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WACO (October 11, 2012)--The Midway ISD Education Foundation has received $2,500 from a fundraiser in which $20 was contributed for each Dodge vehicle that was test driven.
The Dodge "Ride and Drive Event" was held last month at Midway High School.
"We had 125 test drives between 4 p.m. and 7 p.m., right up until the opening kickoff of the Midway Panthers home opener," Allen Samuels General Manager Ted Teague said.
The check will go toward classroom grant programs with a portion of it to be shared with Midway High School PTA since the event was held at their community tailgate party.


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To the editor:
I am concerned about all this political rhetoric. It's accusatory, innuendo, misrepresentation, falsification or just plain bunk. The main theme is to blame Obama.
For instance, Michelle Malkin, a conservative editorialist, blames Obama for between 2,000 and 3,000 deaths. Why? Obama increased fuel efficiency standards. She doesn't mention driver indiscretions, texting, etc. Just blame Obama - give me a break.
Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan accuse Obama of slashing $700 billion from Medicare. The truth is that those reductions are to the providers, and some screenings will now be free. These reductions are identical to those in the Ryan budget.
The Ryan budget has been declared immoral by some religious leaders because it attempts to balance the budget on the backs of the poor and working class, while leaving tax cuts to the wealthy untouched. The Ryan budget even seeks to increase those tax cuts. The Republicans have adopted a policy of greed - Robin Hood in reverse.
The Republicans in Congress have consistently voted against the workers. For example, the Democrats proposed the extension of unemployment benefits. The Republicans said no, unless the wealthy get tax cuts. It didn't concern them that members of their own party needed those extensions. Another is the debt limit debate. The debt situation would have caused problems for ordinary citizens. But the Republicans, who profess a love of country, would allow our country to face ridicule and scorn in exchange for tax cuts for the wealthy. I am glad Obama relented. Obama saved America's reputation in the eyes of the world.
The economy has received a lot of attention. Everyone understands we exist in a global economy, but this, I believe, is a unique situation.
Residents of the United States can't grasp the implications and impact of how enforced austerity programs in Europe affect our economy. Exports accounted for $637 billion to European countries. American companies hesitate to employ people because of dire developments in the European countries. Greece, Spain, Portugal and Italy have accepted austerity programs. Obama can't be held responsible for the jobs lost because of the austerity programs. But, the Republicans will attempt to make you believe he is.
The economy and jobs would have rebounded more quickly if everyone worked together. But, the Republicans used every delaying tactic to obstruct every jobs bill the Democrats proposed. Even the stimulus bill contained $390 billion in tax cuts, mostly for the rich, just to satisfy the Republicans. Imagine holding the working class hostage because of tax cuts for the wealthy. Do they need the money that bad?
The Republican game plan is to delay, obstruct and disrupt the business of government while criticizing Obama for not correcting problems in the economy or reducing unemployment. Republicans wish to keep people on their knees so that their attacks might help Romney get elected. In my opinion, it isn't going to work. The people know, or should know, better.
Go vote. Vote Obama and the Democrats, the party the supports the working class. God bless America.
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I know that removing an equipped shield and stowing it (usually on the back) is a standard action.
I also know that dropping an held or wielded item is a free action.
What action type is removing an equipped shield and let it drop to the ground?
In general, it is a standard action to remove your shield from your arm. From the Rules Compendium pg 267:
If you choose to remove and stow it on your backpack, that is described specifically on pg 245 (Equip or Stow a Shield ) as also being a standard action.
It appears the hard part is unstrapping it from your arm. Putting it someplace once it's off is the easy part.
My understanding is that your shield is actually strapped to your arm. Therefore to drop it you first have to unstrap it.
Unstrapping it and stowing it is a standard. I would probably require the same for dropping it. I feel like the reason for making equipping and unequipping a shield a standard is to make it difficult and I think that downgrading the action isn't in the spirit of the mechanics here.
However, the logical downgrade would be to a move action, this would provide you with some value because to get your shield back would then require a minor action to pick it up and standard to equip it.


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SCB612U: AP Biol (2014-2015)
CURRICULUM PROGRAM: Advanced Placement
COURSE TITLE: AP Biology
COURSE LENGTH: 36 weeks
Laboratory Requirement: Students who take this course spend a minimum of 30% of their time engaged in hands-on laboratory exercises.
Major Concepts/Content: AP Biology is a college-level course that differs from a high school Biology course in terms of depth of coverage, the type of laboratory work, and time commitments for study. Course content is organized into four Big Ideas that encompass the core scientific principles, theories, and processes governing living organisms and biological systems. These Big Ideas are: • Big Idea 1: The process of evolution drives the diversity and unity of life. • Big Idea 2: Biological systems utilize free energy and molecular building blocks to grow, reproduce, and to maintain dynamic homeostasis. • Big Idea 3: Living systems store, retrieve, transmit, and respond to information essential to life processes. • Big Idea 4: Biological systems interact, and these systems and their interactions possess complex properties. Specific topics within each of the Big Ideas can be found on AP Central at http://apcentral.collegeboard.com.
Major Instructional Activities: AP science revisions focus on seven overarching practices that capture important aspects of the work of scientists. Science practices describe the knowledge and skills that students should learn and demonstrate to reach a goal or complete a learning activity. • Science Practice 1: The student can use representations and models to communicate scientific phenomena and solve scientific problems. • Science Practice 2: The student can use mathematics appropriately. • Science Practice 3: The student can engage in scientific questioning to extend thinking or to guide investigations within the context of the AP course. • Science Practice 4: The student can plan and implement data collection strategies in relation to a particular scientific question. Note: Data can be collected from many different sources, e.g., investigations, scientific observations, the findings of others, historic reconstruction and/or archived data. • Science Practice 5: The student can perform data analysis and evaluation of evidence. • Science Practice 6: The student can work with scientific explanations and theories. • Science Practice 7: The student is able to connect and relate knowledge across various scales, concepts, and representations in and across domains. AP science instruction incorporates any teaching method that encourages students to construct and/or discover knowledge with an understanding of how scientists study the natural world. Teaching using the seven science practices expands beyond lab investigations and field experiments to include classroom experiences, such as scientific model development and revision and peer-to-peer critique of explanations. The approach to instruction may vary for investigations, field experiments, and classroom experiences, depending on the science practices and content being developed, the amount of necessary content or skills scaffolding, the extent of teacher involvement to support that scaffolding, and student readiness.
Major Evaluative Techniques: The AP Biology curriculum provides frequent student-directed opportunities to demonstrate understanding of the underlying content. This includes inquiry-based lab experiences where students design experiments, collect data, apply mathematical routines and methods, and refine testable explanations and predictions. At least two investigations should be conducted per Big Idea. These investigations may take place in the laboratory, during field studies, or in a virtual environment.
Course Objectives: • Develop a conceptual understanding of the major themes of modern biology (evolution, energy transfer, continuity and change, structure and function, regulation, and interdependence) as a vehicle for investigating the concepts, principles, and topics of biology. • Develop and apply science practices that enable students to establish lines of evidence and use them to develop and refine testable explanations and predictions of natural phenomena. • Develop skills in communication, teamwork, critical thinking, and commitment to lifelong learning. • Apply an understanding of biological knowledge and scientific methodology to environmental and social issues.
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What I did during quite time ?
By Miroslav Kopecky on Jun 30, 2009
I don't know if I did mention in the past I love dynamic linked programming languages as Groovy or Ruby (I had aslo cool discussion with Thomas Enebo about) are. Also I cann't forget for Scala which is general purpose programming language which smoothly integrates features of OOP and functional languages.I read only one books and couple of texts about but I still have only light experiences with. So this blog post will be focused on my activities more related to programming. During quiet time I read several books about Grails and Rails. If you want to learn quite easily Groovy and Grails I could only recommend the last this one: " Grails 1.1 Web Application Development" which looks to me very good and is focused on new Grails build 1.1 If you are more familiar it good to have a look at documentation which is here [Documentation]. There is written quite everything you need.
I don't want to write a long story why I love Groovy but one of important thing is its ability to work and parse text content especialy GString. At one of my previous position I needed use lot of regular expressions. At that time I used perl or AWK for. Part of my project I wrote using groovy as script language I wanted to parse websites and get only specific information. Then store them in database. With Groovy was this task very easy. I have used this CyberNeko HTML Parser library, SAX parser and couple of regular expressions of course. I guess this could be very nice presentation for Sun Campus Ambassadors.
This is also the way I tried to lead my team. Just show technologies integration with SUN ones based on universities and students expectations find equilibrium between bored marketing stuff and knowledge . I guess this could be very hard for someone who doesn't have strong technical knowledge background and experiences. I'm very proud lot of members of my team increased theirs technical knowledge. This moment was reflected by presentation successes. Professors appreciated this kind of activities now I'm writing about Central Europe. I have to mention every country needs something different. But stop now just let something for next. Next post I'm intending to write about diploma and bachelor thesis I drove in SUN cooperation... just see you later on, cheers
PS: At the first time I used ItelliJ IDEA editor for Grails but now I have returned back and I'm using Netbeans 6.7 again.


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August 15, 2011
New York University will host "Les Lieux de l'art" ("Art Spaces"), a roundtable discussion featuring Philippe de Montebello, Fiske Kimball Professor in the History and Culture of Museums at NYU's Institute of Fine Arts, on Tuesday, September 13, 6:30 p.m. at NYU's Hemmerdinger Hall, Silver Center for Arts and Science, Room 102, 100 Washington Square East (at Washington Place). Enter at 32 Waverly Place or 31 Washington Place (wheelchair accessible).
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Contemporary art seems to have changed the way we see art, and the places where it is supposed to be presented. Some of the most iconic exhibitions of recent art have taken place outside of the traditional venue of the museum. Is it its destiny to be shown everywhere? Or does the experience of art belong to a certain time and space? Is the situation the same for ancient and for contemporary art?
Joining de Montebello, director emeritus of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, will be: Joachim Pissarro, Bershad Professor of Art History at CUNY's Hunter College, director of the Hunter College Art Galleries, and a curator in MOMA's Painting & Sculpture Department; Philippe Vergne, director of the Dia Art Foundation and former director of the Musée d'Art Contemporain in Marseille; and Donatien Grau, a contributing editor of Flash Art International who also teaches at the Sorbonne.
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I have difficulties understanding the difference between the following two notations:
- $\mathbb{Z}/n\mathbb{Z}$ (which denotes a quotient ring) and
- $\mathbb{Z}_n$.
Are they equivalent?
PS1: The same applies to the multiplicative counterparts:
- $(\mathbb{Z}/n\mathbb{Z})^*$
- $\mathbb{Z}_n^*$.
PS2: It can be proven that $\mathbb{Z}/n\mathbb{Z}$ is a field if and only if $n$ is prime. Assuming $n$ is prime, could you compare $\mathbb{Z}/n\mathbb{Z}$ with $\text{GF}(n)$?


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I want to start developing in XNA. As of now, I do not know C#, but I would consider myself "good" at Java. I have looked at some C# code and it looks almost identical to Java. After looking at Java and C# Comparison, it looks like they are basically the same. Obviously some function names are going to be different, but I think I can handle it. Now if I want to learn game development in XNA, do I really need to "learn" and master C#, or can I just jump right in and learn along the way? I should also mention, I also know PHP which looks very similar.
You don't need to master any language before jumping right in an making something. Jump right in and learn on the way. It's likely your best option for learning the relevant parts of the language anyway.
C# and Java are not "basically the same". A lot of basics are just similar, and it's not a coincidence: C# was influenced by Java and they were both influenced by C++.
Whilst this means you'd already recognise a lot of stuff, it doesn't mean you suddenly know C#.
So can you use C# right now without trying to learn it?
Yes, you can use C#, but you'd be using C# like you'd use Java, which would be pretty poor use of the language and would be making things hard for yourself. For instance, earlier I mentioned getters and setters. Let me give you an example of why you should actually learn C# and not presume you already know it:
I'm sure you're glad you know that one now.
So SHOULD you learn C# before using it?
Yes. Right now, there are a lot of concepts offered by C# (and not Java) you are probably unaware of which you should be using; properties are one example. You don't need to master the language before you begin programming in it, but you should definitely look through some tutorials to get an overview of the language and to be introduced to those features.
Since those features are ones you don't know about, you can't actually just research them on the fly. You don't know about them, so you can't research them! So by all means, research them later to get a better understanding, but at least make sure you're aware of them now.
It will make your life easier using C#.
If you know Java real good(understand how to use it, understand your basic data structures), and know how to solve problems(programming/software engineering). You should have no problem picking up C#. The language is only a tool.
If you know core java language , C# seems to be easier and you can learn it more fast Lets look in to the detail
C# and Java are actually quite similar, from an application developer's perspective.
C#keywords Java keywords
namespace package
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Bool boolean
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in java a sample hello world program
in C# it look like
In a mere look both are similar , so i prefer you to learn C#
I am doing just this in my current job. Previously, I was doing J2ME and Android development. I am now in an environment where C# is used for Windows desktop development with a bit of Office interop. I have no experience with XNA specifically.
You should be able to dive in and get productive quite quickly. The similarities in the languages meant that my early java-like code didn't incur performance hits (like it might have in Python for example).
C# does have some fabulous new developments such as Properties, Delegates, and LINQ. I have found it easy to pick these up on the fly. It may have helped that I was already a bit cranky about java's callbacks and getter/setter situation beforehand.
Overall, I'd say that learning my way around Microsoft's extensive libraries/apis is a much larger job than picking up the language. You might as well get started coding.


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Chris Cook is the assistant editor of Atlantic Free Press and hosts Gorilla Radio, airing live every Monday, 5-6pm Pacific Time. In Victoria at 101.9FM, 104.3 cable, and on the internet at: http://cfuv.uvic.ca He also serves as a contributing editor at the progressive web news site: http://www.pej.org. You can check out the GR blog at: http://GorillaRadioBlog.blogspot.com
G-Radio is dedicated to social justice, the environment, community, and providing a forum for people and issues not covered in the corporate media. Some past guests include: M. Junaid Alam, M. Shahid Alam, Joel Bakan, Maude Barlow, David Barsamian, William Blum, Luciana Bohne, William Bowles, Vincent Bugliosi, Helen Caldicott, Noam Chomsky, Michel Chossudovsky, Diane Christian, Juan Cole, David Cromwell, Murray Dobbin, Jon Elmer, Reese Erlich, Anthony Fenton, Jim Fetzer, Laura Flanders, Chris Floyd, Connie Fogal, Susan George, Stan Goff, Robert Greenwald, Denis Halliday, Chris Hedges, Sander Hicks, Julia Butterfly Hill, Robert Jensen, Dahr Jamail, Diana Johnstone, Kathy Kelly, Naomi Klein, Anthony Lappe, Frances Moore Lappe, Jason Leopold, Jeff Leys, Dave Lindorff, Jim Lobe, Jennifer Loewenstein, Wayne Madsen, Stephen Marshall, Linda McQuaig, George Monbiot, Loretta Napoleoni, John Nichols, Kurt Nimmo, David Orchard, Greg Palast, Mike Palecek, Michael Parenti, Robert Parry, Kevin Pina, William Rivers Pitt, Justin Podur, Jack Random, Sheldon Rampton, Paul Craig Roberts, Paul de Rooij, John Ross, Danny Schechter, Vandana Shiva, Norman Solomon, Starhawk, Grant Wakefield, Paul Watson, Bernard Weiner, Mickey Z., Dave Zirin, and many others.
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Award-winning investigative reporter Dave Lindorff has been working as a journalist for 33 years. A regular columnist for CounterPunch (www.counterpunch.org), he also writes frequently for Extra! (www.fair.org) and Salon magazine (www.salon.com), as well as for Businessweek, The Nation and Treasury&Risk Management Magazine. In the late 1970s, he ran the Daily News bureau covering Los Angeles County government, and in the mid-'90s, spent several years as a correspondent in Hong Kong and China for Businessweek. Over the years he has written for such publications as Rolling Stone, Mother Jones, Village Voice, Forbes, The London Observer and the Australian National Times.
Author, with Barbara Olshansky, of The Case for Impeachment: Legal Arguments for Removing President George W. Bush from Office (St. Martin's Press, June 2006), he is also the author of three earlier books--This Can't Be Happening! Resisting the Disintegration of American Democracy (Common Courage Press, 2004), Marketplace Medicine: The Rise of the For Profit Hospital Chains (Bantam, 1992), an investigative report on the for-profit hospital industry, and Killing Time: An Investigation into the Death Row Case of Mumia Abu-Jamal (Common Courage Press, 2003), the only independent examination of this important capital case.
A two-time Fulbright Scholar (Shanghai, China and Kaohsiung, Taiwan), he is a 1975 graduate of the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, and received a B.A. in Chinese in 1972 from Wesleyan University. In October 2004, he was awarded a coveted "Most Censored Story of 2003" award by Project Censored (for his Oct. 16, 2003 story in Salon about the Pentagon's quiet efforts to gear up the machinery for a return to the draft). A founding member of the National Writers Union, and a member of the steering committee of the NWU Philadelphia local, for the past nine years, he has lived with his family just outside Philadelphia.
In addition to writing, Lindorff is an accomplished folk musician (guitar, vocals and saw).
William Blum left the State Department in 1967, abandoning his aspiration of becoming a Foreign Service Officer, because of his opposition to what the United States was doing in Vietnam. He then became one of the founders and editors of the Washington Free Press, the first "alternative" newspaper in the capital.
Mr. Blum has been a freelance journalist in the United States, Europe and South America. His stay in Chile in 1972-3, writing about the Allende government's "socialist experiment" and its tragic overthrow in a CIA-designed coup, instilled in him a personal involvement and an even more heightened interest in what his government was doing in various parts of the world.
In the mid-1970's, he worked in London with former CIA officer Philip Agee and his associates on their project of exposing CIA personnel and their misdeeds. His book on U.S. foreign policy, "Killing Hope: U.S. Military and CIA Interventions Since World War II", first published in 1986 and updated since, has received international acclaim. Noam Chomsky called it "Far and away the best book on the topic."
In 1999, he was one of the recipients of Project Censored's awards for "exemplary journalism" for writing one of the top ten censored stories of 1998, an article on how, in the 1980s, the United States gave Iraq the material to develop a chemical and biological warfare capability. Blum is also the author of: "Rogue State: A Guide to the World's Only Superpower" (updated edition 2005), "West-Bloc Dissident: A Cold War Memoir" (2002), and "Freeing the World to Death: Essays on the American Empire" (2004). His books have been translated into more 15 foreign languages.
During 2002-2003, Blum was a regular columnist for the magazine "The Ecologist", which is published in London and distributed globally. In January 2006, a tape from Osama bin Laden stated that "it would be useful" for Americans to read "Rogue State", apparently to gain a better understanding of their enemy.
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Phil Rockstroh, a self-confessed gasbag monologist, is a poet and a musician who lives in the East Village section of New York City. For many years he was the de facto ghost writer for the endlessly touring, perpetually self-promoting, performance "poet"/musician, Chris Chandler, with whom Phil shares writing blame for Protection from All this Safety, a book of poetry and satire (Portals Press, 1997, ISBN: 0916620301).
Rockstroh has had short fiction, poetry, comedy, commentary and satire published online and in print in numerous publications (e.g., Silver Web Literary Magazine, Thin Ice, Brutarian), a few anthologies such as "From a Bend in the River," as well as set to music for various independent record labels on tapes and CDs. His work has been and is performed in venues from coffee houses to large folk festivals nationwide.
I grew up in the biggest wilderness east of the Mississippi: the wilds of the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. I remember swearing that I would never live in the big city for fear of dying there, but here I am on the outskirts of Seattle, practicing law and changing the law here and there, hoping for the occasional snowstorm to force everyone to slow down and change perspective for a moment. And it happens from time to time. Maybe that's one reason why I originally wanted to be a meteorologist: the power to know in advance when those moments would come that might change one's perspective, even if only to see the beauty of a whitened landscape. I've always believed that there is more to the world than meets the eye: transformation is only a few degrees away in terms of frost, a spoonful of mercy can set free the soul, and a bottle of wine can sometimes create more transformation than a roomful of saints (as someone once said).
I did my undergraduate studies at Northern Michigan University because a professor there wrote the book on wildlife management used in many schools at the time. I thought I would be a forester or something like that, and spent a summer and a winter in Yellowstone as a volunteer with the Student Conversation Association, and also was able to participate in a study on radiotracking wolves in northern Minnesota, even receiving credit for that.
My other "major" in college was student government, which led to my first job after college in 1987 in the state senate in Michigan, which then led to a stint on Senator Mitch Irwin's campaign staff while he ran for Congress in 1988.
After resisting the periodic suggestions of a few that I go to law school, my work on the state senate in Michigan as a legislative assistant and my work for a general counsel to a securities law firm expanded my mind about the utility of a law degree. Before that, I told people "I didn't want to be in a courtroom" doing litigation. So after some exposure to politics and business, I entered law school in 1992, after selling my only asset (a Geo Metro) to finance a trip through Europe in what I thought would be my last chance to ever take a summer off. I remember that like I remember my mind blown in the 6th grade with the realization that I would never again get a recess. Mr. Becker noted my report card with the observation that I seemed to spend a lot of time looking out the window. Was I hoping for snow?
Law school was the usual story, plus I entered all the moot court contests I could and advanced to regional competition in all five by myself, except for mock trial where I partnered with Peter Mazzone. I just barely graduated cum laude. But I did have professors who made an impact on my way of thinking, including Professors David Skover and John Strait.
After graduating from Seattle University School of Law in 1995, I joined a ten lawyer law firm for a couple of years, before striking it out on my own. One of my early challenges included a solo litigation against an English multinational and the second largest law firm in Washington State, which led to the published case at 954 P.2d 279 (1998). I immediately began to see why 70% of the winners in litigation are not satisfied with the process, and presumably 100% of the losers aren't satisfied with it either.
The urge for something more led me into Bar Association work in 1998 while I was practicing alone. I served first on the Board of Trustees for the Young Lawyers Division, and then was elected thereafter to the Board of Governors of the Washington State Bar Association for a two year term as the first person ever elected to a new Young Lawyers' position on the Board. While on the Board, I tried to provide a unique and often effective voice on issues from the development of young lawyers to the reform of the adversarial system. This included chances to address Governors from all of the Western states on the future of the practice of law, and why (after more and more of the routine and the drudgery is taken out of the law by technology) lawyers will be left with little choice but to offer wisdom, judgment and counseling if they wish not to perish as a profession. Getting to work with talented lawyers on the task of shaping the future of our profession was very interesting.
More interesting yet was helping to organize a retreat in 2001 at Sleeping Lady in Leavenworth, Washington for the Project for Integrating Spirituality, Law and Politics. Meeting likeminded people from around the country further energized my thinking and my efforts.
These efforts have not escaped notice. I have been elected Rising Star 2003 and Rising Star 2004 by Washington Law and Politics Magazine. I have an upcoming essay entitled "Respecting Lawyers" to be published in the February 2004 edition of Washington State Bar News. In 2003, the journalist who is forced to yawn through all of the two day meetings of the Board of Governors and report to the membership of the association the doings of the Board, managed to refer to my service as "dynamic and effective", when some had predicted that a Young Lawyer would not be fit to serve on the Board of Governors.
My latest project is a March 5, 2004 seminar on Collaborative Law and other Appropriate Dispute Resolution, to be keynoted by Washington Supreme Court Justice Bobbe Bridge. This seminar is bringing together activists, lawyers, judges and bar leaders around the idea that more dispute resolution alternatives simply must be made available to the adversarial system, and helping to edit an entire issue of the Bar News for February 2004 that will feature these issues.
Right now I'm technically no longer a solo practitioner because I have a partner Robert Penfield. But the primary reason I feel I am no longer practicing alone is the group of friends and soul mates around the country that I know through the Project for Integrating Spirituality, Law and Politics, and the important work that each of us is doing and how it encourages the others' work toward a more just, caring and sacred society. The perfect society, or utopia, would never seek to eliminate disputes because that would require eliminating competing points of view; something that is anathema to freedom of thought. Those of us who take the oath of the lawyer to mean that upholding justice means creating a just system, can take inspiration from the idea that creating just means of resolving disputes (in addition to just substantive rules for those disputes) is indeed moving us toward the just society.
Dr. Marsden is an Associate Professor in the Centre for Integrated Studies. His research focuses on developing social theory to further understanding of the organization and management of work. He is currently writing 'The Business of Emotions' for the MAIS program and working on a book with a similar theme.
Recent publications include:
* "Chapter 3: Labour History and the Development of Modern Capitalism." In Gunderson, M., A. Ponak, and D. Gottleib Taras. Union-Management Relations in Canada. 4th Ed. Pearson Education Canada Inc., Toronto. 2001.
* The Nature of Capital: Marx After Foucault. London and New York: Routledge, 1999.
* "The Unknown masterpiece: Marx's model of capital". Cambridge Journal of Economics. Volume 22, Number 3, May 1998, pp. 297-324.
* "A Political Technology of the Body: How Labour is Organized into a Productive Force". Critical Perspectives on Accounting. Vol. 9, No. 1, February 1, 1998 pp. 99-136.
* "Class Discipline: IR/HR and the Normalization of Labour". In A. Mills and P. Prasad (eds.), Managing the Organizational Melting Pot: Dilemmas of Workplace Diversity, Sage, 1997.
* "The Owl of Minerva: Reflections on Theory in Practice". In S. Clegg, C. Hardy and W. Nord (eds.), Handbook of Organization Studies, Sage, 1996, pp. 659-676 (with B. Townley).
* "Time, Space and Distance Education". Distance Education, vol. 17, no. 2, pp. 222-246.
* "Power and Postmodernity: Reflections on the Pleasure Dome". Electronic Journal of Radical Organization Theory, vol. 1, no. 1, November 1995, (with B. Townley).
James Petras, a Bartle Professor (Emeritus) of Sociology at Binghamton University, New York, USA, is a self-described "revolutionary and anti-imperialist" activist and writer.
"On March 20, 2003, I participated in a peaceful protest against the war. I was arrested, incarcerated, handcuffed, booked, fingerprinted, photographed, arraigned, tried, convicted and sentenced. My conviction is currently under Appeal in the Vermont State Supreme Court. Courtroom procedure allows the condemned the Right of Allocution. This was the first time that I was allowed to speak freely and openly to the court. Below are my words, as I spoke them, to Judge David Suntag, in Vermont District Court, in Bennington, Vt., on October 7, 2004."
Nicola Nasser is a veteran Arab journalist based in Ramallah, West Bank.
Since 1982 he has been working as a professional bilingual journalist (chief editor, managing editor, editor, reporter, interviewer, media coordinator, translator, columnist and editorial writer) of Arabic and English print and electronic media in Kuwait, Jordan, UAE and Palestine.
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: winding or coiled around : convoluted <gyrate branches of a tree>
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: to move back and forth with a circular motion
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1 : to revolve around a point or axis
2 : to oscillate with or as if with a circular or spiral motion
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gyratoryplay \ˈjī-rə-ˌtȯr-ē\ adjective
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They gyrated to the music.
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A decision maker (DM) wishes to select a competent candidate to fill a position. However, since the wage and task of the position is predetermined, the DM cannot use contract as a screening device. This paper formulates the problem as a class of selection problem and derives the optimal selection procedure. The key element of our selection procedure is voluntary testing. That is, unlike statistical selection procedures, the signal generating process is endogenous. Then, the optimal selection rule takes into account not only the test performances but also signaling element of the test. We analyze the selection procedure as a signaling game and derive the optimal selection rule. Moreover, the optimal size of candidate pool and the selection efficiency are also analyzed. It is shown that, by making the test voluntary, the selection efficiency can be dramatically improved.
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The 1st Infantry Division Public Affairs Office released the following statement late Thursday: "High winds damaged six aircraft located on Fort Riley's Marshall Army Airfield a little after 6 p.m. on July 18. No personnel were hurt in this incident. The aircraft, which belong to the 1st Infantry Division's Combat Aviation Brigade, were in pre-flight status at the time in support of training flights scheduled for the day. In addition to the aircraft, a trailer and several buildings located on the airfield received minor damage. The battalion continued training on July 19. The incident is under investigation."
Fort Riley is the first installation to receive the new Apache Block III helicopters, valued at $36 million each. The first of 24 new Apaches landed at Marshall Airfield in April and more are scheduled to arrive throughout the rest of the year. The new fleet is replacing the Apache Block II's that Fort Riley has been using. Officials could not confirm whether the Block II or Block III helicopters were damaged during Wednesday's storm. Damages estimates were not provided.


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Andrew Forbes wrote:Steve T Power wrote:The Amazing Spider-Man trailer is now out in the wild.
Looks considerably less flashy than Raimi's outing, but I'm definitely feeling a bit of Deja Vu here.
This one seems to have a good sense of the tone it's going for, even if it is riding the Batman Begins wave. Raimi's movies alternated between effective comedy and atrocious drama. If this script avoids emulating the awful dialogue of the Raimi flicks, I'll be a happy man. I'm optimistic.
Also, Andrew Garfield is exactly the right body-type for this. Oh, and he can actually act.
Yeah, I definitely dig the tone, and it's hitting all of the right notes. Coming from someone who hates the Raimi versions, the fact that I'm even morbidly curious speaks volumes.


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Do you return your 3D glasses?
Over $11 bucks for a 3D movie AND they want my glasses back.
I keep them everytime. The glasses are good for gags, costumes and other things.
How about you?
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I paid for 'em, they're mine.
I have NEVER returned them. If I'm paying that much, im keeping them.
I agree~MINE.
Ours aren't required to return, but they have the recycle boxes everywhere. I always recycle them cause seriously why do I need 10 million glasses.
The only ones that I keep are the specially designed for a specific movie.
I used to always keep them, then I realized they ended up just being more junk lying around my house and car.
Now I'm returning them until I have a reason in my to start taking them again.
I kept them once on the notion that I could pay for another normal show and use them when sneaking in to the 3D show.
Never did it though.
Our local theater discounts your next 3-d movie if you bring your own glasses back from the last movie. The glasses are supposedly one of the reasons they charge more for a 3d movie, so they recommend keeping them.
Is there a limit on the number of pairs a person can have before they are considered a hoarder?
No way Jose-bot!
You charge me more for a 3D movie, which costs you minimally more to shoot and show. Those glasses are MINE baby.
I like the idea of discounting if you bring your glasses back. But the discounted ticket BETTER be the same price as the NON 3D version :P
We used to recycle them. Now we're collecting them. A relative of ours got 2 pairs of glasses free with his 3D TV. We've collected four more pairs for him. Soon, we'll be getting two more. Why pay $10 or more per pair for good ones when you can get these for practically nothing?
I don't think I've seen a 3D movie since Avatar, but I'd keep them too.
I always return them. I don't have a 3D set at home, no plans for getting one. It'd just end up being clutter before getting thrown out.
am i the only one that is completely flabbergasted by how many people keep them? I always returned mine, i never once thought they were mine to take home!
@omnichad: Unfortunately, very few 3D home theatre systems use the same technology as the cinema in order to project their 3D imagery. As a result, the glasses used at most theatres (which use opposing polarization) won't work with most 3D TVs (which use alternating shutters synced with the refresh rate of your TV).
But if they happen to have a projection TV at home that uses polarization, then by all means, grab the theatre glasses!
And why do I like to keep the glasses? I make 2D glasses out of two pair... By removing a left lens and placing it in the right lens of another pair, I can go to 3D movies and when I get sick from the motion I put them on instead of the 3D pair, so I can see everything flat without it being blurry, as opposed to the way a 3D film normally appears when you take off your glasses.
I believe Thinkgeek even sells 2D glasses for that exact reason... Yep! http://www.thinkgeek.com/product/e9b4/
I kept one pair, just so I wouldn't have to keep using new ones, and it didn't work for the movie. I'm not sure if they're "keyed" or what, so now I recycle them. Why keep them? It's not like I can use them around the house. I did keep the pair my son got when we saw Finding Nemo because it was the first movie I had ever taken him to, so they were more souvenirs than anything.
@curtise: I never thought of that. Fortunately for me on the rare occasion I do go to the movies, my friends also dislike 3d, but occasionally it's the only one we can see. 3d doesn't actually 'bother' me, but I do prefer 2d and I think I'll have to me make a pair. Thanks for the tip.
@wootfast: They charge a premium to cover the fact that it is 3D, and costs them more money to show, but then "ask" you to return the glasses to them. Why not toss $1 my way or something to pass on the savings?
@curtise: Actually, a lot of 3D TVs use Passive 3D, and are fully compatible with the glasses used in Cinemas.
Passive 3D is less likely to produce the eye-strain that some people complain of (there's no flicker), you don't have to worry about charging and synching the glasses, and is much more family friendly - you can have a pair of glasses for everyone without breaking the bank. (My father bought an LG Passive 3D set so that he could watch 3D movies with his 8 grand-children at the Holidays).
LG and Visio make well regarded Passive 3D sets - I believe some other brands also ave Passive 3D models.
@wootfast: Seriously...you don't 'own' those glasses...you are 'renting' them.
I'm all for bringing my own snacks into the theatre, because, seriously, there's no way that you can possibly expect me to believe that the $4 for the pop or $5 for the popcorn is to help offset the price of the $10 movie ticket.
I do really like the idea of the theatre giving you a discount (even if it's a $1) for the next 3d that you bring your own glasses back to. I think this is there way of saying: We know that you steal these glasses anyway, so just bring them back with you next time and we won't have to buy new glasses to keep replacing all the ones you kids steal.
I always return mine to the recycle bins. I never really thought about it, just assumed that if people take them when the theater isn't expecting them to, then eventually that would be yet another excuse to raise ticket prices.
@sgrman05: Nonsense - the "rental" fee is more than they pay to buy the glasses in bulk. You are paying for the glasses, they're yours.
@sgrman05: The bin at my theater says to put my glasses in there to "recycle" them. That clearly puts possession with me. And they don't cycle them straight back out to be used - they go back to be cleaned and repackaged.
@trishlovesdolphins: There are two types of common theater 3D - IMAX and RealD. IMAX uses colored lenses, while RealD uses polarized lenses. It's possible your theater has both - mine does. Of course, you'd know if you went to see a movie on an IMAX screen - you would have paid an upcharge.
I'm pretty sure the bins outside the theater say "Please Recycle". It is like going somewhere that sells a lot of aluminum cans. It is better for the environment and the theater if you don't just throw them in the trash. Keep them if you want, recycle if you are only going to throw them away anyway.
Edit: I was reading/typing while omnichad was...forgive the repetition.
OP you're lucky it's just $11. Here, AMC is $11 for regular price and $14 for 3D.
I don't bother returning them for multiple reasons. For the first year or so, we didn't have to pay the 3D charge if we brought a pair we saved. They're meant to be cleaned/refurbed in some way and then repackaged, yet I would regularly open a fresh package that had scratches and fingerprints on them. After that first year, AMC wouldn't discount the price even if we had our own glasses. They fell back on the argument that the extra charge covers the people who don't return the glasses. When I complained that made no sense considering I was trying to reuse glasses that had at that point been used by me 4 or 5 times, the manager said the charge covered the cost of 3D projection.
The main reason I don't return the 3D glasses? I don't waste money seeing anything in the theatre unless I'm REALLY interested in it, and I don't bother seeing anything in 3D
@sgrman05: It's all about the money.
The folk who made and own the movie expect a alrge percentage of the gross of ticket sales. The cap on the first two weeks of movie opening are often pretty darn high.
The snacks and such are profit for the movie theatre. Sometimes even that can get 3rd partied out, and the theatre manager doesn't have to employ anyone. He just hires a concessionaire, who cuts the manager in.
And yes the glasses are a ripoff, and it's just more profit. You paid more than they're worth. It costs less to "recycle" them than to buy them. There's no receipt. Just money flow on one end, and a writeoff on the other.
Every thief rationalizes why it is OK to steal.


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The show was very well done and very entertaining. Hawking should have qualified is comment about not needing gods like those concocted by the major religions (the intervening kind). Instead, detractors will slide over the deistic kind in an attempt to save face. You saw exactly that if you watched the pitiful panel discussion. The theologian telling Hawking he needed to have some humility was simply precious, as he sat there and proclaimed to know distinct attributes of his imaginary friend...a supposedly more complex entity than a black hole. Remarkable. Read more
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I don't see how a scientist can say there is no creator when they still can't understand the smallest part of the universe. When you can fully explain the atom then maybe you can begin to explain something as big as the universe. I know how gravity works, i can explain how the atoms work and how the planets stay in their orbits and I believe in God. Steven Hawking is trying to put God under the confines of OUR phisical laws but if God created the universe he would have to have created the laws for it and therfore be above those laws, even time itself. A being outside of time is not confined by it like we are, and it would be hard to explain Him when all we know is that time moves forward. If you want to know how the atoms work I could tell you but because I believe in God it would be overlooked. Read more
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