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EXCLUSIVE DETAILS! Rob & Kristen Are Totally In Love — They Go On Their Fifth Date In Just One Week!
Isn't it exciting to see R-Patz and K-Stew be so open about their normally very private love life? The two were spotted laughing as they left their romantic sushi date with another couple in LA!
Robert Pattison and Kristen Stewart are hot n' heavy! The longtime couple have finally decided to show the world just how in love they really are, by going on FIVE dates in one week! Rob and Kristen went to the upscale Beverly Hills sushi restaurant Matsuhisa Oct. 10 where they dined on sushi and sake according to sources, and it seems they couldn't have had a better time. The two were all smiles and were even laughing as they piled into the back of a taxi with their friend.
Kristen apparently spent most of the dinner clutching her cigarettes a source told us and couldn't wait to light one when the couple exited the restaurant.
But, this is just one of many romantic dates between the two love birds. They were spotted at the Thompson Hotel in LA Oct. 8, where they were having a celebratory drink following Kristen's Jay Leno appearance. R-Patz and his lady love were together just a few days before that. They shared another date night on Oct. 5, at LA's famous Troubadour music venue and sources told HollywoodLife.com that the pair "blended in amazingly well" and "no one recognized them."
But wait, there are still two more dates we need to remind you about! Don't forget, Robert and Kristen cozied up at the upscale Italian restaurant Ago Oct.4, a favorite among Hollywood A-listers like George Clooney and Rihanna. But just two days before on Oct. 2, their romantic week kicked off at SoHo House in West Hollywood, where the two were spotted enjoying a private dinner with a close group of their friends.
In just two weeks the happy couple will be jetting off to film the last two installments in the Twilight series, Breaking Dawn, and we bet they will try to cram as many romantic dates in as possible!


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Underwear Optional is turning a writer's block moment into an opportunity to learn more about her fellow bloggers, which I think is a fantastic idea. She's verbalizing the very questions I've often wondered about my favorite blog authors, and I'm terribly excited to read the results.
The only omission I can see is that she fails to ask what kind of underwear you wear while blogging, but I won't hold it against an otherwise stellar execution. Head over to her entry and answer the questions in her comments section!
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How many times have you said, "Why, oh WHY did I ever start this project". Of course, it was in the most pathetic and whiny voice...
Here is the "before"... sorry I need a better picture with the old upholstery on it!
I have two other chairs painted and ready to be reupholstered but I need to get a compressor staple gun, as the electric one, actually two, I bought for the project are not powerful enough to sink the nails completely into the hardwood.
I am so pleased with how the paint color and the fabric work together.
To see a detailed tutorial of painting technique and colors click HERE
The fabric is called Swirl from Calico Corners. It was love at first sight!
The linen fabric is an odd color. Sorta light beige/gold with a very faint olive undertone. The nappy swirls match the color of my natural linen head chairs perfectly.
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Terrace Theater scheduled for demolition
In the Hook's April 15, 2004 cover story, "Recent passed: Will groovy structures be landmarks?", preservationist Christine Madrid French, president of the Recent Past Preservation Network, cited the Terrace Theater as one of the unlikely jewels of modernist architecture in Charlottesville. In fact, a striking image of the old theater on Hydraulic Road, which has been closed for almost seven years, appeared on the cover (left). In addition, the building served as one of the show pieces in the story about the importance of recognizing the historic and architectural value of the City's more modern buildings.
"This is a lot like a theater I'm trying to save in Berkeley," said French of the Terrace, "but the Berkeley place has been a porn theater, and nobody wants to save a porn theater."
Apparently, no one is interested in saving the Terrace either.
According to Neighborhood Development Services staff, R. S. Woodson Excavating Inc. has applied for a permit to demolish the theater, located at 1801 Hydraulic Road. Although the permit has not yet been approved, City Preservation and Design Planner Mary Joy Scala has already determined that the property is not designated historic, which leaves little doubt the theater will see the wrecking ball sometime soon.
The theater stands in the way of the proposed Hillsdale Connector.
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The walls are concave inside the lobby, where a large concession stand occupied the middle ground.
Some of the first-run movies I recall seeing there in
The walls are concave with white tiles inside the lobby, where a large concession stand occupied the middle ground.
Some of the first-run movies I recall seeing there long ago include The Road Warrior (1981), Moonraker (1979) and, during a wild mindnight show, George Romero's zombie materpiece, Dawn of the Dead (1978). I could hardly hear the movie; there were so many beer bottles and cans rolling down the theater under the seats.
Every couple of months, you could catch a midnight screening of The Song Remains the Same (1976) and catch a contact high off the sweet, pungent air inside the auditorium.
During the 1970s, the Terrace management used to advertise "Businessman's Luncheon" screenings in -- yep -- The Daily Progress. As a teenager I remember seeing those advertisements for midday showings of peculiar film titles like Ilsa: She Wolf of the SS and A Clockwork Orange. At the time, across Hydraulic Road where a Kroger's grocery now stands, there was a drive-in theater. I believe it was called the Ridge. As drive-ins began to die out with the advent of VCRs and movie rentals (and the fact that the real estate was more valuable than the underlying worth of the business), the Ridge got in the habit of screening porn.
It was quite a surprise to be driving east on Hydraulic with a date, only to glance to the right and see giant genitalia undulating in the darkness.
That little experiment with naughty cinema didn't last long -- I vaguley recall the city elders taking up an ordinance to put a stop to such mischief, and the drive-in closed soon after.
On a semi-related note, there may be a few Hook readers who recall seeing Boston (!) at U-Hall in 1978. General admission was $7.50.
Ah, but that's enough.
I hate to see a "landmark" go, but getting better road networks will probably be worth it. This place is getting out of hand --- I feel a sense of dread every time I get into my car and know I'll have to get on 29.


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Conner, Zolnierczyk Re-Assigned to Wilkes-Barre/Scrantonby Staff Writer / Pittsburgh Penguins
The Pittsburgh Penguins have re-assigned forwards Chris Conner and Harry Zolnierczyk to Wilkes-Barre/Scranton of the American Hockey League (AHL), it was announced today by executive vice president and general manager Ray Shero.
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Zolnierczyk played in three games with Pittsburgh, while Conner appeared in two contests. They are tied for second on WBS with three goals each in three games played this season.


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Last month we were thrilled to report that Dania Ramirez had finally welcomed her twins!
Now, the Devious Maids star, who gave birth on December 17, has revealed the names of her babies.
According to People, Ramirez named her fraternal twins Gaia Jissel Ramirez Land and John Aether Ramirez Land. "Dania's so in love with them," her rep told People.
In addition, People reports that baby girl Gaia Jissel weighed in at 4 lbs., 12 oz. and was 17 inches long, and her son John Aether came in at 4 lbs., 9 oz. measuring 18 inches long.
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Biology faces a basic paradox - life requires DNA to function, yet DNA evolved after life emerged. Now a study of modern bacteria has revealed what DNA's progenitor might be.
Until now, RNA was mostly dismissed as DNA's lackey, a messenger and intermediary between DNA's complex instruction manual and the creation of life's essential proteins. But Yale researchers discovered that the pathogenic stomach bacterium Clostridium difficile possesses more complex RNA structures that are able to detect molecules and control the expression of certain genes - abilities previously thought to be the sole domain of DNA and proteins.
These structures, known as riboswitches, form a combo of two small and two large RNA molecules that together regulate the function of ribozyme, a structure that biologists once thought existed only to reproduce itself. However, in the stomach bacterium, this ribozyme helps influence gene expression, apparently to help the bacterium better affect human cells. Although this is a relatively limited function, it's a good indication that more ancient RNA structures could have done many of the jobs that are now exclusively carried out by DNA, allowing biologists to more easily envision life before DNA.
Yale biologist Ron Breaker explains how this changes our view of RNA:
"What these cells are doing is using ancient RNA technology to control modern gene expression. They were though to be molecular parasites, but it is clear they are being harnessed by cells to do some good for the organism. A lot of sophisticated RNA gadgetry has gone extinct but this study shows that RNA has more of the power needed to carry out complex biochemistry. It makes the spontaneous emergence of life on earth much more palatable."
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It is nothing short of amazing how the Super Bowl has evolved over the years. It has gone from the novel idea of a title game between the original NFC against the upstart AFC (with plenty of empty seats at that first game) to the most-watched event on television and a de facto national holiday some 45 years later.
I watched my first Super Bowl with my dad when I was five years old. I remember several things about that day. It was the first time I saw the team I would root for the rest of my life, the Dallas Cowboys. It was also the first time I cooked my own steak on a grill (under close supervision, of course). Most important, it was the first of more than 30 Super Bowls I would watch with my father. It was a tradition that both of us took seriously. Even when I relocated across the country for work and there were years when I could not make it home for Christmas, I always found a way to come home to watch the big game with my dad. This culminated a few years ago when our hometown Arizona Cardinals came within a minute of pulling off one of the great upsets in Super Bowl history just a few months before my father passed away.
I have tried to carry on the tradition since then. Every year I host a party for friends and put out a great spread. This year bratwurst and sauerkraut will be going in one crockpot, and slow-cooked barbecued pork ribs in the other, with jalapeno cornbread warming in the oven. The Super Bowl is much more than a game. It is a time to gather with friends and family and celebrate an American tradition.
It also is about two other American traditions: food and advertising. We stuff ourselves to the gills and watch iconic brands spend more than $3 million a spot to roll out their very best ad work, kicking off a national advertising competition of its own -- a game within the game. Here are two picks inspired by those two traditions.
Following are four reasons Nathan's Famous (NATH) is a long-term bargain at just under $42 a share:
● I equate Nathan's and its hot dogs more with my beloved New York Yankees than I do with football, but that is changing as the company gains wider distribution for its products. It recently cut a deal with Smithfield Foods (SFD) that will greatly expand Nathan's distribution in early 2014.
● For a company with less than $200 million in market capitalization, Nathan's has huge brand recognition, especially in the Northeast. It's very likely the company will eventually become a buyout candidate for a larger player in the space.
● As of the September quarter, the company had a solid balance sheet with almost 15% of its market capitalization in net cash. It has also reduced share count from more than 6 million shares to a little more than 4 million shares over the last few years.
● For the nine months through the December quarter, non-GAAP earnings rose 30% year over year, while sales climbed 9%. The company also owns and operates five of its 304 restaurants (299 are franchised) as of September, so there is plenty of growth opportunity in that space as well.
Here are four reasons CBS (CBS) is a good value at $42 a share:
● The TV network is broadcasting this year's Super Bowl. All ad spots are sold, with the average 30-second spot garnering an incredible $3.8 million.
● CBS recently announced it is spinning off its outdoor billboard business as a $6 billion real estate investment trust, which is a solid catalyst for unlocking shareholder value for this piece of the business. It also should allow the rest of CBS to get a higher market multiple.
● The spinoff will reduce CBS's advertising revenue to 50% of overall sales from the prior 60%. The company is becoming more of a content provider. That is where the action is, given rising demand for content from new players, such as Netflix (NFLX).
● CBS goes for a reasonable 14x forward earnings, even after the recent share run-up. Management recently upped its dividend by 12%, and it has approximately $3 billion left on a stock repurchase program, which should shrink the share float by around 10% at current prices.


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Outraged New Yorkers, government bring wrath of the law down on father
Kurt Nimmo
May 10, 2013
The hysterical response of New Yorkers to anything remotely resembling a firearm resulted in a man's arrest earlier this week.
Jack Pawlowski was playing with his son when he was confronted by people outraged by his toy gun.
"At first I thought I was hallucinating," Maria Smilios of Astoria told CBS News. "He pulled out this gun… The next thing, he took his son, who is 3, and showed him how to use it, and then the family took turns shooting the gun. He gave it to his daughter, who took off on the bicycle and started racing around the park with the gun pointing this way and just started pointing it at the kids," a stunned Smilios said.
"I don't tend to take things lying down, so I went past the parents, and so I walked straight over and I confronted him," said Leni Calas. "I mean, he's brandishing a firearm and I don't care if that firearm is plastic. That's unacceptable."
Following the Department of Homeland Security's "see something, say something" rule, Calas immediately called the cops. She also called her local city councilman and posted a cell phone photo of Pawlowski on her website in an attempt to publicly humiliate him for the crime of playing with a toy gun.
Pawlowski was led off in handcuffs as the news media gathered around to record his arrest. He was charged with reckless endangerment, endangering the welfare of a minor, resisting arrest, and possession of an illegal BB gun.
Remarkably, BB guns are outlawed in New York City, Washington, D.C., Chicago, San Francisco, and other parts of the country.
"This is really a way to educate people," declared councilman Peter Vallone Jr., a Democrat. "You cannot run around with a realistic looking gun. It's against the law, and you could get arrested and actually go to jail."
The incident reveals the effectiveness of decades of non-stop anti-gun propaganda. New York's mayor, Michael Bloomberg, is one of America's leading enemies of the Second Amendment. New York has the most restrictive gun laws in the nation.
Earlier this year, the government passed the NY SAFE Act, which will, of course, make millions of New Yorkers less safe. Bloomberg and officialdom have managed to further endanger New Yorkers as the crime rate in the city has spiked for the first time in 20 years.
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STEMinine – A Supportive Community for Women and Femmes in STEM
Jessica Droujko, McGill BEng 2015, retells the story of how she sat next to a rocket scientist on a plane, and how he convinced her that she too can be a rocket scientist. Now, years after that fateful encounter, Jessica is completing her Master's degree in Mechanical Engineering at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, more commonly known as ETH Zurich. As a woman engineer, Jessica saw a lack of exposure of women and femmes in STEM fields (i.e. science, technology, engineering, and mathematics), which in turn indirectly discourage young girls from pursuing those fields. Jessica wants high school and university students to be able to ask whatever they want and to find support in their search. Her project, STEMinine, does aims to do exactly that — showcases women and femmes in STEM. (more…)


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Ginger Pear Pie
My mother, who collected many recipes over the years, made this delicious pie often. It's wonderful served warm with a scoop of ice cream on top.
Total TimePrep: 20 min. Bake: 20 min.
Makes6 servings
- 3 tablespoons cornstarch
- 1/4 teaspoon ground ginger
- 1/2 cup water
- 1/2 cup dark corn syrup
- 1 teaspoon lemon juice
- 1/8 teaspoon grated lemon zest
- 4 large pears, peeled and thinly sliced
- 1 tablespoon butter
- 1 unbaked pastry shell (9 inches)
- 1/2 cup all-purpose flour
- 1/4 cup packed brown sugar
- 1/8 teaspoon ground ginger
- 1/4 cup cold butter, cubed
- 1/4 cup chopped pecans
- In a large saucepan, combine the cornstarch and ginger. Stir in the water, corn syrup, lemon juice and zest until smooth. Gently stir in pears. Bring to a boil over medium heat; cook and stir for 1 minute or until thickened. Remove from the heat; add butter. Pour into pastry shell.
- For topping, combine the flour, brown sugar and ginger in a small bowl; cut in butter until crumbly. Stir in pecans. Sprinkle over pears. Bake at 425° for 20-25 minutes or until filling is bubbly and topping is browned. Cool on a wire rack.


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As prewar antisemitism intensified, Hessy's family fled from Germany to Paris, France. France fell to the German army in June 1940. Hessy's family was smuggled into the "zone libre" (free zone) in southern France. The family received a US visa in 1941, but was unable to leave before the visa expired and could not obtain an extension. In 1942, the family obtained visas to enter Cuba, where they settled before immigrating to the United States in 1949.
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USC Outlasts Boyd's Near Triple-Double Friday
*Game Notes: Brittany Boyd moves to No. 21 on the California all-time scoring list with 1,044 career points ... Boyd was one assist shy of posting the second triple-double in California WBB history (Eliza Sokolowska - Feb. 9, 1995 - 13 points, 15 assists, 10 steals) ... Gennifer Brandon had season highs in points and rebounds at 11 each to record her 35th career double-double ... Afure Jemerigbe matched her career high with 17 points*
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BERKELEY - Brittany Boyd had one of the best floor games in the Pac-12 this season Friday night, but all she could focus on afterward was her six turnovers.
"I turned the ball over a lot. I have to take care of the ball," Boyd said after the No. 19 Cal women's basketball team fell to USC 77-70 at Haas Pavilion.
Boyd may have been a tad hard on herself. She had 17 points, tied a career-high with 13 rebounds and dished out nine assists, falling just short of a triple-double in a game in which the Bears seemed to have in control until the final minutes.
Cal led by as many as 11 in the first half and was still in front with just over five minutes left. But the Bears went cold down the stretch and couldn't hold on.
"There's no doubt people in our locker room are really disappointed and we know we controlled most of the game," Cal coach Lindsay Gottlieb said. "They made more big plays when they needed to at the end. We have to take this loss and get better from it. That's our only choice."
Truth be told, the Bears (13-5, 5-2 Pac-12) did a lot of good things against one of the upstart programs both in the conference and nationally. It started with Boyd, who almost had Cal's first triple-double since Eliza Sokolowska accomplished the feat in 1995. Jemerigbe displayed a strong midrange game while Gennifer Brandon was active off the bench with 11 points and 11 rebounds.
Reshanda Gray added 13 points and eight rebounds.
"This was a game we needed to win collectively," Gottlieb said. "I saw a lot of good things tonight. We just need to manage the game better down the stretch."
The Bears outrebounded the Trojans (14-6, 7-1) 45-37 but were held to just 25 percent floor shooting in the second half. USC went 8-fo17 from 3-point range while Cal was 1-for-11.
USC guard Ariya Crook, who always seems to have her best games in Berkeley, poured in a career-high 34 points and went 5-for-10 from beyond the arc.
"First I want to credit USC," Gottlieb said. "This is what we want in the Pac-12. We want a deep and competitive conference, and I think we do have a lot of good teams. USC can compete with anyone on a national level."
Boyd had eight points, seven assists and six rebounds in the first half, when the Bears picked apart USC's zone and shot 47 percent from the floor. Cal still led 64-58 after a layup by Gray with 6:42 remaining in the game.
After leading 66-61 with 5:39 left, the Bears watched the Trojans score 11 unanswered points to lead 72-66 with 25 seconds remaining. Cal whittled the deficit to 73-70 after Boyd made one of two free throws with 14 ticks left, but USC made its free throws down the stretch to close things out.
Cal will return to the court Sunday when it hosts UCLA at 6 p.m. at Haas Pavilion. The game will air on the Pac-12 Networks.


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It is not cowardice that to attack a target in a manner for which the target doesn't have much chance to respond effectively. That is why groups like SWAT wear full body armor, carry what they expect to be superior fire power, come with vastly superior numbers, and use tactics such as surprise, speed, violence of action, and even the cover of darkness to conduct their operations. There is a very good reason why a SWAT team isn't a single person in spandex bike shorts and a neon shirt armed with a warrant, badge, and a gun.
Risk reduction is a strategy applied successfully across human cultures and the animal kingdom. There is a very good reason top tier carnivores don't primarily prey on each other. The risk is too high. Risk can be reduced by methods such as using superior numbers, better armor, picking weaker targets, using surprise, speed, violence of action, and sometimes using the cover of darkness.
We can call the bad guys cowards because we don't like it that their tactics do work with an amount of success that causes us discomfort to consider, but the fact remains that the tactics and strategies are ones that work, that we used ourselves, and that are designed to reduce risk such that even if you aren't successful, then at least chance of injury is reduced.
"If you look through your scope and see your shoe, aim higher." -- said to me by my 11 year old daughter before going out for hogs 8/13/2011
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Average Americans are far more likely to be killed by our vices, our cars, or our diets than be murdered.
I carry a gun. Depending on my outfit sometimes I even carry a gun that might even be considered "high capacity", but I don't want to live my life worried about and preparing for being attacked by a knife wielding mob. .
I absolutely agree that, as a rule, more rounds at your disposal is better than fewer, but talking about what might have happened if things had been different is just conjecture. What if the mobbers had gotten involved with sports instead of gang violence? What if all pubs had security doors? What if everyone at the pub had brought their doberman to watch the game? What if guns were legal in England, and as popular as they are here, then the victim was one of the 90% who don't carry anyway?
More than anything, this story is proof that sometimes really bad stuff happens for no reason.
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Enough [too much] jabbering at each other.
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Senate passes state budget, increasing aid for LI schools
ALBANY - New York's senate approved an approximately $136 billion budget that raises the minimum wage to $9 over three years and offers a $350 rebate to families with children, completing the votes a little over two hours before dawn on Wednesday.
The Assembly plans to take a pass at the budget on Thursday. This will be the third time in a row the state will have met its April 1 deadline.
The new accord will increase school aid by about $1 billion, crack down on abuse of a property tax program, and ensure that downstate gas stations have back-up generators if there are power outages.
Sen. co-leader Dean Skelos (R-Rockville Centre) called the new budget "pro-jobs and pro-family." He added: "I think we have achieved a budget that is fiscally responsible."
There were complaints, however.
Sen. Kevin S. Parker (D-Brooklyn) said: "The governor bullies us," faulting many aspects of the budget, from the failure to decriminalize the possession of small amounts of marijuana to a so-called pension smoothing plan to help localities afford contributions.
Parker is no stranger to confrontations. In 2010, for example, he was found guilty of misdemeanor charges that resulted from a scuffle with a photographer.
Sen. Jose Peralta (D-Queens) bashed a provision that gives employers a tax credit for hiring minimum wage workers who are students, aged 16 to 19 years old, saying this created an incentive to discharge them once then turn 20. "We're paying Walmart to fire people," he said.
Approximately ten senators criticized this and other aspects of the new budget as "kumquats," picking up on one senator's reference to the budget as a fruit basket that contained this unlikeable component as well as likeable items, such as peanut brittle.
Long Island school districts will receive a collective $121 million increase in school aid -- more than 5 percent on average -- under the new budget, Senate co-leader Dean Skelos (R-Rockville Centre) said Tuesday.
Skelos, the legislature's top Republican, said lawmakers added $58 million in operating aid for Long Island schools above what Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo proposed in January. They also blocked a Cuomo proposal to reduce a category of school funding called "high tax aid." Island schools could have lost more than $40 million, more than any other region in the state.
Together, the additions brought the Island's "share" of school aid to 12.96 percent, Skelos said, matching what it traditionally receives.
The Island will also receive hikes in state aid for bus service and highway aid.
"So it's a win for Long Island," Skelos declared.
Late Tuesday night, the Senate approved the first budget bill.
The Senate began passing parts of the budget this week, aiming to finish sometime in the wee hours of Wednesday morning.
The Assembly planned to vote on budget bills beginning Thursday, after returning from the Passover holiday.
Overall, the 2013-14 spending plan would increase by less than 2 percent, to about $136 billion. The total increases to $142.6 billion when federal aid for superstorm Sandy is included.
Budget documents published Tuesday show the state will spend an estimated $28 million to develop a new statewide gun-permit database as part of a new gun-control law.
The state will create a central database to hold records currently maintained at the county level.
Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver (D-Manhattan) called it a "powerful tool that will aid in enforcement" of the gun law, passed following the Newtown, Conn., school massacre. The law tightened the state's ban on military-style weapons.
The budget also includes a minimum-wage hike and a generous tax credit to businesses that pay the new minimum wage. The wage is set to go from its current $7.25 per hour to $9 by the end of 2015. Tax credits could cover $1.35 of the $1.75 hike that employers would pay.
Republicans fought for the tax credit, saying without it businesses might lay off low-wage workers rather than face higher payroll. But the Fiscal Policy Institute, a labor-backed think tank, called the credit "ill-conceived and poorly drafted" and said taxpayers will end up subsidizing much of the minimum-wage hike.
Blocking the cut to "high tax aid" was a top priority for the Island delegation, said Sen. John Flanagan (R-East Northport).
"All the schools I talked to, their main concern was restoring high tax aid," said Flanagan, chairman of the Senate Education Committee.
The budget includes a 21 percent increase in highway funds for county and local governments on Long Island. It provides a $5 million, or 9 percent, increase in state aid for the NICE Nassau bus service, and $2 million, or 9 percent, more for Suffolk County Transit.
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FREE to Adventist Schools: Enclyclopedia Britannica
TDEC in cooperation with union directors and conference superintendents have purchased a site license to Encyclopedia Britannica online for all Adventist schools. The preview site can be accessed now, with the login of adventist and the password of nadsa1. The long term login name will be the schools org ID (same one as cognitive genesis) and then the password of nadsa1. The website is school.eb.com. Contact your TDEC representative or conference office for further details.
FREE to Adventist Schools: Visual Thesaurus
NAD Office of Education has found a wonderful tool for your classroom. Students see a visual map of a word, with all of the related words and the grammar roots of the word. Visit visualthesaurus.com, use the abbreviation of your union (cuc), then @adventisteducation.org (email@example.com), password NADSDA1 (all caps). This is free for all teachers and students.
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The Office of Education is making available to Columbia Union educators Powerpoint presentations that have been used in our field for presentations to union and local conferences boards of education, principals councils, curriculum committees, academy boards and constituency meetings. Topics will be wide-ranging and focused on both public and private/Adventist education. It is hoped that these resources will be used as resources by educators in their own presentations to groups to which they are responsible.
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A Journey to Excellence through Literacy—Having trouble getting started? Not sure what questions to ask? Start here! Columbia Union's own Barb Plubell answers a lot of the "what's, why's, and how to's" to get you off to a good start. **Save file to computer first, then open in Powerpoint to unzip.**
Abbreviated SWOT Analysis: Process—Several years ago, the C.U.O.E. responded to a request by Tidewater Adventist Academy to assist in launching a visioning process. Among the precursors to visioning was a board/faculty SWOT analysis conducted in a Sunday morning session. This presentation provided a visual introduction to and overview of an abbreviated SWOT. T.A.A., shortly after the presentation, used the information gained in a full-day of work to begin longer-term planning.
Building Effective Teams: Principles and Practices—Several years ago, a conference superintendent and academy principal asked if I could help to rebuild a staff that had been fractured and dysfunctional. I developed this presentation (presented over one and one-half days of pre-session) to assist that academy (unnamed) and in building effective administrative/faculty teams. Variations have been used with other schools and church groups. No school can long succeed when issues of trust and confidence erode the essential building blocks to effective teaming on an academy campus. Among the items addressed are (1) Jesus as a Team Leader, (2) Team Development: Types (3) from Hierarchy to Teaming, (4) the Team Performance Curve, (5) Team Skills Development, (6) Team Skills Requirements, (7) Conditions for Successful Teams (8) Constructive Feedback, (9) Synergy, (10) Team Member Types, (11) Team "Start-Up" Essentials, (12) Stages of Team Growth, (13) the Career Cycle, and (14) the Social Interaction Model of Change.
CUBOE Report – November 2011—The Columbia Union Conference Board of Education received the following report at its regularly scheduled meeting of November 15, 2011. Included in the report are details regarding significant happenings in our union field, re: education, and several references to current research finding in select topics in education.
Dr. Donovan Ross Presents Servant Leadership Findings—Dr. Donovan Ross presented the conclusions and recommendations of his doctoral research (AU) entitled, "Perceptions of the Evidence of a Servant Leadership Culture in the P-12 School System of the North American Division of Seventh-day Adventists." Dr. Ross, who is a member of the CU Curriculum Committee and the Best Practices Commission, provided information that the CUOE feels might be helpful for CU educators to know and access. (Dr. Ross is a graduate of Andrews University and currently an administrator/teacher at Spring Valley Academy) **Save file to computer first, then open in Powerpoint to unzip.**
Effective School Boards (complement to the new board manual)—This PowerPoint presentation is provided for those superintendents, principals, and school board chairs that wish to use it as a continuing education presentation to school board members. While not substantially reflecting specific content of the new school board manual, this presentation complements it with other well-established principles of effective governance. If used together with the new 2008 school board manual (Look under Resources on this web-site), school board members should gain a broader understanding of their roles and responsibilities and those of the board as a whole.
Rehabilitation Plans for Marginal Teachers: Developing and Implementing Plans and Strategies—This presentation has been provided to groups of superintendents, elementary and academy principals in seminar form for a variety of conferences in several unions. Helping young teachers and/or those who find classroom instruction highly challenging is an important responsibility of superintendents and site-based administrators. Among the items addressed are (1) How Teacher Achievement Affects Student Achievement, (2) Rehabilitation Planning (3) What the Principal/Teacher Must Bring to the Process, (4) the Team Performance Curve, (5) Change: Why it is Resisted by Teachers, (6) When RP's Should be Considered, (7) Areas of Focus for RP's (8) Six Areas of the RP: a) Teacher as a Person, b) Classroom Management and Organization, c) Implementing Instruction, d) Organizing and Orienting for Instruction, e) Monitoring Student Progress and Potential, f) Professionalism, and (9) When to "De-hire."
State of the Union: Report to CUBOE (Fall 2009)—In 36 slides, the Columbia Union Office of Education presented a variety of items to the members of the K-16 Board of Education. Among the items: (1) 5-year enrollment trends for PreK-Gr. 8 amd Grs. 9-12; (2) 2008/9 - 2009/10 Opening Enrollment Comparisons, re: elementary, senior academy, and total Pre-k-Gr. 12 enrollment data; (3) Significant happenings in the Columbia Union K-12 Education arena: (4) Significant happenings at Washington Adventist University and Kettering College of Medical Arts; (5) New personnel, re: K-12 including new academy principals, superintendents, and associate superintendents; and (6) Items of interest in education , K-16 public and private. Check it out!
State of the Union: Education (Spring 2010)—Spring meetings of the K-16 Columbia Union Board of Education normally provide the CUOE the opportunity to briefly update CUBOE members of bulleted information, re: personnel changes, enrollment patterns, program planning, etc. This PowerPoint presentation provides a synopsis of the report rendered to the board members at the most recent meeting of the CUBOE. (March 16, 2010)
Think Like Jesus: Make the Right Decision Every Time (George Barna)—This presentation, from Barna's landmark study, was provided to a select group of educational leaders commissioned to work on remodeling/restructuring schools and exploring new school models. Slides include and explore matters, re: Developing a World-View; Born-Again Christians; "How Did Jesus Think Like Jesus;" How are We to Think Like Jesus; The Costs & Benefits of Thinking Like Jesus, etc. Presentation notes are also provided for some slides.
Valuegenesis 2: A Study of Two Generations—This presentation was made to the educators of Allegheny East Conference at their teachers convention in 2004. The information included in the presentation is from the work of La Sierra University/Dr. Bailey Gillespie, re: education and the integration of faith and learning, and George Barna. Slides include: EGW Quotes, Reasons to Rejoice, Adventist Standards, At-Risk Behaviors, Attitudes towards Families, What Influences our Youth (Barna), Attitudes towards Schools, etc.
Virtues in Adventist Education: Aspirations for the 21st Century (Creating the Climate in Adventist Schools)—This presentation has been used for half-day seminars to principals and teachers in the Columbia Union and elsewhere. The foundational principle of spirituality drives the seminar and is highlighted as essential to every SDA school. Among the items addressed are (1) basic strategies, (2) "teachable moments," (3) emotional intelligence, (4) the "language" of virtues, (5) spirituality, (6) the "spiritual" dimensions of virtues, (7) seven basic principles of education, (8) "Heart Start," and (9) making choices. Adventist schools must remain distinctively spiritual, true to their calling to prepare our young people for the Lord's return and service to their fellow man.


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ROCHESTER — Curt Connelly apologized for his facial stubble, but given the crowd he was speaking to Saturday night he didn't need to. Those at the 23rd Rochester Sports Hall of Fame ceremony know all about sports superstitions.
Connelly's daughter Isabella was playing Saturday in an AAU basketball state championship and he is one of the coaches.
"I'm superstitious, so I didn't shave and won't shave until the tournament's over," he said, drawing appreciative laughs and applause.
Connelly was one of six inductees into the Rochester Sports Hall of Fame, along with fellow athletes Kelly Donohue, Kristen Zeimetz and Michael Flynn, and contributors Dave Keller and Dan Wensley.
Also honored was Profile Bank as the recipient of the Roy Allain Award. The HOF also recognized two Rochester state championship teams: the undefeated 1955 Holy Rosary High school Class C state champion boys basketball team and Spaulding's 1965 Division II state champion football team.
Connelly was a three-sport star at Spaulding High School, making his mark in baseball as a center fielder, a position he later played on scholarship for the University of New Hampshire baseball team.
Connelly was also one of three former Spaulding athletes being honored who played at UNH. Donohue starred at Spaulding in three sports and played women's basketball at UNH, while Zeimetz, Rochester's most decorated swimmer, starred for the Wildcats as well.
Keller was connected to the Spaulding football program for 43 years, including 39 as a coach — 30 under the legendary Hugo Bolin. Wensley, a local attorney, coached youth baseball and football in Rochester for more than 35 years.
Although Connelly's levity about his facial hair lightened up the crowd, he quickly turned to the importance of family, a theme that connected many of the inductees.
He mentioned his brothers, his in-laws, his wife and daughters, and lastly his parents, who followed him to almost every game he played at UNH.
"They didn't miss anything," Connelly said. "It's great when you can share a tough loss, a great win. Unbelievable parents. I thank you. I love you both very, very much."
Donohue, who scored a school-record 78 goals in three years on the Spaulding girls' soccer team and scored more than 1,000 points in the same time playing basketball, talked of family, specifically her 2-year-old son, Colin, and her current job coaching women's college basketball in Pennsylvania.
"He kept me grounded," Donohue said. "Last year my team struggled. We lost a lot of games — 5 and 21 to be exact. I talked to him about losing because he was pretty much the only one who could listen. He had no choice. One day he looked at me and said, 'Mommy lose games.' My answer to him was 'Yes Colin, sometimes you win and sometimes you lose. But as long as you try with character, mommy will always love you.'"
Flynn thanked family as well, but touched on a defining moment in his young golf career 20 years ago playing in the United States Amateur at Sawgrass Country Club in Ponte Vedra Beach, Fla. He had just graduated from Texas Christian University and was playing very well. A total of 64 golfers qualify for this tournament and Flynn was in, winning his first match, 3 and 2, to advance to the round of 32.
"This particular match had quite a bit of significance in my life, because there's no telling with this individual who I played if I would have beat him what would have happened," recalled Flynn.
Flynn's opponent birdied the first four holes and he was down four strokes after four holes. Flynn was still playing well and they continued on and he was at even par at the 13th hole, but he lost 6 and 5.
"So we shake hands and move on," Flynn said. "That was a pivotal part because if I could have done better or won, there's no telling where I would be. It so happens that individual was Tiger Woods."
Zeimetz comes from a family of swimmers, but she was the first one in a legacy that is in year No. 23 and counting. She swam at Spaulding, as did her brothers Justin and Eric and her sister Emily, who is the last of four Zeimetz children to swim in college. She is currently attending and swimming at the University of New England.
Kristen swam at UNH, the first Zeimetz to swim in college, and her two brothers followed at UMass-Amherst.
But swimming didn't just jump out her. She was first a gymnast, took ballet and tap dancing (for a day) and then considered pee wee cheerleading. Then came swimming and Zeimetz was told she had what it takes be a great swimmer — large hands and large feet.
"Even though at 10 that's not something you want to hear," she said.
She went on to become a multi-state champ at Spaulding and earned a scholarship to UNH, where she was a record-setting standout for the Wildcats.
Keller logged some serious coaching time, a lot of it behind the scenes as an assistant. But he touched many players and Saturday he read a note from one: "Coach, you believed in me when I didn't believe in myself. You pushed me and I didn't know why. Now as a man it has made me better at everything I do today. Thank you so much."
Wensley never planned to get into coaching, but he did soon after his son, Aaron — then 8 — after returning from a trip to Cape Cod, said he would never be shown up again, after being shown up by his cousin, a girl, playing baseball.
Wensley signed up to coach at what was then Rochester Eastside Little League.
"I'm eternally grateful because it got me into 35 years of my life where I didn't play golf, I didn't play tennis," he said. "I coached sports. I worked with kids. Looking at me, it kept me young."


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I'll be at this one (as well as several other mods) so you guys better behave!!
And since the results were so good with a 9-0 victory last time around, I'd feel negligent if I didn't declare my love for Dianna Agron at least once!
I would seriously empty my savings to be this guy. Holy crap!
Dianna Agron auctions off a kiss at the #glaadawards - YouTube
Now that that's out of the way... Let's win this thing and move onto the NLCS!!


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New review for Chicken:
"You're young, hot and desperate—then along comes a sweet-talking guy named Sunny, "all mint julep Old School Charm School charm," who wants to sweep you into his, uh, employment agency. It's a story as old as civilization, but rarely before has a straight young man come forth to bare the time he spent cruising the finest boudoirs of Los Angeles. David Henry Sterry, in prose that sizzles with verbal pyrotechnics, answers the call of a Lost Angel Siren and takes us on an anthropological tour that includes "a postmodern June Cleaver," a Deadhead, a judge and a friendly cast of junkies and cross-dressers. Sterry's party-til-forever scenes thwump to a jazz beat, but there's always a wail of blues in the background. It's a double-life story, at heart a raw tale of the bullying father, the neglectful mother and the broken-up home that led him to the streets when he was a college freshman who looked, on the surface like a middle class kid. At the same time Sterry is candid about the lure of his other life; the addictive appeal of getting paid to inflict pleasure, the cheap euphoria that never fully masks the fear that you've become what you're pretending to be." – Jan Alexander
Chicken: Self-Portrait of a Young Man for Rent, Ten Year Anniversary Edition
"Ten years ago, this debut memoir from Sterry burst upon the literary scene with an energy and inventiveness that captured his little-known subject matter—teenage life in Los Angeles as a rent boy working for a benevolent pimp named Sunny whose "rich, generous, horny friends," Sterry explains, "pay good money to party with a boy like me." Now back in print, Sterry's memoir still crackles with its unsparingly honest approach: "I catch myself in the mirror, seventeen-year-old hardbody belly, pitprop legs, zero body fat, and huge hands. I'm seduced by the glitter of my own flesh." Scenes from Sterry's early dysfunctional family life not only add pathos to this tale of fall and resurrection but assure readers that he never sees himself as better than his clients, such as Dot, the wealthy 82-year-old, whose only desire is to experience cunnilingus for the first time—a desire that Sterry readily fulfills. "Even though I have no home and no family except for a bunch of prostitutes and a pimp, even though I have no future… at least I'm good at this." (Oct.) – Publisher's Weekly
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"I walk all the way up Hollywood Boulevard to Grauman's Chinese Theatre: past tourists snapping shots; wannabe starlets sparkling by in miniskirts with head shots in their hands and moondust in their eyes; rowdy cowboys drinking with drunken Indians; black businessmen bustling by briskly in crisp suits; ladies who do not lunch with nylons rolled up below the knee pushing shopping carts full of everything they own; Mustangs rubbing up against muscular Mercedes and Hell's Angels hogs. It's a sick twisted Wonderland, and I'm Alice."
This is the chronicle of a young man walking the razor-sharp line between painful innocence and the allure of the abyss. David Sterry was a wide-eyed son of 1970s suburbia, but within a week of enrolling at Immaculate Heart College, he was lured into the dark underbelly of the Hollywood flesh trade. Chicken has become a coming-of-age classic, and has been translated into ten languages. This ten-year anniversary edition has shocking new material.
"Sterry writes with comic brio … [he] honed a vibrant outrageous writing style and turned out this studiously wild souvenir of a checkered past." – Janet Maslin, The New York Times
"This is a stunning book. Sterry's prose fizzes like a firework. Every page crackles… A very easy, exciting book to read – as laconic as Dashiell Hammett, as viscerally hallucinogenic as Hunter S Thompson. Sex, violence, drugs, love, hate, and great writing all within a single wrapper. What more could you possibly ask for? -Maurince Newman, Irish Times
"A beautiful book… a real work of literature." – Vanessa Feltz, BBC
"Insightful and funny… captures Hollywood beautifully" – Larry Mantle, Air Talk, NPR
"Jawdropping… A carefully crafted piece of work…" -Benedicte Page, Book News, UK
"A 1-night read. Should be mandatory reading for parents and kids." -Bert Lee, Talk of the Town
"Alternately sexy and terrifying, hysterical and weird, David Henry Sterry's Chicken is a hot walk on the wild side of Hollywood's fleshy underbelly. With lush prose and a flawless ear for the rhythms of the street, Sterry lays out a life lived on the edge in a coming-of-age classic that's colorful, riveting, and strangely beautiful. David Henry Sterry is the real thing." –Jerry Stahl, author of Permanent Midnight
"Compulsively readable, visceral, and very funny. The author, a winningly honest companion, has taken us right into his head, moment-by-moment: rarely has the mentality of sex been so scrupulously observed and reproduced on paper. Granted, he had some amazingly bizarre experiences to draw upon; but as V. S. Pritchett observed, in memoirs you get no pints for living, the art is all that counts-and David Henry Sterry clearly possesses the storyteller's art." – Phillip Lopate, author of Portrait of My Body – Phillip Lopate, author of Portrait of My Body
"Like an X-rated Boogie Nights narrated by a teenage Alice in Wonderland. Sterry's anecdotes… expose Hollywood at its seamiest, a desperate city of smut and glitz. I read the book from cover to cover in one night, finally arriving at the black and white photo of the softly smiling former chicken turned memoirist." -Places Magazine
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"Terrifically readable… Sterry's an adventurer who happens to feel and think deeply. He's written a thoroughly absorbing story sensitively and with great compassion… A page-turner… This is a strange story told easily and well." – Eileen Berdon, Erotica.com
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I believe much of the focus concerning generative language models in relation to false information have been centered around several misconstrued premises:
1. It will take a state actor to develop a language model system that will have large scale political or social impact
2. We should be more concerned about the use of language models in the development of "fake news" articles, rather than other forms of false content
3. Large generative language models will serve as a strong defense against large generative language models
These three misplaced concerns are inherently linked on the overarching focus on 'fake news' as full-length, coherent, traditional news articles. I suggest that we should not consider these models in a strict relationship to "fake news" articles but also fake content, more generally, including false or misleading article summaries, fake user-generated comments, fake and misleading reviews, and falsified profiles, and fake or misleading micro-blogs. In particular, we should concern ourselves with generated organic user posts and comments.
In this blogpost, I focus on conversations regarding the recent releases of Grover. This post is not an indictment of the release strategy of the model as I found the release strategy to be well planned. Rather, I comment on the discussions surrounding the model releases, and troubling trends in prioritizing model releases in strict relation to full-length fake news articles.
Premise 1: It will take a state actor to develop a language model system that will have large scale political or social impact
Low Costs: The recent release of Grover suggests that we are in an 'Era of Neural Disinformation' where the prices of developing the datasets to create large generative models, and developing the models themselves are relatively low. This is certainly true. In fact, my experiments suggest that the costs for developing the training data in their paper are overstated. Regardless, the compute costs for developing a full-scale GPT-2 model is around $43,000. Similarly, obtaining the data required to train Grover through Common Crawl cost $10k in AWS credits, and training the model itself cost of $0.30 per TPU v3 core-hour and two weeks of training, at a total cost is $25k. However, the cost to fine-tune the smaller models developed by OpenAI range between $5 and $15 on an V100 AWS GPU, or free on a Google CoLab GPU. Similar techniques will undoubtedly be applied to Grover, where fine-tuning the full model will produce much more coherent results.
Low Technical Expertise: The technical expertise necessary to fine-tune these models, scaffold, and operationalize them are also low and require only basic machine learning and coding knowledge. I have shown previously that the barrier to entry for developing systems to disseminate misleading posts and comments is nearly at novice/junior software developer levels. After the release of GPT-2 there was a flurry of activity to develop scripts for fine-tuning and operationalizing the model, including python packages and one-liner command line interfaces. Actors with basic coding knowledge can easily gather data and fine-tune these models, and users with little-to-no coding skills can download and run operationalized models with simple terminal commands.
Premise 2: We should be more concerned about the use of language models in the development of "fake news" in article form rather than other forms of false content.
There is an assumption that the largest threat of false information is fake news, in the form of false full length articles, released on fake or alternative news sources. In fact, the design strategy of Grover is to condition the model on news article metadata such as plausible sites, author lists, or titles, and to then allow the model to generate output.
I don't intend to diminish full-length fake news articles as a threat. However, I argue that the concentration on full-length articles is misplaced. To date, fake content has been proven to be more impactful in the form of short opinionated comments than other forms of false information. Organic posts had the largest impact, compared to political ads or images or new stories, for the Internet Research Agency's (IRA) interference in the 2016 election. Research done on the amount and type of attacks perpetrated by the IRA throughout the previous presidential election show that there was a shift in strategy from advertisement-based attacks to organic posts. "In 2016, the average monthly volume of live ads was more than double the 2015 level and remained similar in 2017." However, "the monthly volume of organic Facebook posts rose steadily between 2015 and 2017. Between 2015 and 2016, monthly organic post volume increased almost sevenfold and continued to rise rapidly into 2017."
Consistently producing passable full-length fake news articles will prove to be much harder than fake user generated comments. Whereas fake full-length news articles should be: 1. in the target domain, 2. up to date with current events, 3. factually plausible, and 4. posted to a site with some institutional credibility, the bar is not as high for user based comments. Ultimately, operationalized models will have to fight model rot that moves at or near the speed of the news cycle. Alternatively, I have shown that generated comments from the 117M model, when posted in the wild, are passable as real user comments. To support this theory, I developed a reddit bot that would read comments from subreddits and respond with generated comments, using the initial reddit comment as a prompt for the model. These generated comments typically pointed towards a general political ideology rather than a particular current event. As such the comments were more plausible. Further information on the experiment can be found here, and a followup on the GPT-2-345M model can be found here.
Premise 3: Large generative language models will serve as a strong defense against large generative language models
Defending Against Neural Fake News provides clear evidence that Grover performs best in defending against Grover's fake news. As stated in the paper, Grover's discriminator detects roughly 90% of text generated by Grover across all ranges and sizes. While this is an impressive result in theory, in practice identifying and removing Grover generated false information will prove to be a challenging task.
What should platforms do? Video-sharing platforms like YouTube use deep neural networks to scan videos while they are uploaded, to filter out content like pornography (Hosseini et al., 2017). We suggest platforms do the same for news articles. An ensemble of deep generative models, such as Grover, can analyze the content of text – together with more shallow models that predict humanwritten disinformation. However, humans must still be in the loop due to dangers of flagging real news as machine-generated, and possible unwanted social biases of these models.
This proposed model could stand when assuming that:
A. Most platforms have the capacity to run discriminators like Grover's across their text, presumably with a fast response to remove the items
B. The discriminator will mainly be applied to fake news articles rather than generated comments, summaries, and other content
However, I argue that it would be generally infeasible.
A. Most platforms have the capacity to run discriminators like Grover across their text, presumably with a fast response to remove the items:
While one could assume that larger platforms like Facebook and Twitter might operationalize Grover to detect false information, smaller online communities and platforms will certainly remain at risk. In the same breath, many of the marginalized communities that are vulnerable to false information are not on the major platforms.
Fringe online communities serve as vulnerable targets in false information campaigns. By identifying a community that is already vulnerable to conspiracy and polar political manipulation, a bad actor could generate comments that pull that community further away from mainstream political engagement. We have seen this tactic used by the IRA in the recent election. A concerning aspect in the development generative text models is the emphasis on machine learning as a defense against their output. Because fringe communities tend to congregate on fringe message boards, this leaves them particularly vulnerable to attack. Where Facebook and Twitter have community standards and guidelines for posting content, and the technical and staff infrastructure to enforce them, many websites that host vulnerable communities do not.
Additionally, communities without strict guidelines, as well as self-policed communities, have a significant impact on mainstream websites and effect the flow of false information. False news stories on Reddit, 4Chan and other message board sites have higher rates of posts from alternative news sources like breitbart.com, rt.com, infowars.com, and sputniknews.com. These posts are then spread to more reputable sites and communities. While there have been few studies on the spread of user comments and sentiment from message boards like Reddit and 4Chan to larger platforms, the logic should follow. However, where fake full-length news stories can be verified and removed from reputable site, false user-generated information spread in comment sections could gain much quicker traction and could prove much harder to put out. Historically, we have seen this pattern play out with Pizzagate and QAnon. Whereas institutional news sources discredited the false information, the organically generated false information continues to thrive.
Lastly, regardless of the type of information, be it full length news stories or otherwise, it has been shown that correcting misinformation does not necessarily change people's beliefs. Further, any repetition of misinformation, even in the context of refuting it, can be harmful. The suggestion that releasing a model that excels at generating fake news stories will also defend against fake-news stories presupposes that removal will be faster than user engagement. While this touches on the design of systems to detect false information as much as the model itself, it should be strongly considered.
B. The discriminator will mainly be applied to fake news articles rather than generated comments, summaries, and other content:
Detecting fake news is half of the battle when developing production systems. In addition, it is necessary to verify and remove the false content, preferably before the content is viewed by other users. While a system could be automated using Grover to remove full length fake news articles, consider scenarios where the same models are used to produce fake user comments. Whereas strict guidelines determine what image and video content users can upload to a site, user comments, particularly comments that are not overtly inflammatory, are not as cut and dry. Further, many users (correctly or incorrectly) tie content in written form to free speech. Removing false comments in practice means developing models with near 1 false positives. Removing or flagging organic user posts (particularly pertaining to politics) as Grover generated text could result in larger issues for platforms. Lastly this approach assumes that the generative model will be used for creating coherent text over denial-of-information attacks or automated of social engineering attacks.
Ultimately, "focus[ing] on text-only documents formatted as news articles: stories and their corresponding metadata that contain purposefully false information" is not a broad enough premise. By choosing to ignore more prominent false information types and focus solely on "fake news" articles, we run the risk of exposing models that can be used in a myriad of other nefarious ways, without considering how defending against them might unfold in practice.
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Mount Saint Mary - 58, Farmingdale State - 43
Story by MSMC's Justin Satkowski
Newburgh, N.Y. – Mount Saint Mary College scored 20 consecutive points late in the second half while shutting down Farmingdale for nearly ten minutes on their way to a 58-43 victory in Saturday's Skyline Conference championship game in the Kaplan Center. The Knights claimed their second straight title and the 12th in the last 13 years.
Farmingdale led for the opening ten minutes of the second half, and when junior Nikita Green (Roosevelt, N.Y.) hit a jumper with 10:15 remaining, the Rams led 41-35. Mount junior Charneice McCullough (Wyandanch, N.Y.) answered with a three from the corner to cut it back to three. A minute later, senior Amanda Horvers (Kingston, N.Y.) drained a long triple from the right wing to tie the game at 41-41.
From there, the Knights took over. McCullough gave her team the lead with a layup on the fast break and then Hartnett followed with a tough bucket in the paint to make it 45-41. A drought of nearly two minutes ensued and it would be the Mount's junior forward Kelly Dempsey (Hicksville, N.Y.) who finally broke through with a bucket in the lane at 3:44, making it 47-41, Knights.
The Mount Saint Mary defense came up with stop after stop and the offense continued to stretch the lead, pushing it to 14 as McCullough sunk a pair of free throws with 46 seconds to play. Farmingdale senior Dominique Cunningham (Amityville, N.Y.) finally came through with a basket for the Rams with 40 seconds to play, but by then, the damage had long been done. The Rams didn't score for a full nine minutes and thirty-five seconds, allowing the Knights to take control and put the game away with a 20-0 run.
The Knights were helped immensely by an inspiring performance from junior Kate Hartnett (Floral Park, N.Y.). Initially ruled out of the contest, Hartnett was in street clothes throughout warm-ups and for the opening tip. With her team struggling, however, Hartnett dressed during the first half and entered the game with 14:29 to go in the second half. She finished with six points and a pair of rebounds, but her energy at the defensive end of the floor really turned the tide for the Mount.
Dempsey was also a key player for the Knights. The junior blocked a pair of shots, grabbed two rebounds, and scored three points during just eight minutes of playing time.
Horvers led the way for the Mount, scoring 16 points on 5-of-10 from the field. She also added five rebounds, two assists, two blocks, and two steals on her way to being named the Skyline Tournament's Most Valuable Player. McCullough scored 11 points and tallied five assists, while sophomore Rachel Perrone (Poughquag, N.Y.) completed another double-double with 10 points and 10 boards. Senior Jen Mocanu (Belford, N.J.) finished with eight points.
For the Rams, junior Jeannette Zubizaretta (Bay Shore, N.Y.) hit four three-pointers for a team-high 12 points. Junior Baytania Newman (Brooklyn, N.Y.) scored 11 points and had five assists, but also committed nine turnovers. Senior Kayla Koch (Kings Park, N.Y.) added 10 points, while Cunningham finished with six points. Cunningham did an excellent job of defending the Mount's Mocanu, limiting her to just the eight points.
Mount Saint Mary will make its 13th consecutive appearance in the NCAA Division III National Tournament. The field will be announced on Monday at 2:30 p.m.


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For competitive skiers it is important to practice, maintain and improve upon technical skills, even in the warm summer months. This, for the Alaska Pacific University Nordic Ski Team (APU) and head coach Erik Flora, means finding snow to ski on. Eagle Glacier, nestled 6,000 feet straight up from Girdwood, Alaska has become that source of snow. To create the necessary world class surface for these athletes to train on, a PistenBully 100 is flown piece-by-piece to the glacier, reassembled and put to work for seven training camps during the Alaskan summer.
Erik Flora, 2013 recipient of the United States Olympic Committee's Coach of the Year Award has his work cut out for him when he is on Eagle Glacier. Not only is Flora coaching full time, but he also performs most of the grooming and groomer maintenance. A former A/P Aircraft mechanic, Mr. Flora has learned how to work on a PistenBully, which he dubs "amazing machines." Flora and two other APU staff members prepare 10 kilometers of Olympic level track every day. APU athlete, Eric Packer described his coach taking the PistenBully 100 out twice a day to make sure that athletes had freshly groomed trails for each ski. He recalls that "Even with three feet of fresh snow over the course of a week (in June), the track was consistently firm and made for great training."
Many of Flora's athletes have either competed on an Olympic Team or are in strong contention to do so. His most recognizable athlete is undoubtedly Kikkan Randall, winner of the overall World Cup Sprint title and recipient of the Crystal Globe Award three years in a row. It is important for these athletes to practice on surfaces similar to those that they will be competing on at the World Cup and Olympic level.
The Kässbohrer Geländefahrzeug AG is proud to have passionate operators such as Erik Flora driving its machines and wishes the best of luck to the APU and US National Nordic Ski Team this coming season!
You can read the complete interview with Erik Flora here.


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|"Are you a wizard or not?"
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These Goshawks were the six siblings of Mr Goshawk and their respective husbands and/or wives. Two of them never married or had any children, but the rest had children of their own.
Through their brother, Mr Goshawk, they have a sister-in-law, and nine nieces, including Diadema, Romilda, Tangwystl and Miranda Goshawk.[1]
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General information about myself
Atheist and Hindu
I will later have other discussions. I will try to look into the assumptions of universe, science, spirituality, morality etc.
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Welcome to TA shyam.
I think even if the debates haven't covered the Hindu conception of gods, the atheist lacks a belief in gods. You can insert any god and you will still be within the atheistic definition. Is there evidence that the Hindu gods exist? If no, which I presume is the case, why should we need a different argument against them?
The position Douglas Murray offered at the talk is one most religions would not be willing to take and I think he knows that too. In as much as I agree with him, religions can't make that compromise.
I am not here to defend Hinduism, I just stated my position.
I was talking about the concept of god, rather than god as a being. In this concept the energy can be refered as god. Well someone can say they do not believe in energy, then it is ok. As I have stated, for me the concept of god is search for knowledge and truth.
As for the position discussed by Murray, if religion cannot compromise then they cannot exist. The one that evolve may survive, the one that does not evolve will die as previous ones. If none evolves then there will be no religion - I doubt it. There are too many in this world who need a string of hope.
Welcome, sir. I liked your introduction. Of course, I can't speak for anyone else, but I think you'll get on well here..
I think you can contribute a lot to us by sharing a perspective of atheism that most of us (myself for sure, at the least) don't have.
Thank you, and, again, welcome...
I believe in shades of gray rather than black and white..!
Welcome shyam! You have a really interesting perspective. I'm sure we will learn a lot from you. I hope you enjoy yourself here on TA. People can get pretty passionate, so don't ever take anything personally! :-)
For a long time I also made the search for knowledge my "God." I still value that very much but it is no longer the focus of my greatest appreciation.
Thank you.
I will try to create another discussion on the concept of "GOD". The menaing of GOD is different, we cannot just assume the Abrahamic definition as the creator. If I say, for me GOD is energy. Does it make me Atheist ? I can prove energy exist. Science can understand that there may be a big bang, creation of universe, involving some form of energy transformation. Energy can help to create life and matter. Energy can be transformed. I can appreciate energy for all the 'good' and 'bad' things it can do.
I feel it has different meaning to different people, especially when we are translating everything in a general language - commonly English. We give word to new phenonenas and our understanding is still limited or very small when we consider the vasteness of space and time.