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How Syrian war took 29 lives in Indian Ocean
THIS is the story of how the Syrian war reached out 8,000 kilometres across the globe and destroyed at least 29 Lebanese lives in the Indian Ocean. It is a story of tragic irony; the destitute Lebanese families who wanted to live in Australia and left their arid villages in the hills of the northern Akkar plateau had been warned by their relatives not to leave their homes, and they died just off the coast of Indonesia. And it is a story of a country whose authorities take no responsibility for the deaths of their own people.
The sinking of the overcrowded refugee boat that set off from Indonesia's Java district of Cianjur 10 days ago cannot match the hundreds of fatalities of the north African boat that sank off the Italian island of Lampedusa last week, where almost 400 people are thought to have died and divers were still recovering bodies from the Mediterranean.
These disasters do not match in terms of scale of loss, but some features are the same: the desperation of the passengers to find a new life, the involvement of ruthless people-smugglers, the wooden hulks in which they sought illusory safety. What is different is the nationality of the refugees.
For Lebanon – of all Middle East countries – is a place of comparative security and wealth, despite the Syrian conflict and the violence it has brought to Beirut and Tripoli.
In some south-west Asian countries, television advertisements warn would-be asylum-seekers of the fate that awaits them. Scarcely an hour passes on an Afghan TV channel without an ominous man's voice – against a black screen – telling viewers in Dari (Farsi) and Pashto: "Australia is not a country to reach by boat. If you attempt to go by boat, you will not be allowed onto Australian territory. You will be sent to the island of Papua New Guinea and will never be allowed to live in Australia…" No such warning has ever been broadcast on Lebanese television. There seemed to be no need.
Unlike the anonymous victims off Lampedusa, where there were too few coffins for the dead, the Lebanese who lost their lives and drifted ashore from the Indian Ocean have known identities. Careful investigations by the Lebanese press have discovered their Sunni home villages: Qabaait, Khreibet and Nabaa Fnaydaq, close to the Syrian border, and the Tripoli suburb of Bab el-Tabbaneh, whose militias have been at war with pro-Syrian Alawite gunmen east of the city for two years.
PICTURE OF NEGLECT: The remote hamlets astride the Bared river – which dribbles into the Mediterranean from the Palestinian refugee camp of the same name – have been neglected for years by the Beirut government, no more so than now, when the political feuds between pro- and anti-Syrian Lebanese parties means that no new Lebanese cabinet can be created.
There are no schools in much of the Akkar countryside, few hospitals, almost no jobs. The young men have no money to get married. Many of them are forced to join the Lebanese army in order to survive.
The "outgoing" Lebanese government – elected in a poll now hopelessly out of date – didn't care. Almost an entire family were lost from Qabaait. The Khodr family's only survivor was the father, Hussain, whose wife and nine children all perished. The remains of his wife and one daughter were brought ashore. In Tripoli, the Gamrawy and Hraz families lost their loved ones, while Talal Rai died with his three children and his sister.
Ahmed Abdo, the father of Mustafa who was 24 – who is still missing – borrowed $10,000 from his friends to pay for the journey to Australia; the total cost for each family was $60,000 to be paid to an Iraqi smuggler known as "Abu Saleh".
Many relatives had begged the families not to leave. Abdo told one local paper that "my son is one of the good young boys who sought to live in peace. The economic and security problems we have suffered forced him to emigrate and look for peace of mind".
To the Lebanese government, Abdo declared: "You should look after your people, and your country, and enough of your disputes."
A photograph survives of the passengers aboard their boat, sitting on rough, wooden benches in the choppy seas off Java.
The picture is spotted with raindrops, but you can clearly see the doomed Lebanese aboard.
One smiles broadly, another waves at the camera, most stare at the camera. Behind them is a bleak, grey sky and a sinister, frothing sea.
They are only minutes from death. We know that in the last moments, one Lebanese used his mobile phone to call a relative in Melbourne to seek help.
The relative called the Australian naval authorities, who later launched helicopters and jets in a hopeless search for a boat that had already sunk.
But when the scale of the Lebanese losses reached Beirut – only 18 Lebanese survived – their pseudo-government sprang into action. It promised that survivors would be brought home, and that all those whose bodies were found would be brought back to be buried in the barren soil of their own land.
In fact, they spent more time making pledges about the dead than they did about the living. And what does that tell you about Lebanon?
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Creating a Node XML File in Windows HPC Server 2008 Step-by-Step Guide
Applies To: Windows HPC Server 2008
Creating and importing a node XML file is an efficient way to add compute nodes to your HPC cluster, especially if you will be deploying your compute nodes from bare metal (that is, an operating system will be installed on the compute nodes during deployment). For example, with a node XML file you can specify the computer name (NetBIOS name) that will be assigned to each new compute node during deployment, instead of having that name assigned by the head node according to the order in which the new compute nodes are detected. You can also specify the node groups to which the compute nodes should be added when they become part of the cluster, and information about the location of each compute node in your datacenter. If you will be integrating scriptable power control tools to manage the compute nodes in your cluster, a node XML file allows you to associate a management IP address with each compute node in the cluster (for example, the IP address for the Base Management Controller (BMC) of the compute node). Another advantage of adding compute nodes by importing an XML file is that nodes are approved as they are added to the cluster, eliminating the need to manually assign a node template to them.
This guide provides step-by-step procedures for generating a base node XML file on the head node of your HPC cluster, editing the node XML file to include information about all of the compute nodes that you want to add to your HPC cluster, and finally verifying the node XML file to ensure that it is ready to be imported to your HPC cluster.
You can download a printable version of the Creating a Node XML File in Windows HPC Server 2008 Step-by-Step Guide (http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=139370).
Scenario overview
A very efficient way to create a node XML file is to first generate a base node XML file that you can use as a starting point. You can then edit that base node XML file to include all of the information that you need when you add compute nodes to your HPC cluster.
The base node XML file can be quickly generated by using HPC Cluster Manager on the head node of your cluster. To generate the base node XML file, you only need to connect and turn on a subset of the computers that you will be adding as compute nodes to your cluster. Only a subset is needed because you can add all other computers to the base node XML file when you edit it. It is possible to include in the base node XML file all of the computers that you will be adding as compute nodes to your cluster, but this will require turning them all on, and depending on the number of computers this may be impractical, making it more efficient to add the compute nodes when you edit the node XML file.
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Banana sauce is just one of many condiments from around the world that is used in ways that may strike us as, well, strange. For others, like fermented bean curd from China, the way it's used isn't as surprising as, say, the way it tastes or smells. These small, slippery cubes of fermented tofu are so pungent that half of one can be enough to flavor a heaping bowl of rice or breakfast porridge. (It can also be described as umami, a Japanese word that refers to a fifth taste—outside of sweet, salty, sour, and bitter—and is often used to describe fermented or aged foods.)
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Nationwide, funding for LIHEAP, which began in 1981, has been in decline in recent years. In fiscal year 2011, there was $4.7 billion in total funding, with $102.9 million allocated to Connecticut for assistance to 117,920 households. In 2012, total funding decreased to $3.47 billion. Connecticut received $79.5 million, which helped 100,416 households.
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According to recent testimony from Raymond Singleton, deputy commissioner of social services, the state is expecting $84.4 million in LIHEAP funding in the coming season, providing for help to almost 108,000 households this winter.
This estimate includes holdover funds, and is based on a nationwide LIHEAP funding level of $3.47 billion once the federal shutdown ends. That figure is contained in the legislation that ping-ponged between the House and Senate prior to Tuesday's shutdown.
But, without the passage of legislation to fund federal departments and agencies in fiscal year 2014, state and local agencies in Connecticut cannot be certain how much LIHEAP funding will be available beyond the $7.45 million carried over from last year.
"At this point everything will continue as planned," said David Dearborn, communications director at the state social services department. "We are all hopeful that the situation in Washington will be resolved very soon."
Father of Sandy Hook victim found dead at town hall in Newtown after apparent suicide
"He was a brokenhearted person, as we all are," Neil Heslin, whose 6-year-old son, Jesse Lewis, was killed at Sandy Hook, told The Courant Monday. "It's sad. Just no words."
Bridge restrictions in Bourne to begin as repairs are made
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers says the Bourne Bridge will be down to two lanes as repair work expected to last into late spring begins
Yale rescinds admission of student in bribery scandal
Yale University says it has rescinded the admission of a student as a result of bribery scandal that led to the indictment of the school's former women's soccer coach
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It's fashionable to call the Jets a Cinderella, but when you have the No. 1 defense and No. 1 rushing game you're no fluke. And, as long as they balance the offense enough to keep the Colts' pass rushers off Mark Sanchez, they should be in decent shape. I'd want to see Sanchez throw more on first down to stay out of third-and-long.
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As they did against the Chargers, the Jets need to keep this as low scoring a game as possible. The other game, however, I expect to be more wide open with both teams in the high 20s if not the 30s.
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"Safety is our No. 1 priority, and the company will not open a WindSeeker ride until an internal review has been completed," Cedar Fair announced in a statement.
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Despite being one of the most used exclamations in the English language, the use of the so-called "F-word" still gets people riled up when it's on television. Best Supporting Actress Winner Melissa Leo, in her awe of a first-time nomination and win, did just that when realizing just how many people were seated at the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood.
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A new Seventh-day Adventist School of Medicine in Nigeria is the denomination's first in Africa.
The Benjamin S. Carson Sr. School of Medicine and Babcock University Teaching Hospital was inaugurated this month during commencement services at church-run Babcock University in Lagos, Nigeria.
Adventist Education and Health Ministries officials say the new school signals a growing commitment by Africans to build self-sufficiency in addressing the sweeping public health challenges the continent faces.
According to United Nations reports, Sub-Saharan Africa alone is home to at least two-thirds of the 33 million adults and children worldwide living with HIV/AIDS, yet the region accounts for just 1 percent of global health spending and 2 percent of the global healthcare workforce.
The launch of a medical school in Nigeria, while not an immediate fix, is "a clear start" toward a "healthcare delivery system yet unrivaled in Africa," said Babcock University President James Makinde.
The School of Medicine operates out of Babcock University College of Health and Medical Sciences, which also includes schools of Nursing and Public Health. Administrators say schools of Pharmacy and Dentistry are on the horizon. The school is accredited to grant a Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery (MBBS) degree, the first professional degree a medical student can earn studying at a university that follows the British model of post-secondary education.
The 37 students currently enrolled in the MBBS program have been studying since January, when Babcock University administrators first requested a public inauguration for the fledgling medical school. But at the time, the official launch was prevented by yet unmet accreditation requirements and unrest after the Nigerian government lifted a gas subsidy, said Lisa Beardsley-Hardy, Education director for the Adventist world church.
"We needed to verify that [accrediting] conditions had been met. They have now been substantially met," Beardsley-Hardy said. The infrastructure for the medical school is now nearly complete, too, she added.
Adventist Education officials worked closely with the world church's Health Ministries to set benchmarks for the medical school.
Health Ministries director Allan Handysides, who has supported medical mission work in Africa for decades, echoed Beardsley-Hardy's endorsement.
"I have seldom seen such remarkable progress in such short time at any of our other institutions. The team at Babcock has taken the suggestions and guidance given seriously, and the result is outstanding," Handysides said.
"We believe that this fledgling institution has the potential to grow and reach new heights and standards of excellence," he added. "We are grateful to God for his blessings and also to the energy, vision and tenacity of the team at Babcock and the administration of the [church's] West-Central African Division."
World renowned pediatric neurosurgeon Dr. Ben Carson, after whom the medical school is named, spoke at the launch, noting that a top-notch medical school in Africa positions the continent as a player in finding solutions for the region's challenges.
"I am extremely pleased to have my name associated with Babcock University because of its visionary leadership and the great potential that it has to produce a variety of excellent healthcare professionals that will have a positive impact not only on Nigeria, but on the whole continent of Africa and potentially the entire world," Carson later told ANN.
Carson, an Adventist who has used the public spotlight to share the church's message of hope and healing, urged Babcock medical students to look for opportunities for mission-minded outreach.
"Babcock University has a reputation for excellence and in fact is considered by many to be the number one private university in Nigeria," Carson said. "It is well positioned to bring medical care followed by spiritual care to the masses in the same way that Jesus did."
The Benjamin S. Carson Sr. School of Medicine is the Adventist Church's fourth medical school worldwide, and its second English-language medical school. The church operates medical schools in Montemorelos, Mexico; Entre Rios, Argentina; and its flagship school in Loma Linda, California, United States. Adventist universities in Peru and the Philippines are also building medical programs.
Students at Babcock can choose from among three tracks: one serves Nigeria, one the entire West African region and another, the "global track," includes rotations in the United Kingdom and the U.S.
In recent years, Africa has struggled to keep trained professionals in the region after graduation. The UN Development Program estimates that some 20,000 skilled Africans emigrate every year, often choosing the economic opportunities and political stability of Western Europe and North America. The loss of medical doctors has been "the most striking," according to agency reports.
"I hope that the global track does not become the primary track, so that this just becomes another means of exodus outside the country," Beardsley-Hardy said.
Adventist education officials say clear paths for medical service in the region will guard against further brain drain.
"We want to train not just doctors, but medical missionaries who will go to all parts of the sub-region and give healthcare from the Biblical perspective," said Chiemela Ikonne, Education director for denomination's West-Central Africa Division.
"The healing of the body can never be complete without the healing of the mind. This method of training brings the dimension that is lacking in the secular preparation of medical doctors," Ikonne said.
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Monday, June 7, 2010
Contest Winner and Technical Problems
This took forever. You guys had such amazing suggestions and it took me quite a while to sort through. But, in the end, the winner was Bittersweet, suggested by commenter Grizadams.
So, Grizadams, if you wish to collect your prize, send me an e-mail at 4haelz AT gmail DOT com (remember to spell it h-a-e-l-z) and specify whether you want me to mail you the card (with a stamp and everything) or you want me to just scratch it off and type the code out for you!
Now, for the reason this is so late:
A week ago, in the middle of a raid, my WoW randomly dropped from ~20 fps to 4 fps, and never got higher than 12 fps again. After checking my firewalls, shutting down all auxiliary programs, running virus scans, finding out my WoW repair wouldn't even connect to the server, shutting off addons...well, nothing worked. I finally had to uninstall and reinstall WoW, and delete all my addons. I'm in the process of redoing my Healbot bindings through muscle memory, and it's just...such a pain.
So, yeah, that was what I was doing this weekend.
Congratulations to Grizadams! And thank you to everyone who participated.
6 comments:
- Jong said...
aw, man... everyone keep announcing winners to contests I wasn't aware of. I wanted to go to world cup too you stupid mountain dew marketing people!
- June 7, 2010 at 9:22 PM
- Ronark said...
You could have just backed up your WTF, Addon, and Cache files so you don't have to re-set all your addon preferences :P
Most likely it is a graphics/video card issue or a virtual memory issue that causes severe FPS drops. Its happened to me a lot, and is a pain on BQL when you have to bite people :x
- June 8, 2010 at 1:53 AM
- Bell said...
@Jong - Sorry, guess you'll have to read my blog more! :P
@Ronark - I did, and when I reused them, it all went to hell again. So I just decided to start fresh.
- June 8, 2010 at 2:07 AM
- Moonra said...
HB can be a pain to set up just the way you had it before if you don't have a back up :(
I had to put everything back one hour before ICC raid and you'll find out that there's still stuff missing when fighting.
might be a recent addon update that isn't working as it should.
- June 8, 2010 at 5:48 AM
- Grizadams said...
Sweet, I think I emailed you, please let me know if you didn't get it.
- June 8, 2010 at 10:24 AM
- Niniel said...
I ran with 4-ish fps all through Wrath 25 mans with low settings until I finally caved and bought a new computer. Now it's Ultra settings with 30-40 fps at the worst of times. I can't believe how easy it is to dodge boss abilities in real time ;)
It seems weird that it just dropped mid fight. Have you checked with AddonSpamFu (http://wow.curse.com/downloads/wow-addons/details/fu-bar_addon-spam-fu.aspx) if maybe your whole raid suddenly is running GearScore or other spammy addons that might be the cause?
I just had a lot of addons and a computer from 2006 so upgrading solved my issues. Hope your reinstall helps!
- June 27, 2010 at 5:09 AM


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Michael Naef needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 102 designs submitted by 20 freelance designers.
SBKH - Small Business Know How
SBKH is a startup consulting company in Switzerland. We want to help small business to develop their strategies and processes by implementing new technologies they don't know yet. Therefore we offer an internet platform with several Excelsheets, Web-Tools, database solutions as well as consulting services. Most of it should be for free and hopefully also contributed by some users. Due to the current crisis, a lot of small businesses have difficulties to survive because the don't use their full potential. We want to support them. We want to help them survive. We want them to help others. We want all to share their knowledge and become better.
- small businesses (approx. less than 50 employees)
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- target market is Switzerland
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the targeted persons would be described as:
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the logo will be used as a company logo, on business cards and will set the standard for our internet platform. I attached the logo of credit-suisse which i like basically because of it's color concept and convenience.
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+ color concept with one or two basic colors and its hue-variations (and b/w)
+ the letters "SBKH" and if it fits "Small Business Know How"
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+ keep it simple
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- anything that restricts the concept to a specific industry
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Ever since the one-two of Hurricane Sandy and Obama's re-election the ever hopeful climate campaigners have a new spring in their step, thinking they're back in business and surely now we'll get planet-saving measures, such as a carbon tax. Grover Norquist was temporarily equivocal about the idea, my old pals at AEI have had more meetings about it, and gadzooks, even ExxonMobil has said they're fine with the idea. (Actually they have been all along, but the cloistered climate campaigners never bothered to notice.)
Hurricane Sandy had nothing to do with climate change—I'm not even going to bother with the links—and it would seem that President Obama wants nothing to do with a carbon tax either. He just proposes a "national conversation" about it, which, if it's like our long-running "national conversation about race" will go on forever. Greens should be worried rather than thrilled.
And then there was this yesterday during Jay Carney's daily "gaggle" with the media:
Q [The President] seemed to almost go out of his way to dismiss the idea of a carbon tax, kind of rule it out. Why did he — why was he so —
MR. CARNEY: We would never propose a carbon tax, and have no intention of proposing one. The point the President was making is that our focus right now is the same as the American people's focus, which is on the need to extend economic growth, expand job creation. And task number one is dealing with these deadlines that pose real challenges to our economy, as he talked about yesterday. . .
Q So if you don't do anything with the carbon tax, what can you do about climate change in the short term? He talked about a national conversation, but beyond that, what does he want to do?
MR. CARNEY: Well, the President, as he spoke about yesterday, has already taken significant steps, including doubling our fuel-efficiency standards, including doubling our renewable energy production and the investments that we've made in other areas of clean energy that will improve the situation from what it would have been in terms of carbon emissions. . .
Q Can we expect climate change to come up in his speech today, in his prepared remarks?
MR. CARNEY: I would not expect that.
I've got it: for all those folks who want to link Hurricane Sandy and climate, let's have Obama put FEMA in charge of climate change policy. Yeah, that's the ticket.
More seriously, it is clear Obama only wants higher taxes on "the rich." And he (correctly) recognizes that environmentalists are cheap dates/abused spouses who will stick with him no matter what.
UPDATE: Some of the greens are starting to notice. Heh.


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A winner was selected from 37 designs submitted by 12 freelance designers.
Inventor seeks good looking design that stands out, something different; working from a background of technical knowledge & R&D , tele-communications & consulting. Professional designs only please.
We are working on a project that helps users on the web. The phrase welp is a play on "web-help".
I am an inventor and owner of this business, and come from a background of tele-communications & consulting, R&D. Specifically focussing in alternative business logic and philosophical, sociopolitical research, we are setting up the business to help people. We would like the logo to represent this alternative way of thinking since it is the foundation of the business!
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- Logo Reflects innovation and inventors background
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- I don't want you to restrict yourself too much :-) Thanks!
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Richard Bresnahan graduated from Saint John's University in 1976, having studied under the potter Bill Smith and the renowned scholar of Japanese ceramics, Johanna Becker, OSB. He then apprenticed in Japan with Nakazato Takashi, whose father was a "living national treasure." Deep respect for material and the environment characterize Bresnahan's approach to pottery production, and innovation and experimentation inform his ongoing dialogue with clay and fire. Bresnahan's pottery embodies both the nature of his locality–through the use of local materials–and his own inimitably Midwestern artistic vision.
Kevin Flicker graduated from the University of Minnesota Morris in 1974 with degrees in Psychology and English. After the completion of his apprenticeship with Richard Bresnahan at The Saint John's Pottery in 1985, Flicker returned to Morris as a ceramic instructor, a position he has held ever since. Many of his students have successfully entered graduate programs, residencies, and apprenticeships. He also frequently exhibits his work in solo and group exhibitions. Flicker's passion is to create high-quality, functional ceramics from local materials. His quiet, unassuming wares are surprisingly elegant.
Stephen Earp apprenticed at The Saint John's Pottery for two-and-a-half years beginning in 1987, honing his skill and adopting the rhythm and discipline of the studio. His deep concern for the Nicaraguan people after the Contra War led him to join Potters for Peace, a non-profit organization whose members assist struggling potters in indigenous populations worldwide. These experiences caused him to reflect on his own cultural heritage through his research in early American redware. Like many early settlers, Earp uses clay that he digs locally, reflecting traditions that stretch back to colonial America and to Europe.
Samuel Johnson completed his apprenticeship with Bresnahan in 1999 and later studied Scandinavian ceramic design at Denmark's design school in Copenhagen. While in Denmark, he also worked at the International Ceramic Center in Skaelskor. In 2001, he traveled to Japan and worked for a time in the studio of the renowned potter Koie Ryoji, but also took the opportunity to visit other notable ceramic artists including Goro Suzuki, Kanzaki Shiho, Izezaki Jun and Ryuichi Kakurezaki. Johnson works as Assistant Professor of Art at the College of Saint Benedict and Saint John's University.
Anne Meyer is the youngest artist of the five featured in the exhibition. After completing her studies with Kevin Flicker in Morris, she apprenticed at The Saint John's Pottery from 2004 to 2006. She traveled to Tokoname, Japan, in 2006 where she worked in the studio of the potter Koie Ryoji and participated in several wood firings. Although Meyer trained in all aspects of pottery production and is recognized for her skill at the potter's wheel, her true passion lies in ceramic sculpture. Her woodfired figures have a timeless quality, seemingly as ancient as the earth and yet in a state of transformation and evolution.


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Just saw Wilson's QB rating in the red zone, he balls in it. Even though QB rating is inflated in the redzone due to a TD being so close, he has been doing very well in it.
I see the last time we had to kick a field goal was the Minnesota game, but it was from 40 yards out, so it might not have been the redzone. Anyone know?


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Here's a scary parenting thought: Let's say you're of a liberal mindset, politically speaking. What's the most terrifying thing you could discover hidden under your 15-year-old's mattress? (Besides a Santorum 2012 t-shirt.)
Give up? A copy of the magazine Conservative Teen, that's the most terrifying thing you could find in your kid's bedroom. In case you've never seen this one on the newsstands, the mag is basically exactly what it sounds like:
Articles with titles like "Why Abstinence Works" and "Hot Air & Cold Facts of Liberal Media Bias." Generic buttoned-up teen cover models who appear to be at the library, perhaps combing Scripture for anti-gay references. (Yes, this is a real magazine, and no, I'm not making these articles up.)
I know what my knee-jerk reaction would likely be:
What kind of trash is this? I raised you on hormone-free milk and The Daily Show! You should know better!
Or maybe you're a conservative parent. Maybe a discovery like this one would make you beam with pride. In that case, imagine finding a copy of Out magazine or a prescription for birth control.
Either way, this is what I'm wondering ...
How are we supposed to react, as parents, when our kids turn out to have a completely different set of beliefs from our own? Are we supposed to react at all?
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It's an incredibly difficult question to answer, especially when you look at it from both perspectives (parent and teen). I know personally how I felt when my devout Catholic mother freaked out because I stopped going to church: Annoyed. (Not to mention unmoved.) But I also know how I would feel if, in a few years, I found a copy of Conservative Teen in my daughter's room: Alarmed. And my instinct would probably be to tell her why, immediately.
In which case she would probably just get annoyed, and whoops! There goes history repeating itself again.
I guess the main thing is to NOT make our kids feel bad about whatever they've chosen to believe in (assuming they haven't joined some murderous cult or something). The only thing that comes of a parent shaming a kid for her individuality is a complete communication breakdown. Plus, that's usually when kids embrace whatever their "thing" is even more wholeheartedly in the hopes of proving us wrong.
All we can really do is stay true to ourselves as parents, be good listeners, and ... hope they come around?
What would you do if your kid liked Conservative Teen magazine?
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Global Classroom
The Global Classroom is UNICEF Canada's program to support and expand teaching and learning for global citizenship and rights respecting education through a children's rights approach.
It is through global education that children learn about the world around them and their place in it. They learn about rights and responsibilities and the effects their actions can have. They explore local to global issues and begin to see themselves as responsible, active global citizens.
UNICEF Canada's Global Classroom programming:
- Inspires Canadian teachers and their students to take action on social justice, humanitarian issues and human rights – especially the rights of all children.
- Empowers Canadian schools to adopt whole-school approaches to rights respecting education.
- Provides educators with classroom-ready resources and engagement tools.
- Partners with Faculties of Education to inspire future rights respecting educators.
- Collaborates with a variety of organizations within the education sector to promote an approach to education that upholds and protects the rights of all children.
Rights Respecting Schools
UNICEF Canada's Rights Respecting Schools initiative uses the Convention on the Rights of the Child as a basis for building an inclusive and respectful school culture.


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Welcome to Sheffield FC – the World's First Football Club
In the year of 1857 William Prest and Nathaniel Creswick founded the first football club in the world.
Two pioneers, that developed new rules and laws for a game to play with friends of all ages in the community. Early both gentlemen saw the power of football to connect people with grace, happiness
and respect for one another. Starting with the inventions of 1857, football became a strong social
and emotional basement for the citizens of Sheffield - and is today the world's greatest game.
Throughout history, our club Sheffield FC has always played football at amateur level. When the first
professional league was founded in 1885, the club wasn't strong enough to compete with the newly formed and paid pro-teams and so decided to set up the first official amateur competition in football.
Being proud of our status as true amateur club, we have developed a grass roots environment with
more than 12 teams – from an under 14 girls' team to over 35 and Ex Sheffield Players – a place for
every football enthusiast, living within the region of Sheffield.
To preserve our heritage and the nature of football, our club has founded its own foundation in 2010. Therewith the club will never invest in future players, but in different local and global projects to
spread the true values of the game: Integrity, Respect and Community.
On the following pages you will find more information to the topics mentioned above as well as to
further interesting content about the Club. And in case you want to get closer to football's first club,
contact our chairman and come on over to visit us at the Home of Football, back in little Sheffield.
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WASHINGTON -- Rep. Ron Paul, R-Texas, dominated the Louisiana Republican caucuses held Saturday. The results guarantee he will have a strong presence in the state's delegation to the Republican National Convention in August, even if he has little hope of winning the party's presidential nomination.
The caucuses were held in the state's six newly drawn congressional districts.
While the presidential preferences of the delegates were not identified on the caucus ballots, delegates who back the libertarian congressman, who is now the only one of Mitt Romney's adversaries still standing, won the lion's share of the contests, carrying the 1st, 2nd, 5th and 6th Congressional Districts.
As a result, under party rules, Paul is guaranteed at least 17 of the 46 delegates to the convention at which Romney will almost certainly be nominated for president.
Slate 3, which originated as an uncommitted conservative slate poised to back Rick Santorum before his withdrawal from the presidential race, carried the day in the 3rd District. The results in the 4th District were mixed, with a coalition of Romney supporters and members of the conservative slate likely to be in command.
The delegates elected Saturday will go to a state convention June 2 in Shreveport, where they will choose the delegates who will go to the national gathering in Tampa.
Based on his victory in the state's March 24 primary, Santorum is guaranteed 10 pledged delegates, and Romney, who finished second, is guaranteed five.
The balance of the 46-member delegation will include at least 17 Ron Paul delegates; at least one other Romney delegate in the person of National Committeewoman Ruth Ulrich, who just endorsed him; and the rest uncommitted.
Turnout at the caucuses was low. For example, the top vote-getter in the 1st District, Bernard S. Smith, received only 922 votes.
Ron Paul supporters distributed "voter guides" at caucus sites that steered voters to choose one of six virtually identical slates of Paul supporters that the guide variously characterized as the right choice for backers of Paul, Romney, Santorum, Newt Gingrich, the Tea Party, "Citizens Against Traffic Cameras" and defenders of faith, family and freedom.
Charlie Davis, who ran the Paul campaign in Louisiana, described the "third-party voter guide," which was the handiwork of The Dead Pelican, a Louisiana political website, as an attempt "to bring clarity to a somewhat confusing situation."
Chad Rogers, who publishes The Dead Pelican, said the guide was "the most accurate description and perhaps only real in-depth analysis of the different slates involved."
But the distribution of the guide seemed more designed to maximize Paul's vote than to clarify anything.
Jason Dore, the executive director of the state party, said he would bring the controversy about the voter guide to the attention of the state party's executive committee.
But when the votes were counted, Davis said, "The extra slates don't seem to have impacted the outcome in any of the congressional districts. Enthusiasm for Ron Paul carried the day. We should have about half the delegates from Louisiana."
While congratulating the Paul campaign "for apparently capturing their first state delegation in this presidential election cycle through an excellent get-out-the-vote effort today," Sarah Roy, chairwoman of the Greater New Orleans Republicans, characterized it as an "odd and undemocratic result" that would embarrass and distract both Romney and Gov. Bobby Jindal.
"The result of this ill-conceived and confusing caucus clearly does not represent the will of the vast majority of Louisiana Republican voters, as Ron Paul recently received only 6 percent of the vote in the Louisiana presidential primary," said Roy, who on behalf of her organization called for the state party's leaders to resign for designing Saturday's "debacle."
Among the better-known individuals who finished out of the money Saturday were Jefferson Parish President John Young and former state Elections Commissioner Suzanne Haik Terrell in the 1st District, and former U.S. Rep. Anh "Joseph" Cao, R-New Orleans, and former City Councilman Bryan Wagner in the 2nd District.
However, people do not need to be delegates to the state convention to be named as delegates to the national convention.
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It's easy enough to convince Nautilus to launch VLC, but VLC fails to find the multimedia files. This only happens if the SAMBA share is mounted by Nautilus. If I mount the SAMBA share manually from the command line, VLC finds the files just fine.
The problem is that Nautilus points VLC to a non-existent path that lives on the Gnome virtual file system (GVFS).
The fix is to install the GVFS FUSE daemon, which, for some reason, is not installed by default:
aptitude install gvfs-fuseadd your user account to the
fuse group, and re-login.


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How Many Nicknames Do YOU Have?
Some celebrities have had so many different names that it's sometimes hard to keep on them! Snoop Dogg a.k.a Snoop LION just changed HIS name again not too long ago after taking a trip to Jamaica! We know how THAT trip went down, don't we?!


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Maibock: To Helles and BockJuly 1, 2006 - K. Florian Klemp
Seasonal brews can be many things: annual releases, even vintages, or some style that fits the season based on its strength. Some seasonal brews are steeped in tradition, born during the fermentation-friendly months, with an eye to the period when they will be served. Amid the winter warmers, summer wheats and festbiers, one is often... View Article


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With all the wacky food blogs online and sites like Pinterest that make sharing Internet finds super-simple, we've been up to our necks in inspiration. Here are a couple of recipes we couldn't help but make over...
Entire recipe: 182 calories, 2g fat, 203mg sodium, 43g carbs, 6g fiber, 31g sugars, 1g protein -- PointsPlus® value 5* That's right -- it's pie filling baked RIGHT INTO an actual apple. Our recipe is both cute and craveable. (Inspired by Domestic Dilettante.)
1 large Granny Smith apple
1/2 tbsp. brown sugar (not packed)
1 tsp. Splenda No Calorie Sweetener (granulated), or HG Alternative
1/4 tsp. cinnamon
Dash salt
1 low-fat cinnamon graham cracker (1/4 sheet), lightly crushed
1/2 tbsp. old-fashioned oats
3/4 tsp. brown sugar (not packed)
3/4 tsp. light whipped butter or light buttery spread (like Brummel & Brown), room temperature
Preheat oven to 375 degrees. Spray a baking pan with nonstick spray.
Slice off the top of the apple, about 1/2 inch. Carefully hollow out most of the inside flesh with a spoon or melon baller, leaving about 1/4 inch of flesh on the skin. Discard seeds and core.
Chop the scooped-out flesh and place in a bowl. Add brown sugar, Splenda, cinnamon, and salt, and stir to coat. Place mixture in the hollow apple, and pack down lightly with the back of a spoon.
Place apple in the baking pan. Cover pan with foil and bake for 30 minutes.
Meanwhile, in a small bowl, combine all topping ingredients. Stir/mash until well mixed and crumbly.
Remove foil. Sprinkle topping over the filling. Bake, uncovered, until topping has lightly browned, about 5 minutes. Eat!
HG Alternative: If made with an equal amount of granulated white sugar in place of Splenda, this recipe will have 196 calories, 47g carbs, and 35g sugars (PointsPlus® value 5*).
1/6th of calzone: 217 calories, 10g fat, 585mg sodium, 23g carbs, 1.5g fiber, 5.5g sugars, 9g protein -- PointsPlus® value 6* When we came across this calzone recipe on Squidoo (via Pinterest), we couldn't help but think how much it looked like a Danish. And that we should remake it. And then eat it. (And so we did.)
Ingredients: 3 cups sliced mushrooms 1 cup chopped red onion 1 tsp. chopped garlic 4 cups chopped spinach leaves 1 package refrigerated Pillsbury Crescent Recipe Creations Seamless Dough Sheet, or HG Alternative 1/2 cup pizza sauce 1 cup shredded part-skim mozzarella cheese 1/4 cup sliced black olives Directions: Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Spray a baking sheet with nonstick spray. Bring a skillet sprayed with nonstick spray to medium-high heat. Add mushrooms, onion, and garlic. Cook and stir until softened, 6 - 8 minutes. Add spinach and cook until wilted, 1 - 2 minutes. Transfer veggies to a large bowl and blot away excess moisture. On the baking sheet, roll or stretch out dough into a large rectangle of even thickness. Arrange sheet with the short sides on the left and right. Spread pizza sauce horizontally across the middle third of the dough, leaving 1/2-inch borders on the sides. Top sauce with cooked veggies and sprinkle with cheese. Make vertical cuts about 1 inch apart along the top section of the dough, stopping about 1/2 inch above the filling, to create 1-inch-wide strips of dough. Repeat with the bottom section of the dough. Alternate folding the top and bottom strips over the filling, covering it completely and creating a "braided" criss-cross. Cross the last few strips toward the middle of the calzone. Fold the sides of the dough in and firmly pat to seal. Evenly press olive slices into the dough strips on top. Bake until crispy and golden brown, 15 - 20 minutes. Slice and chew! MAKES 6 SERVINGS HG Alternative: If you can't find the Recipe Creations dough, go for Pillsbury Reduced Fat Crescent roll dough. (The products are nearly identical.) Then just pinch/seal up the perforations for a seamless sheet.
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Who knows? Click "Send to a Friend," and you may inspire your pals to make these recipes!
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text: The Southern Perspective February 8, 2013 07:06 PM Tweet Traveling from eight states, 125 farmers joined Farm Journal Field Agronomist Ken Ferrie for a one-day Corn College in the South event. © Pam Fretwell TAGS: Marketing, Overseas December 18, 2014 By Pam Fretwell Farm Journal Media Multimedia; Farm Journal Special Projects Editor Email Geography doesn't change the basics for higher yields As more acres of corn spread south, Farm Journal continues to receive inquiries to host a Corn College event in the region. In response, Farm Journal Field Agronomist Ken Ferrie traveled south for the third year in early January. "Before 2000, all of our acres went to cotton," says Robbie Howard, a Louisiana farmer who attended the meeting in Vicksburg, Miss. Now, Howard and his son farm 2,900 acres in a corn, soybean and wheat rotation, with zero cotton acres. No matter where you grow corn, Ferrie says it's the fundamentals that will increase yields. He walked the group of 125 farmers through corn development, how to evaluate a growing crop and the keys to nitrogen and lime management—all part of the Systems Approach. "I wanted to give them a good foundation of knowledge on which to base their decision making. That's always important if you are trying to ramp up your yields," Ferrie says. Building on Ferrie's fundamental lessons, Mississippi State University researcher and Extension specialist Erick Larson discussed his findings on water management, residue management and planter performance. He also presented research data on a three-year row spacing study conducted at Mississippi State University. Acreage shifts. Larson said that in the 18 years he has lived in Mississippi, he has seen corn production shift from less than 300,000 acres in the state to almost 1 million acres. "Corn is the second-leading crop in Mississippi; it's a major row crop now," he says. "Folks are extremely serious about corn production in the south and are willing to gather whatever information they can get their hands on to improve profitability and production on their farms." Ferrie echoed the enthusiasm for growing the best corn crop possible in the south. "We had really good questions from the crowd; they weren't afraid to ask questions and they were asking the right questions. I was really encouraged by the enthusiasm of the farmers," he says. Farm Journal Heads to the Field Join our agronomists in the field this summer to take your yields to the next level. Corn College Consultant/Retailer Session July 15, Heyworth, Ill. Corn College Advanced July 16, Heyworth, Ill. (one-day session) July 17–18, Heyworth, Ill. (two-day session) Corn College Grad School July 23, Heyworth, Ill. Corn College Consultant/Retailer Session July 29, Coldwater, Mich. Corn College Fundamentals July 31–Aug. 1, Coldwater, Mich. To register, call (877) 482-7203 or visit www.FarmJournalCornCollege.com You can e-mail Pam Fretwell at email@example.com. Back to news


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Thirteen deputy chiefs from the Boston Fire Department slammed Fire Chief Steve E. Abraira in a recent letter to Mayor Thomas M. Menino, insisting that their boss's response to the Marathon bombings was inadequate and part of a pattern of shirking responsibility during emergencies.
"You can unequivocally consider this letter a vote of no confidence in Chief Abraira," the deputy chiefs wrote to Menino in the letter dated April 26.
The fire officials strongly criticized Abraira's "inactions" after the bombings, writing that he failed to assume command responsibility at the scene on April 15 or show any leadership. They wrote that he later told department members that he felt the command staff had the scene under control as the Fire Department acted in a support role with law enforcement.
"His justification for failing to take action is indefensible," the deputies wrote, adding that firefighters were still "heavily involved" after Abraira arrived at the scene on Boylston Street, due to the possibility of additional explosions, more suspicious packages, and structural concerns for buildings, among other issues.
Abraira fired back in a phone interview Tuesday, saying that the command staff had control of the scene when he arrived and that he acted appropriately.
"When I got there I was comfortable with what was going on," he said. ". . . The nationally accepted practice is that you only take command [as chief] if there's something going wrong or if you can strengthen the command position or if it's overwhelming for the incident commander, and none of those things were in fact happening."
But in their letter to Menino, the deputy chiefs wrote that Abraira has reversed decades of department protocol by changing department operating procedure and relegating himself to spectator status at fire scenes, rather than taking command as his predecessors did.
In so doing, the deputies wrote, Abraira "shields himself from immediate accountability while setting the stage for undermining the confidence and authority of his command staff. While acknowledging his ultimate accountability for department operations, he avoids on-the-scene responsibility."
A spokeswoman for Menino would only say that the mayor has "full confidence in Commissioner [Roderick] Fraser to do what's best for the department, including [in] his own personnel decisions."
Fraser, the fire commissioner, said he has "the utmost confidence in my entire staff, my entire command staff, including Chief Abraira," but declined to discuss the letter on the record. Abraira, whom Fraser appointed in November 2011 and made headlines as the city's first Hispanic fire chief, disputed the deputy chiefs' characterization of the new operating procedure.
"I think the big issue for them is, they think that because I'm not called the incident commander, I don't have responsibility, and that's not true," said Abraira, who previously led the Dallas department and was an assistant chief with the Miami Fire Department. "I've reiterated that. . . . I'm still responsible for what goes on there."
He said he polled 29 big city fire departments last year to see if their chiefs are required to take command of a scene, and only the New Haven department said it follows that policy.
The chief also denied an assertion in the deputy chiefs' letter that he took a picture of himself at a six-alarm fire in East Boston on the roof of an adjacent building, to capture the blaze in the background, and that he was "worrying about his 'scrapbook' " instead of fire safety. Abraira said he went to the roof to see what the roof of the other building looked like but called the notion that he took a photograph of himself "just crazy."
"There was no picture taking," he said. " . . . I don't know where they came up with that."
He said the deputy chiefs are upset with him because he came from outside the department.
Councilor Michael P. Ross, chairman of the council's Public Safety Committee, said the deputy chiefs are raising "serious issues." The mayoral candidate said he plans to consult Fire Department leadership and the deputy chiefs to "gain a better understanding of the concerns raised."
Asked if he approves of Abraira's job performance, Ross said, "It's too soon to make that determination."Kevin Cullen of the Globe staff contributed to this report. Travis Andersen can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com. Follow him on Twitter @TAGlobe.


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SugarSync announced today a major overhaul of its user interface and functionality, along with a slew of new features that could give it an edge over Dropbox as the go-to cloud storage service. The public beta version of SugarSync 2.0 is available for download on Mac and PC now. A companion app for Android is also available, but iOS, BlackBerry, Symbian, and Windows Phone users will have to wait a little longer.
Social sharing
Like Dropbox and other cloud storage services, SugarSync 2.0 allows you to share folders or files with others by giving them direct access, or simply generating a link where they can snag the files. The problem with these links, says SugarSync, is that "for some, the process of generating that link is not intuitive." To solve this first-world problem, SugarSync 2.0 allows you to drag-and-drop files or folders onto a contact to share the file with that person privately, or through a public link. If the folder isn't already in your SugarSync cloud, it will be automatically added. People who click the link don't have to sign up for SugarSync, or download any new software – a key feature that makes this functionality particularly useful.
Cloud search
To help you better manage your synced data across multiple devices, SugarSync has added search functionality that makes it possible to find that expense report from a few months ago, or the pictures of your daughter's first birthday far easier than it used to be.
SugarSync Drive
Another solid new feature in version 2.0 is the SugarSync Drive, which appears in the Mac Finder or Windows Explorer in the same way an external hard drive would. The SugarSync Drive shows you all the files or folders you've synced to your account, including those from other computers or mobile devices. It also allows you to edit files remotely. This means you can edit files from your home computer that are stored on your work computer, and all the changes will be made across devices.
First impressions
After a short round of tests with SugarSync 2.0, we have to give the company credit for a job well done. The UI is easily more intuitive than Dropbox. And the features listed above seem to work as promised – we really haven't run into any noticeable problems just yet on that front.
That said, this is a beta release, and the software is just a bit buggy. Our MacBook Air developed a bit of delayed reaction syndrome after we had SugarSync 2.0 up and running. And a few odd little things, like the UI window not popping up when we click the toolbar icon, did cause some minor annoyances.
Overall, however, this is a solid release from SugarSync, and one that might just push us away from Dropbox entirely.
SugarSync gives you 5GB of free storage. Paid accounts range from $5 per month for 30GB, up to $40 for 500GB, which is right in range with other cloud storage subscription services.
Watch an introduction into SugarSync 2.0 below:
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AUBURN HILLS, Mich. (AP) — An employee of Chrysler Group LLC's social media agency has been fired after it was discovered the person posted an obscene tweet on the Chrysler brand's official account.
The tweet read: "I find it ironic that Detroit is known as the (hash)motorcity and yet no one here knows how to (expletive) drive."
The Detroit News, Detroit Free Press and WXYZ-TV report the message was deleted from the account.
The Auburn Hills-based automaker posted to its blog later Wednesday apologizing for the actions of the New Media Strategies employee.
Chrysler says it doesn't "tolerate inappropriate language or behavior."