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Saturday, August 16, 2008
Uncle Bobby's Wedding redux
First, this new patron stated her belief that the topic of a gay wedding is inappropriate because same sex marriage is illegal in 48 states, and specifically, in Colorado. Second, she claimed that she knows at least 100 people ready to fill out a petition against the book.
In response to the first point, I pointed out that we don't know where "Uncle Bobby's Wedding" takes place -- it could be in California or Massachusetts. It could be in Canada. It could be in a wholly fictitious universe with its own laws. Nonetheless, I wrote, "This principle would seem to require librarians to be familiar with all Colorado laws, and to read each work we purchase, or consider purchasing, to determine whether any of the characters might violate those laws [no matter where or when they live]. Thousands and thousands of our books feature true or fictional tales of murder, robbery, kidnapping – all of which violate Colorado laws. Under this principle, there could be no books in the library in which characters escape from one country to enter another illegally – not even in [or from, which is what I meant] Nazi Germany – because that would violate Colorado immigration laws. The story of Robin Hood, in which a thief and robber is regarded as a hero, would also be forbidden." I concluded that the principle, in general, would be impossible for libraries to apply.
In response to the second, I offered to meet with the group of 100 people who share her perspective. I wrote, "To your mind, I suspect, the issue is about advocacy for a perspective you oppose. To mine, it's about the role of the public library as common and neutral ground, as a steward of public funds to represent all of the public. It's a fair topic, and certainly deserving of community discussion."
Alternatively, there are two other options: appeal my decision to the Board, or fill out the petition, give me a contact person, and I could respond to that person based on the arguments it presented.
I don't know yet where it goes from here. But it seems clear that this is an organized effort, and that my last response has been shared. I wanted to record the argument used, however, and my response to it.
13 comments:
- Mary Witzl said...
You are fighting the good fight and I have a lot of respect for your position. You make some excellent arguments and I hope that the people who complain about this book will seriously consider what you have written here. I would like to think that there are even more people who will defend this book and, more importantly, the right of free speech. Let's hope they too are organized. If I lived in Colorado, I would be happy to join them.
- August 17, 2008 at 9:04 AM
- Jamie said...
Thanks, Mary. I wish you did live here. But I also suspect that when the issue gets down to the core -- "can a library be permitted to carry minority viewpoints" -- even the majority will say "yes."
- August 17, 2008 at 11:09 AM
You keep fighting the good fight. It's an excellent book, and it's on the front line of change.
You hang in there. You're doing great, answering with thought and care, and I'm proud of you.
- August 17, 2008 at 1:16 PM
- Agyw said...
Librarians are among our true unsung heroes. From the librarian evicted from a public town hall with presidential candidate John McCain, to the vanguard of those who would preserve divergent views and values in our society. This is not only a fundamental question for our Democracy, but THE question for our Democracy. When we include and exclude, as all humans do, what is the criteria. Jamie your voice, reasoning and actions are admirable in my book and IS what America is about. Thank you for being so eloquent and responsive.
- August 17, 2008 at 2:22 PM
- Caramida said...
Jamie, thank you for persisting in this good work. Your thoughtful and care-ful handling of the situation on behalf of your charge is a credit to the library profession. I am glad to be reminded that there are librarians of such caliber safeguarding basic freedom to read.
- August 18, 2008 at 7:34 AM
- Kieran said...
Thank you. I find that articulate and well-written responses are a rare commodity (and you certainly have it nailed!) When I read your first response to the first challenger of this book, I thought, "He is a good librarian doing his job...doing his job very well." When I read this redux post I thought, "He is a good ally." So I thank you as a librarian and as a transgendered person whose very unorthodox family looks to find books at the public library that represent our family. Sometimes it is hard to take a stand, any stand, regardless of whether it is for reasons of freedom, justice and liberty or not. Anyway, I appreciate you. I appreciate your deft handling of these things. When I catalog things I disagree with for the library, I always say to myself something about the right of free speech. When there are challenges to items that represent things that I am, honestly, before I get angry even, I first become fearful, afraid. (Which doesn't make it easy to be calm and slow in my response, but I try.) Your clear response will help me in the future make a calm and adequate reply to challenges (yeah I will probably plagiarize you to some degree). Thanks again.
- August 18, 2008 at 1:10 PM
- Jamie said...
Thanks for the support, all. And Kieran, based on your own blog, it strikes me that you're a pretty brave soul yourself. Plagiarize away!
- August 20, 2008 at 1:11 PM
- Thogek said...
Wonderful responses, both. I'm sure I don't have to say this, but please do keep up the pure and simple defense of *everyone's* right to express and discover (and disagree with) viewpoints of all sorts. I continue to lament the growing (and utterly UN-American) viewpoint that the moral compass of a few, or even of a majority, should be legislated into state or national mandates, squashing others whose viewpoints or moral compasses might happen to differ.
No one should have the right to dictate what others may express or hear. The United States government and constitution was, as you point out, created in part to *protect* its citizens from such oppression, not to promote it.
- August 24, 2008 at 9:54 PM
- Kristen said...
I took my 4 year old and my 1 year old to the library today, as we do every week. My 4 year old gets to choose 10 books. I look at each book, first reading the preface, then checking to make sure there are enough words and pictures for her age.
I found the description of the book to be very misleading. Jamie is a gender neutral name and I am sure the author knew this.
I did not realize what the book was about until about the 10th page...or the page that states Chloe would have two uncles. We are a Christian family but also understand we cannot shelter our children. This is a topic they will have to face and fully plan on teaching them about it, but want to explain it ourselves, or at least be given the opportunity to choose the book that best suits our family when the time comes.
This was a book that was within reach of my 4 year old, in the childrens picture book section with no description of it being about homosexuality and I feel that is wrong. Why did the author feel she needed to be deceptive?
I don't think the book should be removed...there are families where this lifestyle is acceptable and their children need outlets as well...but why can't it be in a separate section? For both parties benefits...or clearly labeled so the parent at least has a fair shot at getting what he or she feels is an acceptable book for their child, without having to read it word for word before checking it out.
- August 25, 2008 at 7:57 PM
- Jamie said...
Kristen, thanks for leaving a comment. Thanks, too, for saying that you don't think it needs to be removed.
You know, I think we have just five picture books titles in our entire 700,000+ collection in which there is any mention of homosexuality at all. It's hard to make a section out of five books! And even if we broaden that to say "everything that might be controversial," then I have to report that after working over a quarter of a century, I've learned that that means virtually every book we've got.
As I noted in my longer posting about the subject, the real point of the book isn't about gay marriage. It's about Chloe (the young girl guinea pig) being afraid of losing her favorite uncle to another relationship. Yes, it does present the gay marriage as just a background issue, but that just means the author sees it that way, too. Lots of children's authors write books to present a perspective they wish they'd encountered when they were young.
At any rate, thanks for taking your daughter to the library, and caring about what she reads.
- August 26, 2008 at 8:13 PM
- ~M said...
As an active member of the Arapahoe County and Littleton Public libraries, something tells me I need to visit yours.
Thank you for fighting the good fight.
- September 24, 2008 at 7:32 PM
- YiPing said...
Thanks for sharing the case and responds. I am a library school student and I found your posts are very good examples for discussing about Intellectural Freedom, and I am having your posts as the discussion and example of providing the freedom of reading and information access for minors at Library.
- September 17, 2009 at 11:32 AM
- kathleen duey said...
Jamie, thanks so much for posting all of this. Your measured, smart, realistic answers to this challenge will inform my next encounter with a book-banner. Why can't librarians rule the world? Things would be SO much better.
- September 25, 2009 at 9:32 AM
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Name: Karla
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I think I want to try spanking. I never tried it, but it gets me hot thinking about it. I think my partner might be up for it, but I have yet to ask him. I thought I'd ask you first. What are your thoughts about spanking?
If you've been a bad girl, Karla, then I think you definitely need a spanking. Have you been naughty, Karla? Precisely how naughty have you been, Karla? Everyone here at Dr Dick Sex Advice wants to know!
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Usually a hand or a paddle of some sort is used for spanking. This is different from whipping and flogging, which are much more advanced techniques than your garden-variety spanking. We'll leave these techniques for another time.
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- The spanker must always inquire about the health of the spankee before the play begins.
- Both participants must always agree on a safeword before the play begins. A safeword is a code word that the spankee will use as she is reaching a physical, emotional or moral boundary, or for when she wants the spanker to stop the play.
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The headmaster calls you into his office for a corrective interview. He needs to teach you a lesson. He puts you over his knee. He'll do lots of bottom rubbing first, as he's lecturing you on your bad behavior. As he gets into it, he'll be getting turned on too. "It will be a shame to spank this beautiful bottom of yours," he'll coo. "This is going to hurt me as much as it hurts you!"…that sort of thing. He'll finger your pretty panties, but won't remove them. He'll start spanking very gently at first. Light taps on the fleshy part of your ass cheeks. If you want more, start wiggling into the spanking. Remember to stay in character. "No, Mr. Hardwood, that hurts, please don't touch me there! Grind into his lap. Your body language will communicate your desire for him to continue and possibly intensify the spanking.
To insure the comfort of your partner, set some ground rules for your first play session. Don't' do bare-bottom spanking until he readily indicates his willingness to do so. If your partner is a feminist, this whole spanking thing may go against the grain for him. So remind him this is fantasy role playing; not real life.
The more you get into your roles, the more likely he'll get into his roles — Catholic schoolgirl/Father Flanagan, slutty patient/naughty doctor — you get the idea. The more you please him, the better he'll please you.
You'll want to reward your partner for his participation. After the first session take him to dinner. Ask him for his reactions. What could you have done to make the scenario more pleasurable for him? Talk about your reactions. Tell him how much you appreciated his participation. Talk about the scenario and how well he did. Tell him what you liked most about the spanking itself. If you sense that he's content with events thus far, you could plan for more.
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Like I said at the beginning, spanking is a stand-alone fetish, it may be a part of full-on sex, or it may be just a bonding thing between you and your partner.
In the end, introducing your partner to your kink is one of those — "Give To Get" things. Be attentive to him. Make sure he knows he's the most special person in your life. The more satisfied he is; the more he'll be open to pleasing you.


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The Red Bull Air Race World Championship will be back in the skies in February 2014 with a seven-race World Championship staged in six countries on three continents. In the sport, created in 2003 and watched by millions of fans, the competitors race in high-performance airplanes flying between 15 and 25 meters above the ground and navigate an obstacle course of air gate pylons at speeds of up to 370 kph.
The series will be back with defending World Champion Paul Bonhomme among the 12-pilot field after it took a three-year break to improve safety and reorganize. There will be a number of technical improvements, including standard Lycoming Thunderbolt engines and Hartzell propellers for all pilots, changes to the lightweight nylon pylon material to make them even easier to burst apart if plane wings clip a pylon and raising the height of the pylons that the pilots pass through to 25 meters from 20.


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Hey all, I was just wondering if anyone out there was as into the idea of a MOTUC version of Teela's old flame (in his mind) Malik, the Wizard of Stone Mountain?
Personally speaking, I thought there was a lot of potential for this character story-wise and I would have loved to see him earn a place as a Master and help combat Skeletor's warrior's warriors. Aside from Orko's crazy, mixed up magic, I think the Masters need a heroic sorcerer and Malik would fit the bill.
Not to mention the fact, I would love to see how the 4 Horsemen could fix him up. True his cartoon outfit was a bit plain, but if they could make him something cool for a uniform or armor, so much the better!


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Loeb School offers workshop on Photography for PR
The Nackey S. Loeb School of Communications is offering a one-day workshop designed to help businesses and non-profits enhance their image and spruce up their websites or newsletters with memorable photos.
Photography for Public Relations will be presented at the school in Manchester on July 12, from 9 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.
Award-winning photographer Geoff Forester will offer proven suggestions on how to take photos that will help tell your business or non-profit's story in print or on the web. The workshop includes camera basics, taking good photos and selecting photos that best tell your story. Students will need a digital camera.
The registration fee of $45 includes lunch.
Geoff Forester has been a photojournalist for nearly 30 years at four newspapers. In 1994, he was named Photographer of the Year by the New Hampshire Photojournalists Association. He also has been a photo editor at the Concord Monitor and The Boston Globe and has taught photography at Boston University, the New Hampshire Institute of Art and the Loeb School.
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The Media Standards Trust has begun a lecture series on 'Why Journalism Matters'. It is disconcerting that it feels we have to ask the question. The argument put forward by the British group's director Martin Moore is that news organisations are so preoccupied with business survival that discussion of the broader social, political and cultural function of journalism gets forgotten. It is a pertinent review then, given the icy economic blasts hitting most Anglo-Saxon media groups, and notwithstanding the recent examples of self-evidently broader journalistic 'value' produced by London's Daily Telegraph in its politican-shaming investigations into parliamentarians' expenses.
First up in the series was Lionel Barber, editor of the Financial Times, who cantered through the justifications for a vibrant, independent press. Watchdog, informer, explainer, campaigner, community builder and debater – those are the roles that journalism plays. The value that it brings is most evident by comparison with the unhealthiness of states where the press is not free, noted Barber, citing the struggles of the citizenry in China and Russia to hold their leaders to account.
The FT's USP as a media group, according to Barber, is as an explainer and analyser of complicated events that play out across a global stage. But analytical reporting of global stories costs serious cash, he noted, in a question-begging aside. That you get the quality of journalism you are prepared to pay for, ultimately, is his response to the challenge posed to mainstream media by Internet-enabled communicators. For free you can have the rawness of a blog. For crafted journalism that is properly sourced, reviewed for taste and style and checked for accuracy, you must find ways to charge. At your peril do you blur the edges between the crafted and the raw world of easy comment, hasty opinion and rumour billed as fact, argues the FT editor. (There was a hat tip, however, to the bloggers that have broken news, such as Guido Fawkes who forced the resignation of an advisor to Gordon Brown by revealing his plans for a smear email campaign.)
So a sharp distinction was drawn between the value proposition of professional journalism and its unruly blogging and twittering cousin. No such clarity yet, though, on the funding model for the former when the Internet has made audiences expect to read most general interest news and a lot of specialised niche content for free. No secret that each and every news group is daunted by this obstacle, even the FT, which has not been immune to the downturn in advertising revenue.
We were left with a couple of clues on the way forward. Barber predicted that within a year all news organisations will be charging for online content in some way. (The FT's model is to allow readers access to a few articles for free and then charge for further use.) Will Google ever pay for content – unlikely says Barber. But at least they might be prepared to talk about linking via searches to articles requiring subscription, which they do not do currently.
And his flippant response to the demographic challenge posed to a print-based news organisation by the emergence of a generation of youngsters who get all their information from screens? People are living longer – they will still buy newspapers.


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There is a scene midway through Gareth Evans' action-crime thriller "The Raid 2" that exemplifies the excruciating and exhilarating experience of this gripping paean to the ballet, brutality and blood that courses through martial arts films. The players are not the key ones, but the action is exquisite as two attractive 20-ish Indonesian assassins, a brother-sister team, identify their target in a subway car.
Amid tight space and other passengers, Hammer Girl, a mesmerizing Julie Estelle, her long hair swinging in time with the claw hammers she wields, approaches the prey; her brother, Baseball Bat Man (Very Tri Yulisman), is a shoulder length behind. The man, cornered, desperate, clutches his briefcase. We have time to absorb all the pieces before the play begins, a good thing since the kicking and bashing comes with such furious speed that if not for the gush of blood and the crack of bones, it would be hard to follow.
As you might guess, this is not a film for everyone's taste. But for fans of the martial arts genre, Evans has created a scintillating, if sometimes imperfect, new chapter.
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The movie picks up where the Welsh-born writer-director's "The Raid: Redemption" left off in 2011. The hero, a clean rookie cop named Rama (Iko Uwais) is forced into an undercover assignment working for Bunawar (Cok Simbara), whose team is targeting police corruption in crime-infested Jakarta.
It represents a marked evolution in Evans' storytelling and stylistic flourishes.
"The Raid: Redemption" was just one bloody, bone-breaking blur unfolding over a single day in a mobster's high-rise as an unsanctioned police raid goes terribly wrong. Nearly all brutal action, almost no story, it still suggested Evans was someone to watch.
"Raid 2," while even more brutal and an hour longer, is far more complex, spinning out over several years and allowing for some interesting character development that was missing in the first.
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The film follows Rama as he takes on a new name, Yuda, and a criminal identity to infiltrate Jakarta's most dangerous mob family. The first step is to get close to Uco, a local godfather's son doing time in prison. As the two years Yuda spends behind bars shows, Uco, portrayed by a smoldering Arifin Putra, is a hothead with none of the polished corporate sensibility of his father, Bangun (Tio Pakusadewo).
The film's drama hangs on the delicate balance of power in Jakarta's underworld. The Indonesian faction is basically split between Bangun and the younger, less-established Bejo (Alex Abbad); the Japanese faction is headed by Mr. Goto (Kenichi Endo).
By the time Yuda is released, Uco is once again ensconced near the top of his father's operation, but burning for more control. Bejo is champing at the bit as well. The brokered peace with the Japanese is tentative at best. And most of the cops are there for the buying.
Yuda's infiltrating takes us into the grit and the grime of Jakarta drug and prostitution rings, and to the placid green of the sugar cane fields where the bodies are buried. Putra is excellent as the entitled son ever vacillating between defiance and submission. In fact, Evans stacks the villainy ranks with a series of cool corrupted sorts.
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But this is Uwais' movie. He is a remarkable athlete. The sheer precision, speed and artistry contained within each kick and punch is frankly astonishing. With the rest of the scenes unfolding in real time, he seems otherworldly. "Raid 2" also gives the actor more to do than fight. He broods about his constant state of jeopardy, misses his wife and child, rages against the machinations of both cops and criminals.
Everywhere Yuda turns, someone is spoiling for a fight, and of course, he is more than game. One of the more interesting executions involves a dispute over payoffs to Bangun. It begins with a roar in a sweatshop filled with the implements of the porn trade. It ends in silence in a snow-covered alleyway, blood from a smashed head creating red rivers in the pristine white. Many die in between.
There are several moments like this, where the cinematic staging is riveting. As they did for "Redemption," Matt Flannery and Dimas Imam Subhono split the cinematography. Uwais, a martial arts champion, does double duty as star and fight choreographer.
As inventive as the action sequences are, there are too many of them and they tend to go on far too long — the movie is just shy of two-and-a-half hours. Still, Evans' filmmaking has undergone some impressive fine-tuning for "The Raid 2." It is something to see — if you have the stomach for it.
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MPAA rating: R for sequences of strong bloody violence throughout, sexuality and language
Running time: 2 hours, 28 minutes; Indonesian and Japanese with English subtitles
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MvvmCross 3.5.0 is now also released as stable :)
This update was built with the stable channel - Xamarin iOS 8.6
The changes since 3.2 are:
- The inclusion of the new "Woah Fragments" architecture from Cheesebaron :)
- The switch to the Xamarin Unified iOS API - with lots of updates as Xamarin's changes have evolved
- The return of Generic base ViewController's and Activity's (No more Heisenbugs - hurrah!) + a recent fix to this change
- A new binding for UISegmentedControl's
- Improvements to the way RaisePropertyChanged can be called
- Improvement in Windows support for generic MvxCommand class
- Small updates to LinkerPleaseInclude for both Android and iOS
- WindowsPhone has Heading added to the geolocation plugin
- Some NSDate - DateTime auto-conversion fixes
- WPF branch now relies on Blend 4.5 Interactivity, not Blend 4.0
- Support for Xamarin.Mac Unified API (Classic API and MonoMac still supported - but not well documented!)
When updating Android projects from 3.2, I'm aware that some people may experience issues with the old "portable shim" assemblies (system.net, system.xml.serialization, etc) being left as references - the workaround for this seems to be to remove those references manually.
When updating iOS projects.... then the main steps seem to be "normal" Unified updates - see Kerry's blog for some help with these - http://kerry.lothrop.de/unified-api-for-xamarin-ios/
Thanks hugely to everyone who's contributed - especially:
- @Cheesebaron for the great work on "Woah Fragments!" - https://github.com/MvvmCross/MvvmCross/pull/771
- @kwlothrop for so much work on building with the Unified API - if you are porting your libraries and code, see http://kerry.lothrop.de/unified-api-for-xamarin-ios/
- @tofutim for pushing on with Mac libraries too!
- @gshackles for being our guinea-pig (canary?) on lots of the updates
Really - these guys are awesome! They've done the work on this! Thanks!
If you want to get involved, then please read https://github.com/MvvmCross/MvvmCross/issues/841 and please do join in :)


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A long, detailed piece from National Resources Defense Council on Sen. Collins' amendment to exempt incinerators and industrial boilers from clean air standards.
Some lowlights:
The amendment...allows indefinite compliance delays by prohibiting EPA from requiring compliance with new standards any "earlier than 5 years" after issuance, and then eliminating the Clean Air Act's firm compliance deadlines and allowing compliance to be delayed by 8 or 10 or 15 years more. This feature alone belies any claim that the Collins amendment simply delays things a few years.
For just the amendment's minimum 3.5 year delay beyond current law, this will result in up to 28,350 more premature deaths, over 17,000 heart attacks, and more than 180,000 cases of asthma attacks
Congress cannot believe that Americans deserve to go unprotected against neurotoxins and carcinogens by allowing the country's 2nd largest industrial source of mercury pollution and other toxins to be subject to periodic tune-ups and maintenance practices, with no pollution control equipment.
That approach would relegate clean air policy to not just the period pre-dating the 1990 Clean Air Act amendments but pre-1970, before that landmark law was adopted. And incinerators and industrial boilers would secure amnesty from health standards that over 100 other industrial sources, including power plants, must meet. (Emphasis added.)


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Liu in Third, Moon in Fifth
BEDMINSTER, N.J. — The Yale women's golf team wrapped up its season with a third-place finish at the Apr. 26-28 Ivy League Championship. Despite strong individual performances, the Bulldogs could not overtake Harvard or Princeton at the Trump National Golf Club in Bedminster, N.J.
Entering the final day of competition in third place, Yale battled to move up the leaderboard throughout the day. The Bulldogs carded a +66 for the tournament, 21 strokes behind champions Harvard and 20 strokes behind second-place Princeton.
"I feel that the course out played a few of us this weekend and sometimes that happens," said Head Coach Chawwadee Rompothong '00. "At the championship when everything is on the line, there is no room for errors and we had one too many. I am proud of them and am grateful to be their coach."
Two golfers led the way for the Bulldogs. Sophomore Marika Liu fired a final-round 72—the second lowest round of the day—to close at +7, in outright third place. She was just five strokes behind the tournament medalist, Kelly Shon of Princeton.
Not far behind Liu was junior Seo Hee Moon, who finished up at +12 to secure outright fifth place. Sophomore Shreya Ghei was four strokes further back, in ninth place.
The three members of the Bulldogs to finish in the top 10 earned All-Ivy honors to recognize their stunning performances at the tournament. Liu and Moon earned first-team All-Ivy honors whle Ghei earned second-team All-Ivy honors.
"On the bright side, we still had three players finish in the top 10 and make the All-Ivy team!" Rompothong said. "I am extremely proud of Marika for finishing third in her first Ivy League Championship appearance. She was solid all week and played great golf all year. She definitely deserved a strong finish."
"Seo Hee and Shreya also played well as always and I am extremely proud of their performance this weekend and the entire year," Rompothong said.
The conclusion of the Ivy League Championship marks the end of the 2012-13 season for the Bulldogs, a season in which they claimed victories at the Sept. 15-16 Dartmouth Invitational and the Apr. 14-15 Brown Invitational.
"I am also hopeful for next year because we will have all the players returning," Rompothong said. "They will be stronger, hungrier, and wiser!"
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Incaviglia paying dues as independent league skipper
Twenty-eight years ago, Pete Incaviglia went straight from the campus of Oklahoma State University into the cleanup spot in the Rangers' Opening Day lineup. He never spent a day in instructional league. Incaviglia never rode the buses. He never caught the 5:30 a.m. connecting flights to get from one Minor League city to another.
Now look at him. Incaviglia knows all about bus rides, and meal money that can barely cover the cost of coffee, much less meals.
Twenty-eight years ago, Pete Incaviglia went straight from the campus of Oklahoma State University into the cleanup spot in the Rangers' Opening Day lineup. He never spent a day in instructional league. Incaviglia never rode the buses. He never caught the 5:30 a.m. connecting flights to get from one Minor League city to another.
Now look at him. Incaviglia knows all about bus rides, and meal money that can barely cover the cost of coffee, much less meals.
Incaviglia is the manager of the Laredo (Texas) Lemurs in the independent American Association. He is in his third year with the club and sixth year in the league.
And Incaviglia cherishes the experience.
"I got it backwards," said Incaviglia. "Went right to the top. Now I'm paying my dues. No complaints. I love putting on the uniform. I love being around the kids. I feel fortunate to have this chance. These kids compete. That's all you can ask."
And on Wednesday night, the Lemurs clinched an American Association playoff spot for the second time in three years, earning the Wild Card berth with five games remaining in the regular season.
"Of course," Incaviglia said when asked if there was a celebration. "It's what this game is about. I don't care what level you play. You want to win. You want to be a champion. You want to be the best. You are in this game because you like to compete."
Competing was never a problem for Incaviglia, who was the talk of Spring Training in Florida back in March 1986, when one day during batting practice, he hit a ball through the left-field fence at the Rangers' spring home in Pompano Beach, Fla.
Incaviglia was so intent on going directly to the big leagues that after Montreal made him the eighth overall Draft pick in 1985, he refused to sign without a guarantee. The Expos declined and then traded his rights to the Rangers, who signed him. That led to Major League Baseball adopting what is known as the "Incaviglia Rule," which forbids a team from trading a Draft pick until one year after he signs his first pro contract.
Incaviglia was never one to back down. This is the guy who set NCAA single-season records of 48 home runs and 143 RBIs as a junior at Oklahoma State. That year, while taking batting practice at the University of Texas, Longhorns players watched him from the bench, offering "ohs" and "ahs" with every swing Incaviglia took.
Finally Incaviglia dropped his bat, walked over to the Longhorns' dugout and challenged the Texas players "one at a time, or all at once."
Nobody took him up on it.
"Probably not the smartest thing I've done," Incaviglia said with a laugh.
Some might say the same of his career path.
Incaviglia played 12 years in the big leagues, the first five with the Rangers. He hit 206 home runs during his time with the Rangers, Tigers, Phillies, Astros, Orioles and Yankees before finally going to the Minor Leagues for the first time 1997. Incaviglia also played part of the 1995 season in Japan, and he finished his playing career with independent league teams from 2000-02.
Once he decided to retire as a player, Incaviglia initially went to work in the Tigers' Minor League system as a hitting coach at the Double-A level from 2004-06.
After spending year at home helping to raise his kids, the Dallas-Fort Worth area native took a job as manager of the Grand Prairie Air Hogs in 2008, leading them to the American Association championship in '10. After that season, the Grand Prairie ownership bought the American Association franchise in Shreveport, La., and moved it to Laredo. Incaviglia decided to make the move with them.
The players in independent baseball don't get rich. They all need offseason jobs so they can pay bills. However, they all have the dream to playing in the big leagues, and Incaviglia wants to help them achieve their dream.
Chris Martin, who was up with the Rockies this season, was signed off the 2010 Grand Prairie roster by the Red Sox after Incaviglia called a friend of his, Red Sox scout Jamie Bane, and told him, "I've got a kid for you to sign, and then after he goes to Spring Training, you can call me and thank me."
Left-hander James Paxton, a key part of the Mariners' rotation down the stretch this year, played with Martin with Grand Prairie in the opening weeks of the 2010 season before signing with Seattle, which had drafted him in the fourth round that June.
That just adds to the enjoyment Incaviglia finds in Laredo.
It's not glamorous. Those aren't five-star hotels where the Lemurs stay. They don't travel on private jets. It is baseball, though.
"I don't know what else I'd do," Incaviglia said. "I love the game. I love the challenges, on the field and off."
That's one thing about independent baseball. Incaviglia's responsibilities have extended well past the playing field in Laredo.
"We first got here and we didn't have a stadium," he said. "We built the organization from scratch. It's been fun. It is baseball at the grassroots."
It's something Incaviglia never even thought about when he came out of Oklahoma State.
It's something that, nearly three decades later, consumes his life.
Tracy Ringolsby is a columnist for MLB.com. Read his blog, Write 'em Cowboy.


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Since our new Hall of Paleontology opened to museum members on Friday we've received an outpouring of responses from museum-goers of all ages. It was starting to make our head spin, so we compiled some choice reactions here to share with you! See what your fellow Houstonians are saying about what's being called one of the nation's top paleontology exhibits:
Pretty cool, huh? And we're making updates and perfecting the exhibit as we hear your feedback. One of the latest additions is a swath of real, touchable hadrosaur skin! So come see us for the first time or the 15th — you can never learn too much.
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Typically, the emergence of a two-ton great white shark near the shores of North Carolina would be a cause for alarm.
Typically, the emergence of a two-ton great white shark near the shores of North Carolina would be a cause for alarm.
That hasn't been the case for Mary Lee, a feisty fully-mature female great white that's created a stir online among naturalists and ocean lovers with her appearance in coastal waters along the state's southern border.
"We got a heads up a few weeks ago that a great white was in our coastal waters and I've been keeping tabs on her since then," said Paul Barrington, director of husbandry and operations at the N.C. Aquarium at Fort Fisher. "It's just a fascinating animal."
Barrington and other fans of Mary Lee have been watching the shark's journey in real-time since mid-September on the website of Ocearch, a nonprofit organization that guides research on oceans and fish. The group tagged the 16-foot shark on Sept. 17 off Cape Cod, Mass.
Each time Mary Lee breaks the surface, a signal is transmitted to a satellite, helping scientists and novice shark watchers pinpoint her location.
On Wednesday, Mary Lee's satellite tag � which should be good for about five years � placed the shark near shore along the Grand Strand of Myrtle Beach, S.C., and not far from the North Carolina state line.
She appeared to be headed back north after traveling as far south as Florida earlier this month, though scientists aren't sure why.
"This is prime temperate water that you would associate with the white sharks," Barrington said. "I'm going to make a wild prediction that she makes it up here."
Although North Carolina isn't particularly well known for great whites, the state has a healthy population of other large shark species.
"It's not unusual now to spot a great white here or there," Barrington said. "For every one that's tagged or spotted, there is likely to be a half dozen or a dozen more off the coast."
Barrington, who has studied the apex predators for nearly 40 years, said it's not uncommon for them to venture into Southern waters during the fall and winter months to feast on large migratory fish or cetaceans � marine mammals such as dolphins and whales.
"I can only speculate, but if she's hugging the coast line like she is, she could be following cetaceans or large costal fish, like red drum," Barrington said. "There are also schools of migratory fish congregating around state estuaries. Great whites tend to feed on fish with high fat content, so if she continues to migrate north, blue fin tuna or harbor seals could be food sources."
University of North Carolina Wilmington research biologist William McLellan said Mary Lee's appearance could mean area waters are healthier.
The popularity of the shark tracker could help keep them that way.
"It could be that we're rebuilding some old migratory pathways. There's something for them to feed on out there," McLellan said. "The whole other amazing part is that they've gotten the tagging system going. It's interesting for everyone to be able to see the story of one of the largest predators in the ocean."
Ocearch founder Chris Fischer and his crew � former subjects of History channel's "Shark Wranglers" � hope the story will help create awareness about the plight of the majestic animals.
Fischer and other scientists hope to understand great whites' migratory patterns and breeding habits to provide policy makers with the data to protect them, Fisher said during a telephone interview from his home in Utah on Wednesday.
Before tagging sharks in Cape Cod this fall, the crew tagged dozens of great whites off the coast of South Africa.
"The shark tracker ignites the explorer in everyone," Fischer said.
The recent popularity of the shark tracker website, which was upgraded this week to handle thousands of new visitors, shows the team is on the right track, Fischer said.
Meanwhile, scientists will continue to follow Mary Lee, a shark that typically breaks the surface multiple times per day � helping scientists understand more about her movements and patterns.
"Really our journey has just begun," Fischer said. "If Mary Lee hangs out in one given area, she could help determine what we study next."
Anyone with an Internet connection can track Mary Lee's progress in real time on the online shark tracker at sharks-ocearch.verite.com. To learn more about Ocearch, visit ocearch.org.


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Kids doctors help Parole Rotary collect kids books for needy readers around the world
"Books are easy for people to contribute, and we wanted to become closer not only with our patients but also our community," said Ann-Marie Sedor of the new partnership between The Pediatric Group and the Rotary Club of Parole.
Through August, the practice is collecting books for children of all ages at its offices in Crofton, Davidsonville and Severna Park (www.pediatricgroup.com).
The Rotary Club of Parole, which seeks old books year-round for Books for International Goodwill, has sent 5.2 million books to developing countries. Americans also benefit from the donations with books shipped to U.S. troops and communities recovering from natural disasters. Eight annual book sales at the warehouse support the shipping.
B.I.G. was born from the need of a Rotary exchange student who returned home to Nigeria to become a teacher but needed books for her school.
"We sent as many books as we could get," said Steve Frantzich, B.I.G. board president. "From there it took on a life of its own."
Children's books delivered to The Pediatric Group through August will be sent to libraries and schools in impoverished communities in Africa, Southeast Asia and Eastern Europe.
Books are welcome anytime at the shed next to B.I.G.'s warehouse at 2000B Capital Drive, Annapolis.
The AAUW also begins collecting this time of year for their book sale in November. They will be collecting on Saturday, August 4 from 10 to 1 in the Bank of America parking lot on Jumpers Hole road Road and Benfield Road in Severna Park, and Furniture Solutions on Ritchie Highway in Arnold.


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The atheist response to the text of the Bible is based primarily upon the young earth creationist interpretation, which is flawed. If I put myself objectively in the position of the atheist attempting to debunk the Bible I would start with Genesis Chapter 1. The Chapter passed the inspection of this former atheist.
The Hebrew verb consists of two different states. The perfect state indicates an action which is complete, whereas the imperfect state indicates a continuous or incomplete action.
At Genesis 1:1 the word bara, translated as created, is in the perfect state, which means that at this point the creation of the heavens and the Earth were completed. Later, as in verse 16 the Hebrew word asah, translated as made, is used, which is in the imperfect state, indicating continuous action. The heavens and Earth were created in verse 1 and an indeterminate time later they were being prepared for habitation, much the same as a bed is manufactured (complete) and made (continuous) afterwards.
What this means is that the creation was complete even before the six "days" of creation even began, in fact, later verses in the chapter reveal it was more than likely a long time in between Genesis 1:1 and 1:2.
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Oh yeah, it's a riot! It involves mostly staring at other people's chests.
I wouldn't want strangers to be reading my chest for that long. Maybe it could go on the back? Hmmm
Sorry I'm such a slow reader --
If you can't stand the heat --
Any controversial interpretations of the wording of the Bible is all on God. But for the Tower of Babal fiasco, we would all be speaking Hebrew and it would be perfectly clear. An omnscient being would have known this.
Actually Don, a god who knew anything about this planet and how it works, wouldn't have tried to stop them when they began trying to build a tower to heaven - he'd have cocked back in his Holy Laz-E-Boy with a platter of hot nachos in his lap and a cold Bud parked within easy reach on a nearby cloud, watched on his BIGscreen as the uppermost stonelayers passed out from lack of oxygen, and cackled his Holy Ass off!
That whole language confusion and scattering thing was overkill and the work of a rank amateur, designed to provide a religious explanation as for why, if god killed all but 8 people on earth, there were so many people from different places, speaking so many different languages - just an early use of, "Goddidit!"
The original "Tower of Bable" wasn't a tower at all, per se, it was a tiered temple, called a ziggurat, used in Mesopotamia to worship Marduk and the Sumerian/Akkadian pantheon of gods. As you can see from the illustration below, there is a chamber atop the structure. This was designed for their god to rest on his many visits to Earth, and had no bearing on anyone's efforts to reach heaven. But to promote the Hebrew god, it was necessary to tear down the gods of the Mesopotamians, basically saying, "Temple, good, ziggurat, bad!"
God scattered them because he wanted them to fill and subdue the earth, which Nimrod (Likely Tammuz) was preventing in establishing his own kingdom and the tower.
Pure bullshit. And "Nimrod" was a fictional character created by the Yahwist Group in an effort to appear a link existed between the Jews and the actual, historical king, Sargon, who opened up a trade route from Mesopotamia to the Mediterranean, then all the way down the coast of the Levant nearly to the national boundary of Egypt.
BTW - legend says that Sargon's mother sealed him into a reed basket, waterproofed with bitumen, and launched him down the Euphrates River as a baby. Sound familiar?
You have to realize that when talking to me, a great deal of the religious bullshit you are objecting to in one way or another is the same bullshit I object to only I all the more because the religious bullshit you have become accustomed to through the traditional replaces the truth.
This is difficult for you to understand because you can't see the truth for all of the shit it is buried beneath. God isn't really omniscient, omnipotent and certainly not omnipresent.
His existence isn't really all that omnicritical, then is it?
I think I'm starting to understand you. You think god is an ancient alien don't ya?


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Firearms "Researcher" John Lott Fudges Gun Facts Again
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Discredited gun "researcher" John Lott has done it again. In an April 25th op-ed for the New York Daily News, Lott strongly defended the "Stand Your Ground" self-defense law that is at the center of the shooting death of 17-year-old Florida teenager Trayvon Martin. Lott provides a number of distortions about "Stand Your Ground" in voicing support for the law.
Lott opens his piece by stating, "Call them what you will: 'Stand Your Ground' or 'Castle Doctrine' laws." In doing so, he is grouping together two laws that are in fact radically different - this faulty conflation is at the center of his entire argument. For example, Lott later claims that "In states adopting Stand Your Ground and Castle Doctrine laws from 1977 to 2005, murder rates fell by 9% and overall violent crime by 11%." But "Stand Your Ground" largely was not implemented until after 2005, making his point meaningless.
"Castle Doctrine" typically refers to the codification of centuries old common law stating that an individual owes no duty to retreat to an invader of his or her domicile. Some states have passed explicit "Castle Doctrine" laws, while others rely on courts to uphold the common law.
"Stand Your Ground," however, expands "Castle Doctrine" by removing the duty to retreat before employing deadly force outside of the home while often adding the presumption that the use of deadly force was lawful. The first of a wave of codifications of "Stand Your Ground" occurred in Florida in 2005, at the behest of the National Rifle Association. Soon after, the NRA used the American Legislative Exchange Council to push "Stand Your Ground" laws nationwide. Currently at least 25 states have some version of the law on the books. While Lott would like his readers to believe that "Stand Your Ground" is a mainstay of American legal tradition, he fails to note that these laws are quite different from the original English common law of self-defense.
In further defense of the law, Lott then made broad claims about how self-defense in public places worked before the widespread enactment of "Stand Your Ground." He writes, "Earlier statutes affirmatively required potential victims to retreat as much as possible before using deadly force to protect themselves, sometimes putting their lives in jeopardy." Actually states that did require duty to retreat largely did so only under the narrow circumstance where the victim could do so safely. If it was unsafe to retreat from a conflict, a victim was fully entitled to use deadly force to protect him or herself from death or serious injury.
The American Law Institute's Model Penal Code (MPC), a highly influential treatise on criminal law, states this fact clearly. According to libertarian UCLA law professor Eugene Volokh's assessment of the MPC, "Even the MPC concludes that one loses the right to self-defense only when one could avoid the need for lethal self-defense with complete safety and without undue sacrifice of one's liberty. And the common-law rule in the duty-to-retreat states embodies this view as well." John Lott would have us believe that before "Stand Your Ground" victims of serious crimes had a duty to retreat from conflict at their own peril. But that is simply not true.
Lott's dubious legal analysis continues with the statement, "The supposedly infamous laws passed in Florida and elsewhere, in contrast, use a 'reasonable person' standard for determining when it is proper to defend oneself -- requiring that a reasonable person would believe that another individual intends to inflict serious bodily harm or death on them." Of course what Lott fails to mention is that the elimination of the duty to retreat often means that "Stand Your Ground" confrontations end with only one surviving witness to attest to the reasonableness of using deadly force: the shooter himself. As Zachary Weaver notes in a law review article on "Stand Your Ground," the problem is that "dead men don't talk." This very scenario played out in the killing of Trayvon Martin. Initially police were unable to arrest Zimmerman because they had to take him at his word regarding what happened prior to the shooting.
And if the case does go to trial, courts have interpreted the law in a way that stacks the deck in the defendants' favor. In Florida, for example, the state must prove beyond a reasonable doubt that the defendant did not act in self-defense, and must do so without the help of perhaps the only witness; the aforementioned "dead man." On the other hand the defendant need only offer his own version of the facts that make his use of deadly force reasonable.
Lott continues, "Ultimately, it is judges or jurors who determine what constitutes a reasonable fear under such a law, not the person who fires the gun." This is not necessarily true. For starters, law enforcement confusion about what constitutes justifiable force means that many shooters are not charged with a crime and never have to face a judge and jury. Even if an individual claiming immunity is prosecuted, legal mechanisms exist that can result in a dismissal of the case before there is an opportunity to air out all of the facts surrounding the shooting. In Florida, defendants claiming immunity under "Stand Your Ground" are entitled to a pre-trial hearing that could lead to the dismissal of the case. This hearing could occur before a single judge who decides any factual questions surrounding whether the use of force was unlawful - questions that are traditionally decided by a jury. Instead of using self-defense as a defense at trial, defendants can go free without ever facing a jury that would determine the reasonableness of their actions.
In an attempt to downplay the real world consequences of "Stand Your Ground," Lott then writes, "The media have also been busy painting a picture that an epidemic of justifiable homicides has erupted since these laws have passed." This suggestion that media hysteria is to blame is meritless. In Florida there were 43 cases of justifiable homicide in 2005. By 2009, the last year that complete figures were available, the number had risen to 105. The very data cited by Lott confirms this trend is mirrored nationwide. But while Lott criticizes the media for implying causality between "Stand Your Ground" laws and rise in justifiable homicides, at no point does he provide his own theory about what is really behind the uptick. All Lott has done is provide the reader with the pointless conclusion that more justifiable homicides could be tied to any conceivable variable (besides of course "Stand Your Ground" laws).
Lott then labels the "most important issue" in the "Stand Your Ground" debate to be the question, "Have these laws increased total deaths?" This claim is nothing more than a red herring. What is truly at issue is how homicides are treated by the criminal justice system. Based on a large number of controversial shootings tied to the law, critics of "Stand Your Ground" have rightly pointed out that the grave concern about this law is whether it provides vigilantes with a legal justification to kill.
John Lott's methodology is simple. Develop a conclusion, and then invent whatever legal or statistical justifications are needed to reach it. At this point, it is shocking that anyone outside of the National Rifle Association gives any credence to his claims.
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Joshua Dudley Greer (b. 1980 Hazleton, PA) received his BFA from the Maryland Institute College of Art in 2002 and his MFA, with distinction, from the University of Georgia in 2009. His photographs have appeared in publications such as The Collector's Guide to New Art Photography Volume 2, Flash Forward 2010, Le Monde, and Oxford American, where he was named one of the New Superstars of Southern Art in 2012. He has been awarded grants from the Maryland State Arts Council and Tennessee Arts Commission and has been featured online at sites such as NPR, Conscientious, Petapixel, Los Angeles Times, and Fototazo. His photographs have been shown in recent exhibitions at the Knoxville Museum of Art, West Virginia University, Catherine Edelman Gallery and the Ogden Museum of Southern Art. He is currently living in Johnson City, Tennessee where he is a visiting assistant professor of photography at East Tennessee State University.
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DOF increases as the sensor gets smaller, for any given lens of the same f/# if you're trying to take the same picture (same size, distance, and focal length).
Decreasing sensor size while keeping everything else constant is called "cropping".
Take a 2000x2000 pixel image. Load in photoshop. Decrease the sensor size by 2 on each axis. You now have a 1000x1000 pixel image with half the sensor size. Do you really think that will unblur pixels? Probably not.
I mean think about what you're saying: the depth of field is the range of depths that come to a focus at the focal plane. Its a purely geometric/optical effect that depends only on the range of angles hitting the focal plane. The range of angles hitting a focal plane depends only on the f/#. Nothing else. Thats literally why we care about f/#.


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An initiative on diversification of tradable products from protected areas is in the making
The Global Environment Facility (GEF) strategic vision is to help countries meet their sustainable development needs and achieve multiple environmental benefits through an integrated approach. GEF has approved funding to Zambia to support the Strengthening Management Effectiveness and Generating Multiple Environmental Benefits within and around Protected Areas in Zambia. The identified Protected Areas (PAs) are within and around the Kafue and West Lunga National Parks.
The situation analysis, conducted as part of the preparatory process for the development of the project, highlights the major threats affecting the potential of the PAs within and around the national parks in terms of biodiversity conservation, sustainable natural resources management, as well as income generation and employment creation are wildlife poaching, deforestation, unsustainable land uses, extensive fire and loss of large and intact ecosystem. Some of the underlying causes include open access exploitation of land, institutional and policy inadequacies, poverty, land degradation and climate change.
Government has realized the potential of PAs in terms of poverty reduction and job creation and is committed to unlock the potential through eco system management approach. It is in this regard that Government has requested GEF through UNDP to pilot this approach which will contribute to diversification of tradable products from PAs such as payment for ecosystem services and carbon trading. These new products will augment the traditional consumptive and non–consumptive tourism.
In the spirit of inclusive development, the Ministry of Lands, Natural Resources and Environmental Protection with the support of UNDP has been engaging the stakeholders on the ecosystem approach. The national stakeholders' consultative meeting was held 13 December 2012 to discuss the approach and endorse the initiative that will contribute to the unlocking of the potential of the PA. Chief Ntambu of North Western Pprovince who was among the participants said that " the integrated approach is the best for the natural resources because the communities regard all natural resources as one product". While, representatives from community based natural resources management forum urged the Government to consider to giving land title deeds to individuals or groups involved in management of natural resources. This will empower the communities to negotiate for sustainable partnerships with the private sector and share the benefits equitably. The effective stakeholder's engagement has contributed to sharpening the project focus of the project and expected outcomes including diversification in tradable products (carbon trading & payment of ecosystem services), establishment of community conservancies (with communities having tenure to land) and promoting sustainable alternative livelihoods. The project has a budget of $ 13.5m and will be implemented over a period of 5 years.


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Date killed: Nov. 21, 1973
Cause of Death Beaten to death
Suspect: None identified
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