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Polk Me!
Hugh Acheson breaks down the first Canadian challenge -- and shares a little U.S. history in the process.
Final Four. Vancouver madness. The chefs are forced to walk through the rain from the airport. I would gladly walk through the rain in Vancouver over 112 F in Dallas. Loved Texas, but it was the hottest summer I have ever experienced.
You expect Padma to pop up at any moment and surprise them with a Quickfire in the airport parking lot. And that's exactly what happens in note form. Lindsay is still harping on herself. Bev is still on cloud nine but seems more assertive than before. They have their snowsuits on. Bev may have A Christmas Story moment at any time, falling down in her snowsuit and unable to get up. Windy at the top of Whistler and Tom and Padma are literally getting blown away. Tom is dressed in his Merchant Marine best, but the man looks pretty warm. I need to chat up wardrobe all nice and stuff to get that type of parka.
I paid no attention to the rules, so this should be interesting. Gondala. Cook. Stop. Cook.
Paul is having travel sickness due to his orange pants. Sarah is all over the place. Bev is focused, or as focused as Bev can be. Lindsay is pretending this is like hunting gator in a Jon boat in the Okefenokee swamp. She is dressed like a Bond villainess, white turtleneck with black hat, making this gator hunt more interesting. I always loved the Bond skiing scenes. Gretchen Bleiler and Gail the Canadian are the guest judges. I was usurped by a multi-medalled Olympian. Whatevs. They eat Paul's lamb with enoki, juniper, and wasabi, and we get like no reaction. Sounds like a juggling act of many, many powerful flavors. We are right back to Sarah. It's a chorizo dish with prune juice and gooseberries. It's like Spanish food for old people with an out-of-season fruit. Bev is menu planning for the future. She loves the dish and the thought of creating all menus on a moving metal crate in the freezing cold. She is having one installed back in Chicago. Sarah can use it when she asks really nicely and apologizes for all past meanness. Bev has made a salmon tartare with anchovy, horseradish crème fraiche, and crispy capers. This is straight out of the 1992 playbook, which yes, I am guilty of using as well. Lindsay is cooking for a trio of people when she is facing a quartet. She has not caught any f--king gators on this miserable trip. Her dish is a salmon with quinoa, chorizo, and horseradish vinaigrette.
Paul gets a passable. Gretchen loved the wasabi. Sarah gets a nod because gooseberries gave it some acid. Bev gets hugged for knife-work. Lindsay's salmon was beautifully cooked. It was a gondola, people. Again, Lindsay thinks she sucked, and lo and behold, they loved it. She wins, and hopefully gets some self-assurance. You are in the final round of Top Chef. Realize you rock. You rock. Enjoy.
Hotel moments at the fabulous Fairmont. The Fairmont has all the old CN hotels in Canada and they are beautiful spots. Go to the Banff Springs hotel someday. Sheer bliss. Stayed at the one in Vancouver, and it was the lap of luxury. Don't tell the producers that I am happy in a broom closet. As long as there is running water, a Twister game, a framed picture of Ken Dryden, and two packs of those colored Nat Sherman Fantasia cigarettes like my aunt used to smoke, my rider has been met.Sarah and Paul are having a discussion about Bev, while Bev washes her hands and face with Lady Macbeth-like concentration. "Out, damned spot! out, I say!" Sarah calls her the "Silent Horse." It's Dark Horse, Silly Sarah! Go research some Polk. Which when I did, brought up this weirdo tidbit… From Whitehouse.gov:
"He (President James K. Polk) offered to settle by extending the Canadian boundary, along the 49th parallel, from the Rockies to the Pacific. When the British minister declined, Polk reasserted the American claim to the entire area. Finally, the British settled for the 49th parallel, except for the southern tip of Vancouver Island. The treaty was signed in 1846." Don't tell me I didn't pay attention in Civics.
And then Sarah calls Bev a tiger. Enough with the animal comparisons. Anyhoo, it's year of the dragon, that tiger stuff was like two years ago, which might be a bad omen for Bev.
More Olympians. This guy does Skeleton, which is kind of like controlling a fall down an icy set of stairs, headfirst, while holding onto a little piece of plastic with skate blades stuck to the bottom. Better you than me, handsome mountain man. He is Canadian, but no, I don't know him. As an aside, when I was 11, my baseball coach in Atlanta asked if I spoke Canadian… he wasn't kidding.
The ingredients are in ice blocks. This is a Canadian traditional joke that we play on Americans, much in the same way of us giving you Corey Hart and Bryan Adams. Ice picks are brandished, but the use of a hammer with the pick never comes into play. Instead we have a Texan and two Chicagoans (albeit one from Houston) being made fools of by frozen water. Paul is helping. Nice Paul, continually being the good samaritan chef in the whole entire season. He's quietly very self-assured. He does seem to make a gastrique (to the Google my people!) in every challenge though. What up with that, Paul? Sarah: Spinach soup with almonds and crab
Paul: Brown butter poached crab with mango chutney
Bev: Scallop with orange, buttered peas and couscous
Paul, winner winner chicken dinner. Going to Vancouver. Back to the hotel first to give positive reinforcement to Lindsay.
Sarah and Bev into the cage. Strange, but funny, edit of Bev shooting Sarah. C'mon now guys… that was a little over-the-top.
Biathlon! These peeps are not born X-country skiers. Lots of time on their butts. Then Bev trips up Sarah on purpose. Payback is a bitch.
Bev shoots well and wins Artic char, celery root, truffle, fennel, and beets. Sarah has rabbit, cabbage, hazelnuts, and cherries. They get cooking, and Sarah shows that she still has a large helping of condescension to serve to Beverly. It's not a Healthy Choice entrée. The timer goes off, and Beverly clutches her temple like her dark overlord wants her to return to base. The voices are strong with this one. Bev has cooked an Arctic Char (Best Choice from Seafood Watch!), a pretty fine fish from the farmed fish world. She's got a beet and onion compote, some celery root with truffles, and the fish. I would have made it rain truffle shavings on that char. This is Elfen money, make it rain. There ain't no food cost on Top Chef (actually there was on one episode of Top Chef Masters. I made salad.).
Sarah is kicking the bunny. Braised rabbit leg and heart, cherries, cabbage puree and hazelnut sauce. Kicking it German-Italian style.
Bev gets the dreaded "Maybe overcooked" from Tom. Sarah gets the "Tough rabbit" from Gail but I think it's kind of splitting hares. Paul and Lindsay come in to visit. She and Sarah have bonded. Paul expresses support for Bev. We shall see where this winding ski run ends.
Bev is gone. Padma had a little teary thing going on. Bev, you made Padma cry! Nobody does that. Wow.
Bottom line, all joking aside: This is a f--king hard show. Its is brutal. It's much harder than it looks. Beverly is an unconventional chef who can do one thing that is the most important attribute in chefdom: she can cook. She can really cook. She deserved to be in the final four and I will happily arm wrestle anyone who thinks differently. Except Heather. She'd kick my ass.


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MC3T3-E1 osteogenic differentiation - (Mar/28/2009 )
I'm currently trying to differentiate MC3T3-E1 pre-osteoblasts. It seems like a pretty common protocol, but I haven't been successful in getting mineralized tissue (assessed by von Kossa staining).
My current protocol is:
- seeding density: 250,000 cells/well in a 6-well plate (so about 25,000 cells/cm2)
- differentiation medium: alpha-MEM supplemented with 10% FBS, 100 U/ml penicillin, 100 ug/ml streptomycin, 50 ug/ml ascorbic acid, and 10 mM beta-glycerophosphate
- The osteogenic supplements are added fresh during each medium change, and I think they're prepared correctly because when used in the osteogenic differentiation of primary rat bone marrow cells, they work well.
I understand it takes about 14-21 days for mineralized tissue to form. However, currently at day 11, I'm still not seeing any morphological differences between the induced and non-induced cultures. Are there supposed to be morphological differences by this time? Also, does anyone know how does mineralized tissue from MC3T3-E1 cells compare with that from primary rat bone marrow cells?
Any advice would be greatly appreciated!
I did some differentiation long time back. I used both MC3T3 and 72F cell lines. The culture media and the technique was the same as you are using though we used less number of cells per well. With both cell lines, I used to do alkaline phosphatase staining (early indicator of differentiation) followed by von Kossa staining. I was able to see alkaline phosphatase staining starting from Day 15 for MC3T3 cells but couldn't see any von Kossa staining even on Day 24. But with 72F cell line, there was strong staining for both alkaline phosphatase (starting Day 3) and von Kossa (Day 10) and we could see black spots on the plates with the naked eye even before staining. I have no idea why the MC3T3 cells failed to stain for von Kossa. Maybe you could try with 72F cell line as they differentiate much faster compared to MC3T3.


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I am an atheist because, if I am to be an honest person, it is the only way I am able to be.
When I was struggling with trying to be Christian in my early 20's, other Christians who knew I was struggling would tell me to "have faith" and "it will come with time" if I just believe. I was subtly told that I was over-thinking the whole question. (What does it mean to "over-think"?) I tried to be open to God, but I couldn't stop "over-thinking". I pleaded with God to reveal himself to me and wondered what was wrong with me that he never did. I wasn't even asking for much of a sign–I didn't want a burning bush or a miracle, I just wanted a feeling like so many Christians I knew claimed they had–a feeling of knowing the "truth" and knowing that God was there with me.
I never got such a feeling and I slowly came around to the idea that maybe there was nothing wrong with me. Maybe the reason I wasn't picking up God's signal was not because I was a poor receptor but because he wasn't actually there. The moment I let myself think that, I was on a very quick path to atheism. My "eureka" moment was not "God does not exist" but rather, "I don't have to believe in God." It seems obvious to me now, but at the time it was a real revelation (so to speak). I started to see faith for what it is: not the noble, humble position as it is touted, but a lie to oneself–deliberate deceit self-imposed in order to believe in something that's not true.
I've recently become not only an atheist, but an "out" atheist. I talk about it with the religious members of my family. I say it outright if someone asks me if I belong to a church. I updated my facebook "philosophy" to read "atheist" (this was surprisingly difficult for me for whatever reason). I've even told a handful of my students when they've asked. This newfound zeal came about this year when my husband and I started looking for resources on raising our 3-year-old daughter without religion. We want to raise her to not be afraid–of being different, of being creative, of being smart, of being rational. And so I had to stop and examine how I was living my life and I saw that I had been hiding. I didn't believe, but I sometimes pretended I did to avoid conflict. I was noncommittal or weakly compromising at best and untruthful at worst, and I don't want to raise my daughter to think that's OK.
I became an atheist to be honest with myself and so I had to come out as an atheist to be honest with others.
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Under basic and engineering sciences, UNESCO New Delhi Office primarily contributes to the follow-up to the World Conference on Science (Budapest, 1999) and towards reinforcing national and regional capacities in mathematics, physics, chemistry, biology, biotechnology and engineering science and technology. UNESCO has organized various regional level trainings/workshops in diverse fields such as industrial mathematics, environmental chemistry, lightning physics, microbial genetics, bio‐pesticides, simulation models for engineering and technology, renewable energy etc.; helped the Member States in production of science education curriculum frameworks; and produced and tested teaching‐learning materials in biology, environmental chemistry, electronics manufacturing engineering, physics.
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Degree Requirements (120 hours)
I. Core Curriculum Requirements1: 42 hours
- A. Communication (6 hours)
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- 3 hours Communication Elective (HUMA 3300)
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6 hours American History
3 hours Social and Behavioral Science Elective
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- LIT 2341 Literary Analysis
PHIL 1301 Introduction to Philosophy or equivalent
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III. Major Requirements, Upper Division: 39 hoursMajor Core Courses (9 hours)
- AP 3300 Elements of Art and Performance
HIST 3301 Historical Inquiry
HUMA 3300 Reading and Writing Texts2
LIT 3300 Western Literary Tradition
Major Distribution and Elective Courses (27 hours)Art and Performance (9 hours)
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Two upper-division courses from Studio and Ensemble courses
Historical Studies (9 hours)
- One upper-division course from each of the following groups:
European Historical Studies
Asian, African, and Latin American Historical Studies
Studies in Philosophy and Intellectual History
Literary Studies (9 hours)
- Literary genres
Literature before 1850
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Arts and Humanities Elective (3 hours)
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Both upper- and lower-division courses may be used as electives, but students must complete at least 51 hours of upper-division credit to qualify for graduation.


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According to Michael Johnson, the CTS's dependence on voluntary interviews with a representative sample population could create a strong bias against measuring the worse cases of domestic violence: "men who systematically terrorize their wives would hardly be likely to agree to participate in such a survey, and the women whom they beat would probably be terrified at the possibility that their husband might find out that they had answered such questions." Straus himself seems to agree with this criticism.This critic is a bit hypocritical as the critic is true for every survey including the U.S. Justice Department's Uniform Crime Statistics, the National Survey of Crime Victims, and the U.S. Department of Justice National Survey of Violence against Women. Also this point of view is slightly biased. Willl male victims act different? Will female perpetrators of domestic violence be more willing to participate in such a survey?
Let us look at what Straus actually said (Conflict Tactics Scales in Enyclopedia of Domestic Violence - 2007)
Although the CTS has repeatedly been found to uncover higher rates of partner violence than other instruments, these rates are nonetheless lower-bound estimates because of underreporting. In addition. a meta-analysis (Archer 1999) found that although both men and women underreport, the extent of underreporting is greater for men. Perhaps the most serious type of underreporting is by partners or victims of partners who engage in repeated severe assaults that often produce injuries. Although such extreme violence is only a tiny percentage of partner violence, the perpetrators and the victims of such acts are the ones in most urgent need of intervention. This problem is a limitation of survey research on partner violence rather than a unique problem of the CTS.[...] An instrument's sensitivity is its ability to detect the occurrence of a phenomenon. Sensitivity is a critical aspect of validity. It is especially important for self-report measures of socially undesirable behaviors such as those measured by four of the five CTS2 scales. When the CTS is administered according to the standard instructions it obtains many times more disclosure of violence than the most widely used measures, such as the National Crime Victimization Survey and rates or cases reported to Child Protective Services.So Deutsch was definately not wrong here. What does Archer (Sex differences in aggression between heterosexual partners: A meta-analytic review) find out?
"... data from perpetrator ratings and victim ratings indicate that there is a greater measure of agreement than past critics have suggested"And indeed when Straus analysed the second NVWS again and compared the answers women were giving with those men were giving he found no significant difference.
In conclusion Archer as well as Straus believe that underreporting is a problem (that all surveys of that kind have) but also believe that involved cases are also a minority.
Sampling error is always a concern, of course, but there are reasons to think it's a bigger problem with the Straus/Gelles work than in most. For one thing, according to Michael Johnson, Straus and Gelles people who refused to answer screening questions were not included when Straus and Gelles calculated their 84% response rate; taking this discrepancy into account, the actual response rate may be closer to 60%, low enough to create a severe danger of sampling bias. More importantly, Straus and Gelles compiled information only about abuse within current, ongoing relationships; but fear of a current abusive partner would obviously make a victim hesitate to be frank with interviewers. It's much safer for a victim of severe battery to refuse to be interviewed altogether, in such circumstances.Looking at the data we have now it is hard to believe that about 200 empirical studies conducted all over the globe all suffer from sampling error or faulty methodology. Additionaly it is hard to believe that the study Deutsch will be citing in the next part has a higher response rate, when people not giving all answers were not counted.
In contrast, when the US Bureau of Justice statistics did a similar study (see part 5, below), they designed the interview process to enourage current victims to report honestly (they put protections in place to assure that the person interviewed could respond safely while alone in the house, without the spouse's knowledge), and did not ask only about current relationships. They also had a higher response rate, which means a much lower chance of serious sampling error.Deutsch is talking about the National Violence against Women Survey. He is forgetting a key fact though, the study he is critisizing show us actually more female victims than the NVWS. Again, and think about it, the study Deutsch is citing has less female victims (and yearly rates that show us 40% of Domestic Violence victims are men). If one study suffers from victims not reporting it is the NVWS and we will talk about the "why" in chapter 5.
Straus explains the problem many feminist sholars have with CTS-studies
The CTS is both the most widely used measure of family violence and also the most widely criticized. Extensive critical examination is appropriate for any widely used instrument because, if the instrument is wrong then a great deal of research will also be wrong. In the case of the CTS however the most frequent criticisms reflect ideological differences rather than empirical evidence. Specifically many feminist scholars reject the CTS because studies using this instrument find that about the sarme percentage of women as men assault their partners. This contradicts the feminist theory that partner violence is almost exclusively comitted by men as a means to dominate women, and is therefore taken as prima face evidence that the CTS is not valid. Ironically, the fact that the CTS has provided some of the best evidence confirming the Link between male dominance and partner violence and other key aspects of feminist theory of partner violence (Coleman and Staus 1990, Straus 1994) has not shaken the belief that the CTS is invalid. Another irony is that despite these denunciations, many feminist researchers use the CTS. However, having used the CTS they reafirm their feminist credentials by routinely inserting a paragraph repeating some of the erroneous criticisms. These criticisms are then cited in other articles as though there were empirical evidence. Anyone reviewing these studies would have the impression that there is a large body of empirical evidence showing the invalidity on the CTS. Whereas there is only endless repetition of the same unvalidated opinions. [...] There is a large amount of research showing that the CTS have a stable factor structure and moderate to high reliability (Archer, 1999; Yodanis, Hill, & Straus, 1997). There is also extensive evidence of construct validity (Straus, 1990a). The original CTS have been successfully used in many countries and with different ethnic groups within the United States (Yodanis et al., 1997).And on with Stranton.
Jack Stranton points out another important sampling bias: the CTS, as used in the original Straus/Gelles research and most of the research that follows it, excludes violence that occurs after a divorce or separation. However, such violence accounts for 76% of spousal assaults, and is overwhelmingly committed by men; excluding this violence disproportionately omits most spousal violence against women.Yes, and Stranton is citing the Department of Justice family violence report (1984) based on the National Crime Victimisation Survey. And apparently men in the 80s were even less likely to report their victimisation. compared with the data from 2005 (4% ->27%) men are apparently more likely to report, or women have become more violent. Keep in mind the numbers he is citing is based on a sample consisting of 4% men and 96% women. I talked about underreporting of male victims in Part 1 before, but there is more to this. The NCVS is a prime example on how a methodology of a survey has an impact on the outcome of the survey as the survey was redesigned in the 90s.
Why redesign? Criticism of the earlier survey's capacity to gather information about certain crimes, including sexual assaults and domestic violence prompted numerous improvements. Improved survey methodology improves the ability of people being interviewed to recall events.(1995 - National Crime Victimization Survey Redesign - Fact Sheet)Remeber before the redesign, more than 90% of victims of domestic violence were women. After the redesign, we have twice as much female victims and suddenly a different gender ratio (13:1 -> 7:1 (Straus - The controversy Over Domestic Violence by Women - 1999)) as more male victims also talk about their victimisation. Is it surprising that when we avoid the word crime at all that even more women and men talk about their victimisation? It is not, and feminist wouldn´t critisize the CTS, if it weren´t for the male victims. Straus has an interesting example here.
The Canadian Violence Against Women Survey, for example, investigated alternatives to the CTS for more than a year, including extensive consultation with experts and battered women's advocates, focus groups, public hearings, and field testing (H. Johnson, 1994). In the end, the Canadian study measured physical assaults with the nine items in the CTS1 but with one minor and one major modification. The minor modification was to add the phrase "that could hurt" to three CTSl items, such as "thrown something at you" (Statistics Canada, 1993, p. 5). The major modification was to delete the questions asking about assaults by the female respondents on their partners. (Straus - CONFLICT TACTICS SCALES (CTS) SOURCEBOOK)Buisness as usual. We reach chapter 4 now.
What is definately not good about Deutsch´s post is that you can not see which source gives us the above fact. We again reach the hypocratical as the CTS measures more victims than the NVWS or the NCVS meaning these two studies of Deutsch´s choice leave even more victims uncounted. Consider this, according to the NVWS the average victimisations per victim for physical assault in the last 12 months was 3.1 for women.CTS studies leave thousands of abused women uncounted. According to a CTS study, a typical woman in a battered woman's shelter reports having been assaulted by a spouse 65 times in the year previous to admission. Straus and Gelles' national study found that there are about 80,000 women in the United States who are abused at that level. In contrast, data from battered women's shelters show that up to 490,000 women use shelters each year - and that figure doesn't even include thousands of severely battered women who don't make it to a shelter.. This huge discrepancy shows that instances of severe woman-battering, far from being fairly measured by the men's rights activists favorite studies, are in fact badly undercounted.
But let us go into detail, so one CTS study says a typical (does that mean an average, a median or a typical women staying at a shelter? we can only guess) woman in a womans shelter is battered 65 times in the previous year, another CTS study found that 80,000 women were battered about 65 times a previous year and a third estimate (?) based on women´s shelters data show us that up to 490,000 women use shelters each year. Interesting argumentation.
In my opinion one can not equate the number of women staying in shelters with the worst cases of domestic violence. I tried to come up with some numbers for sheltered women, but apparently there is no census (or I was not able to find one, is there one?) that counts yearly numbers. There is a census however that does take snapshot data, what was going on on a specific day in any shelter that could be reached via phone. Findings from a Canadian survey (I am not sure if the same is true for the USA, but it would surprise me if it is not that way) found the following.
This release is based on the Juristat, "Canada's Shelters for Abused Women, 2003/04", that presents results from the biennial Transition Home Survey (THS).A woman in a shelter could have been in a shelter before, could have been there for a reason other than abuse and not all women were fleeing physical abuse (many victims of DV (men and women alike) say the psychological / emotional abuse is worse than the physical, I am just refering to the number Deutsch brought up) which makes counting badly battered women via estimates of women in shelters impossible.
The THS is a census of all residential facilities that provide shelter primarily to female victims of domestic violence.
Nearly one-third of all women who had sought temporary accommodation in a shelter for abused women on April 14, 2004 had stayed there at some time during the past, according to a new report.
Women using shelters for reasons other than to escape abuse constituted about one-quarter (24%) of shelter residents. Over two-thirds of these women sought shelter because they were unable to find affordable housing.
The vast majority of the women staying in shelters to escape abuse were fleeing psychological or emotional abuse. Almost 7 out of 10 reported physical abuse, 50% threats, 46% financial abuse, 31% harassment and 27% sexual abuse.
Wrong again. It is true that the percentage of the worst cases is higher than in criminal surveys as the CTS also finds much more minor cases.When combined with Michael Johnson and Jack Stranton's observations about sampling bias, it seems clear that the CTS simply isn't measuring the worse cases of violence against women.
I skipped parts of the next part as Deutsch was talking about men reporting in criminal studies which I covered more than once before.
I believe the above is true, but we should not forget that often abused men can't leave an abusive[...] Russell Dobash pointed out "that women have their own reasons to be reticent, fearing both the loss of a jailed or alienated husband's economic support and his vengeance."
relationship because they may fear for their child's safety or worry about losing the relationship with their children. Which is pretty much the other side of the coin.
This factoid is based on National Crime Surveys before their redesign. Men partaking in that survey were actually a minority of battered men, probably highlighting few of the worst cases measured by that survey. Remeber the gender ratio in that survey was really skewered (less than 10% were men). Again I referred to several studies showing the opposite in the first part of my answer. And you know what, after this comes up for the second time I will give you some more studies.Moreover, surveys of domestic violence victims in the US and Canada have found that men are more likely to call the police after being assaulted by their partner. So while it's true that both men and women have motivation not to report their abuse, it's just not true that men are actually less likely to report abuse than women.
47% Of female victims and 16% of male victims called the police. Only 39% of male victims defined their expierience as domestic violence but 77% of women did. (Scottish Crime Survey 2000)
Women are more likely to report minor cases to officials: Only 25% of all cases reported by women were severe cases compared to 86% of cases reported by men. Men were injured in most of this cases and most of this cases also involved weapons (most often knives) (McLeod - Women against men: An examination of domestic violence based on an analysis of official data and national victimization data - 1984)
Often victimised men are not taken serious by the police (Farrell - 1993 | Wilkinson - Children and divorce - 1981) and often that leads to men not reporting their victimisation (Steinmetz - The battered husband syndrome - 1980 | Machietto - Aspects of male victimisation and female aggression - 1992)Malcolm George (Riding the Donkey Backwards: Men as the Unacceptable Victims of Marital Violence - 1994) made a nice summary.
Deutsch is now going to attack the CTS because it has different results in measuring violence of stepparents compared to crime survey. For once we already have a discrepancy between crime surveys and the CTS when it comes to domestic violence, and secondly I am not wrapping my head arround that topic and research for theories here why it is that way. So we finally reach the part 5 and the NVWS.Straus & Gelles (1986) sum up much of the problem we find when discussing male victims of female violence when they say "Violence by wives has not been an object of public concern. There has been no publicity, and no funds have been invested in ameliorating this problem because it has not been defined as a problem" (p. 472, italics added). It can be argued that by defining wife battering as the problem, and husband battering as a non-problem, realistic estimates of husband-battering, be they large or small, are nearly impossible to obtain. It is easy, for instance, to argue that battered husbands occur only as rare and isolated cases. Nearly all male victims are isolated individuals owing to the relative paucity of groups willing to acknowledge their victim status. The fact is that a large proportion of the social agencies that deal with family violence target only female victims. Thus we should not be surprised if these groups do not find evidence of male victims of domestic violence. Further, the politicized nature of domestic violence among many within academia mitigates against finding any evidence of male victims. Consequently, some professionals, like mental health professionals, may be insensitive or even hostile to a man describing himself in victim terms (Macchieto, 1992). Added to all this, the traditional stereotypes give creditability to a woman to be seen as a victim. The stereotypes associated with men, however, lead most to deny such a possibility or to ridicule' such a notion as male-as-victim (Farrell, 1993; Wilkinson, 1981). This clearly deters men from making such an admission (Machietto, 1992; Steinmetz, 1980). Also, male victims may be aware, if only dimly, that to proclaim victim status will only lead to unfavorable or unequal treatment compared with female victims (Harris & Cook, 1994).If a man is attacked by his wife and decides to call the police, he is the one who is likely to be arrested. (quoted in Wolff, 1992, p. 22)She was knocking the shit out of me; no one would believe me. (Male victim and resident of the Kingsland Estate, Hackney, London, England speaking on Kingsland, Channel 4, television documentary, 4th June 1992)When you are talking to your mates, it's hard to admit you're being bullied by a woman. (quoted in Kent, 1993, p. 37)Steinmetz (1980) has suggested that some men, following traditional social norms, consider it unmanly to attack or even retaliate against an assault by a woman. Further, when men and women rate violent male-female interactions, they perceive male-to-female aggression as more negative than female-to-male aggression (Arias & Johnson, 1989). By implication, female-to-male violence has a type of social acceptance not accorded to male-to-female violence (Greenblatt, 1983). Thus while it is argued that "society does not appear to shape the attitudes of most men and women to accept the use of violence by men against women..." (O'Leary, 1993, p. 24), we could suggest that society does appear to condone the use of violence by a woman against a man.And finally, the whole issue of male victimization can be suggested to receive scant attention because of the threat it poses to masculine self images and "patriarchal" authority, as much as for any threat it poses towards efforts to counter female victimization. The lack of attention of female aggression, as opposed to male aggression, has been suggested to be rooted in scholarly debates on nature, culture, and gender in which "sameness" or "differences" are key issues; but actually result from a reluctance to consider similarities between men and women, as opposed to differences (Fry & Gabriel, 1994). Thus it is not surprising that domestic violence against women, as opposed to men, is a socially acceptable concern and receives study and support. This reinforces two more easily recognized social stereotypes, female vulnerability and male authority or dominance, and protectiveness. The admission and recognition of male victimization, in the battered husband, is the antithesis of this acceptable order and an equality between the sexes that has been resisted historically, especially by men (e.g., see judgments in the Willan vs. Willan and Teal vs. Teal cases, Bates, 1981).[...]No matter their number, battered men deserve better than to be seen as little more than footnotes from earlier historical periods when they were castigated and forced to ride a donkey backwards.
A 1998 study conducted by the U.S. Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) used a modified form of the CTS to survey a representative sample of 8,000 Americans. Unlike most previous CTS studies, the BJS study asked about rape and sexual assault, and did not limit respondents to describing only violence taking place within marriages or relationships; these changes addressed many (but not all) of the criticisms previously made of the CTS. And responding to the claims of men's rights activists, the survey was designed to be about "personal safety" issues, rather than being presented as a survey about crime. (In this case, by the way, men's rights activists are right: it's better not to use hot-button words like "crime" in surveys.)Deutsch is right on the money here with his critique of hot-button words (I called them buzz-words, before). One argumentation was that women worry more about personal safety than men which means that personal safety might be another one of that buzz-words. Besides that, keep this
In this case, by the way, men's rights activists are right: it's better not to use hot-button words like "crime" in surveys.part in mind for the following.
This study was an important test for people on both sides of the CTS debate. If CTS critics were correct, such a study would find different results from previous CTS studies, and specifically would find that women are more frequent victims of spousal violence. If, on the other hand, men's rights activists were right, then this study would have found equal abuse, since it asked men and women the same questions (mostly the same questions as the CTS).Straus said the following about the NVWS
Critics' expectations were fulfilled. The results of the government's study strongly contradicted previous CTS studies: the BJS study found that overall women were more likely to be abused by an intimate partner than men, particularly for the more severe kinds of violence. For example, women were seven times as likely to have been threatened with a gun; 14 times as likely to report having been "beat up" by a partner; and twenty-six times as likely to have been raped.
"(1) It has been presented to the public as refuting the idea of neady equal rates of domestic partner assaults by men and women. (2) It is not ostensibly a crime study. (3) It is a large and well-designed study. (4) It carries the imprimatur of spnsorship by two respected Federal agancies. (5) Perhabs the most important reason is that it provides an example of how an cumulation of small details affecting respondent perception of the study and its prupose can add up to a large difference in findings." (Straus - The controversy Over Domestic Violence by Women - 1999)Among several points by Straus the following surprised me the most. This was the second question asked by the researchers
"Do you think violent crime is more or less of a problem for men today than previously?"Two "hot-button" words in one sentence at the beginning of our survey. That, plus the usage of "personal safety" and the low yearly rates (among some other things) is the reason Straus considers the NVWS as a crime survey.
But what do the researchers themselves say about the discrepancy of their study and the CTS?
"... it is likely that the manner in which screening questions are introduced and framed has more effect on intimate partner victimization rates than does the overall context in which the survey is administered"And although I pointed this out before, the yearly results of the NVWS are more equal than Deutsch will make us believe (he is citing the lifetime rates). Here is what the NVWS also found out.
Persons Raped or Physically Assaulted in Lifetime and in Previous 12 Months by Sex of Victim
Total rape (%)
Lifetime Women: 17.6
Lifetime Men: 3.0
Yearly Women: 0.3
Yearly Men: 0.1
Total physical assault (%)
Lifetime Women: 51.9
Lifetime Men: 66.4
Yearly Women: 1.9
Yearly Men: 3.4
Rape and/or physical assault (%)At first the obvious results that more men overall are victimized (but women are raped more). Same finding as the usual crime survey. On with domestic violence
Lifetime Women: 55.0
Lifetime Men: 66.8
Yearly Women: 2.1
Yearly Men: 3.5
Persons Raped or Physically Assaulted by an Intimate Partner in Lifetime and in Previous 12 Months by Sex of Victim
Total rape (%)
Lifetime Women: 7.7
Lifetime Men: 0.3
Yearly Women: 0.2
Yearly Men: -
Total physical assault (%)
Lifetime Women: 22.1
Lifetime Men: 7.4
Yearly Women: 1.3
Yearly Men: 0.9
Rape and/or physical assault (%)If you compare the lifetime rapes in the last column you will see that according to the NVWS 25% of all victims of rape and physical assault by an intimate partner are men (same ratio as the NCVS). But the yearly ratio actually shows us that 40% of all victims of rape and physical assault by an intimate partner are men in the year of the survey. This makes Deutsch previous statement look a bit ridiculos
Lifetime Women: 22.1
Lifetime Men: 7.4
Yearly Women: 1.5
Yearly Men: 0.9
As some are actually 40% of the victims according to the study he brought up.I'm not denying that some individual men are badly abused
And we reached the end of part 2 as we covered 5 of 8 points. The next one will finish it.


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Over the past five decades it has become apparent that our universe is indeed a strange place. Firstly, most of it is invisible, and by that I don't mean that it is too far away or too dark to sense. I mean that it doesn't interact with light much at all, which is the very essence of invisibility. This dark matter makes up about one quarter of the universe and has now been directly detected several times, much to the relief of cosmologists since, no matter which way the theoretical universe is cut, there is always some dark matter in there somewhere.
In the last three decades it has become apparent, at first through indirect arguments and then through direct observation, that normal matter and dark matter don't tell the whole story. The rate at which the universe is expanding is increasing, which is something that takes energy, and that energy—wherever it comes from and however it is generated—is called dark energy. Measurements indicate that dark energy makes up 70 percent of the universe, leaving normal matter the remaining five percent. Note that dark energy could imply many things; from a straightforward change to gravity, called the cosmological constant, through to a many-headed beast that varies depending on time and location. It may have something to do with the vacuum zero-point energy, or it may not. Without more precise observations of dark energy over a wide range of times and locations, we will never be able to narrow the speculation much further.
Initially, it would be nice to determine if dark energy is distinguishable from a cosmological constant. To do this we either need to know the precise value of dark energy at a particular time and location or an accurate measure of the distance and age (and from this, the amount of dark energy) over a huge range of the observable universe. A paper in New Journal of Physics looks at the precision needed to distinguish between dark matter models and the required quality of observational data.
Distance and age are not independent; the further away something is, the older it is. To get around this problem, astrophysicists and cosmologists make use of Type Ia supernovae, which almost always explode with the same brightness. This helps because measuring the brightness of a Type Ia supernova gives a very good, independent indication of the distance. The dark energy at that distance can then be found after measuring the associated red shift. Red shifts can be measured fairly accurately; however, even the best type Ia supernova magnitude data is quite noisy, which necessitates some sophisticated data processing techniques. The easiest path is to assume that the noise-free brightness data follows some smooth function, and the researcher chooses an arbitrary function to fit the data. Unfortunately, this approach has been shown to predict wildly different dark energy values depending on the function that is used.
The more robust approach is called principal components analysis, which (and I am not a statistician so be warned) picks from the data a set of mutually independent functions that best describe the data. In this case, the researcher plays no role in deciding which functions are used; instead, the data determines these. Using this approach, some fairly noisy data has been used to show unambiguously that there is dark energy; however, the data is too noisy to be able to determine if the amount of dark energy is the same everywhere. The weak link is the supernova data—it is simply too noisy. The question is, how good does it have to be before we can determine that dark energy is not the same everywhere? Well, to be beyond doubt, we require that stellar magnitudes can be measured with an accuracy of 0.1 magnitudes—0.3 percent for a very dim star.
This is not very challenging for nearby stars; however, nearby stars are unlikely to yield interesting results, so the challenge is in accurately measuring the magnitude of very distant supernova. In particular, this is applicable to the proposed Supernova/Acceleration Probe, which will attempt to map dark energy over a large time range. Given the current dataset, this represents a significant challenge for all you young electronic engineers out there.


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2014 Buick LaCrosse is a luxurious, comfortable ride
Buick, the brand, is on a roll. Conquest sales are up, meaning there are far more people who are new to buying any GM car coming into dealerships and walking out with a new Buick. Building cars like the 2014 Buick LaCrosse and steadily improving quality and customer satisfaction is working to attract new customers.
For the 2014 model year, Buick's biggest American sedan receives a mild face-lift and a revised interior with some new color choices and content. Outside, the front and rear end get a little crisper, with LED taillights that evoke the style of the Hyundai Equus; that's not a bad thing, as both the Equus and LaCrosse are attractive cars. Up front, a new grille and headlights keep things fresh and attractive. The overall look is still clean but chunky: This is a big car and there's no disguising that.
Inside, this latest LaCrosse is more refined than before. Material quality, which was good in the 2013, is even better in the 2014 thanks to the addition of an Ultra Luxury Package. The Sangria deep red leather and instrument panel trim with genuine dark ash wood and charcoal carpets look fantastic in this age of "greige" interiors, and they're a welcome improvement on the still-available (and still odd) Choccachino brown-and-blue trim option.
Even more notable inside the new LaCrosse is the clean redesign of the center console and gauge cluster. Modern Buicks had been suffering from an overabundance of flat black plastic buttons, but the new LaCrosse shows that GM has been listening to customers' complaints with a simplified console that regroups and redesigns everything into a much more usable, user-friendly design. Seventeen hard-to-read buttons have been pared down to just seven. Climate controls and seat heater/cooler buttons have been moved into touch-sensitive panels, which is a slick way to disguise features that are missing in lesser trim models without having to resort to using button "blanks."
The Buick IntelliLink multimedia system in the center console works well and is one of the simpler systems to use on sale today. However, its touch-screen is positioned a little high and forward, requiring a bit of a stretch to reach some of its functions. A new gauge cluster behind the steering wheel is also digital, and it provides several reconfigurable modes that are accompanied by an optional head-up display in full color projected onto the windshield.
Upping the refinement goes beyond the interior updates to the driving experience as well.
Buick talks about quiet tuning, and it's not just advertising mumbo jumbo. The car is wonderfully silent at speed and around town, with just a faint burble coming from the 3.6-liter V-6 engine's exhaust (a 2.4-liter four-cylinder with eAssist is standard, but the V-6 is a no-cost option). Acceleration is smooth, but not overly quick. Given the heft of the car, it doesn't feel like there is 304 horsepower under the hood. One never lacks for passing power, but it's evident that this is more of a touring sedan than a sport sedan, meant for soaking up miles in comfort rather than blasting down back roads.
Steering is well-tuned, with precise on-center feel and excellent feedback. Road imperfections are well-damped; you can hear them, but you don't much feel them, and they send back no nasty vibrations through the steering wheel. Switch the gear shift to Sport mode and the steering rate and shock tuning supposedly get firmer and more aggressive, but I was unable to discern any appreciable difference in the car's behavior.
At the end of the day, the new LaCrosse is not about sporting pretense. It's about quiet, safe luxury for not too much money. The base price for the new 2014 LaCrosse is $34,060, including a $925 destination fee, and includes equipment such as Buick's IntelliLink multimedia system, an 8-inch reconfigurable gauge cluster display screen and eight airbags. The Ultra Luxury Package adds $2,495, and all the safety system bells and whistles are available in two Driver Confidence packages.
Driver Confidence I includes forward collision alert, blind spot warning, lane change departure warning, rear cross-traffic alert, a head-up display and high-intensity-discharge headlights for $2,125. Choosing that means you can then choose Driver Confidence II, adding adaptive cruise control, a safety alert seat that vibrates to notify you of various warnings and an automatic collision preparation system for $1,745. A variety of wheel sizes are available, from 17 inches up to 20 inches, and all sizes in between. The vehicles I tested cost just over $47,000 completely loaded, which is a good price for a big sedan that easily matches the Lexus ES in refinement and blows it away in electronics sophistication.
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Associated Colleges of the Midwest
The Associated Colleges of the Midwest offers a semester-long fall seminar and a series of one-month seminars during the winter and spring terms. Seminars are offered on a wide variety of topics, and all seminars are designed to allow students to create their own research project appropriate to the Newberry's Core Collections.
For information regarding costs, housing, and application procedures for next fall's seminar or any of the short-term seminars, see the ACM / Newberry webpage or call the ACM office at (312) 263-5000. Also see Past Seminars and Past Student Research Topics.
Short-Term Seminars
Short-term courses run for three to four weeks and are open to students from all ACM and Great Lakes College Association, Inc. member colleges. Because of the shorter duration of the courses, the Spring ACM programs are primarily scheduled and administered for students on the Block or One-Course-at-a-Time schedules, as offered at Colorado and Cornell Colleges.
Spring ACM courses heavily emphasize independent research and use the Newberry's collections as its core. Students receive the same amount of credit as they would for one course on campus, and in most cases, students and teachers are from the same school.
For more information, see the ACM Spring Seminar webpage.


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Traffic sucks, so why not start your morning off with some music? You provide the toast and we'll provide the jams.
When MTV was a channel that featured music content, Unplugged used to show off some truly amazing acoustic performances by artists like Eric Clapton, Queensryche, and Nirvana. One of the best of the early '90s would have to be Alice In Chains' appearance on the show.
They hadn't played together in three years, yet they still sounded pretty freaking incredible. "No Excuses" is my favorite from the show; it transfers seamlessly to an acoustic performance. You might think they wrote it just for that. Sit back and listen.


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In just a little over a week, my hobby of collecting sports cardboard is going to jump to a whole new level. At least that's the plan.
You see, just me posting this blog is a step in the right direction as far as my New Years resolutions go. In fact, the title of the blog even challenges me to come back for another edition of resolutions in a year to come.
Just to back up a bit, and I'm not trying to make anyone jealous here, but in November, my beautiful wife and I


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The G-20: What it is and Why it Matters to the United States
By Patricia M. Haslach on February 16, 2017
For his first foreign trip as Secretary of State, Rex Tillerson will be participating in a G-20 meeting of foreign ministers February 16-17 in Bonn, Germany. As the Acting Assistant Secretary for Economic and Business Affairs, I am honored to be part of the team accompanying Secretary Tillerson this week. The G-20 has played an instrumental role to ensure global financial stability and promote the kind of strong, sustainable, and balanced global economic growth that benefits the United States. This week's meeting is one of many meetings Germany will host this year as President of the G-20, culminating in the Leaders' Summit July 7 and 8 in Hamburg. President Trump has accepted the invitation to participate in this year's Summit.
What is the G-20?
The G-20 was created in 1999 as a forum to bring together finance ministers and central bank governors from some of the world's largest advanced and emerging economies (the United States, Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, France, Germany, India, Indonesia, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Russia, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, South Korea, Turkey, and the United Kingdom, plus the European Union) to improve cooperation on issues affecting the international financial system. The leaders of G-20 members began meeting in 2008, when they gathered to coordinate economic policy in response to the global financial crisis; in 2009, leaders pledged to do whatever was necessary to prevent future financial crises and to restore growth and jobs. Since then, G-20 leaders have met at least annually to coordinate economic policy and develop approaches to some of the world's most pressing issues. The G-20 has the potential to deliver enormous global impact, as G-20 members countries account for nearly 80 percent of global economic output and three-quarters of global trade, and are home to almost two-thirds of the world's population.
Why does the G-20 matter to the United States?
The G-20 is a forum for members to discuss global challenges, share best practices, and coordinate policies and actions. That engagement allows the U.S. to address issues that could affect our efforts to increase prosperity and security here at home. As we confront new challenges and threats that would undermine global security and prosperity it is critical we continue to support effective international cooperation that responds to the needs of our citizens. The G-20, with its unique reach and mix of economies, is a key venue for promoting these priorities, expanding our economic diplomacy, and achieving results that benefit the United States. I look forward to productive discussions at the Foreign Ministers' meeting and to continuing to work with colleagues within the State Department and throughout the government to increase growth and jobs here in the United States.
About the Author: Patricia M. Haslach serves as acting Assistant Secretary of the Bureau of Economic and Business Affairs.
Editor's Note: This entry is also published on Medium.com/StateDept.
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- View images from Secretary's Tillerson's trip to the G20 on Flickr.


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Maureen Ryan has broken the news that Stephen Warbeck, the Academy Award-winning composer who we reported was selected to score Game of Thrones, parted ways with the production. His replacement has already been selected, and according to Ryan's exclusive, it's film composer Ramin Djawadi.
A protégé of Hans Zimmer who contributed music to a number of Zimmer-scored films, including Batman Begins and Pirates of the Carribean: Curse of the Black Pearl, he has since gone on to score a few Hollywood blockbusters in his own right, including Iron Man and Clash of the Titans, while also working in television. A look at his IMDB award pages notes no really notable wins, but he has been nominated for the Emmy and Grammy awards in the recent past.
We've put together a playlist of some of his work, including a suite from Clash of the Titans, as well as a short interview. A German-born composer of Persian descent, his mention of a love for Iranian and Middle Eastern music is interesting, as well as his preference for the Romantic composers such as Brahms, Schumann, and Tchaikovsky. A cursory glance at commentary on his work suggests the he has been, at least up to recently, very much in the Hans Zimmer mold, which might suggest that the inclusion of tracks from Gladiator in the 15 minute reel was not purely coincidental—a sign that the Game of Thrones score will be aiming at an epic, cinematic quality?
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Yet again, called on to find a composer, the producers has gone with someone with extensive cinematic credits (even if the bulk of them are as an assistant composer) rather than predominantly TV scoring experience. There's certainly something of a pedigree there, and a certain cachet that comes with that. He seems to be having some success now that he's on his own, given that two of the films he was head composer on have been blockbusters by any standard. He's even scored for video games. Not so weird—Zimmer and the likes of Michael Giacchino have done this as well.
So, too, has Bear McCreary, the popular composer who's made himself a staple of genre television of late. McCreary expressed interest in being involved in the production way back when when questions of who the composer would be were first bandied about, although he did express reservations at composing medieval-inspired music as being a bit uninteresting. Fans even started a petition to get him on board.
Alas, to no avail. McCreary's inventiveness and ability to change styles from one show to the next would have left Game of Thrones a rather exciting mystery, although some of his more cinematic pieces from Battlestar Galactica could have given us a hint. Of course, he's gone on to accepting the job of scoring AMC's smash hit The Walking Dead, among many, many other irons he has in the fire that could have prevented him from taking the job even if he was under consideration. It'd be interesting to know more about the selection process, though we suspect we'll never know just who the leading candidates were.
We're looking forward to hearing Djawadi's score when the show premieres, but we're hoping HBO is kind and offers us all a sneak preview of it at some time before then. Mo brings up the very good point that if Djawadi has just been selected, he has only ten weeks before the show premieres. This could be a problem, as a look at Wikipedia suggests that for Rome, at least, they were working at a schedule of roughly two weeks an episode. That rate of speed would leave the last third or so of the series unscored by the time it airs, so Djawadi has to work even faster than that if he wants to keep ahead of the air schedule. Best of luck to him and the production as we count down the days!


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Slag glass resembles a marble cake. It can be streaked with different colors. There were many types made from about 1880. Caramel slag is the incorrect name for chocolate glass made by Imperial Glass. Pink slag was an American product made by Harry Bastow and Thomas E.A. Dugan at Indiana, Pennsylvania, about 1900. Purple and blue slag were made in American and English factories in the 1880s. Red slag is a very late Victorian and twentieth-century glass. Other colors are known but are of less importance to the collector. New versions of chocolate glass and colored slag glass have been made.
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Superman, Batman, Spiderman and Iron Man are comic book superheroes who we have become equated with over the years. From blockbuster movies to games and comic books, these heroes protect the world from threats no normal human can overcome. We got to thinking, if we could assemble a team of heroes with the coolest water and air based powers, who would be on it? In honor of National Comic Book Day, here are our members of the FiltersFast Fab 5:
Aquaman: The obvious choice. He lives under water in the kingdom of Atlantis and has telepathic abilities to communicate with marine life. He can also breathe under water and swim at incredibly high speeds giving Michael Phelps a run for his Olympic golds.
The Flash: He may not have water or air powers per say, but he can move, think and react at superhuman speeds. He can also vibrate through walls and run on water. That alone is enough to warrant inclusion on this team.
Storm: No good superhero team is complete without the female heroine. She can make it rain one minute or terribly windy the next all before settling on a nice sunny day. Who doesn't wish we could control the weather especially when it ruins our outdoor plans?
Superman: The quintessential superhero who can literally do it all. He can fly through air, inhale and exhale huge volumes of air with tremendous force and see all 7 oceans of the earth before we even eat breakfast.
The Water Guardian: He's a newbie compared to the other veterans, but if you've been playing The Water Guardian (if you haven't, shame on you) then you know all about him. He's on a quest to stop waterborne contaminates from polluting the water supply with nothing but a sword and a water purification tablet. Cryptosporidium better watch his back.
If you haven't in a while, pick up a comic book of your favorite super hero and experience the joys of reading these imaginative stories. Who is your favorite super hero? Let us know in the comments below.


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British actor Tom Hiddleston — you probably know him best as Loki, Thor's brother and enemy in 'Thor' and 'The Avengers' — is giving us a very sexy reason to watch comic book movies with his classy good looks from the other side of the pond.
In 'Thor' and the upcoming sequel, 'Thor: The Dark World,' Tom Hiddleston plays Loki, a mischievous god and brother of the mighty Thor (Thor has that hammer, so). Loki is always up to no good, and in the new movie, set to hit theaters this November, he's probably the most evil he's ever been.
But he's deliciously evil! It's hard to hate him when you look at his face. Hiddleston is a handsome devil, that's for sure, with killer blue eyes and style for days.
And if comic book movies aren't your thing, you can check Hiddleston out in a number of other movies, including Woody Allen's 'Midnight in Paris' (with Owen Wilson and Adrien Brody), in which he plays classic author F. Scott Fitzgerald, or in 'The Deep Blue Sea' (not the shark movie, but you should just watch that for fun anyway), where he's a heartbreaking cad who crushes Rachel Weisz's heart. It's super sad and totally the kind of thing you'll need to talk to some food about.
In the meantime? Take a look and enjoy.
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Seeing Kobe Bryant smile is worth it all for some Lakers fans [Updated]
As the Lakers' victory parade ended about 12:20 p.m., police estimated the size of the mostly orderly crowd at more than 65,000 and said there were nine arrests for fighting and disturbing the peace.
Out in the crowd, the sound was deafening, with many hollering "Kobe," "MVP" and "L.A.!" Some men burst into tears.
Kayla Brown, a student at Pepperdine, shouted, "Kobe, I love you."
Minutes later, after the parade buses passed, she turned to her friends and said, "Oh, my God, I'm still shaking," then immediately began scrolling through her cellphone to see what photos she had been able to take. She was thrilled to see she had gotten a close-up of Kobe Bryant.
She added: "Now we have to go sit in traffic for hours, but it was well worth it."
Isaiah Tellez, 12 and his step-brother Daniel Saulcedo, 11, both of Whittier, were leaning against the guardrail with expressions of wonder and disbelief on their faces at actually seeing the players in the flesh.
Pierce Nemore, 18, said he was surprised by how many people turned out.
"Seems like there are a billion Lakers fans," he said.
Gabriel Graciano, 28, of Baldwin Park said he wished there had been more festivities to keep the fans busy before the parade started.
"I thought it was pretty cool," he said of the parade. "But we need more music or entertainment. We were out here for about four hours."
After the buses went by, Alphonso Sierra of Montebello dismantled a tent he had built to shelter about 25 family members from the sun as they waited for the parade.
"Now, back to reality," he said.
[Updated at 1 p.m.: Two children, Alan Sandoval, 10, and Donald Porter, 8, were separated from their parents during the parade and were still missing at 1 p.m., police said.]
-- Jessica Garrison, Esmeralda Bermudez, Gale Holland, Sam Allen, Alexandra Zavis and Richard Winton
Photo: Aerial view of the Lakers team float making its way down Figueroa during today's victory parade. Credit: Gary Friedman / Los Angeles Times.


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The Museum's collections can be searched in the following ways:
- Search the Five College Museum/Historic Deerfield Collections Database, a consortial database of more than 60,000 objects from the Smith College Museum of Art, Mead Art Museum at Amherst College, Mount Holyoke College Art Museum, University Gallery at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Hampshire College Art Gallery, and Historic Deerfield.
- Search the Smith College LUNA Image Database, a database and image presentation system with high resolution images for Smith College teaching and learning. Smith College Museum of Art images are being added to LUNA on a regular basis. [SMITH COLLEGE ONLY]
- Search ARTstor, a digital library for the arts, architecture, humanities, and social sciences. Smith College Museum of Art images are being added to ARTstor on a regular basis. [ARTstor SUBSCRIBERS ONLY]
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Contact Charlene Shang Miller, Associate Educator for Academic Programs, for access to records about painting, sculpture, and decorative-arts collections and on Museum history. For records about works on paper, contact the Cunningham Center for the Study of Prints, Drawings, and Photographs.


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There are various pieces of queen rearing equipment that beekeepers use and make to rear the queens they use in field management.
1. Queen cell jigs
2. Nucs boxes
3. Division Boards
4. Special feeder containers
5. Special entrance reducers
6. Special hand made or bought grafting tools
7. Various grafting frames
8. misc equipment
Let's get a discussion going on how this equipment is made and used for increase.
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Mayor's Office
Lincoln Mayor Chris Beutler today announced two new initiatives to improve food safety in the community:
The public can access the food inspection reports at lincoln.ne.gov (keyword: food inspection). Reports will only be available if an establishment has received a Food Enforcement Notice in the last three years.
"The vast majority of our local food establishments do an outstanding job of serving our community," Mayor Beutler said. "But when enforcement actions are necessary, it's important that the public have access to this information. This is an excellent use of technology to help protect the health of our residents and visitors."
The FDA grant will enable LLCHD to hire a Retail Food Safety Consultant to coordinate a local Food Managers for Excellence Task Force. Task force members will help identify barriers that prohibit staff and owners from using safe food practices. The task force will then use that information to develop strategies to improve food safety practices in local retail food establishments.
"The Food Managers for Excellence Task Force will identify how implementing the best food safety practices can become the easy and smart thing to do," said Joyce Jensen, Food Safety Program Supervisor for the LLCHD. "This grant allows us to offer a Retail Food Safety Consultation Service that will help owners and staff provide the highest level of food safety to the public."
Jensen said the Retail Food Safety Consultant also will provide on-site consultation to managers in poorer performing retail food establishments. The consultant will help establishments put into practice actions to address FDA's five key risk factors for foodborne illness: food from unsafe sources; poor personal hygiene; inadequate cooking; improper holding of food (time and temperature); and contaminated food surfaces and equipment.
Mayor Beutler said LLCHD's Food Safety Program is already recognized nationally as a leader in promoting food safety and protecting people from foodborne illness. More information on the program is available at lincoln.ne.gov (keyword: food safety).


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Widowed father and eccentric inventor Caractacus Potts (Dick Van Dyke) transforms a broken-down old car into a flying machine - to the delight of his children (Heather Ripley, Adrian Hall) and the envy of the tantrum-prone Vulgarian kingdom (Gert Frobe, who played Goldfinger in that 007 film), who has outlawed children in his king. The Potts family, with candy factory heiress Truly Scrumptious (Sally Ann Howes), head to the kingdom to save the day!
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Colorful Kors delves further into world of beauty
NEW YORK (AP) — Michael Kors can't really be called just a fashion designer anymore. He's a full-fledged lifestyle brand, and that lifestyle is about to add color cosmetics and several new fragrances.
Kors says he's driven by perfection, and that means a total look. "Beauty is always such an important part of my runway. When we put on a fashion show — after this many years — I've learned the layers and the steps. When I first start thinking mood of the season, beauty is part of it from the start."
"The right dress with the wrong makeup is still wrong," he adds.
Kors' runway show is one of the hottest tickets of New York Fashion Week, which kicks off next week to preview styles of spring 2014.
Before that, though, Kors will be recognized by The Couture Council of The Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology on Wednesday for his contribution in artistry to the industry.
He talked to The Associated Press about developing lifestyle products in a recent interview.
AP: How is the process different for you in developing beauty products versus clothing and accessories?
Kors: With accessories and clothes, first I have to fall in love with whatever it is, but then I get practical. Is the bag too heavy? Can you wear a bra with the dress? With beauty, it's more of a quick mood check. ... It's more gut. Immediately, if I smell something and it's evocative, I go with it. What takes so long is the packaging.
AP: What about beauty products?
Kors: When you buy something beauty, whether it's a lipstick, nail polish or a new fragrance, it's not a long shopping period. You either buy it or not. A perfume should take you away quickly — there's no trying on pants with a shoe, rolling the jean just right, pretending you have heels on when you try on a skirt.
AP: If women can get a pick-me-up from a new lipstick, how can you get that same quick fashion fix?
Kors: Considering I wear the same thing almost every day, there's not much I can do. For many men, the quick fix is the tie, and I don't wear a tie, so I change my aviators (sunglasses). I'll change the scale and color, whether it's vintage leather, gunmetal or gold, that's my mood quick-changer.
AP: There are three types of muses for your three new perfumes, Sexy, Sporty and Glam. Who are they?
Kors: There's the 'sexy,' who is all about confidence. She's not naked, she could be in jeans or a gown, but she's sexy. There's 'sporty,' the woman who could be headed to the red carpet or the gym, but she's the type who just goes. And there's 'glam,' who likes to be the center of attention.
AP: Did you have any of your famous friends in mind when you were making them?
Kors: I have a cast of characters that float by me, sometimes a friend, someone I work with, sometimes celebrity clients — all people who have those moods. For sporty, it's Blake Lively, can't you see her surfing and putting on a gown? Or Gwyneth (Paltrow) with her hair yanked back in a pony? Sexy is Angelina Jolie or Rihanna. They exude confidence. And then there's the glamorous Jennifer Lopez. She's never a wallflower. She goes big or goes home.
AP: Do you relate more to any one of the personas?
Kors: I'm sporty by nature in that I'm relaxed. I don't like to be stiff, but I'm the most uncoordinated sporty person. Roger Federer and I won't be playing sporty tennis anytime soon.
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The 2007 Satin Finish George Washington Dollar originally came in a special Uncirculated Set which contained 36 Satin Finish coins. This included cents, nickels, dimes, four different quarter designs, Sacagawea Dollars and the four different Presidential Dollar designs issued in 2007 from the Philadelphia and Denver Mints.
The price of the 36 Uncirculated Coin Set was set at $22.95 each. Most coins came in really great quality ranging from MS67-MS68 condition, fewer examples probably graded MS69. For the 2007-P George Washington Dollar PCGS graded mostly MS68 examples. Examples in MS69 proved to be very scarce with less than a few dozen known.