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Remember when there were just two kinds of coffee… black or white? Now, as with everything in life, things are more complicated and there are many more choices to be made. Coffee is a 'must-have' lifestyle accessory and consumers have an ever-expanding range of flavours and options available, from an increasingly competitive choice of outlets and brands.
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In the Bean Around the World challenge, teams take the role of coffee traders in providing the supply chain from producer to outlet, and finally to the ever-fickle consumer. This competitive game really captures the essence of new economy teams and focuses on issues such as, short-term success versus long-term strategy, risk management, win-win negotiation, managing supplier and customer needs within a complex supply chain, and the power of good information.
Bean Around the World is a dynamic and thought-provoking trading game that will stimulate and energise any conference programme and generate fresh ideas and approaches to business. Add a review and analysis session and you have the perfect conference pick-me-up that can build extra-strength commitment and customer focus. What better way could there be to introduce a coffee break than an energetic team building exercise?
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This team building intervention has been carefully constructed to break down silo mentality and ensure collaboration between teams working to a common goal. Participants experience changing market forces, build supply chains ,and develop their understanding of customer requirements. Bean Around the World clearly reveals the importance of information gathering, adaptive behaviour and understanding markets and commodity values. Teams are both buying and selling to maximise their reward, experiencing both sides of the customer equation.

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I generally find Barcas spamfilter not very good. I used the DNSBL script and K9 and that worked OK, K9 has no development going though. SpamFU seems OK but never really tried it out.
Now I also use a gmail-account for some purposes and found that Googles spamfilter is very close to 100 accurate. Hmmm.
So I opened a "dummy" gmail-account, forward all my mail from my regular account to this gmail. Enable POP-access and download from gmail. Voila! Not one spam since. I uninstalled K9 and disabled DNSBL.
Once a week or so I log into the web gmail to check that not some Ham got stuck, has happened once or twice.
Orion - happy "no spam in my inbox" these days
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NEWTOWN, Conn. — The gunfire ended; it was so quiet they could hear the broken glass and bullet casings scraping under their boots. The smell of gunpowder filled the air. The officers turned down their radios; they did not want to give away their positions if there was still a gunman present.
They found the two women first, their bodies lying on the lobby floor. Now they knew it was real. But nothing, no amount of training, could prepare them for what they found next, inside those two classrooms.
"One look, and your life was absolutely changed," said Michael McGowan, one of the first police officers to arrive at Sandy Hook Elementary School on Dec. 14, as a gunman, in the space of minutes, killed 20 first graders and 6 adults.
Officer McGowan was among seven Newtown officers who recently sat down to share their accounts of that day. Some spoke for the first time, providing the fullest account yet of the scene as officers responded to one of the worst school massacres in United States history, one that has inflamed the national debate over gun control.
It is an account filled with ghastly moments and details, and a few faint instances of hope. One child had a slight pulse, but did not survive. Another was found bloody but unhurt, amid her dead classmates. Teachers were so protective of their students that they had to be coaxed by officers before opening doors. And the officers themselves, many of them fathers, instinctively used their most soothing Daddy voices to guide terrified children to safety.
The stories also reveal the deep stress that lingers for officers who, until Dec. 14, had focused their energies on maintaining order in a low-crime corner of suburbia. Some can barely sleep. Little things can set off tears: a television show, a child's laughter, even the piles of gifts the Police Department received from across the country.
One detective, who was driving with his wife and two sons, passed a roadside memorial on Route 25 two weeks after the shooting, and began sobbing uncontrollably. "I just lost it right there, I couldn't even drive," the detective, Jason Frank, said.
Officer William Chapman was in the Newtown police station along with Officer McGowan and others when the first reports of shots and breaking glass came in early on the day of the massacre. The school was more than two miles away. They traveled up Route 25, then right onto Church Hill Road. "We drove as fast as we've ever driven," Officer McGowan said.
They made it in under three minutes, arriving in the parking lot while gunfire could still be heard.
"I got out of the car and grabbed my rifle and it stopped for second," Officer Chapman said. "But then we heard more popping. You could tell it was rifle fire. And it was up so close, it sounded like it was coming from outside. So we were all looking around for someone to shoot back at."
As the officers converged on the building, the gunfire stopped again. Officers Chapman and Scott Smith made their way to the front entrance. It was here, only minutes earlier, that a rail-thin 20-year-old named Adam Lanza, armed with a .223 Bushmaster semiautomatic carbine, two semiautomatic pistols and hundreds of rounds of ammunition, had blasted his way through the glass.
Leonard Penna, a school resource officer who had raced to the scene from his office at the Newtown Middle School, entered the school with Sgt. Aaron Bahamonde and Lt. Christopher Vanghele, through a side door that leads to the boiler room, he said. Officer McGowan and two other officers entered through a locked rear door. One of them knocked out the glass with his rifle butt so the rest of the officers could get in.
The halls were familiar to Officer McGowan. He attended the school as a child. But now, they were eerily silent.
"The teachers were doing a phenomenal job keeping their kids quiet," Officer Chapman said.
The officers turned their radios down. They entered the front lobby and saw the first bodies, those of Dawn Hochsprung, the principal, they would later learn, and Mary Sherlach, the school psychologist.
"You saw them lifeless, laying down," Officer Penna recalled. "For a split second, your mind says could this be a mock crime scene, could this be fake, but in the next split second, you're saying, there is no way. This is real."
The officers went from room to room, urgently hunting for the killer before he could do more harm.
They found a wounded staff member in one room, made sure her co-workers were applying proper first aid and moved on.
As Officers Chapman and Smith approached the second classroom in the hallway on their left, they spotted a rifle on the floor. Inside, they found the gunman, Adam Lanza, dead by his own hand, along with the bodies of several children and other adults.
The officers searched the room for any other gunmen, then began searching for signs of life among the children. One little girl had a pulse and was breathing. Officer Chapman cradled her in his arms and ran with her outside, to an ambulance. Officer Chapman, a parent himself, tried to comfort her. "You're safe now; your parents love you," he recalled saying. She did not survive.
Most of the bodies were found in the classroom next door, where, Detective Frank recalled, "the teacher had them huddled up like a mother hen — simple as that, in a corner."
Officer Penna, who was the first officer to enter the second room, found a girl standing alone amid the bodies. She appeared to be in shock, and was covered in blood, but had not been injured. He, not knowing the gunman had been found, told her to stay put.
He ran into the next classroom and saw the dead gunman, with Officers Chapman and Smith standing nearby. State troopers and other officers were now flooding in. Officer Penna returned to the second classroom, his rifle slung around his chest, grabbed the uninjured girl by the arm and ran with her out to a triage area set up in the parking lot.
With state troopers coming in, the officers began to evacuate the children who were still behind locked doors. But many of the teachers, seeking to protect their students and following their own training, refused to open up.
"We're kicking the doors, yelling 'Police! Police!' " Officer McGowan said. "We were ripping our badges off and putting them up to the window."
Detective Frank, who had been off duty and rushed to the scene so quickly that he had to borrow a gun from a colleague once he arrived, remembers ripping the handle off one of the doors, "just trying to get through."
As the children emerged, the officers tried to reassure them. "Everything is fine now," they said, even as they stayed alert for a possible second gunman. "Everybody hold hands, close your eyes," they told the children.
Some officers formed a human curtain around the bodies of Ms. Hochsprung and Ms. Sherlach, to shield the children from the sight as they filed past. Others blocked the doorways of the two classrooms.
As the scene settled that day, officers standing guard outside warned newly arriving colleagues not to go in if they had children. Detective Joe Joudy, one of the senior members of the force, spotted Officer Chapman walking back to the building, covered in blood. "I was a mess, and he looks at me and says, 'They've got to get you guys out of here,' " Officer Chapman said.
Newtown's three-man detective squad, which also included Dan McAnaspie, would spend much of the next week working with the State Police to collect and inventory every bit of evidence from the crime scene.
"Words can't describe how horrible it was," said Detective Joudy, who has been with the department for 27 years.
As he left the building that day, Officer Tom Bean, who had also been off duty when he rushed to the scene, realized he had not told his wife where he was. He fumbled for his phone in the parking lot, and called her. "That's when I broke down in tears, crying," he said.
More than a month later, the officers continue to feel the pain of that day. Some spoke reluctantly, not wanting to compare their torment with the agony of the families of the children and adult victims. But they also worried about their ability to do their jobs, as they continue to suffer. They said they omitted some details out of sensitivity to the victims, and to protect the investigation as it continued.
At least one person, Officer Bean, said he has already received a diagnosis of post-traumatic stress disorder. He said he had been unable to return to work since the shootings, and had needed medication to sleep.
The officers and their union are reaching out to state lawmakers, hoping to expand workers' compensation benefits to include those who witness horrific violence.
"Our concern from the beginning has been the effects of PTSD," said Eric Brown, a lawyer for the union that represents the Newtown police. "We estimate it is probably going to be 12 to 15 Newtown officers who are going to be dealing with that, for the remainder of their careers, we imagine, from what we've been told by professionals who deal with PTSD."
For Detective Frank, who spent days sequestered in the school, meticulously collecting evidence, the images keep recurring — and not just of the children. The monster-truck backpack he found that was identical to his 6-year-old's. The Christmas ornaments that sat unfinished, drying on the windowsill.
"It's heartbreaking," he said. "These kids will never take those ornaments home to their parents."


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Location: Subtropical Horticulture ResearchTitle: Analysis of sesquiterpene distributions in leaves, branches, and trunks of avocado (Persea americana Mill.)
|Niogret, Jerome
|Epsky, Nancy
|Schnell, Elena
|SCHNELL, RAYMOND - M & M Mars Company - United States
|HEATH, ROBERT - US Department Of Agriculture (USDA)
|Meerow, Alan
|Kendra, Paul
Submitted to: American Journal of Plant Sciences
Publication Type: Peer Reviewed Journal
Publication Acceptance Date: 3/1/2013
Publication Date: 4/25/2013
Citation: Niogret, J., Epsky, N.D., Schnell, E.Q., Schnell, R.J., Heath, R., Meerow, A.W., Kendra, P.E. 2013. Analysis of sesquiterpene distributions in leaves, branches, and trunks of avocado (Persea americana Mill.). American Journal of Plant Sciences. Am. J. Plant Sci. 4 (4): 922-931.
Interpretive Summary: Avocado is a commercially valuable fruit crop cultivated in tropical and subtropical climates throughout the world. Scientists currently recognize three horticultural races of avocado: Mexican, Guatemalan, and West Indian. Previous research found that chemical differences among avocado leaves were not reliable for distinguishing the three genetic races. Scientists at the USDA-ARS Subtropical Horticulture Research Station (Miami, FL) developed new methods for sampling and analyzing a particular class of chemicals (sesquiterpenes or C15 hydrocarbons) from avocado trees. They used those methods to (1) document how sesquiterpenes are distributed throughout the tree from leaf to trunk, and (2) show that there are chemical differences that can separate avocado races when samples are collected from branches at least 2.5 cm (1 inch) in diameter. This information will benefit plant taxonomists and geneticists. In addition, information on sesquiterpene content will help scientists identify the host-based attractants used by a new avocado pest, the redbay ambrosia beetle (RAB). This wood-boring insect spreads laurel wilt, a deadly fungal disease that was found in Florida avocado groves in 2012. Identification of attractants will facilitate development of improved lures for RAB. This will allow action agencies to detect RAB earlier, slow the spread of laurel wilt disease, and potentially provide the basis for pest control strategies.
Technical Abstract: Avocado is a commercially valuable fruit crop cultivated in tropical and subtropical climates throughout the world. Taxonomists recognize three horticultural races of avocado, consisting of Mexican (Persea americana var. drymifolia), Guatemalan (P. americana var. guatemalensis), and West Indian (P. americana var. americana) varieties. Published research that attempted to differentiate among the horticultural races by using leaf chemistry found that sesquiterpene content was only useful for discrimination of pure Mexican from Guatemalan and West Indian, but not to distinguish between Guatemalan and West Indian races. This study presents a sampling method for analysis of sesquiterpenes from avocado leaf, branch and trunk samples. Our results indicate that sesquiterpene content from leaves and small diameter branches (< 2.5 cm) was highly variable; however, sesquiterpenes were much less variable within wood from larger diameter branches and trunk samples, providing information representative of avocado varietal differences. In addition to chemotaxonomic applications, information on sesquiterpene content of avocado wood is needed for identification of host-based attractants for a new avocado pest, the redbay ambrosia beetle (Xyleborus glabratus). This insect vectors a fungal pathogen that causes laurel wilt, a lethal vascular disease that currently threatens avocado production in south Florida. Females of X. glabratus identify appropriate host trees based upon emissions of terpenoids, particularly a-copaene. Our results are discussed in terms of how proximo-distal distributions of sesquiterpenes may function as host-location cues by this wood-boring pest.


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I haven't said they contain and creationist sentiments, nor have I accused you - so that should qualify as 'anyone'. I can understand where the confusion has arisen in that they sound like the sorts of arguments that weve heard very often before but that is not evidence of explicitly stated creationist sympathies so I haven't accused you. Neither has Ashley nor Christine accused you of anything, so that is a couple more 'anyones'.
As usual I appreciate the tone of your response, Cathy, but I did not challenge Roger (or someone) to simply not accuse me of something for which they have no evidence. The challenge was to quote the post that actually indicates creationist sympathies or admit that there is no such quote and that the suspicion with which Roger originally regarded me was not based on data. He made his assumption and has not let anything I have said change his mind. Remember, my opening sentence of this thread was the explicit statement that I was not attempting to argue a creationist interpretation. Roger responded to that by assuming I am a creationist:
I'd like, instead, for you to provide your creationist position.
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Bullshit. You are.
Now review my posts before that. You will find that Roger based his assumption on the mere fact that I was asking questions about evolution. I understand that you respect him for the role he has played in promoting science education, but that attitude hardly seems appropriate for someone interested in fostering learning about evolution. I would say in fact that it is a good example of someone, as you say, allowing "egos and opinions to mess that up by either alienating their religous allies or their atheist ones" That is why I think it is important that Roger own up and admit that he is in this instance guilty of making a conclusion and maintaining an assertion that he has not even attempted to justify. So while I genuinely appreciate the fact that you and others have tried to responded to what I have said rather than to my alleged secret plans, what I am after is not simply to not be accused of something. I am after an admission that there is in fact no evidence for such accusations (or of course examples of such evidence).
I have previously stated that I am aware that many here are sensitive to anti-science views and I can appreciate that my questions may superficially resemble Marc's. But surely if I were laying a trap for Christine I would have sprung it by now.
It is also possible that SkepticalOne is an OECer. Don't know either way on that one.
You could find out, Roger. Just quote your support for your position or admit that there is none.


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A Pint With: Dan Carey, Brewmaster of New Glarus Brewing Company
Chatting about beer with the folks who make it.
We are a true "mom and pop business."
In 1993, Dan Carey left a job with Anheuser-Busch to start his own brewing company with his wife, Deb. Since then, Carey's beers (including some unusual spontaneously-fermented fruit beers) have won countless awards and garnered attention from beer lovers around the globe. We're so glad that Dan had a minute to chat with Serious Eats.
Name: Dan Carey
Location: New Glarus, Wisconsin
Occupation: Diploma Master Brewer, New Glarus Brewing Company
Tell us about your decision to move from Anheuser-Busch to craft brewing. This question is not so easy to answer in a few words as it is really speaks to who we are, where we came from, why we do what we do and why we fight so hard to make our business work. People don't know that Deb and I are really just a couple of hard-working poor kids that fought our way up—words do not convey how hard it was.
How would you describe your brewing style? My style is eclectic yet traditional. I've worked and traveled extensively in Europe and love traditional beers. But my brewery is not in Europe and I'm not bound by their traditions. I feel inspired by the old ways but try to find my own way. I want my beers to reflect my American heritage and specifically the Wisconsin landscape. Plus, I love to try new things and surprise my customers!
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Describe for us what your days are like at New Glarus. What are you working on, and what sort of schedule do you have? We brew 5 to 6 days per week. From 5 a.m. to 10 p.m. We are not heavily staffed so we all work very hard. Everyone pulls their weight. If you call the brewery, there's a good chance Deb will answer the phone. We are a true "mom and pop business." She runs the business end of things, that is, marketing (she literally hand draws and writes ALL of our labels and POS), Sales, Lawyers, Wholesalers, Bankers (she raised 21 million dollars for the new brewery alone. When I say alone, I mean by herself. NOBODY ELSE).
We are a manufacturing-driven company. We invest a great deal of effort and money in making the best beer possible. No neons and nearly zero marketing budget. Most of my time is spent guiding our brewers, maintenance team, and quality control team. I am constantly looking, tasting, and thinking about our process. My job is to make sure our beer tastes good each and every time, is better today than yesterday, that our employees are safe and empowered, and that we use our raw materials, time, and utilities responsibly.
Do you have a favorite New Glarus beer? Do you have favorite foods to pair with your beers? Nope...That is like asking me to pick my favorite child! I love each of my brews for different reasons and in their own right, and I simply cannot pick a favorite. I am proud of them all. As far as pairing, I love Totally Naked Lager with Pizza!
How do you get inspired to make new beers? I find inspiration in what I see around me. For example, after drinking white wine in Italy, I came up with our Berliner Weiss. I also find inspiration from my customers, wholesalers, employees and Deb.
What breweries have been your inspiration? What are your favorite non-New Glarus beers? Sierra Nevada, Augustiner of Munich, Schneider of Kelheim German, Rodenbach of Belgium, Budvar of the Czech Republic.
Have you had any beers not work out as you expected? What is the worst beer you ever brewed? I have made beer that was dumped—every brewer has (or should have). Beer is temperamental and sometimes need a little coaxing to behave. Just as everyone has different tastes in music, each person's palate responds to different taste experiences in different ways. That is what I love about my job. It allows me to experiment with flavors and styles. But in the end, I can't brew beer to please everyone. I just brew the best beer I can and hopefully people enjoy it as much as I do. I made an historical recreation of the original London Style Porter called "Old English Porter". One third of customers loved it, one third thought the beer was spoiled, and one third didn't know what to make of it. I loved it!
What are your plans for the brewery this year? Is there any chance we'll see expansion (and expanded distribution?) We opened our new Hilltop brewery in November of 2007. That was a huge project—it nearly killed me. So we do not have any plans for further expansion beyond continuous improvement projects for energy conservation and beer quality. Absolutely no plans to expand our market. We want to stay small.
What is the craft beer scene like in Wisconsin? Has it changed since you started New Glarus? The market has changed greatly over the seventeen years we have been here. It used to be "Miller Lite" country. Now the national shippers are waning, especially with the recent implosion of Bud. As in the rest of the country, young people are looking for beers with character. People in Wisconsin like to support the local brewers. The future is bright!
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Let's get down to business. If you are coming to St. Augustine for the Gentlemen of the Road stopover on Sept. 13-14 in St. Augustine (or if you are a local attending the event), there is one thing you need to know …
Parking will NOT be available in downtown St. Augustine. It is a small city with limited parking, so you must walk or ride the shuttles. Doing so will save you time and money in the long run. Plus, each wristband entitles you to discounts at merchant locations along each route - at restaurants, bars, shops, art galleries and more.
If you live too far to walk, or are staying at a hotel/motel that is NOT in walking distance, go ahead and purchase a shuttle wristband. In fact, wristbands are for anyone who wants to get around town during the two-day event. NOT just concertgoers.
A discounted price of $22.50 per wristband is available through Sept. 4. Beginning Sept. 5, the wristbands will cost $30.
Go to www.GOTRstaug.com to purchase the wristbands.
Below is information from www.GOTRstaug.com:
Shuttle Dates & Times?
The shuttle will operate from 10 a.m. to 3 a.m. on Friday and Saturday, Sept. 13-14, with continuous drop off and pick up at designated locations throughout the operating hours. This will offer a safe return option for shuttle riders and the opportunity to enjoy all the area has to offer after the event ends at 11 p.m.
Concertgoers can park at the Northeast Florida Regional Airport in St. Augustine and ride to Francis Field (event venue), or hop the shuttle on five other routes that pick up at hotels/motels along the routes: World Golf Village route; State Road 16 route; Vilano Beach route; St. Augustine Beach route; and Crescent Beach route.
Shuttle Perks?
As an added benefit, the shuttle wristband grants the wearer access to Shuttle Perks, a vast array of discounts being offered by local retailers, restaurants and attractions.
All shuttle riders will be identified with a wristband good for two days of unlimited rides on any of the shuttle's routes during operating hours (10 a.m. to 3 a.m. both Friday & Saturday).
Three steps for purchasing wristbands
Step One:? Purchase wristbands on the Transit page. Cost per wristband: on or before September 4 - $22.50; on or after September 5 - $30.
Step Two: ?Print e-ticket receipt and present with photo ID at any shuttle stop to redeem your wristband. Please note, the ticket MUST BE PRINTED. The ticket cannot be scanned from a mobile device. Shuttle stops will be in close proximity to many accommodations. To get the most up-to-the minute listing of regular shuttle stops, check the Transit page frequently.
Step Three:? Step onboard any shuttle on any route at any stop for unlimited transportation starting at 10 a.m. on Friday and Saturday, September 13 and 14, and continuing until the following morning at 3 a.m.
Purchase a shuttle wristband and park for free at the Northeast Florida Regional Airport park-and-ride lot in St. Augustine. Downtown St. Augustine is going to be filled with Gentlemen of the Road Stopover goers from near and far, so parking downtown is NOT the way to go on the weekend of Sept. 13-14. Plus, extensive road closures are planned, so, the "usual" parking spots will likely be unavailable. By using the park-and-ride lot, riders will be able to travel with ease on the shuttle system to Francis Field, the Beaches, and other locations in and around the city, all without the hassle of fighting traffic and finding parking!
If you do not see your accommodation listed, please call your accommodation to find out the best shuttle route to take. Those staying downtown or on Anastasia Boulevard should walk or bike to Francis Field. Please note, not all of the hotels listed will be serviced directly by the shuttle system but are within walking distance to the soon-to-be announced official shuttle stops.
• LaTerra Resort*
• Comfort Suites*
• Renaissance WGV
• Grande Villas at WGV
* Those staying at LaTerra Resort or Comfort Suites will need to drive and park at the World Golf Village Renaissance Convention Center to catch the shuttle from that location.
• Best Western
• Comfort Inn
• Courtyard by Marriott
• Days Inn West
• Econo Lodge
• Fairfield Inn
• Hampton Inn
• Holiday Inn Express
• La Quinta
• Quality Inn
• Ramada Limited
• Super 8
• Wingate by Wyndham
Ponte Vedra Accommodations?
Those staying at accommodations in Ponte Vedra will need to drive to the park-and-ride shuttle location at Northeast Florida Regional Airport (take Palm Valley Road/County Road 210 to US 1, then south to Northeast Florida Regional Airport). Parking is free at Northeast Florida Regional Airport with shuttle wristband.
• Hilton Garden Inn
• Lodge & Club at PVB
• Ponte Vedra Beach Realty
• Ponte Vedra Inn & Club
• Sawgrass Resort
• Suncastle Properties
• Watson Realty Corp
State Road 207 Accommodations?
Those staying at accommodations off State Road 207 will need to drive to the park-and-ride shuttle location at Northeast Florida Regional Airport. Parking is free at Northeast Florida Regional Airport with shuttle wristband. To get to the park-and-ride shuttle location, take I-95 north to Exit 323 International Golf Parkway/9 Mile Road, east to US 1, then south to Northeast Florida Regional Airport.
• Quality Inn
• Indian Forest Campground
• Hampton Inn Vilano
• Inn at Camachee
• Magic Beach Motel
• Oceanview Lodge
• St. Aug Beach House
• Vilano Beach Garden Inn
• Seaside at Anastasia Condos
• Beachfront B&B
• Best Western Seaside
• Castillo Real
• Comfort Inn
• Days Inn St. Augustine Beach
• Endless Summer Realty Condos
• House of Sea & Sun
• La Fiesta
• Pier Point South
• Ponce Landing
• Regency Inn & Suites
• Sea Winds
• Hilton Garden
• Holiday Isle Oceanfront
• Sea Winds Assoc Condo
• St. Aug Ocean & Racquet
• St. Augustine Beach Front
• St. Augustine Island Inn
• Super 8
• Hampton Inn
• America's Best Value
• Beachers Lodge
• Captains' Quarters
• Bryn Mawr
• Creston House
• Hibiscus Resort Condos
• Ocean Gallery
• Ocean Grove RV
• Ocean Village Club
• Ocean Village Realty Condos
• Peppertree RV Resort
• Quail Hollow
• Sea Place
• The Beach Club
Those staying downtown or on Anastasia Boulevard should walk or bike to Francis Field. But, don't miss the shuttle. See the rest of beautiful St. Augustine, visit the beaches, shop at the outlet malls, play a round of golf or catch a movie at the IMAX, plus get Shuttle Perks, all without the hassle of fighting traffic and finding parking. Regular buses will depart from Francis Field for these locations outside the downtown area.


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His Gran had never been a patient woman; these days she was even less so. The prospect of Voldemort's return to power made her anxious, fearful – though she never would admit it openly. He could sense her fear; it penetrated every little gesture, every sharp comment, until he felt overwhelmed and confused by it.
That weekend they went to visit his mum and dad, and they brought no one, not even Trevor. Neville was glad of that. He liked the sense of detachment that brought, the feeling that he was, for a few hours, going to be away from all the horror that Hogwarts seemed to be so full of these days. He would just be with his parents. Neville didn't know what was going on in the world at that precise moment, but he felt the fear. He knew, from the grim faces that peered at him around corners in Hogwarts' halls and from the DA's frequent meetings, that there was something sinister brewing on the horizon.
"Hurry up, Neville, we're going to be late!" snapped his grandmother, and he quickened his pace to keep up with her. Although she was elderly, and he had gained quite a bit of height on her, Gran could still out-walk him if she desired to. On this occasion, it seemed, she did.
Not that he didn't like visiting his parents. As painful as it was, Neville looked forward to seeing them on every visit. It was almost Christmas, too, which meant he was bringing them both gifts, nothing expensive, just pleasant little everyday things that would make their lives a little more interesting. An alarm clock shaped like a robin, for his mother, that sang a sweet melody when wound up. Gran was always telling him how much his mum loved birds. Neville remembered. He also remembered that his father was a fan of Muggle radio broadcast. He clutched the little plastic bag in his hot, sweaty hands, wondering if they'd purchased enough batteries to keep the radio going until their next visit, which wouldn't be until Easter, maybe later.
It didn't bother Neville that much when he presented both gifts to his parents and neither of them reacted. His mother started humming though, while staring at the robin-shaped clock, and stroked it like it was a real bird. His Gran fussed over the state of their sheets and even threatened to report a complaint until Neville's father, frightened by Gran's yelling, tried to hide himself beneath the sheets, presumably to block out her voice.
She calmed down then, was civil again and even said a few pleasant words to the Healer in charge. Eventually, however, it was time to go.
"Oh, Mrs. Longbottom, are you leaving already?" asked the Healer, smiling graciously. Gran nodded; Neville kept quiet.
What he hadn't expected was to see Harry Potter, of all people, to be there, his head snapping around to stare at Neville. Harry Potter, Ron Weasley, and Hermione Granger – even Ginny Weasley, whose freckled face Neville could see clearly from where he stood.
Ron yelled out his name, sounding pleased to see him, something that puzzled Neville tremendously. Why are they here, he wondered, feeling shaken by the unforeseen meeting. Gran looked back, politely inquired as to who they were, and Neville could feel his face drain of blood. He could not look into anyone's eyes, nor could he find a voice to speak with.
Gran went around shaking all of their hands, reeling off their names as she did so. He saw the look of surprise that Hermione assumed when Gran descended on her, claiming to have heard all about her. Neville almost couldn't bear the awkward glances they gave him as they greeted his grandmother, obviously embarrassed to discover he'd mentioned them to her. Neville supposed it was also partly guilt – because he had a feeling they'd never mentioned him to their parents.
"He's a good boy," she said, casting a look that was nearly fond, but more sternly approving at him. "He hasn't got his father's talent, I'm afraid to say."
"What?" said Ron, his eyes widening.
He found himself frozen to the spot, immobile, much like the time Hermione had cast a full body bind on him in order to proceed to save the Philosopher's stone from Voldemort. Neville still smarted from the incident, still thought himself utterly stupid and undeserving of those ten house points. Courage to stand up to your friends, he thought, the words repeating themselves in his mind round and round. What courage was there but idiocy?
"Is that your dad down the end, Neville?" asked Ron, taken aback. Neville's insides flooded with ice, he couldn't bring himself to speak. What could he say? How could he explain what he'd kept hidden for so long?
He didn't have to, for his Gran spoke up next, her voice edged. Neville looked up at the ceiling, at a spot just left of the quivering beak of the stuffed vulture that sat trembling on her hat. "What's this? Haven't you told your friends about your parents, Neville?"
Neville concentrated on that part of the ceiling, and everything felt so far away and faint. He could feel five pairs of eyes focused on him, their intensities boring through the distance into his skin. They were waiting for an answer, for admittance, for his confession. Neville had nothing to confess, so he shook his head.
"There's nothing to be ashamed of!" She was angry at him, disgusted. She usually was, and Neville was used to it. "You should be proud, Neville, proud!"
She went on, but Neville did not hear her. He lowered his eyes, pretending no one could see his embarrassment but himself. He was never good at lying and when he did lie to himself he never succeeded. Neville swallowed, avoiding the gazes of his friends, feeling their pity consume him alive. He bore it though, he bore it hard and fast and never let go because it was what kept him afloat. Amid jeering and taunts and fearful grandmothers who spoke sternly down on him - those moments of self pity, of knowing that the only way to know you're alive is to bleed for it, or have someone else bleed for you.
But no one bled for Neville. He bled for himself.
"I'm not ashamed," he whispered, and he always whispered to himself, again and again proving it true. Neville was not ashamed; he was not ashamed of having parents who'd bravely faced Voldemort, parents who'd given their all to defend what was just.
What Neville was ashamed of was his own lack of skill, his own wavering determination: Neville was ashamed of his tears, ashamed of his sleepless nights and dreams of blood and screaming; of waking up with sweat dripping down his face and the words mummy and daddy unspoken on his lips. Neville was ashamed of himself.
"Well, you've got a funny way of showing it!" Gran's old face scowled down at him, and she turned to the others, her features flushed and haughty. Neville held himself loosely; he did not know what to do with himself. His ears roared with noise only he could hear, as Gran told them in one breath all the things he had been unable to say in five years.
Be proud, Neville!
He felt broken; he felt like someone had taken a hammer and shattered his body to pieces with it. He was too stunned to put them back together, and he was afraid they would not fit if he tried. When his mother shuffled forward, her eyes blank and vacant in her pale and thin face, he thought that maybe the shards would cut him up until there was nothing left of Neville Longbottom but a broken, bloody corpse.
She pushed timidly towards him, her gestures oddly fragmented. Words pooled on her lips but did not quite emerge, and Neville tried to see if he could fight back tears that never came. He stretched out his hand without having to be told to, because this had happened before, every year, and every visit.
She dropped an empty candy wrapper into his hand, Droobles Best Blowing Gum, the bright red paper shiny and new. It looked a lot like the wrapper for his old favourite, Bertie Bott's Strawberry Nougat, which had gone off production for six years now. Of course his mum could never know that, and every year she gave him a shiny red wrapper, and ever year Neville accepted it.
"Thanks, mum." he said quietly, and she moved away, oblivious once more, humming a little tune he recognized as familiar, but did not know by name. No one spoke, but they'd all seen.
They didn't laugh. They wouldn't laugh and Neville knew that, but he glared at them, defiant. A part of him wanted them to laugh, to wipe away some of that unbearable pity that he was so used to. He wanted to erase this moment, to pretend that it had never happened. If they laughed, it wouldn't matter. But no one laughed, and no one would forget that they hadn't, that it hadn't been funny.
He could see the pity in Hermione's eyes, the sympathy in Harry's. He could feel the horror that Ginny's eyes reflected, the mortification Ron tried to hide. Neville could see it all, feel it all. He had felt it before, ten times worse.
He turned away from the others and despised them a little, for having witnessed his shame all these years. He hated them a little for never knowing who he was.
Neville slid his hand into his pocket as he followed his grandmother out of the room, feeling the flimsy weight of the wrapper between his fingers, a reminder of the one thing in his life that he was not ashamed of.
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I've been following Razib Khan's scholarly and analytical exploration of his family's genetic history – using data from 23andMe – over at Gene Expression with increasing fascination. When last week he noted that his findings appeared to be (finally) converging on a consensus, I asked if he'd be willing to summarise his journey for Genomes Unzipped readers. Here it is. –DM.
I've always been interested in genetics, anthropology, and history. Many may perceive me to be a collector of obscure facts, but summing up infinitesimals does produce something substantial in aggregation. One of the most influential books in my life has been History and Geography of Genes. So with that, the shift from classical markers to uniparental lineages, and now to the dense SNP-chips, has been a boon for my own intellectual interests which reside in part at the intersection of history and population genetics.
However, I've never been deeply curious as to the history of my own personal genome. I'm not adopted. All four of my grandparents were ethnic Bengalis, albeit from relatively diverse communal backgrounds. I look typically South Asian. Genealogy has never been a family fascination, and I'm going to be honest and admit that until five years ago I didn't even know the names of my grandparents (in the Bengali language there are distinctive terms for maternal and paternal grandparents, so this wasn't needed). Both sides of my family are from the Comilla district of Bengal, and that's all I really cared about (and I didn't care that much, I don't put much stock in "heritage" as determinative).
As for other yields of personal genomics, I was skeptical. My parents have many siblings, and many, many, cousins. I had a general sense of my risks for diseases through an inspection of the pedigree of my family and their medical histories. Additionally, many of the risk alleles have been identified in European study populations, and I wasn't totally sure about the between-population portability of these inferences. And I won't even address the fact that effect size of many of the markers isn't something to shout home about.
But last spring Daniel alerted me to the 23andMe "DNA Day" sale. It was affordable, and at that point enough of the readers of my weblog had been typed that I kept getting questions as to my own background (e.g., my family has the title Khan, so there was a question as to whether I carried the "Genghis Khan haplotype"). So I bit. At the time I recall emailing Dan and being excited that I'd be told I likely had brown eyes and was 75% "European" and 25% "Asian." When my results came back, I was in for a mild surprise. The proportion to the left are calculated by 23andMe's "ancestry painting" algorithm. As you can see, I'm more than 25% "Asian." My initial reaction was that this seemed a touch high, but no worries, I would ask around and see which other South Asians had such a high value. After dozens of instances of "gene sharing," the answer came back: none.
It seems that the "normal" range of Asian generated by the ancestry painting algorithm for South Asians is from 10-35%. The low value occurs in people from the northwest of the Indian subcontinent, and the high values for those from the east and south. Only one person broke the magic 35% barrier…and he was Bangladeshi (38%). A quick review. The paper Reconstructing Indian History offers a plausible model of why the 23andMe algorithm produces the values it does for South Asians. Basically, South Asians are a two-way admixture between a very European-like population and a marginally Asian-like population, "Ancestral North Indians" (ANI) and "Ancestral South Indians" (ASI). Assuming a two-way mixture the proportion of the former declines from ~75% in the northwest of the Indian subcontinent to ~45% in the far south, and also from upper castes to lower castes. My initial hunch was that my elevated Asian ancestry was simply a function of having more ASI than the norm.
But there was a reason to be skeptical of this. The image to the left is a PCA plot which places me on the distribution of a selection of Central/South Asian populations from the HGDP data base. I'm the green flag, and all the black ones below and to my "southwest" are the South Asians with whom I share genes. These range from people who are Punjabi, to Tamils and Biharis. I am clearly an outlier. The only person close to me is the other Bangladeshi individual. I am shifted toward the Hazara/Uygur cluster. What does that mean? The Hazaras and Uygurs are hybrid populations, with East and West Eurasian ancestry. Taking into account the fact that Comilla district borders regions to the east inhabited by Tibeto-Burman tribes, an alternative hypothesis to the idea that I have exceptionally high levels of ASI is that I have a supplementary Tibeto-Burman element to my ancestry which I was not aware of. I immediately queried my parents about this. Photos of my father as a young man had always seemed to indicate that he had Mongoloid admixture. But neither of them knew of any such ancestry. Since 23andMe does not disaggregate the signal produced by ASI and genuine East Asian I was at an impasse.
Until that is projects like Dodecad, Eurogenes, and Harappa came on the scene. The table below is from Harappa, but the other two have noticed the same pattern (as I have myself running ADMIXTURE):
I do have some Southeast Asian ancestry elevating my Asian quantum! So I now went back to the suspicion about my father's heritage. This was the rational move: my mother is a relatively light-skinned Bengali with no distinctive eastern aspects to her countenance. Additionally, she has a family oral history detailing the origin of her paternal grandfather from the cosmopolitan Muslim population of Delhi, with ultimate roots in the Middle East. My father's mother's family was from the conventional Bengali caste of Thakurs (many Muslims retain some caste identity after conversion). His father's origins were not so clear. Not to go into the details, but there were aspects of their cultural background which indicated a non-Bengali origin. My assumption had always been that this was tied to the west, as evidenced by the surname Khan, along with the fact that I carry the West Eurasian Y haplogroup group R1a1a. But by a process of elimination I adduced that all I had thought, all my family had assumed, was false, and that perhaps my paternal grandfather's family were from a group of Tibeto-Burmans who had converted to Islam (at least in part).
With that, I decided to genotype my parents, thanks to 23andMe's holiday sale. While waiting for this I wrote a long post inferring a paternal history tying me to the populations of Burma, based numerous chromosomal segment matches with populations from Yunnan in China in the HGDP data base. When I got the results back I found out that I was probably wrong. As it happens, my father is somewhat less Asian than my mother. Both the ancestry painting and PCA indicated this. I myself ran their data through ADMIXTURE and EIGENSOFT with various parameters…and over and over the results came back that my mother was more Asian than my father.
So I went back to the drawing board, and wrote a long post suggesting that my parents' elevated Asian ancestry may have to do with the origins of the Muslims of eastern Bengal. I won't bore you to with the details, but the short of it is that these results told me less about my own family I think than it does about the ethnogenesis of peoples on the eastern fringe of South Asia. My parents' lack of oral history about Tibeto-Burman ancestors makes total sense in light of my revised model. If the admixture event was old there is no need for a cultural memory. By analogy, consider the low levels of African admixture in the contemporary Mexican population, which dates back to the absorption of the slaves of the colonial era in the 19th century in that nation. Today that history has been forgotten, and Mexicans self-identify as a "mestizo" society. That is, a mixture of Europeans and Amerindians.
Where does this leave me? I haven't changed very much in terms of my own self-conception. On the margin my shifts in ancestral quanta have no metaphysical impact on me. But, it does give me insight into broader models of ethnogenesis. I'm back where I began: scientific genealogy is simply not a great interest of mine, but historical population genetics is. My enthusiasm about Harappa is due in large part to the explicit clarification about my own ancestral background, and what it can tell us about South Asia.
More functionally, I did find out that I had brown eyes. One of my siblings was chagrined to know that I was now aware of their dry earwax "condition" (their physician being unaware that more than 90% of Koreans have this "condition"). I am lactose intolerant. No surprise. Also, my family may have a Neandertal variant of a haplotype on dystrophin. Very fun, but not too revelatory in the end.
But I think I'll keep this hobby. It's not that expensive. And with the proliferation of analytic tools there is alway the possibility of squeezing more juice out of the fruit in the future.


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As a hujungnormous fan of classic gaming. I like the bare bones aspect of classic games where concept goes farther than graphics. Classic gaming can still be a lot of fun if I get past the graphics and try becoming involved with the game. I've been lucky to stumble upon a couple ones lately. One is awesome, another is still in development.
Cave Story
Cave Story is about a robot ( Quote ) that magically ends up in a cave where Mimiga live (mean but adorable(?) bunny type creatures). I'm not gonna ruin the plot by giving a whole synopsis but the story is imaginative, detailed and interesting. Cave Story is a classic 2d platform game like a Mario Bros. or Contra. It has a lot of characters and deliciously diabolical evil bosses. The author spent 5 years on an off creating this and it feels well-polished. Wikipedia as a good entry on it.
Not too long ago the author release a Linux binary for x86, so for the free-software enthusiasts this may not be kosher, otherwise I like this game a lot. A fair challenge even for an adult. Check out the game tome for more.


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that's good to know!!
We needed to make some changes to the site and this required the site to be offline for about an hour.
All is good now
"Courage is being scared to death - and saddling up anyway." - The Duke
A friend of mine is trying to signup on the forums not taking the code?
That is nice to know, I have been home sick and couldn't get on Gunco to see what is happening today. Welcome back!
"If God had not intended for us to eat animals, how come He made them out of meat?" - Sarah Palin
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I think the tech problems are related to the timeframe that the Feds (Holder) spent downloading our membership roster.
only for about an hour??? i wasnt able to get o from yesterday up till now. i thought the feds took us off cause we dont like and bad mouth their pos "chosen" one
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"I killed the President because he was the enemy of the good people, the good working people. I am not sorry for my crime."
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I am been trying to figure this out for the past hour. I was driving back home from a conference about a month ago and had a power inverter plugged into the outlet inside the center console when all of a sudden it all stopped working. For the past month I haven't had any power on any outlets and finally today got a chance to change the fuses.
I tried replacing all of the following fuses with none of them working: 11, 12, 13 and 19.
Is there one that I am missing that needs to be changed? I get absolutely no power on any outlets when the car is running or off. Everything else in the car is working fine.


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Antique armless race car driver, modern armless race car driver.
Ten amazing armless people including a guy who played Let It Be for The Pope.
Did Jan Van Eyck invent oil painting?
Look at this mud puddle.
Watch this Englishman put out a fire with a vacuum cleaner.
Photo gallery of things people save when they escape from their burning house.
300+ mph jet powered.... Schoolbus.
Police raid "sexual healing" church in Phoenix.
Just try bringing up the subject of Kegel exercises in the digital age and someone will find the Kegelmaster 2000. It's the world's first progressive resistance vaginal exerciser, in case you didn't know.
Here is one man who is not afraid of radiation poisoning in Fukushima.
Update on the Chinese ghost-city of Ordos.
Everything you never wanted to know about pigeon shit on your roof.
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CHARLOTTE, N.C., Oct. 2 (UPI) -- U.S. Vice President Joe Biden Tuesday charged Republican tax plans would burden the middle class by slashing the programs from which they benefit.
At a campaign rally in Charlotte, N.C., attended by more than 1,000 supporters, Biden said extending tax cuts for the wealthy would result in the gutting of education and healthcare programs.
"How they can justify -- how they can justify raising taxes on the middle-class that's been buried the last four years? How in Lord's name can they justify raising their taxes and these tax cuts?" Biden asked.
"Look folks, we've seen this movie before. Massive tax cuts for the wealthy, eliminating restrictions on Wall Street, let the banks write their own rules. We know where it ends. It ends in the catastrophe of the middle class and the Great Recession of 2008.
"Folks, we cannot go back to that. The president and I have a different way forward. First, we create a million new manufacturing jobs, and help businesses double their exports and create more jobs."
Taxes -- specifically the looming expiration at the end of the year of tax cuts passed during the administration of former President George W. Bush, as well as other breaks -- have been a major issue this election season, as well a sore point between President Barack Obama and Congress. Obama wants tax cuts extended for those earning less than $250,000, but congressional Republicans want the cuts extended for all taxpayers.
In a conference call with reporters Tuesday, Republican former New Hampshire Gov. John Sununu -- a top adviser to the campaign of Republican nominee Mitt Romney -- capitalized on Biden's remark that the middle class had been "buried the last four years," and asserted that middle class Americans have "been devastated under President Obama."
"The vice president finally got something right when he made the admission that the middle class has been buried for the last four years," Sununu said.
"We have an economy in crisis," he said. "We have a president in denial."
Sununu said Obama's policies have resulted in higher taxes, less take-home pay and a dying economy, and promised Romney would deliver "pro-growth policies that stimulate investment, reform the tax code, more jobs and more take-home pay."
Romney has pledged to cut everyone's taxes in a revenue-neutral plan that would remove tax credits and deductions while slashing federal spending.
Biden's appearance got off to a bumpy start. On approach to Charlotte, his plane was forced to pull up and circle for more than a half hour because of thunderstorms. He finally landed at Charlotte-Douglas International Airport at 11:40 a.m.


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Open season for European ISS robotics
A new robotic race has begun in Europe. Following a brilliant performance earlier this year, a squadron of miniature satellites will come to life again on the International Space Station (ISS), following commands of students.
Spheres − short for Synchronised Position Hold, Engage, Reorient, Experimental Satellites − are volleyball-sized satellites that have their own power, propulsion and navigation systems.
Last winter, 25 teams of secondary-school students from Europe operated the Spheres in a Zero-Robotics competition under the watchful eye of ESA astronaut André Kuipers.
Owing to the success of last year's competition, it is now open to a larger number of European participants. The tournament this year will welcome up to 25 teams per ESA member state.
European students are invited to create programs to make the Spheres revolve, spin, move and hover. Volunteer mentors will help the youngsters to control the droids on the Space Station.
How to master the Spheres
To compete for the finest moves, mentors must register their teams on the Zero-Robotics website for the European 2012 competition before September. Please create an account first, then register for the European tournament.
On 9 September, the game and rules will be unveiled at an event at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Boston. The event can be followed via a live webstream and questions posted to the organisers via Twitter.
All tournaments are free of charge and open to upper secondary schools. Teachers and professionals are encouraged to work on the challenge together with the school teams.
Check the dates to submit code and play against other teams in simulation rounds to get the highest scores and reach the finals.
Finalists will participate in a special event to see the real Spheres responding to their commands on the Space Station in January 2013.
Competition information
|9 September:
|Kickoff webcast live from MIT
|Online simulation competitions
|28 September:
|2D simulation competition deadline
|12–14 October:
|2D ground demonstration
|26 October:
|3D simulation competition
|27 October:
|Alliance formation event
|14 December:
|Final submission deadline
* ESA Member States in 2012
Austria, Belgium, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Poland, Romania, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, United Kingdom.
Cooperating States
Canada, Estonia, Hungary and Slovenia.
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Many rural and urban communities have one thing in common: lack of access to affordable, healthy food. The Land Stewardship Project is working with farmers, businesses and community leaders in rural and urban areas to bring more green to these "food deserts" in a way that builds local wealth while helping local people live healthier lives.
Currently, we are working in three areas to make good food available to all:
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"Almighty God created the races white, black, yellow, malay and red, and he placed them on separate continents. And but for the interference with his arrangement there would be no cause for such marriages. The fact that he separated the races shows that he did not intend for the races to mix."
The most remarkable thing about Arizona's "License To Discriminate" bill is how quickly it became anathema, even among Republicans. Both 2008 GOP presidential candidate John McCain and 2012 GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney called upon Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer to veto this effort to protect businesses that want to discriminate against gay people. So did Arizona's other senator, Jeff Flake. And former House Speaker Newt Gingrich. Indeed, three state senators who voted for this very bill urged Brewer to veto it before she finally did so on Wednesday, confessing that they "made a mistake" when they voted for it to become law.
The premise of the bill is that discrimination becomes acceptable so long as it is packaged inside a religious wrapper. As Arizona state Rep. Eddie Farnsworth (R) explained, lawmakers introduced it in response to instances where anti-gay business owners in other states were "punished for their religious beliefs" after they denied service to gay customers in violation of a state anti-discrimination law.
Yet, while LGBT Americans are the current target of this effort to repackage prejudice as "religious liberty," they are hardly the first. To the contrary, as Wake Forest law Professor Michael Kent Curtis explained in a 2012 law review article, many segregationists justified racial bigotry on the very same grounds that religious conservatives now hope to justify anti-gay animus. In the words of one professor at a prominent Mississippi Baptist institution, "our Southern segregation way is the Christian way . . . . [God] was the original segregationist."
God Of The Segregationists
Theodore Bilbo was one of Mississippi's great demagogues. After two non-consecutive terms as governor, Bilbo won a U.S. Senate seat campaigning against "farmer murderers, corrupters of Southern womanhood, [skunks] who steal Gideon Bibles from hotel rooms" and a host of other, equally colorful foes. In a year where just 47 Mississippi voters cast a ballot for a communist candidate, Bilbo railed against a looming communist takeover of the state — and offered himself up as the solution to this red onslaught.
Bilbo was also a virulent racist. "I call on every red-blooded white man to use any means to keep the n[*]ggers away from the polls," Bilbo proclaimed during his successful reelection campaign in 1946. He was a proud member of the Ku Klux Klan, telling Meet the Press that same year that "[n]o man can leave the Klan. He takes an oath not to do that. Once a Ku Klux, always a Ku Klux." During a filibuster of an anti-lynching bill, Bilbo claimed that the bill
will open the floodgates of hell in the South. Raping, mobbing, lynching, race riots, and crime will be increased a thousandfold; and upon your garments and the garments of those who are responsible for the passage of the measure will be the blood of the raped and outraged daughters of Dixie, as well as the blood of the perpetrators of these crimes that the red-blooded Anglo-Saxon White Southern men will not tolerate.
For Senator Bilbo, however, racism was more that just an ideology, it was a sincerely held religious belief. In a book entitled Take Your Choice: Separation or Mongrelization, Bilbo wrote that "[p]urity of race is a gift of God . . . . And God, in his infinite wisdom, has so ordained it that when man destroys his racial purity, it can never be redeemed." Allowing "the blood of the races [to] mix," according to Bilbo, was a direct attack on the "Divine plan of God." There "is every reason to believe that miscengenation and amalgamation are sins of man in direct defiance to the will of God."
Bilbo was one of the South's most colorful racists, but he was hardly alone in his beliefs. As early as 1867, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court upheld segregated railway cars on the grounds that "[t]he natural law which forbids [racial intermarriage] and that social amalgamation which leads to a corruption of races, is as clearly divine as that which imparted to [the races] different natures." This same rationale was later adopted by state supreme courts in Alabama, Indiana and Virginia to justify bans on interracial marriage, and by justices in Kentucky to support residential segregation and segregated colleges.
In 1901, Georgia Gov. Allen Candler defended unequal public schooling for African Americans on the grounds that "God made them negroes and we cannot by education make them white folks." After the Supreme Court ordered public schools integrated in Brown v. Board of Education, many segregationists cited their own faith as justification for official racism. Ross Barnett won Mississippi's governorship in a landslide in 1960 after claiming that "the good Lord was the original segregationist." Senator Harry Byrd of Virginia relied on passages from Genesis, Leviticus and Matthew when he spoke out against the civil rights law banning employment discrimination and whites-only lunch counters on the Senate floor.
Bob Jones
Although the Supreme Court never considered whether Bilbo, Candler, Barnett or Byrd's religious beliefs gave them a license to engage in race discrimination, a very similar case did reach the justices in 1983.
Bob Jones University excluded African Americans completely until the early 1970s, when it began permitting black students to attend so long as they were married. In 1975, it amended this policy to permit unmarried African American students, but it continued to prohibit interracial dating, interracial marriage, or even being "affiliated with any group or organization which holds as one of its goals or advocates interracial marriage." As a result, the Internal Revenue Service revoked Bob Jones' tax-exempt status.
This decision, that the IRS would no longer give tax subsidies to racist schools even if they claimed that their racism was rooted in religious beliefs, quickly became a rallying point for the Christian Right. Indeed, according to Paul Weyrich, the seminal conservative activist who coined the term "moral majority," the IRS' move against schools like Bob Jones was the single most important issue driving the birth of modern day religious conservatism. According to Weyrich, "[i]t was not the school-prayer issue, and it was not the abortion issue," that caused this "movement to surface." Rather it was what Weyrich labeled the "federal government's move against the Christian schools."
When Bob Jones' case reached the Supreme Court, the school argued that IRS' regulations denying tax exemptions to racist institutions "cannot constitutionally be applied to schools that engage in racial discrimination on the basis of sincerely held religious beliefs." But the justices did not bite. In an 8–1 decision by conservative Chief Justice Warren Burger, the Court explained that "[o]n occasion this Court has found certain governmental interests so compelling as to allow even regulations prohibiting religiously based conduct." Prohibiting race discrimination is one of these interests.
My Liberty Stops At Your Body
Ultimately, the question facing anti-gay business owners, even if the bill Brewer vetoed had become law, is why it is acceptable to exclude gay people simply because of who they are, when we do not permit this sort of behavior by racists such as Bilbo or Byrd? And there is another, equally difficult question facing advocates of the kind of sweeping "religious liberty" protected by the Arizona bill — why should we allow people to impose their religious beliefs upon others?
One year before Bob Jones, the Court decided a case called United States v. Lee, which involved an Amish employer's objection to paying Social Security taxes on religious grounds. As the Court explained in Lee, allowing people with religious objections to opt out of Social Security could undermine the viability of the entire program. "The design of the system requires support by mandatory contributions from covered employers and employees," Burger wrote for the Court. "This mandatory participation is indispensable to the fiscal vitality of the social security system. . . . Moreover, a comprehensive national social security system providing for voluntary participation would be almost a contradiction in terms and difficult, if not impossible, to administer."
Just as importantly, allowing religious employers to exempt themselves from the law would be fundamentally unfair to the employees who are supposed to benefit from those laws. "When followers of a particular sect enter into commercial activity as a matter of choice, the limits they accept on their own conduct as a matter of conscience and faith are not to be superimposed on the statutory schemes which are binding on others in that activity. Granting an exemption from social security taxes to an employer operates to impose the employer's religious faith on the employees."
Lee, in other words, stands for the proposition that people of faith do not exist in a vacuum. Their businesses compete with other companies who are entitled to engage in this competition upon a level playing field. Their personnel decisions impact their employees, and their decision to refuse to do business with someone — especially for reasons such as race or sexual orientation — can fundamentally demean that individual and deny them their own right to participate equally in society.
This is why people like Theodore Bilbo should not be allowed to refuse to do business with African Americans, and it is why anti-gay business owners should not be given a special right to discriminate against LGBT consumers. And this is also something that the United States has understood for a very long time. Bob Jones and Lee are not new cases. A whole generation of Americans spent their entire professional careers enjoying the protections of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Religious liberty is an important value and it rightfully belongs in our Constitution, but it we do not allow it to be used to destroy the rights of others.
The argument Gov. Brewer resolved Wednesday night with her veto stamp is no different than the argument Lyndon Johnson resolved when he signed the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Invidious discrimination is wrong. And it doesn't matter why someone wants to discriminate.


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We do have a bit of a thing for machines with their power supplies at the base - with the help of the tremendous Antec P180 chassis, this machine pulls it off perfectly, allowing for some clever and efficient fan placement. It's got a lot to drag the O2 over, too.
There's a pair of shiny 1GB 6400 modules from OCZ plugged into an excellent Asus P5W DH Deluxe, and the undisputed king of the benchmarks in this test: X1950s running in CrossFire.
Lording over the competition with a few thousand extra 3DMarks and around 135fps in HL2: Episode 1, Wired2Fire's take on the CrossFire configuration is currently almost unbeatable.
Even though the monitor isn't huge, its 22" girth is sharp and detailed, with decent response times, with a splendid looking frame to boot. Much like the shiny case, it's not something you're going to want to hide away.
Play a few high-end games on this rig, however, and aesthetics will pale into insignificance. It's the sheer processing power lurking within that's important here, and this rig's got oodles.


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NOTE: For the latest news on equipment and education, visit the ARTIST IN BALANCE web site.
This website offers the stories and findings of a year-long exploration of the violinist's balance.
Balance is the core of good violin and viola technique.
The violinist's balance is often disturbed by the demands of his instrument in combination with chin and shoulder rest that do not fit his body. Stiffened and shortened neck, arm and back muscles inhibit good playing, which requires free movement in all joints. Years of cramped playing can lead to discomfort, pain and injury.
Individual problems of balance were addressed by eleven violin and viola students at the Utrecht School for the Arts, Faculty of Music in the Netherlands. With professional supervision they improved their individual comfort and mobility with modifications of chin and shoulder rest. At the same time they re-trained cramped playing habits, using the Alexander Technique, to improve their playing technique. As a group they came up with new solutions, and recorded their experiences. In the process they overcame most of their playing difficulties.
This website provides multi-media documentation; you can read, see and hear what happened.


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556: Alternative Energy Revolution
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Title text: The moment their arms spun freely in our air, they were doomed -- for Man has earned his right to hold this planet against all comers, by virtue of occasionally producing someone totally batshit insane.
Megan and Cueball are looking at modern "windmills" (known as wind turbines) harnessing wind energy into electrical energy. They comment that there's something creepy about the windmills. They allude to the book The War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells. ( The Jeff Wayne Musical version of The War of the Worlds has paintings of the martian tripods somewhat like these turbines) and also to "The Tripods" from John Christopher's tripods trilogy a children's series of books about aliens who ride in walking tripods.
Suddenly the windmills' pylons split into three legs, becoming the tripods suggested.
They exclaim that Al Gore has doomed us all. He is a former Vice President of the United States, known for his environmental activism and promotion of green energy sources, relevant because wind turbines like the ones here are one of the alternative energy sources he supports.
In the final frame, the 16th century literary figure Don Quixote arrives (Randall's depiction seems to be inspired by the drawing by Pablo Picasso). In the original story, Don Quixote is a wandering knight of very questionable sanity who fights windmills, which he believes to be giants. Hence, he is the appropriate person to deal with this threat.
The title text is another reference to The War of the Worlds: "But there are no bacteria in Mars... when I watched them they were irrevocably doomed... By the toll of a billion deaths man has bought his birthright of the earth, and it is his against all comers."
Of course this time we are only saved because we - in spite of having evolved - still produce somewhat insane members of our species.
Wind turbines also appear in later comics. In 1119: Undoing Randall still seems to dislike them. And in 1378: Turbine the Turbine is also alive and talks with Megan.
- [A field of windmills is silhouetted against dusk sky.]
- [Cueball and Megan are standing and sitting on the ground overlooking the windmills.]
- Cueball: I'm all for green energy, but those turbines creep me out. They remind me of War of the Worlds, or the Tripod books.
- Megan: They -are- unnerving.
- Cueball: I can't shake the feeling that at any moment they'll—
- [A leg begins to split off one windmill.]
- crack
- [The leg separates from the body of the windmill.]
- [The new leg lands on the ground.]
- [Another leg begins to split off the other side of the windmill's body.]
- crack
- [The new leg hits the ground, forming a tripod base.]
- [Smoke rises from destroyed buildings as the windmills rampage across the field.]
- [Cueball and Megan are now standing.]
- Megan: Oh no.
- Cueball: Al Gore, you've doomed us all.
- Megan: It's coming this way!
- Cueball: Run!
- [One of the enormous tripod windmill feet lands right behind the running couple, sending debris flying.]
- [Cueball and Megan run.]
- Megan: What now?
- Cueball: Someone has to stop them.
- Megan: But who could-
- Voice from next panel: Stand aside!
- [Don Quixote sits mounted at the top of a hill, lance at the ready.]
- The windmills also look like the fictional plants Triffids from John Wyndham's book "The Day of the Triffids" or the 1962 film version.
- There is a fan-created animation of this comic.
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San Clemente is basking in balmy, sunny weather this week, but with one big difference from a week ago. If you go to the beach, step gingerly as you approach the ocean.
The water temperature, which was in the mid-60s last week, has dropped into the 50s and has a bite to it, the result of a storm that hit Friday into Saturday. The storm left less than a half-inch of rain, but produced strong winds. Overnight lows are dipping into the 40s.
The National Weather Service is forecasting mild days the rest of the week, except for a slight chance of showers Friday.
Here are some scenes on the beach in San Clemente on Sunday.
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This update resolves vulnerabilities that could allow elevation of privilege if a user goes to a specially crafted website or a website that contains specially crafted web content.
Microsoft has released security bulletin MS14-009. Learn more about how to obtain the fixes included in this security bulletin:
- For individual, small business, and organizational users, use the Windows automatic updating feature to install the fixes from Microsoft Update. To do this, see Get security updates automatically on the Microsoft Safety and Security Center website.
- For IT professionals, see Microsoft Security Bulletin MS14-009 on the Security TechCenter website.
How to obtain help and support for this security updateHelp installing updates: Support for Microsoft Update
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More information about this security update
Command-line switches for this updateLearn about the various command-line switches that are supported by this Microsoft .NET Framework update.
Restart informationThis update does not require a system restart after you apply it unless files that are being updated are locked or are being used.
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Update removal informationNote We do not recommend that you remove any security update.
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Recently I bought the standard version of version 12.
I was wondering if there is a way to move a site from version 4 to 12? I have tried import from existing site and works in some way but the result is not as the previous one.
I also read on the help that from older versions you could save it as a template and then on version 12 create a site from a template but version 4 does not have the option to save the site as a template.
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When it comes to his struggles with alcohol, David Arquette says that they started long before his recent divorce with Courtney Cox.
In an appearance on "The Oprah Winfrey Show" that airs this week, the "Scream 4" actor reveals all to the talk show maven, reports US Weekly.
"When I had my first drink of beer, I must have been four-years-old," he told Oprah. "I was down in the basement with my dad and beer was there and I just grabbed it and drank it. And I remember that. It's one of my earliest memories."
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The 39-year-old actor said that he "started seriously drinking probably when I was about 12" and admitted to stealing pot from his dad when he was 8.
He also said that Cox and his sister, actress Patricia Arquette, urged him to enter rehab in January.
"I came back from Miami and I had taken a nap. I woke up and Patricia and Courtney were at my bed," he recalled. "Courtney had a cup of coffee. I was like, 'What are you two doing here together?' I already knew."
He said upon waking up and going into the living room, he was also confronted by his best friend, his business partner and a third man he didn't know.
"I go 'What up,Turkeys? I guess this is my intervention!'" he said.
Arquette's apperance is a fill in for Philadelphia Eagles quarterback Michael Vick, who recently backed out of a scheduled sit down with the talk show queen.


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Uncle Sam's older, classier sister Columbia fell out of favor after women got the vote. Is it time to bring her back?
The photos of the historic suffragette March on Washington on March 3, 1913, that were all over the place over the weekend were a reminder of how far America has come in the last century, and of how much American women have been at the forefront of pushing the international rights of women forward. But as I admired their bonnets and their courage, their side-buttoned boots and hooded woolen cloaks and looks of fierce determination, the women in the 100-year-old images also raised for me some slightly more prosaic questions.
Why were some staging tableaux wearing breastplates and laurels? Who were they dressed as? And -- perhaps more importantly -- why can't contemporary feminists have costumes that are as regal and classical as those of 1913 -- instead of Code Pink's vulgar giant magenta lady bits?


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