings (CF, EF, Vegan and Sugar-Free)


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The South Sydney Rabbitohs are very pleased to announce the re-signings of Luke Burgess, Chris McQueen and Kyle Turner for a further two years, keeping them at the Club until at least the end of the 2015 season.
Burgess, 26, has played over 100 first grade games in the NRL and English Super League, playing in 28 games for the Rabbitohs since joining the Club midway through the 2011 season. He also earned selection in the England national squad for their end-of-season international matches in 2012.
McQueen, 25, has almost 50 NRL matches under his belt at the start of the 2013 NRL season, and was a member of the Queensland Emerging State of Origin squad this pre-season.
Turner, 21, has risen through the ranks of the National Youth Competition to earn a full time contract with the Rabbitohs in 2013, having played in the Club's NRL trials this pre-season.


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"The Worst Couple"
Season 3, Episode 4
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Dan Schneider & Matt Fleckenstein
Adam Weissman
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Sinjin invites everyone to a rehearsal for his new couples' game show, called Queries For Couples. However, when they get there, and the show is about to start, the producer who is in charge is not happy with the couples Sinjin chose because of their looks. Desperate to go on with the rehearsal, Sinjin asks André, Cat, Robbie, Tori, Beck, and Jade to compete. They are coupled off, the pairs being André and Cat, Robbie and Tori, and Beck and Jade.
When Sinjin tries to ask Beck and Jade a question, they start arguing. This causes them to get a bad score, and they get voted "The Worst Couple". This causes them to question their relationship. Beck drags Jade into the janitor's closet to discuss this with her, and they even drag Cat into their fight.
As a result of their constant arguing, their friends don't want to hang out with them anymore. They all play cards together without inviting Beck and Jade. However, Beck and Jade find out about it, and show up at the house. Realizing that their arguing is affecting everyone, Beck and Jade get in another fight, causing Trina to flirt with Beck. Eventually, Jade declares that she will leave the house and count to ten, and if Beck doesn't come out of the house after she reaches ten, they will break up. After waiting for a few numbers, Beck starts for the door, but is interrupted by Trina, who tries to hold him back. He breaks free and goes to open the door, but he hesitates, and does not open it by the time Jade reaches ten. Jade, clearly shocked, considers going back into the house, but leaves without a word. Beck is left to sadly play cards with the rest of the gang (with Trina resting on his shoulder).
It is also revealed at the end of the episode that Beck and Jade changed their status on TheSlap to 'not in a relationship'. This confirmed that the couple has truly broken up.
{C}Tori's PearPhone GX begins malfunctioning after she drops it in the toilet more than one time, and she refuses to buy another PearPhone GX, as she is waiting for the new PearPhone XT. Her GX could not charge normally so she must constantly keep it plugged in. She eventually decides to get another PearPhone GX. Unfortunately, the PearPhone XT is released the same day. Tori then drops her PearPhone in the trash can and leaves, presumably heading to the PearStore to get the PearPhone XT.
- The Season 3 opening credits include a clip from this episode.
- This video is possibly from the table read of this episode.
- When Jade says she is being kidnapped while Beck forces her into the janitor's closet, it is similar to Cat's New Boyfriend, when Cat is dragged into the janitor's closet by Tori.
- In this video, you can see the cast about to film this episode.
- This is the episode shown at the beginning of the Season 3 preview where Cat says, "Spoiler alert!!!".
- This is the second time where Robbie is convinced there is something going on between him and a Vega girl, like in Stage Fighting.
- This is the second time (after Jade Dumps Beck) that Jade and Beck's relationship is seriously questioned.
- Trina is slowly becoming aware that no one really likes her.
- André and Cat mentioned a movie about a dolphin, called Detective Blowhole. This might be a reference to the character Dr. Blowhole on another Nickelodeon show, The Penguins of Madagascar.
- As of this episode, all the main characters are single.
- The PearPhone GX is a parody of the iPhone 4.
- The PearPhone XT is a parody of the iPhone 4S.
- The part where Cat says "I smell toast" after Tori got shocked by her faulty PearPhone didn't make it into the final cut, although it was featured in the new season promo.
- At the beginning, Jade says, "If we're gonna keep talking about Tori's phone, could someone please take me to a car door so I can slam my face in it?" This is probably a reference to in Sleepover at Sikowitz's, when she said she would rather have her tongue slammed in one after Tori told Jade her character.
- When Beck, Jade, and Cat are in the janitor's closet, the sign on the ladder that says "Secret Passageway to Library" is seen from the episode The Breakfast Bunch.
- Once again, the gang play an edited version of poker.
- Recurring themes from throughout the series: Northridge girl's attraction to Rex, the gang playing poker, the students going to the janitor's closet in order to try and solve solve their problems, Jade saying "OH" in a slow, offended tone.
- This is the second time the movie Titanic is mentioned. (The first being on TheSlap in the Tori Gets Stuck photo gallery)
- There is a reference to the "controversial" environmental issue of global warming.
- Listings on Comcast once mistakened this episode's title for Jade Dumps Beck.
- This is one of a few episodes where Sinjin gets more screen time than other episodes.
- Ending tagline: Cat - "I thought this was a closet party."
- This is the second time, since Jade Dumps Beck, Beck and Jade fight and pull someone into it. The first time they brought Tori into it and the second time they pulled Cat into it. Both times they broke up.
- This episode marks that Beck and Jade are over.
- Tori's TheSlap update ends with a #Couldn'tWait, however she is not using twitter.
- Talking Reggie is a parody of the Talking Friends series.
- Queries For Couples is likely a parody of the game show The Newlywed Game.
- If Tori and Robbie got electrocuted for that long with car batteries, they would have died or been seriously in shock/pain.
- If Tori had went to get a new PearPhone GX, the same morning that the PearPhone XT was released, then she would have seen them, since the PearStore releases products when they open their doors. Although, she could've gotten it the night before, but Pear would've announced it first.
Running Gags
- Tori's PearPhone GX causing her trouble.
- Tori waiting for the new PearPhone XT release.
- Tori rambling the same speech over and over about the PearPhone XT, and why she won't buy another PearPhone GX.
- Cat talking about movies she's seen.
- Jade saying "Oh" in a slow offended and low tone.
- Trina flirting with Beck.
- Robbie calling Tori his girlfriend.
{C}Beck: I would like to have a girlfriend I can talk to without it turning into a screaming match!
{C}Jade: Yeah? Well, I'd like a boyfriend who other girls don't stare at all the time!
{C}Cat: I thought this was a closet party.
{C}Beck: How is it my fault girls stare at me?
{C}Jade: Oh, you could look worse if you wanted to!
{C}Cat: (covering ears) I'm under my bed, I'm under my bed, I'm under my bed!
{C}Beck: I can't believe how jealous you get!
{C}Jade: Oh, oh, so you think I'm ugly!
{C}Beck: WHAT?! Who sai-did I say she was ugly?!
{C}Jade: No, Cat thinks we're a perfect couple.
{C}Beck: Cat, are Jade and I a perfect couple?
{C}Jade: DON'T ANSWER THAT!
{C}Beck: ANSWER IT!
{C}Jade: SAY NOTHING!
{C}Beck: COME ON!
{C}Jade: YOU COME ON!
{C}(Cat faints)
{C}Beck: Well you made Cat faint.
Lane: Luther, why?
Trina: Are you guys gonna let her say that nobody likes me?! (Beck and Jade both turn to Tori then back)
Trina: (stroking Beck's hair) I would never fight with you.
Beck: Tell her why you didn't invite us to play.
{C}Tori: Well... 'cause...we were...planning your surprise party...?
{C}Jade: What?
{C}André: Alright! We didn't invite you guys to play because you two are always screaming at each other, and it makes everybody feel awkward, it makes Cat faint, and sometimes it makes Robbie cry!
{C}Robbie: One time! I cried one time!
{C}Rex: Six.
{C}Robbie: Six times!
{C}Beck: See?! We fight so much, even our friends don't want us around.
{C}Jade: Tori's not my friend, I only tolerate Robbie, no one likes Trina, and Cat's basically a pet.
{C}Cat: Arf!
{C}Trina: Are...you guys might break up? Because I'm not dating anyone, and I always thought Beck and I would make the perfect- (Jade throws a pillow at her, and she stands shocked)
Jade: Next time it's a hammer!
{C}Cat: Does my thumb look Spanish?
{C}Cat: What if we act out the final scene from Titanic? When the boat sinks? ...Oh my God, I just gave away the ending! Spoiler alert! (laughs).
{C}André: You know, whenever she starts talking, I think to myself, "Maybe this time it'll make sense." I'm always wrong.
Trina: (at Beck) (points at her face, winks and makes a kissy face)
Beck: Cat, we need your opinion on something.
Cat: On Global Warming?
Beck: No.
Cat: Cuz I don't think that's really happening.
Beck: Cat.
Cat: Seriously, i went to the movies the other night and it was so cold...
Beck: Cat!
Cat: Hi!
Beck: We need your opinion on us. (points at Jade)
Jade: Why don't you just ask a monkey?!?!?
Cat: I saw a movie about a monkey! He wore glasses and carried a gun.
External links
- Danwarp Video confirming episode.
- Website confirming title
- According to the iTunes summary of Season 3, Jade and Beck help Sinjin with a game show.
- Promo containing scenes from the episode.
- TVGuide confirmation of the airdate


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Dog with pancreatitis
I took my 11 yr old min pin to the vet Tues Aug 17 as she had vomited the day before and twice on the 17th. After running numerous blood tests, xrays, ekg, blood pressures, the diagnosis came back as pancreatitis. Her Amylase was unreadable, (meaning off the chart) and her lipase was 5504. She has been on IV fluid therapy and fentanyl patches for pain control. A recheck on her blood today showed her lipase at 4498, her creatinine at 2.2, and her bun at 46. The vet also ran a Spec CPL and it showed a level over 1,000. He wants to run the test again tomorrow, which is fine but I have 2 questions. He mentioned that her lipase could be elevated due to the pancreatitis and the use of the fentanyl pain patch, but also could indicate a pancreatic tumor. By running the Spec CPL again tomorrow, if the levels drop significantly is this an indication she is improving? My family is trying to decide (with tears from everyone) if we can base a decision on ongoing treatment for her if the numbers on this test are less or should we face the fact that if the numbers are still increased we should end her agony and let her peace at peace? I need some sound advice from anyone who might have dealt with this type of situation or might know anything about the tests and numbers that i have mentioned. Thank you to anyone who can assist me in anyway during this crisis.
I'm PM'd Dr Lee with a link to your thread, addienana08. He's a vet who volunteers his time on the board. Not sure when he'll be logging on again, but I'm hoping he can give you a little more info to go on
Best wishes for your min pin. Please keep us posted on her progress!
"We are--each of us--dying; it's how we live in the meantime that makes the difference."
"It's not what you gather, but what you scatter that tells what kind of life you have lived!"
"Be kinder than necessary, for everyone you meet is fighting some kind of battle."
The only way to evaluate for pancreatic cancer is really an abdominal ultrasound. I would recommend this for several reasons. It will be important to look for pancreatic or any other type of mass. This may help very much with your decision process. Furthermore it is important to rule out pancreatic abscess, cysts and free abdominal fluid.
It is a very difficult time and situation for you and I do wish you the best. Pancreatitis can be a horrible disease. Many pets can get over severe episodes of pancreatitis but it can also be fatal. It is important to have your veterinarian give you assessments which should include: patient physical assessment (alertness, comfort, etc), blood pressure/oxygenation/etc., and diagnostics (blood value recheck and ultrasound). By looking at all of these, they can give you realistic expectations of prognosis, cost ranges, etc.
I hope that that helps.
Christopher A. Lee, D.V.M., C.V.L.S.
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We went through this with our (then) nine year old Australian Terrier about four years ago. Our regular vet didn't have the resources to deal with it and Boomer spent two weeks at the local vet school.
He was extremely sick and the vets thought he probably would not make it. He did however pull through. He lived another two years when sadly lung cancer got him.
Everyday when I got off work I drove over to the vet school and spent time with him, the docs and the breeder who had given him to me felt that that had helped him to pull through. The first week or so was a roller coaster ride where he would do a little better one day then crash the next. I don't remember much about the "numbers" but do remember being told that some stuff was astronomically high.
You have some very tough and emotional decisions and times ahead of you, I wish you and your little friend the best. Good luck.
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Update on Franny
Here's an update on our min pin Franny. We brought her home on Friday eveing (Aug 20), she peed, drank, and also ate. she's on Flagyl twice daily, and Cerenia until tonight for vomiting. She has not vomitted since we brought her home (none in the hospital), is doing lots of resting/sleeping (which she pretty much always has done), and has only had 1 accident in the house. (my daughter didn't think Franny or any of the other dogs really needed to go outside even though it had been 3 hrs). I'm logging all of her med, food, elimination, and liquid times so we can basically keep track of what she does last. I've spoken to the vet twice since she's come home and they agree that sometimes you have to treat the dog and let her (or him) set the tone. We all are agreeing that Franny has probably has this for awhile and her body has just sort of adjusted, and last week it just hit her full force and it ended up being a bad attack. I do understand about the ultrasound, but in doing this procedure, if we find "bad news" so to speak, what do I do next? We all agreed in the family, and the vet understood as well, that bringing Franny home and monitoring her would be the best and safest road to pursue at this time. Her heart murmur (grade 4) is also a concern, as well as her kidney disease. Am I being heartless in the way I am approaching things with her, or am I doing what most people would do in the same situation? I do have Tramadol on board if she appears to be in pain, but am also trying to approach things in a relatistic way knowing that she may not fully recover and my family and I need to realize this as well. She does have her perky moments when she runs up the stairs or wags her stump because she wants to jump on the bed (which she is no longer allowed to do). Taking it one step at a time seems to be all we can do at the moment, sans the ultrasound, is there anything else we can do?
So take it one step at a time, do your best, and make all your decisions in Franny's best interest and, regardless of the outcome, you will have made the right decision!
How is she doing today? Any better?
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Who Gets To Be a Feminist?
Who gets to be a feminist? It's the wrong question. And debating it leads to the wrong answers.
Identity labels always mislead. They don't disclose the contents of the bottle; they proclaim that the bottle is powerful, meaningful, and important. Debates over who gets to wear those labels are tribal battles about who runs the group and who gets to patrol its borders, about who holds power. Declaring that someone is—or isn't—"really" white, black, Jewish, Christian, radical, conservative—or feminist—says nothing about the value of particular policies, ideas, or goals. Having seen such battles damage the causes they purport to uphold (Exhibit A: Susan Faludi's recent Harper's article "Feminism's Ritual Matricide), I have long tried to sidestep debates that mark territory or delineate tribes.
Here's the debate I believe is genuinely worth having: What would full equality look like—and what do we have to do to get there? In this 90th anniversary year of American women's right to vote, we've obviously come a long way (to borrow the old ad slogan). As a group, we do better in school than our male counterparts; we even earn almost as many J.D.s and M.D.s, and more Ph.D.s, than men do (although that last one is the post-graduate degree that raises income the least).
And yet women are still excluded from many better-paying occupations, especially in such good middle-class jobs as trades or transportation. Women are still enduring sexual harassment—not bad jokes, but severe treatment that includes assault and stalking—to support their families. Even after years of entering into former "men's" professions (say, journalism, law, biology, engineering, government) in roughly the same numbers, women still don't climb to the same share of the more rewarding spots. The wage gap between women and men stopped closing in 1993; for almost two decades, women working full-time jobs have been making about 77 cents to a man's dollar. As a result, many more women live in poverty than do men. Women are still more at risk than men for physical or sexual coercion or assault. Both groups are still mocked or even attacked for behaviors that would be applauded in the other. Schools, jobs, and society at large still aren't set up with any recognition of the fact that the vast majority of children are growing up in families where all adults work: Every American working family still has to improvise its own ways to navigate each day's race to manage school, work, meals, and bedtime.
Worse, all of this has ceased to be news—especially to journalists. Admirably, the New York Times has launched a serious world gender beat, The Female Factor (prompted by Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn's Half the Sky). But according to the latest statistics from the Global Media Monitoring Project and other sources, fewer than one-fourth of news stories worldwide interview or portray women (even once!). When women do show up, it's mostly as victims, bystanders, family members, or celebrities.
So here in one of the refreshing bastions of serious female reporting and in-depth discussion about women's lives, let's not get hijacked by rhetorical tactics and peripheral debates over labels. Let's instead discuss women's equality, a quaint phrase that deserves to be resurrected. What still needs to be accomplished for women to be treated as fully human, equally able to guide our own lives and destinies and family lives—subject, of course, to the same limits of law, mortality, circumstances, and chance? We're not there yet. How do we get the rest of the way?—E.J. Graff
E.J. Graff is the associate director and senior researcher at Brandeis University's Schuster Institute for Investigative Journalism, where she directs its Gender & Justice Project.
It's a bleak stage for discussion when SarahPAC is taken at its ingratiating, mom-awakening, faux-populist rhetoric instead of its regressive policies for women. But the upside is, the churning acknowledges that feminism is changing. If Sarah Palin isn't a feminist, it's less because she's pro-life and more because she insists on speaking for a female population that, by and large, does not share her set of experiences. She does not summarily and categorically understand American women, in their diversity, simply because she is one. That's just so first-wave.
Today's budding feminism recognizes transnational and intersecting identities and works easily outside of the usual structures that earlier feminists sought to tear down. Instead of slowly infiltrating the mainstream media, young feminists take up their cause on the Web; instead of rallying nationally, we work locally to create sustainable change alongside other activists—in day cares, gardens, community centers, classrooms, and clinics. We have enormous respect for the feminists who paved our way, but we know that our blogosphere makes Rebecca Walker look like Mary Wollstonecraft.
Palin, too, tweets and blogs (though she also has a mainstream forum in which her every word is made célèbre). But in treating her specific experiences as universally applicable, Palin speaks about a feminism that ultimately pertains only to a small cross-section of American women—women of a certain income, class, education, and race (and by extension, of certain opportunities). While Web-gen feminists disagree on religion, abortion, sex work, pornography, and methodology in general, we don't disagree that the movement and its goals should reflect the broadest possible swatch of women. Much of the transnational dialogue originates in the Global South, where women who have historically been excluded from the umbrella of Western feminism are acquiring voices and using new media to carve their own space.
For women who work in the Palestinian territories, this more nuanced feminism means working to end the occupation so that women's rights can be codified; so that personal-status laws in the West Bank and Gaza—which currently pull from Jordanian, Egyptian, and pre-secular Ottoman law—can reflect indigenous efforts to develop a constitution and a feasible legal framework. For Zainah Anwar, the Malaysian activist who founded Sisters in Islam, it means locating the equal treatment of women in Qur'anic text itself. Anwar tries not to associate herself too closely with Western women's groups and their ideals, for fear of undermining her movement in the eyes of the Malaysian public. At the same time, SIS is also using North African (Maghreb) models of regional cooperation to form coalitions with Indonesian, Filipino, and Singaporean women's activists whose experiences closely resemble those of Malaysian feminists.
Contrary to popular belief, feminism is far from dead. But it now encompasses the world, using technology to form autonomous affinity and identity groups that challenge historical, political, and cultural structures.—Sara Haji
Sara Haji has blogged at The Nation, the Texas Observer, Muslimah Media Watch, Notes From a Medinah, and AltMuslim. Follow her on Twitter at saraserenahaji.
"Who gets to be a feminist?" Who wants to know … and why? I'm a law professor, and when I get involved in defining terms, it's because I'm looking at a word in a legal text, and if something fits within that term, there's an effect. So, for example, in my Con-law class, we were talking about the meaning of property within the context of the Fifth Amendment, which forbids deprivations of property without due process. If it weren't for consequences, I wouldn't spend my time defining property. If you wanted to say property is anything that makes your heart go pitty-pat, I wouldn't argue with you, because I don't care.
So what am I supposed to care about here? You don't get any special rights or privileges for being a feminist, so what difference does it make? "Who gets to be a feminist?" Is it some high-school clique with mean girls deciding who gets in? Are there guardians at the entrance? The entrance of what? Nothing hinges on it. One woman says, "I am a feminist" and another says, "No, you're not." This is political polemic of a very dull sort.
There's one group that pushes for a narrow definition. Feminism requires radical dedication to toppling the phallocracy. Great. Say that. Be fiery and militant. Another group makes a litmus test out of abortion. OK. You have your issue, and you think it's helpful to insist that feminism is just another word for abortion. Or you can tromp in from the right and be Sarah Palin and say you're a feminist—and a grizzly bear … or whatever it is you want to be. Knock yourself out. Make steam come out of the ears of the feminism-is-abortion crowd.
It's rhetoric. Maybe you can stir up some action fighting over feminism, but I have a feeling that most people are, like me, bored by struggles over words when nothing happens as a result of somebody acquiring possession of the word, and nobody's going to get possession of the word anyway.
But, I'll play nice. Here are two definitions: 1. a feminist is anyone who believes in the equality of the sexes, and 2. a feminist is someone who centers her political activities on the interests of women and steadfastly puts those interests first. The trouble with No. 1 is that pretty much everyone is a feminist now. The trouble with No. 2 is that you get to kick out everyone who, say, muddied the issue of sexual harassment in order to help Bill Clinton out of a jam.
Definition No. 2 is good if you'd like to put people to the test. Plus, it's amusing when you have to kick yourself out, too. I know I would—not because I put party politics ahead of women (like the would-be feminists I'd enjoy giving the boot), but because equality and justice are more important than doggedly advancing the interests of your own kind. So, that means I've stumbled back to definition No. 1—and the end of the conversation.—Ann Althouse
Ann Althouse is a law professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Her blog is Althouse.


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This is a classic game from the old days of DOS. For those of you who know the game I'm sure you'll get a kick out of reviving the experience. And for those of you who don't know it, this your chance to try an amazing old classic game.
First step is to install DOSBox Emulator.
Go to the startmenu --> System --> Synaptic Package Manager
Look for the DOSBox emulator and download it. type 'dosbox' in the searchfield to find the package directly.
Second, download the actual game. I recommend this webpage to download. Just scroll to the bottom of the page and click on the download link. Beware of the 'download here' ads. A .zip file will be downloaded. Just as an example, let's say you will save the file under '/home/user/games', although you can of course choose whatever directory you want.
Now use dolphin to go to the directory were the .zip file is, right-click it and chosse 'Extract --> Extract Archive Here'. This will create a folder called 'Prince' with all the files inside it.
Now that you have the program installed, go to your terminal and type 'dosbox'. This will open a DOS terminal.
In the DOS terminal, you first have to mount a C drive. We will mount the drive in the 'prince' folder. So, in the DOS terminal from DOSBox, type:
Remember to adapt the line above to whatever path you used to save the game. Also remember to change 'user' for whatever name you have chosen in your system.
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mount c /home/user/Games/Prince/
At least in my case, the keys from my keyboard don't really match with the DOS terminal, so you might have to fiddle around a bit to find the keys that will allow you to use the '/' and the ':' symbols.
Now let's go to the newly mounted directory by tipying:
We should now be on the Prince folder. All you have to do run the game is type
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Extra tip: The controls for the game are simply the keys and the shift key, which is like the action button.
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Enchanted Mountains GeoTrail Going Live on May 12
"Cattaraugus County is joining the worldwide phenomenon of geocaching on May 12th coinciding with the Allegany State Park GeoBash May 15-17, the largest geocaching event on the East Coast," announced Joseph J. Williams, Interim Director of the Cattaraugus County Department of Economic Development Planning & Tourism. Geocaching (pronounced "geo-cashing") is a high-tech treasure hunting game played throughout the world by adventure seekers equipped with GPS devices. The basic idea is to locate hidden containers, called geocaches, outdoors and then share your experiences online.
The Enchanted Mountains GeoTrail geocaches are officially registered with geocaching.com. There will be a total of 32 towns to visit, with half of the caches being placed in 2009 and the other half being placed in 2010. Successful collection of all 32 wooden nickels will entitle the cacher to a special commemorative Cattaraugus County GeoCoin. Geocachers will need to be registered, which is free, on geocaching.com to retrieve the coordinates and other location information.
Before setting out to find caches, a cacher may want an official leaflet. Leaflets are free and can be obtained at the starter cache, the County Building in Little Valley, or at the Ellicottville Chamber of Commerce, the Greater Olean Area Chamber of Commerce, the Randolph Area Community Development Corporation and the Salamanca Area Chamber of Commerce.
Each cache will have a unique keyword written on the inside of the cache container's lid. The cacher will write this keyword down next to the town name in this leaflet. The cacher will then either mail the list of town and keywords to the address listed in the leaflet OR simply fill out the on-line form with their latest cache(s) at EnchantedMountains.com/geotrail and their wooden nickel will be sent to them. The cacher may also stop in to the Tourism office at the County Building during business hours to obtain their nickels. Leaflets are the property of the cacher to retain as a keepsake, so any leaflet's mailed in, will be returned with their wooden nickel(s). And remember, to keep it fun for all geocachers, please don't share the keywords!
Geocaching is enjoyed by people from all age groups, with a strong sense of community and support for the environment. All participants must understand that geocaching, as well as hiking, backpacking and other outdoor activities involve risk to both persons and property. Be prepared for your journey and be sure to check the current weather and conditions before heading outdoors. Always exercise common sense and caution.
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Is Senate minority leader Mitch McConnell just a bit worried about the prospect of running for reelection to 2014 against actress/activist Ashley Judd?
We ask that question because the senior senator from Kentucky put up his first campaign ad today and it goes after Ms. Judd and three other possible Democratic challengers pretty hard. She's not the only person mentioned, but she gets more than her share of the three-minute spot, and it ends with her speaking. Not that it's putting her words in a positive light, of course.
The ad is called "Obama's Kentucky Candidate," and it's pretty clever. The premise is that the president is holding some sort of town hall meeting to pick Senator McConnell's opponent, and he goes from one person to the next, trying to find the chosen one. The video editing is clever and the whole thing looks quite real.
First up is Ed Marksberry, a former congressional candidate depicted by the ad as a yokel. Then there's former US Ambassador to Sweden Matthew Barzun, shown marching in full top-hatted regalia in some sort of European parade. "He's looking very sharp," says Obama in a voice-over cut from a real town hall.
Then Obama calls on "the young lady with the pink, white blouse right there.... Wait until the microphone comes up. Introduce yourself."
Next thing you know, there's Judd standing at the podium at last year's Democratic convention, saying, "From the Volunteer State, I proudly stand to nominate ..."
"Whoa, whoa, whoa," goes Obama in the reaction shot, cut to make it appear as if he disapproves. In case you missed the subtlety there, Tennessee is the Volunteer State. That's where Judd has been living with her soon-to-be-ex-husband, Dario Franchitti. She was a Democratic National Convention delegate from Tennessee, not from Kentucky. The ad goes on to make that abundantly clear, alternating shots of her saying "Tennessee is home" with appearances from another possible candidate, Kentucky Secretary of State Alison Lundergan Grimes, as well as a host of popular state Democrats saying they won't run.
Why is McConnell running this ad so early? Why did Karl Rove's American Crossroads pay for an online spot hitting Judd alone?
After all, she is indeed a Hollywood liberal, according to her own grandmother. The Tennessee thing is going to be a big problem if she runs – which by the way she hasn't said she's doing. She's just honored by the attention, and considering it, and so forth.
Kentucky went big for Mitt Romney last fall. It should be a safe GOP seat.
But McConnell does not poll well in his own state at the moment, perhaps because of his role on the national stage. A recent Courier-Journal Bluegrass poll found that only 17 percent of the state's voters said they would be sure to support him. Thirty-four percent said they planned to oppose him. Forty-four percent said they were waiting to see who his opponent will be before deciding.
It's possible that leaves an opening for Judd.
"It's safe to say that if she ran, she could put in big money, raise a lot more and perhaps put McConnell under unprecedented scrutiny at a time when he's not all that popular," writes Al Cross, an associate professor of journalism at the University of Kentucky and a former Courier-Journal political writer, in a recent opinion piece.
A just-released poll puts McConnell ahead of Judd by 49 to 40 percent in a head-to-head matchup. The survey was taken by Harper Polling in conjunction with RunSwitch Public Relations, a firm founded by a former McConnell aide.
"My takeaways from the survey are that Senator McConnell is in solid shape among Republicans and general election voters, and that Ashley Judd, for someone who has never run for office, already has a tough hold out of which to climb regarding her own image," said RunSwitch founding partner Scott Jennings in a statement upon the poll release.
That's one way to look at it. And it's true the poll found that voters reacted negatively when told Judd has been living in Tennessee, for instance. But if you were minority leader of the US Senate, someone striking key fiscal deals with the White House, wouldn't you think you could lead the costar of "Tooth Fairy" by more than that?
"Tennessee is my home!" are the last words on the new McConnell ad. If she does run, that's a phrase that's going to be drilled into every potential voter in the Bluegrass State approximately a zillion times prior to Election Day.


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7 Basic Things
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If you're like us, you might sometimes have a problem with complex tasks, like trying to drive an ambulance and send a text message at the same time. But hey, at least most of us have figured out the simplest things that get us through the day, right?
Except, you know, some of the simple things we've done every day of our lives, like …
What could be simpler than taking a good crap? Even babies are good at it. You might be surprised, then, to find out that even those of us who can burp without throwing up get this wrong every single day.
The one who just threw up on the other one's shoulder is better at pooping.
Chances are the pooping facility nearest you is a sitting toilet, a relatively recent invention that flushed its way into mankind's heart with the advent of indoor plumbing in the 19th century. Indoor plumbing has turned out pretty well for the most part, but the pooping style that came with it definitely has not. Pooping on a modern sitting toilet is a big part of where hemorrhoids come from, and it can also cause diverticular disease, an age-related condition that pretty much only occurs in parts of the world where sitting toilets are used, and which can lead to a range of pleasantries up to and including colonic obstruction. And things aren't getting better: The last few decades have seen a rise in popularity of "comfort height" toilets that sit two to four inches higher off the ground than older models and that make our pooping predicament even worse.
Future toilets will exist just to kill us.
So how the hell are we meant to do it?
Luckily, there's a relatively simple way to end this poop dilemma. A 2003 study observed 28 people pooping in three positions: sitting on a high toilet, sitting on a lower one and squatting like they were catchers at a baseball game (catcher's mitt optional, but encouraged). After initially being mistaken for a German porn company, the researchers found that pooping took about a minute less when done squatting and that participants rated the experience as "easier" (God, we hope they were getting paid).
In fact, toilets that require you to squat that way have been the standard for most of human history and are still widely used in the non-Western world.
And urban centers of the Western world.
According to proctologists, "We were not meant to sit on toilets, we were meant to squat in the field." When you're in a sitting or standing position, you're forming an angle between the where the poop is and where the poop's gotta come out. There's even a muscle that's purpose is to tighten things up when we're sitting or standing to prevent accidents. Squatting straightens out this angle and removes the chokehold.
For no reason, here's an icing pipe.
If the thought of squatting awkwardly on top of your toilet seat isn't for you, you can produce a similar poop-enhancing angle by resting your feet on a footstool (or anything handy) and leaning the top half of your body forward.
Demonstrated here.
From a young age, we're taught that the daily use of a hot shower, copious amounts of soap and a scratchy washcloth are necessary to rid ourselves of dangerous microorganisms and the putrid smell of human skin. And if you aren't squeaky-clean, you can forget about dating, career advancement and the promise of a future that doesn't involve dying alone in a den of your own filth.
That's what college is for.
As it turns out, showering or bathing daily, while it may make us more socially acceptable, wreaks havoc on something hilariously called the horny layer. Hot water, soap and abrasive surfaces strip off the horny layer, exposing living cells to the elements. And although we've just used the words "strip," "exposing" and "horny" in the same sentence, we assure you that this is not the making of a sexy situation. On the contrary, damaging this protective layer of skin makes us more susceptible to disease.
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Sexy disease.
Before recent modern conveniences, people bathed less often, and frequently in the same water. Even nowadays, showering doesn't kill bacteria or other microorganisms, though it does move them around. A colony of bacteria living on your shower wall might move to your leg; a colony from your leg might move to your head; a colony from your groin might even take up residence on your hands. For this reason, surgeons in many hospitals are not allowed to shower right before operating.
Not even you, Doctor McPenishands!
Studies have shown that there are no measurable differences in the number of microorganism colonies a person is host to regardless of how frequently that person showers. Of course, using antibacterial soaps can kill microorganisms, though in an effort not to create too many super bacteria, medical experts generally recommend not using these soaps daily.
"Say what you like, but you have to admit my bones are super shiny!"
So how the hell are we meant to do it?
The most important thing to do to keep the skin healthy is to preserve the horny layer. There's no magic number of showers each week, though it's generally agreed that the number would fall somewhat shy of seven. Skipping showers, or, if you'd like a fancy French term, celebrating sans douche days, gives your skin time to repair some of the damage that the last shower caused.
Any more than a day and there's no amount of French that'll get rid of Eau de Sewer.
When you shower, use warm or cool water and a mild soap (if at all), and rehydrate the horny layer by rubbing on some moisturizer afterward. Better yet, convince an attractive friend to help with this. Once you've cleaned up, you'll want to make sure you air dry. Ignore protesting roommates or family members and remind them, as you're drip-drying at the breakfast table, that they should be grateful you're showering only a couple of times a week.
"Kids, ignore your father while I try to remember why I married him."
Congratulations: Chances are that if you're reading this, and you're not a ghost, you've managed to figure out breathing. On the other hand, chances are you're also doing it wrong.
You're also suddenly aware that you're breathing now.
Take a deep breath right now. We'll wait. If you're anything like most people, you raised your shoulders a little and puffed out your chest like a pigeon in heat. You probably don't see anything wrong with using your chest to breathe, since after all, that's where your lungs are. What the hell else are you going to use? Your thighs? Well, smartass, it turns out that the muscle you're supposed to use to breathe, your diaphragm, is under your lungs and closer to your belly.
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Shown here as the white mass on the bottom of this X-ray of Tom Cruise (may not actually be Tom Cruise).
When upright, most people are habitual chest breathers: We use a shallow form of respiration that makes use of only the top part of the lungs. In reality, most of the blood vessels that take up oxygen are in the bottom, neglected half. Since so much lung power is going to waste, we get less oxygen, and as a result, we're all breathing more rapidly than nature intended us to.
Chest breathing also tends to upset the blood's oxygen/carbon dioxide balance and can lead to headaches, fatigue, anxiety and even panic attacks. According to one expert, you're also potentially suffering from sweaty palms, difficulty relaxing, heightened pain perception and general fatigue.
Or as most people call it — a "first date."
So how the hell are we meant to do it?
It turns out that breathing is one area in which babies are much smarter than you. Babies use a deeper type of respiration called abdominal breathing, which strengthens and makes full use of their diaphragms. It's only as we grow older that we revert to the more inefficient style. Luckily, you can train your body to go back to breathing properly, and over time, you can even breathe abdominally in your sleep.
Not to be confused with snoring, which is just breathing abominably.
To practice it, try to "inflate" your stomach as you breathe in, while keeping your chest relatively still. Then contract your abdominal muscles on the exhale. Not only will this give you more oxygen per breath, it will eventually strengthen the diaphragm. A stronger diaphragm means you get more oxygen with each breath, so your brain won't need to divert any away from your muscles, meaning that you get tired less easily.
Try this now at work, and observe as people kindly give you more breathing space!
A study on cardiac patients showed that this type of breathing leads to improved exercise performance and decreased shortness of breath, and it's also been linked to lower blood pressure. This is the reason that so many coaches recommend breathing practice as a shortcut to sports-based superpowers.
"I'll have you know this exercise is recommended by my doctor."
OK, so maybe you can't handle pooping, breathing or much else that you'd think would come naturally. But surely just lying in bed every night is OK, right? So why the hell do you keep waking up at 3 a.m.? You lie there, wondering what the hell is wrong with you. Will I oversleep? you wonder. How will I find the time to sit down and poop in the morning?
"I have to remember to breathe, too. I can't deal with all this."
If this happens to you often, you're not alone. Chances are, if you mention waking up like this to your doctor, it'll be diagnosed as a "sleep disorder," and you'll be given one of the tens of millions of prescriptions for sleeping pills handed out to Americans each year. You'll pop some Ambien, only to awaken a few hours later beating up a police officer. What on earth went wrong?
To be fair, you couldn't have known that wasn't a real truncheon.
So how the hell are we meant to do it?
In this case, you're already doing it right. It's your reaction that's wrong.
The idea that an uninterrupted eight hours is the only sleep pattern natural to mankind is surprisingly recent. Before someone who wasn't Thomas Edison invented the light bulb, people in areas with more than eight hours of darkness usually slept in segments: three to five hours of sleep, an hour of wakefulness and then another three to five hour nap. The hour or so of awake time was used for quiet reflection, sex, smoking and pretty much everything except staring at the wall terrified of insomnia. In fact, this small window of consciousness was renowned as the best time for boning, as the tranquility between the first and second sleep was known as being uniquely suited to getting up to mischief with the person lying bored beside you.
This isn't compulsory.
In recent times, artificial light has pushed our normal bedtime back later and later, and this segmented sleep has been compressed into a single eight hours. Still, our brains are naturally wired for pre-light-bulb days. In a monthlong experiment, healthy subjects were given a long artificial "night" lasting 14 hours. They quickly reverted to the segmented pattern, waking up for an hour or two of "peaceful wakefulness" between two three to five hour stretches.
By the end of the experiment, all the women were pregnant.
So why do we still wake up even when we've been up until midnight watching Deadliest Warrior marathons? Well, some people tend to revert to this natural sleep cycle despite all the artificial light, especially during dark winter months. Fortunately, having this sort of technology-resistant superbrain doesn't necessarily spell disaster. According to experts, if you stay calm and allow yourself to fall back to sleep naturally rather than lying there wondering why you're awake, you usually won't see any negative effects the next day.
Unless you leave the TV on while you sleep.
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The Department of Mathematics and Statistics at McGill University invites applications for a tenure-track position in number theory/arithmetic geometry. While appointments are expected to be made at the Assistant Professor level, more senior applicants would be considered.
Candidates must have a doctoral degree at the date of appointment and a strong background in mathematics. They are expected to have demonstrated the capacity for independent research of excellent quality. Selection criteria include research accomplishments, as well as potential contributions to the Department's educational programs at the graduate and undergraduate levels.
Applications should be made through MathJobs.Org (Position ID: McGill-NUMTH) and must include a curriculum vitae, a list of publications, a research outline, a teaching statement which includes an account of teaching experience, and at least four references (with one addressing the teaching record). Candidates are also encouraged to provide web links for up to three selected reprints or preprints, or to upload them to MathJobs.Org.
Candidates must ensure that letters of reference are submitted (preferably through mathjobs.org, though in exceptional circumstances they may be mailed to Professor H. Darmon, Number Theory Search Committee, Dept. of Mathematics and Statistics, McGill University, 805 Sherbrooke St. W. Montreal, QC H3A 2K6, Canada).
To ensure full consideration, complete applications including letters of reference should be received by November 15, but later applications will be considered until the position is filled.
McGill University is committed to equity in employment and diversity. It welcomes applications from indigenous peoples, visible minorities, ethnic minorities, persons with disabilities, women, persons of minority sexual orientations and gender identities and others who may contribute to further diversification. All qualified applicants are encouraged to apply; however, in accordance with Canadian immigration requirements, priority will be given to Canadian citizens and permanent residents of Canada.
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Homeopaths acknowledge certain groupings of bodymind symptom patterns which a person has and which correspond with the sensitivity of a particular homeopathic medicine. The word "symptom" here is most broadly defined as any sensation that is discomforting or that limits a person's physical or psychological functions. Homeopath also inquire into what factors, which homeopaths call "modalities," seem to aggravate or ameloriate these sensations. In addition to prescribing on these factors, a homeopath may utilize information about the person's body type, temperament and disposition, and behavioral tendencies to determine the appropriate medicine.
Dr. Francisco Eizayaga, an Argentinian urologist and internationally respected homeopath, has helped differentiate the various symptoms and characteristics of a person to find the correct medicine. Dr. Eizayaga has asserted that a "constitutional medicine" is prescribed primarily according to a person's genetic endowment and some of the person's deeply-seated psychological tendencies. A "fundamental medicine" is prescribed according to the functional symptoms which represent the organism's response to the various stresses it is experiencing.* Dr. Eizayaga notes that fundamental states may change and pile up on each other like concentric skins of an onion. Dr. Eizayaga also differentiates the treatment of organic pathology from constitutional or fundamental states, though such a discussion is beyond the scope of an introductory book.
[* Many homeopaths do not make a distinction between the constitutional or fundamental medicine. They generally refer to the "constitutional medicine" as the one that fits a long-standing set of symptoms a person experiences and "acute medicine" as that which fits transitory disease states. For ease of discussion in forthcoming chapters, reference only to "constitutional medicine" will be made when discussing the treatment of the chronically ill based on their totality of symptoms.]
Homeopaths identify certain patterns of symptoms with themedicines which have cured them. There is, for instance, the "Phosphorous type," the "Sulphur type," the "Arsenicum (arsenic) type," and the "Natrum mur (salt) type." Each of these typologies refers not only to a type of headache, for instance, but also to: those factors that make that headache pain better or worse, other physical symptoms which may be related to it, various past or present symptoms and diseases, food cravings or aversions, sensitivity to temperature and weather, energy levels at varying times of the day, sweating tendencies, stool and urination characteristics, menstrual patterns, emotional and mental states, and behavioral propensities.
After a homeopath completes a thorough interview, he/she seeks to find a medicine which matches the "essence" of the person's totality of symptoms. The word "essence" is of value here since homeopathy is the science of finding the most "similar" medicine to the person. It is not necessary to match every symptom the person has with those symptoms that the substance causes. Rather, it is enough to find a substance which matches the essence of the person's characteristics.


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This game should have a consistent 10k players daily. The dev cycle and lack of proper presence on steam has lost a lot of people. The majority of players left before a lot of content was added, or the menus / UI worked all of the time, and before major much needed optimizations.Wreckfest seems to be possibly the biggest example of "pre-releasing" too early. The market is flooded with new releases / ea titles all of the time and you have to hold interestwith the first impression to gain a fan base in the industry it appears. Its ridiculous that a lot of ea games have lost all of the player base long before they release.It is a struggle sometimes to find a good server after 7pm PST. This is unbelievable given there isn't anything quite like it.I think they should really push hard on beta release and have a 30% off sale and spend all of the profits on promotion hype.A great incentive would be to add an "official" steam workshop mod that highlights some of the best ragdoll minigames from past titles.You can never go wrong with crash dummy targets and flaming hoops.Now that the game actually runs well on most gpu, it could finally earn a proper following.
Do you remember the "A Call for Communication" event they did many years ago when a lot of people played Half Life 2 for (I believe) an hour at the same time as a way for Valve to ask for more clarity and communication?Maybe, if we did the same with Wreckfest Bugbear would understand we care about the game, and want more communication from them.
Wreckfest seems to be possibly the biggest example of "pre-releasing" too early. The market is flooded with new releases / ea titles all of the time and you have to hold interestwith the first impression to gain a fan base in the industry it appears. Its ridiculous that a lot of ea games have lost all of the player base long before they release.
I just got this game a little less than 2 weeks ago and am loving it already! I think it is a great idea to help this game out by sharing it ourselves. Great idea! #Wreckfest
The moment i signed in for this game i started a thread on the Pcars forum about it and it generated quite some interest from people who intend to sign in or buy it upon release...The player base imo should rise considerably once the beta for consoles is released also...
First of all, not many people agree on each others and some bitterness have caused the community split a bit, I'm not the most liked person around here as well, but even I can say, that year ago, when I was active on the game, the amount of players were a bit higher than now, and the biggest peaks I managed to withness was back in July/August 2015, September 2015 and February/March 2016 (and the charts show, that basically the whole Spring of 2015 was golden time for the game). But right now, the game feels better than ever and is so enjoyable and fun, so this is the good moment to lure people back in, even if they are just doing casual racing daily/weekly. Trouble is to get them to hear about it. Steam groups doesn't help that much, since most people just skip those annoucements, so good word of mouth propably is the best, but the most demanding way of doing it.
From Purple44I been planning on sending out a message to all the Wreckfest Steam friends I got when beta branch Build get release and maybe wait for the first hotfix before I send out the message to give Wreckfest a second look.On Saturday nights when I go online, I send a message ( Hi, you racing Wreckfest tonight? ) to players I see are online in my Steam friends list. I usually get few to join the lobby I'm in.
To be honest we can do something but it doesn't have so much influence. I'm looking and waiting Bugbear to be more active on SOME.> Post couple images per week (not only in Twitter)> Players will create short (max 30sec) video and maybe Bugbear will use it in their YT channel.> Share players' amazing videos in social media (doesn't need extra time)> AMA. Takes one evening (1-4 hours)> Updates videos/pictures in Steam page (WTF OLD NEXT CAR GAME VIDEO C'MON!)> Gives social media rules for some active players who wants to update medias and share other user's videos mods etc.I created a Facebook page (NCG: Wreckfest Community) try to fix Bugbear's bad some activity in Facebook. Running the page alone with limited time the activity was poor (soon graduating).If someone is interested to update the page please PM me with some information


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Mastering Every Challenge 'Virtually'
Executive MBA students overcome cultural barriers and time zones to launch a product and gain a global network.
Imagine collaborating on a plan to launch a unique product or service with a team of people from different cultures, who have different native tongues, adhere to different business norms, and who live in various times zones around the world. To add to the delicate mix, the business plan and all communication required is conducted entirely in a virtual setting.
That scenario is exactly what every second-year Carlson Executive MBA (CEMBA) student and their Global Executive MBA counterparts from schools in China (China Executive MBA, or CHEMBA), Austria (Vienna Executive MBA, or VEMBA), and Poland (Warsaw Executive MBA, or WEMBA) face during what's called the Virtual Team Project (VTP).
During the VTP, students are put on teams (comprised of at least one representative from each school) and are challenged to work together over a seven-month period to devise a new product or service and develop a business plan to introduce it to an overseas market.
While each team's end-product is always unique, the foremost challenge faced by each student is overcoming and learning from the many, and oftentimes unpredictable, variables that are presented when collaborating on an international scale. The lessons they take away for their experience will serve them well in their careers.
"We firmly believe the Virtual Team Project is one of the best learning experiences we can offer given the international nature of our program," says Svjetlana Madzar, Carlson School senior lecturer who teaches the Carlson Executive MBA international business course that coincides with the VTP.
"I've heard from students who have worked with quite a few global teams in their business organizations, and they say nothing prepared them for the Virtual Team Project," says Madzar. "And the reason is there is no clear boss on the teams. The teams are culturally very different, and they have to decide who is going to take a leadership role, what are the norms, what matters, what's going to be the process, how are they going to make decisions. All of these things are very culturally sensitive."
Some of the 24 products or services devised by teams this year included a mobile charging service for electronic vehicles in Singapore; a plan to create microfinance opportunities in Brazil; and an online video game trading service in Europe.
Team Nine, comprised of Jean-Marie Berger, Gene Chilton, Diego Reyes, Cathy Liu, Henry Qi, Christian Grechi, and Barbara Topolska, quickly discovered the nuances of working both cross-culturally and virtually (they used Skype - audio only) on their VTP business plan for Hat'on, a business they devised that offers a collection of high-end hats for the follicly challenged.
"You encounter some challenges you don't expect because, well, the languages for one are different," says Berger, a CEMBA student. "Also, you don't know the people, you don't see the people, so you really have to rely on trust that they'd do what they said they'd do. On our team, when people said they'd do something, they'd deliver, which created a balance of interest which is a key to success."
"I've never had relationships with others 'across the pond,' so this was my first experience in an international scope," adds Chilton, a fellow CEMBA student. "It was very important for me to always take that step back and ask myself how they were viewing me."
During the team's discussions (which occurred every Sunday morning for one hour), they challenged each other's ideas. "But in a very good way," says WEMBA student Topolska, "because from being challenged you found that there are even better ideas and solutions."
"Also, from different cultures came different ideas," remarks Liu, a CHEMBA student. "From that I learned a lot about western culture. The experience helped me become more tolerant, open, initiative, creative, and positive in business and in life as well."
As in years previous, the Virtual Team Project concluded with all the teams gathering at the Carlson School in early May for students to engage in the weeklong residency program and for the teams to present their final proposals to staff members from all four schools.
The gathering also presented the first opportunity for team members to meet in-person.
"During the virtual phase, I tell them wait until you meet," says Madzar. "It's like a light at the end of the tunnel for them. It ends on a very high note and the students usually form strong friendships."
That was certainly the case for Team Nine members, says Topolska. "There is a difference in how you perceive people from Skype than face-to-face. When we finally met, it was very different. I found them even nicer!"
"You initiate the relationship online," adds Chilton, "but you solidify it when you meet. It works out great."
Team Nine solidified so well that, over dinner one evening, they felt comfortable enough to offer each other honest feedback on the team dynamics. "We just went around the table and shared our experiences with each other," says Grechi, a VEMBA student. "We laughed a lot; we enjoyed the downsides, the upsides. It was amazing that we could do that."
The pinnacle for all VTP team members was the opportunity to walk together in the Carlson School graduation commencement ceremonies. While it marked the end of their Executive MBA journey, members of Team Nine saw it as just another chapter in what they say is now a long-term friendship.
"Really, what we created through this VTP project is a real professional and friends network," says Topolska. "We learned a lot and we went through some fun and challenging times together. It was a great experience."
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The French and Francophone Studies program is designed to help students acquire knowledge of the languages, literatures, and cultures of France and Francophone countries. Through beginning, intermediate, and advanced language courses, students develop the skills to read, write, speak and understand French. Courses on the literatures and cultures of French-speaking communities in France and in other countries of Europe, Africa, the Caribbean, North and South America, as well as the French possessions in the Indian and Pacific Oceans, instill an appreciation of Francophone cultures in their diversity. Extra-curricular projects promote active engagement in cultural and linguistic exchanges. In keeping with the broader liberal arts mission of John Carroll University, the French section seeks to train students in the skills of both critical analysis and written and oral argument, skills that they can use in graduate schools or in their future professional and personal lives. All students are also strongly encouraged to study in a French-speaking country.


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Funds to Support Commercialization of AG200-15 Contraceptive Patch and Advance Follow-on Product AG890
Funds to Support Commercialization of AG200-15 Contraceptive Patch and Advance Follow-on Product AG890
PRINCETON, NJ--(Marketwire - Jul 19, 2012) - Agile Therapeutics announced today that it has closed a $40 million Series C financing. The round was led by new investor Aisling Capital, LLC, who joins existing Agile investors including Care Capital, Investor Growth Capital, ProQuest Investments, Kaiser Permanente Ventures, and Novitas Capital.
Agile is preparing for commercialization of its lead product, AG200-15, a once-weekly, low-dose contraceptive patch. Agile recently filed a New Drug Application (NDA) with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for AG200-15 and anticipates a response in the first quarter of 2013. The company plans to use the proceeds from the financing to support the pre-launch and launch activities for AG200-15 as well as the continued development of its second product, a progestin-only contraceptive patch, AG890.
"We believe that AG200-15 and AG890 have the potential for significant impact in the contraceptive market, and will fill the need for more contraceptive options that offer convenience for patients. This funding gives us the financial strength to launch AG200-15 successfully and to advance the AG890 program," said Al Altomari, President and Chief Executive Officer of Agile Therapeutics. "We are extremely pleased to have secured this funding in light of today's challenging economic conditions and welcome Aisling as an investor in Agile."
In conjunction with the financing, Dr. Andrew Schiff, Managing Partner at Aisling Capital, has joined the Agile Board of Directors. Dr. Schiff brings significant medical and a business expertise to Agile based on 12 years in the healthcare industry. In addition to serving as Clinical Assistant Professor of Medicine at The New York Presbyterian Hospital, he also serves on the board of directors of several well-respected pharmaceutical and medical device companies.
"I am thrilled to join the Agile Board of Directors at this exciting time in the development of the company," said Dr. Schiff. "I look forward to working with the outstanding leadership team at Agile to bring AG200-15 to market. Aisling sees great promise in the product as a new option for women looking for convenient contraception that they only have to remember once a week. Additionally, Agile has a promising pipeline, including its progestin-only patch, and I welcome the opportunity to help lay the foundation for the company's ongoing success."
About AG200-15
AG200-15 is a combination hormonal contraceptive patch, which in clinical studies has been shown to deliver a low dose of ethinyl estradiol, as well as a dose of levonorgestrel that is consistent with that of low-dose oral contraceptives. The phase III trials for AG200-15 enrolled more than 2,000 women, and formed the basis for the Company's New Drug Application to the US Food and Drug Administration in 2012.
The AG200-15 patch is applied once weekly for three weeks, followed by a fourth, patch-free week. The patch may be applied to the abdomen, buttocks, or upper torso, is soft and flexible with a cloth-like, silky feel, and designed to provide excellent adhesion, comfort, and appearance.
About Agile Therapeutics
Agile Therapeutics is a pharmaceutical development company specializing in Women's Healthcare products, with an initial focus on providing women with more options and more convenient methods of hormonal contraception. The company's lead product, AG200-15, is a once-weekly contraceptive patch that has been submitted to the FDA for approval. In addition, Agile is also developing a low dose, progestin-only contraceptive patch, AG890 (formerly AG900). Both AG200-15 and AG890 incorporate proprietary transdermal delivery technology, Skinfusion®, developed by Agile, consisting of an active and peripheral adhesive system that allows stable drug delivery and dependable adhesion over seven days. For more information, please visit http://www.agiletherapeutics.com.
About Aisling Capital
Aisling Capital is dedicated life sciences private equity firm with over US$1.6 billion under management. Headquartered in New York, Aisling Capital invests in both private and public companies utilizing a wide variety of investment structures. The Aisling Capital team's combination of clinical, operational and financial experience allows the firm to identify, execute and realize investments across the life sciences industry.
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Balance, quality level standard for fans approved
The ANSI/AMCA document "Balance Quality and Vibration Levels for Fans" has been reaffirmed as standard.
Air Movement and Control Association International Inc. (AMCA International) has announced that the Board of Standards Review of the American National Standards Institute (ANSI) approved the reaffirmation of ANSI/AMCA Standard 204-05(R2012), "Balance Quality and Vibration Levels for Fans." This standard addresses the subjects of fan balance and vibration.
This standard may be used to define appropriate fan balance quality and operating vibration levels to individuals who specify, manufacture, use, and maintain fans.
AMCA International is accredited by ANSI as a standards developer using the "canvass" method. The canvass method provides and promotes a process that verifies the principles of openness have been followed in the approval procedure. It also ensures that a consensus of those individuals who are directly and materially affected by the standard(s) has been achieved.
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A winner was selected from 64 designs submitted by 30 freelance designers.
We are in need of a redesign of igotrealestate.com - we are open to ideas be creative! Winning designer will be required to submit all files and images in their original format, so my designers can take your work and code it into a working design.
The project consists of 2 pages. The home page, city page.
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Terri Mitchell, the coach of the Marquette Women's Basketball Team speaks at the Leading from the Spirit Women's Luncheon in October.
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Jacqueline Hansen Maggiore speaks at the Leading from the Spirit Women's Luncheon in March. Her talk is entitled "Vessel of Clay: The Inspirational Story of Sr. Carla (Piette)."
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A Knockout: Pacheco Gets Candid
Muhammad Ali's fight doctor and Florida Trend Icon Ferdie Pacheco gets quite candid with us and has a lot to say. Plus, read an excerpt from his book.
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From: "Ferdie Pacheco: Blood In My Coffee" (Sports Publishing). It can be found online at www.SportsPublishingLLC.com.
After hundreds of interviews, TV specials, three books, and two movies, I am still in awe of the fact that I was a part of Muhammad Ali's life.
Ali surely is one of the best-known people of our age. His fame is worldwide and all encompassing, not just restricted to the field of sports or even the boundaries of the United States.
Interviewers still troop through my study. They set up their cameras, consult their notes, and ask the same questions over and over, but my patience has long since run out. Those who start with the question, "How did you meet Muhammad Ali?" are thrown out of my house immediately. They aren't serious and haven't done their homework. I've written three books on Ali. Everything has been said. Read them before you come
But when I sat down to write this book, I realized I had to analyze the Ali phenomenon. Who was he? Why was he so universally accepted? What kind of intelligence did he have? Why was he so y? Who exactly is Muhammad Ali?
In good conscience, I cannot skip my relations with him. I can't ignore him. I also cannot overlook the fact that he made me almost famous.
Almost famous is what I have been during the 40 years I spent in boxing, riding in the Ali circus, and the years following in televised sports. I have Ali to thank. As he says to all of us at every Ali circus reunion, "I made you all famous!"
A German publisher called and wanted 4,000 words on why Ali is y. I laughed and said, "I don't need 4,000 words. I need four. 'Just look at him!'"
It is the first thing that strikes you. Ali has an exceptional physiognomy. His proportions are perfect. His face is in its handsomeness. His skin is smooth, with a light, attractive tan shade, a quality inherited from his mom, Odessa. He is an eternally beautiful man-child.
At first, he seems shorter than six foot four, his actual height. Because of his baby face and open, funny way, boxers never saw his size until they faced him in the ring. They'd invariably say in a shocked voice, "But he's so big." By then, it was too late.
Sonny Liston was one of the best examples of this. He was shocked when they faced off in 1964. Accustomed to being the big guy, the intimidator, Liston found himself looking up to Ali.
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A candid interview with Florida Trend's Art Levy
"I'm not God fearing, but I believe in God. God or somebody has always taken care of me. Angels. God or whatever. Always. From the time I was little. I never had a problem in the world that somebody didn't solve. Somehow, I got by everything. Everything!"
"I'm in medicine to help the patient. Not the insurance company.That's all. I will never do anything to hurt a patient and I'll never do anything to help an insurance company that hurts the patient. Everything I do is related to helping the patient get well."
"Then they passed Medicare. Every old person I had in my office who I used to treat for nothing was now a Medicare case. And then Medicaid! Every poor person who didn't have enough money to live or to eat or anything was on Medicaid. That was 100 percent of the ghetto. Everybody could come in my office and it was paid. I had a hard time trying to keep from billing $1 million."
"I was determined to work for the black people. I went to rallies, churches, and worked with black people. And I knew everybody. I knew Malcolm X. I knew MLK.I knew Jessie Jackson."
"I quit when [Ali] went to fight Holmes.It was just a joke. The guy couldn't even walk and they put him in with Holmes."
"I was the doctor. I was there for everything, from before the training, during the training, during the fight, inside the corner, and after the fight."
"Although I think I'm a very level headed guy, I must admit the notoriety appealed to me a great deal. I wanted to be well known."
"I'm a patriot. My grandfather would say the most important thing in the world was being an American citizen. He'd say with that and an education, you can conquer the world. And that's what I did."
"I'm Ferdie Pacheco. I've done all these things. You can't tell me sh**.Talk to me about something I don't know about."
"I like boxing, but I never boxed myself. I was a fan for years before I became a doctor."
"You can't talk to [Ali]. ... The guy can't talk. You call on the phone all you hear is mum, mum, mum, mum."
"You face aging: elasticity is gone. At age 50-some-odd, you've lost 50 percent of your muscle mass that you had when you were 30. You're less of a person. You have less muscles. You don't have any elasticity. You don't bounce when you walk anymore. You shuffle."
"What we've (doctors) done to the American public is evil.I think there's some kind of mistaken philosophy, a mistaken thought, that we now know what we never found out before. How did we get here from being in a cave? ... We got here because, despite everything we do, nature is going to have its course."
"It's like we've done with flossing. ... What are you talking about? How many animals do you think floss? They got their tongue. They got saliva. That's flossing."


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Who Lives There: William, William and Schnauzer Buddy
Location: Chicago, Illinois
Size: 950 square feet
What is your one favorite element in your small, cool home? Our favorite element in our home is the floor plan. What attracted us to the space, was the original Chicago Graystone floorplan, original in 1890, but updated to modern finishes. The open living/dining room lends to easy entertaining, and having the kitchen at the back of our home keeps it easy to "hide" all the elements that come along with entertaining. We also fell in love with the original hardwood floors, brought back to life with a rich dark ebony stain.
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The Denver Broncos' second big rookie debut in as many weeks wasn't as hungered for, but was much more satisfying.
Wide receiver Demaryius Thomas reminded the masses why he was selected three spots ahead of superstar teammate Tim Tebow Sunday, exploding onto the scene at INVESCO Field at Mile High with nine catches for 97 yards and a touchdown to lead the Broncos over the Seattle Seahawks 31-14.
Thomas led a dominant offensive effort that was supported by a 14 of 20 mark on third downs and four Broncos takeaways.
The Broncos began their home opener by forcing a pair of turnovers. Champ Bailey intercepted QB Matt Hasselbeck on Seattle's opening drive deep in Denver territory. After the Broncos' opening offensive series stalled, Bronco cornerback Cassius Vaughn recovered a muffed punt and the Broncos went on to score the game's first points.
They wouldn't look back. Denver used an impressive receiving tandem of Knowshon Moreno, Eddie Royal, Brandon Lloyd, and Thomas, who all snared receptions of at least 20 yards, to wear out the Seahawks defense and march up and down the field. Kyle Orton was exceptional (25 for 35, 307 yards, 2 TDs — one each to Royal and Thomas), Moreno and Correll Buckhalter added a touchdown apiece on the ground, and the Broncos put a thirty-burger on their longtime AFC West rival.
Hasselbeck was intercepted twice more, once by Brian Dawkins and once by rookie Perrish Cox.
It was by no means a complete performance. The Broncos' special teams coverage unit continues to allow big gains to opposing returners, allowing Golden Tate a 63-yard punt return in the second half. The defense was opportunistic in its takeaways but was far too flexible otherwise. Hasselbeck had a comfortable pocket for most of the game, even with former Broncos linemen Tyler Polumbus and Ben Hamilton, both of whom the Broncos deemed unfit for a roster spot this offseason, blocking for him.
The Broncos next face the Indianapolis Colts at home, whose quarterback will surely provide a tougher challenge if given the same amount of time in the pocket. But today, Kyle Orton and company showed they just might have the offensive firepower to compete with them.


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